S., What do you want it to push to that it doesn't do now?
- Vince Green
I hope Gmail steps up and delivers what MobileMe is currently offering. Along with email, it pushes contacts, and the calendar.
- Michael Carter
IMAP is a pull technology like POP3. You can set your iPhone to pull messages at a certain interval. But that is different than push. There is a proposal out there for P-IMAP which would be a push version of IMAP.
- Michael Carter
gmail already has push...read up on imap idle...
- Rob
IMAP IDLE feature makes it quasi-push. True push assumes your mobile can go deep sleep, no sockets open, but on mail arrival to your mailserver, your mobile network makes special paging, wakes up terminal and it gets mail -- this is what Crackberry does with special support from operators. If this is too much techno/expensive/over-needs - go configure your mobile for IMAP IDLE
- A.T.
Gmail does not yet function completely as push since there is no support for actually having messages *pushed* to the phone. The IMAP server has to be queried and then mail _pulled_ from it, rather than having that new mail *pushed* to the device automagically. Methinks Michael Carter said it best.
- Scott Jarkoff
if I'm not mistaken, I think google lacks the IDLE functionality that allows push to work.
- Gregory Cohen
BlackBerry has had full push Gmail (and Google hosted mail) for a couple of years now. I generally see the message on my device before it shows up in Outlook or my web browser. It also has full push for Yahoo and Hotmail/Windows Live, and it's all included in your basic BlackBerry service. It's not via POP or IMAP, either, they have some kind of deal with RIM, but I'm not sure how it works on a technical level... It doesn't do calendar, tasks, or contacts though, which would be nice.
- David Andrzejewski
Here's what I need: Fast, works on existing directories (no iPhoto style import), easy to delete photos I don't want, simple color correction + cropping, and very fast. Very nice to have would be the ability to upload to Smugmug or Google, basic video stuff (time crop), video re-encoding (my camera saves videos as mjpeg for some reason).
- Paul Buchheit
Aperture is the primary professional, and most excellent application for OSX. It is worth the money, it is not iPhoto. It is easy to use, and you are likely to not want to use anything else.
- iSteeve
I don't need anything fancy, just fast and able to handle a good number of photos. Picasa is pretty close -- I wish they would just make a Mac version (and improve the color correction and video abilities).
- Paul Buchheit
I only know of, aperture, lightroom, photon & the apps that comes with phanfare.com, flickr & smugmug
- Zee.
Closest to meeting all of your requirements used to be iView. Not sure if that's still true. I bailed on it after Microsoft bought it and renamed it Expression Media. http://www.microsoft.com/express.... I use Aperture now.
- Jack Baty
Files can remain in the directory in which they reside. They do not have to be imported into the library, although that makes it easier for backup. A free trial might is available at: http://www.apple.com/apertur... . It more than adequately meets your criteria for photos, but does not deal with video, which it will back up to your chosen directory. You can readily move them, put them on an external HD, etc. Lightroom is an alternative.
- iSteeve
I switch to my Windows machine and use Picasa for photos.
- Amit Patel
The problem with a lot of these photo organizers is that they want to own your world, but that's not what I want. I'm going to upload the photos to one or two places, copy them to other computers, etc. Having them stuck in some weird system on one computer is not ok. That's why working with the actual filesystem directory structure is important.
- Paul Buchheit
how about using expandrive and hosting all your photos on on a separate server and then using one of the many photo editors to edit them on your desktop?
- Zee.
man, it sounds like we're looking for the same thing. iPhoto sucks.
- Brett Kelly
iView is what professional photojournalists use. I would have a look at that if I were you. I'm pretty sure MS is still keeping the Mac version of it.
- Gabe
Still using iView for now. It sounds like the newer Expression Media has had less than positive reviews. I have over 30,000 pictures in various catalogs and it works nicely. It did take a while to figure out a workflow that works for me but I had somewhat of an advantage since I had to design filesystem layouts previously. Extensis is an another option. If you care about IPTC or GPS EXIF, some hackery will be required as the different tools have different levels of support.
- Jauder Ho
i like both aperture and lightroom. lightroom gives me better-looking photos though aperture is a little easier to use. at least i find that to be the case
- Cee Bee
I use Lightroom, and that's what I'd recommend. If you don't want to spend any money, you might want to check out blueMarine (http://bluemarine.tidalwave.it/). I've only played around with it for a few minutes, but I see it has potential, and it seems like it'd be just fine for the items you mentioned.
- donato
@Donato Cool.. I haven't seen this before.. :) @Paul I was looking for something like this in the past. What I wanted was a photo browsing application with Tagging and the ability to browse what you already have. I've ended up settling for Lightroom, but it's still sort of an overkill and it's RAW features are not useful for an amateur photographer like me. I'm really interested in what you find out from these comments heheh.
- Chris Chua
Maybe I need to write my own. Does AIR have the necessary capabilities for this kind of thing?
- Paul Buchheit
chris - i agree. Leopard finder and photoshop are the best solution until Google brings Picasa to Mac
- Jared Radosevich
Chris, does the leopard finder show the photo full size, or do I have to open a separate program for that? Also, I don't have leopard.
- Paul Buchheit
@Chris, you can Delete from Preview. @Paul: you can't show the photo full size in finder, you'd need to open with a separate program.
- David Vasileff
I use Xee, http://wakaba.c3.cx/s... it aspires to be what Paul is looking for I think, but it doesn't do color correction, but you can hotkey to an editor of your choice, including Preview, which does color correction. Xee is free and there's source code available, too.
- David Vasileff
we might see a mac version of picasa this year. Adobe elements is a $100 alternative to iPhoto. I have used it. Works good but a very heavy tool.
- pankaj
I mentioned blueMarine the other day, but just found http://www.photonator.com/ a few minutes ago - then remembered your query and posted 'er back here. You're not subscribed to me, but that doesn't mean that I can't help. ;)
- l0ckergn0me
Chris, Preview Edit menu has move selected image to trash menu item or command-delete shortcut. it deletes and closes the window if you have a single image open.
- David Vasileff
Picasa is the only reason I still turn my PC on... Are they going to make a Mac version any time soon? Otherwise it's time to write one.
- ǝuǝƃnǝ
i second aperture... im still learning it, but it has keyword capability, rating etc... excellent... i learn something new on it everyday
- Rob Reed
Picasa was the reason I reformatted my Mac into a windows machine. Nothing else comes close.
- Piaw Na
I'm still waiting on FireFox. 2.0 works well enough for me to wait for the bugs to get fixed...
- David Weiner
My experience is that Firefox 3 works much better than 2.x - memory leaks gone, much better overall resource usage, way faster.
- Patrick Jordan
plugins. I downloaded an earlier version and had to revert. I can't see what the rush is - what's so great, FF2 works great for me
- Ivan Pope
from twhirl
I joined the FF3 day one download and have not had any problems, but I like downloading anything new (only from sources that I trust) as I like learning how people are using new designs or features. It helps me in my consulting work.
- Jon Erickson
I downloaded FF3 but don't use it. I use Safari and Fluid for SSBs.
- Jared Radosevich
contrary. Used beta for over a month. Use Flock as an alternative if anything goes seriously wrong. Usually I test two three browsers at a time.
- Joe Buhler
I like Flock as an alternative (along with occasional Safari use) as well ...
- Patrick Jordan
I heard from Michael Gray that a lot of the SEO add ons didn't work in FF3- need those. Waiting to hear they've been updated.
- Brian Carter
Beautiful, from the start to the closing credits, so many clever visual jokes you'd have to watch it a few times to get them all, and can someone identify that familiar boot-up sound for Wall.E?
- Chris Nuttall
ok, Google wins, it's the Mac boot-up, I somehow was associating it with Win 3.1
- Chris Nuttall
WALL-E was amazing. I'm a big fan overall, and I think it's Pixar's best yet.
- Lon Harris
from twhirl
Absolutely. Visually stunning, sure, but with a great story (genuine 'cautionary' science fiction). And yeah, the startup 'bong' is the easiest way to gauge the Mac-using population in the audience.
- Ryan
Yes. My impression was that the character development and relationship between WALL-E and EVE are the real gems here - AAA. It's more Romance than Scifi imo.
- Jason
I took kids 3, 9, 11, & 14 -- they all liked it. I liked it too. Very clever and interesting. Oh, and stay to watch the "wallpaper" under the credits at the end.. it's actually a continuation of the story.
- Frank Derfler
Jason- I can't wait to see it. Of course Pixar is all about technical brilliance, but what sets them apart is that they're genius at conveying human relationships and behavior.
- Donna Mugavero
it was fantastic. saw it yesterday and want to see it again. leave it to pixar to make me care about a robot and a roach.
- Mark Outten
Its Twitter with the ability to have threaded conversations. The horizontal timeline is hard to get used to, but the mobile app is vertical.
- Mike Templeton
Like everyone said it's like Twitter with an Ajax on crack interface that is not impressive and something that I can't see lasting beyond the initial buzz it got because of Twitter's instability.
- Chris Rodgers
twitter for kids or painkiller for heavily depressed tweeple
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
As long as Twitter remains unstable, Plurk is the most Twitter-like option out there that also happens to be new kid on the block.
- Great Scott!
It's essentially Twitter, but the conversations stay self-contained and don't send out a lot of noise to the timeline. There are toys like karma, but most people ignore them.
- Michael Gaines
@Nathaniel nooo, -1000 makes all my plurk smilies disappear. you bastard!!
- Chris Harris
Twitter is to statements as Plurk is to conversations. Even more than twitter, Plurk requires adding friends and interacting with them. This interaction is the reason so many people are falling in love with it. If you want to know more, feel free to send me a plurk: http://www.plurk.com/user/Teeg
- Teeg
tried to use it for a few weeks, but the big problem is that they simply don't have the user base. you end up talking to the same 2 people and after a while, everybody is bored and goes back to twitter (if it's up).
- Mark Schulz
Pluk is really twitter with consolidated replies and tweets on a timeline instead of in a stream.
- Greg Hollingsworth
from twhirl
Right now I have over 300 friends on there, only 1 or 2 of them are teenagers, many are computer geeks of one kind of another, a lot are experts in their fields. In the 3 weeks or so that I've been on Plurk, I've already learned more and received more answers to my questions than I ever did on Twitter, even though I actually have more friends listed on Twitter.
- Teeg
Plurk is like Twitter but with participation and interesting conversation. To generalize all Plurk users as "high school kids" is very misleading. If you get on, conversate and make friends you'll see what the buzz is all about.
- Patrick Britton
it's Twitter with conversation that you can actually follow. It's got good search functions and none of my Plurk friends are teenagers
- Sharon Hurley Hall
It's like Twitter with more conversations, more community, more responsiveness from founders, and less egos and snarkiness.
- Mack Collier
"its like an unnecessarily complicated version of twitter that nobody really uses - so maybe it's more like pownce :)" Has 155 friends on Plurk, been there maybe a week. Twitter, 127 followers and I've been there for several months. Not to mention Plurkers actually talk to you, Twitterers just blab on about their own self indulged lives.
- Patrick Britton
It's more fun at times. I tend to get more responses. but it's only cause people are trying to build karma. timeline is an interesting interface that allows a little better view of when in time everything is happening.
- SolidSmack
Josh, they're helping you build karma when they respond. They build karma by getting responses on their posts. A neat idea that drives conversation levels up. :)
- Teeg
Twitter on crack. or meth. or your mind enhancing chemical of choice.
- Jane Chin, Ph.D.
I agree with Konstantino "Many of the comments here are naive and misleading, not to mention ignorant" For one, my teenage years are long forgotten and my plurk friends are adults with adult conversations... I LOVE Twitter for the sharing of great business information & links but you cannot have nor follow a conversation there. On Plurk you can create or follow conversations from beginning to end if you want, & some conversations are long we discuss all sorts of topics personal and or business, politics..
- Linda Zimmer
silly chat room with emoticons & reaching for a level of *karma* gets ya better emoticons. that being said, there have been good discussions there :)
- Barbara K. Baker
oh, and FriendFeed is still better. just not as... silly!
- Barbara K. Baker
plurk confuses me, thus I keep playing along. sorry I can't explain it, but that which doesn't kill us makes us stronger.
- Peggie Arvidson
Plurk is simply public, threaded chats displayed on a timeline. It's not like twitter except that it limits posts to 140 like twitter. Think IRC but more organized. Think IM but publicized.
- ·[▪_▪]·
@Brain correct. But look at how we talk about it here. Now imagine Friendfeed can connect all of these disparate conversations - I bet they will.
- Steve Rubel
KHOU feed seems to suggest weather involved.. Are they talking tornado?
- Chris Reed
Google Reader, no other medium gives me the quantity and variety of information so quickly. Then I check Friendfeed via twirl.
- Keith - @tsudo
from twhirl
Netvibes, then launch Netnewswire or FeedDemon depending on whether I'm on my Mac or PC. Netvibes looks like it will be replaced by Feedly tho.
- Angel Smith
friendfeed. then my own blog stats, reader. great question!
- washwords
from twhirl
I usually hit VentureBeat then Silicon Valley Insider, followed by Twitter and FF which usually leads me to the usual suspects (e.g. Techmeme, Mashable, etc.)
- James
I typically check Mister Elisha Gray's electro-harmonic telautograph, and then I carefully peruse the paper tape that the stock ticker has left on the floor. The price of tin has become exceedingly volatile of late, for reasons unbeknownst to me, and it behooves me to stay abreast of prices of the metal.
- Karim
I would say Google Reader. But it is becoming Twhirl to check in with Twitter & FriendFeed quite often.
- Sean Brady
from twhirl
RSSmeme via Google Reader -- lots of bang for minimal time and effort
- Sean McBride
CNN SMS, then Yahoo!'s homepage, and Google Reader. FF to check on what the valley kids are doing.
- Eric Thompson
Techmeme, Digg (tech and world) Friendfeed, Google Alerts
- Jeremiah Owyang
FriendFeed, (techmeme tab sometimes); then twitter, then gReader
- Susan Beebe
GReader first, then FriendFeed - usually. On occasion that is reversed especially if time is tight.
- felix
FriendFeed, and Google Reader, themTwitter
- Mário Pires
So Steve - if you go to tm first, then you are always visiting the same batch of sites - do you ever go for discovery of new ideas or opinions on the same news?
- Allen Stern
Google Reader, then FriendFeed, then RSSMeme, then Techmeme
- Alan Le
What are we counting as a computer? If you wanna get technical I'm sure I have dozens. If you mean boxes that can run a popular OS, then I have 5 that are all actively being used.
- Chrimmus Tad
3 here also - one old dog desktop, one Mac laptop, one Windows laptop
- Patrick Jordan
I guess two based on the traditional notion of a computer. Although I'd argue that there's at least 2 dozen devices in my home more powerful than my Quadra 640AV was 15 years ago.
- Mark Trapp
Tad a traditional laptop or desktop running any os flavor of choice.
- Mike Fruchter
Do you really want to know? Is a tivo a computer? How about a ps3? If I included those, the total is 10 or 11. Don't ask, I didn't buy all of them myself.
- Phil G
from fftogo
I could of been broader including smart phones etc, that's another poll :)
- Mike Fruchter
1 Mac desktop, 1 Mac laptop and occasionally my Windows laptop from work
- Bob
6 (2 media centres, ubuntu box, win98 game box, old powerbook for music in one room, MBP) + wm6 phone + shed with 8086, SE30 and others
- Nick Cowie
from twhirl
1 windows desktop, 3 windows laptops, 1 macbook and an xbox (i'd consider that a computer)
- John Duff
3 laptops (2 running ubuntu and 1 mac), and ps3 :-)
- Jaimini
from Alert Thingy
10 -- Three Windows Desktops, One Windows laptop, Three Mac desktops, two Mac laptops, Unix box
- Mitch Ratcliffe
from twhirl
6 that we actively use, probably another 6 sitting idle (legacy systems) - also every game platform (xbox/ps3/wii)...
- mike "glemak" dunn
6 - 2 Windows laptops, 1 Windows desktop, a Mac desktop, a Linux server, & a Nokia N810. I'm getting ready to install Ubuntu on another box.
- Steve
4 - I Mac desktop, I Mac laptop, 2 old Windoze laptops
- Sally Church
Three: one mac, two pcs. four if you count my [ex-]husband's ancient texas instruments laptop
- edythe
1 Desktop (XP), 2 laptops (one XP one Ubuntu)
- cmiper
3 that are up and running. I have no idea how many unplugged ones, but many.
- RAPatton
4, my main laptop MacBook Pro, a dell notebook PC in the kitchen, a Dell Media Center PC in the attic feeding 3 Xbox 360s as Media Center extenders. An old Dell in the basement.
- Thomas Hawk
5 - MBP, MBA, 20" iMac and 2 Minis. Also 5 old PCs in garage in various stages of disrepair.
- Jack Baty
4. imac as primary. pc as fileserver. dell laptop for work. girlfriends imac. oh, wait, there's a not too usable blueberry imac too. that's 5
- rob zand
3: 1 MediaCenter (home made) 2 Laptop (Toshiba Satellite) and 1 Music Station (Home Made)
- Max Zaglio
from twhirl
Two, one running Media Center, one running Ubuntu. Plus a Nokia N770
- Michael Tefft
4: 2 win desktops, 1 win laptop, 1 ubuntu laptop. Plus 2 pocket pc's and usually 1 or 2 computers from work or church
- Kevin L
1 imac, 1 mbp, 1 mb, 1 ibm laptop, 4 dells, 1 homemade pc
- Josiah Lau
from twhirl
2 that I use regularly (MacBookPro & Ubuntu tower) - plus, a media center PC, WinXP laptop, and a couple of towers that aren't running at the moment.
- Michael Zitek
my primary machine is a vista laptop. my work machine is a convertible tablet that boots between vista and xp. There's a third vista laptop that my wife uses when i'm using the main machine. Theres a media center machine that everyone on my team got as an award a few months ago- its not fully setup yet. most of the time, though... i just use my smartphone.
- Chris Hollander
9 = 2 Notebooks (Vista & XP), 1 Game PC (Vista), 1 Kids PC (Edubuntu), 1 Subnotebook (Ubuntu), 3 Media Centers (1xXP 2xVista) and 1 Server (Ubuntu, holds 4x VM machines) - And an understanding Wife (mostly)
- Rob Inskeep
from twhirl
7: 5 desktops (sadly 3 are emachines) and 2 laptops
- BCK
at least 10: 2 ubuntu desktops, 8 macs from a g3 ibook through a g4 mdd, g4 cube and a mac pro. xp in a virtual machine, that's about as close as i can stomach it.
- Ivan Stegic
6: PowerBook G4, MacBook, MacBook Pro, Mac Pro, HP laptop, and an old HP Kyak.
- Tom Harrison