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Wireless Road Trains Keep Highway Vehicles Linked Together - http://www.inhabitat.com/2009...
that's awesome, did a project in university in some technology and innovation course where we pitched a high level version of this exact idea.
- John Duff
Who We Hire - http://ozmm.org/posts...
The keynote he links to is pretty awesome
- John Duff
DailyBurn and Occipital Team Up to Create FoodScanner - http://www.feld.com/wp...
Occipital are the guys doing the iPhone barcode reading stuff, licensing the tech
- John Duff
Creating The Illusion Of Accomplishment - by David Rosen - http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs...
I think this can apply to any software, not just games. If the user has a sense of accomplishment early on and throughout the course of using your software they are going to feel better and more motivated to continue using it. If it takes reading 3 manuals and a couple days of work to get something done no one is going to feel like using it.
- John Duff
John (a.k.a. dendroica) and 'Like' robot (frɐnc) liked this
a very small selection of the ~1200 photos we took while in Rome
- John Duff
Friendfeed needs to time-stamp the comments.
Kathleen Capps, Kol Tregaskes, Tanath and 116 other people liked this
Yeah, that is something that I have been thinking about.
- Kevin Bondelli
Less thinking more action ;)
- Alberto Reyes
A tooltip maybe on hover over the quote graphic. Keep it clean
- Andrew Smith
Optional feature - timestamp - not default.
- Susan Beebe
great idea!
- Sarah Perez
it must be part of the API, since fftogo seems to include a time stamp on the comments
- Trent Olson
I'm sure they do store the timestamp, even if it isn't currently displayed.
- Mack D. Male
Yeah, it's in the api, all comments & likes are timestamped
- Glenn Slaven
I think this is a perfect plan. The only issue I might have is that the time information might take-over the conversations. It might just look more cluttered than FF already is.
- Ryne Nelson
It would be useful sometimes.
- Morton Fox
concur, very useful to have. Make it a display option. Those who would think it's clutter can turn it off then.
- Alexander Falk
It is in the API (I use them in fftogo). I vote that the timestamp should appear as text when you hover over the "thought bubble" to the left.
- Benjamin Golub
All comments are time-stamped in AlrertThingy and feedalizr
- Stephen B
from Alert Thingy
Comments are time stamped in bTT as well.
- Francois Bochatay
from bTT
and also in twhirl
- Marco Kaiser
from twhirl
agreed. Timestamps are important
- Peter Dawson
What about a comment alert?! How do you follow conversations on ff!?
- TommaSorchiotti
Not sure if this will add to the functionality, but should be something they can try out...
- Dennis Goedegebuure
Not sure a comment alert is necessary. Comments bring the post up to the top of the timeline, which makes it available for anyone who is currently paying attention to Friendfeed. (Not sure why anyone would want their attention brought to Friendfeed if it isn't already there, that would be a huge productivity drain).
- Jason Wehmhoener
Please, please remember that the whole world doesn't run on PDT. I don't want to see timestamps in my FF in gReader and have to always try to guess whether the west coast is 17, 16, or 15 hours behind. If you must display timestamps, please put them in GMT. Setting the timestamps on my FF page/in my FF feed to be correct in my local timezone would be even nicer.
- James Polley
yeah ! and a hide fonction for each comment
- Jonathan
منم به فارسی تایید می کنم
- Kamal
we know which came first... but in n argument the comments can edit. that makes time stamping very important so we know when someone made a change
- Noah David Simon
a timeline function in general would be nice, make everything more timeframe friendly
- Ruben Llibre
Show times either in GMT or in my own timezone, and just make it a tooltip for the quote balloon or something. Don't want it to look cluttered.
- Pat Hawks
just make the time relative from each comment, so I know who said what when in perspective. like 5 minutes later Noah David Simon said. <--this opens up
- Noah David Simon
like i said earlier about plurk :)
- kosmar
Is i really important to know when every single comment is made? Only the last one would really be useful, could have 'last comment on june 1 at..." right beside the date of the post.
- John Duff
If the timestamp is a tooltip, then it isn't really "in the way." Maybe we can have all the timestamps as tooltips, except the most recent comment will have the timestamp printed out below it, like John said.
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
I am so tired of entering an empty room and talking to myself for twenty minutes. lol
- Russellreno
A needed feature for sure I agree. I suggested this to the FF feedback room some weeks ago.
- Mike Fruchter
Any news?
- Amiroo ™
<--- try hover your mouse cursor on that little dialog icon
- topo
Sorry it's not more obvious, but if you hover your mouse over the comment icon you will see the time that the comment was made. Thanks for letting us know that it's hard to find! The feedback is much appreciated.
- Ross Miller
I believe they are timestamped but this data is not yet displayed.... you're right !
- David Berrebi
other than timestamp I also want to be able to like the comments individually =]
- Özgür D. Cyric
This thread shows what happens when nobody reads the comments before theirs
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Agreed. The entire time...
- Zachary Poley
from twhirl
Rahsheen, your point is awesome right now :)
- Zachary Poley
from twhirl
this feed tells me that noone reads the comments before theirs =] =] j/k
- Özgür D. Cyric
Yes,sure. The problems is how to realize it?
- Motor Industry
Ross Miller:Thanks, my bad lots of greasemonkey junk keep me away to recognize that
- Amiroo ™
Come join me to play a new Twitter game called Spymaster. Just leave your Twitter username in the comments for an invite.
Jesi, Kol Tregaskes and David Foucher liked this
andruedwards
- Andru Edwards
Here's good tips for getting started in the game http://bit.ly/zhBte
- Mark Krynsky
jigarme
- Jigar Mehta
johnduff
- John Duff
etctips
- Matt Stevens
daemith
- Лиова
kionee
- Nick
wayfmguy45
- Adam Robertson
frankkamadin
- Frank Kammerdiener
Sorry it took me so long. I just sent invites to those that didn't have them already.
- Mark Krynsky
jesipr
- Jesi
liamka
- Kirill Kotikov
jerrychacon
- Jerry Chacon
Please send me one @jesipr
- Jesi
Ok, invites sent to all above.
- Mark Krynsky
Riding Rails :: This Week in Edge Rails - http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2009...
ActiveRecord::Base#touch has been added to rails 2.3
- John Duff
I come to a problem today that I can not copy-paste in Chrome,anybody have same issue like this,because it didn't happen before.
It is even weired that I can copy-paste sometime,and sometime not.I don't know what to say.
- Steve Chou
been using chrome almost exclsivly at work now since it's been out and never had that problem
- John Duff
Yeah,I never had this kind of issue before today,it works fine now,but it did not work sometime today.I don't know whether it will show up tomorrow,maybe sometimes Chrome is not on its mood.
- Steve Chou
Yes, I've got some weird copy & paste problems in Google Chrome, too. It may also happen in Firefox. There seems to be a difference in Ctrl-C and Edit-Copy.
- Mike Reynolds
I'm having a major copy & paste problem with Chrome too! It won't work either right click copy & paste or ctrl-c & ctrl-v. It might work after the 9th or 10th time I try it.
- Mark Layton
Building and Scaling a Startup on Rails: 12 Things We Learned the Hard Way - http://highscalability.com/buildin...
Use memcache later so you find your database bottlenecks now.
- John Duff
Useless Tweets: "About to get in the shower" (who cares?), "Fiddling with my blog post"(stop fiddling and post it), "Thanks for the follow"(what is this - MySpace?), "Tired" (you mean "boring"), "BriteKite ____" (I don't care if you are at the Pizza Hut off of route 45), and "Good Night Twitter".
anna sauce, Rob Michael (Atmos Trio), Mitch and 20 other people liked this
LOL! I'm typing at the computer but I guess you don't care about that either. LOL
- Colide81 (James)
hmm. I like Brightkite, so I definitely don't agree with that.
- Mattie Kenny
I also good night to my twitter pals. I don't think either of those are useless. Twitter creates a dialog and in that dialog location can become important. It's also nice after a long spurt of tweets with some of my friends to let them know I'm heading off.
- Mattie Kenny
weren't you the one that twittered 'tired'? http://beta.friendfeed.com/e...
- John Duff
I'm tired of you following me so I'm fiddling with my blog post in the shower then off to Pizza Hut....Good Night!
- WorldofHiglet
I just ate a mango.
- Akiva Moskovitz
/me leftclicked.
- ※Fu※
John - me trying to be funny :)
- Steve Isaacs
I just liked a post on FriendFeed.
- B. Hatin
Now I'm eating maple bacon.
- B. Hatin
I like the use of the word "fiddling".
- Michael Fidler
Guilty.
- Josh
oh, you just reminded me i had to check in on bright kite kthxbai!
- Admiral Anika
I'm thinking about taking a dump. I'll let you know when it happens.
- Pete Delucchi
...just ate a PB&J crumpet.
- Bec Rowe @d0tski
Someone is a bit cranky. Oh BTW, currently talking to my gf on the phone. hehe
- Mathew™ one of a kind
Kind of like the Tweet you made two hours ago... “Tired” ;-)
- Kenley Neufeld
Here's an idea, let's keep body functions out of our Tweets. Nobody cares.
- Larry Kless
Kenley - also kind of like the comment I replied to above about it - "joke" ;)
- Steve Isaacs
Good night, FriendFeed :)
- Steve Isaacs
just logged off twitter
- Damien Franco
oops, logging back in to twitter to tell all my twitter friends "good night"
- Damien Franco
Goodnight Friendfeed and Twitter. *kisses and hugs* (Joking) I'm guilty in posting the "fluff" tweets at time. I try not to though.
- Molly, "sorry"
You know who sends the useless tweets, those that use twitter five minutes a day.
- Richard A.
I'm breathing!!!
- Steve Isaacs
LOL I remember this post.
- Josh Haley
Tweets that should not be tweeted ~ "im thinking of...", "meh", "where did I put the..", and my personal favorite "hmmmm" :)
- Alfredo
Just remember, not everybody uses Twitter the same way. What is useless to you may not be useless to others.
- Joe Pierce
useful if you were their stalker
- Alfredo
Wolfgang Bremer, John, drew olanoff and 4 other people liked this
I have 2. Go!
- Hao Chen
Thanks : )
- LouCypher
if you still have it Hao, i'll take it off your hands. kato [ta] cma3 [tod] com
- Carlos Ayala
Sent to both you guys. Cheers!
- Hao Chen
you rock Hao, thanks bud.
- Carlos Ayala
I've got 2 invites to pass on now.
- Carlos Ayala
Thanks, Hao : ) Now we have 4 invites from Carlos and me
- LouCypher
you're welcome!
- Hao Chen
Anyone have anymore invites? darkknight5589@gmail.com if you do, please. Thanks
- Ben
Invitation sent to Ben.
- LouCypher
2 invitations left from me and Carlos since Carlos also invited Salazar on http://friendfeed.com/e...
- LouCypher
If you have 1 more to spare, can I have one? ajbatac at gmail
- Merry Xmas FFeeders - AJ
on its way AJ
- Carlos Ayala
sent. i am out of invites.
- Carlos Ayala
Got it Carlos. Thanks. I can pass those 2 invites to anyone here now.
- Merry Xmas FFeeders - AJ
I'd like to be invited: furukama [ta] yahoo [tod] de Thanks!
- Benedikt Koehler
If possible, send an invite over this way please. http://bit.ly/email_ancyru
- Andrew Trinh
I'd like one, if I may: stellina at me dot com. Thanks.
- Stellina
sent to the 2 after me. no more invites. :)
- Merry Xmas FFeeders - AJ
I've just sent invites to Andrew and Stellina
- Benedikt Koehler
Thanks for the invites, I've got 3 to pass on if anyone needs it. Quickest way is to email me with an appropriate subject. http://bit.ly/email_ancyru
- Andrew Trinh
I have two, too. Heck, you can have my account, so make that three!
- Mona Nomura
from fftogo
LMFAO@Mona
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Ohh, I would have fun being you, Mona!! lol
- Hao Chen
Take it, Hao! I don't want this.
- Mona Nomura
from fftogo
i'd love to try strands too. invite me anyone?
- rchk
rchk: I'll send one over, what's your email address?
- Stellina
looking for one as well - nathan rein at googlemail
- Nathan Rein
If anyone has an inviite please send to henbur at gmail. Thanks.
- Henry Burger
Sent to Henry Burger. That was my last.
- LouCypher
@LouCypher Thanks so much.
- Henry Burger
@Stellina thanks! just got mine. Now have two invites to share. Looks like no one's waiting right now, but let me know if you want one
- Nathan Rein
I'd love to get one. (Edit: E-Mail removed)
- Thomas Frütel
@thomas it's on its way
- Nathan Rein
Thank you Nathan, I'm in. So I got two to pass along.
- Thomas Frütel
If anyone has any left I'm rich.bradshaw at gmail. Thanks!
- Rich
Invite is on the way, Rich
- Thomas Frütel
Anybody got any left? My name at gmail, please.
- TDavid
Please, I ask for an invite to strand com -- Thanks -- transitenator (at) gmail.com
- Wilhelm Bauer
I'd like one, please. lilyhill at gmail
- Ro (Lilyhill)
@TDavid sent one your way - hope i got the address right (your Friendfeed username, right?) -- that's all I've got for now
- Nathan Rein
@nathan - thanks, I'm in. I have 2 strand invites to continue the chain.
- TDavid
It's on the way, Wilhelm.
- Thomas Frütel
@Ro - sent an invite.
- John Duff
I would to like to join the party even if I am late - nickobec at gmail
- Nick Cowie
me2! a.rode85 et gmail dot com
- Alexander Rode
@Will Ponder and @Nick Cowie - sent my 2 invites to you. One of you, or somebody else, can take care of @Alexander Rode and continue the chain.
- TDavid
@Alexander Rode invite sent, thanks @TDavid
- Nick Cowie
If you're still passing them around, I'll take a Strands invite. matthilt at gmail
- Matt Hilton
Me too, if anyone got one. johan.bryggare at gmail.com
- Johan Bryggare
Me too, Thanks snhasani [at] gmail [dot ] com
- Nasser Hasani
Sent invites to Eve, Matt Hilton, Johan Bryggare & Nasser Hasani - Still have 8 invites left.......
- ChaCha Fance
I would love an invite! Will pass mine off here. fred at newtz dot us
- Fred Newtz
I would love one too! Yes please! Happy to share too :)
- Chris
An invite would be awesome! lyth UNDERSCORE letori A.T. hotmail. Will share for sure.
- Andrew
andrew, sent.
- Hao Chen
thanks Hao. If anyone else needs, just ask.
- Andrew
pls send invite to strands@luthiano.com Thanks.
- Luthiano Vasconcelos
@luthiano: http://friendfeed.com/e...
- LouCypher
can i has one plz
- mark rush
I'm looking for a small handful of FriendFeed users to help test something. Any volunteers?
Benjamin Golub, Kol Tregaskes, Joe Dawson and 11 other people liked this
how can i help?
- MikeAmundsen
I'll invite you to a room and then show you. Thanks!
- DeWitt Clinton
Yes?
- Robert Scoble
cool
- MikeAmundsen
Volunteering !
- Thomas Bøhm
Yah!
- Steven Perez
You'll crash it, Scoble. I even have code in place to defend against you. : ) I meant that in a good way -- I can't get it to scale up to the number of friends you have. But I'd love to see what happens.
- DeWitt Clinton
Okay, invited all of you to join the room. If it doesn't crash then I'll open it up a bit more shortly.
- DeWitt Clinton
I'll help
- Aaron Hood
Room for one more?
- Michael R. Bernstein
I'll be a guinea pig!
- MLx
Thanks, sent another batch of invites to the room.
- DeWitt Clinton
You can count me in, if you still need help
- Dennis Bjørn Petersen
from twhirl
I can help too ... if it's not too late.
- Amani
As long as it's not electric shock therapy-ish I'm in.
- Micah Wittman
What are you working on?
- Dave Winer
Sent another round of room invites out. If it holds up I'll do a few more later.
- DeWitt Clinton
I can help
- Marco Ramirez
I'll give it a shot. I love testing stuff!
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
If you need another, you can include me, too.
- Helen Hoefele
I can volunteer.
- Atul Arora
have you reached your small handful yet? I'm interested.
- Troy Forster
from twhirl
Sent some more to everyone up to here. Thanks!
- DeWitt Clinton
Colour me game.
- David HC Soul
I'll help, if you still need it
- Bobbi Newman
Can I have a pony too?
- Andre
I'll check it out if you need more.
- Brandon Titus
Sent more.
- DeWitt Clinton
I would be very interested in helping. Let me know what you need.
- Mike Elliott
DeWitt, sure I will please sign me up! :)
- directeur
Yes. :)
- EricaJoy
Sure, count me in!
- Bill Sodeman
Sent, sent, and sent.
- DeWitt Clinton
as long as I don't have to get naked and bend over.. I'm in!
- Capn' One Eye - adrift
I'm in for the next round
- Dion Almaer
@Dion - sent.
- DeWitt Clinton
I'm in!
- Gavin
I'm in too x
- Joe Dawson
In for next round, if needed.
- Casey
i'm in
- John Duff
Sure, what's all this about?
- Kol Tregaskes
Everyone get a chance to try it out that wanted to?
- DeWitt Clinton
I'd be happy to check it out!
- Laura Norvig
@Laura - sent!
- DeWitt Clinton
The app held up swimmingly and the feedback has been extremely valuable. I'm going to hold off on the wide release until Jan as I'll be mostly offline next week, but would anyone else like to test this out before then?
- DeWitt Clinton
I can't believe I'm not already on your trusted testers list. Sign me up! =)
- Tom Stocky
@Tom - sent!
- DeWitt Clinton
Two filters that Friendfeed still needs: Filter by Service (e.g. create a music-friend-list and feed all last.fm entries to it), and Filter by Topic (i.e. hide all 'topic X' or feed all 'topic X' to a friend-category).
Michael W. May, Richard pancakhaus Walker, Voyagerfan5761 and 7 other people liked this
Filtering by service would be awesome.
- John Duff
seems like you can filter by service, there just isn't a easy way to do it from the ui, http://beta.friendfeed.com/...
- John Duff
Can't you do that already via advanced search? (Watch out for the RSS feed at the end of the page ...)
- Alexander Ebel
Actually, on each users page you can filter by services, would be nice to be able to do this for everyone from the ui
- John Duff
Try http://friendfeed.com/search... (You may leave the first entry free!)
- Alexander Ebel
Search + Rss works awesome, thanks guys (and FriendFeed)! Now, I still need the option to "hide all Topic X (i.e. a keyword like Olympics or politics)" and I'm a happy camper.
- Vincent van Wylick
This conversation may now be a while ago... but I can't find the rss feeds on searches anymore. When and why are they gone??
- Alexander Ebel
iClockr - Mac OS X - Freeware - http://www.iclockr.com/
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time tracker
- John Duff
Google’s Apps SLA Allows It To Minimize Downtime Of Gmail, Calendar And More - http://www.techcrunch.com/2008...
dirty...
- John Duff
I just deleted my Twitter account - if anyone wants crowdvid as an id, it's available.
how come? I've actually just started using twitter a bit more.
- John Duff
never used it. I only posted because I felt guilty for not posting.
- Capn' One Eye - adrift
Freckle Tracks Time and Clients Quick and Simple [Screenshot Tour] - http://lifehacker.com/5100734...
time tracking
- John Duff
What's On TV? Browse TV Listings from Your iPhone (Free today!) - http://www.louisgray.com/live...
free till tomorrow!
- John Duff
When shopping for a LCD TV, what's the most important spec I should be looking at?
Andrew Trinh, RAPatton, Andrew and Mathew A. Koeneker liked this
Contrast ratio? Brightness? Response time?
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
All of the above, honestly. Especially if you watch sports, which I know you do.
- Akiva Moskovitz
size.
- Trent Olson
Physical size? Resolution?
- Brian Sullivan
OK, but if they don't all match up, which one do I give more importance? My first thought is Response time
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
Response time and brightness, I'd say. An LCD with a rubbish lamp is worthless. And poor response time will cause 'smearing' during any high-paced camera shots.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Response time > Brightness > Contrast ratio?
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
@Trent I'm thinking that screen size will be a constant - probably 32"
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
Brand.
- Igor Poltavskiy
Shey, sure, especially if the room in which the TV will go doesn't have light issues. If you have big windows with a lot of sunlight in there, brightness would then become more important.
- Akiva Moskovitz
@Akiva ahh ok
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
It's not a spec but look for clarity. Actually, like Akiva said, all of them. Go to the store and view them all side by side. Most stores do a horrible job setting up their tvs and you're never going to watch it in a florescent lit storeroom but you really see which ones look better than others.
- Andrew Smith
@Igor Which brands do you think are the best?
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
Sony.
- Akiva Moskovitz
1.color accuracy 2.Contrast Ratio 3.Ease in adjusting. 4: 120hz 5 Price Everything has to be 1080P, and look nice. I don't care if it is plasma or LCD, I've had both.
- Michael Fidler
My experience with Sony has been that I'm paying extra just for the brand. What's different this time around?
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
Don't almost all modern LCD TVs have response time that allows for no smearing on sports action ? I thought that issue was buried a couple of years ago?
- Brian Sullivan
Thanks Michael
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
Shey, everyone I've talked to have all talked up Sony for LCD and Pioneer for plasma. We have a four-year-old Sony CRT HDTV that some of my friends with newer LCDs have claimed still looks better. That isn't to say that other brands aren't good, mind you. This is just all anecdotal. You'll have to make up your mind in the store.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Sony or Philips
- Igor Poltavskiy
I'm looking at these: http://friendfeed.s3.amazonaws.com/00392a5...
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
Like many electronic items, I think it's imperative to check out the specs, but never to buy on spec alone. I think you need to see them for yourself, and choose the one that is most pleasing to YOUR eye. Having said that, TV in a showroom is never going to look the same as TV in your living room, and stores tend to boost brightness and contrasts levels up to near maximum levels to overcome the bright store lighting.
- Ian May
Black levels and detail, motion, color accuracy. Everyone is going to have the same resolution(1080p or 720p) everyone is going to have some bullshit contrast ration that means nothing cause it will be dynamic, and all of them will be bright enough. The real differentiators are going to be the blacks and motion blur or lack there of. Check out HD Guru imo.
- Geoff Schultz
Great advice all, thanks! I'll definitely have to see them in person before I make a final decision
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
Women will tell you size
- Jeff (the マクダジ of FF)
not the most important, but something to watch out for is some lcds don't have a coax input, also watch the viewing angle depending on where you're going to put it.
- John Duff
@John My digital box has RCA outputs, and I believe the HD box will as well
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
check this out, just came by greader http://gizmodo.com/5099489...
- John Duff
Thanks for the link!
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
Fanboys | Movie Trailers - http://www.tribute.ca/trailer...
Capn' One Eye - adrift, Eric @ CSTechcast.com, Dan Liebke and 7 other people liked this
Not a review, but this looks awesome!
- John Duff
from Bookmarklet
I can't wait!
- Brian Bufalo
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!
- Nate Pilling
nice, hope I didnt just see every funny part of the movie in that trailer.
- Anthony
21 Great Advertising Networks For Publishers - http://howtosplitanatom.com/news...
Voxant seems interesting....
- John Duff
xkcd - A Webcomic - Induced Current - http://xkcd.com/509/
"Induced Current"
- John Duff
from Bookmarklet
updated to FF3 on my mac last night, search bar doesn't seem to work though...type in a query, hit enter, nothing...
sometimes it happens to me (Windows too). Usually I restart FF and it works fine.
- Paulo Nuin
restart didn't work, thanks for the suggestion though
- John Duff
Getting in touch with the stars - http://www.canada.com/ottawac...
John Duff liked this
The music industry 'gets' Overlay TV
- Capn' One Eye - adrift
from Bookmarklet
it's too bad they didn't use an image that actually shows what overlay does, the homepage video does a pretty good job of explaining things though http://www.overlay.tv/
- John Duff
fixed! The FF bookmarklet now pulls the thumbnail!
- Capn' One Eye - adrift
Ask Twitter, the Best Way to Find Great Answers - http://www.jennifervangrove.com/2008...
works if you have a huge number of followers, I probably wont get a whole lot from my 20 or so.
- John Duff
Twollow - Auto Follow On Twitter - http://twollow.com/index.php
auto follow twitter users based on keywords in their tweets
- John Duff
from Bookmarklet
Kyle Weller, Outsanity, Morton Fox and 8 other people liked this
It is great, I have been using it for some time without problems.
- Yas
Yep, it's good. I like it. The uninstall stuff is quick, and the actual removing temp files is brilliant.
- Rich
But you can remove those temps files manually, can't you? I mean, does it do anything that that you can't do without having ccleaner installed? Bear in mind that my parents are not uber geeks.
- Paul Grav
I use it all the time. Not sure how much the registry cleaning helps, but I haven't had any problems using it. It works best for removing junk leftover files though.
- JazJaz
Never been able to measure a positive impact for cleaning the registry ever.. The best thing to ever do is re-install.
- Ian D. Nock
from twhirl
@JazJaz. Apart from saving a few bytes on a hard disk, what benefit would a normal user see from "removing junk leftover files"?
- Paul Grav
Paul, if your parents aren't über geeks, they'll really like CCleaner because it's just a simple 2 or 3 click operation to use it. I've introduced CCleaner to about 10 of my Windoze-using friends, and they were all amazed at how much faster their systems became, and how much HD space was freed up. I use a Mac these days, and haven't noticed any significant slowdown in OS X after several months of use. Mac guys: is there any need to use anything like a CCleaner equivalent for Macs? I've heard of a few....
- Siddharth Deb
Paul, it's like cleaning the dirt accumulated under your car's hood. Good for the long run. Your temporary files, left untouched, would probably grow into hundreds of MBs, or in some drastic cases, GBs.
- JazJaz
@Siddharth Deb. The problem is that they have no clue what it does, and even if I were to explain to them what it does, it would most likely confuse them. I doubt they'd even remember what it does. They don't know how to use their anti-virus software, but they don't need to, it sits in the background and does its job. The anti-virus provides a tangible benefit, I'm still not convinced that ccleaner does.
- Paul Grav
Doesn't Windoze automatically clear out the temporary files? They have plenty of HD space, so unless the temp files start consuming tens of GBs, then I don't see the need to remove them. Apropos equivalent Mac products: I've had my Leopard install since its release, and I've not noticed any slow down.
- Paul Grav
I wouldn't worry about it, unless ccleaner has been set up to run at boot it doesn't run automatically. If they are like most non technical parents they will never bother to start it. (My mum was like that even with backups, had to use "no hands backup" and tell her to put the USB key before she ran her main app - a course manager I'd built in access- else the app wouldn't work. A lie!). You or your brother can run it when you visit, which is probably plenty enough. But it is pretty safe.
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Paul, Windoze does not automatically clear out the temporary files. CCleaner will also remove the junk left by other independent applications like firefox, opera etc (and too many others to mention here). Um, I hope you are not feeling too threatened by your brother trying to grab the geek mantle in you family. :)
- JazJaz
@JazJaz. He's more than welcome to the 'mantle' :) Being tech support to you parents can be quite challenging sometimes. I'm coming from the less is more philosophy. The more crap that my parents have installed, then there's more that can go wrong. Anyway, it seems that the general opinion is that Ccleaner mostly benign so I'll just leave it installed and let my bro deal with it.
- Paul Grav
I can understand your hesitation. Just be glad he hasn't installed ncleaner. It's for power users and is really quite dangerous in the wrong hands.
- JazJaz
CCleaner comes highly recommended on several authoritative tech-tip sites, and ideally should be run at least once every 2-3 months to keep WinXP running OK. Avoid N-Cleaner though, which is a similar free app. I remember using N-Cleaner last year and playing with the `system optimisation` settings a bit, and it resulted in some weird system behaviour.
- Siddharth Deb
Love it. Had no probs.
- Toby Graham
I wonder if CCleaner could do it's job on a Japanese Win XP.
- Tokyo Dan
CCleaner is great. It clears tons of stuff and you can set it to auto run from the shortcut so non uber users just doubleclick the icon. Now days we just hide it and run silent as a scheduled task. See command line help for arguments. "C:\Program Files\CCleaner\CCleaner.exe" /AUTO
- Keith - @tsudo
Does it work for Vista too?
- Ian May
I love ccleaner!
- Colide81 (James)
works for me just fine
- Live4Emma (L4S)
yes I have been using it for years and my IT guys love it, works great
- Kelly Johns
I love CCleaner. It cleans the crap -- no the required files -- so u needn't worry
- Keshav Khera
from twhirl
also Web Root SpySweeper and Purge IE
- johnpiercy
CCleaner is great with the exception of the registry cleaner. I have had several problems, especially with MS Office, after using the reg cleaner. However, the rest of the app is fantastic.
- Spencer
I've used it on XP machines with no issues whatsoever, but I don't use MS-Office anywhere here.
- Ian May
if you use xp you should have this installed
- John Duff
Must have tool!
- Ernie Oporto
CCleaner is awesome. Used every so often, you'll be surprised what was clogging up your computer.
- deusdiabolus
CCleaner is very good
- Outsanity
please install ubuntu along side windows, and let them play with it, if they like it, problems solved
- Kyle Weller
@Kyle. The only good thing about that idea is that I could ssh in at my leisure and configure/fix their box that way. But don't get me started on Linux. I love using it as a server, I hate it as desktop machine. There's no way I'd be willing to perform the task of permanent support person for a Ubuntu install. It'd be bad enough if I still lived anywhere near them, but I'm 500 miles away. Besides, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Their Vista install is running just fine.
- Paul Grav
If your parents aren't very techie I wouldn't use the Registry option, and set up the app to run with basic settings like cleaning temp files and stuff. The Registry option if you don't know what you are doing can do damage and you might need to reinstalled apps after it, and that if you are lucky. It does recognise known programs but not all, so it deletes stuff you might need that it's not know to it if you're not careful. Don't do anything you're not sure, but it's a great app.
- Cibeles
How much does gasoline cost where you live?
Alejandro, Shey, Jamaican of FF, Mike Reynolds and 4 other people liked this
For you Brits, that's petrol. Just got a call from across town. Wal-Mart has gas at $1.79/gallon.
- Chris Baskind
Cheapest is $2.05
- Shevonne
I paid $1.79 this morning.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
£0.92 - £0.97 over here in London
- sofiagk
.76/L
- Joshua Schnell
It was down to $1.49 in some places here, but over the past few days, I've seen it around $1.65 - $1.75.
- Trish R
$1.79 in north central Arkansas.
- Marvin Smith
$6.54/gal in Ankara / Turkey (including tax)... Probably you can't beat this :)
- Berk D. Demir
CAN$0.76/L (USD$2.24/gal) in Toronto
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
About $2.30/gallon (USD) in Seattle.
- Rochelle
$2.25 in Los Angeles
- Victor Ryden
2.29/gal in Cottonwood, AZ
- Jason Shultz
from twhirl
Currently $1.77 by my house in San Antonio. :D
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
1.69 in dallas texas
- Caleb Easterwood
Wife paid $1.84 in Massachusetts
- Lyndon Washington
from twhirl
lowest I saw was $1.89 in Kent, WA
- Live4Emma (L4S)
$1.699 on Wade Hampton Blvd here in Greenville SC
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
$1.779/gallon in Mebane, NC, USA. Price in US Dollars.
- Dave Roth
87 Octane down to $2.17 in Long Beach, CA
- Steve C
$1.84/gal in Jessup, MD
- Alan Simpson
$1.79 in Charleston, SC
- Ian May
$1.70 louisville, ky. at least 10 cent less in the rest of the state.
- Amber, Random Time Lord
Girl, where you seeing $1.70 at? It was $1.85 yesterday near Bowman Field.
- Michelle Jones
$1.10/l in Argentina
- Leandro Ardissone ⍨
$2.20 in San Jose, Ca
- Uncle CW™
CAN$0.98/L ~ CAN$1.08/L in Winnipeg
- Merry Xmas FFeeders - AJ
Macon, Georgia, best is $1.79 (average is $185).
- Jimmy Walker
Wife reports she saw a station on the way home for $1.99! That's awesome for us in West Texas.
- Damien Franco
Michelle, thats in the ten cent or more surcharge side of town. A few years back the local authorities were able to finagle an agreement where the more wealthy neighborhoods payed more for the "enhanced gas" in town since we dropped VET testing. So I fill up around the corner from the projects.
- Amber, Random Time Lord
2.12 cenral PA yesterday now 1.99 today
- Janet
$0.72 / L
- John Duff
@Shey it's .83/L here in Calgary. How does that work that it's cheaper in TO? Your gas must come from the U.S., not Alberta. Or we're just getting gouged here; a distinct possibility.
- Kenton
in Iran it's 10 cents/L for public allocation (which is 120 litre per month for each car) and 40 cents/L for free sale
- A.J.
what Giorgia said: € 1,20-ish / litre (5,70 $/gal)
- dario
I've seen it for $1.74 in Memphis
- Mike
$1.89ish in Orlando, but I pay about 20 cents more for premium.
- Mike Reynolds
$1.65 yesterday, here in Missouri - probably lower today.
- Robert Worstell
Watching Juno
Joe Dawson, James Ferguson, Alan Le and 11 other people liked this
I love Juno!!!
- Corvida
I loved that movie.
- DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE
from IM
Keeping your eye on Sarah Palin who's watching Russia?
- Outsanity
Cute, but totally unrealistic!
- Rochelle
chick flick!
- .LAG liked that
great movie, she's awesome in smart people as well http://www.imdb.com/title...
- John Duff
Some chick flicks are ok to watch. I think this is one of them. I say so because it doesn't suck and it's almost over. Why do I keep thinking about Hard Candy, though? :)
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
People consider this a chick-flick? I love Juno -- I've watched it 4 or 5 times.
- Brandon
Come on, you guys don't go see fiction movies for honesty, do ya'?
- LogEx
Ellen Page is awesome in it. I wanted to have her baby.
- LogEx
I know are so well we used to play chess together
- Jason
Didn't Juno get canceled?
- Mona Nomura
nothing is wrong with chick-flicks, especially if it won an Oscar for screenwriting, but Juno's definitely a chick-flick
- .LAG liked that
How can a movie be cancelled?
- Rochelle
I thought it was a show. EXCUUUSE me.
- Mona Nomura
I thought it was a dial-up internet service...but hey...
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Mona, lol. .LAG, Juno is *not* a chick flick. it's just a good flick.
- Kamath (नमः)
Maybe I have to be a chick to see why this movie is unrealistic? LOL
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Spoiler: she gets pregnant
- Josh Haley
"Although many types of films may be directed toward the female gender, "chick flick" is typically used only in reference to films that are heavy with emotion or contain themes that are relationship-based (though not necessarily romantic and may not involve men)." [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...]
- LogEx
LMFAO@Josh. Witty one-liners are also one of the main reasons I watch House and a slew of other shows, pay attention to certain actors, witty one-liners are that extra spice that gives a story some kick
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Great movie!
- Joe Dawson
@kamath... .LOLz! how is June **not** a chick-flick? intelligent, quirky teen gets pregnant and then deals with a bunch of relationship issues when she decides to give the baby up for adoption...emotional, touch-feely... well to me at least. Great script. But I'll take Quantum of Solace over that any day.
- .LAG liked that
.LAG, dude..anything that has a story doesn't become a chick flick. Touchy-feely crap was at a minimum and it dealt with the subject with a very wry sense of humor. I was laughing instead of reaching for the tissues most of the time. Definitely **not** a chick flick. Where QoS goes, I would enjoy QoS and Juno on the same day - not comparable. I liked Casino Royale better though :)
- Kamath (नमः)
To me, Juno is closer to being a John Hughes confection than something like Sisterhood of the Vacationing Capris.
- Roger Benningfield
@kamath...well, the touchy-feeliness in this movie is derived from the lead's pregnancy...that's at the core of the story, and to me, as a guy, that's something i'm never going to deal with, and judging by this thread, will never relate to, that's why i'm happy to put it in the chick-flick bucket. but you make excellent points on the humor. it was a good story. that's why it won an Oscar for best screenplay. also Sex in The City is mostly a comedy, but you'd call the movie a chick flick, no?
- .LAG liked that
.LAG, Sex and the city never made me laugh - women get its humor/wit, most men probably didn't have a clue what the 5 women were doing taking up an hour on prime-time television- hence confirmed hardcore chicky. That's unlike Juno. But sure, put it in your chick-flick bucket if you feel compelled :). To each his own.
- Kamath (नमः)
@kamath...fair enough, but you may have just came up with a definition of chick-flicks that actually makes sense: if women get the distaff nuances of the story but men don't ...then it may be a chick-flick. anyway, i enjoyed hijacking Rahsheen's thread with you. he was just watchin' a movie. ;-)
- .LAG liked that
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