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- Mike Nayyar
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- Tinfoil 2.0
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- Tinfoil 2.0
So it's since Tuesday huh? The ultimate thread. How will the thread die then? We must have a limit for that, let's say 24h without one comment.
- Zu from AOD
As a side note, I do have to applaud the endurance and pettiness of those of us on FriendFeed. No one on Facebook gave this status update a second look!
- Mike Nayyar
We pride ourselves in our pettiness and obsessiveness. Um, wait.
- Tinfoil 2.0
Remember. It's not whole Scoble likes. It's who likes Scoble.
- Akiva
According to FriendFeed, that's everyone. And some Twitter marketers and SEO experts.
- Mike Nayyar
Mike will get in the last word. Eventually. Everyone else is an idiot for playing his little game. Me included. :-)
- Robert Scoble
I'm not actually playing. Or, if I am, I'm playing to lose.
- Akiva
HAHA! You see that? Robert Scoble acknowledges I will eventually win! HAHA! FINALLY! For once in my life, I win! :) :) :) :) Unless Logical shows up...
- Mike Nayyar
Only mostly dead. There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive. With all dead, well, with all dead there's usually only one thing you can do.
- Tinfoil 2.0
We're testing the limit on the number of comments.
- DGentry
Nah, the FFundercats live chat pushed that one way over the top. We are, however, testing the limits oh how sick people are getting of setting my face.
- Mike Nayyar
This thread has a lot of comments, that must mean Mike is an expert of some kind...or maybe an A-Lister. Must stalk^H^H^H^H^Hinvestigate him...
- Rah-PM 2012
Olympus too? Good thing Logical doesn't know any Japanese mythological figures.
- Mike Nayyar
All right, if you're going to play that way, Raijin AND Ajisukitakahikone are BOTH mad at you. And Raijin was especially unhappy because you interrupted his NOMmage of children's bellybuttons.
- Tinfoil 2.0
Dude, my best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with the girl who saw Raijin put down the platter.
- Tinfoil 2.0
We'd be content, of course, if you (Mike) issued a public retraction of the assertion in your post, followed by allowing someone else to post the last comment in the thread ;-)
- Tinfoil 2.0
805 comments!! I'm afraid to click on the more link....
- Jeff P. Henderson
Nicholas, as long as it's not Mike, it's irrelevant.
- Tinfoil 2.0
I'm sad that Logical saw this Facebook status.
- Mike Nayyar
You know at some point, expanding this comment will really put a strain on mortal browsers. It already has a 3 second pause to expand it.
- Mark Philpot
I wonder if at some point we will hit a soft limit and FF won't let it keep going. That or they look at this as a great high-bounds test case for the system.
- Sparky, lurking
Great experiment there, I'm somewhat scared opening the thread here. Funny thing, Even the explosion of words spawned through this, making it a wordle madness. http://www.wordle.net/gallery...
- Zu from AOD
I'm scared to expand the comment thread :)
- Roberto Bonini
There are few computers with the processing power capable of handling the comments in this thread. Except for, you know, quantum computers.
- Mike Nayyar
from iPhone
i'm afraid to click on the link to see all comments. so i'm just typing this so another guy (or gal) can read it and comment to make this comment disappear.
- Alfredo 亜瑠布れっど
If anyone gets these emails in their gmail and got sick and tired of them like me, just press 'm' to mute the conversation (if you have keyboard shortcuts enabled) (haha i got the last word)
- Daniel Morgan
No you just don't know I posted this.
- John D Reasor
cant the person that started this block the comments now? and thereby win.
- Morgan
If you can get buddy buddy with mike and figure out his schedule, you can prevent him from stopping the comments because you'll always be able to get the last word in. We must prevail for great justice!
- Jonathan Hardesty
That would be cheating, and he knows it :)
- Tinfoil 2.0
That's how the FriendFeed Mob rolls. :-D
- Steven Perez
from IM
you didn't disable the comments yet? you could comment and then do it and then you really would get the last word. but then again, that's cheating. and cheaters never prosper.
- Trish Haley
You're not supposed to make sense of it. It exits only as an opaque, monolithic data structure that is constantly being updated and evolving. ;)
- Tyson Key
Attempting to parse it in a manner that is not approved by FriendFeed, Inc may result in disruption of the space-time continuum, and a series of Bad Things(R) occurring.
- Tyson Key
not only does it make julian fries, but it slices and dices in in seconds. ORDER NOW and you'll get this special gift ABSOLUTELY FREE!!!!!!11!!1ONE!
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
from email
this is the thread that doesn't end, yes it goes on and on my friend, Mike started it not knowing what it was, and it'll keep on going no matter what just because this is the thread that doesn't end, yes it goes on and on my friend, Mike started it.....
- T-Bone Tsali, FF Cherokee
from IM
welcome back my friends, to the thread that never ends, we're so glad you could attend, step inside, step inside.
- Mike Nencetti
MISSILES FOR ALL! Gun control is for unarmed wussies! Blow away comment limits! Damn the torpedoes! FULL STEAM AHEAD!!!
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
from email
Test conducted to see how long this can last.
- Ashish
it'll never die, with all the wireless cards out there transmitting this, it'll reach alpha centuari in about 300 years.
- T-Bone Tsali, FF Cherokee
from IM
It's not because I'm a person who wants to have the last word, but just because you people keep me reminding that there are others that do want that very badly, that causes me to comment here once again. HI! I'M BETTER THAN MIKE NAYYAR!!!!!!! LOSER! :-)
- Ton Zijp
This IS the time and place to announce a gathering of the societal beginnings of the intrepid adventures of... Wait... sorry, this isn't the place? Oh, okay, I'll go back home then.
- T-Bone Tsali, FF Cherokee
I was able to expand this thread on my Droid incredible, and post this comment at the end. Nice test of Dolphin HD browser.(edit - I use the default FF web page.)
- Mike Nencetti
from Android
If I get the last word in, will I get .LAG's World Series tix???
- Lisa L. Seifert | FHG™
It's been a while, Mr. LastWordThreat. I did some good things these recent months. Care to share some of your insights while you were on that trip? TLDR. 8) (2K+ comments is massive hehe, we're getting to your second b-day)
- Zu from AOD
All I want for Christmas are my two front teef.
- Mike Nayyar
Eventually, you will win. Because you're not married to this thread. But if you ever marry...your trend of always getting the last word will end. Painfully.
- Bubba Botts
This thread must go away!!! What if it kills FF!?
- SAM
this thread could go away right now. but you people keep posting comments...wait....didn't I just do the same thing? OK, nevermind. Long live this Thread!!!!
- Morgan
I heard Nayyar had to get in the The Last Word, always. I talked to the casting director, and Mike Nayyar got the lead in The Last Word.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
this is the last one -------------->>> WORD!
- .LAG liked that
Every middle brings another middle. When the world ends, will this comment be toward the end of the thread, or toward the beginning?
- John E. Bredehoft
You guys!!! This post will forever break FF if we're not careful.
- SAM
Yeah, we should all totally stop bumping this post.
- Slippy
I'm surprised Friendfeed can still expand this thread.
- Morton Fox
OMG, doesn't even want to image what would happen if Nayyar tried to use #fftop20. Actually I kind of do, but I bet it would be slow. Scores would be off the charts though.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
Probably still under 9000, people should try harder.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
I assume I can run Mac OS Leopard (Snow Leopard) via some virtual machine app in Windows, correct? If so, what are the best virtual machines for that? (This is obviously the opposite of VMWare Fusion/Parallels question, as I'm looking to run the VM on Windows 7.)
Unfortunately, you are not able to (legally) run OS X under a virtual machine unless you have a license to OS X Server. That said, I really haven't heard of anyone with first-hand experience doing this so I can't help you any more.
- Travis B. Hartwell
Not in the EULA to run OS X Client on anything other than bare metal Apple manufactured hardware. You can however now run OS X Server in virtualization but on a limited basis - http://db.tidbits.com/article...
- Adam Turetzky
VMWare is the only one currently that will run it... if you google it, you *might* find out how :)
- Tim Hoeck
I hate my Mac. I won't be sold on MacOS as an actual functioning OS unless I can use it on my terms on my main Windows machine. Apple is missing out on potential converts by limiting it to hardware with one stinkin mouse button.
- Tamar Weinberg
(and yes, I know I could get an external mouse, but I'm all about laptops with their touchpads)
- Tamar Weinberg
Probably not an option for you but this episode of Tekzilla showed pretty much the best way to Hackintosh. http://revision3.com/tekzill... (fast forward to 9:30 for the Hackintosh part).
- Adam Turetzky
You have to either a) go through a PITA process of creating the machine manually, or b) find an already created virtual machine through *alternative* methods.
- Tim Hoeck
Tamar: Three words: "Multi finger touch". My trackpad happily emulates a second mouse button. Not so sure about the third, but scrolling works just fine.
- Brad McCrorey
Brad, but that's an acquired skill by someone who has been using two-button mice all their lives!
- Tamar Weinberg
On the new ones, you can set the bottom right hand corner of the pad as right-click (control-click in AppleSpeak). So if you click the pad down there, it right clicks; on the other side, left. It's like having a pseudo-second button.
- Ian Betteridge
BTW, just a suggestion, but maybe this could have NOT been posted to the iPhone group? It's not really relevant.
- Ian Betteridge
I have OSx running on Hyper V, Server 2008, so it can be done. All the API's for Windows 7 are exactly the same for Server 2008. :)
- Karlheyes
Oh, and, the questionably legal method of getting VMWare Workstaion 7 along with the full OS X Snow Leopard can be found here: http://www.warez-bb.org/viewtop... I suggest using a program called Jdownloader to download the appropriate files from the selected Megaupload links which are the best of the bunch. Take care :]
- Marc Hilton
In relation to getting acclimated with one button and multi-touch: it didn't take me all that long to get used to it. Nearly 2 decades for me until I got a MacBook so 2+ buttons were pretty ingrained (I still use PCs). Multi-touch makes it much easier; one finger press for left click, two finger press for right click.
- Arlan K.
from FreshFeed
That's not what he said at all. Lots of very bad reporting about this story.
- Paul Grav
FTA: "It should be noted that at no point does Richard talk in specifics, and in a roundabout way he alludes to network capabilities to handle transmitted “images in real time.” He also talks specifically about the device having a webcam built into it."
- Joshua Schnell
Musically minded people! Attention! I have a friend who knows NOTHING about music but really wants to. Currently, she listens to Britney and Taylor. I know, I know. She's heard stuff by The Bird and the Bee and really likes them. Her birthday is coming up and I told her I'd make her a mix. Any suggestions?
I know I want to include Rilo Kiley, Metric, The Submarines, Bishop Allen and some LA bands. But I don't know which songs to pick! This is an art form and I bow down to all of you who have made me mixes in the past.
- Lis
Good one, Ayse. Caroline - definitely Snow Patrol and The Killers. I'm also thinking of putting in Passion Pit because of my current obsession. This mix may end up being like 50 songs long. Sigh.
- Lis
You should make it historical. Pick a decade as a starting point then track it through to today. I did that for a road trip to the rock n roll hall of fame this summer. It was a hit.
- Joshua Schnell
Joshua - that sounds like so much work! I'm new to this!
- Lis
I love that song; dog days are over is also very good
- RAPatton
from iPhone
What about "I'm Not Calling You a Liar"? I love that one.
- Lis
This is what I have so far (not in order): 1. Rilo Kiley - Portions for Foxes 2. Metric - Help, I'm Alive 3. The Submarines - You, Me and the Bourgeoisie 4. Obi Best - It's Because of People Like You 5. Bishop Allen - Click, Click, Click, Click 6. Bat For Lashes - Sleep Alone 7. Passion Pit - Swimming in the Flood 8. Ida Maria - I Like You So Much Better When You're Naked 9. The Killers...
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- Lis
I still want to put in one of: Headlights, Mates of State, Great Northern, Army Navy and Arcade Fire. This is the most random mix ever.
- Lis
I'm still not into YYYs and I'd put in a Raveonettes, but I feel like this thing is already all over the place.
- Lis
Raveonettes would fit fine - "Last Dance" or "You Want the Candy".
- Jandy
Last Dance by Raveonettes, Heads Will Roll by YYYs
- RAPatton
from iPhone
Obi Best - Who Loves You Now. Oh, nvm I see you have an Obi Best already.
- Tinfoil 2.0
Arcade Fire? "Rebellion (Lies)" or "No Cars Go." Belle and Sebastian - "If You're Feeling Sinister." Camera Obscura - "French Navy." Headlights - "Get Going." Los Campesinos! - "Broken Heartbeats Sound Like Backbeats." Mates of State - "For the Actor." Miniature Tigers - "Cannibal Queen." The New Pornographers - "Myriad Harbor." The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - "Young Adult Friction."...
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- Jandy
See what happened? You made me go trolling through my iTunes. There, I'm done now.
- Jandy
Most of those are the obvious choices for each of those bands. I'm going on the assumption that she won't know who they are and the obvious choices may be the best. If that's not the case, they all have plenty of non-obvious choices, obviously. :)
- Jandy
Yes, I think obvious is good. I *heart* you.
- Lis
You're making me want to make a mix. BUT I DON'T HAVE TIME TO MAKE A MIX.
- Jandy
Wait, ok I have heard of the birds and the bees, And I know Of Britney, But Kilo Riley and Metric is beyond me. The Submarines is, are, uhm .... And Bishop Allen probably is related to Stephen Bishop, is He?
- Brent - Yes I am
Lis, send Brent a copy of the mix when you're done. :)
- Jandy
I have all the songs I'm putting in the mix. Order is yet to be determined. Once it's all uploaded, I'll make sure to post a link!
- Lis
Going in a different direction, just to throw it out there: Parliament-Funkadelic, The Meters, Charles Wright & the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band, Rebirth Brass Band, Fela Kuti, Antibalas, Nomo, Johnny Pate, Jamiroquai, Brand New Heavies, Breakestra, Speedometer.
- Andrew C (✓)
What is her dress style? Does she dress like a Britney, Taylor groupie? What kinda style/tribe does she identify with? I like all of Jandy's suggestions, but that might be too much of a good thing for a non-initiated ear. Love Metric, Kings of Leon, The XX (so in love with them), The Horrors, Grizzly Bear, Zero 7, PJ Harvey, Primal Scream, UNKLE, Koop, Mazzy Star, Gill Scott-Heron.... Also, Andrew's different direction is great. Get everyone's Lastfm charts!
- Red Label
Red Label - I don't know her all that well, but she's not a groupie. She told me that she's aware they're crap but that she just can't stop listening to them;) She's also heard The Bird and the Bee and really likes them. And, I just dl'd The XX and really liking them.
- Lis
Fwd: Is there a way in iTunes to convert a digital copy of a film down to a more iPhone-friendly size? The Inglourious Basterds digital file (from the bluray package) is almost 2gb; other files I've converted straight from Vuze or Handbrake to iPhone size are around half a gb. (via http://friendfeed.com/faithx5...)
Forgot to crosspost this question here from my feed; Googling suggested using Quicktime Pro, but I only have the basic Quicktime, so I don't have the export option. [I'm on OSX.]
- Jandy
Hmmm...is there an ffmpeg that isn't command line based? I am not a programmer, and I looked through the documentation on ffmpeg.org, and it all looks like gibberish to me.
- Jandy
Yes, but there are enough Google hits from people who've figured it out...try the simple: ffmpeg -i <filein>.avi <fileout>.mp4 and let me know how it works for you.
- Prolific Programmer
If you rightclick the video in itunes you should get a "Create iPod or iPhone" option.
- Joshua Schnell
Prolific - never got past the compiling the program stage. Couldn't even get that done. Tried ffmpegX, but that created a 2 1/2 hour long blank file. Joshua, that option is greyed out, possibly because it's already iPhone compatible (it's an m4v), it's just huge - I just want to lower quality/resolution settings to knock it from 2gb down to about 500 or 600mb.
- Jandy
from iPhone
I have the same file... it's protected / DRM'd, the only ways I know of are analog hole, gray-market software that gets around the DRM, or software that captures what's being displayed on your screen (e.g., Snapz Pro).
- Tinfoil 2.0
LogEx, that's what I was afraid of. Dumb of them not to include multiple file sizes on the digital copy disc, I think. Tempts me to rent the DVD and rip it myself.
- Jandy
As Joshua Schnell said - "If you rightclick the video in itunes you should get a "Create iPod or iPhone" option".
- Khürt Williams
Khurt, but you don't. That was the first thing I tried. I think LogEx is right, they've DRMed the usefulness out of it.
- Jandy
from iPhone
When are these companies going to learn that we want to access their content on a multitude of platforms, and not just some proprietary box. Blows my mind that in 2009 we're still dealing with this crap.
- Joshua Schnell
The attraction of control a settop gives you is almost impossible to resist. They can fully monetize their content and do whatever they want whenever they want. If it works the payoff is big.
- Todd Hoff
The key word there is *if*. If it was only the BBC doing this it wouldn't be so bad, surely the rest of the television companies are going to follow suit. That means a bunch of set top boxes in a home. I don't think consumers will pay for an ABC, NBC, CBS, BBC, Fox, and a CBC box. It's just too much in my opinion.
- Joshua Schnell
I'm not disagreeing, it's just a mighty juicy carrot :-)
- Todd Hoff
Daryl, when a dev firm can't make more than 21 dollars a day, for each day they worked on the project there's something clearly wrong with the culture on the AppStore.
- Joshua Schnell
Also, the argument isn't about liking the free apps. It's about developers not being able to develop for a platform because it doesn't nearly pay out enough to employ themselves. If we keep expecting free apps from developers, the developers are eventually going to leave the iPhone behind because they can't afford to sustain themselves financially.
- Joshua Schnell
They're not going to elaborate because they are merely reading the title and not reading the story. Daryl didn't read the story either it appears.
- Tamar Weinberg
Here are some snippets for the lazy (cough Daryl/Will/Shey cough): "When a development firm such as blacksmith games puts together an entire month worth of free downloads for the iPhone community, and the community can’t turn around and support the developer by purchasing a $1.99 application in the appstore, something’s clearly rotten in the state of the AppStore."
- Tamar Weinberg
Actually, I did read the article. But I'll forgive your snarky comment. :). Reading the article doesn't automatically mean I'm going to agree. Cuz I don't.
- Shey
"A dollar ninety-nine for a mobile game is a steal no matter how awesome or crappy a game is, and the fact that a development firm tosses out a tweet that says, “if 5% of the daily appvent visitors would buy plushed i would be happy” reveals a pretty grotesque commentary on iPhone users and their purchasing tendencies."
- Tamar Weinberg
Then why just a "no"? Maybe you can add a little more? Surely it's not that difficult...
- Tamar Weinberg
In the middle of typing a response... if you guys could just give me a minute...
- Shey
Might've been a good idea to say that before the "no." I know it's FF culture not to read articles but only to comment on titles - so apologies if I was misjudging you there, but based on Daryl's comment, it's evident that at least one person didn't read it.
- Tamar Weinberg
First of all -- products and services should be aimed at filling market needs. If you focus on that, you'll succeed. Secondly, if people want to download crappy free apps that are easy to find and that makes them happy, guess what? NEED SOLVED. If there is a market for people who want an app that does more and are willing to pay for it and you can fill that need --- NEED SOLVED. If there isn't a market for it, then don't complain about it -- create a better product or fill another need.
- Shey
Shey, fair points, but it's not an issue of a "better product" when the culture of free makes "better products" harder to sell.
- Tamar Weinberg
Thirdly, it isn't the customer's fault that your development costs are too high.
- Shey
No, it's not. But this isn't that abnormal for this market. I bet development costs are high for every decent game in the app store.
- Tamar Weinberg
The bottom line is that the culture shift has made it impossible for GOOD products to sell. Look at this article from TUAW: http://www.tuaw.com/2009...
- Tamar Weinberg
@Tamar I totally get the damaging effects of "the culture of free". That culture will always be around, so you can a) fight it and reduce your share of the market or b) embrace it, and yes, competition will increase, but so will the overall iPhone share and your share of that share. Get it :)
- Shey
It's a shame to have really great products that can't sell. But in the end, if no one is willing to pay for it -- competition or not -- that's all that matters.
- Shey
I understand that. I also think Josh's argument is very valid. If App store apps had to cost money, it wouldn't always be around. Embracing it in a competitive market with over 100k games is damn hard. TUAW says it nicely, "Everyone is still working to unlock success in the App Store, but with over 100,000 products on the shelves, it has become increasingly more difficult for the good apps to stand apart."
- Tamar Weinberg
People would be more willing to pay for it if there weren't so many free games in the app store. I personally am guilty of it. I won't buy games because there are free apps that can consume my time, even if the games rock.
- Tamar Weinberg
@Tamar Then I think the problem is not with the free apps. The problem is with the iTunes' capability of showcasing good apps through social/recommendation engines.
- Shey
@Tamar I agree there -- but you won't get anywhere close to 100% conversion. And when others find out that apps are no longer free -- they'll just go to another platform, like Android, and all iPhone devs will lose.
- Shey
The App Store needs Amazon's ability to produce recommendations based on what you've downloaded (and from other people who have downloaded what you've downloaded). Right now, it's these big pools of apps that aren't really, in any way, differentiated from each other except by title and icon and very loose definitions. 'New and Noteworthy' and 'What's Hot' don't really tell me ANYTHING...
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- Akiva
Shey, maybe social recommendation engines work, but I'm not seeing the power in those that I'm engaged in. I'm also not looking at 100% conversion, but some conversion that translates to decent sales would be nice. And personally, I think it's close-minded and stupid for developers to only focus on the iPhone market. I personally am not going to buy an iPhone. I'll keep my iPod touch and get an Android phone. If only developers would flock to the Android platform.
- Tamar Weinberg
Woah, I jump in the shower and come back to a boat load of comments... catching up... responses to follow. ;)
- Joshua Schnell
Akiva, there are recommendations, but I personally used them 1% of the time. There's a "Customers Also Bought" section on the bottom of each app's page though, but it's not very popular.
- Tamar Weinberg
I think this can all be summed up with "Free != Best Option". If we stop categorizing things as Free and Not Free we might actually get better recommendations, and find applications that can provide us with the greatest marginal utility. I'd love to see the analytics on the amount of users who just go straight to the free section of the store.
- Joshua Schnell
Akiva, I completely agree with the recommendation engine needing serious work. I've commented on it a number of times on the site, primarily here: http://su.pr/1TfAHz and here: http://su.pr/1I0Exv Apple really needs to rework the system. They're long overdue, and need to start embracing social media technologies.
- Joshua Schnell
On a tangent, Blacksmith Games sound like they were operating inefficiently, art, story, and level design can be done in parrallel, at least for a small portion of the time. They should also focus on building a game engine that can be used as a frame work, reducing overall time for initial production down a few months, and subsequent titles at maybe half the total time, the story and...
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- Jimminy, CoG of FF
WinMo has had free apps since 2000, if not sooner. What makes iPhone so special that their devs -- many of whom switched over -- can't keep up? Palm has had free apps forever, too. No tears, no abolition.
- MiniMage, enterRUPPted
Jimminy, those are excellent point, but what about the barrier of entry in to a market? If the barrier is so high that new comers can't compete, or even break even, won't developers give up on the system? It worries me that innovative applications might not make it to the device because a developer can't afford to develop for the iphone. Blacksmith Games was just an example, but they're surely not the exception to the rule.
- Joshua Schnell
Cecily, that's awesome. How funny would it be if Apple released that ratio. I'd probably be shamed publicly. ;) I think the problem is across the board. I know i'm guilty of looking for a free option first. Why pay 10.00 for omnifocus's app, when I can get something for free.
- Joshua Schnell
LOL Christopher, in that case, I hope they aren't successful. They should be looking for prospective buyers who can pay up front, not at the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
- Tamar Weinberg
This is a really interesting article and discussion. While yes, there are many things the developers can do to improve their chances (and hey, if the market wants something, you have to work with that fact, not against it), I don't think that Apple is entirely blameless in this whole dysfunctional arrangement. The single choke-point (with not very good recommendation or exposure...
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- Chieze Okoye
Don't forget about in-app purchases feature, which was recently introduced for free apps. Some of the apps (namely, Eliminate) made a fortune off in-app purchases, while remaining free.
- Pavlo Zahozhenko
It is wall powered so it includes a hefty A/C adapter (which goes into wall) so that it doesn't draw the power from the PC's PSU. So A/C from wall->hub then usb from pc->usb on hub.
- Nicholas Kreidberg
Excellent suggestion. Love the face you're making there hehehe. 7 ports! Very good then.. got only 4 ports and switchin' USB devices can be a pain.
- Zu from AOD
It really unlocks some powerful tools. The ability to see what the file is clearly, and the ability to preview video is a big plus for me.
- Joshua Schnell
from Bookmarklet
I believe you may be. Those are some massive icons!
- Vicarbott
Haha, I love the video playback option. It really helps in sorting multiple takes of video.
- Joshua Schnell
Jim, what size are the icons on your desktop?
- Joshua Schnell
I'm a bit funny with my icons. They have to be neat and arranged in a nice little line on the right hand side. Anything out of place and I can't deal with it! It's a good idea to have them quite big though to see exactly what you need where and when.
- Charley M
I have no icons on my desktop. On the rare occasions that I put something on my desktop temporarily, it's very small. For example: http://twitpic.com/tmhqk
- Vicarbott
It looks good and prevents messing desktop with junk :) do it sometimes
- Yunus Tunak
from iPhone
Yunus, that's bang on. It helps me keep the most relevant files handy, but also forces me to archive stuff once I'm done with it. It's the best of both worlds if you ask me.
- Joshua Schnell
Like Charlotte I keep only one vertical line of desktop icons on the right side. Large enough so that the bottom-most icon is actually at the bottom (usually ~90 for me). And I only keep drive icons + aliases to my Upload & Download directories on my desktop.
- ronin
Some of the stuff in the list includes... Skull Candy Headphones PKG Laptop Bag Teecycle Tee of your Choice DropZone PathFinder Acorn VooDoo Pad BookArc BacPack
- Joshua Schnell
from Bookmarklet
It was taken a couple of days ago for the intro to a video podcast, but it has since become my go to photo for when I'm having a crappy day.
- Joshua Schnell
Buraya biz mi uygulama ekliyoruz yoksa sen mi seçiyorsun Joshua?
- sy
sy, i'd love to respond, but have no idea what you've just said. Anyone able to translate?
- Joshua Schnell
I guessed it was Turkish because he posts about Turkmac forums in his feed, but this is all I was able to get from Google: Here we are adding the application you choose or you Joshua
- Vicarbott
Jim, that's probably just as confusing... lol. Hopefully he can translate for us.
- Joshua Schnell
Choose your applications on this site about? (i am sorry google translate) ((:
- sy
Sy, I think it's referring to application developers. They can contact the Appvent team to have their application included in the list.
- Joshua Schnell
"On Monday, Apple and Psystar have finally strike a deal in the copyright case that has been going on for months. If you haven’t heard, Apple was suing Psystar for shipping out Intel-based systems with Mac OS X preinstalled on them. Apple finally got what they wanted because Psystar has agreed to stop selling these Mac clone computers."
- Shevonne
from Bookmarklet
I'm still torn on this whole debate, I'd love to see OS X sold on its own. I'd also love to be able to have OS X running in a vmware install at the very least. It would make testing applications a lot less dangerous.
- Joshua Schnell
@Joshua I know what you mean. Very hard case to take sides on
- Shevonne
I wonder who is going to use a perfectly good coupon code for a really addictive iPhone/iPod touch app. It's been 6 hours and nobody claimed it yet!
- Tamar Weinberg
(and I have Lexic, so I'm not claiming it. Someone else should.)
- Tamar Weinberg
Hah. It might have helped if I knew how to use a coupon code. Ah, well, it looks like a good game and $1.99 is not too much to ask.
- Akiva
Akiva--there's a Redeem link on the homepage of the iTunes store.
- Tamar Weinberg
Drobo S Specifications: 50% Faster than the current Drobo model, Now has eSATA connection, 5 Drive Bays instead of Four, Dual-Drive redundancy
- Joshua Schnell
That looks exciting, but the $800 price with no drives is a tough one to swallow :S
- Judah Richardson
Yeah, 800 Bones is steep, but they do offer a 399 model. It doesn't have eSATA, nor dual drive redundancy, but is a little more consumer friendly.
- Joshua Schnell