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Mike Bracco › Comments
Re: What Makes an Entrepreneur (5/11) – Inspiration - http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2009...
"Hey Mark - a great post once again. I love the Rocky clip. I wanted to comment here and point you to one of the most inspiring stories I have ever come across. It's Tony Robbins going through the back story on what Stallone went through to get the first Rocky movie made. Truly worth the 10min listen - amazing story! http://mikebracco.com/blog......"
- Mike Bracco
@GuyKawasaki I'm really enjoying your recommendation on net@nite regarding SmartBriefs - great daily recaps.
There are smart briefs, then there are handy smart briefs http://friendfeed.com/fabooma...
- Micah Wittman
haha, that's funny Micah
- Mike Bracco
:D
- Micah Wittman
Re: Magntize Helps You Build a Simple Social Media Business Card - http://mashable.com/2009...
"I hear you, it definitely makes total sense in that type of situation :)"
- Mike Bracco
Re: Magntize Helps You Build a Simple Social Media Business Card - http://mashable.com/2009...
"All of these biz card sites have are "cool" but at the end of the day the best online business card you can have is your personal website. Redirecting people to another domain is not ideal if your trying to build your personal brand. Present your info in a unique way on your domain and offer a vCard download."
- Mike Bracco
"All of these biz card sites have are "cool" but at the end of the day the best online business card you can have is your personal website. Redirecting people to another domain is not ideal if your trying to build your personal brand. Present your info in a unique way on your domain and offer a vCard download."
- Mike Bracco
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iStat Menus http://www.islayer.com/apps...
- sy
Thanks sy: I'll definitely check it out. I had that installed on a machine a while back but not recently - looks like it may be what I need. Cheers!
- Mike Bracco
Re: Why I disagree with @Arrington about Droid - http://scobleizer.com/2009...
"Scoble - another thing to note: just as you mention Arrington's need for integration with Google Voice, I have just as much need as a heavy Mac user to have all of my Mac world sync up with my iPhone world. I use MobileMe to sync my contacts/calendar in the cloud. I also sync all of my media I buy or rent in iTunes. Most importantly, I use various Mac apps which sync to companion iPhone apps (most notably OmniFocus and 1Password - both of which have Mac/iPhone apps that sync). Although Mac users are smaller than their Windows counterparts, I don't really see how a Mac user beyond a novice who just uses it to check email perhaps, would use any other phone. If you want rock solid integration with your Mac and the apps you use, I don't see there ever being another option."
- Mike Bracco
Nice and clean. Just the way it should be. :) - http://minimalmac.com/post...
VAL D. Zone, Kamilah Gill, Andrew Trinh and 18 other people liked this
except for that MSFT mouse! :) .... needs the new magic mouse....oh and the new LED display if getting really particular :) Here's my version - http://mikebracco.com/hardwar...
- Mike Bracco
Awesome!!!
- orionstarr
from iPhone
love the setup mike. I'll take some pics of mine tomorrow.
- Joshua Schnell
It's a miracle!
- Roberto Arancibia
Looks nice. But a magic mouse would be better. I should post mine. A thirteen year olds office.
- Zachary TG
I love both your setups, I wish I could clean mine up like that.
- Andrew Trinh
One of the larger Apple ads I've seen... http://twitpic.com/maw54
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Shevonne and Lars Clausen liked this
That Apple ad is bigger than the two buildings!!!!
- Shevonne
Shevonne - yeah it's pretty big. I took that pic a little bit ago in West Hollywood.
- Mike Bracco
Embarrassing photo meme. That's me on the left, DJ Jack Friday on the right.
Darren Heydon, MiniMage TKDteacher of FF, rowlikeagirl and 118 other people liked this
Yay Leo!
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
Well played, sir!
- Josh Haley
Wow Leo, that's vintage and precious.
- RODNEY OLIVER
Whoo, Leo! Way to mix it up with the common folk!
- Akiva Moskovitz
That photo is WIN!
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
When is that Leo? I'm guessing 1978 or so?
- Michael R. Bernstein
Slow and clear.. and with a blue vest
- Rhys Amos
Woah...he MEMED! respect
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
Dear Leo, I love you to death, however, please let your darling daughter know Monaco is not an island off the coast of France and yes, Monte Carlo is the capitol. My daughter is the same age and we are starting to shop college's as well. I wish you the best of luck finding a school that suits her well. I was an exchange student as well and found it the best experience ever!
- Jennifer Ragde
Okay, now my computer politically correct daughter is telling me this was not the correct way to state my opinion as I should have commented on the photograph. I'm really sorry, I love to listen to your broadcasts, but I really am computer retarded so please forgive me if I have transgressed in any manner. I can't even upload photographs without her help! Really, you don't look dapper,...
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- Jennifer Ragde
I do believe Steve Jobs was in the process of creating the Macintosh then? This is '70s right?
- Danny Minick
LOL Jennifer and +1 for your daughter. :)
- Josh Haley
You look so dapper, Leo!!
- Mona Nomura
go leo!
- sean percival
That's awesome
- Jesse Stay
lookin good ..
- Saad Kamal
Outstanding, Mr Laporte. You can see the in dream there. Potential and promise sporting a tank-top.
- Dan Biddle
Those pants look like they may be restricting blood flow a little bit... Also, sweet chalk board! Haven't seen one of those in years!
- Mark
I hardly recognised you. It maybe your outfit but you look older in this photo
- Kevin J Hatton
Taken at a radio station? (based on blackboard notes) Wait. BLACKBOARD??? Wow. :)
- CAJ, somewhere else
Jack looks like wolverine.
- Harold Benfield
Excellent sweater vest there, Leo!
- John Lutz
That's on handsome man! lol
- Melissa Goetsch
Leo, you were one hot stack if pancakes back in the day!!
- Erik Boles
Not to nitpick or anything, but Monaco is the name of the state and the capital city. Monte Carlo is just one of city's administrative areas :)
- Dorian
It's 1985 or 1986. I was 28 or 29. And an utter dork.
- Leo Laporte
This vintage is good stuff!
- Jackie
not vintage but funny - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
- Mike Bracco
Okay. Leo you rock! Let me get that out of the way. But you look like Susan Boyle in this photo. Sorry, someone had to throw it out there. ;-)
- Oracio
LEO: if this was a family photo I think it might make it on to the hilarious site that aggregates awkward family photos: http://awkwardfamilyphotos.com/ must check this out! :)
- Mike Bracco
Not a family photo - it's a work photo. That's from KLOK-FM San Francisco.
- Leo Laporte
Leo: I know, I was just saying if it was :)
- Mike Bracco
What's that funny lookin thing in the background?
- Daniel James
Daniel.. I think that is what was known as a monochrome display. They were all the rage back then apparently.
- Rhys Amos
Your hair wasn't even real back then! :P
- Kreg Steppe
I think his hair looks better now
- Jim Hague
Dear Dorian, I stand corrected. I was just stunned that someone thought Monaco was an island. When I was in high school (when Dinosaurs roamed the earth, ha ha!), we had to memorize the world in geography. I guess times have changed.
- Jennifer Ragde
LOL, I took all those old photos of me and hid them deep!
- Lillian Banchik
OMG I just found this... *DEAD*
- Johnny Worthington
Oh wow, totally 80s, fer shure. :P
- Molly, "sorry"
You looked smart and confident :) Great photo! Thanks for sharing!
- mahjongmi
Perfection...set against a backdrop. #macbookpro #apple
il Many, Lui Vitaly Yuan, Ahsan Ali aka. Slick and 2 other people liked this
A slightly absurd picture of me holding my MacBook Pro off of I-70 in Utah about an hour ago...haha
- Mike Bracco
wow, crazy photo :)
- Zee.
I'm pretty sure there was an angelic chorus in the background when this happened
- Mike Nayyar
Zee: yeah, kind of a ridiculous photo :) No more denying my Apple affection now..LOL
- Mike Bracco
Mike - indeed there was. All of a sudden rose petals started falling all around me as well.
- Mike Bracco
And I thought you were going to drop it off the cliff :-( and start loving windows back again.
- TrafficBug
I wish I could rate songs while listening to them in a Genius mix in iTunes. Update: I Love Stars version 3.2 works, see http://www.potionfactory.com/blog...
Ryan - @magicofpi, Bill Sodeman and Mike Bracco liked this
You could use Quicksilver (free) or CoverSutra (http://www.sophiestication.com/coversu...) which is what I use. Not free but best iTunes controller out there IMHO.
- Mike Bracco
I simply type Command 1/2/3/4/5 while song is playing to rate it. When I do so a translucent box appears in center of screen showing rating than quickly goes away.
- Mike Bracco
Oh, forgot to mention http://www.yousoftware.com/tunes... which is free and also popular. I don't like it b/c it's way too bloated in my opinion.
- Mike Bracco
Sizzling Keys will also do this. http://www.yellowmug.com/sk4it...
- Bill Sodeman
Wish i could edit the genius mixes.
- Roberto Bonini
Thanks for the tips, I think I'll reinstall Quicksilver now that it is available for Snow Leopard, but Sizzling Keys seems interesting too.
- Niklas Morberg
OK, I've tried Sizzling Keys and rating doesn't work when playing a Genius Mix. It works for normal song playing. Off to try Quicksilver now, I'll report back.
- Niklas Morberg
GrowlTunes doesn't work either (yet to try quicksilver, but I'm not very hopeful)
- Niklas Morberg
Quicksilver definitely works and has a dedicated plugin for itunes and setting ratings.
- Vincent van Wylick
Thanks for the tip Vincent, but I just tried and Quicksilver doesn't work either. I can set ratings when listening to a normal playlist, any selected playing songs, for my own genius playlists, but *not* for songs playing in a genius mix (which is different from a genius playlist).
- Niklas Morberg
try I Love Stars: http://www.potionfactory.com/blog...
- Giles Turnbull
Thanks Giles, that seems to do the trick. Great application as well, my favorite of the ones I've tried so far.
- Niklas Morberg
I made it from New Hampshire to Columbus, OH in one day. Headed through Indianapolis, St. Louis and Kansas City tomorrow.
Drive safely!
- Spidra Webster
5 hour energy + red bull helps...will do though :)
- Mike Bracco
Here's my dock. I've had a problem with it since updating to Snow Leopard and was wondering if anyone else is having a similar problem.
Jaap Willem liked this
You can see from it that i have iTunes, Last.fm, TextEdit and the Wakoopa Tracker open, as they have the small dots under them. But, iTunes & Last.fm are not actually open, when i do open them, the dots disappear. And, I have Mail, Firefox, Tweetie, 1Password and a few other apps open as well, but they're not showing up in the dock as being open. When i do Apple Tab i only get the Finder icon show up, so i cant switch apps that way like i used to be able too. Mail is open in another space and it switches over to that space just fine when i click it, but it still doesn't how the dot. It's really annoying, and i have no idea why it's doing it, or how to fix it.
- Simon Wicks
Anyone have any ideas?
- Simon Wicks
Still thinking
- Bahaeddin [ MacinLife ]
from iPhone
this probably won't help but you can give it a shot: delete the dock's preference (.plist) file. Go to User Account>Library>Preferences>then delete the file "com.apple.dock.plist" - the file will be re-created automatically when you relaunch the dock
- Mike Bracco
I have to remember what apps i have open, and use the recently used apps icon in the dock to switch to them if i have hiden them.
- Simon Wicks
Will try that now Mike, cheers
- Simon Wicks
How can i force a refresh on the dock? I thought refreshing the finder used to do it, doesnt seem to now if it did before.
- Simon Wicks
Do a shut down and restart. Try a permissions repair, have you got Macaroni running? Shouldn't really need it but it's worth running all the maintenance jobs manually just to make sure.
- Gilbert Harding
Open the Terminal and type "killall Dock" then press enter - that will relaunch dock
- Mike Bracco
It's been restarted no end and the problem has always been here. Not had macaroni on here for ages, will find it again.
- Simon Wicks
Cheers Mike. Thats got it, my dock is massive now and there is loads of stuff in it that i'd deleated before, so i guess this is the standard dock plus my open stuff now, and it seems to have reset all my screen corner settings as well though!
- Simon Wicks
and spaces too, all my app assignments are gone :)
- Simon Wicks
So it did work on fixing issue?
- Mike Bracco
Yeah it did thanks, just got to get everything back to how it was before now, apple tab shows everything as does the dock. Cheers!
- Simon Wicks
Sorry about not warning you on all those settings being reset....sometimes deleting plist files is the only way to resolves some of these issues....unfortunately prefs must be rebuilt.
- Mike Bracco
Ok, cool. Glad it worked.
- Mike Bracco
just out of curiosity: what's the name of the second application form the left?
- Kamau Wa Kimani
Kamau - Its Adium (http://adium.im/) with a custom Little Gamers icon. (http://www.adiumxtras.com/index...)
- Simon Wicks
thanks!
- Kamau Wa Kimani
If Sony made a car, what do you think the chances would be that they would come out with a custom shaped gasoline nozzle that required you to go to Gas Stations that had Sony gas pumps?
Christian (Simply X), Tony, Ladybug Heather and 13 other people liked this
Never buying a sony anything if it only supports it's propriety storage media...The last Sony point and shoot I bought a couple years ago is the last thing I'll be getting unless they decide start abiding by standards.
- Mike Bracco
Realistically, though, I doubt one could develop a custom shaped gasoline nozzle that forced the user to go to specific gas stations. Wouldn't putting a specially-designed funnel on the nozzle enable one to go to any gas station? (Sorry if this is too off-topic)
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
Though, veering closer onto the topic, I suppose the "funnel" would represent the product of the efforts of groups of homebrew hackers that work with Sony's stuff. Ideally, technology should be open enough that no funnel is needed anyway.
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
The real problem is that your car would start to fall apart the day the warranty expired.
- Mark Davidson
from BuddyFeed
Somebody would promplty invent a nozzle A to nozzle B adaptor. There would also be a LEGO® version. ;)
- 'Like' robot (frɐnc)
If Apple made a car, they'd additionally get a patent on the design of the proprietary gas nozzle and opening on the gas tank, thus requiring anyone inventing a Nozzle A to Nozzle B adapter to get prior approval from Apple.
- Brian Chang
AhhahhahA Brian called it like it is, he wins the internet today! Apple hands down is the tyrant of all tyrants regarding proprietary BS
- sofarsoShawn
from fftogo
Brian - true. Although, with Apple I wouldn't mind. I would actually wait in line for hours to go to a special Apple Gas station just so my car could have the apple logo on the side of it...haha :) Perhaps I'm a bit hypoctrictal as I am a lover of all things Apple.
- Mike Bracco
annnnnd a close 2nd... Bracco! Who has provided the ecplanans for the pathology of the cult of Mac: marketing/style over substance aka EVERYTHING MAC or DIE!!! #Lovesit
- sofarsoShawn
from fftogo
sofarsoShawn - I only love the brand and buy without asking so to speak is b/c they provide me the best solutions consistently over the competition since I switched in 2001. It's only after delivering consistent results that I've developed such confidence in the superiority of their products...definitely not blind love :)
- Mike Bracco
Parried & thrust, you have justified your position & I tend to agree for the most part however in my social media expert opinion PC apps satisfy consistently as well without the RIDICULOUS redundant overlap of MAC app after app with the same function & the tyranny of Apple proprietary. Nonetheless, besides this critque I'm still a Mac
- sofarsoShawn
from fftogo
zzzzinnnnnng!!!! so true @sofar
- Livy
Adobe needs to come out with a Photoshop iPhone app to replace the handful of image editing apps I have that only do one thing. What would be cool is if I could sync the recorded Photoshop Actions that I have on my computer to the iPhone app and batch apply them to photos on my iPhone while on the go.
Dave, Darren Heydon, Jason and 3 other people liked this
It's not a 'Photoshop' app until someone can implement the Magic Wand tool and Layers. While we're at it might I suggest an iMovie app? Let me stitch video together?
- CannonGod
Nice...It looks like Adobe finally released their Photoshop iPhone app - http://thenextweb.com/2009...
- Mike Bracco
Apple Releases iPhone OS 3.1.2 - Mac Rumors - http://www.macrumors.com/2009...
Dave, Joshua Schnell, Patrick Jordan and 3 other people liked this
There was a "Carrier Update" at the very end of the install...I wonder what that was about.
- Mike Bracco
Is it just me or is this starting to sound like Windows with it's monthly security/ bug fix updates...?
- Ron Thompson
Ron, the more bug fixes the better, imo
- Joshua Schnell
Or maybe fix them "before" the software update? Are we now Apple's Beta Testers?
- Ron Thompson
Re: My Mac OSX essential apps I could not live without - http://www.loiclemeur.com/english...
"Yeah it has been out for a while...perhaps they are pulling a Google in terms of the perpetual beta. Or perhaps it's just a loss leader to promote plasq's other pay apps. In any event, as long as the apps free I'm not complaining :)"
- Mike Bracco
"Yeah it has been out for a while...perhaps they are pulling a Google in terms of the perpetual beta. Or perhaps it's just a loss leader to promote plasq's other pay apps. In any event, as long as the apps free I'm not complaining :)"
- Mike Bracco
Re: My Mac OSX essential apps I could not live without - http://www.loiclemeur.com/english...
"PathFinder is a replacement for the Finder - http://cocoatech.com/ - It's an amazing app. It gives you tabbed browsing as well as a ton of other features. I highly recommend it. It's one of those apps that takes you a little while to fully harness it's power. TextExpander is a great time saver for setting key combos to auto-populate pre-defined text strings - http://www.smileonmymac.com/TextExp... - my favorite use for it is google search syntax as well as email signatures. What's really cool is that it also integrates with Automator for advanced functionality. For example, if I type ",bitly" it creates a bit.ly link using whatever link is on my clipboard (no matter what app I'm in)."
- Mike Bracco
Re: My Mac OSX essential apps I could not live without - http://www.loiclemeur.com/english...
"Skitch is technically still in beta so maybe plasq will start charging when it get's out of beta and after we are all addicted to the app and have no choice but to buy it. Just a guess :)"
- Mike Bracco
Re: My Mac OSX essential apps I could not live without - http://www.loiclemeur.com/english...
"Hey Loic - great list. I'm with you on all except delicious, mailplane and spanning sync. For me, I would definitely add PathFinder and TextExpander to that list. Here is all the Mac software that I use - http://mikebracco.com/mac-sof... (and sorry for the TweetDeck listing on that page - I'm constantly going back and forth :)"
- Mike Bracco
You may think i’m crazy…but i just bought one of these: iCap – sun shade and protection for notebooks. - http://www.zee.me/blog...
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Blocks sun and glare on the display and protects laptops against heat, rain, etc.
- Zee.
Where do you plan on using it?
- Tyler Hayes
if i'm completely honest...primarily in bed so my laptop light doesn't distract my sleeping beauty next to me :) But also at public/outside events, conferences too.
- Zee.
But why would one ever need to go outside? My MBP latched to my Apple display is the only place I ever need to be ;)
- Mike Bracco
Outside is overrated Zee...LOL
- Mike Bracco
:)
- Zee.
Thats a cool kind of laptop accessory...
- TrafficBug
Sick of your Social Networks? Try These Instead. - http://current.com/items...
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Kenton, Gaspare Armato, Jude and 13 other people liked this
simler looks very cool!
- Fee501st
Wow I haven't seen Sarah Lane since TechTV
- Kevin L
Hey Sarah - cool sties. I have one that's not quite in the same category as the sites you mentioned but have you checked out http://enjoysthin.gs/ - you use their bookmarklet to clip things from the web you like. It then creates a thumbnail'ed grid of those things on your page. It's sort of like Tumblr's new Wire view - http://www.tumblr.com/popular which replaced their old popular page a couple weeks ago.
- Mike Bracco
Kevin: then how did you find this then? :)
- Fee501st
I have invites for simler if you want one
- WorldofHiglet
I take one :) Please feefsx@gmail.com
- Fee501st
Me too :) if you have a spare - mpbracco@gmail.com
- Mike Bracco
Ok, invites sent Mike and Fee501st
- WorldofHiglet
WorldofHiglet: I just received the invite. Much appreciated! :)
- Mike Bracco
Love your current videos, hunch is especially cool; auto-play video... not so much.
- Jude
Jude- sorry, that's the way Current handles vids across the site. But i'm glad you're liking my stuff!!
- Sarah Lane
SARAH LANE I HAVE A WAVE INVITE FOR YOU IF YOU WANT IT JUST TELL ME WHERE TO SEND IT .I NEED A EMAIL ADDRESS.RICHARD
- RICHARD E. MOORE
DEAR RICHARD THANK YOU BUT I HAVE A GOOGLE WAVE ACCOUNT ALREADY THANKS
- Sarah Lane
Is there a capslock virus on google wave?
- Cristo
Great vid! Like Hunch, haven't tried Simler.
- ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift
QUESTION: Is there a way on my Mac to see how much data I've used (up and down) the past month, two months or any time frame I select?
you're looking for a bandwidth monitor.
- Raphael, Raphael
yeah
- Mike Bracco
assuming there is no way to get the data after the fact (if I install a Mac bandwidth monitor app). I wasn't sure if there was native OSX functionality that kept a log.
- Mike Bracco
One thing of which you should be aware is that most bandwidth monitors (if not all) will monitor all of your bandwidth usage (Internet and local network). In my case, that wasn't what I wanted, as I don't care how much data I transfer across my local network. Don't know if that's what you're looking for or not.
- Curtiss Grymala
You can use Paessler (PRTG) network monitor.
- TrafficBug
Genius or Joke? Introducing the iPhone Seat Buddy. - http://thenextweb.com/2009...
Bam Boom, il Many, Patrick Jordan and 10 other people liked this
Genius!
- Jesse Stay
definitely: applications both on the plane, the train, for kids in the car, etc. Genius indeed.
- Vincent van Wylick
Cool!
- Bill Masson
Joke??? Naaaaaah! I like!
- Brad Williamson
I like - and it looks like I could run a cable from a charger to the Apple device.
- Bill Sodeman
This will do the job until Apple come out with an implant that latches on to my sensory system.
- Mike Bracco
i like it. personally i need always to find tricky stuff to make my iphone stand...
- Ouriel Ohayon
Anyway, now I'm back at work after taking two weeks off (at least partially). Who should @building43 interview next? Got Tony Hawk today.
Kol Tregaskes, Jannifer @wordsforliving, michael sean wright and 5 other people liked this
I'll be there on Tuesday - want to interview me? ;-)
- Jesse Stay
Sorry - Wednesday, not Tuesday
- Jesse Stay
Absolutely! Where you gonna be?
- Robert Scoble
I'll be in Mountainview - I'll probably be touring around that day so happy to meet wherever. I'll have a rental car.
- Jesse Stay
(and you don't have to interview me - just happy to get together whenever)
- Jesse Stay
Wanna come out to HMB?
- Robert Scoble
Robert, I'd love to - my schedule's still pretty open that day. What time is good for you? Afternoon or evening?
- Jesse Stay
I'll bring my camera, too
- Jesse Stay
Stay and Scoble: If Paul Carrs' hypotheses about geeks comes true you won't be able to make plans like this in public forums anymore...haha - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
- Mike Bracco
wow tony hawk - cool!
- barbarars
The CTO/CIO, lets hear their input on hacking gov & education, especially in regards to social media centric jobs for the web2010
- Mark Essel
Afternoon is best.
- Robert Scoble
I'm open probably any time from 2pm on. Do you want to try for 2pm?
- Jesse Stay
Sure! Wednesday?
- Robert Scoble
Yeah - Wednesday is best for me. Can you PM me your address?
- Jesse Stay
I DM'd you here on FriendFeed but need to move it to 3 or 4 if possible.
- Robert Scoble
William Kamkwamba, the TED speaker who built a windmill in Africa and has now written a book. He's on tour in the US right now. I think in Washington state tonight, not sure where next. He has a media contact on his site. http://www.williamkamkwamba.com/ A must watch TED video and story if you haven't seen it yet.
- Andrew Leyden
I'm sorry, I can't give interviews unless it's cleared with the Yahoo! PR office.
- Mistletoe Glen
Aneesh Chopra is keynoting Health 2.0 tomorrow morning at 8:30. Have you interviewed him yet?
- Francine Hardaway
A screenshot collage of all my apps. I don't want to know the total cost of all this stuff. What am I missing? :)
Body Indigo, Jason, yakoo and 20 other people liked this
This is just scary
- Kim Landwehr
Livestation, TVU Player, Joost
- Andrew Leyden
Peggle and/or Peggle Nights!
- Timothy Griffin
A walk in the beach? Warm rays of sunshine on your face as you smell the flowers outside your digital cocoon? :)
- jan geronimo
jan - I've got a nice screensaver that shows the ocean and plays wave sounds...that's close enough right? LOL
- Mike Bracco
Hehe...reminds me of my taskbar. http://friendfeed.com/app103...
- April Russo (app103)
kewl!
- Srikanth AD
RT: @jungledisk Announcing the Jungle Disk Server Edition: We’re pleased to announce a new addition to the family –.. http://blog.jungledisk.com/2009...
Andrew Terry, Melanie Reed, ashish and 3 other people liked this
I really wanted to use them for my personal backup but I found Backbaze (https://www.backblaze.com/) to be more cost effective. Setup is also really simple.
- Mike Bracco
I like the network drive feature of Jungle disk and plus I can choose between amazon s3 and Rackspace.
- ashish
Mike, I use both. I just commented on backblaze in this thread: http://friendfeed.com/thomash...
- Micah Wittman
Robert good to hear. We're getting ready to interface with JungleDisk.
- Melanie Reed
Micah, I'll be sure and read. We just migrated lasted weekend
- Melanie Reed
Most TVs come with good remotes but then we're still forced to use the shitty ones that come with cable boxes.
Kol Tregaskes, Eric Geller, ashish and 18 other people liked this
A good option exists: replace the cable box with a TiVo, which has a very good remote.
- Scott Ludwig
from iPhone
TiVo is the only solution ever.
- Louis Gray
Louis, Imma happy for you, and Imma let you finish, but Logitech Harmony has the best remote ever - ever!
- Jesse Stay
I use the a Logitech Harmony remote which works great - especially given the fact that you can program all the settings via their app on my Mac.
- Mike Bracco
Mike, I love my Harmony - watch Woot - you can often find a pretty good deal on them there
- Jesse Stay
used to have a tivo, that did have a good remote, but tivo is yet another box, i want less boxes. always hear good things about harmony remotes but i really just dont see why tv makers spend time making these pretty nice remotes only to be cut out of the picture by cable box makers, who, by the way, have some of the worst tastes ever when it comes to UI/UX design.
- MG Siegler
Jesse: cool thanks. Although I love my Harmony it's just b/c it's not as bad as all the other solutions. The UI still feels really kludgy - The ideal solution would be to just have an iPhone app .......which would also require component makers to build bluetooth and/or wifi into their boxes.
- Mike Bracco
Mike, that's coming. I know of several in the works, and a few in early stages right now. I'd like to see Logitech build an app that does it though.
- Jesse Stay
My satellite box's remote isn't that bad, it's the U.I. that's lacking - they still don't have a widescreen EPG and instead strech the regular 4:3 EPG
- Bryce Roney
Jesse - cool, I'm sure it's coming. I think long term the ideal solution are for these components to have no interface on the physical box themselves. They should all be controlled on an iPhone or another device using an app. I think in 5 years the thought of having knobs on components will seem old school...at least I hope so! :)
- Mike Bracco
I have a Harmony and a TiVo - because cable boxes and non-universal remotes suck
- Ankush Narula
Controlling from your Iphone would be great but I would not pass mine around, controlling with the Apple tablet would be awesome because it would pretty much stay in my living room most of the time. But my Harmony 900 will have to do for now.
- Johann Diaz
from Nambu
I'm still waiting for the remote that will stand the heavy beating of a 1 to 4 year olds for more than a month or two.
- Amit Morson
Apple Tv uses both the normal remote (which is pretty good) and the Remote App for iPhone or iPod Touch (which is freaking amazing)
- Roberto Bonini
from iPhone
I've had a logitech Harmony - sorry but didnt work with my very standard sony TV, or with my arcam home cinema. Were listed in the booklet but didnt work as described. Logitech support suggested actually it only worked in the more expensive models, i should buy these... Expensive paperweight - and the last logitech product I bought.
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Years ago I had an HP iPaq 2210 with a powerful IR LED perfectly capable of functioning as a remote. And in fact, one of the provided app in it was a remote control app, with a database of over 400 devices that it support directly. And one can train it to record the IR signals of unsupported remotes. Miss it a lot :-(
- Pandu ● IT Optimizer
from fftogo
Live now: This Week In Tech 215 with John C. Dvorak, Wil Harris, and Frank Barnako. http://live.twit.tv. Discuss here...
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FIRST
- Mark
i have a good feeling about this TWiT
- Chris Heath
Abby's picture can be found at: http://images.google.com/images...
- shelter watch
Dvorak again, eh? The "Live From Caracas" pic should be used whether or not he has video.
- Kevykev
Meh! This thing'll never catch on! Meh!
- Mark
Doesn't even look like the Firefox logo
- TC
The first doll had Bill the Cat eyes.
- Kevykev
Looks more like a racoon!
- Ben
Flaps down, wheels up...
- T C Sandford
What camera is that John is using? Looks really good.
- Ben
logitech 9000
- T C Sandford
The firefox doll is from: http://store.mozilla.org/ "The Mozilla Store has been closed for maintenance"
- Kevykev
Wow, it's pretty cheap too! £49
- Ben
Hopefully this show is better than the last few
- Ben
Show Title: This Week in Technical Difficulties
- Kevykev
Come on guys, it's getting late here in the UK!
- Ben
Ted's house?
- T C Sandford
So it's not a river in Egypt?
- Johnny Worthington
Duh-nile
- T C Sandford
But isn't it good for them cause they still have to serve all those channels all the time. If you can serve just those shows being watched, that has to save on infrastructure.
- Johnny Worthington
http://friendfeed.com/twit-co... for the clean embed version of this page
- Chris Heath
thanks for the link chris !
- cxx dxx
So they want to buy NBC so they can charge other cable competitors more $$$?
- TC
channelflip inst an arrogation Leo, its all their own stuff.
- Mark
Jesse Eisenberg = Zuckerberg. Timberlake is playing Sean Parker.
- Ken Sheppardson
Where is the impulse buy though? I buy all types of weird stuff seeing ads on the side of Google
- Johnny Worthington
Edward Bernays
- russtbarnacle
Everyting I know about advertising I learned from Mad Men. Just smoke alot, drink at work, and write cool catch phrases.
- Ken Sheppardson
Sorry Leo but you use this in your Carbonite adverts sometimes when you talk about the "risk" of losing data, your personal photos etc.
- Mark
You will get BO if you don't buy our deoderant or You will lose your photos without Carbonite
- Mark
Seems like we're confusing Advertising and Marketing...
- Ken Sheppardson
"If anyone here is in advertising or marketing, kill yourself" - Bill Hicks
- Ghworg
0_o
- Johnny Worthington
You could sing like Jerry Lewis every Labor Day!
- shelter watch
This is a great discussion about the Ben Sparks article at mashable.com. This is the sort of high point that TWIT should aspire to for all it podcasts. It can't all be at this level, but when we see this, we should compliment it.
- JR Holmes
Local advertising still uses the feature/benefit model - it's the big national brand campaigns that focus on creating fear.
- Steve Burgess
I feel a sense of belonging... Like I have some skin in the TWiT game
- Johnny Worthington
Windows 7 retail boxes hitting storeshttp://www.engadget.com/2009...
- pcguru626
My video keeps buffering, damn internet :(
- Simon Wicks
Songsmith and Bill & Jerry and now this. MS is sucking cause they know it gets talked about
- Johnny Worthington
Bullcrap, Windows 7 RTM is fine
- TC
The TechGrouch lol
- Mark
I hope newegg doesn't change too much
- TC
Typecast
- Mark
SNAPSHOT OF LEO drinking Whisky...haha :) - http://ff.im/9dYKi
- Mike Bracco
LOL LMAO
- Mark
Will Dvorak win an Emmy for this?
- Johnny Worthington
Oh My God thats Hilarious
- Mark
Fingers in ears?
- Johnny Worthington
Tech Grouch will go viral
- Mark
Same here in Oz
- Johnny Worthington
Leo, you might want to mention this: http://digg.com/tech_ne...: Kevin Rose confirms digg iPhone app in development.
- Daniel Rowley
Buonasera from Italy :-)
- alex
How much was Alta Vista, Geocities, ICQ and Myspace worth?
- Johnny Worthington
To many new shoes...
- Johnny Worthington
On the contrary, many of my clients are looking forward to it. But they aren't running out and buying new PCs unless they needed to buy the PCs anyway
- TC
Will are still on XP cause Vista sucked. I'm very hesitant to upgrade our work to Windows 7 since I have so much skin in current programs
- Johnny Worthington
Plus, my mum is going to buy a new PC. Not because of Windows 7, just her old one broke
- Johnny Worthington
Any programs that work with Vista will work fine with 7
- TC
Windows 2000 was solid
- TC
All companies will jump Vista and now roll out Win7 as XP is getting long in the tooth. The CEO will get Win7 on a home machine then love it and the rest of the company will get it installed within 6 months of that. It's a general view but it will happen.
- Nathan Davies
Only problem with that is I tried to get MYOB working over the network on Vista... It was complete FAIL. 2 days of lost productivity. Now my boss won't write me the cheque for Windows 7. Perception wins over fact...
- Johnny Worthington
Once your programs are Vista compatible, they will work with 7
- TC
Be that as it may... I have to convince my boss of that fact. THAT is the hard part
- Johnny Worthington
Does the size of your front-end matter?
- Johnny Worthington
Paybacks to Microsoft? Maybe Microsoft is getting karma for thinking everyone is a pirate and stealing from them.
- shelter watch
That's why I'm glad I'm a consultant, since they pay me for my opinion they are far more likely to listen to it
- TC
It should be a hybrid
- Johnny Worthington
You're also assuming that the cloud provider will back up for you... but I've seen several sites (EZBoard, BeyondUnreal....) who had massive failures. When it's on the cloud, you probably CANNOT back up your data.
- Phopo Jijo
Yes, I love the cloud for mail, contacts, calendar. How would my iPod sync 80 gigs of data over the cloud?
- TC
Dropbox is a GREAT example of a hybird that works great
- TC
Indeed -- I use Dropbox -- it's supplementary to my on-site backup.
- Phopo Jijo
Not ALL photos should be oline though...
- Johnny Worthington
Cloud is here - don't fight it - Bandwidth will increase, security will improve
- Don Bonaddio
The issue still remains, however, that you're trusting your backups to the cloud -- you're trusting your *processing* to the cloud... if the service doesn't like what you're executing -- you simply won't. hence why I hate OnLive's premise.
- Phopo Jijo
WAHOO1 We're in the final!
- Johnny Worthington
so we should put up with crappy bandwidth and insecurty NOW? argument doesn't make sense
- TC
and until this nonsense about metered bandwidth gets settled it will hold cloud applications back
- TC
Flickr and CoolIris is way quicker than than going through physical photos.
- Ben
Cloud only makes sense when it is trivial to get your data in and out of multiple competing services. Depending on a single source, whether in the cloud or locally is never a good idea.
- Ghworg
security is good but it will continue to improve, bandwidth costs continue to decrease
- Don Bonaddio
Yes but when broadband providers whine that they need to charge consumers MORE when these costs are actually decreasing something is wrong.
- TC
Security is adequate provided there is proper implementation, I agree.
- TC
Bandwidth is not continuing to decrease actually... Bell Canada *reduced* their bandwidth caps to 75GB for their *most expensive* service... which is why the CRTC should hurt them.
- Phopo Jijo
This is down from 100GB for reference
- Phopo Jijo
BREAKING? http://arnteriksen.com/kevin-r...
- sunkenplanet
That's purely profiteering.
- TC
the new itunes made the itunes store into garbage
- cxx dxx
Exactly TC
- Phopo Jijo
He always forget about Boxee. It has a good TWit app.
- archaictree
lol iTunes store=ghetto
- TC
I'm technically unlimited because we've signed on back in '05. As long as I don't change our download speeds or move or anything I'll remain unlimited... which grates on my patience of course
- Phopo Jijo
I don't even bother with iTunes I buy from amazon. Although I was chagrined to find out you can't RE-download music you've bought already. Big gotcha. Be sure you backup
- TC
When is TWiT going to be available on Tivo? Revision3 is all over Tivo - I would love to see TWiT programming there as well.
- David Gallo
and there's the name of the show "wii wii""
- Don Bonaddio
Is there any hope of Twit on Xbox360?
- TC
But NO ONE wants ads...
- Johnny Worthington
Raffle tickets
- Johnny Worthington
Is it possible to get AdBlock on television?
- Devon Blugh
from twhirl
Devon: Yes, it's called a DVR.
- Ghworg
The audible ads are the only ones I don't fast track through
- TC
I got up early on a Sunday morning just to watch it :)
- Johnny Worthington
Do you get a discount on yacht wax?
- Johnny Worthington
Have you seen the cost of Leo's Yacht Wax?
- JR Holmes
You beat me Johnny
- JR Holmes
I think Wave is a niche product at least for a while
- TC
It's intra-office email
- Johnny Worthington
Yes Wave could gain ground in small business
- TC
Leo, for people who don't know what wave is http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- russellcoleman
I definitely have a vertical market application in mind for Wave.
- Steve Burgess
It will be interesting to see how it can be built upon and used
- TC
I do not know what wave is, for I have been living in a cave, on Mars, for the last year.
- Ghworg
i think wave's best for enterprise/corporate, atm. don't expect google to make it work for the rest of us right away. other developers can do that.
- Preternat (Ken Cadby)
it's document collaboration
- Preternat (Ken Cadby)
15 hours for an 18 minute speech? Sounds like a job for Go to Meeting!
- Steve Burgess
lol
- TC
Wave could give sharepoint some good competition
- TC
Steve, he mentioned that during the ad
- Chris Heath
going to CES Leo
- mflstc
Wil should broadcast from a darkened room with only a single dim list showing. That way he would actually show like he is broadcasting from the middle of the night as he actually is.
- JR Holmes
Wil, Don't want to wake the spouse.
- JR Holmes
Show Title: "Releasing The Wii-Wii"
- Johnny Worthington
leo, think Big Oil when you're there
- Preternat (Ken Cadby)
Big Oil, lush green golf courses in the desert... things that "extra" money can do
- Preternat (Ken Cadby)
Show title: Where's the Money?
- JR Holmes
"Who Needs this Crap" is the most literal title for TWiT ever!
- Devon Blugh
from twhirl
Audible Pick: The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler, http://www.audible.com/adbl...
- Leo Laporte
Tease: Will Comcast buy NBC? Will Windows 7 sell PCs? is Google Wave a sleeper? and John C. Dvorak is The Tech Grouch.
- Leo Laporte
Answers: No, no, and no. There, now I freed up some of your time.
- Fleagle
24/7 streaming is the way to go!
- Per-Olov Jernberg
Frank was concerend about his old MSMoney transactions. Intuit is building a new converter. https://qlc.intuit.com/post...
- Dan Morgan
Actually, you cannot take the circuit board from on HD and transfer it to another, even if it is the same model. The bad block table is stored there and special software is required to read and write this information.
- Dennis Houseknecht
I'm really enjoying having an Instapaper app in my dock now (done via http://fluidapp.com/)
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Where did you get the invisible dock style?
- Sparky
I've got the app CandyBar by Panic - http://www.panic.com/candybar/ - really great app for customizing your dock as well as all your system icons.
- Mike Bracco
Sparky - Just posted screenshot of the actual dock I'm using so you can get idea for the app - http://ff.im/9ey9I
- Mike Bracco
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