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o.O This looks... odd.
Alix Whitmire, ha3rvey (chee-la-key-les), Michelle Martinez and Shevonne liked this
What in the world?
- Shevonne
Right?!?! Here's the link for your edumacation. http://www.amazon.com/gp...
- Yolanda
from IM
Um...
- aden
Yolanda, I have one of these, and I love it!
- ha3rvey (chee-la-key-les)
I wonder if people use this for OTHER things haha
- Shevonne
Very handy for using a GPS in a borrowed vehicle. Just plonk this heavy thing down, clip on the GPS, and go. No need to fiddle with suction cups and such.
- Kamilah Gill
Did you get a rental car with a greasy windshield? Comes in handy.
- ha3rvey (chee-la-key-les)
from BuddyFeed
NO IT DOESNT!!
- Caroline
I have a simialr one, but i had to stick the windshield mount from the tom tom on it, now its stuck and won't come off of the bean bag mount.
- Matt Ellsworth
from the website sextoyorgpsmount.com (not entirely crazy. see: http://www.thetoryparty.com/archive...)
- tiffany
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- Matt Ellsworth
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- Matt Ellsworth
How To Get More Traffic To Your Blog By Getting Rid Of Bloat - http://www.howtospoter.com/web-20...
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- Matt Ellsworth
Motorola Droid Review - http://blog.jasonhuebel.name/post... (via http://friendfeed.com/jhuebel)
Richard ¿digame? Walker, Schadenfreude, metalerik and 8 other people liked this
This is my Motorola Droid review. Hope you guys like it.
- Jason Huebel
Nice writeup, Jason!
- imabonehead
Thanks. :-)
- Jason Huebel
Planning to write apps for it?
- imabonehead
I've already downloaded the SDK. But there's a bit of a learning curve to overcome. If anyone has any suggestions on good Android programming resources (other than Google's site), please let me know. I wouldn't even mind killing a few trees for a book.
- Jason Huebel
There's quite a few android books but i never read them myself - http://www.amazon.com/Android...
- imabonehead
I find http://www.androidsnippets.org useful for learn-by-example stuff. Also, the API demos that come with the SDK. The Google docs have improved quite a bit over the course of this year. They are definately a good starting point for the high level fundemental stuff.
- Andrew Perry
from Android
Oh, BTW, great review Jason. Almost makes me want to trade up my ADP-1 for a Droid, since it sounds like an excellent device. Will be interested to know what the average battery life is, and if it has suffered by giving this phone a much larger screen & faster CPU.
- Andrew Perry
from Android
Well, I charged yesterday morning, used the phone all day and didn't charge over night. I'm at >50% battery power. I've done a little power management, so YMMV. So that's about 28 hours without charging.
- Jason Huebel
from IM
Good review!
- Christoph Studer
More regarding battery life: the Droid recharges very slowly. Maybe that and the relatively long battery life indicates a larger battery? Anybody know?
- Jason Huebel
from IM
it might also explain the additional weight of the phone.
- Jason Huebel
from IM
BTW, I've been using the phone heavily this afternoon. Still at 20%.
- Jason Huebel
from Android
I have briefly plugged into my car charger while out running errands. But other than that, no long charging since yesterday morning.
- Jason Huebel
from Android
@Jason its a 1400 mAh battery. life of it seems to depend on what you are doing.
- Matt Ellsworth
Yeah, I'm realistic about how long the battery will last. If I'm playing MP3's and talking on the phone, I expect decent battery life. But if I'm watching videos, I don't expect more than a few hours, max.
- Jason Huebel
By these reports, it certainly doesn't sound any _worse_ the the HTC Dream / T-Mobile G1 battery life. Possibly a little better, which is quite impressive considering it's got more CPU grunt and a much bigger screen.
- Andrew Perry
The Droid's capacity is certainly bigger. The stock G1 battery is 1150 mAh. How the Droid uses the battery is another factor, though.
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
Jason, thanks for the review. I'm an IT admin trying to justify getting a Droid over a Blackberry to my boss. Can you see any points that would favor the Droid? We're a MS Exchange shop, so was wondering if you tested that. Any other comments would be appreciated. Direct msg me, if you like.
- Jericho
Well, Android has built in Exchange mail and Calendar support. Last I checked, Blackberries require a BB Enterprise server for full Exchange support. Also, Android is easier to develop for than Blackberry. Even at this early stage, Android has surpassed Blackberry from an apps standpoint.
- Jason Huebel
from Android
Jason: To quick charge your phone turn it off and it'll charge in about 30-45 mins depending on how dead it was. Works like a charm on my G1.
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
I have the car dock, among other things. So I pretty much have charging covered now.
- Jason Huebel
from IM
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- Matt Ellsworth
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- Matt Ellsworth
mikechurch.com - The Official Site of Infamous Talk Show Host Mike -The KingDude- Church | Home - http://www.mikechurch.com/
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- Matt Ellsworth
Anybody wanna wash my car?
no, but let us know if someone says yes...
- Matt Ellsworth
umandroide, Schadenfreude, Yasin Müderrisoğlu and 23 other people liked this
Custom buttons is a go.. Still working on the photos, work in progress. Will need beta testers soon. Sign here.
- Tim Hoeck
first
- Matthew DeVries
Room open at: http://friendfeed.com/andfeed
- Tim Hoeck
Sign me up for the beta. Can't wait to test it out!
- Jon, the Beartato of FF
I want in!
- Christopher A Carr
Sign me up too - posting from G1
- David K
I'm so in.
- Aaron D'Souza
count me in....let me know when the beta is
- Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ
Sign me up 4 beta testing. :)
- Adrian
I'd like to beta-test it, please!
- Christoph Studer
I'd happily pay for such an app. Fiddy sent would be fine. (Once out of beta)
- Matthew DeVries
Would love to help test =)
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
I'd love to beta test this too :-)
- Christian Cable
I so want in. Would love to beta test this app.
- Naomi Williams
Me too!
- Eph Zero
hah! It's in the room! It is considered very Pre-beta.. still broken stuff.. but I want to know If I should continue on this path, or make a drastic change.. http://ff.im/4DGzk
- Tim Hoeck
good stuff!
- Sham Hardy
Hi, I'd like to give AndFeed a try!! Sign me up for beta testing, thanks!
- DvD
Hi Daniel, as soon as I have a new version ready to test, I'll include you.. recently, I've been a bit busy, and haven't been able to work on it.
- Tim Hoeck
I'd love to beta test too! sign me up...
- Dylan Lorimer
+1!
- Tassoman
I know guys, I will get there, I promise! I had to put things on hold for a bit, to move and to finish my ADC project..
- Tim Hoeck
@Tim Ok, of course we understand. I'm anxiously awaiting the beta version for testing.
- Naomi Williams
If not too late, would like to be a tester.
- Tim Rowe
Would love to beta test. :)
- Adrian
Looks amazing. I just need an Android device.
- Zachary TG
@Tim activated my andriod today (HTC Hero) and would _love_ to be able to try out this app. seems you're busy right now - that's cool. just let me know when you have a beta to test and i'd be happy to give you feedback. cheers!
- MikeAmundsen
Yes, I hate that I haven't had time to get back to this.. but I have something a bit bigger planned, we'll see how it pans out... congrats on the phone :)
- Tim Hoeck
@Tim: no problem. now tha FF is kinda on the downslide, i can see that something like this project might need to move to the back burner. the "something bigger" tease is cruel, tho<g>.
- MikeAmundsen
If you're still looking for beta testers, I'd love to give it a whirl.
- James Britt
please count me in!
- milus
yes, please!
- Sean O'Connor
I'm willing to test it - let me know
- Matt Ellsworth
What's the latest on this, anyway?
- Andy Bakun
Yes please.
- Sean O'Connor
if by chance you still need beta testers, I'd like to be counted in. :)
- PaperDoll
If you still need beta-testers, count me in)
- Nina Stawski
Experiencing my second Drobo data failure. Any advice for storing 1TB of data with high reliability and low access needs? S3 would cost $150/mo.
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Set up your own RAID? Mozy's good, too.
- Jesse Stay
I'd hoped that Drobo would be more reliable than my own raid...
- Kevin Fox
Can you swap out new hard drives in a Drobo?
- Jesse Stay
I like Mozy, but I don't know how much I can trust a small company offering 'unlimited storage' for a low price. I feel it's more likely that in 10 years my 1TB drive in a vault will still be readable than Mozy will still be in business.
- Kevin Fox
small? They're owned by EMC I thought.
- Jesse Stay
Just buy a couple 1TB USB HD's and keep one as the working disk and the second as a mirror backup. If you are really paranoid, buy a third drive and do a periodic backup or sync to it and keep it off site. Use any number of automated backup or sync software packages set to run on a daily basis.
- Jeff P. Henderson
Jeff, that's my inclination, mostlikely. Mirror or raid locally, off-site backups. Archives are my biggest concern. Terabytes of photos that don't need to be available, but can't be forgotten in a closet where hard disks go to fade away or obsolesce themselves (Firewire? What's that?).
- Kevin Fox
Jesse, okay, so perhaps they're not small, but I doubt their 'unlimited' will support a terabyte or two, when their business tier charges $0.50 a gig per month (unclear whether that's per gig of added storage or per gig of total storage. S3 charges $0.15 per gig of total.)
- Kevin Fox
You can swap out new drives in a Drobo. If one goes bad you can hot-swap it with a new one and pretty lights tell you when the new one is synced up. The problem is that I've never had it tell me that a drive's gone bd. It's always more fundamental problem like an inability to mount the combined volume or Disk First Aid (which Drobo recommends using) tells me the 'drive' is so messed up...
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- Kevin Fox
I have one of these: http://www.wdc.com/en...
- Benjamin Golub
Whoops hit enter too fast. I have the 2TB one (advertising is false, 2TB = 1TB, 4TB = 2TB since you obviously want to use RAID 1 and the default is to use RAID 1). It has worked very well for me and I am more comfortable with it than a Drobo. Drobo uses some proprietary format, but this is just RAID and ext3 I believe. You can replace the drives very easily (no tools required) and it...
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- Benjamin Golub
A ZFS box?
- Ken Sheppardson
Open Solaris + ZFS. Use ZFS snapshots to protect against accidental deletions. Use ZFS mirror to handle single disk failure. Run the zpool scrub command regularly to check for and repair bit rot. Use offsite backups to protect against a fire or other catastrophic event in your house.
- Gary Burd
Not trying to dissuade you from the local solution (I think it's probably the best one) but just wanted to mention that the "unlimited" model is based on the assumption that only a few users really take advantage of it. I think it's safe to say they've done their modeling homework and arrived at an equation that provides a bottom line they feel comfortable with. This blog post from...
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- Jason Wehmhoener
Anyone have an OpenSolaris + ZFS tutorial aimed at the non-sysadmin? I love the idea of doing this for home backup, but I'm not a Solaris admin by day and wonder if it would be too much learning curve compared to a couple mirrored USB drives... The WD dual drive Benjamin linked to is super easy...
- Jason Wehmhoener
I've been using backblaze, its mac client software is simple and solid. The problem with rotating local TB backup drives is of course non-automation + lazy developer = not up-to-date backups.
- Micah Wittman
from iPhone
For remote storage of pictures there is picasaweb. Prices are $256/year per terabyte (I think).
- Scott Ludwig
from iPhone
Kevin from your description it sounds like you had a drive integrity failure that your drobo didn't notice until you went to use it.
- Scott Ludwig
from iPhone
Scott, the sad thing is that the Drobo *still* hasn't noticed. MacOS is the one telling me about these problems while the Drobo Dashboard thinks everything's peachy. I'd be tickled pink if Drobo threw up a red light and said 'this one drive is bad' because then it would be working as it should and I could just swap the drive with a new one and maintain data integrity, but as it is I'm probably screwed.
- Kevin Fox
Even with something like RAID, ZFS, or a Drobo, isn't it possible for data to become corrupted without there being a problem with a drive? I.e. cant an app or the OS still just muck up a file?
- Ken Sheppardson
ZFS snapshotting and scrubing goes a long way. I run a home opensolaris server. I love ZFS. Opensolaris is meh. I want to play with freebsd but don't have the time.
- Joe Beda ()
from iPhone
How much time + money does it take to setup an opensolaris server with zfs and get everything working automatically?
- Benjamin Golub
from email
I did a box with 4 1.5T WD green drives and ECC RAM for ~1k. Set up time is a day or two. A few of us around here have done it and can help out.
- Joe Beda ()
from iPhone
What filesystem are you using on the drobo? HFS+? I wonder if different filesystems have different levels of reliability: mine has been on ext3 for some time with zero dataloss. Knock on wood, of course.
- Matt Mastracci
This looks interesting... "EON ZFS is a RAM based live/install image which runs from CD/DVD, USB or CF" -- http://sites.google.com/site...
- Ken Sheppardson
You might consider one of the G-Drives/Raids: http://www.g-technology.com/product.... I have one and have been happy with it. No failures over 4 years. They have configurations for as much storage as you probably ever need, with various raid and connection options.
- Cristo
This one is probably the best for your needs, as it allows for offsite backup: http://www.g-technology.com/product.... "G-SAFE features high-speed 3Gbit eSATA, FireWire 800 and USB 2.0 interfaces for universal connectivity to Mac's and PC's and two removable hard drives coupled with a sophisticated hardware RAID 1 (mirroring) engine designed to ensure 24x7 data protection. A...
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- Cristo
I'd start to be wary of standard RAID with today's drive capacities. The chances of a second drive failure while resyncing after a first are much higher now that they were with 500GB drives. Of course, if you keep a good backup of the storage it won't be an issue. Ref 1: http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardwar... Ref 2: http://labs.google.com/papers...
- Matt Mastracci
raid mirroring is all I do... i also then use an online back up service (backblaze) to back up the data from the mirrored drives. Photos also get backed up to smugmug (but no raw photo storage)
- Matt Ellsworth
i've been using a raid-5 Buffalo Terrastation for 4 or 5 years now with no problems... *knocks on wood* it's got 4 500gb drives in it and it's almost full
- Chris Heath
Benjamin, Michael Herf wrote about his ZFS setup here: http://www.nerdblog.com/2009... I run OpenSolaris on an MSI Wind PC w/ two 1TB drives. The configuration cost $350 from NewEgg. It took me a couple of hours to figure out how to configure ZFS, setup snapshots and run scrub.
- Gary Burd
Search my posts for zfs for a link on how to configure a mirrored root partition. It is a little complicated. My soln was more $ because of more ram, ecc, more CPU and 4 drives. I picked the motherboard mike herf lists on his blog.
- Joe Beda ()
from iPhone
You can make a Linux RAID scrub weekly too - just schedule it ("echo check > /sys/block/md0/md/sync_action"). Also, the Intel SS4200E is $200 and apparently has EMC software: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews.... Personally, I'm happy with ZFS, it's not too hard to learn the admin stuff.
- Michael Herf
Also, Time Machine seems half-allergic to NAS. You can make it work but it fails randomly later. I guess you could try iSCSI and format HFS+? To fix this, you can also look for one of the RAID-1 enclosures that do attached eSATA and just plug a couple drives in. Not foolproof, but at least it supports Time Machine reasonably well (think one of my friends has the "Raidon" brand.)
- Michael Herf
Michael, thanks for the ZFS writeup, really helpful. I like the idea of a really low cost, low power setup based on Atom.
- Jason Wehmhoener
Be aware that the wind atom pcs aren't super low power. The chipset eats as much or more than the processor. I think toms hardware had a writeup on that.
- Joe Beda ()
from iPhone
Adding one more thing to this mega-thread - you can do free remote backup between two of your machines, by putting the 2nd machine at a friend's house, then using CrashPlan: http://www.crashplan.com. Crashplan runs on OpenSolaris, for those of us using ZFS. The two machines connect using peer-to-peer networking.
- Scott Ludwig
LACIE NAS drives are what we use - no failures in 3 years! AWS for critical offsite storage
- Susan Beebe
from iPhone
I think windows home server works with apple computers as well.
- CJPhoto
Follow-up, for those interested: http://friendfeed.com/kfury...
- Kevin Fox
Wouldn't JungleDisk "work" for that? Although I can see transferring 1TB of data over any Internet connection being painful and slow, not to mention a surefire way to exceed any bandwidth quota within any time period...
- Tyson Key
Interesting, I almost went with Drobo for a new setup... instead, I decided to keep my ReadyNAS. Depending on what you find, I may be glad I waited as the ReadyNAS (crosses fingers) is solid.
- Jason Silverstein
Having suffered partial loss with the WD raid units to a smoked controller, I'm likely to go w/ a zfs server, possibly async mirroring to an encrypted userfs mounting storage on a provider like dreamhost.
- Scott Small
from iPhone
Has anyone tried the OpenSolaris-based EON ZFS Storage? I played with it when it first came out on a vmware guest instance for a short while but never really got into it. The homepage is http://sites.google.com/site... and can browse their blog at http://eonstorage.blogspot.com.
- imabonehead
EON looks pretty cool!
- Jason Wehmhoener
Kevin, to be clear, are you saying the Drobo system itself is unreliable? That's worrying
- LANjackal
SSH in the browser? There's a web app for that: http://code.google.com/p... There's probably a lot, in fact.
Sebastian, lisa coultrup, Alex Kapranoff and 7 other people liked this
Pretty cool - almost as cool as the ssh client for android
- Matt Ellsworth
@LucasLascivious plus you can get a droid for $119 now: http://www.intomobile.com/2009...
wow thats cheap. I got mine from a local store though - i guess thats the price you pay sometimes.
- Matt Ellsworth
"Wi-Fi onboard". Too bad they forgot the power outlets. http://img.ly/djI
free wifi is great... but free power is even better. its like trying to find an outlet at panera.
- Matt Ellsworth
What's up with all the 12 year olds drinking coffee? Just what we need, a bunch of caffinated pre-teens running around the mall
Matt Ellsworth liked this
used to drink coffee when I was that age.. so did several of my friends. every morning during the first few classes.
- Matt Ellsworth
Unclutterer: Daily tips on how to organize your home and office. - http://unclutterer.com/
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pretty cool tips - will have to read up on that some more.
- Matt Ellsworth
Droid cameras work much better today. Dan Morrill's comment: http://www.engadget.com/2009... It was a firmware bug, not a silent update.
ffcode, Tony Ruscoe, Matt Ellsworth and 7 other people liked this
This must have been a fun bug to figure out.
- Tudor Bosman
It's also nice that you now have 24.5 days to fix the bug :)
- Benjamin Golub
I really, really, want more information on how this bug works. Timestamp + rounding = error in autofocus? Come on, that has got to be some crazy shit right there.
- Otto
looks like an overflow: http://www.google.com/search... (via Mihai)
- Nick Lothian
Yeah, worked that one out. By treating an unsigned 32 bit millisecond timestamp as signed, you could get negatives for 24.8 days then positives for 24.8 after that. But why would an autofocus routine need a timestamp anyway? That one I'm confused about.
- Otto
Well whether it was firmware bug or an update... it didn't work yesterday and works now... so thats good
- Matt Ellsworth
Hah. I get it now. It's a difference problem. Basically, you focus by measuring something across a period of time (a few milliseconds). By subtracting the times between two measurements, you get some kind of difference that lets the camera adjust some amount. But when you're using a signed vs. an unsigned, the difference that you expected to be positive comes back negative, and throws your algorithm into the crapper. Voila, broken half the time. Fix is probably just to switch some code to unsigned properly.
- Otto
If you had the choice between the 5 Qt KitchenAid Artisan stand mixer that has 325 watts of power (usually sold by Macys for $299) or the 5 Qt KitchenAid Pro model that is 475 watts of power (usually sold by Costco for $299) which would you choose? Does the power make that much of a difference?
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DO ANYBODY NO? WHERE'S DERRICK?
- Alex Scoble
We have the Pro but I don't really know the difference. *shrug*
- Rochelle
I would take the one with more power.
- Spidra Webster
Come now Alex, it's always the one with MOAR POWER
- Mo Kargas
Watts are really a measure of power used, but the Pro models are awfully nice.
- ha3rvey (chee-la-key-les)
As a side effect, more wattage usually means a bigger, beefier motor. Bigger electric motors usually last longer and have more torque. DO IT.
- ha3rvey (chee-la-key-les)
@Harvey Exactly ;)
- Mo Kargas
Why would you get the lower power version? Because you want to buy it on credit? Because it comes in more colors? All of their mixers use the same attachments, so that's not it.
- Alex Scoble
I think you'd usually buy the lower power version because it's often cheaper.
- Rochelle
If you can get a more powerful mixer for the same price, why even ask? Are there any other major differences between the Artisan and Pro models?
- Curtiss Grymala
MOAR POWER
- Rodfather
And you can use credit at Costco, you just have to have one of their credit cards.
- Curtiss Grymala
IIRC, that's a really good price for the 475 watt model.
- ha3rvey (chee-la-key-les)
Yeah, that's not exactly credit card openness. :)
- Alex Scoble
from IM
It's easier to return stuff at Costco :p
- Rodfather
It's not openness, but it's available. You could always use a cash-advance check from your credit card company if you want more options. :)
- Curtiss Grymala
And yes it is, Harvey. BTW the $400 Pro model at Macy's is the 6 Qt. 575 watt version...and we aren't talking about that.
- Alex Scoble
from IM
They accept American Express. Honestly, though it's a pain in the butt, I know why they do it .Not having to pay the cc companies a cut of the transaction keeps their costs down, which keeps their prices down.
- Spidra Webster
I've never had an issue returning things to Macy's.
- Rochelle
Yeah, but Costco's return policy is legendary.
- Alex Scoble
from IM
Ahh. I don't think I've ever had to return anything there.
- Rochelle
Dammit, now you're making me want one, Alex. I've wanted one for a while, but that was back when I had a job...
- Spidra Webster
I just used mine the other night. I love it, but daggone it's heavy. It's the kind of thing where you really need to have space on your counter just to leave it there (ours, regrettably, is stored under the cabinet unless we're actually using it).
- Curtiss Grymala
Alex, for many things it doesn't matter much, but for dough (especially larger quantities) it really does. The lower powered model will probably struggle a bit mixing up a double batch of chocolate chip cookies for example. If you think larger dough quantities are something you'd like to be able to handle, You might consider something like the Cuisinart 1000w model instead: http://www.cuisinartstandmixer.com/info...
- Michael R. Bernstein
Oh, and some kind of a 'splash guard' will be invaluable. Check to see if one is included/available.
- Michael R. Bernstein
I think I have the Artisan but I thought I had the same model as Rochelle so maybe not. I'm not familiar with what Pro model you're looking at that is the same size, but when we were looking at mixers (and ultimately, mine was a gift so I'm not sure what decision-making went into the choice), I wanted something a bit smaller so that I could keep it on the counter and I liked the shape...
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- joey
I have a Pro, but I've had it for 5 years so may not have the same amount of power. I LOVE it! We choose the Pro over the Artisan because we like the action of the angled lift better than the raised lift. Most people I know choose the Artisan though. Thing is though that I have never met anyone who has either the Pro or Artisan that doesn't love it!!
- Rachel Lea Fox
Go for the Pro model. The extra power will make kneading large amounts of dough a lot easier. The lift bowl is also better.
- Sparky
LOL. GET THE PRO.
- Derrick
Pro!
- Laura Lou Who
I have Baking Illustrated and they suggest just getting the 4.5 quart standing mixer if you are a home baker.
- Anna Lynn M.
I don't think that KitchenAid even makes a 4.5 quart dealy anymore.
- Alex Scoble
We have the Artisan and it works great, but I would go with more power if it's the same price.
- Shannon Jiménez
I almost killed my roommate's 375W Kitchen Aid with a particularly thick batch of cookie dough a year or so ago (I did pay to get it fixed) - the repair guy mentioned that the more powerful model wouldn't have had a problem. I'd go Pro if they're roughly the same price.
- Jennifer Dittrich
I have the Epicurean 475W which they don't make anymore. Got it through Amazon using part of my *whispers* School loan way back when. I wanted it because it lifted up and down as opposed to tilting back. I do love it though.
- Derrick
In situations like these, I call the manufacturer. I've been able to use social engineering to get an actual engineer on the line. Sure, it's typically a long call but the advice I get is usually pretty enlightening.
- Mark Davidson
from BuddyFeed
Not sure, but I would think that more power would be a better thing.
- Martha
More power - it makes a difference if you are mixing thick doughs, bread doughs, etc., or if you are running it for a long time. Also, make sure you get one with a large mixing bowl/container. You'll want it if you ever make a larger recipe.
- Katy S
Scotty, I need more power!
- Michael W. May
i say yes
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
YES. GET THE 475 WATT ONE!!! Trust me: I use mine for bread dough, cookie dough, and other heavy-duty mixing/kneading jobs. MOAR POWER = AWSUMMER MIXER.
- Ladybug Heather
I have the 4.5 stand mixer and it's good for most things, but last night, it didn't really handle a double-batch of peanut butter cookie dough. I'd go for more power and getting a bigger bowl. I actually need to acquire a second bowl because I'm sick of washing it in between mixing cake batter and icing. All else being equal, go for the luxury model.
- Sally: gift wrapper
We have the same one as Derrick. It says Epicurean on it, but seriously don't remember the wattage. Josh got it for me for Valentine's Day one year. Best. Gift. Ever.
- Trish Haley
from iPhone
I'd wait till black friday - buy it at kohls - where you can get a $50 mail and 15% off the even bigger one - and Kohls cash. -- see http://www.blackfriday.info/sales...
- Matt Ellsworth
Kohl's won't have the Pro model that Costco does
- Alex Scoble
from IM
I got a good deal on ours from Amazon, btw.
- Laura Lou Who
Amazon also does not have the same Pro model that Costco does...The Costco deal is really hard to beat
- Alex Scoble
from IM
So it comes down to nylon coated tools that are dish washable vs bare metal tools that aren't...less power vs more...tilt lift vs vertical lift...and pour shield vs no pour shield
- Alex Scoble
Now it's no contest...price if you go to Costco is $280 and we have a $50 off coupon which makes it $230. GAME OVER!
- Alex Scoble
I believe tim "The Toolman" taylor (was it taylor?) had a saying about this
- Richard Lawler
RT @shadowfax_rulz: ABC Poll: 72% support public option, 56% support abortion coverage purchased w/ private funds http://digg.com/politic... #hcr
Cathryn Hrudicka liked this
well nothing says trust like main stream media! I wasn't surveyed in their poll...
- Matt Ellsworth
just had the moto droid freeze up - apparently it can't handle leaving a call to answer another and then ending it.
Yea! Mee too!!! It has froze on me about 4 times now. Thinking of taking it back,
- roc
I've only had it happen 2x in the 10 days of use. so i'm not sure if it was just a fluke or what.
- Matt Ellsworth
Google storage plans: $5/yr for 20GB, up to 16TB ($4K/yr): http://googlephotos.blogspot.com/2009... New prices are 2x storage at 1/4th old price.
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I'm surprised that it can be offered that cheaply. I'm going to have to get some more storage for some emails soon.
- Matt Ellsworth
This is going to be incredibly useful for Picasa. Now I think I could actually store originals there.
- Joel Webber
Considering the SmugMug, etc., were offering $40/year for unlimited storage, I think $5/year for 20GB is quite reasonable, not "surprisingly cheap". I was going to migrate from Picasa to Smugmug, but this just made it unnecessary.
- Piaw Na
why to pay $40 to Picasa if you could get unlimited storage from flickr for $25?
- earlyadopter
Thats getting fairly close to the retail cost of the drives. I can get an 1T drive at frys for around $80. Thats 8c/GB or $1.60 for 20GB. To have the data in 3 places (to get somewhere near the low risk of loss that google is offering), that would be $4.80. I'm still not considering the cost of the other hardware since to get the same low risk of loss, I'd need more than one machine - geographically distributed.
- Greg Grothaus
Because Flickr has a nasty habit of deleting people's accounts without warning? Also I'm guessing that Flickr's "unlimited" may not turn out to be that way in practice. I actually feel a little more comfortable paying something for the storage, so that the company doing the storing has an incentive to keep providing the service.
- Joel Webber
@earladopter, it's $5, not $40. :)
- Piaw Na
@Greg: Your prices are too high. Nowadays, 1.5TB drives are gotten at around $90. And obviously, Google can buy drives in bulk and drive costs down below what you can do by buying at Fry's.
- Piaw Na
And you have to consider the price of multiple drives for availability, backup, power, network connectivity, etc. I can't speak to Google's costs, but it sounds like a pretty good deal to me. I'll be quite happy to no longer fear having to tell my wife "Remember how I said our family pictures were all safe on my backup hard drive? Well a funny thing happened with that...". I trust Google to do backups a lot better than I ever will :)
- Joel Webber
I pay $50/year for MozyHome to back up everything on my drives. While I trust Google with backups, pictures aren't the only thing that is valuable.
- Piaw Na
davidrauf: Rackspace Hosting says it added about 10,000 new customers in the 3Q for a total of 80,944. #mysa #rackspace - http://twitter.com/davidra...
If they are all rackspace customers (and not cloud/etc) then thats at least 4,000,000 in extra monthly revenue. If they are cloud, sites, slicehost, etc - then who knows...
- Matt Ellsworth
LANjackal to LANjackal's feed, Android, All Things Google, Appetite, TheNextWeb Forum, RWW: The Future of Tech, building43
Speedtest.net launches Android application - http://androidandme.com/2009...
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"Speedtest.net for Android is the perfect application to test 3G speeds. The app was just released in the last 48 hours and has already been updated several times to fix some bugs. The service works just as one would expect it to. A settings page allows you to change servers, adjust speed measurements, and sort history." - Just tested it on the Droid, it works OK but seems stuck in portrait orientation.
- LANjackal
from Bookmarklet
Finally :)
- Can Demirezen
mine's stuck in portrait too. tested VZW 3g at 794 down and 776 up. Second test 1051 down and 735 up. faster uploads than standard cable service.
- Matt Ellsworth
Here's what Pelosi's health care plan really means to you http://online.wsj.com/article... RT
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This is TERRIBLe!!!!!!!!!
- Matt Ellsworth
Droid Battery Life Requires New Charging Habits - http://www.pcworld.com/busines...
Mike Reynolds and Rodfather liked this
"Until battery technology changes to double or triple capacity, you will have to change your charging habits to fit the needs of the smartphone. Instead of charging it every few days, or only charging it overnight, you need to charge the phone basically whenever it isn't being used. Driving in your car--charge the phone. Sitting at your desk--charge the phone. Sleeping at night--charge the phone."
- imabonehead
from Bookmarklet
That's just plain ridiculous.
- Vincent van Wylick
That hasn't been my experience. I made it all day yesterday without having to recharge. I didn't recharge overnight either. And my phone kept going with quick little car charges throughout the day today while I was running errands. Battery life isn't any worse than the iPhone.
- Jason Huebel
And they say "change habits to fit the needs of /THE/ smartphone". So they aren't saying that this is limited to the Droid. Phones are eating up more and more power as they essentially become hand-held computers.
- Jason Huebel
I think the more intelligent strategy is to better optimize your power management on your device. For instance, I manage which features are enabled (GPS, wifi, email syncing and screen brightness) using Android's Power Control widget. Just adjusting the screen brightness to 50% (which is still very readable indoors) makes a huge difference in battery life.
- Jason Huebel
FTA: "One site did a review specifically on the battery life of the Droid. For the study, the Droid screen brightness was maxed out, the screen was set to 'Never Sleep', MP3's were loaded and the media player was turned on to 'Repeat All Songs'. They even threw in an hour of Google Navigation usage while all of that was going on and still managed over 7 hours of battery life. Let's see...
more...
- Jason Huebel
As someone who has has many Smartphones (PalmOS and WinMob, soon Droid this week), I have come to expect poor battery life with the standard battery. BUT this is the key to removable batteries. A larger battery will come to the Droid, they usually add some weight and a little bulk but have never truly ruined my experience (besides the quest for the perfect case).
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
On my iPhone I use this (http://bit.ly/3ZEfsF) to double the capacity. Droid needs a similar external battery, that preserve the internal battery, that will works only when that is empty (and physically detached)
- Roberto
from fftogo
I hope some of these ideas work. I got a droid and it is killer to batteries... but perhaps it just needs to go through some cycling to get it to work better.
- Matt Ellsworth
@Matt, the best thing you can do is have the screen turn off sooner and adjust the screen brightness to stay at 50%. Unless you use your phone outside a lot, you won't need it any brighter, IMO. But if you do go outside, the Power Control widget allows you to increase the brightness to 100% with a single tap. Then when you go back inside, you can adjust back to 50% with a couple more taps.
- Jason Huebel
@jason -- cool I'll give that a shot - I tried to turn on the auto screen dimmer thing - not so sure about that... and have the screen set to turn off after 30 seconds instead of 1 min.
- Matt Ellsworth
ProBlogger.com Price Rise Coming in 1 Week – Lock in the Intro Price Today - http://www.problogger.net/archive...
sounds pretty reasonable $1.95/month
- Matt Ellsworth
Scamville: The Social Gaming Ecosystem Of Hell - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
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I don't get it. People actually pay for points on their games?
- Piaw Na
Piaw - it's a trade of money for time.
- Andrew C
BTW, I had no idea the scams were this bad. I have friends who work at some of the "bad" gaming companies named here.
- Andrew C
Maybe this is part of the reason that Apple is so restrictive about iPhone apps.
- Robert Felty
Robert, Apple's review process can't discover apps that do this -- they can't tell whether the ad unit that shows a legitimate ad during the review process suddenly starts showing scammy lead-gen a week later. I'd look at it a different way: scammy lead-gen shows up everywhere that content providers don't attach value to having a satisfied user (email spam, search engine spam, etc.). The best way for FB to avoid this is to make their platform useful for nontrivial app authors. Looks like they're trying...
- Daniel Dulitz
Good point Daniel. It seems like it is a pretty difficult thing to police. Maybe they could create a blacklist of advertisers.
- Robert Felty
Its not always the advertisers, its how the offers are presented. Tatto Media suggested we block people from seeing more than 3 articles on our site without forcing the user to fill out an offer of their choice. Of course we didn't implement this and it wouldn't drive the user experience we are looking for.
- Matt Ellsworth
Apple announces 100K apps http://www.apple.com/pr... (congrats!) But anyone could generate 100K+ apps for Android programmatically.
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There are already a lot of apps in android - and a whole lot of terrible ones, i'm sure the ratio is the same
- Matt Ellsworth
Suppose we wanted an old Cray supercomputer for our office. Does anyone have one lying around?
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The old round ones would make great circular benches :)
- Joel Webber
ebay ? [edited] ...none on ebay , grooan :-(
- Luca Perencin ( No_CQRT )
Little known fact: The circular "bench seats" at the bottom of them are power transformers. They were covered with plywood which was then covered with naugahyde.
- Otto
no... but it would be a very cool idea
- Matt Ellsworth
I'll be in Vegas next week w/my wife for vacation + PubCon. What must-see activities, restaurants, or shows should we hit in Las Vegas?
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Any suggestions from FFers?
- Matt Cutts
Pirates of Treasure Island, Downtown Fremont Street Experience
- Amit Nangare
Phantom was pretty good, Blue man group is great, hotel wise we loved the palazzo / venetian.
- Matt Ellsworth
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