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Where to Retire: State by State (MAP) - http://digg.com/busines...
"my old man owns a small home built in the 40's on less than an acre of land and pays nearly $4000 annually in property tax. i live in Utah and have federal, state, and sales tax and pay less than that. not to mention -30 degrees in January just plain sucks."
- nesman89
I started posting to FriendFeed on February 27th, 2008 (550 days ago) - http://whendidyoujoinfriendfeed.com
Daniel Rowley, Captain Jack, earl wallace and 24 other people liked this
An old-timer! And do you trust this site to access your FriendFeed account? What does this site want to do with access to your account, besides tell you something you should already know?
- Keith Rowland
Good points.
- Leo Laporte
Just something about a 19 Year old college student :-)
- Keith Rowland
Leo, just how do you find out when you signed up?
- Gene Williams
it's all wrong Leo..it said I joined 8 days ago. I signed up long ago after reading your tweet when you first got in. It was really confusing and i didn't start activity till a few weeks ago. The app is bogus.
- Gene Williams
a gmail search quickly told me when I actually signed up. Both dates are interesting, and the difference tells you a FF "gestation period," or about how long it took you to figure out FriendFeed.
- Aaron Crews
I joined FriendFeed on March 3rd, 2008, but apparently my first post was not until June 29th, 2008. It's important to note that this app gives you the date of your "first manual FriendFeed post." I doubt many people post manually on FriendFeed until they build up a FF community that can answer questions, provide commentary, etc.
- Eric Geller
Hello it is me. Mr.Laporte thanks for using it. This app needs your authentication since we cannot check out your profile if it is private. I coded many ff apps and thousands of people used them safely. If you dont trust you can revoke its access to your account from http://friendfeed.com/setting... as I said, it is safe. %90 of Twitter and FF apps use this OAuth system. Enjoy!
- Ahmet Alp Balkan
from iPod
Btw it works for normal ff users. If you just import your rss twitter lastfm etc, it cannot determine the time precisely.
- Ahmet Alp Balkan
from iPod
473 for me
- nesman89
I just tried it and it crashed the server.
- Robert Scoble
I joined right around the time Leo did, though.
- Robert Scoble
I had a five month gestation period 6/29/08 -> 11/4/08
- Chris Heath
N00b. :)
- Louis Gray
What Louis, no Google Bomb link?
- Johnny Worthington
Not this time, Johnny. It failed when I tried to use it.
- Louis Gray
"Post to FriendFeed on your behalf" dont like it :-/
- alex
says I joined on September 1st, 2009.
- motownmutt
I just allowed it access to check my stat, then revoked it. It said August 6th, 2008. Apparently I didn't save my original gmail confirmation, but I see people started subscribing to me very soon after. Scoble subscribed to me Aug 20, 2008 so I must have done something right.
- Laura Norvig
I just checked, and it said I just started today. I know it was in early 2008.
- Courtney Engle
Mine also claimed it was today. If I could access gmail I could see when I got my confirmation email :(
- mark zero (Jason)
My email confirmation is dated one day before so it seems to have worked perfectly for me.
- Leo Laporte
and started to actually get involved on friendfeed...still waiting on that...ie just iport your RSS
- sofarsoShawn
Ahmet, you should sell people t-shirts with this phrase on them ("I started posting to friendfeed ...")
- Laura Norvig
beat ya by 5 days Leo :-P
- Jesse Hattabaugh
This service must be broken. It says I joined today. :(
- Bryan Lee
According to my email address verification mail it was 31st May 2008
- Murray Barton
Slaying Leviathan is out! - http://lesliecarbone.blogspot.com/2009...
Congrats. you have been working on this since i have been following you. amazing.
- nesman89
Thank you!
- Leslie Carbone
80 Ways To Simplify Your Life - http://simplesapien.com/80-ways...
I was addicted to ____________ video game as a kid. http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Thierry R. Andriamirado, Mo Kargas, Mathew™ one of a kind and 26 other people liked this
Jumpman Junior on the C64. Mastered it.
- l0ckergn0me
Street Fighter II... I cried every time Bison beat me.
- Johnny Worthington
Combat --> Pac-Man --> Tetris -->StreetFighter
- Admiral Anika
Archon: The Light and the Dark, Stellar 7
- Christopher A Carr
asteroids
- MikeAmundsen
Donkey Kong
- Derrick
Lode Runner for the Apple IIe (w/ level editor) http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Ubqtous
super mario brothers 2 and 3
- Bill Kinney
C64-> Boulder Dash/ DOS-> Blockout (kind of 3-D Tetris)
- Citronella
Riddle of the Sphinx
- Eban Crawford
LoZ
- Victor Ganata
Any Infocom game.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Archon, Dark Castle, Fool's Errand, Wizardry, Continuum, Enchanted, and so many more.
- Kevin Fox
Asteroids; the arcade version!
- Michael Fidler
Oh yeah. Wizardry (the first two) and all three Bard's Tale games.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Oh crap. And more than that: Ultima.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Bard's Tale and Ultima. Never even got close to finishing either, but damn...you could play for-freaking-ever. Ultima especially gave me a feeling of the world being so big. I wondered how it fit in a game.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Kirby and Donkey Kong Country series
- Amber, Random Time Lord
The classics. Mario and Zelda.
- David Cook - 2010!!!
Joust
- Mike Lewis
Parsec on TI994A
- Steve C
Final Fantasy I on the NES. Just hearing the music from that game makes me almost cry! LOL
- Carlton Hackett
The Legend of Zelda, bombing every inch of the map to find a secret passage was never more fun!
- Mike Chelen
Ultima, Wizardry, Bard's Tale on the computer. Time Pilot, Dragon's Lair, 1942 in the arcade
- Imabug
Jumpman was the best!!
- Matt Griffin
from iPhone
Megadrive's EA Hockey
- Giraffes Up In The AIr
space invaders
- (jeff)isageek
Galaga and Ms Pacman.
- Yolanda
robotron I mastered. but also loved many others: defender, joust, Ms Pac Man, more...
- Anthony Citrano
from BuddyFeed
Donkey Kong
- Hutch Carpenter
Phantasy Star 2
- Terence
SpaceWar! and Gorf (coin op versions)
- Joe Silence is Dr. Teeth!
Breakout & Missile Command.
- Mark Krynsky
Miner 2049'er, Galaxian, Galaga (good call ladies), Tempest (good call ladies), Missile Command, Defender, Dig Dug, Spy Hunter, Do Run Run, Gauntlet (4player), Gyrus, Robotron, Tron, i can go on and on.
- Carlos Ayala
wow, how could i forget Defender and Joust?!? also Space Duel and Asteroids Deluxe!
- Joe Silence is Dr. Teeth!
and Lunar Lander!
- Joe Silence is Dr. Teeth!
Donkey Kong
- Eric Logan
Tempest.
- Aron Michalski
from BuddyFeed
I wanna find a Jumpman Jr emulator online or for Mac OS X.
- l0ckergn0me
I was wokka for wacky wacky wacky...er, I mean wacky for wokka wokka wokka. Centipede was another. Missile Command on Atari.
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
Lode runner, virtual racer, montzuma's revenge
- Andy Bakun
from Android
Here's a list of most of the games I played from age 3 through 30: http://designfoo.com/gamedes...
- Kevin Fox
Sonic the Hedgehog 2
- Danny Minick
All games
- Outsanity
Everything. I still am.
- Faraz Mullick
Anything involving cars on the Commodore Amiga (Sniff! I miss my Amiga!!!!!!)
- Adrian Scicluna
Space Invaders, Cat and Mouse, Joust, Mappy, Donkey Kong Jr. took most of my quarters.
- Josh Haley
from iPhone
centipede
- Bren -- Making Contact
Pacman & lots of others.
- Ton Zijp
Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy on the ZX Spectrum 48
- Marlin Forbes
Atari - pong 1975, I guess that reveals my age. lol
- aerobroken
Super Mario Bros. 3
- Christian (Simply X)
Ultima VII (I think). I remember even breaking down a door in frustration when the folks tried to stop me from playing it.
- Vincent van Wylick
Hmm, as soon as I finished one addiction, I moved straight on too the next; it would be hard to pick a single game out of the line-up. Ultima VIII (never got to play VII until much later) certainly chewed up a lot of my time at one point, though.
- Tristan Seligmann
Bug Blaster on the Acorn Electron. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
super mario land 1
- Kris
Railroad Tycoon. Hordes of the Deep Realm. Joust. Hack.
- thinkQuick
Alex Kidd, Sonic and Goldeneye
- Joe Dawson
Super Mario 64, when I was about 6.
- Larry Hudson
5 games on 4 systems encompass my childhood -- Snoopy vs the Red Baron on the Atari VCS, Kane on the Acorn Electron, Wulfan on the Spectrum, the game with no name and Prince of Persia on early PCs.
- Slappy Line
Pitfall. Atari.
- Patrick Moran
You won't see this one often : Player Manager
- Genaro Bardy
from iPhone
Wonder Boy: Dragon's trap - Game Gear
- Paris Carbone
NES: Megaman 2, LoZ SNES: Zelda, Super Mario Kart against the sisters, Killer Instinct, Donkey Kong Country are those that comes to mind. I was exchanging cartridges with my neighbor kids at the time for the NES and was renting weekly for 6-7 years there so.. lots of games. N64 of course Super Mario 64 and Blast Corps, strangely, was so addicting to me, was playing for hours. But my...
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- ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,
Load Runner: Apple IIe.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
I Remember playing Super Mario World and Megaman Xtreme
- nfan12
Amiga 500 - North & South, Cannon Fodder, Super Cars 2 and loads of awesome games from coverdiscs. Gameboy - Mario Land 1, Revenge of the Gator Pinball. First PC - Doom. PSX - Tekken 2/3, GTA,.
- Steve
Arcade: Crazy Climber
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
Ys Book I&II for the Turbographx. Only RPG I ever solved.
- James Hague
Donkey kong
- Holly is Happy
StarCraft and Red Alert 2 were my addictions. I guess that shows how young I am. :P
- Mathew™ one of a kind
Bombjack, Contra, Crystal Caves, Baldurdash, Gauntlet II, R-TYPE, Prince of Persia, Kings Quest, Super Hang-on to name a few
- Mo Kargas
Ohh and also Earthworm Jim!
- Mo Kargas
Boeing 747 Simulator on the Amstrad CPC-464 (Cassettes). (Sorry I forgot the game's name ;-(( )
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
LANjackal to LANjackal's feed, Coming Up NOW, TheNextWeb Forum, All Things Google, RWW: The Future of Tech
Do You Need a Physical Keyboard on Your Phone? - Keyboards - Lifehacker - http://lifehacker.com/5310585...
Francesco D'Orazio, Jason, Adi and 2 other people liked this
"How do you see smartphone keyboards evolving? Do you believe the familiarity and feedback of a hardware keyboard makes entering letters and words easier, or can a software keyboard with smart correct/replace/suggest features can function just as well?"
- LANjackal
from Bookmarklet
nope.
- vijay
I type around 50 wpm on iPhone. And I'm not even a great typer.
- vijay
I like the option of the physical keyboard.
- phil baumann
I still can't let go of my real keyboard. I think I'm waiting for better Voice/Touchless Control.
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
yes. that's why I have a Pre
- nesman89
Trust Kevin Purdy to misunderstand the issue: it is not about typing occasional replies or shorter notes - where software keyboards are as good, or almost as good as hardware ones It's about using the smartphone, of which iPhone is an instance, as a terminal/ storage unit for longer pieces one might need to type in without lugging around a laptop [I often find myself in that situation...
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- ianf ⌘
I think the thing for me is I don't have to think when using a hardware keyboard but with a screen one I do. I have an htc tytn ii, g1 and a iphone and the iphone is always the last choice if I need to write emails while out and about.
- Darren Stuart
I need real keys at least to pick up the phone and skip to next track in player. And when it comes to text messages, number keyboard on Nokia works better for me than an on screen one for iPhone. Not sure if i need a QWERTY keyboard on a phone, but at least some keys are a must.
- Egor Kunovsky
Physical keyboard is a deal breaker for me, I won't have a smartphone without one. The thoughts of relying on built in spell check to correct my mistakes when ssh'd into my server make my skin crawl...
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
"Justin Korn's Blog" as a title is boring...I want something fresh and unique. Ideas?
tinypants - Hagitha of FF, Derrick, edythe and 12 other people liked this
I originally had "Justin's Web Hub"
- Justin Korn
Korn on the Blog
- Chris Nixon
Sorry
- Chris Nixon
Think of something that you really like or an overall theme and work from there. Mine is simply my name because it's more for the purpose of what I do..blog entries are just "I feel like writing". You post a lot of your photography..maybe title it a play on words from photography?
- Candace
1afia;lsf;alalg holy crlak;flag ppa Chrisa l;kfs;la a laahahha dying
- Akiva Moskovitz
hahaha hseriously i am afyding over herekaj gfa SEND HELP afka; 1uP
- Akiva Moskovitz
Chris: Genius...
- Steve Isaacs
Chris just won.
- Candace
I am going to have to hide this because every time I see it I start having a laughgasm again.
- Akiva Moskovitz
OMG Chris. I can't breathe!
- Yolanda
Kornucopia? And yeah, I'm dying from Chris' suggestion too.
- Alex Scoble
Korn Blogging, Blog Korn, Justin's Views. I don't know, my blog title sucks too. (SheenOnline? Come on...LOL)
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
seriously Chris. Wow. *wipes tears away*
- Yolanda
Think about how people will search Google for your blog and include those terms in your name. Use the Google AdWords Tool to research your theories: https://adwords.google.com/select...
- Robert Scoble
Chris - don't apologize I can't stop laughing either and think it is brilliant
- Justin Korn
Leave it to my brother to use this as a chance to pimp one of his favorite widgets, hehe.
- Alex Scoble
+1 Chris!
- Jeremy Brooks
Rahsheen - I like SheenOnline. It's somewhat orginal...
- Justin Korn
Justin's Korn'er
- Jonathan.Rivera
Not bad Jon, i like that one too
- Justin Korn
I'm glad I'm not the only one doing an embarrasing LOL. Geez, Chris -- that was a hoot.
- Cheryl Rice
Yeah, CHRIS that was 2 funny
- Jonathan.Rivera
It's the 'Sorry' that makes it genius.
- Akiva Moskovitz
And that's from someone named "Rice." Maybe we should get together, Justin ... do some kind of high-carb blogging thing.
- Cheryl Rice
ROFLMAO... damn Chris that was good! funny stuff!
- Susan Beebe
how about ijustin. maybe you would get some accidental traffice from ijustine.
- nesman89
To borrow from lester you could do iKorn. :)
- Alex Scoble
ha, iKorn...i can't believe that domain isn't even available.
- Justin Korn
I am the proud owner of kornontheblog.com (not changing officially yet, but had to buy it)
- Justin Korn
I dig Korn on the Blog... [Korn] Kobs of Wisdom...
- Richard Goodwin
from twhirl
Yeah it's still making me laugh.
- Alex Scoble
That's Kernels of Wisdom
- Nine
"Something Fresh and Unique"
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
Nine - Like "Kernals of Wisdom"
- Justin Korn
Well, at least there are too people in the world that like SheenOnline. Thanks Justin :)
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Korn on the Blog ftw, omg HAHA
- Mona Nomura
Just In Korn!
- Didier Lahely
from feedalizr
bumping due to this post: http://friendfeed.com/sparkto...
- Justin Korn
Korn's Kettle?
- JA Castillo
Thank you Justin. My most favorite thread EVAR. I laughed so much, I cried.
- Yolanda
JA Castillo - I've already settled with "Korn on the Blog" --> http://www.kornontheblog.com
- Justin Korn
Yolanda - This was certainly an AWESOME thread! :)
- Justin Korn
LOL...Justin, I am usually late to the party! Please pardon my ignorance! ;)
- JA Castillo
JA - No worries, all good in the hood :) Though, I do like the ring of Korn's Kettle. I should open a Kettle Korn shop...
- Justin Korn
from IM
Wheels down Beijing. http://yfrog.com/0b3qgj
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mahjongmi, Brian Kirby, John Blanton and 18 other people liked this
Ni Hao Leo?
- Buford Koechig
from iPod
i just woke up. saturday am. cool pic
- nesman89
Nice. I'll enjoy traveling though your feed.
- Malcolm Sharp
Yay! I'm following you bro!
- Eva Laporte
Beware the "rice wine" (baijiu). It's nothing like sake, more like moonshine. http://bit.ly/Baijiu
- Kelley Hood
good luck in customs!
- John Hillestad
Have a fun and safe time Leo.
- Michael King
im disappointed in you supporting China by going their and advertising for them. They are human rights violators to enslave their population. bad Leo!
- AhronZombi
Human beings, inherently, are human rights violators.
- Charles LePage
leo hows the weather in china? i bet its warm eh?
- pcguru626
Dell's new Z: I am throwing away my Mac when this comes out: - http://ourdoings.com/roberts...
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Darren Rollett, Robert J Taylor, Rocio Flores and 139 other people liked this
I can't tell you how I got this photo and I can't tell you why I am dumping my Mac when this comes out but this is the first Dell that has me slobbering in a very long time.
- Robert Scoble
Really??
- Gerry Realtyman Bourgeois
Hey, T'row it ober here!
- Gary Etie
Still Windoze-infected, right?
- Bill L
Can you give us more details on the configuration and the size factor?
- Amit Nangare
just like you threw away your Iphone for the Pre.
- nesman89
Instead of throwing your Mac away, can I have it?
- Victor Ganata
The Dell Z looks awesome
- johnny2009
I'll buy your Mac....uh, you take checks, right?
- Mike Lewis
problem with Dell computers, is they still run Windows. Unless you want to deal with Linux
- Andrew Lombardi
I agree with John
- Mike Brewer
Er, okay. Does it run OS X?
- Grant Goodale
well good luck with that! :-)
- teymur madjderey
Didn't you say something similar about the Nokia N97 a few months ago?
- Beau Giles
You've got to tell me more than that for me to believe why you might throw your Mac away??
- Aaron Myers
Really - with the build quality they are renown for!!
- Ian Lewis
If it runs windows 7 then at least there is some reason for this madness. Anything else and you've completely lost your mind!
- Devlin Dunsmore
Amit: I can't explain why, sorry, but this will get a lot of attention and Apple will have to react to it. Why do you think Apple has been attacking Windows 7?
- Robert Scoble
Looks like a "laptop" and it's "black".
- thund3rbox
Yes, it looks sleek, but it's still a Dell.
- Bob Young
Dude! You're getting a Dell!
- Andrew Lombardi
From the keyboard, it looks like a 15.4" or 17" widescreen that's super thin. (keyboard is chiklet-style)
- Eugene Hsu
You can't throw out your mac! You'll eventually be crawling back.
- Matt Ruiz
Yes, I got excited by the Palm Pre but I don't think I said the Pre would get me to throw away my iPhone. Of course we don't know what Apple will do but this will make Apple guys at least raise their eyebrows.
- Robert Scoble
Throwing away your Mac is a bad idea.
- Louis Gray
May I suggest to sell The Original Scoble MacBook Pro on ebay and hand the money in for charity?
- Ralf Rottmann
NokiaN97 does widescreen videos with new Qik, by the way. iPhone doesn't.
- Robert Scoble
Don't throw your Mac away!! Keep it as 'backup', you might need it ... ;) ;)
- Ronald
Asgod: believe me Engadget will be all over this.
- Robert Scoble
This was rolled out to selected laptop users 4-5 months ago, wasn't it? Lots of drooling, if I recall. But you should keep your Mac as a backup. And so far as "I can't tell you how I got this photo ..." is concerned, what's with the name tag on the fellow doing the Vana White?
- Bob Young
Devilin, why would it not run Win7?
- Christopher A Carr
Louis: I will give away my Mac instead of throwing it away.
- Robert Scoble
i will take it robert :)
- Allen Stern
Robert, how about donating it to JHTC (for auctioning) to help us launch our charitable arm?
- Bill L
Looks kind of clunky, seams don't match, build quality doesn't look near the Mac so there must be something that's not obvious.
- PXLated
I will fight Allen for it Robert
- Jesse Stay
PXLated: Clunky? Really?
- Christopher A Carr
BTW, that looks like the NYSE - sounds like you met a Dell rep on the floor?
- Jesse Stay
Ya, in the pics with the black and gape-looking seams
- PXLated
I'm a Mac and nothing Dell does could change that
- Dean Kakridas
Hmmm..."throw away"...does that mean Dell's going eco-friendly like Apple?
- Jesse Stay
Um, if you're going to throw it away I'll take your Mac!!
- Mona Nomura
Looks real thin though
- PXLated
Mona you have to fight Allen and I for it first
- Jesse Stay
I'm thinking full solid state, very fast
- Jesse Stay
Nooo... I wanted a Dell 15' with nice reso but no HD. Not avaliable in Europe. I had to buy a MacBook Pro. Received today. Nice but I loved my Latitude.
- Jérôme Flipo
BTW, nice tattoo's Robert! When did you get those?
- Dean Kakridas
And with that very light and low on heat
- Jesse Stay
so what's the specs on it ? intel T9900, DDR3?
- Khaled A
over at notebookreview there is a huge thread about it already http://bit.ly/pp83N
- Ronald
touch screen? that doesn't seem mac-trash-worthy. flips around like a tablet, with touch screen? nah. super battery with built in wimax or 4G connectivity? maybe.
- Chip Ramsey
Dean, per the nametag that's @rockmanusa, Robert's producer/photographer
- Jesse Stay
WOW!
- Holly Rae
I'm intrigued by the google map you have attached with it ... battery park city?! Sounds quite interesting indeed, but I won't be interested, unless it can polish my shoes, feed the cats, and wash itself every 3 hours :) Ohh I wouldn't mind if it has a proper multi-touch trackpad.
- Shivanand Velmurugan
^^ :D ^^
- Ronald
found a page with more pictures http://www.pclaunches.com/noteboo...
- Khaled A
PXlated: I think I beat Engadget with a photo. It is an early prototype.
- Robert Scoble
mona vs. jesse vs. me = steel cage match for robert's laptop
- Allen Stern
at photos: make,make plz !!!
- Ronald
Allen: count me in if you want to upgrade to a steel cage, ladder match
- Shivanand Velmurugan
I know, I was kidding :)
- Dean Kakridas
from email
i need a mac so i can make an iphone app for cc - unless someone wants to make one for me :)
- Allen Stern
Allen: CC? Creative Commons?
- Shivanand Velmurugan
Robert the suspense is killing me!!!!!
- Chris Henderson
Other pics still don't turn me on - But, I like my Mac/OSX, have gotten great support at the Apple stores, there's more than just the box.
- PXLated
cc = cloudcontacts my startup
- Allen Stern
Asgod: I broke all sorts of rules to get this photo. Photography is expressly not allowed where I am. It is geek heaven though.
- Robert Scoble
robert - you might want to crop out the person's name who is in the photo :)
- Allen Stern
Robert: So how did we get a photograph then?! (good ol' don't give a crap about the rulez eh? :) ) A lot of hype, it better be seriously good :)\
- Shivanand Velmurugan
it was leaked a few days earlier on another site though :>
- Khaled A
Good luck with that. Whatever helps you get the job done efficiently is OK w/me.
- barl0w
Allen I'm in - we'll do it when I'm out there in July. I warn you - I don't play by the rules though.
- Jesse Stay
"Zed's dead baby, Zed's dead" (Pulp Fiction)
- Andrew Eglinton
jesse - i will use all the social networks against you! i think mona's finisher is the fail whale
- Allen Stern
Allen, careful, I know the "Twitter Game"
- Jesse Stay
Allen & Jesse: Blood, gore .. is what we are looking for (throw in the ladder, and ustream it! ) :)
- Shivanand Velmurugan
And what about the Techcrunch Crunchpad?
- Francine Hardaway
to be the twitter you gotta beat the twitter
- Allen Stern
intel U9300 1.2GHz? that's not a very powerful cpu... what's your mac, scoble? an iBook?
- Khaled A
but a 2 pounds 16" notebook? that's interesting ...
- Khaled A
holly plant the Dell seed! thanks for the heads up.game changer?
- Jeff Marmins
Hmm, a 16" that weighs about the same as my Lenovo s10 netbook?
- Christopher A Carr
that's according the specs posted by Brian Hill: http://forum.notebookreview.com/showpos...
- Khaled A
Who's the bigger sucker here ... Scoble ... or those sucked in by this post
- Don Strickland
are you serious? c'mon, it's a PC! The main component of any computer is not the hardware, it's SOFTWARE.
- Konstantin
Don: it does a few things your Mac doesn't.
- Robert Scoble
Konstantin: really? Why don't you use a Mac Classic then and why do all Mac fans slobbering when new hardware comes out? Finally you should try Windows 7 on your Mac. You might be surprised. I am running Windows 7 on my Mac.
- Robert Scoble
Francine: I am buying Crunchpads for a different reason.
- Robert Scoble
Can I just point out did a search for "scoble 'Palm Pre' 'throw away'" to see what you said back at CES... and Google already has the comments on this thread indexed?
- Ken Sheppardson
Jeff: I think this Dell will help Microsoft poke Apple in the eye again.
- Robert Scoble
I saw the specs, and it just doesn't *seem* that spectacular. Maybe it makes waffles and prints money...
- Carlton Prest
Ken: Google is getting faster, huh?
- Robert Scoble
so what will they call this new class of notebooks? under powered under 10" are netbooks. U9300 based 16" would be called .. hmm wafflebook
- Khaled A
Robert: Yeah, it's not Track, but I suspect it's certainly getting close enough for 80%+ of the population.
- Ken Sheppardson
Carlton: they have kept a few things secret.
- Robert Scoble
... the 80%+ who haven't used Track, that is ;-)
- Ken Sheppardson
As I expected. Do you have any idea as to when they'll officially announce this?
- Carlton Prest
Carlton by when Microsoft ships Windows 7.
- Robert Scoble
facial recognition - that's a strange rumor.
- Chip Ramsey
I should expect Dell middle east to make a crappy keyboard print: http://twitpic.com/6o2rc redundancy fails
- Khaled A
finally: it is a Dell...
- Ronald
Nice, thanks for the heads up Robert. Don't mind the fanboy's calling you a heretic. ;)
- Adi
Has me curious. I'm not going to be so bold as to claim in an Apple "fanboish" way that nothing can possibly beat Apple.
- Angus Burton
19 hours of battery is impressive if true
- Brian Hill
"I can't tell you how I got this photo" -- Perhaps by standing next to Rocky as he held one on the NYSE floor yesterday? :-)
- Ken Sheppardson
100+ comments later... mission completed. You won't throw or give away your Mac for a Dell w/ Win 7
- Jonathan Brown
You'll hurt your shoulder carrying that thing around, but man, what a great screen!!
- RobinDotNet
Looks like picture was taken at the New York Stock Exchange. Maybe it's a multi-touch screen?
- Steve de Mena
Steve: all I can say is it has stuff Apple doesn't yet do.
- Robert Scoble
Robin: I have a bag with wheels for my Mac so my shoulder is OK. The photo was taken tonight.
- Robert Scoble
Microsoft Bing: We did not find any results for "tell you why I am dumping my Mac when this comes out but this is the first Dell" ~ giggle
- Don Strickland
This is why I f--- with you, Scoble. You always keep me on point. I'll keep an eye out for this "Z" you're referring to.
- © b e e n s w a n k
must have a oled display
- Jim Posner
I'm guessing it loads the Building43 site 10% faster, or it has Building43 bookmarked out of the box.
- Steve Wright
Im guessing touchscreen
- Kashif Khan
I'm glad you have a wheelie bag, now you can buy it with impunity and wheel it through airports all over the world, feeling happy about your awesome laptop. :-) (How much does it weigh?)
- RobinDotNet
@Robert "Steve: all I can say is it has stuff Apple doesn't yet do...." TBH, there has been a lot of things the Macbook line hasn't been up to par feature wise for a long time. This isn't nothing new. My 1yr old XPS has eSATA, "F/W", "ExpressCard", 10in1 MMC, Biometrics, HDMI, Blu Ray, 4USB and integrated 3G all of which would be 'show stoppers' if Apple announced them. So its all relative.
- Adi
Adi, those features would become "amazing" and "new" were they announced by Apple -- much the same way that video is suddenly an amazing new feature of iPhones.
- Christopher A Carr
Only two factory stickers, not bad!
- Onar Vikingstad
"has stuff Apple doesn't yet do" ... hmmm ... when placed on a Microsoft Surface it transforms into a puck for Microsoft Surface Hockey, played by waving your hands at the built-in Natal controllers.
- Don Strickland
@Christopher...touche. ;)
- Adi
Say it ain't so! Looks way cool.
- michelle lamar
Will it run Pro Tools. It seems as if I need to use it for digital editing of raw audio.
- Mathew A. Koeneker
Mathew: I would imagine it would, but I don't have it to try that, so will have to wait to tell you definitively.
- Robert Scoble
Thanks, Robert. Being out of the music & video biz since '97 has me playing catch up. The KDHX studios where I will be working are a mac house.
- Mathew A. Koeneker
Since it looks like a shell.. I will assume its the touchscreen with MS Surface on Windows 7 :)
- Tim Hoeck
When does this come out Robert?
- Amit Nangare
looks like old black macbook to me! nothing new at least not in image! whats so special?
- matjeka
To back Robert up, I got to try this bad boy right after him. And I can agree, this will make me switch too (after 25 solid years of Mac OS) Holy crap, Dell must have a secret time machine in the basement if 1/2 of these "special" features are true. WOW WOW WOW, and price...WOW!!!
- sean andersen
Robert, Honestly I am not really impressed by the picture, as some mentioned before it most likely is not Mac OS X, is it? And what about battery life, does it match the MBP 17 inch battery life time?
- Peter Simoons
I don't believe you :) Let's revisit this thread when it comes out and see if you follow through
- Bwana ☠
who's is it? I'll just ask them.
- Mark Essel
So this is going to bring beleaguered Dell out of the doldrums? Apple did that, but I'll not hold my breath because of Dell's basic build-em-cheap philosophy.
- Rick Cogley
there's claims it is sporting a Mobile Intel GMA 4500MHD, Series 4 for video.. if so, that's one giant missed opportunity!
- alphaxion
touch screen would be great, there is a big need in netbooks because of the improvement of usable input area
- Mike Chelen
ok, I'm also intrigued. I can't figure out what is so special about this new notebook.
- timepilot
Robert: Can have your Mac when you're done with it? :)
- John Fox
You'll be back. They all do.
- Diego Barros
Hmmm ... I am thinking Dell beat Crunchpad to market with a touchscreen running Win7... If so, Yay for Dell, way to go!!! I will definitely want a Z if so!! *Looks around for @RichardatDELL* :)
- Susan Beebe
The way things are going my mom will never get her new computer. I keep telling her something better is just around the corner.
- ChiliMac
^^ so true!
- Ronald
that thing looks massive. but I bet you don't actually switch to it when the time comes.
- felix
Yeah, do want to know what makes it so compelling over the Mac.
- Karma Martell
I have a MacBook Pro, and wouldn't drop it for anything.
- Geoff Peterson
Surely the OS is what's key? The hardware must be good but it can't make up for any deficiencies in the OS.
- Mayuresh Walke
Isn't this just another one of the Adamo line?
- JA Castillo
JA: nope.
- Robert Scoble
I'm assuming it's windows 7 multi touch and gestural support. The surface code that's now part of windows 7...
- mikepk
mikepk: there are more features than that that Apple doesn't yet have. Gotta wait, though, I promised not to leak.
- Robert Scoble
Dont throw it away! Im sure there are plenty of people that would love to have your old mac!
- James Hague
If it doesn't run OS X it's pointless.
- Peter Kruit
Peter: it runs it, but you can't buy OSX legally for use on non Apple computers. I totally disagree with your thesis, though. I'm running Windows 7 right now on my Mac and it works VERY NICELY.
- Robert Scoble
I'm sure Windows 7 is working nicely, but Windows just doesn't compare to OS X. Mind you, I've only been using OS X for a year now. Before that I was a Windows/DOS user.
- Peter Kruit
Peter: again, I totally disagree. It's clear you haven't tried Windows 7 out on your Mac yet. There are many things in it that are nicer than Apple has. Especially the toolbar and especially Google Chrome.
- Robert Scoble
I have tried Windows 7. It's the same registry and DLL hell that it's always been.
- Peter Kruit
Agree with Scoble... Win7 has many things nicer than OSX.
- Adnan
Peter: I haven't had a problem with DLL hell and the registry for years. I guess you still trying to run VB 2.0 apps? ;-)
- Robert Scoble
1. Never put anything into the registery unless it will affect another part of the system. 2. DLL hell ended in Win98. WinXP/2000 added a way to solve all DLL problems with no rebooting, but the coders have been lazy/ignorant (see #1).
- xero
hehe ;)
- Peter Kruit
I'm a poor geek on a fixed income and the only thing I ever wanted in the whole wide world is a Macbook Pro. :)
- jcunwired
Still a Dell though ;)
- Peter Kruit
Yes, case in point- and that's a deal breaker for just about any Mac user.
- Dean Kakridas
from email
I switched to Macs 3 years ago but I have to say Windows 7 will make me rethink that decision. It is much more than a "Vista Service Pack".
- Steve de Mena
My husband has a Dell laptop and it's really nice, so I am definitely gonna check the Z out...
- Susan Beebe
Peter: It is possible to install MAC OSX on your Dell thanks to the OSx86 Project: http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki... Although it may not be entirely legal this is still going to happen and Apple should roll with it and embrace the hacker culture. If this Dell can run Boot Camp (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...), and give users the option of running either Mac or Vista that would be awesome!
- Garin Kilpatrick
Garin: that's possibly the ultimate manifestation of "lipstick on a pig"!
- Dean Kakridas
from email
Dean: No way, Sarah Palin is the ultimate lipstick pig and Mac OSX on a Dell is cool!
- Garin Kilpatrick
Garin: that she is and might be the ultimate candidate for a Dell actually.
- Dean Kakridas
from email
Is there some new synchronization feature using Microsoft's Mesh technology or something? Win7 is suppose to have some Mesh tech built-in.
- Jeff Weber
Dean: Haha! Jeff: Mesh is probably windows only syncing, but I have not investigated. I use http://www.getdropbox.com/ for syncing my files between my PC and Mac, and it works great!
- Garin Kilpatrick
interesting! Windows 7 indeed rocks... and yes - i own macs and pcs
- andy brudtkuhl
Damn hype and secrets are eating my brains clock cycles. Raises fist at Robert ;)
- Mark Essel
I hope you won't need to call Tech Support for it.
- Head Ov Metal
Doesn't look all that impressive to me. It's a Dell with Vista. Whoopty-do. *curmudgeon*
- Jason, Incognito
Jason: it doesn't have Vista. Thanks for playing.
- Robert Scoble
any idea if this is a joint effort with the alienware talent they acquired?
- Trey Philips
Even so, it's a Dell with Windows. If it's touchscreen, great. Facial recognition? Bleh. Unless it runs on cold fusion and can predict the future, it's still just a Dell with Windows. That said, I love W7. But I love Mac OS X much more.
- Jason, Incognito
Jason: let's talk after you see it. You might still be a Mac fan but you will at least pause after you see the secret stuff this does.
- Robert Scoble
I remember when Apple's PowerBooks had that rubbery/leathery black finish. Dell's bringing the PowerBook-y back, evidentally.
- Wade Dorrell
Fair enough. I believe you saw some things that really were impressive, so I suppose I can withhold judgement. I'm just naturally skeptical of "this is a Mac killer" or "this is an iPod killer" comments, since so many have tried and ultimately failed.
- Jason, Incognito
Jason: You are right on. And furthermore, many have not even really "tried". Nothing out there that claims to even compete with Apple products have put close to the level of time, resource, and dollar investment in design and software that Apple has. Anyone who has been in the tech industry for the past 10 years now knows that there's Apple and then a bunch of pretenders and bad imitators.
- Dean Kakridas
from email
That's like saying I am throwing away my Mercedes for the new Chrysler. You still get Dell support and service which has forced me to find new vendors. Wish windows server products ran on os x server. Then we could go all mac hardware.
- Dan Douglass
from Nambu
You're joking, right?
- Steve Council
I've never had a single problem with Dell support. Apple's on the other hand is useless. 10 working day repair time for a machine, compared to next business from Dell. Had to repair a failing disk ourselves because Apple wouldn't replace it, if tech tools said it was bad, 'tech tools isn't any good', and when disk utility said it was bad, 'tech tools is more accurate'. Wouldn't put anything important on Apple hardware or support.
- Russ
Is this the laptop you saw? http://content.dell.com/us...
- Robert
No, Robert, it's this - http://www.engadget.com/2009...
- Ken Sheppardson
But I am the Z-man.. this is my brand... http://www.zoliblog.com/2007... I'll fight for it unless Dell wants to corrupt me by sending a Z-thingie :-)
- Zoli Erdos
I'll throw my Mac out for this ... when it's running OS X. C'mon Dell & Jobs! Stop competing and own the whole market! :)
- Robert J Taylor
I've been dreaming of a laptop that wirelessly charges for years. Although they need to get it like WiFi so it don't have to sit on a "dock"...
- Jon
Troy vs. Training Day - http://www.flickchart.com/AF8F9B5...
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Training Day.
- Yolanda
Training Day Dawg
- nesman89
Training Day. It's not like someone is putting a gun to my head.
- Vaughn
Both bad...but Training Day.
- Chris Nixon
Troy.
- Valley
Training Day
- Bryan R. Adams
Troy was terrible! Training Day by a mile.
- Mike Lewis
Training Day, all the way... surprising, powerful 'evil' performance by Denzel
- .LAG liked that
Training Troy
- Josh Haley
Training Day, by a long way.
- Kol Tregaskes
Training Day
- Jez Arnold
Training Day all the way
- Rodrigo Jaroszewski
Training Day
- Bryan R. Adams
Training Day.
- Amani
Training Day
- Pete Delucchi
KING KONG AIN'T GOT SHIT ON ME!
- Outsanity
Soon, you'll have to pay for Hulu - http://digg.com/tech_ne...
"let me choose 20 channels i want to watch. i will pay for them. then let me view them anyway i want. i.e. my tv, computer, phone, etc. you get my money and i watch only what i want when i want."
- nesman89
Boeing to develop microwave-based airborne EMP weapon - http://www.engadget.com/2009...
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"Boeing's been busy with the high-tech death lately -- just a week after the company announced the Phantom Ray fighter UAV, it's back in the news with a high-powered airborne microwave weapon designed to knock out enemy electronics."
- Bill Romanos
from Bookmarklet
Dr. Laslow Hollyfield is that you?
- nesman89
love the pic
- MikeAmundsen
Standby for popcorn explosion.
- Bill Romanos
@Bill: LOL, what movie was that?
- MikeAmundsen
Real Genius...classic.
- Alex Scoble
Haha--I immediately recognized that this was from Real Genius--<3 that movie. :)
- Kelly W.
yep - thanks.
- MikeAmundsen
Real Genius. Great movie.
- Bill Romanos
Live now: Windows Weekly 109 with Paul Thurrott, http://live.twit.tv. Discuss here...
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Yay anime paul!
- Ryan Massie
Excellent, I'm just in time.
- Jessica
more google: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009...
- Doug Slater
how will you guys NOT talk about google wave through the entire podcast :)
- Jeremy Powlus
Windows Weekly 109: Google Edition!
- John-Paul Dickie
I would say Wave will be a Twitter enhancer
- Chris Miller
from twhirl
Item 1: Zune HD is real Here's what we know: OLED multi-touch screen, HD output, HD Radio receiver, Wi-Fi, IE 6-based web browser. Ships September 5 according to my sources at Microsoft. More info this summer Related (and the real point of this announcement): Zune/Xbox Live Marketplace integration Next week at E3, Microsoft will announce new Zune video service for Xbox Live
- Leo Laporte
Twitter does what it does pretty well... don't forget Google's propensity for having great ideas and letting them lapse. This has great potential.
- Jessica
I'll be getting one in Sept
- Randy Pollock
I hope they integrate Facebook in Wave.
- earl wallace
Just tuned in, did they mention an SDK for Zune HD?
- Bwana ☠
not yet
- Randy Pollock
Zune HD zzzzzzzzz
- Brian W
Since gaming companies are heavily supporting the iPod Touch/iPhone, I think the Zune HD is important to maintain game dominance
- Bwana ☠
another reason why you guys need a Google show
- Michael Zamora
from twhirl
Microsoft really needs a portable gaming solution
- Bwana ☠
Google show will be with Jeff Jarvis and Gina Trapani (and me). We'll fast track it now.
- Leo Laporte
And there you have it
- Bwana ☠
I love Gina. Can't wait for the Google show. :)
- Jessica
Can't wait to get a Zune HD :-)
- Rob
I'm curious to see how the OLED screen looks with content
- Bwana ☠
Great news Léo!
- Guillaume
bwana a leaked video http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- DeMedici
Any idea about price?
- Jessica
can't wait for the Google show ... so many great stories
- Joe Magennis
Also curious about javascript/flash support in the mini browser
- Bwana ☠
Anime paul :P
- Anton Tanderup
Would love a review unit *cough* *sneeze* *wheeze* *wink-wink*
- Bwana ☠
zune flu?
- Randy Pollock
Zune needs to succeed
- Bwana ☠
Kevin Marks would be a good person for a Google Show.
- John-Paul Dickie
engadget posted some pictures of Balmer with the zune HD http://tinyurl.com/zunehds
- Josh
Hmm.... I must have missed an update... Paul's Zune is different than mine. :-)
- Ken Sheppardson
I thought it was funny, Ballmer showed a Pixar movie :)
- Bwana ☠
Speculation has said that the Zune HD will have Bluetooth. Will this just be for A2DP or will the browser work tethered to a Bluetooth phone?
- Steve Mesik
I agree with Bwana, a good competition to the ipod needs to be out there
- Terry Bruce
With subscription, (and much better software) the Zune HD will be much better than the iPod
- Rob
If a new iPod Touch is brought out at WWDC its could be ZuneHD vs iPod Touch 3.
- John-Paul Dickie
marketplace > itunes
- Randy Pollock
Rob - Zune needs a SDK/Apps to really compete
- Bwana ☠
If iTunes had a subscription service, I think I'd go back in a second.
- Ken Sheppardson
The iPod Touch is quickly becoming a portable gaming powerhouse
- Bwana ☠
What is the advantage of the Touch over the Iphone?
- earl wallace
Thanks Bwana
- earl wallace
... particularly since the Palm Pre will sync with iTunes :-)
- Ken Sheppardson
*cough* Sega 32X
- Bwana ☠
with the all encompassing placement of itunes if they went to subscription service they would just about kill piracy (not to mention every other music software out there)
- Terry Bruce
At least the design of this new Zune is nice. It competes well with the iTouch in the looks department
- Gary Kostrivas
Bing.... Bang.... BUST
- Brian W
I hope they drop the "squirt" message
- Bwana ☠
Drobo? new sponsor? cool
- Bwana ☠
Terry: Agree 200%
- Ken Sheppardson
I'm convinced Piracy will always be around no matter what - people find reasons to steal
- Bwana ☠
but then again I have never seen any of the service providers actually try to provide what people want instead of telling the people this is what you get! shut up and take it
- Terry Bruce
always a reason
- Bwana ☠
You need to be rich for a Drobo!
- John-Paul Dickie
Bwana, yes there will always be, but for the most part people will stop if they can get the same or better quality without feeling like their wallets just spent a night in prison.
- Terry Bruce
It could be $2/month and people would complain that's too much when you get it on p2p for free
- Bwana ☠
that's the mindset we're faced with
- Bwana ☠
Do I need a Drobo Pro?
- Christopher Gambol
Item 2: Bing Microsoft's next-gen search engine is announced Public beta next week What it is: General purpose search engine, yes, but the big deal is decision-oriented searches around verticals like travel, health, shopping, and others Nice work cleaning up the UI too
- Leo Laporte
First thing - The name really really really really really sucks
- Bwana ☠
Bing?
- Bwana ☠
Anyone else not able to access the web irc room?
- Rob
@bwana agreed 100%
- Steve Mesik
I used Live search about 3 times. Liked it ok
- Christopher Gambol
Bob 2.0
- Ken Sheppardson
Can't think of anything else besides Friends.
- Jessica
They went from Kumo to Bing?
- Gary Kostrivas
Should have named it "Bada Bing"
- Kevin
kumo sucks too. they should have kept Live Search and just launched their improvements under the same name...
- Steve Mesik
Bada Bing --- I LIKE that!
- Christopher Gambol
They just wanted something that could possibly be turned into a cool verb... rather than "I'll google that" you can "bing it"
- Jeremy Powlus
bing it .....
- Bwana ☠
right.
- Bwana ☠
Bing me
- Christopher Gambol
It'd have messages like "Hey... yo... I can't find what yooz is lookin' for. Alright?"
- Ken Sheppardson
Yeah, but they aren't Google. Some people want a search engine that doesn't sound like something a 4 year old would think of.
- Steve Mesik
Bing !
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
not that it will actually happen (turn into a verb) :)
- Jeremy Powlus
They should have gone with Boogle or Moogle
- Gary Kostrivas
I wonder if it is "bring" misspelled
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
Safari is a stupid name for a SE if you thing about it
- Christopher Gambol
All of the good names are taken.
- Ken Sheppardson
Google... Bing... Bingle... Bungle...
- Jeremy Powlus
yeah, when I hear Bing, I immediately equate it with internet search
- Bwana ☠
CNET said that there will also be a heavy heavy air cover campaign to support BING
- Rob
</dripping sarcasm>
- Bwana ☠
the tech could be outstanding, I'll forever hate the name
- Bwana ☠
Shoulda been BONG
- Christopher Gambol
Paul Thurrott is my fave!
- Andre Vautour
Microsearch... macrosearch... Macro?
- Jessica
"It don't mean a thing, if it ain't got that Bing..." do-waa
- Kevin
SoftSearch?
- Christopher Gambol
Call it "Binoc"
- Bwana ☠
lol
- Bwana ☠
short for Binoculars
- Bwana ☠
I like Microsoft Ferret as a better name
- Gary Kostrivas
/me patents it
- Bwana ☠
maybe they'll change their mind, like when they wanted to rename Windows Live Hotmail to Live Mail and reverted back.
- Steve Mesik
I just hope the search engine is good
- Bwana ☠
like what I see so far on Paul's screenshot
- Christopher Gambol
Leo, ask about the 4 gb ram limit thingy and the Starter Edition kerfuffle
- Devin Baines
Interestingly, Microsoft has had the "bing.com" domain since 1996. Or at least it has been registered since then.
- Joel R
Live Search was a good name
- Bwana ☠
My mom knew what Live Search did before Google
- Bwana ☠
CNET said there is a huge air cover campaign
- Rob
He looks lost!
- Christopher Gambol
LOL new joke
- Bwana ☠
whenever there's confusion, pop that picture up
- Bwana ☠
will scare the kids away
- Christopher Gambol
put a picture of an apple on the zune hd. people would pay $1000 for it.
- Steve Mesik
@Steve Mesik - agree lol
- Randy Pollock
isn't lenovo owned by IBM
- DeMedici
Its about not being stale.....
- Christopher Gambol
DeMedici ->Lenovo is a Chinese company that bought the Thinkpad brand from IBM
- Kevin
Item 3: Windows Touch puts natural UI over the top Windows 7 will be first version of Windows to include pervasive, integrated multi-touch Puts natural UIs over the top: Previous efforts--pen computing, Tablet PC, touch, UMPC, etc.--only solved part of the problem. A Touch Feature Pack for Windows 7 will be made available with new PCs, includes touch-specific games and apps
- Leo Laporte
Just bought a Lenovo Thinkpad X301...love it
- Rob
I want this friggin' touch pack and a multitouch screen
- Jeremy Powlus
Anybody out there have or use an HP Touchsmart PC?
- Christopher Gambol
how dare they tease us with screenshots and not let us download it yet.
- Jeremy Powlus
I *want* a Touchsmart :)
- Bwana ☠
I like the dichotomy of Paul and Leo declaring the tablet a flop while at the same time everybody's speculating re an Apple tablet this month...
- Ken Sheppardson
Gizmodo just posted info on the Hulu Desktop. sweet
- Christopher Gambol
Hulu Desktop is here http://www.hulu.com/labs...
- Ken Sheppardson
@thurrott regarding your comment on whiteboards, SMART Technologies has been quite successful with pen computing on electronic whiteboards.
- Steve Mesik
I want a virtual ass-hat!
- Christopher Gambol
@Christopher Gambol There's an app for that.
- Steve Mesik
Double tap that virtual ass-hat
- Christopher Gambol
The next big innovation in LCD technology will be native peanut butter and jelly repellence.
- Ken Sheppardson
I have a 2 year old Lenovo X60 tablet w/ a touch screen (stylus OR finger) and it is fantastic for playing Plants vs. Zombies :)
- Jeremy Powlus
Windows 7 touch pack: http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs...
- Leo Laporte
Would love to see BumpTop with touch features...now yer talkin'
- Vaughn M Hannon
when are we going to be able to download this touch pack??
- Jeremy Powlus
I think its only for OEM's at the moment, they may release it at a later point
- Josh
Win 7 is getting better and better
- Rob
Item 4: Windows 7 build 7137 has leaked Windows Vista/Server 2008 SP2 is publicly available as promised
- Leo Laporte
I will wait at least 6 months to see if the Vista SP 2 has all the bugs screened out.
- earl wallace
Item 5: HP supports first-gen WHS users with features from newer server versions Amazon S3 backup, Apple Time Machine support
- Leo Laporte
Did Leo just yawn? funny
- Christopher Gambol
Off topic... I didn't know I could mouse over the comment bubbles to get a time stamp here within FF. I was wondering why they didn't time stamp the comments.
- Jason Hansen
Audible pick of the week The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite by David Kessler http://www.audible.com/adbl... Former FDA commissioner explains why fad diets don't work, how we as a country became addicted to food, and what we can do about it.
- Leo Laporte
David Kessler was Dean of the UCSF School of Medicine. He was fired last year
- Brian W
How's this different from In Defense of Food?
- Jessica
Tip of the week: Drag and drop cloud-based backup and sync I get a lot of questions about using Windows Live SkyDrive via Windows Explorer. Microsoft offers no solution for this, and we've previously discussed Gladinet as a workaround. But there are other alternatives: Live Mesh (excellent for PC-to-PC-to-web sync) and third party tools like DropBox (http://www.getdropbox.com), which...
more...
- Leo Laporte
Software of the Week: InstallPad http://installpad.com/ "InstallPad takes a list of your favorite programs and will download and install the ones you pick. It doesn't need to ask any questions, so you can go do more important things ... InstallPad can help you get a machine set up with service packs, applications or development tools without the need for CDs or running lots of scripts....
more...
- Leo Laporte
for a second there, I thought he was going to say that MS added drag and drop functionality... guess I'll continue to avoid it.
- Jeremy Powlus
I'll keep my free dropbox and A-drives 50 free gig
- earl wallace
Are they ever going to integrate SkyDrive and Live Mesh? I could really use that 25GB on Live Mesh instead. The file size limit on SkyDrive is too prohibitive.
- Steve Mesik
Dropbox is awesome, and multiplatform. Live mesh for Mac isn't fully featured.
- invariant - farewell FF
My dropbox is up to 4.25GB (free) via referrals.
- Jeremy Powlus
Paul works so much harder than the other TWiT hosts, he should get paid more
- David Lloyd
I agree Mark
- earl wallace
Palm now talking with Walt and Kara at D7. Rumor has it they'll be breaking stuff they haven't even told Sprint http://www.engadget.com/2009...
- Ken Sheppardson
I agree as well. Paul kicks out a ton of info. Dvorak just yaks
- Christopher Gambol
But Dvorak is hilarious. "Not deficient, just different."
- Doug Chase
There's a lot of things going on this week in the tech world.
- Jason Hansen
Ohhh... & I love it!
- Jason Hansen
I like this. Much simpler than something like WPKG for package deployment.
- Steve Mesik
You can customize the default list. Open source list: http://installpad.com/opensou...
- Jessica
I mean He does research, he knows his pod cast intimately. he earns his share of the ad revenue
- David Lloyd
More lists, courtesy of Lifehacker: http://lifehacker.com/softwar...
- Jessica
MaximumPC has an excellent installpad list
- Jeremy Powlus
Not sure I'd call it a pick...seems to me they played a bit unfair. What's the benefit to having closed control over the site contents?
- The Griff
That is just awful.
- Jeremy Powlus
I just canceled my Pre order
- Gary Kostrivas
Sounds like gay Buddhist monk dance music
- Christopher Gambol
figures... came out of UCLA music department (I'm a USC alum)
- Christopher Gambol
Does Sprint use SIM cards?
- earl wallace
Y'all know you can, like, change the ringtone, right?
- Ken Sheppardson
No SIM card. They use CDMA
- Steve Mesik
Thanks Steve.
- earl wallace
hulu desktop keeps crashing vista and mac.
- nesman89
Web saying Verizon to get Pre in about 6 months
- Tim Barber
TWiB - This Week in Bing
- Gary Kostrivas
Get sued by This Week in Baseball
- Gary Kostrivas
I love this show.
- Steve Mesik
we do love this show :)
- Jeremy Powlus
Windows Weekly - The Show that Goes Bing
- Ken Sheppardson
Christmas in Juy!
- Aaron T. Harvey
Great Show Show!
- earl wallace
Good show. Lots going on this week, today, etc. etc.
- Jessica
Paul Thurrott at winsuperBINGsite.com
- Gary Kostrivas
Bingster --- new Twitter competition
- Christopher Gambol
the Zune that goes Bing
- Doug Slater
"I see you have a show that goes BING"
- Ken Sheppardson
IRC seems to be down
- Aaron T. Harvey
Leo - play the pre chimes again!
- Christopher Gambol
Inline Pre ringtone player: http://www.everythingpre.com/article...
- Ken Sheppardson
we need the new google show RIGHT NOW :)
- Jeremy Powlus
Looks like Wave doesn't have public sharing. EDIT: correction, looks like you can embed it on your web site. No centralized discovery capability though.
- invariant - farewell FF
"Bourland has composed 8 ringtones in total for Palm. Titles include “PRE”, “Flurry”, “Raindance”, “Scamper”, “Discreet”, “Triangle”, “Dulcimer”, and “Anticipation”."
- Ken Sheppardson
sounds like an Asian version of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
- Christopher Gambol
It's a Glockenspiel gone wrong!
- Aaron T. Harvey
That Pre ring is guaranteed to get someone slapped
- Doug Slater
glockenspiel von crack
- Christopher Gambol
its so busy with those 16th notes .... way too much going on
- Christopher Gambol
You. Can. Change. It. :-)
- Ken Sheppardson
Roz is making up her lost mileage today
- Doug Slater
Roz Rows.. TWiT out of business with the call costs :D
- David Lloyd
Pixar's Up is getting great reviews http://tinyurl.com/m7ywd9
- Christopher Gambol
Heya
- Jay Neff
Leo, do you realize that broadband is still the Achille's Heel for all your grand plans?
- Scott Royall
Roger McNamee and John Rubinstein have a really funny video of Palm Pre from D7 https://friendfeed.com/palm-pr...
- jcunwired
Which do you guys prefer? "TweetDeck" or "Twhirl" - Would love your input :o)
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Twhirl.
- Sharon McPherson
Tweetdeck...love the columns
- mark
Of those two: Tweetdeck. Otherwise Nambu or Tweetie.
- Greg Lexiphanic
twhirl
- Dave "Freedom 35"
I've been using Twhirl - i like it, however there's so much hype on Tweetdeck these days, thinking of switching - does Tweetdeck give more? my appreciation!
- Aline Ohannessian
Tweedeck. I just want it to handle multiple accounts.
- Neal Jansons
Tweet deck is great if you have a large or extra screen, but Twhirl works better on a smaller screen
- Kim Landwehr
Twhirl
- © b e e n s w a n k
If you're looking for simplicity, stick with twhirl, if you want more features, like Mark mentioned, columns and being able to place peeps into groups, go with Tweet deck. Plus, what Kim Landwehr said.
- Sharon McPherson
neither
- TheHenry
You guys are AWESOME! truly appreciate your thoughts !!!!
- Aline Ohannessian
Twirl. Tweetdeck takes up too much real estate on my netbook.
- Helen Sventitsky
Aline: I've been using seesmic for the past few days, really liking it, except no integration with FriendFeed, yet.
- Sharon McPherson
Seesmic is pretty nice as well. You get multiple columns like Tweetdeck, but can manage multiple accounts like Twhirl. Only thing I didn't like about it is that you can't filter tweets in a column like you can with Tweetdeck
- mark
Oh yeah, and what Sharon said...there's currently no Facebook integration w/ Seesmic (IMO, a huge plus for Tweetdeck)
- mark
Seesmic is good, but until it has @username autocomplete I can't deal with it. Also a bit buggy.
- Neal Jansons
from IM
of course tweetdeck.. also these 2 are not comparable ..
- Ruhani Rabin
neither. peoplebrowsr (use in lite mode to start for simplicity) much more powerful that tweetdeck seesmic or twhirl, and runs a lot faster too
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
I agree with guruvan, if you want to use a web app, peoplebrowsr is the best so far. A friend of mine made a video a few weeks ago giving some starter tips for peoplebrowsr. http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Sharon McPherson
peoplebrowsr comes in an air app as well - I do highly recommend new users try the lite mode first, and then move up to the business or advance modes. it's extremely feature-rich. and is very mature for an Alpha-stage product. Better than most late-stage beta products IMO
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
neither one http://tweetgrid.com web based
- Wayne Sutton
Twhirl. But when I want to track something, e.g. H1N1 etc. , TweetDeck wins!
- LeON
Neither.
- LANjackal
Twhirl.
- Iván Abrego
I love Tweetdeck on my widescreen, I can fit so many columns. Plus you can organize your groups better.
- Faraz Mullick
Went from Thwirl to TweetDeck, never went back. As they say: 'once you go Deck, you never go back'.
- Ruud van Wijngaarden
I'm undecided, switching all the time. Also like DestroyTwitter and Seesmic
- Willem (@wim66) ☠
Tweetdeck has features I like, so I'm using it at present. Twirl receives positive ratings, I'll take a look...
- Nicholas Chase
Prefer Tweetdeck, but I'am using Tweetie for mac most of the time now...
- Sebastiaan van den Akker
Tweetdeck
- Roberto Bonini
Tweetdeck by far...its more organized, there is also Seesmic Desktop ;)
- Ahmed
For Twitter? Neither. I use Tweetvisor. I use Twhirl for FriendFeed but it's pretty poor atm. Let's hope Seesmic Desktop supports FriendFeed properly. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Uh, Kol, you misspelt Twitter as titter :)
- Roberto Bonini
twhirl ...it's simple~I like~~~
- ybs
Twhirl ... it's brilliant when you have two or more Twitter accounts
- Suzanne Male/Smink Works
Both. I'm too lazy to sync TweetDeck between my work laptop and netbook. ;)
- Rommel C. Caibal
from Nambu
TweetDeck
- Holger Eilhard
Tweetdech - but Seesmic desktop is getting better
- Erno Hannink
I have both but very rarely use them
- M F
very simple.. if u have less than 400 followers/follows u can use twhirl .. otherwise the only possible tool is tweetdeck .. until seesmic added more features and usability...
- Ruhani Rabin
I like peoplebrowsr for similar reasons: it supports twitter, friendfeed, facebook, identi.ca and ping.fm for posting, and a plethora of sites for reading (digg, myspace, youtube, seesmic, photobucket, flickr, plaxo, RSS, and random URLs)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
I use twhirl for FF action and Tweetdeck for twitter only, tweetdeck is used for the grouping and column options as well as the added facebook status feature.
- Charles Rice
TweetDeck - the Twhirl/Seesmic Desktop UI just doesn't appeal to me
- Nathan Chase
TweetDeck does it for me
- nesman89
TweetDeck
- Sabina
Twhirl - I love the 'ping on reply only' feature. And the optional integration of search results into the main stream is also awesome.
- Markus Merz
TweetDeck at the moment on my main machine! Twhirl/Seesmic is improving! I m trying Tweetie on my MacBook! I love Tweetie on the iPhone :)
- Frank Da Silva
tweetdeck
- anna sauce
Roberto, thank you and edited. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Tweetdeck here!
- Martin Bryant
Tweetdeck but I sure wish it supported multiple accounts.
- jcunwired
Tweetdeck
- Nicholas James
Seesmic Desktop...it's Twhirl's Daddy!
- SalvadorM
PeopleBrowsr seems the most promising - it used to crash on me when I tried it... anyone know if it has improved recently? Otherwise, I like Seismic Desktop
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
Jannifer: PeopleBrowsr is quite stable and very snappy now. There are still a few bugs in it (it's still alpha, v.0.999 last one) should be beta very shortly. I use it everyday, all day. I'm currently running about 25 stacks in it, too.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Time for me to try out PeopleBrowsr again!
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
Yep! I'm really happy with it, especially with the 3 modes of operation, and the settable color themes.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
I'm a Tweetdeck convert from Twhirl. I like that I can make as many columns as I like, which really comes in handy for making sure I don't miss my girlfriend's tweets...and then consequently hearing about it later. LOL
- Carlton Hackett
Seesmic.
- Roshni
Tweetdeck for the groups and columns, but I'm trying out Nambu this week. Haven't decided which of the two I prefer yet.
- Carmen - Happy 2010!
I've used both but my current fave is Seesmic Desktop.
- Tim Kissane
I use both because I have multiple twitter accounts. if tweetdeck supported multiple accounts, I'd use it exclusively
- Andrea Hill
Actually, I use the new Twhirl, Seesmic Desktop. On Windows only though. Gwibber FTW on Ubuntu.
- Amy H.
i'm liking the "peoplebrowser" and "seesmic" some of you mentioned herein - thanks for enlightening me to applications - Blessings :)
- Aline Ohannessian
seesmic was too slow for my taste, columns too wide, and so on. I'm looking for large amounts of data, and peoplebrowsr is the only solution in that regard. Tweetdeck is limited to 10 columns, and I have about 30 in my peoplebrowsr
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
1) browser with scripts 2) Twhirl 3) Tweetdeck
- Michael Fidler
twhirl with a "t" and not a "T".
- Swaroop
Neither. I use the webs and tabbed browsing. LOL. Looking at Flock as an option.
- Justin Whitaker
@Justin Whitaker: Flock is a great browser for everything we're talking about herein - you can pretty much bring in Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Gmail, Yahoo, Digg, (there's more i'm sure i'm forgetting) as well as your own Blog's feed - the only thing with Flock is that it's a little slow - but i recommend it :o)
- Aline Ohannessian
I'm using both, what dose that say?
- Jason Remnant
from twhirl
I am using TweetDeck and started experimenting with Seesmic Desktop.Yesterday Seesmic Desktop send an upgrade and now it does not work. I am going to try to reload software. I am pretty happy with TweetDeck because it is stable and was enjoying Seesmic till stopped working.
- Jose Luis Santos
I was playing with streamy.com yesterday-that looks to be another all in one option. Other than the OPML feeds not importing yet, it's really slick.
- Justin Whitaker
Live now: The Daily Giz Wiz for 5/22-59 with Mad's Maddest Writer, Dick DeBartolo. http://live.twit.tv Discuss here...
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Hello?
- Steve Stanger
Darn, I hate talking to myself... :-)
- Steve Stanger
hello
- Chuck Adams
Hello
- Steve Stanger
are we it?
- Chuck Adams
No, you're not.
- Filippo Dinolfo
ok
- Chuck Adams
:)
- Chuck Adams
This realtime stuff is quite cool.
- Filippo Dinolfo
super sweet
- Jason Tullos
it is nice
- Chuck Adams
Hey real cool
- ITA4u
And hopefully Dick's connection will behave itself.
- Filippo Dinolfo
brb
- Chuck Adams
I hate to be so sadistic but it would be hilarious if that ball went bust
- Chuck Adams
It's happened once.
- Filippo Dinolfo
Forgive me if this has been gone over before but why is the aspect ratio wrong on Dick in the two up shot?
- Leslie Wong
I think it's because Leo has it set for the close up shot, so the double box is a bit stretched.
- Filippo Dinolfo
It's a failing of the Tricaster - I can do a double box or fix the aspect ratio but not both. We're fixing it with wide-screen-monitors
- Leo Laporte
so good the room is started. Finally made it
- earl wallace
Dodged that bullet. :)
- Filippo Dinolfo
I thought the myth was that the Great Wall was the only man-made object on Earth that could be seen from the moon.
- Leslie Wong
I think Murphy is visiting the TWiT Cottage.
- Filippo Dinolfo
Vodka and Brain Toniq might not be too bad.
- Filippo Dinolfo
Leo is there any way to VPN him in?
- earl wallace
Still drinking Britta vodka. Told someone who gave me a bottle of Ketel One to get me 5 bottles of Savemart vodka next time.
- Leslie Wong
Earn, the issue is the packet loss goin on with Dick's connection. VPN wouldn't help that.
- Filippo Dinolfo
Leo please upload some of your pictures in China to flickr or twitter!
- earl wallace
Yes I see that Flippo I forgot that in cabling a=b=c :)
- earl wallace
Wouldn't it have been simpler to just call it the Home show?
- Filippo Dinolfo
I really need to reopen my Audible account.
- Filippo Dinolfo
Did Cupcake come down yet?
- Filippo Dinolfo
That explains a lot.
- Filippo Dinolfo
What website did he use to view those traffic statistics?
- Lucavex Ayanami
i think it was this http://www.internettrafficreport.com
- nesman89
That's one of them. It does show quite a bit of loss over in NY.
- Filippo Dinolfo
the strange thing is that the routers are down by state. Kinda worrisome
- earl wallace
That trike needs a couple of electric motors and a remote control.
- Filippo Dinolfo
We use a boat air horn from Auto Zone the local parts house to quiet the dogs. Works like magic.
- shelter watch
Most of Dick's packets are getting stuck in traffic.
- Filippo Dinolfo
Damn. At least his packets didn't get slammed in the car door!
- ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift
leo, I'm 9.6 miles from TerraTrike Headquarters, would you like me to go shoot some video of the headquarters/factory for you?
- Gabe
THAX E 2 DAYS SHOW LEO
- daveccorey
I wish I had that patent of the clear trap!
- earl wallace
That's a really neat idea.
- Filippo Dinolfo
I would like to have a cap with a cap on the bottom that unscrews to easily get rings and other stuff that would accidentally go down the drain
- earl wallace
Leo do you speak fluent Mandarin?
- earl wallace
oh well... i'm gone. later!
- Chuck Adams
Read the book while watching the movie.
- Filippo Dinolfo
And we're off for now.
- Filippo Dinolfo
Read the book, watch the movie and listen to the audible while crocheting a spock potholder.
- Lucavex Ayanami
I love this show
- Timothy McManus
Live now: Windows Weekly 106 with Paul Thurrott - upgrading to the Windows 7 Release Candidate. Watch at http://live.twit.tv. Discuss here...
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There we go
- Bwana ☠
hiya
- Matthew
Item 1: All modern AMD chips support the XP virtualization in Windows 7, but not all Intel processors. Check Ed Bott's list to find out if yours will. http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott...
- Leo Laporte
Item 2: Microsoft heads to court June date for oral defense of Windows/IE bundling Let's end the silliness
- Leo Laporte
:)
- Bwana ☠
WW... my favorite netcast. Information and great conversation.
- johnny
Item 3: Microsoft combines, rebrands activation/validation technology Windows Genuine Advantage is out Windows Activation Technologies is in; Genuine Windows is the umbrella brand
- Leo Laporte
Here it is again
- Bwana ☠
Congratulations Microsoft, I'm officially confused... again
- Bwana ☠
This should be episode 106 shouldnt it?
- Brian Kirby
:)
- Bwana ☠
How about Windows Genuine Activation Technology with Bob?
- Kevin
IMO activation is ok on Windows retail, applications and games. To be honest, activation on FlightSim X = no need to have DVD in drive = WIN!
- Monia
I dont use Windows update website
- Greg
Exactly! Great police analogy
- Bwana ☠
The most fun part of the Office assistant was programming it in VBA to make inane statements ;)
- Monia
I'm going to upgrade my netbook to Win 7 RC later today
- Bwana ☠
What are you going to use for Virus Protection if your doing the 64bit version?
- sean andersen
I use Avast for Antivirus, loaded on RC without an issues
- Jon mclaughlin
I don't do 64 bit here :/
- Bwana ☠
Windows 7 RC is not that great with flash, it is taking 100% resources 100% of the time.
- Matthew
I'm running AVG on 64 bit windows 7 RC - it's OK.
- Kevin
Matthew - did you have that issue with build 7000?
- Bwana ☠
Bwana, No
- Matthew
Hey Leo, Paul (bought Pauls vista book btw). You should mention Win2008 R2 slightly bnext time. Active Directory Center is intriguing, Powershell v2 is awesome if people hesitate to look at it
- Monia
Matthew - which browser(s) have you tried?
- Bwana ☠
There Leo goes again, reminding us about the live recording HALF WAY into the show. Real time web? Sometimes, real time isn't fast enough!
- Robert
How do you install Windows 7 on a netbook with no dvd drive?
- Willowdale
usb stick
- Matthew
With Unetbootin Matthew?
- Willowdale
Item 4: Win 7 RC, 32 or 64-bit?
- Leo Laporte
haven't heard of it, but anything to make a usb stick bootable will work, I suppose
- Matthew
Item 5: Win 7 RC: clean install vs. upgrade?
- Leo Laporte
or an external DVD drive
- Matthew
Willow - I wrote a tutorial on how to install from a usb drive
- Bwana ☠
willowdale -> http://bit.ly/win7usb
- Kevin
I'm going to try a upgrade just to see what happens
- Bwana ☠
Thanks kevin. What is the link Bwana?
- Willowdale
I am using 64 bit on this machine and 32 bit on my old P4 machine and laptop, the only problem i have had with the 64 bit is that my printer drivers wont work with it, so i switched the printer to an older printer and it works fine
- Brian Kirby
nice walkthrough Bwana!
- Kevin
I have installed RC1 on two machines and both were clean install
- Greg
Thanks - it was an ordeal to figure that out...
- Bwana ☠
Thank you Bwana.
- Willowdale
RTM=the store $$$ version
- sean andersen
Win 7 may be the first retail I've bought since Windows NT 4.0
- Bwana ☠
(all previous have been OEM copies)
- Bwana ☠
windows 95 was the last version of windows that I has excited about buying. Every other version was just forced on me when i bought or built a new PC.
- Kevin
MS marketing hype
- Greg
Microsoft just took a page from APPLE. Make the next OS release faster then the previous. = Happy Customer!
- sean andersen
Pretty much sean - That makes me happy
- Bwana ☠
Paul should use a more appropriate scale, say 1.0 to 7.9?
- Gabe
Item 6: HP does right by its Windows Home Server customers Will provide latest updates (version 2.5) to even the first generation MediaSmart Server customers - the sticking point is the RAM and processor in those servers - Will happen in 2009
- Leo Laporte
Go HP! </bias>
- Bwana ☠
Audible pick: Angels and Demons (Unabridged) by Dan Brown http://www.audible.com/adbl... Actually a prequel to The Da Vinci Code; coming this month as a movie
- Leo Laporte
Mouth Corner Fail?
- Matthew
Tip of the week: Using Open With in Windows 7 RC If you drag a file onto the taskbar, Windows 7 wants to Pin it. But to open with an app that is on the taskbar, drag with SHIFT
- Leo Laporte
You can't pin whatever you want
- Matthew
Thinking about the movie "Bolt" - "Put a pin in it" LOL
- Bwana ☠
Free Audio Book: http://audible.com/windows
- Gabe
I like having a shortcut to my network adapter on the quick launch, but I can't do that in Windows 7.
- Matthew
So it replaces a right click + 2 or so clicks with a click and drag (in certain situations)
- Gabe
TWIT VEDIOS AND AUDIO IS WORKING FINE IN GEORGIA 2 DAY 315 GA TIMETHRS MAY 7TH
- daveccorey
o_O
- Bwana ☠
Does World of Warcraft run on Windows 7? What about Asus Chipset drivers?
- Freddy Torres
I like being able to disable the wireless and see the netowrk, it was just easier when it was in the quick launch.
- Matthew
I think it generates a new key every time you start a download
- Ken Sheppardson
Software of the Week: Windows Virtual PC Beta If you have Windows 7 RC, you can get a free, licensed copy of Windows XP w/ SP3 too (XP Mode) - right now, it works in all Windows 7 versions, but the final will be for Windows 7 Pro, Enterprise and Ultimate only. New to this version: integrated application mode for XP, Vista, and 7, and USB support. Windows Virtual PC Beta...
more...
- Leo Laporte
Have been able to get over 7 RC1 keys on one account
- Greg
does the xp mode virtualization still require 4GB of RAM?
- Matthew
nice show Leo and Paul, thanks.
- Kevin
Anyone know if WoW works on Windows 7? Itunes? Asus chipset drivers?
- Freddy Torres
yes Freddy anything that works on vista or xp works on 7
- Gabe
nice show Leo and Paul!
- Bwana ☠
iTunes does, I'm sure Wow will work as long as you have the right video card drivers installed. sevenforums.com is a great place to check that stuff.
- Matthew
Every time I request a download of the RC I get a new key. There's a lot of them available.
- jjjobst
wouldn't it be An hundred
- nesman89
I wish you guys would stop fucking dicking around with the podcast!
- Justin Broderick
It's not like you're saying penis'ing around Leo.
- Matthew
Leo, Over Dub the audio to say, "Vaynerchuking around"
- Gabe
This conversation has now become NSFW. How can we keep watching you during the day when you do stuff like this Leo?
- jjjobst
leo, just ad this to the rerun cue instead of this part of the recording... http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Gabe
RT @theinquisitr: "Real life Oompa Loompa spotted in Scotland - http://www.inquisitr.com/23108...". Wahahahaha!! Owww, my eyes!!
Fugly
- nesman89
Why Dominos video response at http://www.youtube.com/watch... is going to be textbook:
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1. They did it in video. THAT is the way to respond. Not text. Video says MUCH MORE than text can.
- Robert Scoble
2. They went overboard with the response. They closed down the store and "sanitized it."
- Robert Scoble
3. The CEO did it and repeated that nothing is more important that our trust. He demonstrated he understood the issue.
- Robert Scoble
4. He thanked influencers for helping Dominos understand the issue and making sure that others knew about it.
- Robert Scoble
5. He responded while the issue is still "hot."
- Robert Scoble
6. He responded on YouTube, which is where the crisis started, not on their own video platform.
- Robert Scoble
7. He communicated that there was "immediate" action including arrest warrants, and people getting fired.
- Robert Scoble
Impressive.
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
He didn't look straight into the camera, however - as pointed out by Steve Garfield.
- l0ckergn0me
8. He knows that the real problem is that they hired idiots and are "reexamining" all hiring practices. THAT is the best way to make sure you get a good brand.
- Robert Scoble
9. He used personal language "it sickens me." Not marketing speak.
- Robert Scoble
Interesting mix of being apologetic and totally pissed at the same time. Overall thumbs up from me.
- Mike Doeff
10. He is working to "regain our trust."
- Robert Scoble
Is there anything else he could have done to answer this crisis?
- Robert Scoble
He didn't offer us a coupon to make us feel better. I didn't feel condescended to.
- Kevin Fox
Good lead, Robert. Glad to see discussion around the response.
- Valeria Maltoni
Now if he could just work on making the pizza not taste so bad.
- Dave Roth
now is the best time to go to Domino's in Conover. clean as a whistle.
- nesman89
Fantastic job, I thought.
- Matthew Freeman
Ok, so how bout some back ground?
- Matthew DeVries
I don't mind that he didn't look straight into the camera. That shows he isn't "slick" or "overcoached."
- Robert Scoble
Yes, it would have been better if he had looked into the camera, but given that a teleprompter is an expensive item, and rigging a two-way mirror with a magnified view of a printed script is a hassle... I think the minor shortfall can be forgiven. All seven of Robert's points remain absolutely valid.
- David Muir
Matthew: Here's the background: http://beta.friendfeed.com/thomash...
- Robert Scoble
Textbook is the best way to go. Swift and done. Now in time, people will forget, crave cheap, fast, and delivered food, and it's over.
- Mike Lewis
Very well handled. I agree with you, Robert, this will make its way into textbooks alongside Tylenol's response to the poisoning crisis three decades ago.
- Stephen Mack
Matthew: I already posted a link to the background. http://beta.friendfeed.com/thomash...
- Robert Scoble
Or here if you wanna go straight to the source: http://consumerist.com/5210648...
- Stephen Mack
They just taught a lot of clueless PR people how to handle a crisis like this. Well done.
- Inside Alaska
I think theyve been handling this like pros from the getgo. Good job
- Rasmus Lauridsen
Pretty slick. Many can learn from it.
- Katie Dob
The woman is also a registered sex offender apparently: http://ncfindoffender.com/details...
- Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
so far this year, that's, what, rats in the peanuts, perchlorate in the babby formula, prescription drugs in the drinking water, snot in the pizza... what was safe to ingest again?
- Karim
Bravo, Dominos. Nicely done. Speak up or be spoken for.
- kevin j higgins
But he's using a teleprompter. He's evil.
- tehKenny, Dork
tehKenny: I don't think he was. I bet that he was looking at some notes, though. It didn't come across like he was reading. For someone not experienced with a teleprompter you can not use one and not come across like you're reading.
- Robert Scoble
Their response was appropriate and in a timely manner which is key now.
- Christi
Anyone who has ever used a teleprompter realizes how hard it is to use one and how hard it is to look natural doing it. I bet he had someone off to the side of the camera he was talking to who was holding notes up to remind him what to talk.
- Robert Scoble
I wasn't there, obviously, but watching the CEO look off-camera yet speak as if to a person made me think he was looking at a person to stay "real" and "personable" and not canned or offering a performance.
- Bloom Seed
It's just pizza
- Ari Braginsky
Carmen: "W" had a LOT of media training and a team of people to tell him how to do it. I doubt this CEO has had much media training.
- Robert Scoble
rewatching it makes it clear that he's reading notes (his focus starts at top, moves down as recording proceeds). Still, though, comes across as a real person. Not everything needs professional actors, producers, makeup, sets...imperfect may be the new perfect, as far as communicating genuineness.
- Bloom Seed
Comes across as very heart-felt, and almost makes me want to order with them (I'm not sure we have them here in this town)! Shouldn't they have added something like "We'll now be installing cams in all our kitchens streaming direct to Ustream, making us the ONLY food delivery you can trust to not mess your food"? :)
- Philipp Lenssen
Philipp: well, that would certainly be cool but would be way beyond something they could deliver on in two days.
- Robert Scoble
I mean, I'm not a big fan of Dominos, but this helps them establish themselves as giving a crap. Good PR move.
- Mike Nayyar
Great video response straight from the company president. As for watching food getting prepared, the Papa John's locations that I've been to are open and you can basically see them making your pie. Not sure if Domino's has stores like that...
- Doug
Carmen, it's the "polished" vs "timely" tug of war: http://fftogo.com/e...
- Bruce Lewis
from fftogo
solid performance-- came across naturally and believable, blend of professionalism and good ole fashion ass-kicking anger. It was smooth but not overly slick; no suit or tie and shot in store surrounding. Content was solid too, assuring customers everything that could be done was being done. One minor tweak: he doesn't appear to be looking directly at the camera.
- mark ivey
I wonder if they thought about making it a response to "that video" on youtube to get the eyeballs needed to make this count..
- Tom Masiero
Ari - it's more than "just pizza" - it's the livelihood of 125k employees. We are focused here on a textbook response, but this is also a clear demonstration of the power of leverage that SM holds: two idiots can do major damage to the brand, the company, and by ultimately to the employees. Hat's off to Mr. Doyle and his advisers.
- Bill Sanders
good response for sure, way to go
- sean percival
Rewatched it and yes he is reading it. Regardless, I think it was handled pretty appropriately.
- Jay Neff
good job. small nit: next time they need to move the teleprompter (or cue cards) either over or under the camera.
- MikeAmundsen
Video is good if Good Messenger (which Domino's guy IS) But also put the incident on my radar screen, which hitherto I was unaware of.
- JimmyJet
Wasn't aware of the incident but sure feel bad for the independent operator..
- MiaD
The woman in the Wendy's chili fraud case ended up sentenced to 9 years in prison and her husband (who bought the finger off a co-worker who lost it in an industrial accident) got 12 years. http://www.bluemaumau.org/wendys_...
- Kevin Fox
I wish that he was looking at the camera instead of a telepromter. Just sayin.
- Andrew Baron
Andrew: he's not looking at a teleprompter. I bet someone is holding a notepad with an outline on it for him.
- Robert Scoble
I haven't had Domino's in a long time. But, I'm happy to see that they put up this Video response to the malicious destruction of their Brand and business practices.
- rob friedman
good job. that was a classy way to 'avoid the noid.'
- grant fox
Hey Robert, can I use some of your reasons in a blog post in writing up about the Domino's issue?
- Kenneth
Kenneth: yes, feel free!
- Robert Scoble
Thanks Robert!
- Kenneth
"Everyone else is doing it right." Yeah, right. [What are the odds of that?]
- Craig Brownell
I kept hoping he'd actually look into the camera.
- James Miao
I agree with James. I was hoping that he would look at the camera like he's talking to his customers. I get that he needs to make sure he says exactly what needs to to said, but the way he kept looking away from the camera made it seem a little "stiff".
- Kenneth
like when dirk diggler looked into the camera during his documentary. that was powerful stuff.
- grant fox
Kenneth: that's a mistake someone who isn't media trained makes. I actually don't mind that because it makes it less slick.
- Robert Scoble
My guess is that they're multiple cameras and he's looking at the expensive one
- Bwana ☠
Robert: Really? If corporate heads are on camera, they should NOT look at the camera especially if they're not being interviewed? It looks natural not to look at the camera? You're definitely right...I'm not media trained. :) Looks like he was reading off of a script and didn't notice a camera at him.
- Kenneth
Who was he talking to? The sound guy holding the microphone to the right of the camera?
- Diego Barros
Kenneth: the only time you should look at the camera is when you want to speak directly to the viewer. You are right that he should have been speaking directly into the camera. Knowing where to look is part of media training. A good PR team could have helped (IE, one that had worked a lot with video before) but I can't really blame him. I still have trouble figuring this out. When I was on the BBC it was very difficult to look into the camera (it was aplate on the wall).
- Robert Scoble
i just have to say, that by him not looking in the camera, or really doing any of this before it seems adds to his character that he's a regular guy, not some PR trained monkey doing a dance for us.
- rob friedman
I dunno, I think it's more important that the response seem unrehearsed. I'll bet he did it in one take.
- Ken Morley
Well done Robert: not a surprise to see this crew recognizes excellence when they see it. Dominos did virtually everything right on this aspect of its response. having seen a few crises, this example is among the best. blogged it here: http://www.mediadeluge.com/post...
- Christian Anderson
Just to let folks know: the teleprompters I am familiar with allow the newscaster or talking head to look directly at the camera AND read the script. The result is like a HUD (heads-up display) for those familiar with video games or jet fighters.
- David Muir
Right David, but there are all kinds of "teleprompters" some low tech and some higher tech. the point is he was reading. It was okay, he did a great job in one take. It would have been better if he hadnt read it and looked directly at the camera, but because everything else was so well done, the reading gets a pass
- Christian Anderson
Not a fan of their pies, but kudos to Dominoes for the forthright reply and apology for the miscreants who brought this upon them. Hope they rebound well from this.
- JA Castillo
Definitely a canned response but still heartfelt and sincere. Plus we learned its a federal felony to stuff cheese up your nose on camera. Imagine what happens at McDonalds on a daily basis - now that's frightening.
- Chris Sparno
Very lucky that they had a CEO that even was willing to talk for YouTube in the moment; let's not now criticize him for his media training, or none will ever have the guts to do it again.
- Francine Hardaway
Rich: This is deadly serious for him. He's right to take it seriously and I'm sure he genuinely does.
- Michael Krigsman
So the real question is, who feels comfortable enough to order Domino's this weekend?
- Chris Bartow
I do Chris, even more-so now than before. This weekend will be the cleanest in the franchise's history :)
- Bwana ☠
@Karim: "snot in the pizza... what was safe to ingest again?" Years ago, I ordered a pizza (not from Domino's) and was surprised to see a piece of broken glass in it — and this particular glass shard had part of the pizza company logo on it! When I phoned them about it, they replaced the pizza in record time; of course, they asked for the broken glass back, too, so I couldn't keep the evidence.
- Victor Panlilio
Victor *shudder* i think i would have just given up eating pizza after that :-D
- Karim
The comments on You Tube are negative I don't agree with them, what is your opinion abut them? (They say Doyle is not sincere)
- Maurizio Goetz
Rule #0 - Youtube comments have the value of a single molecule of feces
- Bwana ☠
+1 Bwana!!
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
His response was right on and pretty smart for doing it via a video. It's sad but we are at the mercy of people that prepare our food. :-( I kind of feel bad for the kids because what they did shows a complete lack of intelligence. It would be nice if they took responsible and apologized in some sort of public forum.
- John McCullough
@John McCullough "we are at the mercy of people that prepare our food" and people who pilot the planes we fly in, treat our municipal drinking water, etc. I daresay we only appreciate them when things go horribly wrong.
- Victor Panlilio
@Chris White "The founder of Domino's supports Right to LIfe and Operation Rescue, which IMO, is worse than putting farts on sandwiches" Really? Watch the video at http://www.abortionno.org/ and see if you can stomach the idea that we dispose of unwanted human beings so cavalierly.
- Victor Panlilio
Victor, your comment as well as John's above you, reminds me of that line in Fight Club: "We do your laundry, cook your food and serve you dinner. We guard you while you sleep. We drive your ambulances..."
- Aaron Kurtz
@Aaron - almost everything we take for granted in "civilized society" depends on the everyday goodwill (and conscientiousness) of anonymous others. I've always thought that we need to become more mindful of the benefits we daily receive from these enablers of our well-being. Count your blessings, etc.
- Victor Panlilio
Victor, I couldn't agree more.
- Aaron Kurtz
Kevin Garnett out for playoffs... that really sucks. anyone else thinking he pulls a Willis Reed? http://www.mahalo.com/Kevin_G....
If it was one game maybe but several series unlikely. Let's hope the Red Sox can win it all this year.
- nesman89
Amish Hackers and Early Adopters - http://digg.com/arts_cu...
"They are great bowlers too............... man i just "Munsoned" this comment"
- nesman89
Michael Phelps Should Not Apologize for Smoking Pot - http://digg.com/people...
"So if he is a Pedophile in his off time that's O.K. with you? I'm just sayin'"
- nesman89
Apple releases new iPhone software version - http://digg.com/apple...
"when you get copy/paste"
- nesman89
Netbooks killing PC and notebook sales? It's a myth. - http://digg.com/gadgets...
"Ogre!"
- nesman89
What's the one thing Evernote doesn't do that you wish it did?
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For me, it's indexing PDF images. For example, if I scan something at work, Evernote won't index it. I have to take the intermediate step of doing a snapshot of the PDF to get it to index. Evernote has said on their forums that they plan on adding this functionality though.
- Matt
Geolocation on my HTC Touch.
- nesman89
have they added Blackberry functionality yet? I haven't looked recently.
- J450N
Most recently, a client for the G1. There's also a running list of ideas in this thread (early in the creation of this room): http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Lindsay is in 20-ten
Share in a workgroup. I would like to share with select other Evernote users.
- CW™
Send notes via email in text mode when possible, not always as an attached PDF.
- Rubin Sfadj
I wish Evernote worked in landscape mode on my iPhone.
- Chris Rodgers
stop hijacking tags with undesired autocomplete as I type them.
- Jon Price
Better resolution of business cards when taking them on the iPhone; they come out very blurry :(
- Sally Church
Automatic saving when editing Web Notes. Spent lunch working out notes on a project in evernote. Clicked Save and it said "Sorry - Performing Maintenance." Went back and it was all gone - ALL OF IT. If I owned the computer it would've been thrown through the window.
- James Hull
A Blackberry App
- Ian May
I agree with Chris W. Ability to share with with other select users.
- Steve Sill
Matt - I could pretty easily hack up some python to pull the jpegs out of the PDF for you, if you want
- mjc
@James Hull - I would rather have google gears offline support, in that instance
- mjc
share would be amazing.
- mjc
Smart Folders!
- Rubin Sfadj
share and collaborate in notes
- Peter van Teeseling
RSS feeds from tags
- Frank Meeuwsen
I want to be able to edit images once they are in EN. At least, rotate and resize them. But it is cool that the text recognition works even if the image is rotated!
- Tony Vota
A reminder (for instance, to remind me that I should read important meeting notes a few hours later).
- Peter Ghosh
An application for Android phones.
- darodave
+100 darodave!
- Lindsay is in 20-ten
share and collaborate on select notes or entire notebooks. In the first case, it would be edits only. In the second, others would be able to add notes as well.
- Marnie Webb
Better OCR. Shared would be great as I share a bunch of stuff with the gf in Google Notebook.
- Jauder Ho
A more structured flexible todo list like Remember The Milk. That'll force me to switch over to 100% Evernote!
- Pras Sarkar
the ability to rotate images in the evernote client
- paul
You can do that in the Windows client, Paul. Right click on the picture, choose Picture->Edit. Then click on whichever direction you want in the dialog that pops up under Rotate (or define the angle). There are other editing options there too.
- Lindsay is in 20-ten
Rotating in the Mac client. And OCRing PDFs.
- Tim Ostler
from twhirl
I really wish I could automatically import content from RSS feeds. I've been messing about trying to import my tumblr entries via email (RSSfwd) and the results have been rather unsatisfactory.
- David Adam
David, I haven't been able to get RSSFwd to work for me either... If you don't mind your RSS feed posts being sent as a daily collection, I'd recommend using FeedBurner like I am (see comments here: http://friendfeed.com/e...). That works pretty well.
- Lindsay is in 20-ten
Thanks for the tip Lindsay. I got Feedburner working but I couldn't stand the formatting; the tumblr feed looked awful after being imported. Maybe I should try importing my FF items instead, that might work out a bit better.
- David Adam
check boxes in the windows mobile client
- Chris Kasten
How about some statistics on public notebooks?
- Peter van Teeseling
Landscape mode -- especially for pdf files.
- Adam Thorsen
Collaboration! Please! I'm begging :)
- Sean Omlor
Good, old-fashioned nested folders.
- Mitch Wagner
Auto Hide the side bars
- CW™
Though it may cause many to change their usage, I wish the tags were a cloud. I'm used to Delicious and others. I would love to see the font of tags manipulated based on their use.
- Valley
Support for desktop search in XP/Vista/7
- Ralph
Auto Hide the side bars. Yes.
- Russellreno
Allow offline access to notes on my Windows Mobile phone
- Ashish Bogawat
For me it's also indexing PDF files
- Matthias Faller
Copy recognized text from images.
- Leandro Ardissone ⍨
Offline search for iPhone and WinMo! and android application.
- Nock Forager
RE: image rotation in Evernote on the Mac... I just figured out how to do it... Right-click on the image in question, and select 'Open with', then open the image with Preview. Select 'Tools' on the menu bar, and then select 'Rotate Left' or 'Rotate Right'. Then, close the Preview window, making sure to save your change. This will change the image orientation in Evernote.
- Jared Apperson
Obama removes restrictions on abortion funding - http://digg.com/world_n...
"Why are we arguing about Prop 8. it's been said and done leave it alone. See it works both ways in this country. All of us get to voice our opinion."
- nesman89
CNN Sets Live Video Record with 13+ Million Streams - http://mashable.com/2009...
seanb, Randy Ksar, Andrew Leyden and 4 other people liked this
I think they meant 13+ million attempted users. when i was trying to watch the inauguration it was unwatchable.
- nesman89
Worked perfectly for me.
- Roberto Bonini
+1 lester
- andy brudtkuhl
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