I was going to write an article on this very subject but Adam's beat me to it and has said all that I had planned to say and more. A must read.
- Nicholas Helke
Oddly, TwitterFon Changes Its Name to Echofon: "[…] It seems like this might be a move to avoid any kind of legal problems with Twitter. As we’ve written in the past, Twitter is apparently okay with you using the word “tweet” but they must protect their trademark of “Twitter”. Still, something like “TweetFon” seems like it would have been a better... - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
I admire MG Siegler for not shouting out about how the reasons given for the name change are BS—I can think of one other author at TechCrunch that probably would have spelt it out. Regards it has to be said that this obvious deception does not reflect well on the company's honesty—an important value for the web crowd i.e. <del>TwitterFon</del>Echofon customers.
- Nicholas Helke
from Bookmarklet
It starts well enough. Goes wring as soon as they pull their guns and have a character die from a tweet. Also, the video is a bit on the long side for what it is.
- Nicholas Helke
This actually illustrates that there is a lot of work to be done to optimize the canvas element. CPU usage rockets with the experiment.
- Nicholas Helke
I want one for its HD video ability and small size factor. I think I will settle for this one instead on of the more bulky reflex HD video-able cameras. ALthough it would be nice to choose one's own lens.
- Nicholas Helke
Pretty. I love Penguin covers. They are contemporary when released but also timeless. Those old Penguins look just as good today as they day they were printed.
- Nicholas Helke
I love the new Safari bar on iPhone 2.2. I also really like that finally iTunes Mobile Store is truely mobile on iPhone and accessible through cell networks as well as WiFi.
Damn! Only the podcasts are available everywhere? Why is it that the best media capable mobile phone in the world is the only one without a truly mobile music store? To make matters a little worse podcasts you download on the road don't count as mobile purchases and are not synced back to iTunes.
- Nicholas Helke
On the iPhone that is. (I forgot to specify, oops.) I have turned auto-caps off as well. I found the feature annoying in web forms where it would activate. I prefer that it do it nowhere consistently then that it do it sporadically. There is only one case where I miss auto caps. and that is for the word "I".
- Nicholas Helke
Croissance stimulée par Fastweb - Stabilité de l'activité principale en Suisse - Baisse du bénéfice net de 10% due à la résiliation des contrats de leasing - http://www.swisscom.com/GHQ...
What can I say? With results like these how can they deny they overcharge? At the very least they should use the massive profits to give us better DSL or better still with all those billions why aren't they deplyingdober optics?
- Nicholas Helke
Wouldn't Google Street View provides a wider area to explore?
- Nicholas Helke
When will MS come up with something new? They seem to be content with copying everything that google does. Although, I didn't have to download Silverlight, and wasn't asked to use a more 'up-to-date' browser, so I'll give them credit for that.
- Paul Grav
Did you read the word Technology Preview? May be we will see more cities in future..
- Jigar Mehta
"Of the teens Wells polled online, 93 per cent say they prefer the internet to television."
- Timo Heuer
from Mento
Reminds me a lot of what Anastasia Goodstein of Ypulse, author of Totally Wired: What Teens and Tweens Are Really Doing Online has been telling us for some years now. Her recent mashup marketing event in SF represented this view pretty well too. Others like Danah Boyd and Eszter Hargittai have also explored the topic at length. Nice to see Sydney picking up on this though.
- Lynne d Johnson
Apple's Mobile Me just deleted all my Outlook calendar items. I'm getting them all back from my Google Calendar. Wild, what a crappy service. I told it to use Outlook to resolve all conflicts, too. Has this happened to anyone else? Makes me very scared to use it.
Merlin Mann reported major syncing issues on twitter today as well.
- Morgan
Happened to me twice, right from the beginning...I'm out of it.
- Nir Ben Yona
was this on your iPhone or a computer? I had that with contacts.. after research found out to delete account from iPhone and re subscribe.. then it found them all again! Let me know how you get on..
- Tom de Grunwald
from twhirl
Apple have got to do something about this. slowly, surely it's affecting loads of us. Not good.
- Tom de Grunwald
from twhirl
This is why Exchange is the defacto standard for business communications. Apple needs to do better. And I'm sure they can.
- Roberto Bonini
I was an iTools user back in the day. When that turned into .mac I paid the first year then I abandoned it. I was outraged - even then - that Apple was charging an arm and a leg for unreliable services available reliably elsewhere for free!
- Nicholas Helke
@Roberto I haven't seen anything do mail + calendar + group scheduling better than exchange. Microsoft's problem is they insist that Outlook is a part of Office when they could spin off exchange/outlook/entourage/windows mobile into a separate company and do very interesting things. And I'm a die-hard Mac user, too.
- Andrew Feinberg
WHOA!! EPIC FAIL.... damn! good thing you had synch up to Google..dang! iDelete!
- Susan Beebe
This happened with .Mac as well. I used to sync my Entourage/Exchange calender with iCal across multiple machines using .Mac. One morning I woke up and my entire Entourage/Exchange calender was empty. Had to have IT restore it from backup
- Tom Wentworth
Meh. I'm still using Exchange at this point.
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That 1% is getting bigger. Having lost all my contacts, without a backup, I can sympathise. A week away from returning MobileMe.
- Tom Tubbs
I am using Google Calendar and soon Exchange on the big corp. network.
- Susan Beebe
Perhaps I'm lucky. I don't use Mobile Me, Exchange or Outlook. Gmail does a grand job for my needs!
- Ian May
thanks. i was debating it. now i know to stay away
- Jeff (Team マクダジ )
Seems a bit harsh to go telling everyone to STOP using MobileMe, I use it through exchange and works fine. I did have an issue with the ical being corrupted last week, but tracked that down to a beta version issue with Omni Groups OmniFocus 1.1 slashing things up. Are you SURE it wasn't called by another program?
- wayne Mulqueen
I want my money back - I feel like I was scammed by Apple on this
- Jesse Stay
from twhirl
wayne: if you think anyone listens to me, you got another thing coming. But if I get one person to backup his/her calendar and contacts before running it, then it'll all be worth it.
- Robert Scoble
I just don't even bother with it. I use Outlook <-> GCal <-> nuevasync.com
- Chris Ridenour
robert: guess you could look at it that way...I did as soon as I saw your post. With all the new apps coming out for the iphone at the mo, there are bound to be conflicts with other progs. Guess it is easy to stick it to Apple seeing as they have had other issues.
- wayne Mulqueen
wayne: if I were the only one having these kinds of problems, I would have kept my mouth shut. But lots of others are too. Walt Mossberg, who isn't known to do negative reviews of Apple stuff, said in his column to stay away too. So I have good company.
- Robert Scoble
why app makers don't listen to every power users?
- Pico Seno
Pico: in Apple's case its secrecy keeps it from really testing out a ton of different scenarios. My brother-in-law worked at Apple and he said he couldn't even tell his coworkers what he was working on. So, there is a culture internally which keeps them from testing stuff out with a huge number of people. I think that's why buggy junk gets into their products. Safari on my iPhone keeps crashing, too. Opening up some screens on the iPhone takes six seconds, and my battery often drains just sitting there.
- Robert Scoble
What a disaster the mobile me service has been...
- Tim FitzGerald
It is interesting how hard the core Apple fanbase is working to keep the MobileMe disaster spun in a good light. Let's be honest, if it was MS there would be no mercy here. With MS offering cloud based MS hosted exchange these days I think MobileMe is redundant for outlook users.
- Soulhuntre