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Just realized Friendfeed allows me to share to specific people. Killer feature.
Waleed, RAPatton, edythe and 17 other people liked this
I think these guys hit a home run with the UX around sharing to friends and not broadcasting to all, and making that clear in the feed.
- Omar Shahine
They nailed it. now allI I need are real friends on here :)
- Jamie
Agreed: the messaging/DMing/private or group sharing is really well done.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
FriendFeed beta works great on the browser...but is/will there be a mobile client? I use PockeTwit like crazy more than the web....
- Jef
@Jamie: you're right about that. I much prefer posting and interacting with posts in FriendFeed but all the people I know in real life are on Facebook and almost none of them are on FriendFeed. So I have been spending a lot more time on Facebook lately.
- Tommy Williams
Amazing Free Windows 7 Theme Pack from Mike Swanson http://blogs.msdn.com/mswanso...
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GMail IMAP- the bane of the traveler - http://jkontherun.com/2009...
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Baby Born In Bay Area With 12 Functioning Fingers, 12 Toes - http://www.ktvu.com/news...
Omar Shahine, Robert Couture, Ian May and 83 other people liked this
"“Some family member have had six fingers, not completely developed. But not the toes,” said Kris Hubbard, 34 and a postal worker. In fact Kris Hubbard himself had nubs of sixth fingers removed as a child as these non-functional digits routinely are. But Hubbards case is so vanishingly rare according to doctors, and because the extra digits are functional, it's not a deformity to be discarded. “It's merely an interesting and beautiful variation rather than a worrisome thing,” said Dr. Michael Treece and St. Luke's Hospital Pediatrician. “I would be tempted to leave those fingers in place. I realize children would tease each other over the slightest things, and having extra digits on each hand is more than slight. But imagine what sort of a pianist a 12-fingered person would be imagine what sort of a flamenco guitarist, if nothing else think of their typing skills.”"
- Paul Buchheit
Good luck finding gloves.
- Jemm
Future Guitar Hero.
- Brian Oberkirch
happens more often than you think. They will probably remove the extra fingers and toes later. He's lucky... better to be born with too many than too few imo
- DC Crowley
from twhirl
what about those who "gawk" at people because they're intrigued by the variation of human biology? Not all people are thinking "freak" when looking at these differences. I have a sunken chest plate (which I used as a bowl when laid on my back) and a big channel down my back where you'd expect there to be your spine (works wonders for funnelling sweat down your back). They're just interesting variations on the human form.
- alphaxion
Maybe he'll grow up to be a pianist like that guy in Gattaca: http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Mark Trapp
That's like in "Farewell My Concubine"
- Shevonne
I would keep them!
- Susan Beebe
Beowulf had six fingers on each hand, too. Perhaps the kid will be a legend for the ages.
- DGentry
The six fingered man killed Inigo's father in The Princess Bride. Just sayin'.
- Yuval Atzmon
Oh the Birds I could flip, road rage king.
- adolfo foronda
It´s not a bug - it´s a feature!!
- Dieter Schwarz
I wonder what comes after "And this little piggy cried wee wee wee all the way home"?
- Gabe
Gabe +1000 LOL :)
- Susan Beebe
Did anyone watch the video at that link? That doctor's beard is outta control!
- Rebecca Sun
I'm having a Gattaga flashback... (Edit: guess I'm not the only one)
- xero
If the fingers are all functional, and none are removed by the time the child becomes an adolescent, I think it's pretty unlikely that the child would ever opt to have them removed. Imagine if, as a child, you were told that everyone else has three fingers and a thumb. Would you be willing to have your pinky removed to conform? I know I wouldn't. I'd care about that pinky. Besides, it's hard to quickly spot that someone has 6 fingers instead of 5. I'm sure they'd get along fine.
- Kevin Fox
If they were functioning, I'd totally leave 'em on. It's not a disability, plus, imagine how fast you could type.
- Will Higgins™
It's not like it is a difference that people would notice in normal day to day interactions - although schoolkids can be so mean
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Extra cute.
- Mike Reynolds
Evolution @ work!
- Santa CW™
Now that's high tech :)
- Charlie Anzman
Which one would you use for flipping the bird?
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
Mark, there are two middle fingers. Take that as you will.
- Micah Wittman
Looks like a customer has been found that 6-fingered gloves. If I knit that well (or had the patience to craft them out of other materials), I would be tempted to make a pair just to send them to the family.
- Ragani Harris
omg
- Alfredo
He'll be winner in "Guess how many fingers I'm holding up"-game.
- Jemm
I had a conversation with a FoaF who was doing pediatrics about the extra finger thing. I was worried that all kids with extra fingers were losing out on their ability to become deviously shreading guitar players and he told me they were never actually useful fingers. But these fingers? Hrm. Maybe we should all get a sixth finger on each appendage through careful breeding.
- Wirehead
He could have the nickname "Two Dozen"
- Ragani Harris
Want! At least the extra fingers. the extra toes sound painful and unwieldy in shoes. Wonder what digit a wedding band would go on?
- Felicia Yue
Had a friend whose toes were surgically fused to get him down to five, or so he said. Looking at his big toe, I had little reason to doubt it. Cheaper by the dozen?
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
Just got an invite to Yammer. I joined but not dumb enuff to discuss MSFT stuff on some random startup's servers. So will stick wit Twitter.
Mohamed Salem Korayem, Tyson Key, Adewale Oshineye and 2 other people liked this
Is this an admission that Microsoft reads our emails that we leave on Hotmail? Why should we trust Microsoft with our private data? What makes Microsoft different from a random startup?
- Robert Scoble
And, why do we trust Google with our private data???
- V Mary Abraham
Hack Your Apple TV With Boxee - Wired How-To Wiki - http://howto.wired.com/wiki...
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Are you going to do this? I heard that boxee on appletv doesn't do 1080p
- Omar Shahine
from Nambu
thinking about it, yah. my TV only goes to 1080p as it is, plus i don't have many sources that'll push 1080i in any case
- Aditya
Obama works to reverse Bush climate moves: official - http://www.reuters.com/article...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama will direct the Environmental Protection Agency on Monday to reconsider a decision made by the Bush administration that denied California the right to set limits on greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles, a White House official said.
- Intense News
This is my first Windows 7 message. Everything on my main computer upgraded properly. This is a winner.
paul mooney, Dario Salvelli, Kol Tregaskes and 60 other people liked this
Windows 7 does sound good. I might give it a go next weekend.
- jon
I installed it on my mac, dont know why though
- Simon Wicks
Can you say anything about hardware specs, Robert? I don't know if MS is playing the NDA game with the beta release.
- teleken
Have you tried mouse hovering over the task bar in the bottom right (there's a small rectangle with no label) - does a nice 'show desktop' effect. Pretty cool so far eh?
- David Ing
Happy too.. so far so good...
- Aad 't Hart
I wanted XP rather than Vista, I really did. Now there's some slim hope?!
- Bernard (ben) Tremblay
I love Windows 7 on my old hardware! Just posted a review on my blog... :)
- carrotmadman6
teleken: if Vista works on it Windows 7 will work better.
- Robert Scoble
David: that's cool!
- Robert Scoble
Why does Robert get so impressed by every new technology ?
- Sidharth Dassani
Robert: Understood. Now the question is whether I drop it in Parallels on the MacBook, or go for broke/masochism and see how the Inspiron Mini handles it. ;) There's the real acid test for a new Windows OS.
- teleken
teleken, I have it on Fusion and on my netbook. Both work amazingly well. The only problem with using it on Parallels/Fusion is that you will not get Aero and hence won't get all the nifty Aero-dependent desktop features like Desktop preview, the preview panels etc.
- Kamath (नमः)
What are the minimum memory reqs on it?
- Jason Wong
Is it a winner because it actually installed correctly, or because you're impressed with the new feature set...
- Shay Frendt
Also, try left-clicking on a taskbar item and then dragging upward.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Shay: both.
- Robert Scoble
Looking forward to the release after posts like this. Read that idle W7 uses appr. 600-650 MB RAM. Anyone confirm those numbers?
- Migger
The real killer feature for Windows 7 would be a little dialog box at the beginning of the upgrade process that simply says "If you proceed with this upgrade, you will lose N days of productivity to trying to troubleshoot drivers, software incompatibilities, and reinstallation of incompatible programs; to re-learning simple UI tasks; and to experimenting with superficial cosmetic changes, all for marginal UX and performance gains . Do you want to continue? Yes / No"
- Ken Sheppardson
Jason: I don't know what the hardware requirements are but it uses fewer resources than Vista. So, just go with the hardware requirements for Vista.
- Robert Scoble
I've had Windows 7 running with just 128mb RAM in a VM - Excellent memory management.
- Nigel Kitchen
Tips for VMWare Fusion install http://friendfeed.com/e...
- michael silverton
Will Windows 7 fit on an 8GB netbook SSD?
- Ken Sheppardson
teleken: My MacBook is running it fine, no problems so far, although I've only really been playing around with settings and stuff, not installed any big software to try with it. I used VM Ware to do it, Parallels always gave me problems so i switched.
- Simon Wicks
Since I have both Vista & Ubuntu I think I can wait until all you early adopters work out the bugs. :D Seriously, I will wait until it is forced upon me when I buy another computer. That should be about 3 years from now.
- MarkCarras
REALLY tempted to run the beta on my laptop...a bit nervous to run any beta on my main rig but i think it wouldn't be so bad on my laptop....hmmmmmmm
- Live4Emma (L4S)
dual booting 7 with vista and 7 is running so much faster than vista. i'm happy that they cut down the min. req.
- Aaron Eaton
Stay away from AVG under Windows 7...triggers a heinous BSOD in tdx.sys...
- Mike Dove
I have been unable to download the Windows 7 image from Microsoft's site. I think they're a bit overloaded at the moment!
- John Bellone
John, have you tried since Saturday? My download worked like a champ Saturday afternoon. Also Brandon LeBlanc @ Microsoft is reporting that extra capacity was added and the download site has been working smoothly since Saturday AM. Also they have removed the 2.5 million limit on the number of beta testers -- as long as you get it before January 24, you can get a product key: http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs...
- Karim
Upgraded main computer? will MS support upgrade from Beta to RTM?
- Vaibhav
I installed Windows 7 64-bit and Chrome doesn't work at all. GRR.
- Phil G
I like the things they have done with respect to perf and UI changes, but this is what Vista should have been in the first place and I hope the upgrade from Vista to 7 is cheaper given the small number of differences between the two.
- Vaibhav
Whoops, someone figured out how to fix it: http://www.blogsdna.com/1900...
- Phil G
I got it here on my HP Mini 1000. Running good so far... not doing much though
- Bwana ☠
Phil, have you run the compatibility wizard on it?
- Akiva Moskovitz
@Mike Dove I have 7 x64 with AVG installed. I don't have any problems with it.
- Vaibhav
Akiva - nope but that command line switch I just linked to did the trick.
- Phil G
@Vaibhav Perhaps you are getting lucky. I believe I was triggering it with the Outlook Email scanner portion of AVG, it may be that for normal operation it is fine.
- Mike Dove
Karim, What link did you use? MIcrosoft's site seems so slow.
- John Bellone
When attempting to download Windows 7 I click "Download Now" and nothing happens.
- John Bellone
Windows Weekly mentioned that there's quite a nasty MP3 truncating bug in the beta. If you value your music collections, it's probably best to avoid using WMP. Apparently there's a hot fix available.
- Paul Grav
@Paul it was the first thing I did after installing Win7 and Windows Media Player is working just fine with no damage to the mp3's that I have been able to tell yet
- Steven Hodson
@Paul same here. It works fine after hotfix
- Vaibhav
Awesome news.... I hope MS Windows 7 is a winner...that would be great!
- Susan Beebe
Yep, Windows 7 went pretty smooth so far; tackling my main home/Windows Media Center device now. +1 for sex life as well.
- Wade Dorrell
Whats the timeline before it expires on you? how painless was the upgrade?
- Stephen Smyth
Stephen: I think it's expires in August
- Vaibhav
I wrote about my initial install experience on The Inquisitr (http://www.inquisitr.com/14951...) with some follow Snapshot posts at WinExtra .. I'm liking this release of Windows
- Steven Hodson
Stephen, it expires in August which means a Beta 2 or RC1 in July (or a hotfix to extend the death date).
- Akiva Moskovitz
Been running Windows 7 for about a week. Loving it!
- David Andrzejewski
A friend just loaded Win7, she is upset that she can't find a way to make it Classic UI. It will be a long long time before I upgrade in that case.
- Tina Clarke
I've heard someone saying he was expecting something new in Windows 7 and literally got the same Vista OS, just a little faster. Don't you think Microsoft is re-selling the same system (only a bit improved) instead of giving us a new one?
- Nir Ben Yona
I think I'll be waiting for the BETA-tag to go away. I have tried vista and xp in beta and I regret it, so..this time I'll wait for the FULL and not beta version of Windows 7.
- Qbat
In case anyone cares, I threw Windows 7 on a late 2006 Compaq V6600 laptop with a Turion 1.8GHZ processor. This was one of those Vista capable machines. It was running XP (it never had Vista on it) and Windows 7 runs better than XP did. It has 2GB RAM. It's not a low powered laptop nor is the CPU/chipset that old but it's nice to see Windows 7 run so smoothly on it. Windows 7 installed...
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- Dr. Apps
from twhirl
John - if you are using the technet download link (the one with the serial number) , it will try to invoke a downloader app which only works in IE. If you find one of the many blogs with the direct download link, those should work with any browser.
- Phil G
Previously as a test, I upgrade installed the Windows 7 6801 beta on a Vista 32 machine that was heavily used (over 1400 installed applications) and was shocked to see it that not only did everything still work (Zonealarm, LogMeIn, MICROSOFT FINGERPRINT READER!), but it was MUCH snappier and startup and shutdown was significantly better. Not that I would ever recommend an upgrade...
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- Dr. Apps
from twhirl
Great to hear the upgrade worked. I hate when computers fail...
- Mitchell Tsai
Like it so far. Install was a bit difficult, but thats probably my fault (dual boot machine). Snappier than Vista, cleaner than Vista. Uses about 20% less RAM on my machine.
- Chad Albert
Dr Apps mine took hours too. I ran it while I slept.
- Robert Scoble
Just tried streaming h.264 video to a xbox as an extender. It works !!
- Olivier Castets
Fresh install took me < 30mins to login prompt. Upgrades take a lot longer.
- Chris Johnson
Clean install to Lenovo 510 went very smooth. Loading some apps shortly, but first impression is that it is noticeably snappy. http://www.flickr.com/photos...
- George Rogers
John, I am using the regular Technet link: http://bit.ly/NJJb If you're seeing "Download Now" I assume you have gotten past the Live ID logon, profile update and gotten your Product key? The download uses an ActiveX control or Java applet download manager. Assuming you are on Windows :-) try your download in IE, and allow the ActiveX control to install.
- Karim
I have Windows 7 beta running on an AMD Athlon 64 X2 Processor 4000+ with 2 Gig of Ram and it runs better then Vista Home Premium did. The only issue is I can not get my Netgear SC101 NAS box to recognize. Does anyone have any ideas?
- Rob Cairns
"windows", "winner" - is this an example of #15, say something outrageous ;-)
- Neil Saunders
Peter Simard: That's awesome! I'm sure you backed up first, but were quite relieved it all went well. :) Rob Cairns: I didn't even know the SC101 worked with Vista in the first place... I gave up on that thing so long ago. That is probably the only piece of hardware I've ever regretted buying. Though it sounds like you've had a good experience with it if you're still using it. I'd say wait a few days and see if anybody comes up with a solution. I took a cursory glance and didn't find any info...
- Dr. Apps
from twhirl
Robert - Using it since late yesterday. On two boxes, more stable than the original final releases of Windows NT and/or Windows 2000. More drivers supported up front than in Vista. Think MS learned something and the download limit drop will bring a lot of embedded techies. It's a win.
- Charlie Anzman
Thanks for being on the bleeding edge, just about to load the Windows 7 beta myself.. Good to know it upgraded properly for you.
- TechMama Beth Blecherman
I'm going to download it tonight Can't wait!
- Michael Fidler
It was a long upgrade for me... but overall I like it.
- Jason Womick
Been very happy with Windows 7 so far. Many subtle improvements add up to a much better product than Vista.
- Jim Bednarz
I am happy with Windows 7. Fresh install was effortless, but after the install and adding all possible board drivers, four "System Interrupts" entries remain yellow. At least the LAN connectors worked immediately.
- Robert Miller
I put win7 on a Toshiba Satellite a65 from 2003 and it works better than xp did
- Todd Loren Sinclair
Stephen : The upgrade was painless 90 minutes or so and a couple of reboots later. The only issue I had as previously mentioned was my Netgear Sc 101 issue - it did work on Vista. It expires in August
- Rob Cairns
Thanksgiving: three days of prep for 10 minutes of eating. Who invented this holiday, exactly?
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Windows Live branding, a relaxing view - http://kevinbriody.net/2008...
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Interesting predictions for the 2009 camera market: http://www.bythom.com/2009pre...
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Pet peeve #638: People who respond to a Craigslist ad, but never reply to my response. False hope!
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What my calendar will look like on November 4th, 2008. - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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Niiiice ;)
- Michael Palermiti
Thanks, guys.
- Douglas Pearce
I swear to God, I am gonna kill the next person who opens a bug on " when only one item listed, shouldn't be pluralized "
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one word - decaf
- Dave Hodson
If you'd code it correctly in the first place, one wouldn't need to open such bugs.
- Dave C
Guide to Freeing up Disk Space under Windows Vista - http://www.hanselman.com/blog...
Omar Shahine and MiniMage TKDteacher of FF liked this
Awesome post on freeing up disk space under Windows Vista.
- Brandon LeBlanc
Finally, Some Leadership in the Credit Crisis - http://www.smallbiztrends.com/2008...
Omar Shahine liked this
amen!
- Don Campbell
Scoble, Dare, Arrington: My POV - http://glasshouse.waggeneredstrom.com/blogs...
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The Economist loses its s--t? on TwitPic - http://twitpic.com/e3hu
Igor Poltavskiy, Geoffrey Richard, Melissa and 63 other people liked this
different picture here in Europe, but equally depressing.
- Vincent van Wylick
this can't be real, can it? i didn't see this anywhere on the economist's site. i doubt a publication like that would publish something like this
- Cee Bee
Pretty sure it is a joke...
- Bret Taylor
This is the imagery they're using on their site. Pretty stark, but not "Oh fuck." http://bit.ly/3ehTJ4
- Dave Winer
must be a joke, no way would they publish that
- Susan Beebe
Fake! The copy I received says "Son of A...!"
- Mike Lewis
fake fake fake … mine (in the UK) looks nothing like that.
- dkb
Alas, mine arrived in the mail today and had a less dramatic cover ;)
- Jennie Lin
fake, but really quite funny - I am curious to see how the endless cheerleaders of the free market economy will spin this meltdown
- Nadine Schaeffer
I LOVE Microsoft's health coverage. Shannon's ER visit last month was over $4000. Amount we owe: $0! (Her and the little one are fine, btw.)
Omar Shahine liked this
Ditto. It's just nice to never have to worry about it.
- KC Lemson
WTF is this?!? - http://roflrazzi.com/2008...
Omar Shahine, Victor Ryden, Arash and 6 other people liked this
wassup wit da cookies
- Mathias Pastwa
Tomorrow is our 1st wedding anniversary. According to tradition I'm supposed to give my wife a clock or a gift made of paper. Yeah, right :)
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Cards are made from paper ;-)
- Jordan Hofker
Congrats. Our seventh was today. I rarely look at those tradition lists.
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
Play it safe ... Huge Gift Certificate
- Charlie Anzman
AT&T History
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Very interesting. Anyone know the original source of the image?
- Mike Doeff
From SNL a few years ago... AT&T: We'll be a monopoly again, soon.
- ha3rvey (free hugs!)
None of them use the Bell logo anymore, though. Not even Cincinnati Bell. (which isn't even on the diagram as an independent player.)
- Alex Power
It's like the second terminator. You smash it to bits, then it reassembles and starts killing again.
- Paul Buchheit
"That's no moon. It's a space station."
- Andrew Smith
I'd like to see the whole family tree, with Lucent, Nortel, and what it was like before 1984.
- Gabe
See also http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Isaac Hepworth
Shared post: Leviton gives the gift of extra outlets - a third at every wallplate http://www.boingboing.net/2008...
Omar Shahine liked this
awesome! now when they also add USB ports?
- Omar Shahine
Some Thoughts on Amazon's Elastic Block Store - http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog...
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iPhone sync delays - http://blogs.msdn.com/stevecl...
Omar Shahine liked this
pretty funny!
- Nathan Eckenrode
Amazon Adds Universal Wish List - http://www.micropersuasion.com/2008...
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California Supreme Court says noncompete agreements are illegal - http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r...
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Texas Style Deposition - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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That was superb.
- Christian
i loved this video. its my new lazy sunday.
- peter
Impressive lack of professional conduct.
- Mustafa K. Isik
"you have a case of incipient verbal diarrhea." and it just gets better from there.
- Lawrence Denes
So that's what passes for professional in Texas law? It's awesome!
- Dave Roth
This is the best thing ever.
- Adam Barker
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