"Bopup Scanner is a LAN Scanner which resolves multiple network-specific parameters and displays all the active nodes/systems connected over the network along with useful information on the main interface."
- LANjackal
from Bookmarklet
"SMS Backup+, an app that can create backup of SMS messages to the user’s GMail account. In the event that someone accidentally deletes a message or has to wipe his or her phone, SMS Backup+ can restore the messages when necessary."
- LANjackal
from Bookmarklet
Brilliant app, been using it for a while now. Still can't find an efficient app for scheduling sms msgs according to date
- Ahmad Al-Shagra
from Android
It always bugs me that comparisons between "smart" phones seem to give short shrift to how the two compare to each other (or other phones) when used as cell phones -- or is that somehow outdated thinking ? Do people not use their cell phones to make phone calls anymore?
- Brian Sullivan
Navigation in Windows 7 is a lot easier with the new Taskbar, but it could be easier with everything in one central location. Mouse Extender is a free utility that allows you to navigate through Windows easier.
- Farshad
from Bookmarklet
Steve Rubel tar med sig tre observationer från franska konferensen Le Web. Förutom att konstatera att realtid är hett så noterar han att Twitter och Facebook mer och mer utgör ett ”socialt operativsystem”. Båda tjänsterna har stora delar av sin aktivitet utanför den egna sajten. (Och för Twitters del kan man konstatera att det varit kritiskt för tillväxten, men jag vet inte om man kan säga det om Facebook än.) Tredje observationen handlar om nyheter och att vi ännu större utsträckning kommer få vårt nyhetsflöde format av vår sociala krets.
- Peter Lindberg
saw this on lifehacker yesterday. great system. includes chains, so you can see who sampled what, and what that sample was a cover of, etc.
- adam garrett
btw, check tribe called quest "sucka n****" samples a white dude
- adam garrett
Just forewarning - the public will be overwhelmed. It's too much to launch with, IMO - way too many features. (I'm in the developer sandbox preview)
- Jesse Stay
@Jesse Thanx 4 the forewarning I kind of have that feeling when the video presentation presents itself it will take a while to look around its features. I always take my time to test features
- polou/indigo_bow
I expect a steep learning curve. I've barely started learning about GReader, for that matter. Still, I'll be there when Wave launches, for sure.
- Dennis Jernberg
Unless they fix up a lot between now and then people are going to be very, very surprised (not in a good way!). Release early, release often is great, but I'm not sure people's expectations are realistic.
- Nick Lothian
Let's see what it's like then. Thanks for the info.
- Rick Cogley
Great now how long till Google buys Twitter to integrate it into Wave
- Rob Cairns
Rob, there is already a Twitter extension called Twave that integrates Twitter into GWave.
- Kol Tregaskes
Rob: I highly doubt that Google will buy Twitter as it doesn't fits any were with their existing products and with its integration with Wave what's the point of buying it.
- Usman Bashir
Usman - they will find a way to leverage it into Wave or another product.. I really believe Google is going going to make a big splash with Wave and they will have some big surprises in store. Google is not King of the cloud for a reason:)
- Rob Cairns
I've been secretly hoping that FFers, through one of our A-lister friends, would be reached out to for early invitation. Sept 30 is sooo far away!
- JCunwired
Thank Heavens for Google!! Every Computer User owes Google a Huge Thank U for FREEing us all from the Shackles of Greedy Monopolistic Crappy Microsoft* ;))
- Billy Warhol
I watched the video. So exactly what kind of beast Google Wave is? A social media platform? Can it aggregate as well as FriendFeed? Looks awesome to me. More like a tsunami. lols
- jan geronimo
I'll bump this again. Sorta disturbing that the the Scoble "look at me, I'm part of this" thread has garnered more attention than this. WAVE offers more promise at this point.
- Mattb4rd
Whoohoo - I am really looking forward to Google Wave - great news - thanks Zee.
- Robert Freeze
same here please! lokesilva[at]gmail.com
- lokesilva
if you have any still could you send one over my way? chugdiana@gmail.com thank you! id reallllllllllllllllllllllly appreciate!
- dianaaa
Hello My e-mail is mbiskin at gmail dot com . Could I get an invite please? Thank you very much
- Murat Bişkin
Please send to [xalaiti@gmail.com], Thanks
- 2Picture
Please send a code to brewcrewster@gmail.com Love and Peace THANKS
- Alex Brewer
I was looking for an invite code but I din't get yet! It's a great site and I'd like to log in there..so please send me something to lbaken@hotmail.com and I'll apreciate
- Laura Guarie
Please send a code to bb1907@gmail.com thanks...
- bulentb
invite please :) < only.miyi@gmail.com >
- Millie Li
"Problem. You are interested in how the Google Chrome 3.0 Dev, Firefox 3.5 RC, Safari 4.0 for Windows, and Opera 10b web browsers manage memory on the Windows Vista operating system over moderate usage, such as with 150 top web sites. These numbers can be measured but there are complexities involved in measuring memory. Solution. Here we look at a program that simulates a user visiting the top 150 web sites from Alexa from the command line, with visits occurring at short but varying intervals in many tabs."
- imabonehead
from Bookmarklet
Of course, firefox has been known to have memory leaks in the past, and this data looks to be over a somewhat short period of time. I'd be interested to see this test run over a longer period.
- adam garrett
@Adam: The memory leak problem was fixed with Fx3. Any issues you experience are likely to be a result of extensions, not Fx itself. Good link :)
- LANjackal
"Opera Unite is a unique technology that turns any computer or device running Opera into a Web server. In other words, your computer (running Opera Unite) is truly part of the fabric of the Web, rather than just interacting with it, and it’s something anyone can use. With Opera Unite, everyday non-technical users can serve and share content and services directly from their own computers in the form of intuitive applications."
- Arawak
from Bookmarklet
"Hawkscope is a productivity tool that allows you to access your hard drive contents quickly via system tray / menubar icon with dynamic pop-up menu. Completely Free and Open Source. Cross platform. Navigation through hard drive contents via dynamic popup menu. Configurable favourite locations for quick access. Plugin system (gmail, twitter, search etc.)"
- Iphigenie
from Bookmarklet
I thought for a bit it might offer me a cross platform alternative to my favorite windows launcher, but alas it's not quite that. My favorite windows launcher is one that doesn't need manual addition or setting of favorites, it automatically spots any programs added or run (I hate having to manage menus beyond deleting entries that were one off)
- Iphigenie
Everest Ultimate is one of the best system diagnostic and benchmarking solution for all concern Windows user. Its provide essential system and overclock information, advanced hardware monitoring and diagnostics capabilities to check the effects of the applied settings.
- Arafat Hossain Piyada
from Bookmarklet
Joshua - I'm trying hard not to give up on Disqus because I like their features, but I am also pretty fed up with numerous things not working, anti-spam filters being virtually non-existent, and support being very hard to obtain ...
- Patrick Jordan
I just moved to intense debate. It went well, and all my comments remain intact.
- Joshua Schnell
I agree. One thing about IntenseDebate is that the FF comments get imported in with the person's avatar. With Disqus, they say they support FF, but I have to still have the FF plugin for the comments to show up.
- Shevonne
Yeah. Disqus is supposed to have a bunch of social media comments being integrated, but it is just not working.
- The Amber
I got really sick of my comments going missing, then having them tell me they we're patching their systems after I inquired. You'd think they'd send out an email letting people know what's going on before they break everyone's comments. It happened twice a year on Macgasm.net, I decided to move on.
- Joshua Schnell
This is interesting, I have to decide soon what form of comments I am going to have on my new Drupal site.
- Andrew Roche
I use Intense Debate. Great customer service.
- Brent - Yes I am
Giannii, what were your findings upon investigating my Disqus mentions problem last Friday? I don't think I've heard back yet. [EDIT] I realize there was a three day weekend and it's likely nothing's been done yet, but a ticket number would be nice ;)
- Daniel J. Pritchett
@ Giannii - I have emailed them to you before, and even pasted full content of some of them into this support thread on your support forums, a month ago now: http://disqus.disqus.com/disqus_.... Look at that thread please. I don't get spam notifications because as far as I can see, Disqus does not recognize anything as spam. In that thread...
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- Patrick Jordan
@Gianni - as for my comment about support being hard to obtain being unfair in your view, I disagree big time. Read this FF thread for just one example where you'll see various FF Disqus users mention that they generally find they get support reactions via Twitter or FF: http://friendfeed.com/patrick... - Why is that??? I would say...
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- Patrick Jordan
And Giannii - here's another support thread at your site, where yesterday you promised updates last night that would fix at least THREE separate bad issues with your Wordpress widget, and many users complaining about it. Today there is no change or fix for any of the issues - and zero status updates from you on it. http://disqus.disqus.com/disqus_...
- Patrick Jordan
My distinct impression of Disqus is that your focus is very much on racing ahead with flashy new social features that grab the attention of folks like Scoble and lots of others, whilst paying very little attention to making sure your basic stuff works. I mean, you are a provider of a comments system. Isn't anti-spam a pretty critical component for a freakin' comments system? And how...
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- Patrick Jordan
Giannii, I would have stayed around if support was more preemptive than reactive. Relying on 3rd parties for comments is risky to begin with, and not finding out that there may be down time previous to the down time is a huge detriment for site operators. I couldn't find anything about it anywhere until I complained on Twitter. Its a little unsettling that I was getting emails from readers of the site about the comments being all funky.
- Joshua Schnell
Giannii - please list some of the key instructions for combating spam here. Your response in that thread on anti-spam only ever said the filters were being worked on / improved. I imagine your instructions are going to say things like tighten up restrictions on who can comment. I already require that commenters have a registered email address, further tightening basically negates the...
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- Patrick Jordan
Giannii - I've 'pinged you' directly in the past, and gotten no good results from it. I'm not looking for a long-winded discussion, just one where you get a bit real. The steps you are alluding to are these: * If it's coming from one username, block that username / email / IP address = have done this numerous times, but as you should know, all 3 of those things are easy to fake and...
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- Patrick Jordan
Oh, and maybe most of all, explain to me why more often than not, in order to get any sort of timely support one has to resort to calling you out on FF or Twitter, please ...
- Patrick Jordan
Giannii - I'm sure you were not planning any answers to my last few questions - but just in case, nevermind. I've switched over to Intense Debate as well.
- Patrick Jordan
Exact same problems here. I remember the day when I sat down and really compared ID and Disqus. Went with the latter after much thought. Boy do I regret that now.
- joneilortiz
I, too, have experienced some spam problems after switching to Disqus. Now, I'm trying out Intense Debate. Let's see how that turns out! I have to add that Patrick Jordan seems frustrated with reason to be.
- Niklas Pivic
Glad I found this thread. I have a big client (ie high traffic blog) and I want to recommend disqus to them, but everything in this thread plus a question i had about syncing accounts on the service have me in doubt of useing the service. I have heard praise for disqus for a while now but never bought into the hype. I think I'll check out intense debate instead. didn't obama put that on his social media sites?
- Liz
I've gotta report, installing the Intense Debate plugin for WordPress was super easy. Also, importing ~1300 comments from my blog to ID took appx. 10 minutes. No problem. The interface feels really thought about and there are some brilliant features I haven't found in Disqus, e.g. Friendfeed Comment Retrievals.
- Niklas Pivic
Disqus is good and so is intense debate.
- TrafficBug
Gianni, the FF integration to Disqus does not appear to be working for me. I have it turned on and have yet to see a comment from FF appear on my blog. Here are 2 FF entries that show comments that don't appear: 1. http://friendfeed.com/krynsky... 2. http://friendfeed.com/krynsky... I also would like to see 3rd party comments integrated better like Intense Debate.
- Mark Krynsky
and then there's people who systematically manipulate feeds by deleting their comments in part or whole, almost for 'funsies'. getting tired of that.
- Josh Haley
Strange. I've not had any issues at all with disqus although I agree the spam filtering could be a bit stronger.
- sean808080
Disqus is broken, and it doesn't look like they've got much cooking. I think I will switch to Intense Debate as soon as posssible, for three reasons: 1) Access to plug-ins and the stellar Wordpress community (which Disqus obviously cannot match) 2) Spam filtering (which Disqus fails at terribly) 3) Backtype integration (Disqus doesn't import anything from anywhere, and when it does it just shoves the links in at the bottom).
- joneilortiz
So does ID use Akamai? Spam and the broken FF integration are my two biggest gripes with Disqus. I don't know why Disqus seems to do all of their spam handling in-house.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
from IM
@Daniel - I think you mean Akismet - the popular and very effective Wordpress anti-spam plugin. If so, answer is Yes - you have an option to let Akismet keep kicking ass and taking names on spam for you :)
- Patrick Jordan