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Kol Tregaskes
Best shop front, ever - http://flickr.com/photos...
Best shop front, ever
"Guitar Store" - in Southampton. Cool! :-) - Kol Tregaskes from Bookmarklet
they are probably open until 11! - Morgan
+1 Morgan... and they close at 6 to "get ready" for tonight's gig. - Anthony K. Valley ©
Heavy. Duty. HEAVYDUTY! - Morgan
aweaweaweawesome :) - Alihan ÇETİN
Great idea for a shop front. - jjprojects
Bumping some old good posts. :-) - Kol Tregaskes
that's great! lol! - Be Cookie Industries
Matt Frog
After an Agonizing Wait, Picasa For Mac Finally Arrives | Epicenter from Wired.com - http://blog.wired.com/busines...
After an Agonizing Wait, Picasa For Mac Finally Arrives | Epicenter from Wired.com
Mac users, you can stop holding your breath. Google announced Monday that Picasa for the Mac, a free desktop application for editing, organizing and sharing digital photos, is now available as a public beta through Google Labs. - Matt Frog from Bookmarklet
Please note the url is currently not working... - Matt Frog
where where.. the d/l page does not work :( - Naor Mark
ya, not working :S - Leandro Ardissone ⍨
If somebody successfully downloads this, can you please try OurDoings and see if our Picasa button works? You can disable the button afterwards. - Bruce Lewis
Eep. Is the gap of time between the Windows release of Picasa and the Mac release an indication as to how long we'll have to wait for Chrome? - Victor Ganata
only the blog post not the download - Naor Mark
I've got it installed. Currently scanning my HDD for pics. Cool. - Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Victor, could be longer. The customized UI they did for Chrome will have to be created from scratch for OS X. - Akiva
Still can't access http://picasa.google.com/mac :( - Matt Frog
Matt: just go to: http://picasa.google.com/ ON a mac you will automatically land on: http://picasa.google.com/mac/ - Nicholas Kreidberg
Nicholas - you're fantastic. Thank you very much! - Matt Frog
done that and i get the dmg of PicasaWebAlbumsUploader not the picasa app - could it be limited to a territory? - Naor Mark
About time too!!! - Mel Buckpitt
I've never used Picasa - until my needs grew to Aperture I loved iPhoto. What does it do better than iPhoto? Why would I want this? (honest questions, not snarky ones) - Sparky, lurking
Ah, yeah, Nicholas I just installed the web uploader too - still no cigar :( - Matt Frog
It seems that most iLife apps realize their potential when used in conjuction with their online services(.mac/ MobileMe). Picasa (and Google apps in general) accomplish most of the same things for free. - Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
for me it's mainly for multi platforms (having mac,win & linux at home). As an app (and i'm not an expert, used it on Win.) it's very easy to use, with various tagging options and it works quite well on my home network storage so it is perfect for our "home photo processing work flow->(i.e. i move the pics to the drive, wife is organizing and tag them :)) - Naor Mark
From Duncan Riley - this link at Download.com works!! http://www.download.com/Picasa... - Matt Frog
Here's the direct link (others above forgot the #): http://picasa.google.com/mac/# - Brian Daniel Eisenberg
After installing, I realized that Google is investing in video a lot with this, particularly with connecting YouTube directly to the interface. Given that most consumer cameras can shoot acceptable quality videos (which will increase significantly soon), Picasa is likely to become more relevant for videos at some point. - Engin Erdogan
amazing how so many so called tech experts kept pushing the uploader as the real deal - it finally materialized but long after most had shot themselves - Kevin Cearns
I'd like to echo Sparky's question: Can someone articulate advantages over iPhoto? Is it just sync to cloud integration? - Micah
Personally speaking I find that iPhoto is a 'walled garden' or in OSx speak 'a package'. If you want to store your images in different folders, with different names, manipulate your images with another app, you have to set up aliases and all sorts of other nonsense. Picasa allows you to import your images wherever you want so they can be used by whatever app you want and that includes Picasa. It has basic image manipulation which I find very intuitive to use. - Mel Buckpitt
It also allows you access to a Flickr like photo sharing account - Mel Buckpitt
Its nice but it does not integrate with the other apple software (media browser) and it doesnt allow the db to be stored on a different drive :( Picasa web albums is very nice though - Jonas Wouters
Will give this a try when I get home after work, but I don't know if I will migrate away from Flickr. - Vinko
Vinko, try http://picasa2flickr.sourceforge.net/ Picasa supports buttons that upload to other photo-sharing sites. Now I just need to test it with my site. Is it really Intel only? - Bruce Lewis
bout time. - Cee Bee
Installed Picasa eagerly. It's giving me some issues though. Doesn't show one of my watched drives and folders on it. Worked fine for an hour, dissappeared the second time I opened it. - The Fat Oracle
Yeah, I don't understand why they can't just build a universal binary. Are developers really relying on Intel-only bits? - Victor Ganata
Picasa for Mac is fantastic! Although I have and still use Nikon Capture NX for my Nikon RAW files (NEF), Picasa does a wonderful job of organizing my photos and making it so much easier to search through them! It does have some pretty nifty editing tools available, too, although it won't take the place of a more full-featured photo editing program. Picasa has organized my files in such... more... - John G
Steve Rubel
Short URLs shared on Friendfeed now reveal the re-direct if you hover over them.
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great find Steve - btw, would it be ok for to drop you an email? Just a short one don't worry - Zee.
Like this. +5 more points for FF. - Amani
Steve, I love that I made a cameo in your post. I only wish my short URL was more inspired. - Scott Gatz
Finally! Yay! Wish Twitter had this a long time ago. That's the reason I never use full links that get converted. I change the www. to w3 .website.com and that way everyone can see the full link still and copy and paste it if they want to view the site. I got annoyed at clicking on duplicate TinyURLs. - Adam
@Adam, Just try out the grease monkey script, it will let you see all the tiny url's. http://tinyurl.com/5wduxf - Dennis Goedegebuure
Nice feature add. Keep them coming! - Eric
Nice feature enhancement!! - Susan Beebe
What Mohomed=genieyclo said! Thanks, FF crew. :-) - Lisa L. Seifert | FHG™
One small nit. Does not work in comments. Try this link - http://tinyurl.com/5wduxf - Atul Arora
@Atul Arora Right! First thing I noticed. I also wonder with how many shortening services does it work with... - Nikos Anagnostou
This is awesome. Hopefully this can be added to twhirl too - Guy
This should be definitely exported via API - Alex Kapranoff
Finally! - Mr. Gunn
Lovely! - Mitchell Tsai
I use the greasemonkey script tinyurl-ru at http://kapranoff.ru/friendf... but it only covers tinyurl.com and tinyurl.ru | Maybe we should do a community project that keeps updating that script with all those url-shorteners out there. | Alex, are you game? - ĎÚβĨŐÚŚ Dod
Is this a feature that friendfeed removed? Because it's not working in Chrome. - James Poling
I don't see any short URL's in FriendFeed anymore. all are automatically expanded. - Rah-PM 2012
Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
“The Treasury Department has issued a new one dollar bill...” - http://friendfeed.com/e...
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...still relevant. - Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
WTF--this is what came out of my ATM this morning!! - Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
Anika
No need for the FF Bookmarklet anymore. Yay! - http://www.shareaholic.com/#
No need for the FF Bookmarklet anymore. Yay!
"Shareaholic makes it easy for you to submit the web page you're on to your favorite sharing or bookmarking service, including: digg, del.icio.us, facebook, friendfeed, bit.ly, connotea, google bookmarks, google reader notes, gmail, kaboodle, magnolia, meneame, mixx, myspace, plurk, reddit, soup.io, stumbleupon, tipjoy, tumblr, twine, twitter, weheartit, yahoo buzz, and ycombinator. You can also e-mail the web page directly to a friend." - Anika from Bookmarklet
I've been using this for a year now and it's been wonderful. So easy to send stuff to my Gmail, SU or Twitter. But I hadn't noticed the FF icon until my reinstall today. You click on your items hit the Shareaholic link for FF and it brings up the bookmarklet for you. Now, all it needs is a post to blog and Social Median button and I'll be good to go. - Anika
If it had Evernote I might be interested... does it bring up tags for services that have tags? - Lindsay
Chris what does Firefox have to do with anything? EDIT...Ah, I see it's a FF plugin. Yeah, I'm not on Firefox. - Anika
Lindsay, it's a way to post/share a link someplace. It's not cluttered with tags or anything. So say I want to share your comment to Twitter. I just click on it or highlight it and have this send it to Twitter. - Anika
One button replaces multiple bookmarklets. I like it very much. - yezi
The fact that it's an add-on kills it for me. Why can't it be a bookmarklet? I never understood that. - Rah-PM 2012
Rah, yep. Shareaholic needs a bookmarklet. ShareThis has and supports FriendFeed. ShareThis is the better alternative for Chrome users anyway. - Kol Tregaskes
Saying that, I use Shareaholic on Firefox and have done for ages. - Kol Tregaskes
Been using it for a little while now. I love it! - Mathew™ aka Youngblood
agree with Rahsheen, should be a bookmarklet instead of an addon. I refuse to go back to firefox now. Thanks for the tip Kol Tregaskes, regarding ShareThis - will check it out as a chrome user - Peter Efland
I've been using it for several months now. So glad to see Friendfeed added. - Keith - @tsudo
i am NOWHERE without Shareaholic. and so far it has given me nary an issue. - edythe
Kol - was it a joke regarding Chrome? Got to bookmarklet in Chrome, but absolutely nada happens when I try to use it. - Peter Efland
Peter, yep I had the same problem. Contacted the devs and eventually they worked it out, change the URL to: javascript:var%20e=document.createElement('script');e.setAttribute('language','javascript');e.setAttribute('src','http://w.sharethis.com/button...); - Kol Tregaskes
oh, cool. thanks Kol, will see if I can get it sorted out - Peter Efland
Just downloaded. I will have to report back on how it is after a few days. - Colide81 (James)
using it for two weeks and really appreciate it, would miss it. - Tobias W.
I started using it about a week ago, and I am slowly doing away with my bookmarklets. - Seth Greenblatt
Odd. I have been using this to post to FF for quite some time. I like it. - Mathew A. Koeneker
if @shareaholic added URL shortening then all of my bookmarklets would be history - Keith - @tsudo
tsudohnimh, i have bit.ly in my Shareaholic. Go to Customize and add it. - Anika
nice. TY anika. Didn't notice that before. - Keith - @tsudo
Have a look at this article: http://www.techradar.com/news... - it details a hack to allow you to use StumbleUpon in Chrome. - Kol Tregaskes
Kristian it saves a bunch of toolbar space though. - Corvida
Sadly, it doesn't work for Opera. - ComicList
My bookmark toolbar is exclusively for bookmarklets, so this type of stuff doesn't really suite me. - Rah-PM 2012
How does an add-on get nearly 500,000 downloads and not a single star or review? - Jack&Cleo
Aha, sorry. I was looking at the wrong thing. I'm old...I do that a lot. ;) - Jack&Cleo
The bookmarklet is coming along nicely btw. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes
Since I'm forced to use Chrome (yuck) now, I would LOVE a bookmarklet for Shareaholic. My toolbar looks so messy with all that stuff up there. - Anika
Very cool. - Patrick from twhirl
Bret Taylor
Called For Help - T-Shirt - http://store.glennz.com/callfor...
Called For Help - T-Shirt
haha - Shevonne
via geekologie - Bret Taylor
awesome! - Susan Beebe
I'm secretly getting this for $BOYFRIEND for his birthday. It is a very good thing he can't be bothered with social networking. - EricaJoy
Erica, sounds like you need a new boyfriend. - Louis Gray
but where ar the power-dots? - chaz2b
@Louis Heheh no I am fine with his social network shunning. He balances me. - EricaJoy
+100 Louis! bad boyfriend, grrr - Susan Beebe
Want this very badly... - Mike Nayyar
Kol Tregaskes
Feature : Abandoned Franchises: 14 MORE Game Series that Need to Make a Comeback [PS2] - from GamePro.com - http://www.gamepro.com/article...
Feature : Abandoned Franchises: 14 MORE Game Series that Need to Make a Comeback [PS2] - from GamePro.com
"Marvel vs. Capcom, Earthworm Jim, Space Harrier and so on... what happened to all of these awesome franchises? We're going back again to better days and counting off 14 more video game series that have little to no hope of getting another crack at a new title. What treasured franchises got left by the wayside that you're still carrying a torch for?" - Kol Tregaskes from Bookmarklet
yay Commander Keen! been looking for that game forever! never did get to get as far as I wanted to on that one. Only got to play it at school. - Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
Leandro Ardissone ⍨
its called Ping.Fm! http://ping.fm/dashboard/ - TheHenry
It's totally different to Ping.fm. It's not another multiple-service updater. It allow you to follow many social services from a desktop app. - Leandro Ardissone ⍨
ping.fm has a desktop app if you have an Im client - TheHenry
an im client is a desktop app.. ping.im offers a bot to use with your IM :) - Leandro Ardissone ⍨ from IM
EventBox: One-Window Social Networking (Review and Giveaway) from Smoking Apples. http://is.gd/7Wwx - Jonathan Kong
Anyone interested in FriendFeed support in this app? http://is.gd/aBpG - Devon Campbell
Well a ping.fm for mac's - Victor
This app is really quite nice - Jason Wehmhoener
bump due to duplicate - Zee.
So people pay for beta apps now? WTF? - dgw from fftogo
@Voyagerfan5761 It's an investment. The assumption is that the app will someday come out of beta. Then you will have a copy for less than people who paid after the beta. It's not much different than buying a stock hoping it will go up. - Devon Campbell
bump due to duplicate - Zee.
I really like this app, over two months later I still use it daily. - Jason Wehmhoener
Mona Nomura
Dear FriendFeed: Happy Valentine's Day, you guys! :) - http://justjennrecipes.com/pink-le...
Dear FriendFeed: Happy Valentine's Day, you guys! :)
Dear FriendFeed: Happy Valentine's Day, you guys! :)
I'm sorry guys. *eats it* - vijay
I already shoveled four in my mouth LOL - Mona Nomura from IM
WANT! Can you ship some, Mona?? - Lisa L. Seifert | FHG™
Lisa - do you want it topped with bacon? Gross! Actually, I'm thinking of baking some lemon bar cupcakes. http://friendfeed.com/e... - Mona Nomura
No bacon please. Not this time. They look TOO PERFECT as they are. And I'm LOVING the lemon bar ones. How do you have time to bake?!?! - Lisa L. Seifert | FHG™
Baking is less time consuming than cooking... do you cook or bake? - Mona Nomura
Both. When I have time for either. Which is hardly happening at all this year. I'm excited to have time & space for cooking AND baking. Not to mention, reuniting with all of my fun kitchen gear which is in storage right now. - Lisa L. Seifert | FHG™
I love baking - it's a stress reliever. The only part that sucks is making sure there are people who'd take my baked goodies, otherwise I'd end up eating it all LOL These cupcakes are so pretty! - Mona Nomura
Well, you're the one who moved!! (I give mine away, too. I love working at a pool with a bunch of hungry boys...) - Lisa L. Seifert | FHG™
Whaaaat. I am SO visiting your work. Um hello, wet boys. ;) - Mona Nomura
The LOVE button and heart are SO frickin' cute! I LOVE FriendFeed!!!! - Mona Nomura
Mona you are so squishy! - Ken Stewart | ChangeForge
Love baking too Mona, if I had my way that's all I'd do and not cook meals at all. Happy Valentine's to you :) - Nicola Quinn
YUM!! HVD to you too Mona -- Love!! <3 - Susan Beebe
Happy valentines day mona! Those cupcakes look yum :9 - Tamara
Happy Valentine's Day to one of the best! <3 - Emma
Why o why did you show me this blog! My food baby is getting bigger! - michelle lamar
sandhal
Griffin Clarifi 3G iPhone Case | Geeky Gadgets - http://www.geeky-gadgets.com/...
Griffin Clarifi 3G iPhone Case | Geeky Gadgets
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"The Griffin Clarifi 3G iPhone Case features a built in macro lens which allows you to take sharp up close photographs" - sandhal from Bookmarklet
See a real life test with Evernote; Clarifi + Evernote = great: http://www.evernote.com/pub... - Peter van Teeseling from twhirl
I have the Clarifi case and I love it. It definitely does help Evernote OCR text in iPhone 3G pics much better. Plus I often like taking close-up shots of things, like book covers, magazineblurbs, silly stuff I see in stores, etc., so the close-up filter is great. - Cheryl Jones
does anyone have any opinions about how well this case will protect the phone in terms of imapct-resistance? - edythe
I hate this case! It wouldn't fit over the screen protector provided. I wish that I had just but a little magnify glass. JMHO - BEX
Sean McBride
"The smartest people I know are heavy users of Chrome, Diigo, Feedly, Firefox, Friendfeed and Google Reader."
I love chrome! - Christian Burns
I can't use Chrome, I'm not a Windows user but I do use feedly, firefox and Friendfeed :-). - Richard A.
firefox!!! - Terry O'Fee
i use firefox, delicious, stumbleupon, friendfeed,netvibes and increasingly twitter. dont use feedly yet, although thinking about it. and i let chrome to mature somewhat b4 seriously considering it. - Hayk
Saying "smart means using the tools I find cool" is comment bait rather than what you really think, I hope. I'm afraid the smartest people I know don't use twitter or feedly or even firefox much, if at all. They're too busy on stuff that matters. The tools don't matter that much, and if you think that someone using other tools is somehow less smart you're less smart than I thought. A... more... - Iphigenie
Agree with Joelle. I also did not see much connection between being smart and using certain tools but wanted to comment on what I currently use. However the claim that "smart people are busy on stuff that matters" is a generalization of sorts as well. Lot of "not smart" people use FF, firefox, etc., and many "not smart" people are busy with what they think is stuff that matters.. just my 2cents. - Hayk
Very true - I just can't help but think that the world might be changed if all of us spent, say, 15% of the time we spend on twitter, friendfeed and web distractions contributing to something that matters... There are a lot of smart people spending time on creating fluff nowadays, who in previous generations might have been teachers or researchers - and I suspect it might be noticeable? - Iphigenie
We're so focused on the moment, and that sinks out of sight in 10 minutes. Do you really think that we'll be using any of those tools in 2-3 years? I don't. And will more than 0.1% of all the discussion we do around these tools and social media and blogging be interesting in 2-3 years? Most of it is barely interesting 1 day later! In a way the old forum/newsgroup format did support... more... - Iphigenie
Joelle, some of the fluffy stuff is created by what is considered as smart people. Take Facebook for example. Idea was not new but it took the entire social networking to a whole new level. Is Zuckerberg (FB creator) a smart guy? He is for some reasons. But there are bunch of not so smart people trying to imitate him or others and creating bunch of useless but cute-loooking web20 apps. So far we consider smart people from what they created and we have seen as their creation. There are also other criteria.. - Hayk
I do think that those of fluffly cool looking online tools, which essentially address a need, a demand will eventually survive. Facebook did for few years, and IMV will continue to be a focal point for light social networking. FF aggregates online content, Twitter is a means of keeping in touch via short messages and it has potential for much more and thus might survive. Others such as copycats of those might not. - Hayk
That was exactly one of my point - that smart people are spending their energies building cheesy things - from garden designer 3D to USB keys in the shape of a sheep. Never said they weren't smart, just that we have done it in such numbers society as a whole probably lost out. Even the copycats are smart (and they are usually not just copycats, they are usually people who think they can... more... - Iphigenie
Nobody still uses the sites and tools they used in 1998, or even 2000, and very few they used in 2002, 2004. Everything will change yet again and we will migrate. Interfaces will change, devices will shrink, and hopefully we will not end up in a wholly proprietary world (like the current cloud is shaping up to be). But unless twitter friendfeed et al. can make enough money (so they can... more... - Iphigenie
Agree. We use Google and Yahoo!, and they both provide value or address a need that stands above a cool looks and star team. Twitter, FF and others will have to go mainstream to be able to make money. They will do so if the mainstream finds an appeal to use them - FF and Twitter are both dominated by tech-minded and web-savvy users, a niche. For next big thing, I would carefully agree with you. However, note that all previous "big things" were not considered as such at the time of their creation/inception. - Hayk
"Smartest" -- the people I know who have the best insights in picking winning Internet technologies and products the earliest in the game. The earliest of the early adopters. They tend to gravitate around the same collections of emerging tools and toys. Why does this matter? Well, some of these obscure tools and toys suddenly explode into the most influential companies on the planet -- like Google and Facebook, for instance. - Sean McBride
A few tools and toys that a very few people started using very early in the game, before they rocked the world: Facebook, Firefox, Gmail, Google, Google Reader, HTML, Interet Explorer, Java, JavaScript, Mosaic, Perl, Python, RSS, Ruby, XML and Yahoo. - Sean McBride
I wonder if it's fair to say that America has been more influential than Europe in creating the Internet Age. And that the source of this innovative spirit is a kick-out-the-jams attitude cultivated at research centers like the former MIT AI Lab (now MIT CSAIL) and other DARPA affiliates. Living at the edge requires a high degree of frontiersmanship, and even a certain level of aggression and arrogance. - Sean McBride
Don't use Feedly or Diigo. - Shevonne
I haven't tried Feedly yet. - Tyson Key
Shevonne and Tyson (very smart people both): I would be curious to know what you think of Feedly. I am impressed. - Sean McBride
More on "smartness" -- you may be a genius in one or more of thousands of fields, but, in the year 2009, if you are still using Internet Explorer, and have never used feed readers, chances are that you are not going to have much success in spotting the Next Big Thing on the Internet. That's not your zone of expertise. That's all I was trying to say. - Sean McBride
I've used Feedly on and off for a while now, I still use Greader as I probably enjoy going in a trance-like state as I scroll down, I tried Diigo but uninstalled it soon after.I have both Firefox and Chrome, have not used IE for a very long time. I don't think I'm smart it's just that I've spent quite a bit of time online. There are still people who are online to check their emails and not much else. They might be writing books on the meaning of life in their spare time, who knows? - M F
I'm installing Feedly now, for what it's worth. It looks like an interesting concept, although I don't know how useful it'd be for me. I sometimes use Diigo, though since the concept appeals to me somewhat. - Tyson Key
I find diigo real useful, although it does bug me that all the data - highlighted text, notes are stuck *in* diigo and not that easy to get out in a useful way - Iphigenie
Joelle -- the Export Bookmarks function in Diigo is lacking? It doesn't grab metadata about the bookmarks? (I haven't tried using it yet.) - Sean McBride
M F -- I know what you mean about the "trance-like state" with regard to scrolling through Google Reader. At the moment I find myself going back and forth between GR and Feedly -- radically different interfaces, but both very addictive and effective for processing large collections of high-volume feeds. - Sean McBride
Diigo does export the metadata - but not the highlighted text and additional notes. Although I haven't checked all formats, come to think about it, very likely that both the rss and csv export have everything. I just like that diigo works on every browser - addon for ie and firefox, and the diigolet for everything else - Iphigenie
The stuff that the earliest early adopters are most excited about now will probably be heavily used by large mainstream institutions and corporations ten or five years from now. Maybe sooner. It took less than five years for Yahoo and Google to go mainstream. If you want to see the future, look at the leading-edge zone of the present. - Sean McBride
The phrase "earliest early adopters" appears only ten times in Google. http://www.google.com/search... Why should this matter? I'm not sure. :) I've got a vague intuition that ranking Google sources and authors by statistically improbable phrases could be interesting for a variety of reasons. I haven't got a handle on the idea yet. - Sean McBride
Smartest people use Macs, so how can you include Chrome? :P - Scott Maentz
no no, lazy people use macs :P - Terry O'Fee
Greg -- you probably also understood that I was trying to stir up a bit of controversy and to shake loose some insights about powerful emerging net tools that I don't know about yet -- I was hoping that people smarter than I am in that zone would smarten me up. (In general, I've learned that using the word "smart" can ruffle quite a few feathers. :)) - Sean McBride
Flitcraft -- I focus on the very best tools I can find, regardless of the company producing them. For instance, I was a very early user of and evangelist for Bloglines (from the first week it appeared), but instantly switched to Google Reader when I recognized that it was a superior feed reading tool. But I think we should all be concerned about Google acquiring too much power and... more... - Sean McBride
Chrome? Smart? Anything related to Google smart people avoid as much as one can. - The Real sofarsoShawn
I'm 100% with feedly, diigo, google reader, friendfeed, firefox, only 40% when it comes to chrome. I'm trying. - Bryan R. Adams
sofarwhoshawn: What do you use for your main search engine? Feed reader? - Sean McBride
With Chrome I'd rather not have my key strokes recorded & now through gmail your location is tracked. The reader, well they know your reading habits. Anything related to Google is smart to avoid as much as one can since they own the internet practically. - The Real sofarsoShawn
Google as the ultimate sinister surveillance instrument? Definitely something to worry about, and especially in light of Youtube's recent moves to impose political censorship on their service. Google needs to be watched like a hawk, and whistle blowers encouraged to come forward when appropriate. But still: Google acquired this position of extraordinary power by producing superior tools. - Sean McBride
& all for free - The Real sofarsoShawn
Eh, two outta six. - Derrick
You missed twitter - Varun Mahajan
Lately I've been seeing many Firefox users migrating to Chrome and Safari. Webkit is the new Mozilla (and way cool from a technology perspective!) - Jesse Stay
I've migrated. Just waiting for the addons and I'll probably not touch FFox again. - Kol Tregaskes
Varun -- the smartest people I know prefer Friendfeed to Twitter, but we all know different sets of smart people. Some of them use both Friendfeed and Twitter. Twitter I don't get. - Sean McBride
Diigo has a warm place in my heart for getting me started with the idea of social bookmarking, and social networks in general. IIRC it is technically possible to export notes and annotation, however it may be more hassle than users would prefer. - Mike Chelen
I love Google Reader, it is simply fantastic! the best quickest possible way for me to keep myself updated about my surroundings ;) - Abhishek
Zee.
Is it possible I am the only person who didn't know you turn off @ replies on your Twitter feed??
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where do you see this Zee? What app/website? - Rafiq Phillips from feedalizr
on twitter.com, here Rafiq http://twitter.com/account... - Zee.
i would have to admit i did not know this lol - eric
I've never noticed it before, thanks - M F
this is cool, it helps u find ppl worth following - Rafiq Phillips from feedalizr
Disabling "replies" will literally take the sting out of your twitter account, IMHO. - Nir Ben Yona
I would like this on the FF interface personally - Mo Kargas
i believe they just introduced this last night when they were down for a bit - Cee Bee
Like a few others... it seems turning off this feature would greatly diminish the value of using Twitter. - Herb Hernandez
From what I hear, Zee, Johnny Worthington is usually the last to know such things. :D - Steven Perez
Why wouldn't you want to know if someone you're not following has a comment for you? Maybe if you were making a digest of your twitter activity for republishing or something? - Mr. Gunn
well see i use tweetdeck which notifies me of those anyway - Zee. from IM
possible, but unlikely :-) - Dobromir Hadzhiev
Yeah. When I first signed on to Twitter in May, I was getting everything. I quickly changed it to show only @replies to the people I'm following. Every once in a while, I turn on the fire hose to find more people or to follow a conversation. - Anika
Nope, I didn't either. - Martha
I had no idea either! Don't think it's a well publisied option. - Luke Addison from twhirl
But having @replies is a good way of establishing who is interesting to follow within the community. That's why I like them. - Richard A.
I think there's much better ways of finding interesting people rather than reading nearly every reply from one person to another...the majority of which will be useless - Zee.
That's why I've been hanging around blogs, comments, friendfeed, feedly and more. - Richard A.
I have mine enabled, but I always go back into FF and delete my responses that show up in my feed. - Derrick
Derrick, I muted all tweets into friendfeed, except those with comments. Much quieter for me :-) - Richard A.
Outsanity
Tweetie - fast, full-featured twitter client for iPhone and iPod touch #Twitter #iPhone #iTouch - http://www.atebits.com/softwar...
Tweetie - fast, full-featured twitter client for iPhone and iPod touch #Twitter #iPhone #iTouch
@ John Reynolds I switched from Tweetie to Twitterfon for the same reasons you switched the other way round ^^ - Johannes W.
I love the UI and feature set of this app. - Jonathon
Tweetie is the best!! - Francis Yap from twhirl
Zee.
my wife told me i should be more affectionate...so i got two girlfriends.
wha!? - vijay
sounds like a henny youngman joke. lol - Cee Bee
Or Rodney Dangerfield. - Robert Couture from Friend Deck
vijay
Absolutely Amazing Video Game Remake Wallpapers - http://lifehacker.com/5152884...
Absolutely Amazing Video Game Remake Wallpapers
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"Last week we highlighted a few retro gaming wallpapers for some Friday fun. That was nothing compared to DeviantArt member Orioto's high-resolution, you-won't-believe-your-eyes paintings of classic video games for your desktop—a must-see for any gaming enthusiast. His work, which has been featured in Nintendo Power magazine, is based on the idea of what high-definition versions of classic video games might look like with today's powerful gaming platforms, with stunning results." - vijay from Bookmarklet
TetrisHD or Pacman 3D, anyone? ;) - Tyson Key
ofcourse Tyson! Classics FTW! - vijay
Patrick Jordan
Review: Killer Pool for iPhone | Just Another iPhone Blog - http://justanotheriphoneblog.com/wordpre...
Review: Killer Pool for iPhone | Just Another iPhone Blog
Great pool game for the iPhone - Patrick Jordan from BuddyFeed
Great game... Kills Virtual Pool!! - Ron Thompson
Kol Tregaskes
Beautiful!
Beautiful!
koltregaskes posted a new favorite picture: - Kol Tregaskes
Found via Farbod (http://friendfeed.com/littlef...). I don't know the source. - Kol Tregaskes
Zee.
Sean "Puffy" Combs reaction to finding a $1 bill in his wad of $100's... - http://www.myconfinedspace.com/2009...
Sean "Puffy" Combs reaction to finding a $1 bill in his wad of $100's...
Calculator output: MA ERROR. - Andrew Trinh from BuddyFeed
N.A.N. - Stephen Breen
too good to be true - Jennifer Van Grove
pwned - dave
washington strikes back! - Adam Matthews from twhirl
Haha - Tyson Key
"I didn't know they made this small monetary units" - Jemm
He's thinking "what the hell did I buy for $99"? - Andrew Leyden
Kol Tregaskes
Share big files online with these services | Webware - CNET - http://news.cnet.com/8301-17...
Share big files online with these services | Webware - CNET
Share big files online with these services | Webware - CNET
Share big files online with these services | Webware - CNET
"Online file-sharing services can transfer large files for you. To use these services, you upload your file to them, and then your recipient gets a link to the download. The file itself doesn't go through e-mail, just the link to it. Let's look at a few different products that perform this service." - Kol Tregaskes from Bookmarklet
Box is really great for enterprise file sharing/collaboration...good stuff - Jennifer Van Grove from twhirl
yeah, many services like this, but this one's great 2Gigs for free - The Real sofarsoShawn
so far, i've been very pleased with dropbox. i'm going to bump up to the paid service. - .LAG liked that
there's also Plum & hordit which are awesome ones - The Real sofarsoShawn
I've yet to use one of these sites properly but dropbox and box seem two of the best? - Kol Tregaskes
Robert Scoble
Google Mobile - Sync (This is huge if it works well. Am trying it now). - http://www.google.com/mobile...
Google Mobile - Sync (This is huge if it works well. Am trying it now).
I'd try it out but iPhone has this odd limitation of only one "Exchange" account at a time and I already sync with my Work Exchange. :( - Paul Wade
Yes, this is ONLY useful if you don't already sync your iPhone to an Exchange server! - Stephen Foskett
Love this. Hope that Apple end up supplementing lost MobileMe revenue with increased handset marketshare. Want to know if GoogleSync and MobileMe can be used in tandemn (until MobileMe subscription expires). - Conor Ogle
Working well on WinMO so far, just needed to backup and import my outlook contacts into Google first. Looking forward to this thing moving - Tyler Brownfield
Conor, I don't see why not. I have my work exchange server and my mobileme account (along with Yahoo, Gmail (email)) all on the same iphone and it all works great. I just wish I could add a second exchange account for Google. - Paul Wade
Worked for me on my Windows Mobile, but I couldn't sync my calendar, as i'm already syncing elsewhere! - Les Zaldor
Thanks. Do you think a one-time sync to get Google in line with MobileMe is going to be enough? I'm concerned about one overwriting the other. - Conor Ogle
Google sync uses ActiveSync in Windows Mobile. This means I can't sync to both it and my work exchange server... such a bummer. - Alan Le
Conor, MobileMe and Exchange Activesync are kept completely separate on the iPhone. No data crossover at all. - Paul Wade
I like the thought, but I won't put it to use. I don't want my personal stuff, mixing with my work stuff anymore... Maybe another time, remember it's beta, but we all know google will keep it beta for like 2 years (i.e. gmail still beta) lol - Jayson Flint
So what happens to my Address Book? - Conor Ogle
Working here, fantastic - been waiting for this for a while. If you have multiple Google Calendars make sure to visit m.google.com/sync on the phone (not on the computer) and select the additional calendars you want to sync. - Ben
I've had this for some time now using nuevasync.com... but, now I can sync directly to google, and remove nuevasync from the equation. nice. - Neil Bernhart
This is a major game changer IMO. Why would any small business owner want Blackberry or Exchange servers at this point? GMail allows you to park a domain & gives you 7+ gigs for free. With OTA sync, you get the Blackberry-esque features, also for free. If I have 10-50 employees, I have the choice of hosting multiple servers onsite with multiple moving parts along with purchasing CALs, HW & SW maintenance, and dealing with never-ending storage needs. Or, I could let someone else do it for little to no cost. - Peter Ghosh
oh, and beware... push eats battery life on the 3G like there's no tomorrow. if you can live with getting updates every 15 min, I would stick with fetch. - Neil Bernhart
NuevaSync has been offering the same service from months on the iPhone and other phones. It can also do up to 8 calendars. - Chris Williams
Jared, you can sync up to 5 cals with Google Sync. Sadly, none of them can be shared calendars from what I'm seeing. Sticking with NuevaSync for now. - Kevin C. Tofel
Is this one of those things that doesn't work with Google Apps for your domain? It doesn't seem to want to work for me. - Ryan Anderson
@Peter, if I was a small business owner, one thing that I'd consider is the security. Google Apps doesn't give you any ability to manage the device. Both BES and Exchange allow you to remotely kill or hobble a device as well as push custom apps and security policies. You can get BES free for less than 10 devices or go to hosted Exchange/BES. Sure it costs you money, but businesses should be concerned about where all that data is going and being stored. - Kenton
@Ryan and Matt: It DOES work on hosted domains. You need to login to your Google Apps admin control panel and enable sync. - Peter Ghosh
I think for individuals and small businesses this is going to be killer in which data security and device management can be a bit more lenient. I wish just sucks I'm stuck with Exchange already at work. - Brian Bufalo
@Kenton - Good take on security. Given that this is using Activesync, I think the Google Apps-enabled kill switch is imminent (ActiveSync via Exchange has kill switch features). The fact that the domain's Google Apps admin has to enable sync'ing in the first place is a good start. - Peter Ghosh
btw, 1 hour in and this feature is nerdtastic!!!! - Peter Ghosh
Still no news and/or tricks on how to get the calendar to sync to the Nokia symbian phones? - Henrik Söderlund
Setting up Google Sync now. updating my N82 firmware first. hope it wont delete my contacts list like it does for iPhone. - Sunil Joseph
Wallace, thanks for correcting me. I wasn't able to see my shared calendars, but after your comment I thought about it. My shared cals are from a Google Apps account and our admin likely hasn't enabled it for that one. Thanks! - Kevin C. Tofel
I've been using the version for BlackBerrys for a couple of months or so, but turned it off the other day as it kept retracting my appointments during syncs leaving me with an empty calendar and missed appointments! Not sure what was happening there, and it's hard to tell if there's a newer release for the BBs that's come out now too. - Benjamin Watt
Sounds like a good idea but I can't get it set up. Keep getting "exchange account validation failed" but no clues as to what failed. Are there any restrictions on usage outside the US? - Mark Warren
I use this on my BlackBerry and it works extremely well for me. - Christopher Howie from twhirl
I also found a problem here in germany - if you try to sync more than one calendar it said "this device is not supported" - adding ?hl=en to switch to english helped and I could sync all my shared and read only calendars: http://m.google.com/sync?hl=en - Frank S.
Works perfectly for me. Now I can stop using nuevasync... - Jorg Jansen
I've used the BlackBerry version for a few months now. It's great! - Rob Boek
Well, If you are using and depending on /or can't get around another service, e.g. an Exchange server, in your cross sync calendar and contacts mix Google Sync is most likely not going to do much for you. Las time I checked, Google Sync assumes the dominant position and does not let you specify any sync conditions you'd might come to expect from other syncing apps. E.g. syncing contacts to and from your Google account not optional. I'd like to be able to tell Google how and what I'd like to sync, though. - Vidar Andersen
If apple would simply support CalDav on the iPhone this would be a moot point. I can have iCal attached to Google Calendar and working off-line... but not the calendars on my iPhone. I don't get it... - Brian Roy
I wonder if using ActiveSync has any implications for Verizon users who have the $30/mo data plan for "Web Mail/Web Browsing", vs the $45/mo plan which is for "Syncing of Calendars/Tasks/Email/Web Browsing"? Could they be doing any packet capture by protocol? - Jef
works awesome. i've been using nuevasync since i got the phone but was waiting till google did their own. now i'm happily waiting for them to support sync for tasks with.... ? - tommy payne from twhirl
NO, it doesn't work great. It has all the same problems with any other Exchange Sync. Your phone is "slaved" to the "exchange" - once that happens - no other contacts, no other calendars (with Google Apps you only get 1 calendar). The limitations of this pretty much out-weigh the up-side. - Brian Roy
This is very tempting, except just this morning I was thinking that I need to start extracting myself from excessive dependence on the Google. I guess I could use this if I can figure out some other Google service to jettison. - Erik S
I've been using Neuvasync for the past 9 or 10 months. It's a free Exchange service that interfaces with your Google calendar and contact store. It worked extremely well providing near real-time OTA synch between my iPhone, Outlook (with a Google account) and the web. I've now switched over to Google's Exchange service. Since Google was already hosting my contacts and calendar there was... more... - Troy Forster from twhirl
I've noticed that if you setup Google Sync with your iPhone and have the OS X Address Book set to sync with Google, it appears the latter no longer happens. While OTA updates seem to work flawlessly between Google Contacts and the iPhone, if you intend to keep the Address Book in sync with the other 2 then something is in need of fixing. - Scott Jarkoff
ilike :) works so far - videopixil
How is this handling fields that Google doesn't have in Gmail, i.e. birthdays? I'm a little hesitant to just sync contacts specifically, because Gmail doesn't have the number of related fields that the iPhone or the Address Book app does. - Aakar Shroff
its not new though... its existed on the blackberry for a loong time (and has been working quite well for me)... is the "new" just the version for the iPhone or am i missing something? - simran
Currently Google Sync only supports Contacts for my Nokia N95 Too bad I use GooSync now for my calendar, but it only updates a couple of weeks ahead. Wish Plaxo had 2 way sync with Google Contacts. And that I could use any address book in gmail. - nooble
Took a while to get this up and running well, but I've decided to forgo access to my work email/calendar to have my Google Calendar on my phone. - Bill Glover
I have never been a big fan of Google's contacts system. If contact photos (which I use in my iPhone for caller ID) don't get synced they way Outlook does it, I won't bother. Google needs to overhaul the whole UI and feature set of it's contacts system. Right now it is probably the worst of all the main webmail services. - Rolf Schewe
youll let us know? - Richard Binhammer from twhirl
I have a question for anyone who's used this so far. What happens with conflicts? How does it determine if a contact is the same and which one wins the conflict? Can this be set? It would be nice if the phone wins for phone number conflicts and Google wins for email address conflicts (possibly address, too), but that's a pipe dream, I guess. - Chieze Okoye
Also, what happens with contact images? I don't want to overwrite the ones already on my phone but it would be nice to have some pulled from GChat for the rest of my contacts that don't have them set already (so I guess I would like phone to win contact image conflicts) - Chieze Okoye
D'oh! only the main calendar on WinMob! Sucks! Oh well, guess I won't be using it now. Switching to Nuevasync, I guess. - Chieze Okoye
Kol Tregaskes
How Long Do Webmail Services Keep Your Account Alive? - http://mashable.com/2009...
How Long Do Webmail Services Keep Your Account Alive?
"If you don’t log into your webmail account, the account and all the e-mail contained within it might eventually get deleted. It happens with most webmail services we can think of, but the question is: how long does it take?" - Kol Tregaskes from Bookmarklet
Yahoo Mail = 4 months, Gmail = 9 months, AOL = 30 days, Hotmail = 120 days - Kol Tregaskes
mjc
mjc
WordPress › Populist « WordPress Plugins - http://wordpress.org/extend...
"PopuList allows you to track the popularity of your posts on social bookmarking sites reddit, stumbleupon, del.icio.us and digg. When PopuList is activated, a page is added to your dashboard giving the number of times a page has been saved or upvoted." - mjc from Bookmarklet
Excellent idea for a plugin! - Devon Campbell
indeed - mjc
Kol Tregaskes
Poor kitten. - Kol Tregaskes
Poor wittle kitten. - Roberto Bonini
I hide like 99% of LOLcats stuff, but this one is a keeper. - Derrick
That's a Russian, I believe - awesome LOLcat - Aaman (Clone of FF)
Derrick, how could you - Dobromir Hadzhiev
ha, Derrick. I'm the same way, but I'm liking this one. cute. - Anika
Glad you like this one, Derrick. :-) - Kol Tregaskes
Aaw - Tyson Key
Kitty hug? - Tyson Key
cuuuute! <3 - natadd from twhirl
Yes very. :-) - Kol Tregaskes
Zee.
Just added Google Analytics to my Tumblr...here are instructions if you want to do it too. - http://www.tumblr.com/docs...
Just added Google Analytics to my Tumblr...here are instructions if you want to do it too.
Mona Nomura
Definition of "It's Complicated" relationship status on Facebook - http://xkcd.com/355/
Definition of "It's Complicated" relationship status on Facebook
lol! - Brandy Lea
who said romance was dead! - WoH: Minding her Steves
It's complicated, WoH! ;) - Mona Nomura
Mona - is this currently your status? :) - Amani
Hahahah....my SO is a complete and utter geek and I'm a dork. We both love this web comic. So when he changed out FB status, he posted this and then changed it to complicated....Like I said, we're geek/dorks. - Just Katie
Then when it goes the other way, when you're broken up but still sexing, you put 'it's complicated' - Will Higgins™
My status was set to: "Whatever I can get" for a long time haha. @Katie - that is totally awesome. - Mona Nomura
Will - So basically "It's complicated" is for like bootie calls? LOL! - Mona Nomura
Says mister "it's complicated" himself hahaha! - Mona Nomura from IM
"We would have broken up last night, but the net connection was down." - Louis Gray
Mona- I think that's right! We all KNOW what it means when you put this on Facebook, "it's complicated but I'm still tappin' that!!!" - Will Higgins™
Terrible, LG! Will - just for that, I think I am changing my status. - Mona Nomura
Mona- Uh OH!!! If I changed my status, my GF would kick my ass back to the stone age. - Will Higgins™
And she damn right better! - Mona Nomura from IM
cause i like this comic. it's funny.. - Terry O'Fee
Mona- I think you would get along with her :P - Will Higgins™
Sounds like a good catch. ;) And Caroline? Why can't Terry 'like' this??? - Mona Nomura
Quality, I am going to pitch this to my 'partner' :) - Joe Dawson
loving it. - Nicole Simon
hahaha - Rachael Depp
Hah - Tyson Key
LOL - JA Castillo
I thought it was different. "She knows, I know she knows, but she doesn't know that I know that she knows" - Yuvi
David Bisset (sn)
Tag files, folders, emails in Mail, photos, etc. Applescript support. Spotlight intergration. - David Bisset (sn) from Bookmarklet
Could this be the evolution of Quicksilver? - Glenn Batuyong
Anyone using this? Looks very, very useful. - Carlos Granier-Phelps
I tried the 1.0 version, and it was kind os unintuitive, but the 1.1 version seems better. Leap uses the same tagging approach and brings a full-blown file manager with it. Leap can be a bit of a resource hog, though. - Seth Greenblatt from NoiseRiver
Özkan Altuner
Just got ShoveBox! Don't care for the Mail stationary. - Outsanity
Carlos Granier-Phelps
What do you think of Gmail's new buttons? #web - http://skitch.com/cgranie...
What do you think of Gmail's new buttons? #web
I woke up to find Gmail with these prettier buttons. Do you like'em? - Carlos Granier-Phelps from Bookmarklet
I love the new buttons. - Mike Hussein Cohen
I also like them - Herb Hernandez
Who needs buttons when you've got keystrokes - Deepak Singh
I don't know. 2 days ago, I thought they were awesome. Yesterday they were frustrating. - Anika
I love them. Makes sorting/labeling so much faster. - Keith - @tsudo
I haven't gotten used to them yet. Not so much the functionality as how they look. - Tamara
They work well. Makes a feature I was already using even easier to use. - Vin Turk
I just need to get used to them. In a month I won't remember the old UI. - Russellreno
"They’re also easily skinnable with a few lines of CSS, which was a key factor now that Gmail has themes.” Source: http://blogoscoped.com/archive... - Alessandro
They're much more elegant - Cathleen Rittereiser
I like them a lot. Workflow is improved greatly and they are easier on the eyes. - Chieze Okoye
I've said it before and I'll say it again, GMail's UI isn't a patch in Yahoo Mail's - Gary
I second what Chieze Okoye said. - Corvida
really nice, maybe a little cold? - matiasjajaja
I tend to agree Gary. I suppose it shows that wight of "coolness" definitely counts. - Anton Mannering
Like them a lot. :-) - Kol Tregaskes
I'll use more and more keyboard shortcuts, because I don't really like these big, clunky silver buttons... The menus for Move to and Labels are just too crammed for my taste. - Holger Eilhard
I dont like the silvery looks either. Buttons are too close together and there are too many buttons and it takes time to make sure you dont click the wrong one - TrafficBug
Love 'em - especially knowing that they're not actually graphic buttons, but most CSS and javascripting. - Vince DeGeorge
The designer talks about some of the thought process that went into this here. http://bit.ly/2qjM - jho
While I enjoyed reading about the iterations behind them, I find that the UI is getting crowded and the new buttons break Gmail Macros (which has, I think, a better appearance). I've also had to switch themes from Terminal to Classic just to make the new menus readable. - dgw from fftogo
Leandro Ardissone ⍨
KeyCue - find, remember, and learn menu shortcuts - http://www.macility.com/product...
KeyCue - find, remember, and learn menu shortcuts
KeyCue gives you an instant overview of the overall functionality of any application, plus lets you automatically start working more efficiently by making use of menu shortcuts. - Leandro Ardissone ⍨ from Bookmarklet
I would love to own this, but the price is frankly outrageous. This is $5--even $10 is pushing it. - Devon Campbell
Bwana ☠
Privacy Is Circling The Drain - http://bwana.posterous.com/privacy...
Privacy Is Circling The Drain
It's been an ongoing process for the last 5-6 years, but we've been slowly conditioned to expose a LOT about ourselves everywhere online. I've been participating in some of these services but I've been reluctant to share too much. With the launch of Google Latitude, something snapped in me. It's time to take a step back and observe before jumping on another bandwagon. I joined Brightkite because they have great privacy filters on the surface and seemingly would protect my location updates. In reality, if someone really wanted that data, I know they can get, but that's another rant. I joined Twitter and told people what I was doing, but not in too much detail. I turned on location based services on my iPhone (with a GPS) chip while attempting to keep the information at a "city" level and not an exact location. I did all this, knowing that I would expose the data I submitted. I signed up for a Gmail account and consolidated all my email in one location knowing Google has shady privacy... - Bwana ☠
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