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What pet person are you....................I have birds...one small parrot and 4 parakeets.............
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Meow :) -- http://www.flickr.com/photos...
- Nicholas Kreidberg
I would guess cat Nicholas...............*wink*
- VAL D. Zone
I have cats. When I have a fenced yard I would like to add a large breed dog to my menagerie.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Dog. Had a Pomeranian (Elvis) for 11 years. He's in heaven now. No current dog, unless you count my neighbor's German Shepherd. He's 1.5 years old. They named him Scooby. So when people ask me "Does your dog bite?", I can reply "Scooby Do!"
- Morgan Haley
Reptile/Rodents/Insects. We have a lizard and two hamsters. Over the course of my life, I've had a dog, 2 cats, fish and other marine life, 3 other hamsters, a turtle and a rabbit.
- Admiral Anika
Plastic fish in a USB aquarium at the moment :( I've had a hamster, a bunch of rats, dog, tortoise, fish.
- Rodfather
I used to have ferrets. They are illegal in CA :,(
- Jeremy (cropmarks)
Over the years I've been a dogs, cats, small rodentia, birds, reptiles (legged and otherwise), ferrets, and bunnies kind of person. I'd be good with any of them, but our next family addition will probably be dogs or cats.
- Bette Cooper
Yeah, they are, aren't they? Never stopped me, and no one ever came knocking on my door. Some rules...
- Bette Cooper
Maybe one day I'll be a scofflaw and get a ferret.
- Jeremy (cropmarks)
One dog...four cats :D
- Shannon
We currently have one cat and four rabbits. Rabbits are great, but cats will always be my favorite pets.
- Curtiss Grymala
I use to have a rabbit that was paper trained so she had run of the house........she would sleep on the beds and beg for hershey kisses they had to cold and would attack peeps she did not like.....
- VAL D. Zone
Double Cat Power
- RAPatton
from iPhone
cat
- Peter Dawson
Freshwater fish. When/If we move I'll look into getting a dog.
- ronin
I'm just an animal person!! My animal of choice for my home and lifestyle is cats (have 2 plus occasional foster kittens). But I do love dogs too. I have had a small menagerie as a child (hamsters, rats, parrot, lizards, cats, dogs, squirrel (temporarily), pot belly pig, skunk (de-scented), rabbits, fish). And I love spending time with as many kinds of animals as I can!! :)
- Rachel Lea Fox
i was born in year of the dog, need i say more? ;)
- chaz2b
Cat
- Mark H
Timberwolf
- Mo Kargas
Two basset hounds...
- JA Castillo
At the moment we have a Siberian Husky, a moggie, and a canary. I would love some parrots, guinea pigs, chickens, another dog, but money, time and logistics are not on my side right now, lol.
- Mellissa Claus
My roommate has a dog who seems to have adopted me.
- Derrick
I love canaries I use to breed them..............
- VAL D. Zone
Cats...3
- Alex Scoble
Cats! I have 4 of 'em
- holly
Cat. But I have had mice, toads, and other assorted small guys in the past.
- Kamilah Gill
2 dogs.....one large and one small.
- Bonnie Foster
doggie dog <3
- anjelina
Cats, of course.
- Tyson Key
I'm a Leo and I'm not crazy about cats. What's up with that???
- Morgan Haley
I want a dog! One day, I will have one.
- Chieze Okoye
I had a rescue cat when I lived in Nawlins who has since passed on. Currently, I have a 9-10 yr old Ridgeback that came to me via Stray Rescue of St. Louis.
- Mathew A. Koeneker
Bump...as pets can be great friends.
- Mathew A. Koeneker
Dog. English Setter "Linux".
- Thomas Bøhm
Used to be a cat person only and hated dogs. But after I got my Schnauzer I became a dog fan too.
- Jason Huebel
from Android
I was pretty much a dog person most of my life and we also had birds (cockatiels, parakeets and my grandpa had canaries). Now I have two cats and am a crazy cat lady! Still, if I ever get to move somewhere where I can have a dog again, I'll be off to the shelter in a New York Minute!
- vicster
1 love bird, 1 cat, sister and her boyfriend, fish
- Beau Liening
Are folks more into the pure bloods or rescue animals?
- Mathew A. Koeneker
That´s not mutually exclusive:) Anyway, I have a pure bred (with the intent of hunting), but would definitely consider a mixed rescue dog the next time.
- Thomas Bøhm
lol@Beau
- VAL D. Zone
Good point, Thomas. The thought had occurred to me right after I hit enter. D'oh. ;-)
- Mathew A. Koeneker
most of my parakeets are from peeps that don't want them anymore or they move etc
- VAL D. Zone
Dogs, cats, ferrets, snakes, hamsters ... strangely enough, never had a bunneh.
- Steven Perez
Although I have had many mutts (I use that as a term of endearment) over the years, I have to say that I love my pure-bred Schnauzer (the first pure-breed I've had). Pure-breeds have a little more predictable temperaments, which was important to us with three rambunctious boys in the house. We bought him from an individual about 10 miles from us who does limited breeding (one litter a...
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- Jason Huebel
@Steven, there can be only one... bunneh.
- Jason Huebel
Who said bunneh? ;-)
- Mathew A. Koeneker
doggie.
- Morgan Haley
kitteh
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
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I'm doing it as we speak.
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
even Somoans?
- Jason
:) My friend sings this at Karaoke and it's funny and awkward every time!
- Jason
*Especially* Samoans. :D
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
I attended Gutfest 89...
- Steve
Maybe I'll be in a better mood tomorrow. I can only hope.
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Hope so, too.
- Anne Bouey
So are you in a better mood today? :D
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
It's not snowing there. Does that help?
- pea
Needs moar sunlight.
- Victor Ganata
Looks like you are not in California? i can send you some sunshine, we have lots of it here:)
- Petek(UCB)_
Oh, I'm in California. 10 hours of sunlight a day are just not enough for me. Especially when 9 of them are spent in a windowless closet-like office. :)
- Victor Ganata
:) i see.. go out for a coffee break ? if possible?
- Petek(UCB)_
Apparently Vic won't be happy unless he's living under a tree on the equator. :D
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
we neither have the angelic white snow, nor the sunshine here in Turkey.. just ugly dark clouds and meaningless rain.. how i wish a couple hours of sunshine was available every day..
- Neşe Uyanık
I'll feel better when December 21st rolls around. One thing about snow--it certainly makes things a lot brighter.
- Victor Ganata
couldn't agree more.. snow has its way of mood healing..
- Neşe Uyanık
I demand that you get in a better mood NAO. :P
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
I'm trying! While I *could* get a script for some Prozac, even the happy pills take at least 3 weeks to start working. And I also know cocaine is a hell of a drug, I'm pretty sure I don't want to go in that direction either :)
- Victor Ganata
What you need sir is a DUNGEON RUN!
- CW™
What you need sir is an FF meetup. :D
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
Those are both very good suggestions.
- Victor Ganata
Mine's better cuz I'll be there. :P ZOMG So full of myself tonight. :D (sorry, I'm hopped up on extra strong black tea trying to finish my last research paper of the term)
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
Is there an FF meetup soon?!?!
- Victor Ganata
No, but there needs to be. Didn't the SoCal gang have a holiday meetup last year? I distinctly remember ice skating. :D The NorCal gang needs to get its shit in gear and plan something up here too!
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
Top 10 RSS & Syndication Technologies of 2009 - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...
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Apple Acquires Streaming Music Service Lala - http://mashable.com/2009... [now confirmed by WSJ and NYT]
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Hey FriendFeed, thx for finally fixing the Amazon wishlist feed...about 15 minutes before I added over 100 items to a new wishlist. I will have fun deleting this shit out of my feed as they trickle in ALL NIGHT LONG.
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You're welcome!
- Akiva Moskovitz
Headed down to davis st tavern for some good ol fashioned conversation with good folks.
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I honestly feel bad for the Napster employees right now, who must be hitting their heads against the walls and crying.
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Yes, http://www.mog.com has (in some ways) a nicer interface. Yes, mog's search is faster. But price-wise http://www.napster.com is by far a better deal ($5/month for streaming *plus* 5 MP3s), Napster also has a (new) web version of their service. And Napster has had some social aspects in their service for years (ability to see your friends' playlists and play from their libraries, etc.). Is the main reason why people are going so nutso over mog the fact that it's a hipper, "web 2.0" interface?
- Adam Lasnik
Also, is there any way for mog subscribers to embed a song in their blog or link to a song...?
- Adam Lasnik
On the flip side, it's heartening to hear that people may actually be willing to pay for music subscriptions online. I was almost laughed off the internet when I defended subscriptions years ago, but times are a-changin' :-)
- Adam Lasnik
I like lala.com for discovering new music since you can play a track for free once. The interface is very nice too. I was a big fan of subscription music as well and tried almost all of them. I have a feeling streaming will eventually be free with ad support.
- Rodfather
I am a huge fan of lala myself, and wouldn't be surprised if lala came out with a subscription service, too. I think lala has a nice UI, the people behind it are nice, and I think the 10-cents-per-webplay is both fair and enticing. As I've noted elsewhere, if I could somehow snap my fingers and have Pandorlala -- Pandora's amazing music genome + lala's on-demand play options -- combined with an optional unlimited-play offer, that'd be stupendously awesome!
- Adam Lasnik
Pandoralala....I'd go for that too!
- Jaemi Kehoe
from IM
I'm less convinced than you are, though, about ad-free support. Apparently, even spotify has abandoned that idea in the U.S. because streaming rights are just too pricey compared to potential ad revenues. And also, let's be honest -- 1) Who wants audio ads?! (I have pretty much stopped listening to commercial radio in my car). 2) Who is really looking at visual ads? No, we queue up...
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- Adam Lasnik
heh, Jaemi, I should have reserved the domain name and made millions and... oh... um, nevermind :)
- Adam Lasnik
Exactly! LOL :)
- Jaemi Kehoe
from IM
Stop saying "think outside the box". That shit is played out.
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stop saying "played out." that's so inside the box.
- Call me Bronco
Stop saying "Take it to the next level". It physically make my ears hurt.
- teh Dork Knight aka Kenny
Push past the max?
- Mo Kargas
At the end of the day?
- Mo Kargas
Give it 110%
- Call me Bronco
LOL Sarah. Sometimes I say "That shit's a dud" instead of played out.
- DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE
I like that.
- Call me Bronco
Amen.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
This thread is so inside the box.
- Alex Scoble
This thread doesn't even know where the box is.
- ha3rvey, not a sweetheart
There's a box?
- Rick Turoczy
from iPhone
/me puts Alex in a box and wraps it up in thread. TAKE THAT.
- Call me Bronco
low hanging fruit
- Bryan R. Adams
Gets out of box with hairspray and a lighter...because THAT's outside the box thinking!
- Alex Scoble
At the end of the day, when it all comes down to it, the best thing we can do is take this thread offline and touch base later...
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
*promotes Rah to District Manager*
- s t e v e
let's take that thought, and 'boop!', put a pin in it for now. We'll work on that later, when we have time.
- Morgan Haley
color outside the lines, let the kid out !
- Peter Dawson
Reading "Disclose This: I Can't Disclose Everything Everywhere!" by @louisgray http://blog.louisgray.com/2009...
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So this is what I tweet about: http://omaried.wordpress.com/2009...
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I'll be on the Social Media Hour podcast tomorrow morning at 10:30am: http://socialmediahour.com
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Are Ad Servers Bogging Down the Web? - http://tech.slashdot.org/story...
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Your Favorite Mobile Apps: Facebook, Tweetie, Google Maps, Foursquare, and More - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...
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CanYouSeeMe.org Checks for Open Ports Behind Firewalls - Ports - Lifehacker - http://lifehacker.com/5415526...
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"If you're traveling this holiday season and using the wireless networks of hotels or other unfamiliar service providers, CanYouSeeMe.org is a handy way to tell what ports are reachable when you're behind a firewall."
- Steven Perez
from Bookmarklet
Pee-A-Boo
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Video game pioneer Alex. St. John joins hi5, the 2nd Seattle exec to join the social networking company this year. http://www.techflash.com/seattle...
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Our hiking blogger recently went on a hike through the Badger Creek Wilderness - Take a look at her awesome photos! http://blog.traveloregon.com/2009...
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Brian Solis at Bub.blicio.us: Introducing the FriendFeed Team - http://bub.blicio.us/1111126...
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Brian, as always, takes great pictures, even with questionable subjects. The pictures are from tonight's open house.
- Louis Gray
from Bookmarklet
Great pic Louis and tell them I love them all, best product on the web right now
- Thomas Power
Great photo!
- Bret Taylor
Left to right, as if you didn't know already: Dan Hsiao, Casey Muller, Ana Yang, Jim Norris, Tudor Bosman, Bret Taylor, Paul Buchheit (with Camilla), Sanjeev Singh, Kevin Fox.
- Tudor Bosman
yes; awesome photo!
- Tudor Bosman
(Not pictured: Ben Golub, Gary Burd and Ross Miller)
- Louis Gray
Some of our Turkish friends are also there http://ff.im/3mt6T.. Thanks for the pictures
- Murat Buyurgan
Great Photo :)
- Nimaa
You didn't tell me there was a FriendFeed party this week or I would have come out :-)
- Jesse Stay
Tudor SMASH!
- dario
Jesse: I haven't been able to make a friendfeed party for a while. We need a calendar! Heheh.
- Robert Scoble
اینا هم حلقه دارن. رونوشت به مازیار و مهران اینا
- Aly
Rock on, Kevin!
- Josh Haley
Great PPs!!加油，Friendfeed！:)))
- K.D.
That's why I love today's web : you can talk with the people that build the next web, and see those who build your current web. Congrats guys!
- Zackatoustra
FriendFeed Team, I love you !!!! Thanks to you all, I'm very happy everyday!!!
- Renchin(Reina)Wang
So that was the TGIFF ("Thank Goodness It's FriendFeed") party? Perhaps slightly off-topic, but if Camiila hasn't been betrothed yet, have I got a grandson for her ;-))
- ianf ⌘
TGIFF was excellent. Great event and great people.Thanks for the invite and hospitality.
- AJ Kohn
Louis, thank you and thank you to the FriendFeed team for making a killer product and hosting a great open house!
- Brian Solis
I think I spotted Hutch (http://friendfeed.com/bhc3) in an uncaptioned photo wearing a white "San Francisco Classic" shirt: http://www.flickr.com/photos...
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Yes, Daniel. That is Hutch.
- Louis Gray
Fun party, great food, great hospitality.
- Anne Bouey
Anne - great finally meeting you yesterday.
- Hutch Carpenter
great photo, good to see the whole team together!
- Jeroen De Miranda
oooh i am totally wishing i was there! Robert is right, we need a calendar! :)
- Susan Beebe
Hutch: Thanks. I enjoyed chatting with you, too.
- Anne Bouey
what's with the guitar? lol
- Stuart Evans
(bump) Ana and Casey are now married. Here's a pic of them on the left, between Ross and Jim. Congratulations to Ana and Casey! (per http://friendfeed.com/jessica...)
- Louis Gray
علی حجوانی تو روحت، ای واسه چه موقعیه؟ :)))
- Mehran
:))))))))) مال بعد از عیده. اواخر فروردین فک کنم
- Aly
:)))
- Mehran
My Droid experience thread
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Physical Keyboard: I don't know what reviewers were complaining about, this is actually pretty damn good. The only part that's not so great is the optional protective hard shell makes the top row of keys a bit hard to press because it consumes the "overflow" space that your fingers would normally have
- LANjackal
from IM
The only major niggle I have with the Droid is that so far I can't figure out how to make it vibrate to notify me of incoming SMS when the handset is locked and the ring volume is silenced. If I don't figure that out I'm gonna miss a LOT of text messages at work, which is not good :/
- LANjackal
from IM
All charged up! Despair's (my Droid's Bluetooth name) first night on the town. He's already texted one girl and called another from his Contacts, which is fully integrated with my Facebook account (profile, pics, email addresses, phone numbers). This last part is absolutely amazing. Wish us well, I'll tell you more tomorrow when we embark on a 16h bar crawl (no joke)
- LANjackal
WOW. I have never set a custom ringtone this easily in my life. 1)Drag and drop song into phone from Windows Explorer (where it shows up as removable disk). 2)Go to Music App, which automagically finds ALL songs on the phone, regardless of location 3)Select track 4)Select "Set as ringtone". DONE. A-mazing, especially for a Verizon device (walled garden anyone?)
- LANjackal
"...especially for a Verizon device (walled garden anyone?)" They would had to have fucked with normal Android functionality. Have you tried, "Ringdroid," I think it's called? -- for editing audio on the handset. Perhaps there's something better now.
- Christopher A Carr
*WANT*!
- Travis Koger
Good hardware, presently. I would flash a fancier ROM.
- Christopher A Carr
I'm not going to throw down money until there is a 1 GhZ device. Soon. In 1/2 years, people who have this phone are going to feel silly.
- Christopher A Carr
... or we'll just get a new one? Handsets are salable dude.
- LANjackal
Speed: (because Chris Carr brought it up). The Droid is plenty fast. Speed is not an issue.
- LANjackal
Battery Life: Very good, but I'd bring my charger if I were going out of town for a weekend (I always do that anyway, so I don't consider than an issue)
- LANjackal
Browser: Faaaast. I don't miss the pinch multitouch capability reviewers have been bemoaning the lack of, since the high resolution means that 95% of pages are readable as is in the first place, and there's a handy zoom-in/zoom-out icon that pops up at the lower right of the screen
- LANjackal
UNPLEASANT SURPRISE: That charging cable that you think is a mini-USB cable? It's NOT. I don't WTF the port on the side of the Droid is, but it won't accept any other cable than the one that shipped with the device. Disappointing, but not a dealbreaker IMO
- LANjackal
Fancier ROM idea: If you wanna go for it, sure. However, my phone is one of those device (like my car) that I expect to just WORK, 100% of the time. Don't wanna risk bricking it, but if you wanna do that go right ahead.
- LANjackal
Contact management: This is simply the best implementation thereof you will ever come across, not only on phones but on ANY device. Full syncing of Google Contacts and your Facebook friends (all relevant fields, even job titles and pics from Facebook profiles), automatic duplicate entry handling, with search, email ... you name it. This is one thing the Droid beats everything else at. No competition.
- LANjackal
Camera: It's not the best, but it'll do. Besides, cameras like those are merciful to those who aren't naturally photogenic like me.
- LANjackal
Audio quality: Angelic. I know this sounds like an overstatement, but wait till you hear it. The audio on this device is just stunning. Everything else you've ever heard will sound like static afterwards in comparison
- LANjackal
Does it use a regular audio connector, or a custom one like the older Android phones?
- Glen Mistletoe
from iPod
Visual Voicemail is great, but if you have an active Wi-Fi connection it won't be able to sync. Which it tells you nicely. Perhaps Google Voice fixes that problem. Beginning to wish I had a GV account now. Oh well. Invite, anyone?
- LANjackal
I still can't get over the monthly fee for visual voicemail. Sigh.
- Glen Mistletoe
VZW has the weird setup where feature prices vary BOTH by plan AND phone. For example, VZ Navigator is free on some phones but paid on others. I *think* Visual Voicemail's included with the data plan when you get a Droid
- LANjackal
More on battery life: Charging takes a while (1.5h from 50% to full). Definitely enough for overnight, but people who rely on fast charge times will be in for a surprise. I'm really anal about charging, so I don't find this an issue. Less "responsible" users (read: college girls) whose phones are permanently "about to die" will run into trouble :P
- LANjackal
Hmmm, not true mini-USB, slight disappointment. How loud are the ringtones and the call itself? Do you think the phone will feel weird with an extended battery? Do you experience any lag that has been reported in apps? Can't wait to have in hand next week!
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
Lan: You want a GV invite? Think I still have one or tww. How do you like Stanford pounding the shit out of Oregon? Wow.
- Christopher A Carr
Why do you say it's not true mini-USB? That contradicts what I've been told by a Googler who's been using the phone since August.
- Glen Mistletoe
Lag: bear in mind that you're dealing with a mini-computer that happens to be able to make calls, not a phone in the traditional sense. As with a PC, the more apps you run, the more lag you may notice (1 -2s sometimes, "missed" touches). In normal operation with mission critical apps though, there is no lag. I'd STRONGLY suggest Taskiller though, as the OS never seems to really kill...
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- LANjackal
from IM
Battery Life Report: During a drinking marathon today filled with heavy use of web browsing, FB app friend adding, taking (and uploading) pics, texting, email checking, calling, hopping on and off free Wi-Fi, etc. the Droid lasted *drumroooooooollllll* 11 HOURS. Terrible for a phone, but pretty good for what's essentially a pocket computer. Word to the wise: the car charging kit? Get it. An extra USB cable for charging at work is a pretty good call too
- LANjackal
Correction about the USB connector. It's a micro-B one, NOT a min-B one, which is why the other cable I had wasn't working. So yes, it IS a standard USB cable. Sorry to have mislead anyone
- LANjackal
Nice feature: automagical backlighting that turns on and off in response to ambient light (even when going through shadows)
- LANjackal
Camera: I take back what I said about it earlier. This is pretty much the BEST party camera ever. Reviewers who complained about the pic quality were simply taking the wrong pics. No one uses smartphones to take pics of flowers idiots. They use 'em to take pics at parties. The important thing is how skin tone and color come out WITHOUT being too revealing (trust me, no one wants to see...
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- LANjackal
Battery life: so my buddy BR who got one is complaining about the battery life also. And his phone was almost always dead BEFORE the Droid, so I can only imagine what the situation is like now
- LANjackal
Another niggle: No character count for text message composition
- LANjackal
UPDATE: OTA update will fix the SMS character count problem (exactly how that passed internal testing, I don't know)
- LANjackal
UPDATE on Visual Voicemail: I checked with VZW today and it really does cost $2.99 extra per month. Thanks to Chris' Carr, though, I installed Google Voice, so I chucked VVM.
- LANjackal
Bug: Google Navigation may forget to use the speakerphone at times. I think this happens if you attempt to navigate while the phone is in portrait orientation
- LANjackal
On the no character count for test messages --- doesn't it show you how many characters you have left when you get close to the 160 allowed?
- Kevin Mohr
I read that it does, but so far I haven't sent anything that long so I haven't seen for myself
- LANjackal
Worried about the Droid's 11h battery life? 1) Get the car charger 2) Head over to Monoprice.com and get a micro-B USB 2.0 cable for your office for all of *gasp* <$3, shipping included. Then you'll be able to charge at home, in the car, and in the office.
- LANjackal
Wait, an extra fee for VVM? That's just as lame as the extra fee for VZW Navigator.
- Wirehead
Not if you were on a Premium plan like I was. VZ Navigator's free then. Unfortunately, Premium plans are unavailable for the Droid, so you have to drop down to a Nationwide Select plan and then tack on a data package. This keeps the service affordable, but it means that VVM's not included. Don't really get VZ's thinking behind this one, although they probably reason that anyone who's savvy enough can get Google Voice anyway while the "average" users will lose $36/year to VVM.
- LANjackal
Guess who got his Droid set up on the office Wi-Fi and VPN today? It took all of 3 minutes, no management approval and just a verbal request to the IT guy. Turns out he got a Droid himself, so he breezed through the setup and handed it back to me. So yeah, if you were worried about joining domain networks and whatnot, don't be - the Droid is ready for work
- LANjackal
OK so after a few weeks of use, several bugs have become apparent:
- LANjackal
1) This probably applies to all smartphones that can run multiple apps simultaneously, but active task management is a serious necessity if you're a power user. That means manually killing apps/processes that you aren't using to prevent your phone from becoming laggy. I recommend the Task Manager app
- LANjackal
2) Switching between Wi-Fi and 3G sometimes isn't seemless. The Droid will sometimes forget it's a 3G device when moving out of Wi-Fi coverage, and similarly not automatically connect to a familiar network when it's within range.
- LANjackal
3) The micro-B USB 2.0 port has become really loose over numerous plug-unplug cycles. It's now possible to plug the device in and have nothing happen because the connections aren't being made (This is solved by a little jiggling). To be fair, most USB ports weren't designed for this many plugging cycles, but for a device that needs as much charging as this you'd *hope* the port was a bit sturdier
- LANjackal
4) Phone ringtone volume sometimes goes out of whack. Solved by simply re-entering the relevant menu, which seems to "remind" the handset what level it should be at
- LANjackal
5) Plugging the phone into an HP docking station before booting the laptop will cause the laptop to fail to boot. I'm not sure whose fault this is.
- LANjackal
And now for the good news:
- LANjackal
1) Contrary to what the SF Gate guy said in that article I'm too lazy to link to, Google Navigate IS SAFE to use in the boonies. Verizon's 3G coverage is beyond amazing, I traveled through some of the most sparsely populated regions in the country today with no problems. The phone lost the GPS signal a few times (regained within seconds) but never lost 3G coverage
- LANjackal
One of my co-workers criticized our team using a www-less base domain (e.g. site.com) for a webservice like so: "Simply pointing to a domain name (without the host prefixing the first
dot) is sort of like calling an area code without the phone number following."
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I had to restart my reply four separate times before I came up with a civil response.
- Kyle Laserdog
Tell him to look into SRV records. The only problem I have with these kinds of domains is that wildcard certs don't match them unless you set up the DNS aliases correctly.
- Andy Bakun
Um, I'd hate to be the one to tell him that "com" is a domain, as is "example.com" and "www.example.com" is a domain, too. It's NOT a host except when the domain includes one and only one server (which is typically really rare). For example, would you rather use "news.yahoo.com" (a domain name) or address one of our 300+ servers individually, which typically have names like fe24.media.sp3.yahoo.com?
- Glen Mistletoe
Last week I had to correct three people about the validity of underscores in domain names vs host names.
- Andy Bakun
This all came about because their app would *fail* if it attempted to resolve a sub-domainless domain. Clearly, we're the ones in the wrong, not their application that can't visit google.com. (edit: I suppose digg.com is a better example here, since that doesn't redir to www).
- Kyle Laserdog
The best (PIC) of Colin Powell you'll see today. - http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairp...
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David Beckham says LA Galaxy can be 'proud' after penalty defeat to Real Salt Lake - http://www.guardian.co.uk/footbal...
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A good DJ is a story teller. Melodies are characters. Energy builds to a climax. Tension, plot twists, resolution.
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comments so often fill in between a news story's lines. evidence the very last line of this: http://westseattleblog.com/blog... (fine-point detail I missed)
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Completely agree.
- Rick Turoczy
It is endlessly educational. I thought I was doing well merely to have noted the detail that a group of officers came in to observe .. and I didn't think to look at their rank. I have met the precinct captain and all but one of the lieutenants and knew they weren't there, but didn't think at all about the message their absence might have sent to those who were. Although, for yet another...
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- West Seattle Blog
I recently flew a major US airline whose name I will withhold for the benefit of any of you who may have stock in this sorry ass company.... http://www.chrisrugh.com
- Joseph
We are collecting unwrapped Toys for Tots at Ignite Portland tomorrow. In need of toys for older kids/teens too. Can you help? #30hd - http://twitter.com/smallso...
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Starting 30 hour day early. This is awesome!
- Rick Turoczy
Spotted: Western Truck Fab from Hayward... #WTF
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Yo, WTF you lookin' at heah? :)
- Sunshine
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot.
- Derrick
More here: http://www.westerntruckfab.com/
- Louis Gray
The more you know.
- Micah Wittman
Wisconsin Travel Foundation!
- teh Dork Knight aka Kenny
I CANNOT be this tired on a Tuesday night. After a 3 day weekend. Can I? Taking my butt (gettin' BIG) to bed. Good night all.
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"Barry got a big ol' butt" hee. :D
- pea
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