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HealingBrush, Kishore Balakrishnan, Nimaa and 65 other people liked this
A list of Great Windows Apps!
- TheHenry
from Bookmarklet
Some great programs on this list. I would have included Chrome instead of Safari, though. I think Safari for Windows isn't quite ready for prime time yet, neither version 3 nor 4 beta.
- Ray Metzen
the fact that you have safari on this list means you have never actually used it for windows
- Zach Scott
If you're a blogger, Windows Live Writer is a great free app and one that I'd have on my list - it's a rare gem from Microsoft ...
- Patrick Jordan
@Patrick, I have used Live writer, I also agree it is a rare gem from Microsoft. I honestly don't like it though.
- TheHenry
You must be smoking if you think Safari's a Top 10 Windows app
- LANjackal
Not smoking. BTW I took what all you said, and I changed it to google Chrome. :)
- TheHenry
Thanks for the info!
- Mike Andric
Wouahaha.
- Didier Lahely
Never tried Wavepad, Audacity does the job just fine,
- Ethan
@Ethan, wavepad is very easy to use, but not free. I agree though, Audacity is great
- Techno Todd
Huh, I'd never heard of Update Checker before... Sounds pretty sweet... We'll see how it goes I guess
- LarchOye
update Checker is cool! Really helped me out
- apptacious
Looks FOSS heavy. I agree with Chrome and VLC as must haves. What's with the Fruity Safari logo?
- Adi
FileZilla, Notepad too
- Vivek Puri
Found a few jewels here. Thanks, chief!
- © b e e n s w a n k
I find the Safari 3 to be a bit more better than the chrome, I didn't like the beta layout of the four though. Something was very un-safariish like.
- Faraz Mullick
Faraz, it's probably because they appropriated Google's layout. TBH I actually like Chrome more than Safari, personally.
- Chieze Okoye
Didn't like the list, and I don't use most of them. A bit lame.
- Ozkan Altuner
Hey, its one man's opinion. Don't hate. He amended the Safari recommendation which should give him some breathing room ;).
- Adi
Nice Apps listed. CCleaner is highly recommended for Windows users.
- Nicholas James
Notice that, of the applications listed, 4 are available as native Linux apps (VLC, Thunderbird, Gimp, Picasa), one is due to be available on Linux (Google Chrome), and 2 address Windows' shortcomings compared to Linux (CCleaner, FileHippo).
- Ghodmode
from twhirl
that's because you have continuously thanked people or added bullshit comments everytime others have commented. And your alter-ego Techno Todd seems to do the same. Were really not stupid TheHenry - whatever you might think.
- Zee.
You missed the best windows app, the logoff button :-)
- Keith Bennett
from Nambu
Chrome should be there rather than Safari. And Thunderbird is the ugliest mail app I've ever used. Functional for sure, but really, really needs a UI re-write.
- Sparky
Earthmine launches Wild Style City: Virtual Grafitti App - http://www.ubergizmo.com/15...
Lars Clausen, LolaLulu, bifurcafe and 14 other people liked this
an aseptic city vs an anarchic one!
- sinan mansuroglu
Uh, that's nice!
- Nia
Palm Pre on June 6th for $200: It's official! - http://www.engadget.com/2009...
Paul Stamatiou, zsafwan , Kazutaka Ogaki and 14 other people liked this
Does anybody know if this phone will work for SERO plans? It says "The Pre will be available under Sprint's Everything Data or Business Essentials with Messaging and Data plans". My plan is $30 a month for 500 minutes, unlimited data, unlimited text, 7pm nights+weekends so I don't want to give it up but would love to use this phone on that plan
- Benjamin Golub
from Bookmarklet
Lots of discussion on this in various forums. The consensus seems to be that you may get lucky and talk with the right CSR who will allow it. Second argument is that Sprint is losing money with SERO customers and that nobody will be allowed to keep this plan with new smartphones.
- jcunwired
I can't wait how all this will play out between the Pre and iPhone
- Jay
jcunwired: that's unfortunate. I suppose when the Pre comes out I'll call Sprint and give it a shot. Can't hurt to try but I am not willing to give up my plan before Sprint takes it away from me.
- Benjamin Golub
Agreed Benjamin, and you shouldn't have to. I wish you the best of luck! The Pre's an exciting device, I'd like to see all my social friends with one.
- jcunwired
Yeah, when I bought my Instinct last year, it was get an Simply Everything plan or nothing. They used to be really flexible about you keeping old plans, but no matter who I called I was told the same thing.
- Admiral Anika
Nice price point. I think it's going to do a lot better than many expect
- Michael Fidler
Getting started with Times, an RSS reader for everyone - http://www.tuaw.com/2009...
Alan Le and Fajar Jasmin liked this
Oh, I think it's rather expensive for an RSS reader.
- Fajar Jasmin
from Friend Deck
it was given as gift with last MacHeist bundle, its prone to bugs at the moment
- Yunus Tunak
Looks like a desktop version of feedly.
- Quasar
#web Money Strands?! - https://money.strands.com/
Srikanth AD, Andrew Badera, Stylish Eve and 22 other people liked this
I started using this over the summer. I must say that it beats Quicken Online for details given.
- Admiral Anika
had no idea it even existed
- Zee.
Strands has a lot of great sites. Strands Music is awesome, but weird in that I used to listen to it daily. Went back about a month ago and it didn't even have my login information.
- Admiral Anika
Yet again another US-centric site :(
- Glenn Slaven
Can you link with your bank account?
- Didier Lahely
Didier, yes, it's very much like Mint
- Alan Cheslow
better than Mint?
- edythe
I been using it since from a month, to understand my spending pattern. It’s also possible to check current balances and receive text alerts after signing up here.
- Monica
If I'm already an active mint.com user, is Money Strands worth my time setting up?
- Alan Le
I'm with edythe & alan. Is this a companion to mint, or should I think about jumping ship?
- Don Faulkner
I'm a sucker for almost any new webapp - I'll try it. Mint is terrible (incorrectly categorizes everything and does not learn from my corrections) and Quicken is very buggy.
- Chris Rogers
Chris, MoneyStrands is definitely way better than Mint.
- Admiral Anika
Presidential ages and lifespans
Mala, Aether, Ron and 23 other people liked this
Help, my eyes are burning from that chart!
- Braden Kowitz
Also, what's with the sort order? I'd be interested to see if we're trending older or younger. (and how life expectancy of presidents is changing over the years)
- Braden Kowitz
The chart has Eisenhower serving only 4 years, but he served 8.
- Josh Wills
Wow, Hoover lived to 90! Back then!
- j1m
You did this yourself, Kevin? Nice!
- Stephen Mack
I didn't make the chart. I just found it online and shared it. I agree that it would be nice to sort chronologically.
- Kevin Fox
Hmm, so shouldn't your sharing of it point to the source?
- Stephen Mack
Can't. The source is a private bulletin board with no original source cited.
- Kevin Fox
Gotcha. Thanks for sharing! I didn't know that if elected McCain would be the oldest president-elect.
- Stephen Mack
Too bad it's not sorted by age/life expectancy at the time :-)
- j1m
So all but a few Presidents died before the age that McCain would be at the end of a second term.
- MG Siegler
Yes, but life expectancy gets radically longer over the course of a century. LBJ is the only recent president to die of natural causes before the age of 78. GHWB, Reagan, Ford, Nixon, and Truman all made it into their 80s or even 90s, Eisenhower died at 78, JFK was shot, and the rest are still alive. Their fate provides a better prediction of McCain's age at death than that of the early presidents. What's more, his own parents' average age at death will be at least 83.
- j1m
Where does your last name (surname) come from or mean, do you know the history? Share your heritage, I'll go first...tag it #surname
Alex Scoble, Mitchell Tsai, Cathryn Hrudicka and 7 other people liked this
#surname Reed (my married name) has both irish and english antecedents. It also has a connection to the Swiss version 'Rhorer' which interestingly enough is family name of my mother's people. My side is from the McCleods (scots) O, and it means red-haired or ruddish or the old english meaning a clearing in the woods. (Sorry. @Jeremiah I didn't "read" your directions clearly. ;) )
- Melanie Reed
#surname: Rai. (pronounced 'rye') From India, a very common surname. It has some caste connotations which I once knew, but have since forgotten/ignored. Having grown up in Singapore, and now being in Aust, I use it as a 'first name'. (My real 3-syllable 1st name being too much for most). So 'Rai' is pretty special to me, what with playing two parts n all. Why did I include this seemingly inconsequential tidbit? Cos I'm adding to its history ;)
- Rai
Longman. long man. nickname for a tall person.
- Capn' One Eye - adrift
Christensen = Danish for (obviously) "Son of Christen" (variant of Christian). #surname
- adam christensen
Carpenter = anglicized version of Zimmerman (family was Swiss German way back in the day). House builder, I'd guess. #surname
- Hutch Carpenter
Ingram was originally Ingraham, from Ing (a Germanic king) and the word for "raven"; why Ing needed a raven I don't know; #surname
- mathew ingram
Gentry == the upper middle class, which turns out to be wishful thinking on the part of my ancestors.
- DGentry
#surname Korn was pronounced Korrin (rolling rr) when family came from Poland before WWII. Believe it meant crown.
- Justin Korn
#surname Kless, my kids actually did a little research on this recently and couldn't wait to tell me that it meant "conquering people" and the name hailed from Russian and German ancestry as a deritive of Klaus. They were all full of themselves once they found out.
- Larry Kless
'Tregaskes' is Cornish (from Cornwall in England) but I believe came from Spain.France as 'Gaskes' original. The Cornish added their usual 'Tre' to the start of the surname
- Kol Tregaskes
from twhirl
#surname Billstrom- read that in the mid 1800s there were too many Larssons and Nilssons in Sweden, so they gave the middle class a list of suffixes & prefixes, and you go to the post office and pick a new surname. Voila, Bill Strom, which is (town of Billstra) + Stream , like Nordstrom - north + stream. Americanized on Ellis Island by taking the umlaut off the o. That's pretty neat- seeing your ancestor's signatures on Ellis' website.
- anna sauce
Kamath - Karma + Mathi (Sanskrit) or Kamma +Mathi (Pali) - meaning work+soil.We probably were from a farming community .
- Kamath (नमः)
#surname Dawson - anglican verison of "Daw -Sa" Burmese. Heres an old post of mine http://peterdawson.blogspot.com/2008...
- Peter Dawson
#surname Loyless - Kilkenny, Ireland is as far back as I've traced it. It originally was "Lawless" & was changed in the early 1800s
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
My last name, "Hrudicka," is Czech. I know quite a bit about my family's history on both sides, about 9 nationalities. #surname
- Cathryn Hrudicka
did I miss something? Where's an Owyang history/
- anna sauce
I said it in twitter actually. Essentially, it's two last names Ow-Yang that were put together.
- Jeremiah Owyang
My mom's side of the family has a family web site w/many historical docs & photos. There is a "Hrudicka" site, must check. #surname
- Cathryn Hrudicka
Ow seems old-school pinyin
- anna sauce
sir percival, knight of the roundtable :)
- sean percival
Eisenberg = Iron Mountain. Paternal family from Latvia and surrounding areas. Maternal side traces back to France. #surname
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
#surname Steven is Greek for "royal". Perez is Hebrew for "rupture". Put them together and you get "royal pain", which is disturbingly accurate.
- Steven Perez
I think my last name means to blog...either that or it's just a name from somewhere in the british isles that I have no idea what the origin is.
- Alex Scoble
The origins of my name is Scottish.
- Phillip Jeffrey
#Surname Rabago. Habitational name from Rábago in Cantabria province of Spain. Meaning King of Kings is what I'm told
- Ricardo Rabago
two versions. the first, Hebrew meaning gazelle. the second; originating in the north of Spain in the Basque region with ties to nobility and a region there called Tierra de Ayala (land of Ayala) #ayala #surname.
- Carlos Ayala
[OT] How are you collecting your hastags fr FF ?
- Peter Dawson
21 Ways to Make Your Blog or Website Sticky - http://www.problogger.net/archive...
Lee Kent, steve albers, Mike Fruchter and 7 other people liked this
TweetDeck Twitter Client Gains High Profile Amid High Expectations - http://www.louisgray.com/live...
Alexander Williams, Robert, Franklin Pettit and 11 other people liked this
We are definitely planning friendfeed integration and are very open to any thoughts as to how people would like to see it implemented i.e. do people simply want a FF column or is there more value is being about to split the FF data out into numerous columns (in the same way TweetDeck splits out Twitter data). We're also seeing lots of love for an iPhone version so I've started preliminary development on that. Great post Louis btw thanks.
- Iain Dodsworth
Thats amazing news Iain! The way I saw it was to have a separate friendfeed column however, be able to put people into groups with other twitter users..if you see what i mean?
- Zee.
Iain, if you can replicate the basics of what you did for the twitter client, that would be awesome. So, friend timeline, groupings and normal searching.
- Rob Diana
Tweetdeck is really cool... does suck a lot of memory though!
- Susan Beebe
Tweetdeck rocks. I wish there were a generic version that I could mix and match various other feeds in.
- Stephan Miller
from twhirl
I just scored 9,575,501 points in Tetris....So many lines it stopped counting at 999 (i'm thinking somewhere around 3700)
Fajar Jasmin liked this
Look Out Twhirl, Alert Thingy Adds Twitter Support - http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r...
Yaniv Golan, Kate Mag, Karthik Kastury and 36 other people liked this
I'm loving the newest alert thingy version.... this is niiiiiiice ...via AlertThingy
- Bob
I agree. Although I wouldn't mind if it added Facebook status updates. Maybe a redux Mini-feed if you're pushing it :P ...via AlertThingy
- CannonGod
Love Alert Thngy even more now. Just have to get AIR alpha to work on my Linux system now :-(. Getting spoiled by this Mac. ...via AlertThingy
- Tony
Blogit is the new AlertThingy. ...via AlertThingy
- Dan
I am just testing it since today but I am liking it. However, I think it could use some filters (per source, with comments, etc.) ...via AlertThingy
- Andrés David Aparicio
alertthingy is not as polished as twhirl yet, but it's getting there. And yes, they could definitely merge, I wouldn't mind. ...via AlertThingy
- Stan Schroeder
Still buggy, but has great potential. I also love the regular daily updates. ...via AlertThingy
- Joshua Kerr
Social Thing has nice FB integration. Would love that via FriendFeed and Alert Thingy. ...via AlertThingy
- David Smith
I like Alert Thingy better than Twhirl for what it is worth. ...via AlertThingy
- David Evans
I'm loving AlertThingy. The Twitter thing is great! Just wish they'd get rid of the "via AlertThingy" signature at the end. I'd even pay for a premium version. ...via AlertThingy
- Brandon Titus
Totally in love with Alert Thingy! ...via AlertThingy
- Daniel Spradau
Twirls fights back!
- Daniel Spradau
Commenting on this post, via Twhirl, now with FriendFeed support! Yeah! ...via twhirl
- Michel Bechelani
Twhirl has upped the ante this morning with 0.7.9 though! ...via twhirl
- Tris Hussey
I am confused... ...via AlertThingy
- David Kaspar
Yeah I noticed that Twhirl added FriendFeed support to stay in the game. I tried it but like AlertThingy better. Neither are as good as they can be but AlertThingy has the better implementation in my opinion. ...via AlertThingy
- Rolf Schewe
I think it looks a lot better than Alert Thingy, I do really want it to be integrated into the Twitter window though ...via twhirl
- William Spaetzel
So far I think Twhirl is doing it better. Integrating the windows will be almost the final step. After that, filter the FF tweets so I dont see dupes. ...via twhirl
- Soulhuntre
I just downloaded the new Twhril with FriendFeed support ...via twhirl
- Mike Wills
To me the lack of integration is the problem. Neither are as good a twitter client (for just twitter) as Google Talk. The real-time updates squashes any features these other cleints have. I use Google Talk as my main twitter interface with AlertThingy on the side to track my and other people's social content. At this point the layout of AlertThingy is a little nicer. ...via AlertThingy
- Rolf Schewe
Air on LInux: http://labs.adobe.com/downloa...
- Arnaud Fischer
Seems to me AlertThingy is in the lead, and Twhirl is trying to keep up. I like Twirls Twitter features and AlertThingy's friendfeed features, ummm.... ...via AlertThingy
- Ashley Williams
still prefer twhirl. As soon as they can integrate into one window I'm removing AT ...via twhirl
- Ryan
They are both lacking. Until I can either integrate all my follows into FF or filter my Tweeple from FF neither will be perfect. I think that the twhirl team will get there faster as Loic has more resouces. Who knows maybe @snookca will intgrate FF with snitter? ...via twhirl
- Jay Gilmore
Twirl still has my vote
- Charlie Anzman
Just bvecause you can tweet doen't mean you can read your tweets. this is a non-event. ...via AlertThingy
- Matthew
Twhirl is still better i think. ...via twhirl
- Tina K.J
Why can't we get rid of these via "...." messages. That's the killer for me. I don't care what client someone is using and it's just a distraction. Really not much advertising benefit either.
- Brandon Titus
I agree. I still need to have Twirl for Twitter to be useful at all. ...via AlertThingy
- Ainsworth Boyle
I don't know: I'm liking the possibilities of AThingy; less resource-intense than Twirl. ...via AlertThingy
- Chris Judson
Brandon, the "via .." thing has been fixed. The clients need to update to use it. Check out a preview of how it's going to work here: http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Bwana ☠
i am running the latest version. let's see if the "via.." is fixed. ...via AlertThingy
- Anand Sharma
testing yet again... ...via AlertThingy
- Anand Sharma
Nope, it's not fixed. I mean, the "via AlertThingy" ...via AlertThingy
- Anand Sharma
Still needs better grouping like the website
- Ryan
Woot! ...via AlertThingy
- Tyler (Chacha)
I want friendfeed to have a friendfeed bot like twitter@twitter.com ....
- alfred westerveld
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