It's decided: I'll leave friendfeed soon due to the outsell to facebook. To all my subscribers: I would love to keep in touch with you. You can find the my places on: http://www.google.com/profile... . Posterous, Twitter, Google Reader shared items, will cover most of this.
I think it was a good time here, despite some little fights :). I liked every minute. So I will leave this account for a week or so, because I care of my subscribers. I always did. It's very sad that it has come to this, and I hope some of you will keep in touch with me. Thanks!
- Ryo / Fuck Facebook
Sorry to see that you will be leaving, Ryo. I just subscribed to your Reader items and hope to find you out and abouts in the future. :)
- JA Castillo
friendfeed is suggesting you as a "Recommended friend." Slightly ironic, don't you think?
- (Garin Kilpatrick)
I'll think about leaving when or if it dies in here, or if this main site is closed, and access is only via Facebook. They can stuff that. Until then though, I'll stay. I'm still having some fun.
- Ian May
"You wrote it: Friendfeed is dead. If you're fine with Facebook, it's maybe a good thing long term. But lets be honest, many Friendfeed users, like me, were on Friendfeed because it was NOT Facebook. I'm not on Facebook, and I don#t have intentions to be there. Now that the deal is settled, many open questions appearing: * What's gonna happen with private data from Friendfeed? * Will they connect the data with the accounts on FF and FB? * What about anonymous posting, which is not allowed on Facebook? * Will "something like Friendfeed" keep existing anyway? It's a sad day for me, another great Community jumped the shark."
- Ryo / Fuck Facebook
@car4dave Yes, but I have some problems to solve. Echo and aggregation.
"It was announced today that Facebook bought FriendFeed. This is unfortunate to me as this puts FriendFeed's future in doubt as Facebook bought the company for the developers and their tech, not the site itself. While I totally understand why the FriendFeed guys sold the company, it does mean I need to come up with an alternative to FriendFeed as I don't trust Facebook to keep the site up and open to my liking."
- Ryo / Fuck Facebook
from Bookmarklet
FriendFeed's services may be replaced this or that way seperately, but as a whole it couldn't be replaced right now. Please stay, as long as we can.
- yezi
yezi, no it's about supporting. I won't be under the hood of facebook. I know their behavior about privacy and there is no way I will accept a Zuckerberg as my "Fuhrer".
- Ryo / Fuck Facebook
I'm about to set-up a cascade of Google Reader, posterous and more to replace Friendfeed.
Worst case has happened. Friendfeed is dead. Facebook taking over Friendfeed. Oh no. And you laughing after signing the papers? Betrayed the users. Facebook sucks, and so will Friendfeed. Now what? Alternatives... where can we go?
# Panda Home: Free, few themes, slows down, good basic functionality, screenshot function. It's for the look, no other features integrated. There are not so many themes available. http://www.androlib.com/android...
- Ryo / Fuck Facebook
# aHome: $4,99, slows the phone, comsumes battery, many themes. A lot of themes available. But it really slows the phone. It looks a little unstable, but can't reproduce any errors. http://www.androlib.com/android...
- Ryo / Fuck Facebook
# Open Home: $3,99, fastest home-app, unbelievable number of themes. Here you get the most themes and it's fast. I did not discover bigger slowdowns, but some battery comsumption. Includes a big analog clock and a task manager, and a nice dock for your favorite apps. http://www.androlib.com/android...
- Ryo / Fuck Facebook
# AppsDesktop: €2,79 / €3,79, more a app suite. Some skins available. Available as a suite with WebDROID3(Browser) and TrafficAlert(Internet Meter) or AppsDesktop only. Includes APK install/Backup and Taskmanager. I installed the Demo and it screwed up my old home screen. So beware and expect that you can completely rearrange your old home when switching back. Slow as hell and consumes battery quickly. http://www.androlib.com/android...
- Ryo / Fuck Facebook
Conclusion: I missed to check dxTop, after I was some kind of deillusioned. First of all, for me, there is no way that I give away any cpu power or battery for just optical gimmicks. I would rather use a terminal than having a nice UI that slows my phone even 1%. So I unistalled all of them and just use the normal Android UI. But if you really like another look, Open Home seems to be...
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- Ryo / Fuck Facebook
I would love the simple option to alter the icons used, nothing else design wise, but just that small part of customization, without draining any resources from my main system, for now I will keep using the base UI, it works for what it needs to do.
- Seth Brower
I'm waiting for a real alternative home app.. these are all just sort of modified (junk) to me.. thanks for the reviews, though Ryo
- Tim Hoeck
Adrian, I have the current standard Firmware 1.5 Build CRC1, Kernel 2.6.27-00393-g6607056 san@sandroid #1
- Ryo / Fuck Facebook
Tim, you're welcome. I'm with you. More or less all the home apps right now are crap.
- Ryo / Fuck Facebook
I haven't tried the home apps, but the Cyanmod Roms are really fast, and incorporate multi-touch into the Browser, as well as CPU scaling up to 528. You can really tel the difference in speed. The CPU overclock utility on the Market seems to work great as well.
- Adrian
Adrian, thanks for the Info, but overclock? I'm thinking about to underclock. When I use Navigation with wifi,gps and Bluetooth enabled, the phone gets so hot, that I'm really worried.
- Ryo / Fuck Facebook
It hasn't been too bad for warmth or battery drain. The G1 was very conservatively underclocked in the 200's due to HTC's worries about battery life. True story, I used to follow the Android developers in Google groups and the team was always there to answer questions. The team leader Diane Hackborn was very cllear on this. Most share my positive experiences with the CPU overclocking utility. Just compare how Doom rums before and after and you will be sold.
- Adrian
"One of the main reasons that most people are afraid to try Linux is because they have this preconceived notion about linux being too hard to use and difficult to maintain; or that they have to do something drastically differ ant and there is a steep learning curve to using linux."
- Ryo / Fuck Facebook
from Bookmarklet
Martin, no, not at all. Feels smooth. I had some problems, because it's a kind of other UI that the one I'm used to. Key elements of the normal Android UI is missing, while others have been added. And I saw 117MB internal mem free ! *cry*
- Ryo / Fuck Facebook
Christopher, I'm looking forward to read you brief description about it then :)
- Ryo / Fuck Facebook
Today, August 11, 2009, marks Saturn's equinox, the first day of spring in its northern hemisphere. An observer at Saturn sees crazy things happening when the Sun passes through the plane that contains Saturn's enormous ring system and the orbital paths of all its moons. Moons eclipse each other; they cast shadows on Saturn and its rings; the weird waves in Saturn's rings begin to cast their own shadows; and, finally, today, the north side of Saturn's rings will see the Sun rise for the first time in nearly 15 Earth years. The Cassini spacecraft is there to capture images of the weird and beautiful play of light and shadow. The Planetary Society http://planetary.org/blog Emily Lakdawalla is a planetary geologist and writer who works for the world's largest space interest group, The Planetary Society, as its blogger, web writer, and contributor to the weekly Planetary Radio podcast. She lives in Los Angeles with, a 3-year-old who can list all the planets for you, a new baby who has yet...
- Ryo / Fuck Facebook
Does the iPhone support "auto-fit" (I can't seem to find a similar feature to auto-fit on my iPod touch). I find web pages to be extremely difficult to read on mobile Safari because I need to drag the page all around and zoom in and out (with two fingers no less).
- Andy Bakun
iPhone does not support auto-fit. It's very annoying.
- Jon Ursenbach
Andy, Jon, iPhone uses a technique that fits some readable area to your screen when you double tap on some text area. Try double tapping a blog post text in a Wordpress blog.
- Burak "cyrus" Bayburtlu
That's zoom-to-content, not auto-fit.
- Andy Bakun
and testing zoom-to-content (or whatever Steve Jobs has decreed that be called) on my iPod touch on my website, thwartedefforts.org, and it won't zoom to the blog entries, it just pulses/throbs. The right nav does zoom up though.
- Andy Bakun
It's so quick sometimes, I think I work with Chrome :).
- Ryo / Fuck Facebook
Even more annoying is that on some sites, like Google Reader, they seem to have /disabled/ zoom-to-content, so when asshats post large images in their blog posts I can't zoom in *or* out to see the entire thing. Really fucking annoying.
- Jon Ursenbach
Just switched my Ubuntu to Japanese to force myself to learn more intensive.
Just a note to it: It's not complete. There are some modifiers ( like きょ or きゅ) which are not included. And this is Hiragana only, No Katakana.
- Ryo / Fuck Facebook
Robots cooks Ramen. Humans are no longer needed. Skynet stops actions against mankind. Not relevant anymore - Nagoya Robot Ramen - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
"It is called a QR Code (quick response code) and it is a 2D barcode that is popular in Japan. It has found an incredibly practical use with mobile phones - scanning the code with your phone’s barcode scanner (using the digital camera) can launch the decoded website in your mobile browser."
- Ryo / Fuck Facebook
from Bookmarklet
I put one of these on my business card and everyone's first instinct is to stare at it and find the hidden picture :)
- Peter Warnock
LOL Peter! That's great. Hahaha. How can you keep from laughing out loud :)?
- Ryo / Fuck Facebook
more ppl is putting QR on their business card at Japan. it is not rare case. this is the site friends of mine build for QR, where you can convert address url, text ,map data...you can convert to QR, currently the site is in only Japanese tho LoL
- kazuhiko
Thanks, Kazuhiko. Made a QRCode for my mobile friendfeed account.
- Ryo / Fuck Facebook
Thanks for the site kazu, it's very interesting. Unfortunately it might be a little hard to understand for non-japanese speakers.
- sebastian☆rocket brother
tried 3 iPhone apps, claiming to read QR-codes but all failed miserably. Any positive experience with 2D code apps on iPhone?
- Berk D. Demir
The 3G camera isin't very good for close, macro shots. Thats probably why......
- Roberto Bonini
Is there some sort of site for QR Code specification? I'd like to learn how to make this more beneficial for myself. Or will this eventually go the way of the dodo and the Swatch @123 time clock? :P
- John Pyper