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Are there any good alternatives to evite? Specifically, is there a service that includes the event information in the email?
Michal Cierniak, Sheila Taylor, April Buchheit and 2 other people liked this
I've only used it as a guest myself, but one of my friends uses http://socializr.com , which includes time, date, and location in the email.
- Ben Darnell
I think http://anyvite.com/ does.
- Paul Buchheit
pingg.com is much better.
- Michael Herf
Facebook does: http://www.facebook.com/apps...
- Jesse Stay
I apologize in advance, but you've got to click on this link now. http://tinyurl.com/nttj8z
- Kevin Fox
http://www.mypunchbowl.com
- Karl Rosaen
I've used Anyvite and found it to be pretty good. I particularly liked that it included the event info in the email.
- Ana
I like invitastic.com
- Peyman
evitealternatives.com
- Matthew Harris
Thank you for the suggestions. I find it amusing that there's a website dedicated to answering this question (thanks for the link Matthew).
- Gary Burd
Aww, I posted the link first, in a roundabout way..
- Kevin Fox
Facebook is still my favorite event management tool - that app above (written by Facebook) makes it even better because I can see the event, add it to my calendar, etc. I also use another app that generates ical files of the events I've RSVP'd to and I add the ical file for that to my Google Reader as an additional calendar.
- Jesse Stay
anyvite.com
- James Polley
Just played with a nook at Barnes and noble. I think ill stick with my kindle.
What's the compelling reason for going with the Kindle2? The in store browsing of all books for free on the Nook (just like you would with a paper book) and the lending feature make it seem very attractive.
- John Foster
Who said anything about the K2? :P I am keeping my K1 and not getting a nook because of one reason: page turns lag like a mofo. I devour books. Millisecond per page turn and screen refreshes matter and the nook is too slow. Maybe I'll check out their second gen device.
- EricaJoy
Good to know. The reviews I heard to GDGT and CNET were saying that it lags everywhere except page turns. I guess I'll be waiting for v2.0 of the Nook software or for Kindle 3.
- John Foster
Does the Kindle not have that annoying refresh thing? Or is it just faster? I saw a Sony Reader for the first time in person yesterday, and was seriously underwhelmed. It took forever to flash up the new page. My iPhone is a better ereader than that.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
I don't know what you're talking about, but it sounds vaguely naughty... :)
- T. Brent, technopeasant
The refresh thing i the main reason I can't seriously consider anything except the kindle. I can't think how they have such good refresh when everything else sucks - unless someone made a pact with the devil perhaps
- James Polley
t-mobile loses sidekick data. a good reason why you should fear things "just living in the cloud" http://www.engadget.com/2009...
Sebastian, Kirsten Mitchell, Michal Cierniak and Joel Webber liked this
Disagree: fear things that don't let you easily export/backup your data.
- Matt Cutts
Agree with matt. It's ability to keep your own backups that matters. cf. http://epeus.blogspot.com/2009...
- James Polley
+1 Matt, James. Maybe we need explicit backup policies to go along with privacy policies and SLAs? There are too many companies (e.g., Magnolia) who seem to think that backup === redundancy. That's just dumb.
- Joel Webber
You don't want to keep your own backups local, you want to keep your own masters local. The cloud is a convenience.
- LogEx
Actually, I don't really want to keep *my* masters local. I want to do my work where it's most convenient, which basically means, to the extent possible, any random machine I happen to have around. My wife and I have two laptops, one little desktop (a Mac Mini), and I often access personal stuff from work. If my "masters" were in a single location (at home), I'd be screwed. I might want...
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- Joel Webber
I agree with @Matt Cutts We need to fear stupid companies that don't backup data.
- Nathan Snyder
+1 Matt
- Jay Cuthrell
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- Richard Taylor
Fascinating.
- James Polley
Willful ignorance disturbs me. Little bro got all aggy about the word Allah. Having been educated about Allah by none other than the American media, he doesnt realize that Allah is a translation for God. When I tried to explain this to him, he got irate. "They are killing in the name of Allah!" Didnt even want to try to tell him about the crusades.
Jimminy Fuller, Darren Heydon, Adam Lasnik and 2 other people liked this
Is Allah translation for God in Arabic? I have doubts?????
- Wins Fern
http://www.google.com/search... I don't know if its Arabic or what but Allah to Muslims and God to Christians are the same God.
- EricaJoy
c.f. Wikipedia: "it is used by Arabic-speakers of all Abrahamic faiths, including Christians and Jews, in reference to 'God'".
- Joel Webber
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - "The Catholic Herald ... circulated among the country's 850,000 Catholics, nearly lost its publishing licence for using the word "Allah" as a translation for "God," with authorities saying it should only be used by Muslims. The weekly was warned not to print "Allah" in the future, but instead it mounted an ongoing legal challenge to revoke the ban on the word, which is also used in the Malay-language Bible
- James Polley
(which is not really related, just an example of a place where "Allah" is much more ambiguous than it is to english-speaking, media-fed westerners)
- James Polley
Mah fishies - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Hows XKCD Book 0?
- Sherif Mansour
Haven't received it yet :(
- James Polley
from email
Lady Sovereign Arrested on Parklife Tour - http://coolsites.com.au/article...
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- Richard Taylor
Oooh, CDATA CDATA!
- James Polley
Michael wonders if he is a weirdo for thinking about acquiring a bilge pump so he can recycle the bath water.
no, it's called grey water recycling.
- James Polley
Michael installed a gray water tank. 500 liters and immersed pump. All for $170.
My parents used a largish garbage bin to collect water from the washing machine. Slightly cheaper, some effect.
- James Polley
Only downside: you could tell how far the hose from the grey water reached, because the ground beyond that point was hard and dead, instead of green and grassy.
- James Polley
Friendfeed needs to time-stamp the comments.
Kathleen Capps, Kol Tregaskes, Tanath and 116 other people liked this
Yeah, that is something that I have been thinking about.
- Kevin Bondelli
Less thinking more action ;)
- Alberto Reyes
A tooltip maybe on hover over the quote graphic. Keep it clean
- Andrew Smith
Optional feature - timestamp - not default.
- Susan Beebe
great idea!
- Sarah Perez
it must be part of the API, since fftogo seems to include a time stamp on the comments
- Trent Olson
I'm sure they do store the timestamp, even if it isn't currently displayed.
- Mack D. Male
Yeah, it's in the api, all comments & likes are timestamped
- Glenn Slaven
I think this is a perfect plan. The only issue I might have is that the time information might take-over the conversations. It might just look more cluttered than FF already is.
- Ryne Nelson
It would be useful sometimes.
- Morton Fox
concur, very useful to have. Make it a display option. Those who would think it's clutter can turn it off then.
- Alexander Falk
It is in the API (I use them in fftogo). I vote that the timestamp should appear as text when you hover over the "thought bubble" to the left.
- Benjamin Golub
All comments are time-stamped in AlrertThingy and feedalizr
- Stephen B
from Alert Thingy
Comments are time stamped in bTT as well.
- Francois Bochatay
from bTT
and also in twhirl
- Marco Kaiser
from twhirl
agreed. Timestamps are important
- Peter Dawson
What about a comment alert?! How do you follow conversations on ff!?
- TommaSorchiotti
Not sure if this will add to the functionality, but should be something they can try out...
- Dennis Goedegebuure
Not sure a comment alert is necessary. Comments bring the post up to the top of the timeline, which makes it available for anyone who is currently paying attention to Friendfeed. (Not sure why anyone would want their attention brought to Friendfeed if it isn't already there, that would be a huge productivity drain).
- Jason Wehmhoener
Please, please remember that the whole world doesn't run on PDT. I don't want to see timestamps in my FF in gReader and have to always try to guess whether the west coast is 17, 16, or 15 hours behind. If you must display timestamps, please put them in GMT. Setting the timestamps on my FF page/in my FF feed to be correct in my local timezone would be even nicer.
- James Polley
yeah ! and a hide fonction for each comment
- Jonathan
منم به فارسی تایید می کنم
- Kamal
we know which came first... but in n argument the comments can edit. that makes time stamping very important so we know when someone made a change
- Noah David Simon
a timeline function in general would be nice, make everything more timeframe friendly
- Ruben Llibre
Show times either in GMT or in my own timezone, and just make it a tooltip for the quote balloon or something. Don't want it to look cluttered.
- Pat Hawks
just make the time relative from each comment, so I know who said what when in perspective. like 5 minutes later Noah David Simon said. <--this opens up
- Noah David Simon
like i said earlier about plurk :)
- kosmar
Is i really important to know when every single comment is made? Only the last one would really be useful, could have 'last comment on june 1 at..." right beside the date of the post.
- John Duff
If the timestamp is a tooltip, then it isn't really "in the way." Maybe we can have all the timestamps as tooltips, except the most recent comment will have the timestamp printed out below it, like John said.
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
I am so tired of entering an empty room and talking to myself for twenty minutes. lol
- Russellreno
A needed feature for sure I agree. I suggested this to the FF feedback room some weeks ago.
- Mike Fruchter
Any news?
- Amiroo ™
<--- try hover your mouse cursor on that little dialog icon
- topo
Sorry it's not more obvious, but if you hover your mouse over the comment icon you will see the time that the comment was made. Thanks for letting us know that it's hard to find! The feedback is much appreciated.
- Ross Miller
I believe they are timestamped but this data is not yet displayed.... you're right !
- David Berrebi
other than timestamp I also want to be able to like the comments individually =]
- Özgür D. Cyric
This thread shows what happens when nobody reads the comments before theirs
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Agreed. The entire time...
- Zachary Poley
from twhirl
Rahsheen, your point is awesome right now :)
- Zachary Poley
from twhirl
this feed tells me that noone reads the comments before theirs =] =] j/k
- Özgür D. Cyric
Yes,sure. The problems is how to realize it?
- Motor Industry
Ross Miller:Thanks, my bad lots of greasemonkey junk keep me away to recognize that
- Amiroo ™
Telco's need to get their act together regarding global roaming. having to arrange local SIM's for each country I'm going to is a PITA!
If you go via London, apparently vodaphone has a global plan available.
- James Fridley
workmate used to work for http://ekit.com/ekit... - probably cheaper than your telco's international roaming, easier to arrange than one sim per country.
- James Polley
Dear Bay Area, Please resume normal not hotter than Hades temperatures ASAP. My 85 degree apartment and I thank you for you cooperation.
Jeff P. Henderson, tinypants - Hagitha of FF, Eric Florenzano and 4 other people liked this
yup
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
word.
- nakachi
Will be soooo very glad when my lease on this place is up. No AC so its hot. If I open the windows to cool down, the crappy window screens (that haven't been replaced in decades, it seems) let all the bugs in.
- EricaJoy
no AC here, either, but downstairs it's not too bad.
- Adam Lasnik
scuze me wimpoids, 85 degrees is *not* hotter than Hades. didn't you, like, live in Atlanta once, Erica?
- ⓞnor
Agree!! It's 12:39A and I'm finally getting my house cooled down to a point where it actually might be comfortable to sleep. I think it's still at least 70F outside! I have a whole house fan that works really well to suck all of the hot air out of the house, assuming it is cooler outside than it is inside.
- Jeff P. Henderson
I wake up this am and it's cold and foggy in the Marina. Looks like you got your wish.
- romerotron
I'm in Delhi. Today it was 109. I feel no sympathy. Although, at least the apartments (and offices, and cars) that I've been in here all have AC, so I'm not feeling it often. The Taj Mahal, however, has no aircon - but you probably feel no sympathy for people who spent time at the Taj today..
- James Polley
@aussieBum I ordered a few things ok the weekend. I guess you guys are busy packing my order! Welcome to Twitter! Enjoy
you'll be posting pics once you receive the goods, right?
- James Polley
What, exactly, is a grindstone?
A stone on which one grinds.
- James Polley
specifically, grinding tools or knives to sharpen them.
- James Polley
Something to which one puts one's nose.
- Joel Webber
a tool for sharpening my nose. sweet. must be sharp by now
- Rob Schonberger
Dear Emirates: Seat 24K feels like a place I could live. Electrical power by USB? A geeky dream come true! http://twitpic.com/2w8gj
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Christian Burns , Greg, Darren Heydon and 6 other people liked this
Worth noting that the USB port was not only for power, but would allow you to display any content you wanted on the seatback monitor. The seat system also enabled text messaging and email by satellite as well as on demand TV and movies from at least 250 selections in addition to countless games and music. I was blown away.
- Christopher Sacca
Looks like the same system Singapore have in economy their A380.
- James Polley
I'm amazed at this funny perception of what makes something "enterprise" worthy. Please keep adding to this amusing list... So next time someone asks you "Oh, so is that Enterprise?" you will have a checklist to answer them.. Your product is "enterprise" if.....
it costs more than $200,000 per month in license fees
- Sherif Mansour
it has been acquired by CA or Oracle
- Sherif Mansour
If a contractor can charge more than $2k a day to configure it
- John Masson
your product licensing model is per user
- Sherif Mansour
you need one or more subject matter experts to tell you 'industry best practices' on how to install the product
- Sherif Mansour
The name is spelled properly, including all vowels
- John Masson
you appear in one or more of Gartner's Magic quadrants
- Sherif Mansour
you can customise your product out-of-the-box to do anything you like to meet your enterprise needs..... deeming it un-upgradeable.
- Sherif Mansour
when there's a free open source alternative you're trying to compete with
- John Masson
when you have to give a free lunch for people to come and hear about your product
- Sherif Mansour
you assign one or more "account managers" per customer
- Sherif Mansour
people with neck beards don't like it
- John Masson
"Upgrades" are accomplished by completely re-installing the product, reconfiguring, and then re-importing the old data. This process must take at least 8 hours; and the system must be designed to ensure that there's a complete outage during this time.
- James Polley
the Architects all own at least one item of clothing or crockery embossed with its logo.
- Stuart Ritchie
Richard Stallman equates its existence with the coming of Armageddon.
- Stuart Ritchie
it's advertised as 'linux compatible' but in reality only works on Solaris and Windows.
- Stuart Ritchie
you're willing to get paid crap money for 6 months to get it on your resume.
- Stuart Ritchie
it's the strategic solution, but everyone knows that it will fill a tactical void
- Shaun Domingo
the solution has at least 14 optional integration points and uses old fogey lingo wrapped up in verbose marketing spiel
- Shaun Domingo
you're solution is so simple all your object class names are prefixed with 'Simple*' to signify how simple it is (eg SimpleObjectActionHandler)
- Sherif Mansour
Tobias Boonstoppel liked this
.... not so useful, really.
- James Polley
James Polley liked this
Are you sure you can handle hearing my time? It could be upsetting
- James Polley
6 minutes to walk to the cafe. 7 minutes standing around waiting for my coffee. 2 minutes to walk to the building. kthxbye
- James Polley
Courts can serve papers via Facebook | Stuff.co.nz - http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominio...
Bah. Australian courts already tried this. Facebook pointed out that it violates their ToS;
- James Polley
Wait... did Apple seriously take away all of the buttons? All of them!? http://www.apple.com/ipodshu...
Roman Zolotarev, Sonya Smith, andrei_c and 3 other people liked this
"Introducing VoiceOver, the feature that gives iPod shuffle a voice. With the press of a *button*, it tells you what song is playing and who’s performing it."
- Ionut
A button on the device, or the proprietary remote dongle?
- Ken Sheppardson
The button's on the headphones cord now.
- Akiva Moskovitz
This is a seriously "want" worthy device.
- Rahul Das
Hmm... I can't seem to find the button on my Shure E2c earphones...
- Mike Sego
Hmm, the fact that the voice over sounds different on Mac vs PC means its being generated on the host computer in iTunes and saved to the device. If so, why couldn't they pick a better speech synthesizer engine?
- Ray Cromwell
The fact that there is precisely one set of headphones in the world that this will work with; and those are shitty apple headphones? That's a deal killer. I already have a limited range of headphones because my primary music device is an iphone and I want to have headphones with the built-in mic - reducing that to just one choice is ridiculous.
- James Polley
Agree. I didn't buy UE11 Pros for nothing.
- Robert Linthicum
On the headphones, why didn't they overload the volume buttons more? The whole thing of having VoiceOver read a long list of playlists and hitting the button to stop on the one you want would be much more pleasant if you could hit the +/- volume buttons to rapidly skip through, interrupting the VoiceOver. otherwise, it has the irritating characteristics of a voice mail system
- Ray Cromwell
http://support.apple.com/kb... . +/- works on the playlist once you get into that mode.
- Peng-Toh
Too many buttons would be too confusing: http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Jemm
Holy crap, is this real? I thought it was a joke! That's effin ridiculous.
- Bec Rowe @d0tski
XTree Fan Page / Directory - http://www.xtreefanpage.org/lowres...
James Polley and Joel Webber liked this
Someone at work uses XTree Gold on a 30" Screen with a resolution of 80x24. FTW.
- Rob Schonberger
from Bookmarklet
People actually still *use* XTree? I don't think I've seen this thing since the early 90's. It was cool, but if it still works on a modern machine, color me truly amazed.
- Joel Webber
No - that's Midnight Commander he's using; which is a clone of norton commander. See wikipedia pages for both. I asked him why he uses it full-screen - turns out that he doesn't like the default desktop background image, and full-screening mc is easier than changing the background image.
- James Polley
James, no way, It looks totally XTree gold here. I used to live in xtree gold and midnight commander. *sigh* the good old days.
- Rob Schonberger
@Joel, IntelliJ IDEA has a tab called "Commander", try it sometime. :)
- Ray Cromwell
Kindle for iPhone. Well played Amazon. - http://venturebeat.com/2009...
Anne Bouey, Jesse Stay, Bryan Clark and 23 other people liked this
Very smart of Amazon to leverage the 10 million iPhones. I imagine they'll get some Kindle sales too if people don't like the size of the iPhone for reading.
- Ken Gidley
hmm
- Josh Haley
I have both, the iPhone happily downloaded all my existing books within minutes over 3G. This app is adequate for occasional use, but it doesn't compare to the Kindle in terms of overall reading experience because of the lack of battery life on the iPhone (due to backlit screen). The only significant advantage is the faster-page-turning. But hey, I don't have my Kindle with me everywhere, and this gives me access to a lot of content wherever I am.
- G. Sigh
I love it. The Kindle would naturally always be my device-of-choice to read a digital book, but if I don't have it with me, or if the battery dies unexpectedly, it's great to just pull out my iPhone (which I *always* have with me) and read for 5 minutes while in line. There are (of course) things I'd change about the iPhone app, especially not having to flick my finger with every page...
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- Kevin Fox
I think it would be fantastic if publishers could attach their own fonts to their books. Books are about more than just words, and if they cant control the paper, size, or presentation of illustrations, they should at least be able to have some measure of control over typography. And users should be able to override it if they choose.
- Kevin Fox
I'd be more excited if it was sold in countries outside the US.
- James Polley
The Kindle doesn't support the fonts used in the original book? That's disappointing. In my perfect world, not only would the Kindle be a touch-screen, but it would be pretty much the physical equivalent to O'Reilly's SafariBooksOnline. I want it to look precisely like the printed version.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Exactly Akiva. Book design is an art and electronic books should display that art. (And be free from DRM). Why not use PDF, one of Adobe's finest technologies?
- LogEx
PDFs resize well if they are designed well. They don't re-flow, so not good for smaller devices. But the kindle is book-sized.
- LogEx
That's exactly what I said. PDF preserves design when resizing (scaling), but it doesn't re-flow. Kindle supports TXT, PDF, and HTML (but the Kindle format with DRM is an abomination).
- LogEx
FWIW tagged PDF files do reflow correctly.
- Sam Levine
philcrissman pushed to master at philcrissman/bread - http://github.com/philcri...
I get notified every time you commit now? Aiee! Thank goodness for hide!
- James Polley
Wakoopa Tracker - http://wakoopa.com/softwar...
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/me waits for "XXX Porno Player Pro"
- James Polley
@auxesis: I was wrong, it does post to Twitter.” (at Artarmon)
Sometimes it also gets your location completely wrong. Sitting in my loungeroom... in artarmon?
- James Polley
an comment. Testing wp/ff integration.
- James Polley
Amanda Devine! Hate her! http://www.smh.com.au/news...
That's miranda, not amanda. What I really hate is that one occasion a year that she says something sensible and I have to agree
- James Polley
Anyone know of any free ways to sync Gmail Contacts with Windows Mobile contacts without having to go down the Outlook path?
Step 1. Get an iPhone... :D
- John Masson
Step 2. Pay the Apple Tax ... lol
- Sherif Mansour
not that I'm familiar with any of the things that search finds.
- James Polley
You can export your contacts as a CSV or as vcards though. Doesn't keep them in sync, but okay for a one-off.
- James Polley
@James - ha ha! Yes...I did google it, didnt find anything decent.. good idea about the CSV.. might just do that every now and then
- Sherif Mansour
Ahh... Can't wait to use http://letmegooglethatforyou.com next time someone asks me something - awesome! :-)
I always used to like http://justfuckinggoogleit.com/... - but this one is, admittedly, politer.
- James Polley
Dance Fail - http://failblog.org/2008...
I lolled so hard.
- James Polley
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