maybe later. not yet tho. good potential but i dont believe it can beat iphone overall. i agree w/ the article.
- ugurarcan
think apple better then google? this like microsoft and linux, yeah
- Странник
The momentum behind the iPhone is the key. There's so many people behind the iPhone now, better technology can't affect it (and Apple does a good job of keeping the product competitive). Android would be wise to provide a simple solution for porting of iPhone apps. They need the apps.
- ·[▪_▪]·
i think this is a little beyond apple vs. google. i agree above, its the momentum behind it. its quite possible droid has many more advantages but as of today also has a lottt to catch up and iphone isnt slowing either.
- ugurarcan
http://twitter.com/niczak -- I tweet about the following: Programming, databases, parenting, living & enjoying life, and involvement in lots of local activities here in Northern Nevada.
- Nicholas Kreidberg
I have most of you (didn't have Valeria for some reason, but just added), mine is http://twitter.com/jungleg -- see you on the other side ;)
- Jorge Escobar
http://twitter.com/dennis_... (don't forget the underscore) What do I tweet about? Tech, fiction, art, music, politics, comics, and of course my fiction. Occasionally some Seattle or Bremerton related stuff. I also have TwitterFeed tweet my blogs, and I always tweet from Flickr.
- Dennis Jernberg
http://twitter.com/glenc but I have to warn you, I stopped following people on Twitter a while ago. I have about 300 subscription notices (unread) in my email.
- Glen Campbell, B.A.
i post about film and television editing/post production, I'm a bit of a gadget nerd, and i like anything funny on the web. i love followers... http://twitter.com/toddzelin
- Todd Zelin
I'm sure you're all interesting but following 6,000 is my limit. ; )
- Liz
http://twitter.com/cgranier - I tweet about many things -usually tech-oriented, reply to everyone who @'s me, and have lately been posting a lot about #FreeMediaVE, bringing attention to the struggle against communism in Venezuela. Feel free to follow me. @ me for a quick follow back. No spammers please.
- Carlos Granier-Phelps
Thank you all. I hope at least some follow me back else I'll hit my follower limit soon. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
http://identi.ca/andyc Microblog about all sorts but mainly OMB and how much I dislike inferior legacy services. No names, no packdrill.
- Andy C
http://twitter.com/Felter i tweet about all, but i don't retweet my FF message. From twitter to FF only. if you follow me in FF, you can read my tweet.
- Felter Roberto
from twhirl
You know, you could have just started feeding in your tweets here and achieved the same, right? Or would that have been too subtle?
- Mr. Gunn
http://twitter.com/glitterpoet Don't mean to offend but it's usually not religious. Porn, drinking,dancing, music,makeup....I still do healing work. I just don't talk about it much anymore.
- Gabrielle V
My twitter stream is the typical... random thought bubbles, food porn pics, and shared items relating to technology, politics, and $$$. http://twitter.com/sean808080 is where you find me. Oh and I like unicorns and fairy dust.
- sean808080
@fossilhuntress or fossilmaitress (I kept getting my email cracked and getting locked out hence the duplicate); all content, linked to digg, delicious... mostly science, paleo and random banter...
- Fossil Huntress
http://twitter.com/wangyip - mostly stuff from FF (tech, startups, web apps, sometimes things about math, medicine, fitness) - I've followed a few here on tech stuff (Edit: Thanks Kol for the thread)
- Wang Yip
http://twitter.com/eoghann... - I post sci-fi news (tv, movies, books or comics I'm probably a fan of it), some tech stuff and the occasional round of venting.
- Eoghann Irving
Creeping closer inch by inch – 900ft above the mighty Colorado River – the two sides of a £160million bridge at the Hoover Dam in America slowly take shape. The bridge will carry a new section of US Route 93 past the bottleneck of the old road which can be seen twisting and winding around and across the dam itself. When complete, it will provide a new link between the states of Nevada and Arizona. In an incredible feat of engineering, the road will be supported on the two massive concrete arches which jut out of the rock face. The arches are made up of 53 individual sections – each 24ft long – which have been cast on-site and are being lifted into place using an improvised high-wire crane strung between temporary steel pylons.
- Emma
from Bookmarklet
Glad you peeps liked this tip. It's certainly changed the way I use my iPhone now. Necessity is definitely the mother of invention. ;-)
- Carlos Granier-Phelps
from iPhone
"you peeps" ? ... com on now .. im kidding .. us The People
- Petr Buben
from IM
I've been using this for a few days now and it's working quite well. Sometimes, the email addresses appear a beat funky to the recipients, but so far everybody's been getting their emails. How's it been for you?
- Carlos Granier-Phelps
I haven't tried the Groups app, though it's been mentioned a few times. I'll check it out now to see exactly how they deal with this issue. One thing, though, my solution is free ;-)
- Carlos Granier-Phelps
Checked out Groups and it can't do photos yet. The Camera application allows you to email up to 3 photos per message - however you can't interface the Camera app with the Groups app. There's another app called MultiPhoto that allows you to send multiple photos but not to multiple recipients.
- Carlos Granier-Phelps
UPDATED: Now works with most email services and eliminates the Invalid Address dialog box.
- Carlos Granier-Phelps
Ack one day I'll actually get my XB360 hooked up to the LAN. Wish there were more hours in the day. I even have 3 mos of the "Gold" as part of the HD promo.
- mikepk
Thank you all, I've added and requested you guys.
- Kol Tregaskes
ITBlogger Glad to see you bought a 360...you won't be disappointed. I sent you an invite.
- Alex Scoble
Actually I added everyone else too...so if you see a request to add ITBlogger, that would be me. Hopefully one of you has a higher gamerscore than me...I need a new goal. :)
- Alex Scoble
Amani, there was certainly a user with that username, added. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Alex, added, thank you. Yes Xbox is great, my brother and I have been playing co-op Call of Duty, shame we have to start from the beginning every time - how can the publisher/developer have omitted that feature.
- Kol Tregaskes
Alex, cool! Just got your request, and will respond as soon as I get back to the dashboard. :)
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
I had to laugh at the Type n Walk app. I mean, it's really kind of brilliant, because it is actually difficult to type and walk at the same time; I know, I've tried it. But on the other hand, isn't kind of sad that someone saw fit to make an app for that purpose? :P
- Jamie Mack
Second, what is your main reason for buying a camera? (Kids, photojournalism, nature, etc).
- Robert Scoble
Third, do you want the best or do you have a budget?
- Robert Scoble
Fourth, if you want an SLR, do you already own lenses in a particular system? Is your friend going to loan you expensive lenses in a specific system?
- Robert Scoble
Fifth, has anyone already brainwashed you that Canon is better than Nikon or vice versa?
- Robert Scoble
Google Wave != Twitter. Why would he talk about it there?
- Jesse Stay
Jesse: he asked me about cameras on Twitter.
- Robert Scoble
Robert, but he didn't on Google Wave - I don't get the comparison
- Jesse Stay
Jesse: Twitter is more productive for many kinds of collaboration than Google Wave is. Why? Serendipity, which is why he went to Twitter.
- Robert Scoble
Jesse: I added the Google Wave thing. Seems that bashing Google Wave gets a certain type of person really going, which I enjoy.
- Robert Scoble
Robert, but Google Wave isn't trying to be Twitter. Twitter has its own purposes, as does Twitter. The two are nowhere remotely alike.
- Jesse Stay
Jesse: y ou don't get the joke, that's OK.
- Robert Scoble
Sorry - I have a cold. Jokes are harder to understand when you have a cold. :-)
- Jesse Stay
Oh, and I should have added a different question: are y ou looking for a video or still camera. New Tweets from ArabCrunch show he's looking for a video camera.
- Robert Scoble
@Robert many thanx for the explanation Ya i need a video cam to stream events and Video Interviews in high quality . HD cam right and I want something no more than 1,200 USD, 700 USD would be better? I do not have google Wave, I appreciate an invite from u or anyone :)
- Gaith
for google wave invite my email is arabcrunch at gmail dot com or editor at arabcrunch dot com
- Gaith
Gaith: I am not an expert on the middle of the HD video camera lines. We use $6,000 Panasonic cams, or a $3,000 Canon 5DMKII, or Kodak Zi8s, but the Zi8s or the FlipCams aren't for streaming. Sorry. One thing: make sure the camera you get has an external microphone input. Many cams don't and that will severely limit its flexibility.
- Robert Scoble
thanx robert and sorry i meant not over 1,200 not 12,000 USD.and it must have a FireWire? how many MPs over 12?
- Gaith
what ever fits best in your hand ... dont buy because of a Brand Names ..
- johnpiercy
I never had a video cam but my Nokia's so i am not brian washed maybe not bc I only know Sony and Canon
- Gaith
Gaith - thanks for calling my attention to this. Been using a Webbie HD. Good for casual interviews, BAD for conferences. Sound/lighting all have to be perfect in the environment. Ditto for Flip. And yeah, no streaming Here's my new setup: http://is.gd/3UMAt Used Panasonic, model WV-D5100. They can be found for a few hundred in varying states of repair. Haven't tried streaming yet. Try asking @efren about that
- Jolie O'Dell
Another good person to ask for advice would be @commonmanfilms
- Jolie O'Dell
Choose the camera that clicks the quickest. Photography is about capturing the moment. In my 40 years of photography I've found that my best photos were the ones where the camera was an extension of my brain, via my finger. My biggest complaint about most modern digital cameras is not the megapixel count, nor the lens resolution, but the delay between pressing the button and capturing...
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- Andrew Denny
from iPhone
Thanks Jolie, Andrew u got some names models? i am asking about a video cam
- Gaith
Canon 5D is pretty good (for HD). I would suggest in your search find cameras with CMOS instead of CCD (processors). I would suggest the Flip only if you do not mind medium quality. I personally use a Canon GL2. As for HD, thats a preference, you have to take into consideration that 60-70% of web users are on mobile devices or low speed connection.
- Christopher Munton
thanx christpher :) i look into that if anyone have more tips please elaborate .
- Gaith
hey guys what about the Storage? what do you suggest?
- Gaith
Hey Gaith, As you probably already seen from your research there isn't much you can get in the area of $700 - 1,200 to get great HD Cams and the ability to stream along with great audio. Like Robert said the Panasonic cams are the most popular right now and are one of the better ones. How ever you can still get by with an SD cam for the amount that you are looking for. We stream with...
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- Efren Toscano
1. Finding TV Shows with showRSS 2. Subscribing to Episode Feeds With Automatic 3. Downloading Shows With Transmission 4. Encoding and Adding Metadata With Videoengine 5. Cleaning Up With Hazel
- Christopher Harley
from Bookmarklet
Nope French, But each time I encounter someone from Africa on Paris, he says that I'm from the family. ;-) Sure, I lhave a particular attitude at work, and I like very much to argue with others during leisure time.
- Thierry Lhôte
CrunchGear is live in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia for the inauguration ceremony of KAUST, the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology. This is a 30-square kilometer state-of-the-art research institution with faculty and students from all over the world. For the next couple of days I'll be getting some behind-the-scenes access to technology in use here, both for education and research, as well as the tools used to bring this place together. TechCrunch50 Conference 2009: September 14-15, 2009, San Francisco
Sure, if they supported full feeds, but they won't. Let's get out of our Twitter navel-gazing.
- Louis Gray
Friendfeed is competitor in my own personal point of view.
- Burcu Dogan
Loic has said they're working on it - the potential is there, and I predict you'll see the links, but have capability to mouse over or click to view full text in-line
- Jesse Stay
If not I'm totally going to write something that does and they'll have competition :-) Hoping Loic or Iain does it first though so I don't have to.
- Jesse Stay
For the same reason there's no real competitor to Google, Neil Patrick Harris, or the Snuggie: it's warm, comfortable, and inviting. It's like a seven-layer burrito, the perfect combination of ingredients for a tasty treat.
- Luke Stay
After using Feedly for a long time, I thought to give GR a try yesterday. Feedly works on GR only so, no competition to it, but Feedly is what should happen to every Google application to make it look good and work finer. Like Apple products.
- Nitin Nanivadekar
I agree Google Reader is the best for reading RSS. maybe other big companies don't see RSS as important enough to justify the development of a full-blown app for them. I was reading today about Readtwit... if google reader would integrate a similar technology to expand the articles with partial feeds, there would truly be no competition!
- George Moga
My order of importance : reader, search, AdSense, documents, email, maps, browser, Analytics, YouTube - that's it. Thank you for making me think about it!
- Detlef Cordes
"Not too surprising — the most common number of tabs to have open is one, with a pretty steady descent down to 9. It flattens out and hits a valley at 13, but then rises slightly again for a second peak at 16. So, again we see a slight bi-modality to the distribution. But if we take the same set of “tab power users” from the first graph, we see that they have roughly the same profile as all the participants put together. In fact, the peak at 16 is almost entirely caused by only two of the power users: participants 14 and 20."
- Micah Wittman
from Bookmarklet
PHP and Python are both fine, anything but ASP!
- Mike Chelen
Otto, you sound like me before I actually started programming in Python. It rocks.
- Steve "Daddy do it!" Lacy
Python's the best, I've got to agree with the people who dislike the whitespace thing though (It's still the best).
- Hugh Isaacs II
I tried to use Python, then stopped even bothering when I couldn't find a way to manually define my code blocks. It's a stupid design feature that makes the language unusable for me. Mainly, I don't like using "smart" editors or IDEs for simplistic things, and the whitespace issue makes it more or less mandatory to use one of those. They say Lisp is a language of parentheses... Well, Python is a language of the spacebar.
- Otto
Why would you *not* indent your code that way anyway? Is the ability to format your code badly really a feature worth fighting for? Python forces people to pay attention to formatting, which improves readability and maintainability. Pure win.
- Kevin Shaum
The ability to format my code the way I want to format it instead of sticking to some arbitrary specification that, frankly, makes no sense, is a feature that I will not give up, yes. One size does *NOT* fit all, and there is more than one way to do anything. Making code formatting have *programmatic meaning* is an epic fail, in every sense. I will not now, nor ever, use a language that has this "feature". End of discussion.
- Otto
@Otto It doesn't make it a fail if you don't like it. Besides if that's the only flaw you can find in Python it just demonstrates how much you really know about it. ;) There's a saying in Finnish which translates to English something like: You should try everything once, except folk dancing and incest.
- Tarmo Aidantausta
Tarmo: I disagree entirely. I am the only person that matters! HOORAY EGO! HOORAY BEER!
- Otto
Steve: You'd be surprised. Do you have a car made in the last ten years? Well, there's a better than even chance that some of my code is actually inside your car (and a ~85% chance that my code has affected your car in some manner during manufacture). Have a nice drive home. :-)
- Otto
I don't understand the way you guys are responding to Otto - he doesn't like a key aspect of coding in Python; something that touches every line of code he would write - so why should he continue to mess with it? There are plenty of really good languages out there that he can use and get the job done. he tried it, didn't like it, and moved on. If you like using it great - but his not liking it doesn't reflect on your or the language at all; so why be defensive?
- Bill Rawlinson
Otto: distinguishing between formatting and programmatic logic is subjective. in C for example, a new line character has meaning, so "#include <iostream> void main()" would be different than putting them on separate lines.
- Mike Chelen
Bill: The reason is, virtually every programmer responds the same way the first time they look at Python; but most people who stick with it a few days *completely* reverse their opinions. I went months thinking Python was awful before really digging in, and found out I had been missing out on something really cool.
- Kevin Shaum
Kevin: Why should I stick with it? I've read several code examples of it, I see no inherent advantages to using it (especially since virtually every other modern language offers a very similar feature set), and trying to adhere to its annoying and strange formatting standards drives me straight up the damn wall, so no. The hell with it. Python is the only language I've ever seen where...
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- Otto
While I do agree with Otto of the ridiculousness of whitespace having an effect on program execution, I disagree with Otto's stance on branding Python as a bad language per se. It is a nice language to ease beginners into writing nicely formatted code, although I shudder to think of writing huge apps with it. As was posted, there is no such thing as a one-size-fits-all language. Me? Oh,...
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- Pandu ● IT Optimizer
from fftogo
Otto: my reason for learning python was originally that it was the only language supported by google app engine, which has a certain utility. since they now support java as well, it is more due to seeing some elegant examples in python, and that if from google's point of view any language is somehow comparable to java, there is probably a good reason to learn more about it ;)
- Mike Chelen
Where it published? is there any story with it
- Satya Prakash
I did that, but I was heading vertical, school had a vaulted ceiling and I went running, stepped on a chair right were it dropped, on impact both shoes fell off, one hit a guy in the face.
- Jimminy
wonder if that kid had aspirations of being a stunt guy... "dignity, always with dignity" ;)
- alphaxion
If I weren't afraid of going right through the wall, I'd probably still try that. I know I would have done that (and did similar things quite often) when I was much younger.
- Curtiss Grymala
This is still superb this morning after. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Defining the line between brave and stupid?
- Eoghann Irving
If I did that, first the wall would collapse, and then the floor. (So, you see, it's not that I *couldn't*... I just choose not to, for the protection of others.)
- Mark Jepsen
You're right. I don't have the guts...and I'm proud of that.
- Tammy Marshall
"Salt and pepper squid is a popular “pub food”. It easily cost S$10 for a small basket if you order it at a pub, but you get more for less than half the price if you do it at home. This is incredibly simple and requires minimal ingredients. Besides the squid, I already have the rest of the ingredients in my pantry because they are common pantry stock (salt, pepper, flour, lemons, mayonnaise, cooking oil). This version is the light batter type."
- Steven Perez
from Bookmarklet