Don;t be so short-sighted. Your type accounts for an exceptionally small percentage of internet users. The rest will just use the default, Internet Explorer, with no thought of an alternative, or, for most, even knowledge of others existing.
Whether this is Microsoft's fault or not is a whole other question, and an issue I don't really care about.
Calling all OS X users with Quicktime! When you go to the View menu, you get an option to "Present Movie."
Now, which sense of "present" is that?
Is it [pri-zent] — as in, to present the current movie — or [prez-uh nt] — as in, to do something with the present movie.
Both senses can work equally well, and I can't decide which Apple probably intended.
I know this is totally inane, but this kind of shit bothers me. Help me out here.
E-mail signatures are lame.
Richard Dunlop-Walters
(http://nostrich.net)
Ok, clever people. I'm trying to figure out a way of getting Twitter to send only @replies to my phone as a text. I was using Twitter's track feature — tracking "nostrich" — but it doesn't seem to work, so I need a different solution. And yes, I'm sure my phone is set up in Twitter properly because I get direct messages sent to it just fine.
Is there any sort of hack/mashup/script that will enable this?
Goldfish actually have a memory far greater than only a few seconds. More like three months. They are a lot smarter and sentient than most people think — they feel pain when caught on a hook, they can be manipulative and socially aware, and recognise their fishy friends.
With regard to their memories, they have been taught to press a lever to get food. They were then able to be taught that the lever only deposits food for a particular hour a day, and they learnt what hour during a day it was.
They've been taught to respond to a tapping on their tank, and they have been known to respond to their owners' faces, while hiding when confronted with strangers.
I don't know the specifics of how they got the figure of three months, but it's more than just "examining the brain." They conduct various psychological experiments that are too far out of my league to explain.
Google "goldfish memory".
What happens if you swallow viagra too slowly? You get a stiff neck.
All I got.
I couldn't really care less about most of this nonsense — though I care a little about MacApper, since they have paid writers (myself being one, sort of*), and not a single one of them was informed.
What I don't understand is how, exactly, it promoted MacHeist. Not a single one of the "hacks" mentioned MacHeist. Presumably, they all planned to post a "LOL GOTCHA! Go give MacHeist money!" post at a set date, but how is that better advertisment than just saying "Hey, MacHeist is at it again! Go help them increase their ludicrous profit margin and rip off developers!" (or something less biased, more likely)?
Despite all this, they'll still make loads of money, most of which they'll keep for themselves, and no one will care in a few weeks. Bit of a waste of time, really. All they've achieved is a few hurt reputations (and that would have happened whether they'd been "exposed" or not).
The fact that none of the big Apple blogs were part of it — Daring Fireball, TUAW, etc. — tells its own story.
* I recently became a contributor, but hadn't actually written anything yet. Which is how I know none of their writers were informed.
Please we have global disasters, poverty, sexism, racism and Christmas shopping to do. This is not the end of the world or ever significant in the scheme of things.
Get over it.
Some people couldn't care less about sexism, racism, and Christmas shopping. More, even, do care about terrible PR stunts, hacking, and Apple.
Get over it.
I use Skitch (Invite only still, I believe, but I have invites if you'd like one). As well as letting you drag-select an area, you can just click a window to capture that window. Quite handy, really, as it has built in editing and uploading features (including directly to Flickr).
There are open source grammar-checking libraries out there that will probably (with the foreseeable "opening-up" of mobile operating systems) make their way onto phones.
I hadn't considered that, but it's an excellent point. Though I wouldn't presume to trust the quality of them. Ever since Microsoft bought up TexCorrect, there hasn't been much point in putting resources into building a decent grammar checker. And those that are — most notably, OpenOffice's LanguageTool — are just as shit as Word's. But as mentioned, a great deal of technical ability isn't really required, so maybe it could be twisted into something useful.
Firefox and Thunderbird are expected to start using HunSpell (the checker in OpenOffice) in their next major versions, so this could be a candidate for phones too.
HunSpell is a spellchecker, not a grammar checker. I thought the Mozilla suite used SpellBound, anyway?
Predictive text is great for composing text messages. But it has problems. In particular: paragrams (or textonyms, or whatever). Because each key represents 3, or even 4, letters, various combinations of keypresses can result in numerous different possible words.
The combination 63 could produce "me" and "of," 5477 could be "kiss" or "lips," and, an extreme example, 22737 can produce 14 different words. Try it.
I propose a solution. Or, at least, something that could significantly reduce the likeliness of accidentally typing "shag" when you mean "rich" — with my name, this happens a lot.
Built-in grammar checking. Not of Microsoft Office proportions, obviously — that's both unnecessary, and probably technically unfeasible. Any phone with predictive text already has a fairly extensive dictionary of words. I don't suppose it would be too difficult to attach to each word what part of speech it is.
Example: in the case of me and of. "Me" is an objective pronoun, and "of" is a preposition. So, if I were to write a text saying "Don't you love me," it would easily tell "me" was what I intended, rather than "of" because "love" is a verb, and an objective pronoun functions as the target of a verb.
Obviously, it's not without technicalities. "Love" can also be a noun, and the preposition "of" could perfectly naturally follow it. So it would need to see "you love" and see that "love" is being used as a verb.
Actually, just while writing this, I've realised how horribly complicated it could get. But I reckon if you had every word in the dictionary tagged with what part of speech it can represent, and give the software the ability to not only compute every possible word, but every possible grammatical arrangement, it could eliminate a large percentage of paragram issues.
There might not be much point if you can't eliminate all of them, you could argue. But Microsoft Word doesn't even come close to being able to eliminate all grammatical errors (in fact, Word's is one of the worst built-in grammar checkers). It would be a fair trade for the problems it could fix.
Just a brainstorm, anyway. What do you think?
Jesus, Erin, you get all the luck. A lovely boyfriend, lovely home, and now a brand new lovely computer.
I want a lovely boyfriend.
Demonoid is definitely gone, and it's for good. Suprnova, however, returned ages ago.
Either way, what's the problem? There will always be torrent trackers, many replacing previously shut down ones, and always somewhere to get what you're looking for.
Also, no one ever went to Demonoid for legal purposes. (And Bit Torrent isn't peer to peer.)
Bumping this. I'm tumbling more regularly now (mine is 2 replies up). Anyone else got one since this note?
To be blunt, I would be absolutely fucked without computers. As would the world around me.
One minor example is that all my homework and assignments are stored on my computer. Without that, I'd be back to "my dog ate it." And though I could hand write them, where would I download plagiarised essays to pass off as my own from?
Facebook apps started as a great idea, and have turned into an uncontrollable monster. I spend all day ignoring pokes, bites, hugs, kisses, slaps, zaps, and god knows what else.
The only apps I use are ones that serve some purpose, and anyone that invites me to anything else can kindly take the next bus to hell.
I've got the last.fm to make sure my friends know how awesome my taste in music is, and the Scrabulous one -- which is unobtrusive and provides a nice distraction, without pissing anyone off.
Edit: Apparently Video isn't a default app, so I have that too. Now there's an example of a brilliantly made, well-integrated application that is actually useful in the context of Facebook. Made by, unsurprisingly, Facebook themselves.
... What?
Who gives a shit if you're an "iFanboy" or anything else? Owning Apple products doesn't make you a fan boy. If you want to use Apple, use Apple. And a browser with spell checking.
I've got three, my MacBook and two PCs, but I only use the MacBook regularly, hooked up to an external display. One of the PCs is nothing more than a glorified fileserver running Debian that I use for, well, serving files over the network, funnily enough -- my MacBook's HD is teeny, so I torrent everything to the Debian box, and it also gives everyone else in the house access to my movies and music. Then I've got the other PC I keep around purely for Counterstrike.
I say it with a hint of elitism.
I've considered giving Dvorak a go a few times in the past. But I can touch type pretty well on a QWERTY layout now, and am doing so right now because I'm typing in the dark and can't see the keyboard; why try to fix something that ain't broke?
This note just made TUAW.
Wouldn't it be much easier to just start a group on Facebook? That's pretty much exactly what that function is for.
I'm a Colloquy user, personally. You can set it as either a sidebar with full channel and user list, or a per-channel drawer, with the channels in tabs below. I use the drawer and tabs -- and though you can collapse the drawer (my preference), as far as I'm aware, there's no way to get it on the right.
As for other clients, there is indeed an Xchat client. There's also an OS X IRSSI port you could try -- and that does put the user list on the right. I found it to be quite sluggish though, despite preferring it overall.
Edit: MacIrssi.
This note does nothing to alter my perception that you are a little crazy, Lelia. I hope you know that.
They both have different purposes for me. Digg's purpose is to be ignored, and Delicious's is for saving links I might want to return to one day.
arthur,
But it comes up in the wrong language!
Curiouser and curiouser.
9rules' biggest Windows zealot switching to Linux?
Billy G finally cracked you?
Scrivs just got Tyme'd!
If you paid for it, you don't have a leg to stand on if you're arguing that it was overvalued. You bought the damn thing; it can't have been that much overvalued.
Not at anyone in particular, just sayin'.
My iPod (only a month old!) is going on eBay the second those things come out over here.
Wait until you buy one. The new ones will be released in the next week or so.
Bastards.
Sony Ericsson w950i (photo). Yes. Definitely. I still think this is one of the best phones currently on the market. And probably the closest equivalent to the iPhone, with its touchscreen. I've had it almost a year, and could see myself using it for another year.
To everyone getting all up in arms about it: You do know it's only an experiment, right? It's not meant to be a Google killer, just a demonstration of Silverlight's capabilities.
Option-clicking the disclosure triangle by the podcast's name to make it re-query the podcast for episodes got them back -- though they'll have to be re-downloaded. Still no idea why they disappeared in the first place though.
I haven't found a solution, but I have realised it's doing it to all my podcasts. What the hell?
» Sorry Camino, I Went Back To My Ex-Browser's Edgy Twin ... Last Reply: 1 year ago by alexsuraci.
Mike, a millisecond (ms) is a thousandth of a second, not a hundredth.
The first WebKit nightly time I saw in that list was 3861.2ms, which is nearer 4 seconds than 37 seconds. I suggest you re-run your numbers. Because 88 seconds is abysmal — I'm assuming you got somewhere in the region of 8,800ms, right? That makes for 8.8 seconds, not 88.
I got 15,552ms (15.5 seconds) in Camino, for what it's worth. On a MacBook with only 512mb RAM, without bothering to close "extraneous" apps or restart the browser after having it open for over 24 hours. (And I've experienced none of the problems you describe, Mike.)