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Re: Scoble’s private DM leaking out through his Posterous account

Boredcollegekid — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:51:06 -0000

I believe SimplyTweet caused it. Looks like Robert enabled it's ability to post long tweets to posterous and his DM got pushed to posterous wrongly.

Re: Removing The Ads In FeedDemon 3

Boredcollegekid — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 10:48:18 -0000

Or you could just leave the ads on and support the developer if you don't want to pay the $10 to get rid of them like honest people do.

Re: Glenn Beck – The Government wants to hack you now

Boredcollegekid — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 09:06:34 -0000

ME: "See a difference? As far as I can tell Glenn is on a non-public page, something for the dealers to access and use to interact with the government program, not the site consumers get"

The point here is that Glenn Beck is telling his viewers that simply going to cars.gov causes their computer to become the property of the US government. He and his guest repeatedly tell users to not go to the site.

The government isn't going to do anything to the average consumer on the site, and that is the issue with the entire piece

Re: Italian swimmer has her suit rip (Yeah there)

Boredcollegekid — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:16:41 -0000

I'd assume its because of:

"GR 5.1 The swimwear (swimsuit, cap and goggles) of all competitors shall be in good moral taste and suitable for the individual sports disciplines and not to carry any symbol which may be considered offensive."

and

"GR 5.4 The referee of a competition has the authority to exclude any competitor whose swimwear or body symbols do not comply with this Rule."

From
http://www.fina.org/project/index.php?option=co...

Re: One of the best pictures out of Iran

Anon — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 01:57:51 -0000

If that's the original photo, it kinda looks like she's presenting her thumb towards them? Or is that a stretch of the imagination? What's she doing? Either way yay her

Re: One of the best pictures out of Iran

StevenHodson — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 17:30:03 -0000

Boo Hiss Boo .. to the corner with you Boredcollegekid for ruining our illusion :) All I can say is it would have been nice if it was true

Re: One of the best pictures out of Iran

Boredcollegekid — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 16:06:28 -0000

Hate to burst the bubble here, but the picture is photoshopped (Original here http://twitpic.com/8bxsv)

One could say the photo was localized for Americans, because giving the Thumbs up in Iran and other Muslim countries is the equivalent of giving the middle finger here (Wikipedia http://bit.ly/Br8LD)

Even if she simply stood in front of his motorcade and did nothing it would be a serious show of disrespect.

Re: Bits N' Pieces

Boredcollegekid — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 15:26:59 -0000

Actually, I find the fact that they rolled in into Tekzilla smart from a business perspective. The "hardcore" geek audience wasn't enough, but they still wanted to keep them watching the shows, so they rolled Systm into Tekzilla, a show that in my view has lost much of its geek edge it had in the beginning.

Re: What’s The Most Underhyped Twitter App That You’re Using?

Boredcollegekid — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:56:55 -0000

DestroyTwitter, had inline picture viewing before any of the major clients and has as far as I can tell the most keyboard shortcuts; yet gets hardly any press

Re: Perhaps it's time to abandon Twitter

coldacid — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 19:32:05 -0000

I don't hate Twitter, I just can't see it getting over its problems. So I'm moving on. I'm suggesting that others should do the same, but you're right, there are a lot of Twitter die-hards who will absolutely refuse to switch to something newer and better, something that's learned from the mistakes of the past and gained from them.

Whether others change services or not is up to them. I'm simply suggesting that they might find something better out there if they make the switch.

Re: Perhaps it's time to abandon Twitter

Boredcollegekid — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 19:22:19 -0000

Didn't last summer's flings with identi.ca and plurk all but prove the majority of twitter users will never be pulled away from the service no matter how bad it gets? I think those of us who hate twitter are speaking to a wall anymore

Re: Secure your Wordpress Install

Boredcollegekid — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:16:46 -0000

Thanks for the information Ryan, updated the post to reflect it

Re: It's that time again!

Boredcollegekid — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 15:05:59 -0000

Is this project officially dead? Everything else concerning it is

Re: Time to Take a Stand - Yes, We’re Ending the DMs

Boredcollegekid — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 12:02:08 -0000

Oh thank you sweet baby jesus.

Re: Tweetdeck vs Twhirl: It’s a very hard call

Boredcollegekid — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 22:30:47 -0000

Odd I've always found Twhirl to be a good looking client, namely the black magic theme (the default one is terrible though). Even though I got even screen space on the desktop I near liked tweetdeck taking up all the space it does and the single window view comes off as terrible to me.

Re: Google says hello to Twitter with a stream of 1s and 0s

Boredcollegekid — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 21:32:42 -0000

The full message is I'm Feeling Lucky

Re: What Drove Ritz Camera To Bankruptcy?

pompman14555 — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 22:48:11 -0000

I work there and you will spend more money on ink and paper than you would in the store. You also don't get the same finish as you would if the prints were processed chemically. Thirdly, I edit your prints for you- adjust the color and red eye.

Re: What Drove Ritz Camera To Bankruptcy?

Boredcollegekid — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:56:09 -0000

Whats the point of going in there when you can print up all the photos you need right from home or get better deals on cameras online.

Re: The Newest Way To Game Twitter - Fake Followers

vlb — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 22:52:52 -0000

agreed. Something along the lines of, oh, any of the third party tools that provide suggestions for whom to follow. Following someone who has 60,000+ followers already isn't a good way to get involved with twitter!

Re: The Newest Way To Game Twitter - Fake Followers

Boredcollegekid — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:05:51 -0000

Seems a far more useful suggested followers feature would be to suggest people close to the new user or suggest people who tweet about their interests, rather than suggesting random power users who probably won't interact with the new user.

Re: Facebook proves how lame it is – steals from Twitter and FriendFeed

Boredcollegekid — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 18:53:01 -0000

For me its not so much the idea of facebook adding the like feature as its the general move towards a friendfeed-like activity stream on the site. Few months ago they added the stream itself with comments and people made the same uproar about copying and it was justified then as it is now. No friendfeed didn't invent the like feature, could compare it to digging up, but friendfeed was one of the first major sites to put all the stuff together.

Re: Plurk hates iPlurk, creates its own iPhone app

Boredcollegekid — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 11:12:16 -0000

Been using Ryan's ad hoc release of the app for a while, nice to see Apple finally approved it

Re: iPhone 2.2 update now available

Boredcollegekid — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:31:53 -0000

Just a note that whole street view thing? Left out for us touch users. Love you too apple

Re: I was wrong: TwitterFon much better than Tweetsville

Boredcollegekid — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 23:35:19 -0000

One thing I hated about tweetsville is that there was no way to reply to a tweet from the timeline you had to click on the tweet and select reply. One feature I'd hope twitterfon adds is the ability to follow/unfollow a user but I can't complain about a fast free app

Re: Surprise! The memory issues are back in Firefox

Boredcollegekid — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 01:37:26 -0000

A quick look a mozilla's bugzilla shows a ton of posts on the issues, ranging from the memory usage (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46...) to the crashes. Whatever the final issue is, its apparent something is badly broken in the thing. I personally don't have any issues with the stable build (the nightly build crashed every time I tried to use google docs).