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Re: Scrabble Update: Notifications? Um, sure.

garylapointe — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:24:35 -0000

So if I had two friends with iPhones (somewhere else in the world) connect to the same scrabble game on Facebook (with the EA application) wouldn't we all be playing the same game? Or doesn't it work that way, I've never actually played on Facebook.

Gary

Re: Scrabble Update: Notifications? Um, sure.

Bonnie — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:00:32 -0000

Yes, you have to be on the same WiFi network.

For remote multiplayer over the the internet, you have to use Facebook. EA's Scrabble's online portion IS Facebook Scrabble; if you want to play friends on the internet, just pick them from your friend's list.

Hope that helps!

Re: Scrabble Update: Notifications? Um, sure.

garylapointe — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:59:20 -0000

I assumed so for the WiFi games, but something as slow as Scrabble, especially if it is connecting to Facebook for the game seems like it wouldn't matter :(

Too bad...

Thanks!
Gary from http://GarySaid.com/

Re: Scrabble Update: Notifications? Um, sure.

garylapointe — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:12:13 -0000

I've got a question, a few actually.

I believe this lets you play over WiFi, but do they have to be in the same network?
or can they be anywhere on the internet?

Does playing EA's Scrabble have anything to do with the Facebook scrabble?

Thanks,
Gary from http://GarySaid.com/

Re: Tony’s Tips ~ Syncing with Multiple Computers

garylapointe — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:14:15 -0000

This is great. I had no idea it would work this way, and it's actually the best way to have it work for me. I don't have 80GB on my laptop to store all my music & vids, but I do want to sync my Apps and Podcasts from the laptop.

Gary

Re: Display 11+ Pages of iPhone Apps

garylapointe — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 20:34:50 -0000

It fell off into page 12 which I can't get to. I can search for the apps and run them :)

Gary

Re: Display 11+ Pages of iPhone Apps

daynah — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 18:09:04 -0000

Aww, by missing apps, do you mean they are not on the pages? Try re-syncing with your computer to bring them back.

Re: Display 11+ Pages of iPhone Apps

garylapointe — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:54:57 -0000

I've got an iPhone 3gs (3.0 not jailbroken) and I sadly can't get it to duplicate :(

Now I've got a bunch of missing apps....

Re: Twitter Revamps Following and Followers Pages

Todd Michael Greene — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:49:23 -0000

If you use FireFox there is a Greasemonkey script developed by @troynt which does that and tons more. I've stopped using Twitter apps completely since implementing this into my browser. From what I understand Troy is planning to port this script to other browsers.

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/40617

Re: Twitter Revamps Following and Followers Pages

Gary LaPointe — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:43:23 -0000

But I still can't tell by looking at someone else's page if they are following me :(

How hard can that be to implement? Don't they (still) have to be following me for me to DM them? They need to make it easier...

Re: A Facebook Favor

garylapointe — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 09:56:47 -0000

I joined but later I noticed the 1,000 person limit by the end of May. Sorry...

Re: Insights From the Latest Flurry Industry Pulse

Gary LaPointe — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:25:12 -0000

But downloading isn't using it. For free, I'll give quite a few a try, but I might never use it again. The question is how many purchased because of the trial that wouldn't have? And of course how many didn't purchase because they tried it and didn't like it.

The other thing is I feel too many demos give too much away. If it's practically fully-functional why would someone buy the full version? (I personally would to support them). Unless it's against Apple's policy, make the app stop running after 5 minutes, or give them reminders, or make the program expire in a few months.

And when you look in iTunes, there is no decent way (that I know of) to get back to the original description tag, let alone the seller's page to buy other applications from them, I have to do a search to (try) and find them. Itunes search isn't the most helpful of features...

Re: Design The Next iPhone Contest

Gary LaPointe — Wed, 20 May 2009 12:39:09 -0000

I remember that ad.

It was on the last page of one of the Brit Apple magazines (iCreate?).

I think they even purchased iPhone.com and redirected it to Apple.

Re: An Offline Google Reader For My iPod Touch

Gary LaPointe — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 00:43:44 -0000

I'm desperately looking for one of these too.

Have you found anything better?

Are the newer versions of byline any better?

Looks like it's got 200 feeds per category now... (And 1/2 the price)
phantomfish.com/bylinevideotour.html

Re: but she's a girl... » The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

bsag — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 13:46:52 -0000

Yes, I was imagining her with the wall of her writing room covered with stickies, with a complex web of strings looping back and forth between different events. How she kept the relative ages of her characters straight, I will never know.

Re: but she's a girl... » The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

Gary LaPointe — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 18:15:38 -0000

It's an awesome book! I just finished reading again myself.

It's a really well written first book, especially when you consider the convoluted story-line.

Gary

Re: boxee blog » xbmc/boxee on Apple TV

Gary LaPointe — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:54:52 -0000

Can I use the same invite for my AppleTV and a Mac?

Re: boxee blog » xbmc/boxee on Apple TV

Gary LaPointe — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:53:55 -0000

I'd love to get an invite to Boxee to try this out! Thank you...

Re: Comcast's 250GB limit? (Scripting News)

garylapointe — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 22:58:31 -0000

Did they ever "provide a site where they tell us how much we've used"?

I got yelled at the the 1/10 of 1 percent once, but they couldn't even tell me if it was up or downloading.

Re: Seesmic Doubts

Gary LaPointe — Wed, 07 May 2008 23:03:15 -0000

The ability to take a quick look in the video is a minus. I just did a Seesmic post today on the need for tags (and categories) since it's so hard to tell what stuff is about. You can't even have much of a description and the titles get cut off (not much info for the search engines either).

Re: HeatherandSarah.com - Hey Amir!

garylapointe — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 21:32:30 -0000

I'm not really sure what the show is about yet. But I'll be watching!

Re: Wine Library TV Party At De Loach Vineyards In Santa Rosa

Gary LaPointe — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 23:51:49 -0000

Sorry, didn't even think to read the text for the type of camera. I knew who most of the people were and the story behind the event (so I kinda skipped the content).

I just thought the photos you took were very vibrant(?) even more so inside than out. Is that the built in flash? or are you using the hotshoe?

Thank you again.

Re: Wine Library TV Party At De Loach Vineyards In Santa Rosa

Gary LaPointe — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 20:34:43 -0000

Scott, What kind of still camera did you use for these shots? They look great.

I was only there virtually...

Re: Intelligent Editorial: Safari Being Pushed On Windows Users?

Gary LaPointe — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 19:16:19 -0000

On my Mac when Apple gives me software I have a choice which ones to download or not. Sometimes there are stuff I don't want, so I uncheck it. Unlike my windows updater "we've got 7 updates, we can install them all (or not)"

A trojan horse is a bad thing: "to undermine or bring about the downfall of an enemy or opponent" or "designed to breach the security of a computer system while ostensibly performing some innocuous function". If the trojan horse had a sign that says "people inside" it's not really the same thing.

This is more like a prize in a box of cereal, you may not want it, but you can throw it way if you want.

Re: How to Eliminate Junk Mail and E-mail in 30 Minutes… and Red Bull Book Party!

Gary Lapointe — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 21:41:41 -0000

The more I think about it since I wrote it, I'm sure I spent more than $4 of time writing it and thinking about it. And now I'm back writing more. So unless gMail turns out to be just as good, I'll go back to spamarrest.com

That and my playing with it, and my other blog post on it http://garysaid.com/chapters/002992.php
I've probably spent $90 on thinking about it now...

But I'm still wondering about other challenge/response server hosted solutions. (I really miss MailBlocks, they would let me look at my unverified mail via IMAP and if I dragged an item to the inbox it would auto-add to the approved list for me).