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Re: Making of the HBO open

rockmanac — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 23:32:50 -0000

I get the feeling we all did. And I didn't know about that BTS until I got a link to it from my friend Jessica.

Re: IT’S HERE: AT&T iPhone MMS Update Released

mike — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:50:47 -0000

OH THANK U ACHERNOW!!

i was going crazy wondering why it wasnt working, didnt know i had to reboot it, thanks!

Re: IT’S HERE: AT&T iPhone MMS Update Released

Name — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:20:56 -0000

Thanks for the info Achernow, I updated my phone and nothing showed up.
Your step *reboot* was the key!

Re: IT’S HERE: AT&T iPhone MMS Update Released

rockmanac — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:20:44 -0000

On and working here.

By the way... You have to apply the update *and* reboot the phone to get it.

-Adam
Madison, WI

Re: Will The Integration of ReTweets Hype Twitter’s Popularity Drama?

rockmanac — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 12:39:52 -0000

"Too many people are choosing quantity over quality when it comes to followers."

I know an anchor who is like that. I swear she tries to collect Twitter followers. On the other hand, I've been being very selective with who I follow these days. I'd rather have a small group of quality people than a large group that produces a ton of noise.

-Adam

Re: WordPress Attack Underway: WordPress Users Must Upgrade

rockmanac — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 14:06:58 -0000

Already did the upgrade apparently.

Re: Report: AT&T Blocking 4Chan

twitter-52396829 — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 01:56:23 -0000

Are you being rerouted to the main page, or timing out all together?

Re: Report: AT&T Blocking 4Chan

rockmanac — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:21:23 -0000

No block here, but I don't use AT&T's DNS servers.

Edit: Didn't realize it wasn't the main page that was blocked. I can get to the main page, but not the img.4chan.org. it just times out. Not sure if that's actually *blocking* more as AT&T messing with routes.

Re: Is Firefox Falling Off The Bandwagon?

rockmanac — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 00:29:46 -0000

I've nearly given up on Firefox, in favor of Safari. Not only is it faster on the Mac, but the bookmarks will sync between it and Mobile Safari on my iPhone. Thunderbird is the same way, too. I only use it on Windows & Linux machines now. On my 2 Macs, I use Mail.app because it is faster, and it'll use the Mac's Universal Address Book (which is synced with Mobile Me, which syncs wirelessly with the iPhone)

I mean...there's a few things I miss. Like Greasemonkey, and being able to use "/" to initiate a search. (I use vi as my text-editor of choice, so that seems like a logical key to me, versus, Command+F)

Now, on Windows & Linux, I've still been using Firefox. Though, I've been using Konquer on my Netbook a bit more than Firefox.

-Adam

Re: 5 Ways TweetDeck Is Locking In Twitter Users

Corvida — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 11:46:01 -0000

Tweetie, Twitterrific, and as of recently, iTwitter.

Re: 5 Ways TweetDeck Is Locking In Twitter Users

rockmanac — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:27:31 -0000

Which others do you use?

-Adam

Re: 5 Ways TweetDeck Is Locking In Twitter Users

Corvida — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:06:38 -0000

That's understandable. I wasn't speaking for all TweetDeck users, but I definitely see your point. I still have 2 other mobile twitter clients that I switch to also. But I want to use TweetDeck more than the others.

Re: 5 Ways TweetDeck Is Locking In Twitter Users

rockmanac — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:40:50 -0000

I don't buy the thought that TweetDeck locks you in. I use it on my phone, but not on my desktop. I prefer Tweetie on the desktop, but haven't bought it for the phone. I've thought about using TweetDeck again on the desktop, however, there's one big issue I have with it: it's an AIR application. I'd much rather have a native Coca app on my desktop for speed and stability reasons.

-Adam

Re: Why 140 chars is like 48K (Scripting News)

rockmanac — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:23:12 -0000

Oh yeah.. There's stuff that I'm starting to put onto FriendFeed over Twitter b/c of the more lax character limit over there. And some stuff goes unsaid, too.

I've not seen the cartoon on Current. I don't have cable here. I refuse to deal with Charter. Horrible company they are.

-Adam

Re: Why 140 chars is like 48K (Scripting News)

dave — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:50:22 -0000

Actually it means more than that. That limit means most of the ideas
worth expressing are left unexpressed. I see it in my own behavior. I
used to compose blog posts in the shower or on walks. Now I've
stopped.

And if you think people click on links in Twitter, think again. They
RT links long before they could possibly have read the thing they're
RT'ing. It's completely bogus.

It's like that cartoon on Current.TV, no one is listening, everyone is
broadcasting. Nothing is being heard or said.

Yet people think it's great! Hah. As I said here, it only hints at
greatness. We aren't there. The 140-char limit is part of it.

Re: Why 140 chars is like 48K (Scripting News)

rockmanac — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:45:21 -0000

I never really did more than simple programming on the //e, however, I do remember having to sit and wait for the next screen in Number Munchers, or Oregon Trail or something.

I would welcome more characters on twitter. I know it was designed to work with SMS, however, SMS on all my phones has always been 160 characters, not 140, and really, who uses SMS to manage their twitter these days? I have Tweetie on the iMac & TweetDeck on the iPhone (before that UberTwitter on the BlackBerry). When I had a "dumb" phone, I occasionally did text in a tweet, but never had it setup for SMS follows.

Anyway... All having 140 characters does is require us to unlearn how to speak in proper English. Not that I've probably ever spoken in proper English...well, outside of the grade school classroom anyway.

Re: The end of analog (Scripting News)

rockmanac — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 00:54:18 -0000

We've been mostly digital in Madison since 2/17 when all but 21 and 47 went. 21 must of gone earlier than today, because my boss and I were talking that we hadn't seen them on-air in analog in a while, but hadn't seen an announcement that they had transitioned. 47 goes in about 7 minutes.

-Adam

p.s. caught this image this morning... the last time I can DX analog! http://skitch.com/achernow/bu7n9/so-long-analog...

Re: The end of analog (Scripting News)

rockmanac — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 00:53:08 -0000

They need an education campaign like we had!

Re: 3 Twitter apps you can't live without? (Scripting News)

rockmanac — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 11:17:33 -0000

Spymaster is driving me nuts. I don't play online RPG type games, and I really don't care to see the updates from people playing, either.

-Adam

Re: 3 Twitter apps you can't live without? (Scripting News)

rockmanac — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 11:16:27 -0000

Tweetie on my Mac, UberTwitter on the BlackBerry. Twitpic, Skitch and bit.ly are related, but not necessarily tied to Twitter.

-Adam

Re: LinkedIn

rockmanac — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 14:23:43 -0000

I don't like linkedin. I've found much more value, professionally, from Twitter and Facebook than I have from linkedin.

-Adam

Re: Before the storm (Scripting News)

NigelHall — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 13:55:33 -0000

Most of your objections to an iPhone OS based device hinge on running apps on the device itself, but isn't the whole idea of a netbook that you don't run all of the software that you would use on your desktop/laptop? The netbook model leverages the availability of applications on the net. That's why you don't need a big energy-draining HDD or much CPU and memory.

Re: Before the storm (Scripting News)

rockmanac — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 13:36:36 -0000

Thanks :)

I'm on the BB right now, but now 6 months after I've gotten it, I'm considering paying the ETF because, well, the browsing on it sucks, I keep losing the data connection, and well, I want a phone that correctly syncs with my iMac.

-Adam

Re: Before the storm (Scripting News)

dave — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 12:15:09 -0000

Perfect analysis. I see it the same way. The iPhone (which I use) is a
beautiful cage. My EeePC is also beautiful because it works so well and is
not in any way a cage.

Re: Before the storm (Scripting News)

rockmanac — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 12:10:34 -0000

Hmm... I also sit here typing this on a big iMac :) My current laptop is my 6+ year-old Powerbook G4 (the original Titanium one!) which, as a testament to Apple engineering, runs beautifully. But, I also have a netbook, and I love it. It's an Acer Aspire One, which at the moment is running Kubuntu, but I've considered slapping the Win 7 RC on there to see how it'll run. (Yes, a Mac guy considering Windows 7 RC1 for something.) When I bought the netbook, it was running on XP Home. People thought I was nuts 'cause I was buying a Windows machine, but as I said to them, if Apple would give me a netbook, I'd buy it.

However, for me to consider an Apple netbook, it would need to run the full OSX operating system, have a physical keyboard, and *not* be tied to a cell company data plan. A netbook running the iPhone OS, or worse yet, an iTablet, are just not what I want. Call me crazy, but the iPhone OS issues are also why, at the moment, I have a BlackBerry Curve over the iPhone or iPhone 3G. Now, iPhone 3.0 is looking better, but they still have left out background applications, unless you jailbreak, which despite what Apple claims, will not kill your battery life anymore than heavy use of the phone. (On my BB I have Twitter and Facebook clients constantly open in the BG, along with my e-mail and even sometimes AIM and/or GChat clients.) Anyway, the other downside of a iPhone OS based netbook is that I don't want to be tied to the App store. I want to be able to run any software that'll run on my desktop, on my netbook. Plus, iPhone OS doesn't have support for flash! (Wow, so many more downsides to the iPhone OS based netbook than I realized.)

-Adam