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Re: 5 Must-Have iPhone Apps for Wine Lovers

xxdesmus — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:37:20 -0000

I'll put in another vote for: Wine Ph.D. ...even if the wine is missing from the dB just add it manually (really not that tough), and they will email you once it's been added to the dB (usually within a few days at most).

Wine Ph.D. is not perfect, but it's the best wine app I've used (and I've tried almost all of them).

Re: How to Speed Up Windows 7

xxdesmus — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:27:12 -0000

...and yet it still doesn't actually make any noticeable difference.

Re: How to Speed Up Windows 7

livecrunch — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:25:38 -0000

Dude that was um 2008 , welcome to Windows 7 2009

Re: How to Speed Up Windows 7

xxdesmus — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:18:57 -0000

You do you continue to spread this BS myth about changing the # of processors in MSCONFIG?

http://www.withinwindows.com/2008/08/09/tweakin...

It doesn't do a darn thing.

Re: iPhone and Windows 7 Don’t Play Nice, No Fix in Sight

xxdesmus — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:20:56 -0000

Way to go for the sensationalist headlines. Wow.

Been using Windows 7 and my iPhone for over a year now. NOT A SINGLE PROBLEM TO DATE.

If you'd like me to repeat that one: Windows 7 and the iPhone PLAY NICE just fine. ...back your regular scheduled alarmist headlines.

Re: New CNN.com Goes Live: What Do You Think?

xxdesmus — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:07:04 -0000

I think it looks really cheap. It looks like it's a "select a design" from a pre-packaged set of themes in Dreamweaver.

It looks far less authoritative in my opinion.

Re: Apple Fires Back at Windows 7 in New Ads

xxdesmus — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 08:44:26 -0000

Same Apple bull****, different day. How about you focus on making a decent operating system, and spend a little less time with these pointless ads. It's pretty pathetic when you continue to make advertisement after advertisement trashing the competition (mostly with lies I might add) without actually telling consumers WHY they should buy your overpriced computers instead. Grow up. Get over yourself, and how about you spend some of that money on R&D instead.

Re: Dvorak joins the Win7 basher brigade

xxdesmus — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 08:14:28 -0000

Dvorak is just an arrogant idiot who likes to create soundbites. He's upset that Microsoft hasn't personally called in the past 4 years? Who gives a damn? Maybe you're just not that important anymore. Get over yourself.

Re: EU and Microsoft Near Browser Agreement

xxdesmus — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:11:48 -0000

So idiotic, the damn EU can't make up their minds already. What a joke.

Re: Google Wave crashes on beach of overhype

facebook-782095485 — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 02:31:42 -0000

You don't have to watch them type in real time if you don't want to. The reason they included that is because they've learnt from analysing IM conversations that they take a lot longer than they need to because one person types their message, then sends, then the other person receives, reads, writes their response, sends (while the first person has to wait for a while), and vice versa. The idea of showing the live typing of the other people in the wave, assuming you happen to be viewing it at exactly the same time as they are editing/adding to it, is to simply speed up conversations. Try it and you will discover how well this works.

It's not just document collaboration, it's updating websites (you can paste a wave into any web page using a widget, and it will auto-update whenever the wave is updated). Robert could write each of his blog posts as a wave from his wave client (Google aren't the only people providing these, by the way - it's an open protocol so anyone can), and edit them if necessary. Replies/comments could come in as part of the wave too, so he can manage all of them in one piece of software, along with any other public conversations on the web that he's been participating that are also part of a wave, as well as his privates one with his family, friends etc., maybe with some cool tech PR peeps, or whatever.

Also there is the wave playback/review facility which I don't think I've seen anywhere else done in the same way (literally works like playing a YouTube video, but not in the confines of a stream of video/audio - instead all of the updates that have been made, so you can step through them, like you might when you're debugging code).

There's also the whole concept of wavelets, which are the updates within a wave - info at http://www.waveprotocol.org/presentations - and waves and wavelets each individually belong on a server, like a web page, or a Google Doc. This means companies can run their own wave server, just like they currently run their own mail servers, but now all communications within a particular conversation are managed/grouped/linked all together (as a wave), instead of disjointed individual e-mails that get messy etc. and mangled between different e-mail systems.

Re: Google Wave crashes on beach of overhype

xxdesmus — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:30:22 -0000

I couldn't agree more. This will end up being YAFGI -- Yet Another Failed Google Initiative.

I like email. It lets me decide who is important when I should read their emails. I don't want to see them typing in real time. If I want an instant reply I'll IM the person. The only possible use I see for Google Wave is collaborative document creation -- like for school or work. That's it. That being said, better options exist already for collaboration.

Re: Push Gmail Comes to iPhone and Other Mobiles

Name — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:00:12 -0000

iPhone does not sync properly. Only download certain messages to the phone and not others.
Also push feature does not push. Emails take forever to show up.

Re: GAME TIME: Google Starts Sending Wave Invites

Jaxia — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 13:07:05 -0000

I'd love an invite if you have any left -- jaxiakiley at gmail. Thanks so much!

Re: GAME TIME: Google Starts Sending Wave Invites

xxdesmus — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:11:23 -0000

got in ...really not that impressed yet.

Re: Obama Assassination Poll Rocks Facebook

xxdesmus — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:06:22 -0000

Wow, people really suck sometimes.

Re: Verdict: AT&T Survives iPhone MMS Rollout

xxdesmus — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 17:56:34 -0000

haven't been able to receive an MMS message successfully -- it comes across as some garbled text that looks like code from a HTML webpage. I can send MMS just fine though.

Re: Courier: Microsoft Has an Apple Tablet Rival, And It Looks Impressive

xxdesmus — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 22:40:32 -0000

I never said it was *likely* they'd keep it under $400. :P It's just wishful thinking on my part. Anything over $400 will make it a hard sell in my opinion.

Re: Courier: Microsoft Has an Apple Tablet Rival, And It Looks Impressive

facebook-649964030 — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 22:38:16 -0000

with its dual eee-like display it should cost at least 30% more than a netbook

Re: Courier: Microsoft Has an Apple Tablet Rival, And It Looks Impressive

twitter-51355371 — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 22:18:31 -0000

Likewise. Except, it'd have to be AUD not USD.

Re: Courier: Microsoft Has an Apple Tablet Rival, And It Looks Impressive

xxdesmus — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 22:16:31 -0000

I'd buy one in a second if they can keep the price under $400. This thing looks incredible.

Re: Push Gmail Comes to iPhone and Other Mobiles

facebook-653858004 — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:03:07 -0000

Did any of you have any issues setting it up like I did (and posted about previously)?

Re: Push Gmail Comes to iPhone and Other Mobiles

Justin — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:20:39 -0000

I'm having ALL kinds of problems with this. Email taking forever to load. All my emails disappearing from my phone! Reappearing later. Not to mention its definitely not picking up all my mail. Unimpressed

Re: Push Gmail Comes to iPhone and Other Mobiles

xxdesmus — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:21:03 -0000

I went back to NuevaSync.com for now -- I'll wait a few weeks for Google to get their act together on this.

Re: Preview Project Retweet in Various Twitter Apps [PICS]

lars_christian — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:09:05 -0000

Same here. I have no idea how it will actually work. For instance in my client of choice (Tweetie), will I suddenly just start seeing Tweets from people I don't follow? Will it be indicated who retweeted them? Will you be able to add comments to your retweets?

I'm lost.

Re: Push Gmail Comes to iPhone and Other Mobiles

xxdesmus — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:45:20 -0000

I just switched back to NuevaSync for the time being while the rush dies down and Google gets their act together. I'm aware that Google Sync is free, but I can still complain when a service backed by such a large company performs so terribly.