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Re: iOS on the Desktop: Hands-On With the OS X 10.7 Lion Preview

Derek — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 13:04:15 -0000

I am new to the Mac world. Got a Macbook a month ago. Who in their right mind came up with "kind"? It's "TYPE"

Re: Joint Turns Twitter Into an IM Service

motownmutt — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 17:19:05 -0000

@motownmutt http://twitter.com/motownmutt
Would love an alpha invite.

Re: Joint Turns Twitter Into an IM Service

Kristy Bolsinger — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 16:36:45 -0000

Following both - @kristy would love to check it out!! :)

Re: Joint Turns Twitter Into an IM Service

Autom Tagsa — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 16:29:28 -0000

very cool..just followed @imjoint and i already follow you, so me want alpha invite please ;) thnx

Re: What Twitter’s 5th Anniversary Video Tells Us About Its Future

heidi — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 14:14:03 -0000

I didn't see any mention of third party apps in the start up video from 2006, but I did hear them mentioned in the new video. Twitter has been consistently great IMO since I started using the service back in mid aught eight. Conveying the simplistic complexity of twitter isn't easy and I think the video did it really well.

Re: Hacker Shows It Doesn’t Take $8 Million to Clone Qwiki – Just 321 Lines of HTML Will do the Trick

JJ — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 14:54:43 -0000

Tell that to anyone who's written a book or made a movie...

Re: Twitter Reacts to the #Dickbar Uproar: Not Killing It – Just Making it a Little Bit Less Annoying

Techexec58 — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 09:50:19 -0000

Well, the chickens have to come home to roost! What is it with the Internet generation thinking that all things in life are for free? Twitter has to answer to investors and eventually Wall Street and show profitability. So how in the hell are they supposed to make a profit if they don't sell ads or subscriptions? Duh!!

Re: Twitter Reacts to the #Dickbar Uproar: Not Killing It – Just Making it a Little Bit Less Annoying

Zack Hovatter — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 20:20:04 -0000

What were they thinking?

Re: WebGL 1.0: Google, Opera and Mozilla Team Up to Bring Hardware-Accelerated 3D Graphics to Your Browser

Guest — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 15:07:19 -0000

Actually, Microsoft was finishing up implementing their own hardware-accelerated 3d into IE9 while these companies were finished implementing just the standards. And just like every thing else in IE9, they're waiting for standards to be finalized before implementing them, because (like it or not) a lot of businesses rely on IE and they don't want to change implementation details from out under them. Just as DirectX supports OpenGL, there's a good chance so will IE9's engine will support WebGL in time.

p.s. Kinect is way infront of what anyone else is even considering doing. Microsoft started the whole tablet and smartphone thing (Apple just did it way, way better). I could go on, but eh, facts? who needs them.

Re: Twitter Reacts to the #Dickbar Uproar: Not Killing It – Just Making it a Little Bit Less Annoying

Cest la vie — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 05:49:15 -0000

#dickbar should be renamed to #ibutthurt

Twitter obviously needs a way to make money. Suck it up, guys.

Re: Twitter Reacts to the #Dickbar Uproar: Not Killing It – Just Making it a Little Bit Less Annoying

Ross Martin — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 03:24:59 -0000

I don't think someone advocating for the quick bar has a right to use the words "inelegant implementation."

Re: Twitter Reacts to the #Dickbar Uproar: Not Killing It – Just Making it a Little Bit Less Annoying

ChristopherJamesUrban — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 02:54:16 -0000

The hashtag auto-fill is very annoying, and it keeps tweeters from creating new ideas and new trends. A true trend is spawned from an original idea, and creative. Forced "suggested" trends, and auto-filled hashtags are disturbing to twitter format for a tweeter. It is anti-climatic and less user driven. I like twitter because no hand holding occurs. Is this going to change soon? Are we going to holding hands on twitter? I hope we all keep original ideas and thoughts at the vanguard of twitter. If this doesnt't happen, then there will be an opportunity for a competitor to rise and restore the original successful format of twitter. MTV doesn't play music videos anymore, and many like me don't watch this has-been 80's channel. Will twitter go the way of MTV? This remains to be seen. Stay tuned!

Re: Twitter Reacts to the #Dickbar Uproar: Not Killing It – Just Making it a Little Bit Less Annoying

Geoffrey Hull — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 00:00:33 -0000

Could there be a more useless feature than to have a constant reminder that the vast majority of Twitter users are mindless drones residing in the echo chamber that is pop culture? I think not...

Re: Twitter’s Updated iPhone App Annoys Users With Unnecessary Focus on Trending Topics

Ssonic — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 21:09:13 -0000

I already BOUGHT an ad-free version when it was still Tweetie. I'm not paying again just to get rid of something that never should have been there in the first place.

Re: WebGL 1.0: Google, Opera and Mozilla Team Up to Bring Hardware-Accelerated 3D Graphics to Your Browser

iKane — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 15:25:19 -0000

Microsoft are busy adding copy and paste to their latest mobile OS, that's where.
When was the last time Microsoft Was actually in front of other tchnologies?

Re: iOS on the Desktop: Hands-On With the OS X 10.7 Lion Preview

Eric — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 13:19:54 -0000

The inverse scrolling can be disabled if you go to System Preferences > Trackpad, and then click the checkbox that says: "When using gestures to scroll or navigate, move content in the direction of finger movement"

Re: Hate it When Blogs Only Give You Partial Feeds? FullTextRSSFeed.com to the Rescue

Keyvan — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 16:37:49 -0000

Similar tool, but free software (open source) version available for self-hosting here: http://fivefilters.org/content...

Re: Steve Jobs Announces Redesigned, Faster iPad 2 & iOS 4.3 – Shipping March 11

Eric D Schatz — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 14:09:33 -0000

Apple indicates the iOS 4.3 update is only compatible with the GSM iPhone 4...leaves out the new Verizon iPhones.

Re: Yesterday: Voice of America. Today: A Twitter Feed

shopping cart software — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 07:51:44 -0000

I wish I'd seen your post here before I wrote a very similar one on RWW

Re: Bing’s Shopping Search Gets Smarter with Natural Language Capabilities

Alex — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 14:01:59 -0000

This is nothing terribly wonderful, in my opinion.
They categorize it under "Natural Language" and tout it as being so much better than the Neanderthal-style keyword searches. But try getting the same results as if you were just speaking to Bing, in full sentence form. "I want an HDTV less than $1000". Nothing even close to a nice shopping results page appears.

Natural Language? More like substituting keywords for logical operators.

Re: Google Rolls Out Optional 2-Step Authentication For All: Secure but Frustrating

hollylarocco — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 12:24:53 -0000

I like your breakdown of the process here and think it will help talk people through the process of doing their part to make the internet a little safer. As a concerned internet user and someone who works for Symantec, I hope that people will take advantage of these capabilities and protect themselves. Cyber criminals are out there with the simple goal of stealing your personal and/or work related information and most people are currently making it a very easy and lucrative proposition for them. It's time for internet users to stop causing security holes and start making the internet safer by opting-in to these added measures.

Re: iOS on the Desktop: Hands-On With the OS X 10.7 Lion Preview

Julien Deepak — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 11:37:07 -0000

Mac OS X Lion is revealed amidst a considerable fanfare on October 2010. Lets have a look at the first developer preview focusing on screen shots detailing user interface improvements. Detailed review of the features at http://deepakjulien.com/mac-os...

Re: iOS on the Desktop: Hands-On With the OS X 10.7 Lion Preview

Ryan — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 15:26:49 -0000

How exactly did you get the Applications folder to make that layout?
when i sort by kind, it just changes the order in the regular icon layout view. The only place i see that layout is in the "All My Files" on the sidebar.

Re: Netflix: Support for Subtitles Finally Coming to Roku and Xbox 360 Later This Year

James J — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 21:23:16 -0000

I have been considering the Roku, but I’m not too impressed with just internet programs. I will probably stick with the Logitech Review with Google TV. Along side my DISH Network employee act, I will be able to watch internet results, live TV, and use a full web browser!

Re: iOS on the Desktop: Hands-On With the OS X 10.7 Lion Preview

Frederic Lardinois — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 12:04:56 -0000

Sure thing. Happy to check later tonight if nobody else gets to check before.