So I read daring fireball by John Gruber and enjoy the little snide comments about the current tech item of the minute. So the current news item is the new photos of this previously unphotographed tribe living in the amazon.
John’s Comment:
Someone needs to let these people know about the upcoming new iPhone.
Funny funny shit. Nice to see that he can recognize the frivolity of the same industry that he works in. Good job.
Getting all my tax stuff together and over to my accountant and I was reviewing everything. Being that my father is a CPA he sold some of my apple stock off this year to diversify my IRA a bit.
I bought Apple stock on 10/24/2000 at $10.44/share. I sold it this year at $190.28/share. Nice.
Now if I had only bought more than the few shares I did, as I bought under 100 shares. Oh well.
So I have had this iPhone for a little while now, and I have gotten pretty used to it.
I also have had this MacBook for a while now.
On the MacBook, you can use 2 fingers on the track pad to scroll. Obviously, 2 fingers going down on the trackpad scrolls down. Two fingers up scrolls up. Amazing. I use it all the time. Love it.
Recently though, I have noticed myself thinking ‘lets scroll down’ and my fingers 2 finger scroll up. My mind says ‘wth’ and my fingers do it right. You know how it is, it happens quickly and you you think nothing of it. It just now dawned on my it is a result of the fact that the MacBook and the iPhone do OPPOSITE motions for scrolling.
It is kinda frustrating. Opposite paradigms for the same thing. Both make sense.
so I have a few people that follow me on twitter. I know who they are. It is fine. Every once in a while, I will be notified that a new person is following me… and I am all wth? who? So I go check… only to realize it is basically spam. That is kinda lame. The most recent one was for a conference that I won’t be attending. So it could be considered targeted I guess… but the conference could be targeted to anyone using twitter as a communication tool if you want to step far enough back.
I also have people following me… and I don’t know who they are or what their angle is. One of them appears to be a journalist angle… like following people will be a ‘finger on the pulse’ of the scene or something. My tweets are rarely that topical, but there are obviously some people who have such content that would be worth following. Seems fine by me, but it also seems there would be better ways than monitoring a bunch of random peoples’ tweets, but hey, what do I know.
I am still not sure how I feel about twitter. On one hand, it is nice enough to keep tabs on people. Obviously some people have a higher signal to noise ratio than others, and that will certainly vary from user to user. I feel like I have enough going on. Enough RSS feeds, todo lists, emails, IMs, etc to keep an eye on. I am looking to reduce the inflow of information while still trying to keep up to date with things. And that is one of the great things about twitter, it forces a small form factor. And that very form factor that makes it nice encourages people to post things they wouldn’t post to a blog since it isn’t often very important. Obviously controls are in place to limit the flow and how it reaches me, which is great.
But sometimes I wonder if I care enough. Currently, I am sticking with it.
wordpress 2.5 just came out and I’ll agree with everyone else, it is quite nice. And the instantupgrade plugin worked perfect. 2.5 also offers atuo plugin updates, which is good for lazy people like me.
win win win.
Back in the day, I got a nokia 3650 and I liked it. Symbian was good. But times have changed. There was a time when I had full internet on my symbians, and I could read email and all that. The web was merely acceptable… but it was ok for the time… which was years ago…
A couple years ago I decided that I wasn’t traveling or commuting very much, so I really only needed a phone, not much more. Then I left the other job and started mk2 development and I am spending more time caring about things that I was ignoring outside of 9-5, so I decided I needed a new phone.
When the iPhone came out, I was excited, but the lack of unlocking and the lack of 3rd party apps was a problem. Time fixed that, and I finally picked one up the other day, an 8gb iPhone.
Having a decent web browser is nice. Having real time email is great. Being able to do most of the stuff I do on the internet whereever is nice. I won’t bother with a big review, since chances are you have heard of this iPhone thing. Suffice to say that while it doesn’t do everything I want, it is close and the things I miss are probably possible or will be soon.
Things I would like:
an easy way to ftp into a server, edit an html/php file, and save it. I would prefer not to have to ssh in and use vi or anything. I just want to be able to make a minor changes to webpages on the road if needed.
decent task manager. Why apple can’t sync todos with their other apps (iCal) is beyond me.
I am sure there are others, but I can’t think of them now…
Dear Fotki
I have been a faithful user of your service for years. I have 18,000+ images there constituting 40+ GB. I have them organized the way I like, and many are tagged. My point is I have a significant investment in your service, and due to that I am paid in full through 2011.
I have never been a big fan of flickr. I have an account there, but I have found their organizational style works great for the stream of consciousness that I used to use when I used to take a lot of photos with my phone. And perhaps I will get back into that. But for actual photo storage, I hate it. I prefer the more traditional style of the fotki organizational model.
That being said, we need an API for premium members. I need to be able to do all the cool stuff that I can do on flickr, with fotki. I need to be able to easily pull photos into another application based on various queries. I need to be able to integrate my fotki library into my other web life. I will NOT use facebook to store my photos, but I would love to be able to easily and automatically pull my fotki pics in.
I have thought about writing a scraper to get them, but that is really really absurd. I have thought about writing something to sync my fotki and flickr accounts, but that is also dumb.
There was talk of an API in a fotki journal post in 2005, but that is the last mention of it I can find.
Please step up to the plate. Mimic the flickr API. It really wouldn’t be that hard. Make it available to the premium members only.
Let me know if you need testers. I will be glad to help however I can.
bryan
I have been trying a few different browsers lately, as the firefox memory usage drives me insane. Sure, I go insane slowly, but seriously.
Aside from firebug/web developer/Stylish not working, it is great. Seems faster, and the memory footprint is WAY better. This MIGHT be due to the above mentioned firebug/web developer not working. heh. This is the current winner.
I gave flock a try again, and it is ok. The toolbar on the left is nice, although it could be improved. It is so… staccato in its presentation. I am currently using it or facebook, twitter, and youtube. I am also not sure that the top of the window is the best way to sift through media. That being said, I did just, as I wrote this, opt to update my twitter, and I went to flock. I could have just as easily gone to the twitter dashboard widget. hmmmm… The other problem is it seems that flock suffers from the memory footprint growth problem as well.
I was excited about the small size of this browser. I can handle a stripped down browser for some stuff. The only issue here is that sunrise seems to quit unexpectedly ALOT. Like I can’t really evaulate the memory usage since it never stays up that long. And I am not hitting any crazy sites either. The link preview image and the bookmarking image are cool features. The window resize tool on the toolbar is nice for development. But seriously, crashing is a big problem. I’ll keep watching it as it matures.
I think I am going to stay with firefox for most of my stuff, due primarily to the firebug/web developer feature set. But since those are not yet working in Firefox 3 Beta, I am going to keep playing with the others. Perhaps I’ll change my mind for everything that isn’t development.
When I worked at a previous consulting firm, first job out of college, back in the day… we all used outlook and exchange… so when you would be sitting there, at your desk, and an email would go out to all the people in the company, you would hear the ‘new mail beep’ chime out across the room, all at once.
When someone was fired/laid off (mostly almost always fired) an email would come across to everyone… the person’s name would be the subject line, and the body would have the phrase “Effectively immediately is no longer employed by ABC Consulting”. I swear he had that as a template saved and ready to rock.
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I love nokia phones. I really like the symbian OS too. I think I just like the concept of an OS where I can install apps and whatnot and do whatever. Oh, and it isn’t an MS OS, which I won’t do. So I have a nokia. My wife has a nokia. My kid has my on of our old nokias as a toy. My mom has one. My sister has one. I tell everyone that they need nokias. When people who bought RAZR’s finally get fed up with that piece of crap phone, I tell them to go nokia.
So when the iPhone was announced I was conflicted. I also love apple. But the whole lack of installable software pissed me off to a degree that I knew I wasn’t going actually get one. I took the money and bought car parts and bike parts instead.
As the iPhone hit the market and I got more into it, there was a tinge of desire there I will admit, but then I remembered, while I sat on the can playing solitaire on my nokia, that I could do that on an iPhone, but I would have to be hitting a web page. Meh.
Then I got this link today, and I found it really funny. And really the points are all valid. Sure, it is a bit over the top, it is all valid. And really pretty in line with my feelings and thoughts. Sure, he does better animated GIFs than I do, but I am ok with that.