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Re: Run web apps in full-screen native app mode on the iPhone

Mickey — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:13:50 -0000

Yes, that's the only code needed. After you insert the code, load the page in Safari, add the icon to your home screen, then fire it from there. It should work.

Re: Facebook Furthers Attack on FriendFeed, Adds Comments to News Feed

Mickey — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:30:41 -0000

The comments have been around for at least a few weeks -- the new design just makes them more visible.

Re: Upload from URL?

Mickey — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:16:44 -0000

Wow, what a great little tip! I had no idea you could do that.

I knew about the URL feature, but that just hotlinks the image. This actually pulls it down and crunches it. Nice!

Re: Your Favorite iPhone App

Mickey — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 07:16:54 -0000

The Facebook app is very slick, Google Earth is a great one to show off, and Jott and WordPress are very handy. Looking forward to Nozbe coming out soon (GTD).

Re: Sports tracker and Google Earth

Mickey — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 13:05:25 -0000

Why do you need to send the KML to your laptop? When I use the N95 Sports Tracker, it uploads directly from my phone (before I even come back into the house). Then I can simply pull up their website and view the track in Google Earth/Maps.

Re: Would Someone Please Explain This To Me?

Mickey — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 22:57:56 -0000

Jack is correct. For the sake of simplicity, let's look at it as a 3x3 (9 possibilities) instead of a 5x5 (25 possibilities). It could easily be a 256 number puzzle, if you had 16 colors and 16 houses.

The choices:
Red: R1, R2, R3
Blue: B1, B2, B3
Yellow: Y1, Y2, Y3

Say we pick "B2" as our color, so we click blue. The system now knows that it's either B1, B2 or B3.

The groups now get split among the houses:

House 1: R1, B1, Y1
House 2: R2, B2, Y2
House 3: R3, B3, Y3

In our case, we choose house 2. Now the system knows that it's either R2, B2 ,or Y2.

The only one that came up in both clicks -- B2!

The other random clicks and doors and stuff are just for show. The bottom line:

- Your first click cuts the choices from 25 down to 5.
- The second click makes sure that the five remaining choices are in separate houses, so it'll know for sure which number is yours.

I hope that made sense.

Mickey's last blog post..Lots of cool buzzwords, but a non-clickable RSS icon?

Re: Blogger Investment Advice

Mickey — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:53:03 -0000

I've seen that before, and I like it. However, I can't get past the $214 at the bottom. You'll get maybe 2000 cans/bottles of beer for $1000, depending on your tastes. Even with the $0.10 deposit in Michigan, that's only $200. And if you get the beer there, you won't get as much because you've got to pay that deposit up front.

For us down here in Georgia, we won't get squat for those cans. Still, fun little post.

Re: Getting More Twitter Followers

Mickey — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:12:11 -0000

Another new technique that is popping up is to find people that auto-follow back and focus on them to start. Since you'll get (ideally) a 1-to-1 ratio in return, it's a great way to get started.

Social News Watch put out a list:
http://socialnewswatch.com/top-twitter-users/

That's since been turned into a few Twitter accounts to make it easier to follow those users:
http://twitter.com/autofollowbacks
http://twitter.com/autofollowlist

They're both based off the same list, though the first one (autofollowbacks) has been adding more and now has nearly 400 people in there. Seems like a pretty good technique.

<abbr></abbr><abbr>Mickeys last blog post..Want more followers? Follow everyone that @autofollowbacks follows -- it's a huge list of users that autofollow.</abbr>

Re: How many Google Reader subscribers do you have?

Mickey — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 06:51:18 -0000

My main feed (Google Earth Hacks) is showing 92,592 in Reader. FeedBurner is showing a total of 94,080, so that's about right. Being a site about a Google product, I've long suspected that the vast majority were using Reader and/or iGoogle.

Re: How many Google Reader subscribers do you have?

Mickey — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 14:36:40 -0000

Hi5 Codes -- You're being very short-sighted. If used properly, a good RSS feed will bring MORE visitors to your site. For example, I follow about 250 feeds and keep up with them every day. There is NO WAY I'd visit all 250 sites each day, but I happily click-through when I find a good item (such as the one we're on right now).

If your site found its way into my feedreader, I'd see ALL of your new content every day. Otherwise, I might visit your site once every x days, when I happen to think of it.

Re: Justin.tv watch out

Mickey — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 09:28:57 -0000

My number is in and I'm anxiously awaiting my SMS...

Re: Twitter Client War: Twhirl vs. TweetDeck

Mickey — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 08:20:53 -0000

TweetDeck all the way, used in a similar manner as Scoble. I have an old XP laptop that's nearly dead (overheats, worthless battery, large vertical strip in the screen), but it's PERFECT for TweetDeck. I keep it on a cooling tray, plugged in, and line up the vertical dead zone to be between two columns in TD. Wonderful solution.

Re: Being coached on Getting Things Done

Mickey — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 11:44:23 -0000

Awesome. I've been a big GTD fan for the last few months. Glad to see it get a big voice like this.

Re: Watch the Google anthill move toward social and real time

Mickey — Sun, 24 May 2009 19:27:54 -0000

The lack of a Facebook profile on the first page is easy -- fewer links pointing to it because most people have their profiles hidden.

Google sees all of the Twitter profiles and counts those thousands of links. Google doesn't see Facebook profiles for many people, thus killing the number of inbound links it thinks that page has. This is more of a problem with Facebook than with Google, I would think.

Re: Removing Snap Link Preview Pop-up

Mickey — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 12:51:36 -0000

Here's one vote against - I prefer raw links.

Re: New Google AdSense for Feeds; a Pain in the Rear End

Mickey — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 10:50:50 -0000

"Will you go through the manual process?" You make it sound like a big ordeal.

While I agree it's quite stupid that it needs to be done manually, it's a 20 second e-mail you need to send. Not a big deal.

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Re: New Google AdSense for Feeds; a Pain in the Rear End

Mickey — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 11:18:54 -0000

Fair enough. I agree it's certainly a bigger deal than it needs to be, but I found it quite smooth. 20 second e-mail, 45 minute response, good to go.

As for the result -- $0.00 so far. :)

Mickey's last blog post..WordPress 2.6.1 Released

Re: Google Earth, the 3D map

Mickey — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 23:37:56 -0000

I had toyed with Keyhole a few years ago, but I am still speechless about Google Earth. This software is just amazing! If you haven't downloaded it yet, go get it!

Re: Our New Web Site & Mobile Site

Mickey — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 08:06:54 -0000

Love the new look! I'm seeing a bunch of broken images on this page in Chrome (2.0.172.39), right around the FB Connect icon above the comment box. All in all, though, great job.

Re: SES San Jose: 7 Proven Ways to Get Your Website on Page 1 Organically & Then Convert

Mickey — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:20:37 -0000

That database one threw me off as well. I'm thinking he must be referring to the strange URLs that are often used on database-driven sites (page.php?id=5&cat=16...)

Re: Graphic Of The Day: Monthly Average Water Levels, Lake Lanier, Atlanta, Georgia

Mickey — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 10:39:11 -0000

As the creator of this graph, I thought I'd chime in.

I started the graph at 1040' simply so people could see the change in the levels. Where should it have started?

- MSL (0')?

- 919' (bottom of the lake)?

- 1035' (start of the "dead pool")?

- Some other level?

"That will deceive everyone into thinking a ***1%*** difference from last year is a big deal."

"You've tried to make 1% look significant."

Even with the 3.57' that the lake has risen since I did the chart, it's still only at about 57% of its capacity (1,464,000 acre-feet now, compared to 2,554,000 acre-feet when full). That means it's low by about 355 billion gallons -- a bit more than the "1%" that the first few comments stated.

"Unless the viewer takes a close look and pays attention to the number on the vertical axis it would appear that Lake Lanier is starting with about 50% as much water as previous years."

Not 50%, but close. Must closer to that than the 1% that you're stating. Wouldn't it have been more deceptive to start the chart at 0' and make it appear to be almost completely full?

I'll be doing this chart every month for a while (here is the one from April 1), so I'm open to suggestions on how to improve the chart for next month. I just want to get the facts out there as clearly as possible.

Mickey