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Re: IChat Alternatives.

macgasm — Tue, 26 May 2009 12:26:50 -0000

the latest beta of 1.4 has QQ integration. You can get it here: http://beta.adium.im/

Re: Leo’s Twitter Updates for 2008-05-17

leolaporte — Mon, 25 May 2009 14:33:01 -0000

It's Wolfram Alpha - http://wolframalpha.com - enjoy and thanks for listening!

Re: Whither my apps?

macgasm — Thu, 21 May 2009 19:55:14 -0000

Carly, you still looking for that type of info? I can put together a "must have" apps post for you if you'd like. :)

Re: Whither my apps?

macgasm — Wed, 20 May 2009 23:00:04 -0000

Given the financial success a lot of these developers are seeing in the AppStore, despite giving away 30% off the top, I think you'd see a lot more people consider the possibility these days. If anything the developers would be more concerned about the approval process and the terms of use.

Re: Whither my apps?

macgasm — Wed, 20 May 2009 22:56:47 -0000

I love the "we're so happy we've got something decent that we don't ask for more argument". I wonder if it's causing us to stagnate a little though. Stifling innovation is a bad thing. Is it the users like us, or the developers that give us the tools, that are causing the stagnation? I'm more inclined to believe it's the users. We all track down crappy, half developed "beta" software, and we've become content using broken crap. I say we demand more from developers on a whole.

Re: Whither my apps?

macgasm — Wed, 20 May 2009 16:59:41 -0000

An "open" universal App store for the desktop would change everything. Once place to get updates, and one place to download from would make the whole updating process such a breeze. Man, if only it was a reality!

Re: Chromium goes native.

macgasm — Thu, 14 May 2009 01:36:15 -0000

they had to start somewhere, right?

Re: 10.5.7 is live, and I got a really scary error.

macgasm — Tue, 12 May 2009 22:41:01 -0000

Apple bugs know no borders! ;)

Re: 10.5.7 is live, and I got a really scary error.

macgasm — Tue, 12 May 2009 22:40:19 -0000

hold your horses. I'm in the process of installing the combo now!

Re: Does the iPhone keyboard really suck?

macgasm — Tue, 12 May 2009 21:39:43 -0000

I think landscape mode across the phone is going to change a lot of people's opinions about the keyboard. It's a lot easier to type on.

Re: 10.5.7 is live, and I got a really scary error.

macgasm — Tue, 12 May 2009 20:49:05 -0000

Yikes. I think I'm still going to wait for a couple day. I can't really afford to be without either of my machines. Thanks for passing along the info, you saved me from myself! ;)

Re: 10.5.7 is live, and I got a really scary error.

macgasm — Tue, 12 May 2009 18:30:16 -0000

I'm in the process of downloading the combo from the site. Hopefully it works better. It is currently downloading 5 times faster than it did with the software update.

Re: 10.5.7 is live, and I got a really scary error.

macgasm — Tue, 12 May 2009 18:29:19 -0000

I'm not sure what's going on. Hopefully they get the kinks worked out.

Re: Steve Jobs in Typography

macgasm — Tue, 12 May 2009 16:25:06 -0000

I loved that font too... :(

Re: Give me a break. Microsoft isn’t cheaper than Apple. Dell might be, but Microsoft isn’t!

macgasm — Mon, 11 May 2009 19:51:57 -0000

I say take the gloves off. We need a good fight.

Re: Apple A Day: PhoneFlix

macgasm — Mon, 11 May 2009 12:31:03 -0000

Thanks for the information. The step by step is pretty handy.

Re: Time for a Giveaway: Shovebox is on deck.

macgasm — Sat, 09 May 2009 00:18:36 -0000

Thanks for taking the time to let us know how you found us. Dan's awesome! Good luck with the contest.

Re: Twitterific 2.0 has hit the AppStore and has a bunch of new features

macgasm — Sat, 09 May 2009 00:17:43 -0000

I jumped from Twitterific to TwitterFon because of the functionality differences, but now that Twitterific has updates I'm seriously considering the permanent switch back. It helps that TwitterFon has suddenly become all crashy on me.

Re: One reason why Mobile Me is a waste of money–Rsync.

macgasm — Fri, 08 May 2009 23:29:42 -0000

It's pretty sweet. I'm completely dumbfounded about the Mobile Me love. Everything it does can be done for free.

Re: Is Apple Going to Buy Twitter?

macgasm — Thu, 07 May 2009 16:49:51 -0000

lol. That's a thoroughly bad idea.

Re: Is Apple Going to Buy Twitter?

macgasm — Tue, 05 May 2009 15:22:23 -0000

The internet would explode if it was announced at WWDC that Apple was buying Twitter... maybe it would implode. hrmm. I'll get back to you about which it would be. ;)

Re: Stop Spotlight From Indexing Your External Drives

macgasm — Mon, 04 May 2009 18:35:18 -0000

Ben, Apparently A. Rawls link above fixes that issue. I haven't tried it out personally yet, but it's on my list of todos.

Here's the link: http://www.thejackol.com/2009/03/19/exclude-spo...

Re: Stop Spotlight From Indexing Your External Drives

macgasm — Sun, 03 May 2009 17:19:20 -0000

That's an excellent tip. I think I'm gonna write a post about it for the front page. :)

Re: Stop Spotlight From Indexing Your External Drives

macgasm — Sun, 03 May 2009 17:17:13 -0000

Yeah, hopefully this is something that they work out. I'm not sure that there's a fix for it. I usually do this for external drives that I leave plugged in. I share the frustration about thumb drives.

Re: Stop Spotlight From Indexing Your External Drives

macgasm — Sun, 03 May 2009 17:15:37 -0000

I've played with Windows 7, but I have a hard time seeing how it's better then Apple's OS X. It certainly is better than Vista though (despite the rampant rumors that windows 7 is actually Vista with a GUI update).