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Re: iPhone Exclusivity Ends in Canada Next Month

christhomson — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 20:00:30 -0000

Rogers seems like it is the best cell carrier in Canada currently, IMO. I'm more excited to see that there's now competition to get those data plan prices down a little more, or perhaps even a switch from the 3yr required plan for the iPhone to a 2yr plan. That'd be nice.

Re: Twitpocalypse II: Twitter Apps Might Break Tomorrow

christhomson — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:13:53 -0000

Hey Ben, this upcoming 'Twitpocalypse' is actually caused by the 32-bit unsigned integer limit, not the 64-bit integer limit. The previous Twitpocalypse was for 32-bit signed integers.

Re: Twitpocalypse II: Twitter Apps Might Break Tomorrow

christhomson — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:12:03 -0000

This was announced back at the end of July. That's plenty of time for iPhone app developers to update their Twitter applications.

Re: tr.im to December 31, 2009

christhomson — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 00:51:14 -0000

In addition to providing access to the API docs, it'd be nice if the need for an API key was either removed or an API key was made publicly available.

I managed to export all of my tr.im URLs through the tr.im API by looking into the tr.im Dashboard widget, and finding a couple of URLs required to access them. Just for convenience, here's a summarization:

/api/verify.json?username=YOURUSERNAME&password=YOURPASSWORD&api_key=APIKEY must be called prior to calling the next method. You'll receive a 200 response if your credentials & API key are accepted.
/api/account_urls.json?username=YOURUSERNAME&password=YOURPASSWORD&api_key=APIKEY&count=NUMBER returns the (NUMBER) most recent URLs you shorted, in JSON format. Yes, both of the calls (appear to) require your credentials.

Of course, you'll need to find an API key somewhere… there's one in the tr.im dashboard widget (tr.im dashboard widget > show package contents > main.js). I won't paste it here since it isn't mine, but it's there if you're looking for one.

Re: Facebook Usernames are LIVE; 200,000 Usernames in 3 Minutes

christhomson — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 00:30:52 -0000

It seems like Facebook is reserving common names — it wouldn't allow me to register facebook.com/chris, but it's still not pointing to any profile. I had to settle for http://facebook.com/chris.thomson.

It's cool that periods don't matter in these URLs. Linking to http://facebook.com/c.h.r.i.s.t.h.o.m.s.o.n goes right back to my profile, for example.

Re: Frenzic comes to the iPhone

christhomson — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:03:44 -0000

Frenzic on the iPhone/iPod touch is so addictive! The only bad thing about it is that the clock is hidden while the app is open, so you can't keep track of the time you waste playing it!

Re: Spore - Mac Fail

christhomson — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 12:59:25 -0000

Spore probably isn't in the App Store yet because it's in the approval process. I wonder if Apple allows developers to specify a launch date for their app or not. :|

Re: Gary Vaynerchuk, “Genius”

christhomson — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:30:56 -0000

Epic!

Re: Wordpress 2.6 ignores upload preferences

christhomson — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:29:48 -0000

I had this problem too. I just went to Settings > Misc then made sure the folder was correct (in my case, /wp-images/, in your case /wp-content/uploads/mobile/) then clicked update. It seemed to work for me. Even if it still says your folder is correctly identified, click update just to re-save it.

Re: Brevity

christhomson — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:09:20 -0000

Yes.

Re: Apple Design Awards: Fotomagico

christhomson — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:54:04 -0000

Fotomagico is great. It really takes slideshows to a whole new level. Well deserved ADA.

Re: FireFox 3.0 Hits the Virtual Shelves

christhomson — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:53:13 -0000

I love the new Firefox. It's a big improvement over Firefox 2 for Mac. The only reason I'm still sticking with Safari is because Firefox 3 takes a little too long to open up a new window.

Re: iPhone 3G U.S. Pricing

christhomson — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:39:12 -0000

I envy you US citizens... I don't even want to know how much Rogers/Fido is going to charge us Canadians...

Re: Rob at work

christhomson — Fri, 09 May 2008 15:25:03 -0000

From what I can see, he chats with 50 people all day long... :P

Re: Video of my MacBook Pro getting Laser Etched

christhomson — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:29:17 -0000

Wow, looks nice!

Re: Facebook Ads Chat

christhomson — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:27:27 -0000

Yeah to some people it's not a problem at all. But let's take someone like Leo Laporte for example. He might want to only be able to chat with a certain friends list, not all 5000 of his friends.

But I see what you mean, it doesn't mean much to the average user.

Re: Facebook Ads Chat

christhomson — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:53:00 -0000

There's also a major problem with its privacy features. You can't block anyone, or a certain friends list. Major flaw, in my opinion.

Re: Best Apple Store!

christhomson — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:02:46 -0000

I hate to brag.... but me and my family going down to the US for a family reunion. I'm okay with going only because we're going to visit the Fifth Avenue apple store (maybe SoHo too).

What area do you like in, where there isn't an apple store?

Re: Pirillo Does it Best

christhomson — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 17:07:13 -0000

Haha, that was a good one, Chris. :D

Re: macCompanion Magazine - April 2008 - April Showers

christhomson — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 22:37:06 -0000

I didn't even know this magazine existed! I've only heard of Mac|Life (actually, I just started writing for them) and Macworld magazines.

I'll have to check MacCompanion out.

Re: Comment relish optimization

christhomson — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 18:03:59 -0000

Hmm, I'm also having this problem.

-- php mail() seems to be working fine on my server -- WordPress emailing me works fine, and my contact form works fine. Subscribe to Comments also works fine.

-- wp_cr_emailed was created successfully, however, I did post a test comment (from a different email I've never posted a comment with before), and the table is empty.

-- I have accessed my site from an anonymous (not logged in) user, AND my admin account. Neither of which triggered the email to send.

-- Plugin is activated, AND enabled.

Any ideas?

Re: Amazing Transparent PowerBook Screen

christhomson — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 08:43:04 -0000

If you've got several hours to spend look at Flickr, here's a pool you might enjoy "Transparent Screens". Heh.

Re: The Way Todays Web Changes Things

christhomson — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 10:19:57 -0000

I can't believe you wrote about this today! One of the projects I'm doing for school is related to how computers and the internet make life easier.

*adds to the "TO FOOTNOTE" list*

Thanks! :)

Re: Cnet Buys Revision3 for $57 Million [Update]

christhomson — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 22:55:26 -0000

I thought someone was just playing games. There was no press announcement, post on either blog, etc, just this pownce post that isn't so sure about itself (READ: "??").

Some people love to try to trick people... Haha.

Re: New Site Design Launched

christhomson — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 00:11:21 -0000

Nice redesign. I love it. :)