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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

barkerja — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:14:25 -0000

Of course, but is that plenty of time for Apple to approve the applications! lol. Sorry, just hating since I dropped the iPhone like a bad habit.

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: Steve Jobs Had Liver Transplant; Returning to Work in Days

Chris Thomson — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 00:59:35 -0000

Click through from Google if you want to read the full WSJ article: http://tr.im/p8oA (Lame, I know.)

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

brentspore — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:06:14 -0000

Both a blessing and a curse... haha ;)

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: 2008/09/25/pleasedressme-t-shirt-giveaway/

Chris Thomson — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 18:41:49 -0000

http://pleasedress.me/?q=geek Lots of great tees on there.

But, if a search result page existed for "cranky," that'd definitely be my fave. :P

Re: 2008/09/08/the-new-mashable/

Chris Thomson — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:32:39 -0000

By the way, shouldn't the twitter message say "I have commented on this (or the) article: [link]" instead of "I have commented the article [link]"? :)

Re: 2008/09/08/the-new-mashable/

Chris Thomson — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 15:33:12 -0000

I really love the new design, and features. I especially love the comment sharing options. The only suggestion I'd have is to <del>put something in the upper right</del> have myself remove Adblocker so it doesn't look to bare. ;)

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: 2008/08/25/bookmarking-is-dying/

Chris Thomson — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:26:40 -0000

Delicious is still my favorite, too. I don't think it's fair to say that social bookmarking (Delicious) has disappeared for social news (like Digg). Digg is for sharing awesome links with others, and Delicious is for saving your bookmarks online, and sharing them with others. You can't store all your bookmarks on Digg, can you?

Just my 2 cents. :)

Re: Gary Vaynerchuk, “Genius”

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

Epic!

Re: Wordpress 2.6 ignores upload preferences

Chris Thomson — 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: 2008/06/28/twitter-replies/

Chris Thomson — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 22:55:17 -0000

FriendFeed and Twitter are oranges and apples. Twitter is meant to be simplistic and beside you all the time, while FriendFeed focuses on conversations. They both mix a little, but not a lot.

Re: 2008/06/28/why-moo-cards-look-stupid-in-a-suit-video/

Chris Thomson — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 21:36:02 -0000

"The crack addict shooting the dealer." Haha, good one Pete.

Nice business card houses, too! :P

Re: Brevity

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

Yes.

Re: Apple Design Awards: Fotomagico

Chris Thomson — 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

Chris Thomson — 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

Chris Thomson — 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

Chris Thomson — 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

EricFriedman — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:19:10 -0000

That is a good point. TechCrunch had an article up about it as well. I
guess if you have too many friends, you need to control the flow.