I took a look at Songbird recently after aquiring an android phone (t-mobile G1).
Since iTunes won't sync it I was hoping that some open source solution existed. While I was very impressed by how far Songbird has come as a music player, the lack of sync options made me go back to iTunes:(
BUT, since songbird can use fancy plugins, maybe some smart person will realize that we need music sync support for non-ipod devices (and ipods too, I suppose) and write some plugins.
for times like this, i like to reverse the display colors... hit ctrl + option + command + 8 and it flips the display colors (white becomes black, black becomes white, etc.)
Because Apple is the first company to do it right.
I had a nokia e70 before my iPhone, and it has more features than the iPhone, including a webkit based web browser, and google maps, etc. but the iPhone does all of the things I did on the nokia about 100x better.
Safari on iphone is better, google maps is *way* better, the screen is bigger, it syncs easily with my macbook (the e70 required editing a few plist files to get it to sync) and the email is better. The mp3 player is 1000x better, including the part where I can use normal headphones with the iphone vs. custom nokia phones with that huge plug thing.
The only thing I miss is being able to record videos (which could easily be a software update to the iphone) and a few other small nit-picky things.
The great thing about using SWFObject (linked in the original thread post) is that even if the users don't have Javascript enabled, presuming you set up your page correctly, they will still see the alternate content, which means your site is still perfectly accessible and valid.
Progressive enhancement has been used across the web for years, so why not treat Flash the same way as all the other extra bells and whistles?
The whole 'click to activate' thing can be bypassed by using Javascript to embed your plugin/activex content.
It's really easy, and there's a number of solutions for embedding Flash and Quicktime content. (And these methods make it much easier to embed the content and detect the presence of the plugin anyway. Many people are already using it, like youtube.com for example.
Maybe it's time for you to change out of your caveman costume and get a cellphone with bluetooth. t-mobile (and many other carriers) have unlimited data plans for the same price (or less) and you can use that anywhere, not just in your hotel room.
i switched back when 10.3 came out because osx was so inticing. after running windows since 95 was around and putting up with the ever increasing spyware and malware popping up (easy enough to combat with regular cleanings and scannings, but why put up with that in the first place?)
the aluminum powerbooks were the icing on the cake... firewire, built in wireless, excellent battery life, wide screen displays making them perfect for web development work where i would need to run photoshop along side apache and php.
the CPU change won't make a difference in either of the above reasons, so i'll be staying.
the 64 bit cpus in the g5s are nice, but it looks like intel will have that as well in the coming months, so i think that will be fine as well.
There's a big difference between recycling and building sustainable things.
If you read Cradle to Cradle, you'll see that the book bashes recylcing just as much as Penn + Teller do.
We don't need to recyle things, we need to build from materials that are sustainable... Or if we do try and recycle, the recycled goods need to be as high a quality as the original source materials.
Current recycling just costs us a ton of money (and engery) and then dumps a bunch of crap on us that can't be used for the same things again, so the recycled materials have to be used for something else.
Tim Berners-Lee talked about it over a year ago, and many other people have covered the reasons why it's bad.
The main reason being that creating top level domain names for specific devices is dumb. Cell phones / mobile devices may be hot shit right now, but what happens in 10 years when every device we own had access to the web... will we get a.toaster tld? what about.fridge or.car?
User agents have content negotiation and identify themselves for a reason. that is what should be used, not the TLD to determine content.
it's a fun idea, but the problem comes when you piss off a little script kiddy and they use this tool to come after your site that they say is a spam site when it's really not.
When you leave your house/office you can take XM with you wherever you go...
iTunes you have to leave in your computer.
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I agree, the finder is terrible - if it gets caught on anything you just get the pinwheel forever...
I've been using launchbar for ages to open apps, and i'll probably replace that with spotlight when tiger comes out... then it's goodbye finder forever i hope.
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I took a look at Songbird recently after aquiring an android phone (t-mobile G1).
Since iTunes won't sync it I was hoping that some open source solution existed. While I was very impressed by how far Songbird has come as a music player, the lack of sync options made me go back to iTunes :(
BUT, since songbird can use fancy plugins, maybe some smart person will realize that we need music sync support for non-ipod devices (and ipods too, I suppose) and write some plugins.
for times like this, i like to reverse the display colors... hit ctrl + option + command + 8 and it flips the display colors (white becomes black, black becomes white, etc.)
Because Apple is the first company to do it right.
I had a nokia e70 before my iPhone, and it has more features than the iPhone, including a webkit based web browser, and google maps, etc. but the iPhone does all of the things I did on the nokia about 100x better.
Safari on iphone is better, google maps is *way* better, the screen is bigger, it syncs easily with my macbook (the e70 required editing a few plist files to get it to sync) and the email is better. The mp3 player is 1000x better, including the part where I can use normal headphones with the iphone vs. custom nokia phones with that huge plug thing.
The only thing I miss is being able to record videos (which could easily be a software update to the iphone) and a few other small nit-picky things.
The obvious answer to this is because they want to be able to show ads in your search results.
It's very similar, but slightly different in how it works.
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See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-site_request_f
Or you could just buy a Wii.
well, if they can rehash old stuff, i'll do it, too.
Don't blame the technology on incompetent developers.
The great thing about using SWFObject (linked in the original thread post) is that even if the users don't have Javascript enabled, presuming you set up your page correctly, they will still see the alternate content, which means your site is still perfectly accessible and valid.
Progressive enhancement has been used across the web for years, so why not treat Flash the same way as all the other extra bells and whistles?
The whole 'click to activate' thing can be bypassed by using Javascript to embed your plugin/activex content.
It's really easy, and there's a number of solutions for embedding Flash and Quicktime content. (And these methods make it much easier to embed the content and detect the presence of the plugin anyway. Many people are already using it, like youtube.com for example.
Maybe it's time for you to change out of your caveman costume and get a cellphone with bluetooth. t-mobile (and many other carriers) have unlimited data plans for the same price (or less) and you can use that anywhere, not just in your hotel room.
if you start from the north pole you'll end up back where you started.
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I was there last weekend, and it was already hanging up in the lobby, but still covered in the blue sheet.
I took a few pics of it: Smithsonian pictures
i got a message from 'gmail.com' and it said:
"The broken link has been fixed. Thanks for being our first users!"
So i looked at the site and sure enough there it was.
go check it out. looks like a normal IM client.
now the part where i got a IM from 'gmail.com' makes me wonder if they'll throw up contextual ads in a different window as you chat with people.
The web developer toolbar does this too, and a whole lot more. If you are building websites and don't have this, you have problems.
and of course, vimeo.com as well
i switched back when 10.3 came out because osx was so inticing. after running windows since 95 was around and putting up with the ever increasing spyware and malware popping up (easy enough to combat with regular cleanings and scannings, but why put up with that in the first place?)
the aluminum powerbooks were the icing on the cake... firewire, built in wireless, excellent battery life, wide screen displays making them perfect for web development work where i would need to run photoshop along side apache and php.
the CPU change won't make a difference in either of the above reasons, so i'll be staying.
the 64 bit cpus in the g5s are nice, but it looks like intel will have that as well in the coming months, so i think that will be fine as well.
There's a big difference between recycling and building sustainable things.
If you read Cradle to Cradle, you'll see that the book bashes recylcing just as much as Penn + Teller do.
We don't need to recyle things, we need to build from materials that are sustainable... Or if we do try and recycle, the recycled goods need to be as high a quality as the original source materials.
Current recycling just costs us a ton of money (and engery) and then dumps a bunch of crap on us that can't be used for the same things again, so the recycled materials have to be used for something else.
Why this is bad has been covered before...
.toaster tld? what about .fridge or .car?
Tim Berners-Lee talked about it over a year ago, and many other people have covered the reasons why it's bad.
The main reason being that creating top level domain names for specific devices is dumb. Cell phones / mobile devices may be hot shit right now, but what happens in 10 years when every device we own had access to the web... will we get a
User agents have content negotiation and identify themselves for a reason. that is what should be used, not the TLD to determine content.
it's a fun idea, but the problem comes when you piss off a little script kiddy and they use this tool to come after your site that they say is a spam site when it's really not.
who decides what is spam and what's legit?
as long as it's a separate page from the google.com homepage, i'm cool with it.
it's when they stop offering the lightweight search page by default is when it starts to suck.
not sure about AOL stuff, but XM online offers either 32k or 64k windows media streams...
they sound about like a 64k and 128k mp3, respectively
When you leave your house/office you can take XM with you wherever you go...
iTunes you have to leave in your computer.
I've been using launchbar for ages to open apps, and i'll probably replace that with spotlight when tiger comes out... then it's goodbye finder forever i hope.