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Comment on Six letters by Joe Williams

Joe Williams — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:05:02 +0000

Slow love woos elves.

Comment on User registrations by Tanner Lovelace

Tanner Lovelace — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:07:59 +0000

You could always switch your comments to using one of the comment plugins that handle user registrations (i.e. I use Intense Debate on my WP blogs).

Comment on Eight years ago… by Lee Bennett

Lee Bennett — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:04:43 +0000

A few photos of my then-newborn nephew as well as at Mount Rushmore are at http://photos.dtpbylee.com/Washington2001

Comment on Apple, please stop removing pre-existing functionality by Lee Bennett

Lee Bennett — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:27:21 +0000

I haven’t confirmed this yet, but apparently, people are finding that while the relocation of QuickTime 7 Player to the Utilities folder is automatic if you’d already had a Pro license, but that the Optional Installs on the Snow Leopard disc includes the QT7 player that you can install if you didn’t previously have QuickTime Pro. All that remains to be confirmed is whether this QT7 Player includes all the pro features even if you didn’t previously have QuickTime Pro.

Comment on Apple, please stop removing pre-existing functionality by Lee Bennett

Lee Bennett — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:39:47 +0000

The deal with playback speed, both forward and backward, was more beneficial to me just for quickly navigating around to find specific points to do editing, especially since this method let me still hear the audio track. No audio scrubbing when simply dragging the playhead around. For general playback, no, I seldom had much use of playing at the wrong speed.

Comment on Apple, please stop removing pre-existing functionality by ssp

ssp — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 08:15:11 +0000

The inability to play backwards at 1× speed does seem odd (but, frankly, for a playback application I never understood the point of playing back at the wrong speed anyway, particularly as modern compression formats make performance when doing so horrible). I found that you can option-click the rewind button to play backwards at ?1.1× which should be close).

I am not into video editing, so I don’t mind too much in practice. Perhaps this scrapping of features can be seen as a way to make the _Player_ in the application’s name more dominant. In a good case scenario Apple will reinstate the ‘Pro’ tax and start selling a QuickTime app that’s aimed at simple editing and a bit less clumsy than the old QuickTime Player. That could turn in into a ‘win-win’ situation.

Comment on Iconfactory missed the point by Lee Bennett

Lee Bennett — Tue, 19 May 2009 05:00:51 +0000

Craig – thanks for your answer. I acknowledge that there’s probably a lot of frustration that TwitPic uploads frequently error out. That part was never in dispute. The point of contention I had, according to my understanding, is that, by handling it the way Twitterrific currently does, the tweet would appear, sans TwitPic URL. This means that a tweet could appear on my timeline such as, “Have a look at this weird guy I saw on the street,” but there’d be no picture to go along with it. Yes, it would be fantastic if the picture sites, like TwitPic would collaborate with Twitter clients such as yours to send the text after the fact. For the present, however, which is the lesser of two evils? Your feeling seems to be that it’s better to only have one of the two halves (the picture) fail, whereas I, and others I’ve chatted to, feel like the two–the tweet and the picture–make up a whole and one shouldn’t appear without the other.

Comment on Iconfactory missed the point by Craig Hockenberry

Craig Hockenberry — Tue, 19 May 2009 03:42:31 +0000

Lee, we have never supported the uploading of tweets to TwitPic or any other service. We only upload photos and then link to them.

The scenario we’re trying to avoid is this:

1) You upload your photo and text to TwitPic.
2) TwitPic has an error and doesn’t forward your tweet to Twitter.
3) You and your followers never see the tweet or the picture in your timeline.

The root of the problem is that step #2 happens A LOT.

Our long term goal is to change how posting text to the photo service works — we’d like to send them the text AFTER we know that the photo was successfully uploaded AND the tweet was posted to Twitter.

-ch

Comment on Finally got the iPhone WordPress app working by Lee Bennett

Lee Bennett — Tue, 19 May 2009 02:20:24 +0000

I think the “Tanner” route is the case for most people. It just happens that I use a web host that has a slightly different approach to security than others. Probably wise and safer, but at the expense of having to find a few workarounds. Yes, I do like the app. While I admittedly haven’t had any real need yet, I like knowing I have an iPhone-optimized interface for posting an entry—something I could conceivably do. I would have done so during my trip to Macworld San Francisco if the app had been working when I took that trip. Probably the only thing that bugs me is that even though I can read and manage/approve/disapprove comments made to my blog, I cannot use it to post comment responses.

Comment on Finally got the iPhone WordPress app working by RanMan

RanMan — Tue, 19 May 2009 01:43:49 +0000

I don’t understand all of what you said but i installed WP app recently and hope to begin using it this week or next when my blog is up. Hopefully I can go the Tanner route instead of the Lee. Ultimately have you found it worth the time/effort to use the App and what do you like/dislike about it?

Comment on Iconfactory missed the point by RanMan

RanMan — Tue, 19 May 2009 01:13:30 +0000

Nice, perfect analogy.

Comment on Iconfactory missed the point by Lee Bennett

Lee Bennett — Tue, 19 May 2009 00:30:44 +0000

My reply wasn’t entirely dissimilar to what I typed in this blog entry, after the support response. Although I may have added something to the effect of their response being akin to a car dealer saying, “We’ve learned that some buyers leave their window down when it rains and they’re getting wet. So to keep our customers dry, we’re making the windows not roll down any more.”

Comment on Iconfactory missed the point by RanMan

RanMan — Tue, 19 May 2009 00:07:04 +0000

Lee, that’s funny and would constitute a big FAIL! I believe this what Clark Howard refers to as “customer no-service”. Are you going to post your reply, or is it/will it be safe for public viewing? :)

Comment on A soapbox moment about HTML (rich text) formatted e-mail by Lee Bennett

Lee Bennett — Fri, 08 May 2009 13:14:04 +0000

Thanks for helping me make my point, Chris.

Comment on A soapbox moment about HTML (rich text) formatted e-mail by Chris

Chris — Fri, 08 May 2009 08:37:53 +0000

It’s worse than you show in your example:

http://chrislawson.net/blog/archives/000809.php

Mail.app is particularly bad; I haven’t done a comparison with other clients to see if they’re better or worse, but I’ve seen similar output from whatever M$ is calling their mail client on Windows these days, too.

Comment on Bright House essentially removed features—not added by Lee Bennett

Lee Bennett — Sat, 02 May 2009 20:43:53 +0000

Sounds like BH either gave you the wrong remote for your particular cable box, or the one you have was incorrectly programmed. The remote really doesn’t even factor on my list of gripes.

Comment on Bright House essentially removed features—not added by Linda Hall

Linda Hall — Sat, 02 May 2009 12:30:05 +0000

I just started with BH a month ago, and have many problems. One is I can’t program my favorite channels into the remote, my ABC do nothing at all. The only thing I can do with this remote is turn my TV, and cable box off and on. I can use the last channel button, but with my old generic remote I could go to 4 channels, not two. I hate this remote controller, it is big, and clumbsy, and almost totally useless.

Comment on A soapbox moment about text messaging by Andy McConnell

Andy McConnell — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 00:12:46 +0000

SMS does not take up space on a cell network’s voice channels. Since text messages are not just tiny; they are also free riders, tucked into what’s called a control channel, space reserved for operation of the wireless network. And since they are virtually free for the carrier, text messaging fees are the biggest scam in the mobile phone market.

http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/12/28/the-new-york-times-t.html

Comment on A soapbox moment about text messaging by Lee Bennett

Lee Bennett — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 01:03:33 +0000

You already provided my answer for me. No push e-mail on the Canada end and while I have push e-mail for one account, it’s work, and would rather not use it for the personal nature of the messages. As for Google, I’m not sure I’m ready to relinquish my current host of my e-mail hosting needs. This is why I’m not using me.com either.

Comment on A soapbox moment about text messaging by Tanner Lovelace

Tanner Lovelace — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:45:36 +0000

How about both of you simply using mobile email? The iPhone will do that, and I assume the Blackberry will too, since that’s it’s main claim to fame. Seems like that would be a bit better than the current setup (although, unless you’re using push email, you might not get the messages right away… Although, given Google’s recent announcement of push calendar and contacts, I expect them to be offering push email fairly soon.)