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Re: If You Need This Many USB Ports

matthew rogers — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:52:51 -0000

Haha, I know I would be :)

Re: If You Need This Many USB Ports

AmyVernon — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:31:29 -0000

In fairness, she looks a bit taken aback. ;-)

Re: DOCSIS 3: So This is How Modems Should Work

matthew rogers — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 13:56:49 -0000

Ouch! I feel your pain though, I've had to spend a long time in a couple of areas with speeds lower than that, and it's not fun at all. I hope you at least have steady connection; speeds like that aren't so bad if you've got the full speed all the time. Whenever I'm somewhere with a crap connection, it's generally all over the place, never the same reading twice.

Re: DOCSIS 3: So This is How Modems Should Work

moldor — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 10:28:22 -0000

I hate you... hate hate HATE !!! Here in Australia, land of the completely screwed communications industry, I have 8Mb down and 384KB up - that's barely better than wet spaghetti !!!

Re: Twitter Lists Now Incorporating TweetDeck Groups?

matthew rogers — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:56:23 -0000

Thank you Richard, I'll update accordingly :)

Re: Twitter Lists Now Incorporating TweetDeck Groups?

Richard Barley — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:53:45 -0000

Hi there,
Just to reassure you that the TweetDeck servers are totally secure and even Twitter themselves do not have access to "reach through" and find your old TweetDeck groups.
Have you Used Brizzly before? They have just implemented Lists and so if you ever created groups in Brizzly, these will have been automagically turned into Twitter lists overnight.
Just a thought.

Richard
TweetDeck Community Manager

Re: Facebook Overdose is Imminent.

matthew rogers — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:05:44 -0000

Hi Valorie,

Sorry about the late response, I've been moving :)

Many people feel the same way as you, and there are other options available. If all you're looking for is a nice photostream, then there are actual photoblogs available along with microblogs that fit the bill. Some go as far as to offer password protection, so that only those to whom you grant access may view your blog.

Great examples of microblogs are Posterous and Tumblr, both of which offer privacy on demand, without hassle. Dedicated photoblogs are useful, but not multi-purpose. Good examples of these would be a simple Flickr account, or a service such as Skitch or Picasa. Like I said, photoblogs don't offer many uses other than simple picture sharing, but they're very useful when it comes to that one purpose. They also tend to offer fairly good privacy options since they're based on the sensitive nature of family photos and such.

Here's URL's to the sites or services I mentioned:
http://posterous.com
http://tumblr.com
http://skitch.com
http://picasa.google.com

As for Facebook Lite; yes, it's basically just the same thing as regular Facebook, but without the clutter showing on the main page. It's just a simpler look and feel, but all the same guts are there. If you're interested in trying that out, just go to http://lite.facebook.com and see if you like it.

Re: Google Chrome for Mac: Stable Enough for Me.

matthew rogers — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:53:42 -0000

Actually it's available for Mac too, I still use it, and can't actually decide whether I prefer it or Chrome, since they're still being developed side-by-side. Most don't realize that Chrome for Mac is at the version 4.0 level along with Chromium, and that the features that PC users are now seeing in Chrome 3 have been available to Mac and Linux users in a less stable beta form for months.

Re: Trashing Up Twitter (more): Donald Trump??

Shawna Walker — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:10:14 -0000

I have noticed the same thing.I have started unfollowing anyone who mentions Donald Trump and the
networking marketing opportunity associated with his name. It is sad. There may be a great opportunity there but they have turned me off for good!

Re: Google Chrome for Mac: Stable Enough for Me.

Chuck Norris — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:42:10 -0000

Chromium 4 Stable! Download it now! (I think this is only for linux though...)

Re: Facebook Overdose is Imminent.

valorie — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 03:47:58 -0000

All I want to do is share pictures and have fun with silly chat on the walls. I have email to communicate for real. I feel some of the silly stuff is fun and some of it is stupid and in my way. Is it not possible to set it up my way? I may just drop the whole thing. Its a worry who may say what and It seems just as childish as My-space. I thought it would be more adult. Any suggestions that would allow my friends to still see my pics and say hi even if I am not on face book? Otherwise I feel I can not just go in and look at my kids pics in peace. Maybe there is a setting. It never works right anyway most of the time. And whats face book lite? less junk? how do you get it? do I want it or will it be more BS? Help I feel the same way about my once simple Hotmail now gone live!

Valorie

Re: Facebook Overdose is Imminent.

AbsolutelyTrue — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 20:49:11 -0000

I'm really happy for you, and imma let you finish, but Twitter is the greatest social networking platform of all time.

Re: Celebrity Tweeting Done Right: Danny DeVito

floridaindustrialnet — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 22:28:56 -0000

Via this site, you will learn the invaluable absurdity of memes limited to 140 characters ;)

Re: Google Chrome for Mac: Stable Enough for Me.

matthew rogers — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:47:09 -0000

Definitely Tom. So far so good, including flash use/video chat. I trust it enough at this point to phase out Safari.

Re: Google Chrome for Mac: Stable Enough for Me.

Tom — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:01:00 -0000

Chrome for Mac sounds a lot like Chrome for Linux right now. This is a good, I've been using Chrome for Linux exclusively for over a month and the only complaint I have is poor Flash integration, other than that, it is my browser of choice. If it's just as good/better on a Mac, I will be dumping Safari and loading it when I get my Mac in a couple of weeks.

Re: SO GIBSON IT HURTS.

matthew rogers — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 00:37:26 -0000

I think if something doesn't quite go FULL GIBSON, then qualifies as gibsonesque. I'm down with this.

Re: SO GIBSON IT HURTS.

kasha — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 07:46:29 -0000

I do believe I'm with you on the adjective aspect of "gibson" but my I also add. "gibson-esque"

Re: SO GIBSON IT HURTS.

Alexander Falk — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:22:26 -0000

Very acute observation. Gibson's works are indeed prescient with respect to a lot of technologies today. I think I'll join you in treating Gibson as an adjective...

Re: TechCrunch: Arrington’s Showing His Ignorance.

Guest — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 16:36:50 -0000

Re: TechCrunch: Arrington’s Showing His Ignorance.

don — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 12:37:45 -0000

Guys, guys, guys.

Please stop pi$$ing around to try and show who's the alpha male and who has the biggest wang.

If Mr. Arrington doesn't want to use an iPhone, fine. STOP WHINING LIKE A LITTLE CHILD ABOUT IT.

I have heard that AT&T has terrible coverage in NYC and San Francisco. If you didn't check real coverage out BEFORE you bought an iPhone, YOU'RE AN IDIOT! Where I live, coverage by Sprint was horrible but coverage by AT&T is great. I have NO trouble with dropped calls or lack of coverage. I did the research and got something that works for me.

So stop behaving like little children and GROW UP. QUIT WHINING. "Boo hoo! My Apple action figure doesn't work with my Google toy. I'll smash them both then go into a corner and eat worms."

Just grow up and quit your whining.

Re: TechCrunch: Arrington’s Showing His Ignorance.

aut0maticdan — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 15:44:27 -0000

Although you may have shown he knows little about google voice, you haven't really deflated his argument for leaving at all (which was really a matter of principal rather than what you portray it as). You also haven't defended Apple's position. So what is the point of your article?

I don't think he will actually leave the iphone, mind you. If you read carefully he mentions how he is leaving, not that he has left. There is a big difference. It was quite a struggle for me to give mine up, but it just doesn't work in NYC. I tried leaving for other smart phones, but until the Pre came out, I preferred the bad network over the bad device.

Re: TechCrunch: Arrington’s Showing His Ignorance.

Anon — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 15:06:09 -0000

you are trying to be an attention whore by using Arrington.. something that Arrington did when he was your age ( in blog years )

Re: TechCrunch: Arrington’s Showing His Ignorance.

phoner — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 11:28:32 -0000

I second that. I've had AT&T, Sprint and Verizon all in Los Angeles. and AT&T was the absolute worst. I always had a land line with AT&T because my cell phone would never have reception at home... and I moved around to different parts of the city 3 or 4 times with AT&T... didn't work anywhere. Never had that problem with Verizon or Sprint. Verizon always worked, and Sprint occasionally gives me roaming problems.

AT&T sucks. It was the #1 reason I didn't get an iphone back then...and #1 reason I don't now.

Re: TechCrunch: Arrington’s Showing His Ignorance.

dovgoldman — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 10:36:27 -0000

Re: TechCrunch: Arrington’s Showing His Ignorance.

Chester Millisock Jr — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 10:27:09 -0000

Matthew Rogers, you are full of crap lol. Have YOU even used Google Voice?

I'm a Google Voice and iPhone user. I can confirm first hand, Michael Arrington's complaints about Google Voice on the iPhone are legitimate.

Your two main bullet point arguments for why you think Arrington is wrong, are ridiculous.

1- You think it's not a big deal to tell all of your contacts you have a new number.
You must not have very many friends (let alone business cards in countless places across the country as I'm sure Michael Arrington has). And no, it is not acceptible to just have "2 phone numbers", keeping your old number is a fallback.

2- You believe that it's a viable option to open a web app every time you want to make an outgoing call.
Are you serious? Do you understand how long it takes to dial out with the web app? This is what you have to do:
1. Load google.com/voice in Safari (you will probably have this bookmarked)
2. Navigate page after page until you find the contact you want to call
3. Cick on the contact
4. Click on the right phone number (mobile/home/office etc)
5. Wait for Google Voice to call you
6. Accept the call

This is NOT an option for making all of your outgoing calls. I'd rather use the iPhone dialer and have my old phone number display to the recipient.

The choice between iPhone and Google Voice IS forced. I'm in the same boat as Arrington. I, too, will be switching to an Android phone as soon as possible.