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It’s private
Only you can read what you write. No friend requests, no posting your entries publicly.
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Seems like a neat idea.
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SERVICE: Journal by email
Monday, January 13, 2014
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SOFTWARE: KRYPTOKIT for bit coin and encrypted email
Sunday, January 12, 2014http://kryptokit.com/getting-started.html
What is KryptoKit?
KryptoKit is the world’s first instant Bitcoin wallet and secure messaging system that’s built right into your browser. It’s the easiest and fastest wallet to set up, and the easiest and fastest way to make Bitcoin payments. KryptoKit is a free extension plug-in for Chrome, making Bitcoin and GPG secure messaging instantly accessible even for beginners.
We believe in frictionless systems. We do things to remove the amount of clicks and friction that can often be involved when working with webwallets or making Bitcoin transactions. Below we’ll explain how to set up KryptoKit, its wallet and messaging system, as well as some of the other features KryptoKit offers.
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SOFTWARE: FINDFRIENDS interesting application
Monday, May 20, 2013Interesting use for it.
My friend Pete’s in the hospital in Jacksonville FL.
I know where is phone is!
Laff.
I assume he still has it with him.
So, without bothering anyone, I know he’s still there.
Now if it could just tell me the altitude, I’d know if he’s still in ICU or moved to a regular room.
Laff!
Stalking to a new level.
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SOFTWARE: Google changes CHROME and makes me reconsider that too
Monday, March 18, 2013When Google nuked GREADER, it also took the extension that supports RSS feeds out of CHROME.
Now, I’m rethinking EVERYTHING I do with GOOGLE.
Argh!
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SOFTWARE: Keeping the site up, listening and adding new features. | Building Feedly
Monday, March 18, 2013Have to move from Google Reader. Argh! Change is never fun. And, why should we ever trust Google again.
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Priorities: Keeping the site up, listening and adding new features. | Building Feedly: “Building Feedly Re-imagine how people keep in touch with their favorite sites.
SearchMain menu Skip to primary content Skip to secondary content Post navigation← Previous Priorities: Keeping the site up, listening and adding new features. Posted on March 15, 2013 by @feedly More than 500,000 Google Reader users have joined the feedly community over the last 48 hours. We love passionate readers. Welcome on board.
Our main priorities over the next 30 days are 1) to keep the service up, 2) listen to new users for suggestions and 3) add features weekly.
To keep the service up, we 10x our bandwidth and added new servers.
For new features, we are listening actively to our new uservoice forum and will be pushing out new releases on a weekly basis. Be vocal: we love candid feedback.
Note 1: Here are some tips on how to make feedly less pretty and more functional.
Note 2: If you are a Google Reader, give feedly a try before July 1st, and you will be able to migrate seamlesly: Feedly for i”
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SOFTWARE: Googles RSS Subscription Extension, Removed From Chrome Web Store
Saturday, March 16, 2013a reason to abandon Chrome?
Google’s RSS Subscription Extension, Removed From Chrome Web Store: “Three years ago I tried to convince the Chrome team that it makes sense to add native support to feeds. At that time, Google built an extension that showed feed previews and allowed you to subscribe to feeds. The explanation for building an extension instead of implementing the feature in Chrome was simple:
‘This decision was made based on our philosophy of trying to limit ourselves to adding only the UI features that a vast majority of users need and allow each user to customize the browsers to fit their needs with Extensions. Given that most people are not familiar with and don’t consume RSS feeds, we thought that RSS support would be a better fit as an extension, at least to begin with.’
In 5 months, more than 300,000 people installed the extension. More than 1,600 people starred a feature request for implementing RSS detection natively. Chrome still doesn’t have this feature and the extension released in 2010 has been removed from the Chrome Web Store a few days ago. The issue is that the extension used Google Reader to preview feeds and Google Reader will be discontinued in July.
‘RSS Subscription Extension’ had 869,743 users. Fortunately, it wasn’t the only extension for subscribing to feeds. Here’s another extensionbased on an old version of Google’s extension.
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(Via Google Operating System.)
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SOFTWARE: No More Google Reader
Wednesday, March 13, 2013No More Google Reader: “Google announced that Google Reader will be discontinued on July 1st. It’s a sad news, but it was inevitable. Google Reader has always been ‘on the chopping block’ because it never got enough traction.
Everything started with a feed parser built by Chris Wetherell that turned into a feed reader, helped by Ben Darnell, Laurence Gonsalves, and Mihai Parparita. The product was launched in 2005 as a Google Labs project and it was significantly improved one year later, when the Google Reader team launched a completely new version. Over the years, Google Reader integrated with iGoogle, added social features and handled feed serving for all Google products. Back in 2007, Google Reader crawled 8 million feeds and 70% of the traffic was from Firefox users.
In 2011, Google removed Reader’s social features and replaced them with a Google +1 button. It was the beginning of the end for Reader, who lost all the engineers from the original team. Google Reader is in maintenance mode ever since then.
While feeds are no longer important for many users and browsers start to drop support for reading feeds, social networks make newsfeeds popular and mobile apps like Flipboard simplify reading the news. Feeds are now a behind-the-scenes technology and full-fledged feed readers seem outdated.
‘We know Reader has a devoted following who will be very sad to see it go. We’re sad too. There are two simple reasons for this: usage of Google Reader has declined, and as a company we’re pouring all of our energy into fewer products. We think that kind of focus will make for a better user experience,’ says Google’s Alan Green.
It’s hard to find a replacement for Google Reader, since Google Reader was the most popular feed reader and the competition couldn’t keep up with it. You can still find some web-based feed readers, but none of them is as good as Google Reader. Congratulations to everyone who worked on the Reader team and thanks to all the people who subscribed to this blog in Google Reader.
Here’s Google Reader’s team from 2007:
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(Via Google Operating System.)
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SOFTWARE: Peanut Butter PC; better than nothing?
Tuesday, August 14, 2012Peanut Butter PC: Trying to keep kids safe
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Bottom line
In summary, although Peanut Butter PC as a product offers a good idea for making the computer safe for kids, some youngsters with more crafty hacking smarts could get around the confines of the custom desktop and back into the cruel, unprotected world of regular Windows. Although this application serves as a decent roadblock for some that aren’t familiar with computers, it cannot be considered a replacement to parental supervision. It is always important to monitor your child’s usage of the machine, just in case someone does end up finding a way around the fence. At the price of $24.95, it might be worth considering after you give the software a test run via Peanut Butter PC’s 15-day trial.
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Putting computing power in the hands of children is at best a calculated risk.
Perhaps, by putting it in their hands earlier, with instruction, examples, and SUPERVISION, can make it safer for all involved.
If I had a family, I’d put OPENDNS in the family’s router. That’ll help.
Reviewing logs is a good way to get to sleep at night.
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SOFTWARE: Open source isn’t a bad deal versus “Pay for”
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That said, if you lean towards economics and like to think about the long-term costs of open source software, you may have brought to mind the old adage “There’s no such thing as a free lunch”. (Or, as it is commonly used to compare with open source, a Free Beer.) Open source software rarely comes with the technical support and warranty services that proprietary software provides. So while you may not pay upfront now, the expenses for the software maintenance and upkeep may accumulate and charge you in the future.
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Anyone get any support from the commercial firms like microsloth?
Even in large organizations it’s a joke.
Unless your contract is up for renewal. The you are up to your in SEs, AEs, VPs, and unnamed executives.
Open Source usually has an interested community who is actually interested in your issues.
Some of my BEST support experiences have been from “Open Source”, “Free Software” communities.
I’m not sure how to harness it. But if I ever do, Bill Gates move over. The neighborhood’s getting a double wide.
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SOFTWARE: MARSEDIT v3.5 (5031) has what I’d call a “user interface” bug; resolved
Sunday, April 29, 2012MARSEDIT v3.5 (5031) has what I’d call a “user interface” bug. It doesn’t crash, but it doesn’t respond the same as the old version and the result produced is “livable, but not as it once was”.
The last version (number unknown) on the macbookair a keyboard <shift><return> would do a “line feed”, but not a “carriage return”. This version <shift><return> and <return” act identical (i.e., extra white space of paragraph in the post).
So how do I get what I want?
I liked the old output. MarsEdit’s value has just dropped from 5* to 3*. Because now I’m asking what else has changed and what other bugs have been introduced?
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Excellent support from the folks at REDSWEATER.
Within hours I had a response.
It was a UI change. To do the old <shift><return> is just a <command><return>.
AND, they immediately agreed there should have been a “Heads Up”.
They now go from 3* back to 5* in my book.
As they say in the war movies: “That is all. Carry on!”.
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