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Re: The only iPhone App you need at Ultra Music Festival

MattDGI — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 15:24:49 -0000

Ah, bum deal on the lock down! Great Picture here though - we're just learning all about this blogging and linking business after a few years in the dome word. I would be stoked to connect with you if you're into domes. -- It's all we do and my greatest challenge is getting web exposure - - - so we can get more domes out in the world for more people to experience. - you can check what we've done so far on domeguys.com or look us up on Flicker or YouTube ( a search for DomeGuys will bring up all our stuff ) If you dig it - I would be stoked talk to you about what we can get going. - just the fact that you put together the app and put it out there for people is enough for me to be interested in what else your up to. - matt@domeguys.com

Re: My Thoughts on Ultra Music Festival 13 in Miami

kat clement — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 16:48:35 -0000

- Oh my god, YES to some of the reactions to my attendance. "Well, it’s one weekend a year. Sorry for letting you down." (25. Federal Contractor. Triathlete.)
- Thank god I didn't go see Will.I.Am.
- I didn't feel the festival was "roomy" on Friday. The layout was pretty sucky, I thought, actually, but the stages were incredible. (I know that UMF had little to work with.)
- I felt more "community" the last two years. Drugs - yes. Pushing/fighting people - that was way worse this year than it has ever been for me.

Re: Patriotism only exists when it’s a part of the news cycle

Wimpie — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 22:13:33 -0000

Let me see if I have this right.

2 million passengers per day (in the US only) for the past 9 years (since 9/11) equals about 6.5 BILLION passengers.

One nut tries to blow up a plane with explosives in his underwear which failed. (BTW: You can’t put enough explosives in your underwear to down a plane) and now OUR GOVERNMENT wants to strip search or physically pat down ALL AMERICAN travelers at a cost of BILLIONS of dollars.

Non-metallic weapons are bull. Nobody can get in the cockpit anymore. Maybe they could harm another passenger? Is this a realistic threat?

Nobody has been killed by terrorists on an American aircraft since 9/11!

Also - TSA has never caught a terrorist - ever!

Odds: 1 in 6.5 billion ? or less? the bombs didn't work!
Powerball 1 in 40 million?
State lottery 1 in 14 million.

I'm 465 times more likely to win the state lottery, than to be killed by terrorists on a plane!

WHAT ARE OUR LEGISLATORS SMOKING?

Billions to strip search Air Travelers, treat Americans as criminals, and cause additional preventable cancers?

Teachers all over the country out of work?
Cities & Towns going bankrupt?

What about the 300,000 killed in car crashes in the same period?

What's wrong with this picture?

Picture your family like this:
http://rupture.co.uk/Terminal%...

Re: How Boxee and their ‘Box’ have let me down

adamjackson — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 09:26:54 -0000

Yeah. That seems like a good option. I guess I was just hoping to not have to do that. I don't like building media centers anymore. Was hoping for one complete system.

Re: How Boxee and their ‘Box’ have let me down

linuxthrewmacthruwindows — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 22:00:13 -0000

i would just get a good desktop machine with a bluray drive and a good grafix card and load it up with boxee and hulu and then use the integration systems for mediacenter

Re: How Boxee and their ‘Box’ have let me down

linuxthrewmacthruwindows — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 21:57:44 -0000

personally i would just recommend buying a good desktop machine with wmc-and a cable outlet and adding boxee and hulu integration systems--then u would be set

Re: The only iPhone App you need at Ultra Music Festival

adamjackson — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 09:52:14 -0000

Hi Sarah. What iPhone do you have? What OS version? Perhaps download it first via iTunes and then sync the iPhone there.

I've talked to about 5 people who have successfully downloaded it.

Re: The only iPhone App you need at Ultra Music Festival

Sarah — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 07:04:24 -0000

I downloaded the app and it will not open-very disappointed

Re: No. I will not invite my friends to use your app so I get in the beta faster

Adrian McMillan — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 18:09:42 -0000

lol.

Re: No. I will not invite my friends to use your app so I get in the beta faster

adamjackson — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 18:07:34 -0000

....I'll test your product for a virtual badge :)

Re: No. I will not invite my friends to use your app so I get in the beta faster

Adrian McMillan — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 18:06:06 -0000

Totally agree. I'm starting to get annoyed with those who throw the 'beta' tag around like it's what's hot these days.

It seems the concept of 'beta' is losing it's meaning. People brag about being in a 'beta', but don't actually test the product.

Re: Hey Motorola: Your Xoom commercials suck!

adamjackson — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 00:12:44 -0000

It's sad. Their ads are terrible.

Re: MobileMe for Free Rumors – Lies, lies lies

adamjackson — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 00:12:21 -0000

Exactly how long does it take to setup a data center? 3 years? Pu-Lease!

Google coughs and sets up data centers all over the world. Also, is iTunes still using Akamai? I'm guessing that the data center is done. Honestly, it's done and we all just keep blaming MobileMe free delays on that. I doubt it's that. I'm sure it's done.

Re: Hey Motorola: Your Xoom commercials suck!

Steve Ruge — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 23:28:23 -0000

MOTO never seems to get their ads right. I'm starting to feel a bit sorry for them actually.

Re: MobileMe for Free Rumors – Lies, lies lies

Steve Ruge — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 23:27:34 -0000

I still think they're waiting for the NC data center to come fully online and that eventually they will have to make some form of Mobile Me free. Maybe with OTA syncing? Hey I can hope!

Re: MobileMe for Free Rumors – Lies, lies lies

GadgetDon — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 22:17:20 -0000

This time could be different. Pre-iPhone, Mobile Me was an extra service (and not terribly priced compared to the competition). The competition, Microsoft, had hotmail but it was no better using hotmail with Windows over Mac.

Post iPhone launch, Apple pretty much had the market to themselves. Gmail was out there, and Apple supported Gmail as well as any other phone (and better than most).

Now, Android is serious competition, and Google has a free cloud service that they're trying to leverage to make Android more attractive. The lack of a networked data storage is starting to become a competitive disadvantage. If Apple can strike the deals to not only make Mobile Me cloud email/calendar/notes but also some storage oh and access to your iTunes purchases all over the air, all for any Apple customer - that could be big.

Of course, it won't be free as in "hey, anyone with a whim want an account? Sign up. Sign up for a bunch". I suspect it'll be tied to Apple hardware purchase. The question will be how far back they go. My fiscal situation means that I haven't bought a Mac since 2006 and never bought an iOS device. And if I lose my mac.com email address - I'm royally screwed.

Re: Announcement: Changes…

adamjackson — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 07:01:30 -0000

Thank you for reading! I'm still in awe that people read this blog...thank you.

The twitter thing is pretty edgy but I think it makes the site design very simple. I can't wait for the photo blog to be done. So exciting!

Re: Getting The Shot

adamjackson — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 07:00:31 -0000

Thank you! The very comfy LunarGlides

Re: Announcement: Changes…

brixtonasias — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 04:14:28 -0000

This post has two highlights:

1) The comment switch to twitter. Though I think it if funny that I write this as a comment here
2) The photo blog. Do it do it! ;-)

Keep up the good work and thanks for sharing your thoughts and being open.

Re: Getting The Shot

brixtonasias — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 04:09:42 -0000

Love the shoes!

Re: Announcement: Changes…

adamjackson — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 00:07:14 -0000

Exactly! I've only seen it on two sites and I think it's very nice. I hope it's an easy implementation.

Re: Announcement: Changes…

adamjackson — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 00:06:32 -0000

Great feedback! Thanks for commenting, Donald.

The comment via tweet is going to take some work that I'll probably have to pay for which is fine if people really want it. I figured it would be a test on the photo blog only because I wanted to keep the photo display very very simple and be about the art and less about the comments.

Do you subscribe via RSS? I figured that adding context to each link would be a better route but I share about 10 links a day on Twitter and 3 of those i don't really add context too and the others I do (in 140 characters). We'll see how the style goes.

I think a Twitter feed with everything is good and I'll post my favorite stuff still to my main account but, if you don't subscribe via Twitter or RSS, you won't get it and I'm okay with that. I'm starting to blog more and a lot of people are complaining that I'm posting too much and cross-posting to Twitter & Facebook and they only care, for example, about life updates or photo posts.

Thanks for the other feedback! Photo blog should be up before I head to SF & Belgium in May.

Re: Announcement: Changes…

GadgetDon — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 23:58:39 -0000

Followup - If you can do the twitter thing for comments, that would be great - I know I leave comments on some sites/blog entries/articles that I never see a reply because I don't go back. With Twitter, if you reply, I'd see it in socialite.

Re: Announcement: Changes…

GadgetDon — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 23:57:12 -0000

Comments - I like the idea of using Twitter as your comments/reply field. One thing I hate about Daring Fireball is, when I wanted to comment on something he posted, I had to manually load daringfireball.com (because just clicking on the link in my rss reader takes me to the site he's writing about), find the contact page, and use email. That said, I haven't commented on your stuff much, so not a big deal - but I'd still argue for trying to implement the twitter thing rather than "no comments".

Links - I'd argue against that, at least completely. I read Daring Fireball because I want to know what Dan Gruber thinks about something, not because he's found amazing links. I rarely click through to the links, because I'm reading it for what Dan has to say. Also, note that in his twitter feed, he'll sometimes post links - mostly notifications of stuff he does, but sometimes other.

My advice: Post a link in the blog when (a) you have something to say about the blog beyond "hey, this is cool/funny/weird/pithy, have a look" or (b) it's the sort of link that has a lasting purpose and visitors in the future may be interested.

Photoblog sounds cool. Flickr is fine for "Hey, I took a couple hundred pictures while on my trip, here are 30 I think a pretty good." But nothing beats a blog for "This one I'm really proud of, let me tell you why."

Re: How Boxee and their ‘Box’ have let me down

afunbee — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 00:14:58 -0000

I've been researching on how to cut the cord with monthly fees. My challenge is that I need to get something that user friendly for the wife. First, I bought a DTVPAL (aka Channel Master CM7000) to record off the air HD shows. I'm pretty happy with the purchase ($230 ebay) I'm fortunate that I live in a place the has good signal strength. The wife has no problem using the interface. Next, I wanted something to stream Netflix and has a good interface. I don't own any gaming device so I am starting from scratch. I held off Boxee Box since it did not work with Netflix (apparently now it does). I might go with Roku because I sense that Boxee Box still is buggy. My final requirement is that I need something to play networked files. I might eventually get a Boxee Box but I might hold out and wait.