OK, upon using the Virgin Mobile Broadband2Go data modem for a bit, I'm amazed at how much bandwidth Google Reader chews through.
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tommyrot - Feb 21, 2010 12:27:20 pm PST #12955 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
§ ita § - Feb 21, 2010 12:31:35 pm PST #12956 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Does it load a lot of info and then hide it from you dynamically?
tommyrot - Feb 21, 2010 12:37:38 pm PST #12957 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I don't know wtf it's doing. For example, right now I'm scrolling through posts for a subscription, and all I see is text and some graphic for an ad that (I think) should already be cached, and yet 200k of data gets downloaded. But then when I click on the headline of a post and I see the actual page, many more hundreds of k gets downloaded.
DCJensen - Feb 21, 2010 4:38:55 pm PST #12958 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.
Tommyrot, to respond to your email to Windowsparrow IRT to the Spring widget, no it does not work on her machine nor mine.
We are both running Tiger (10.4.11) on PowerPC processors.
I am able to get a quick blip of a red box to pop up in dashboard if i double click on the widget in the dashboard icon tray, but it goes away and leaves an X with a circle on it to close out. I can get a stack of those going if i keep clicking.
We rebooted her Powerbook, but no go.
tommyrot - Feb 21, 2010 4:47:07 pm PST #12959 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Hmm. I just copied and hacked someone else's app. Perhaps it was for a later version of OS X but I didn't realize that could be an issue.
The original code was created by Dashcode. Wikipedia sez:
Dashcode is a software application created by Apple Inc. that is included with Mac OS X Leopard and facilitates the development of widgets for Dashboard. It was first included on new MacBooks shipping around the time of May 24, 2006, as part of the Xcode developer tools.
Huh. Dashcode was new with Leopard. Maybe the code it creates isn't backward compatible with Tiger?
le nubian - Feb 21, 2010 5:10:29 pm PST #12960 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
tommyrot,
you may want to turn off the offline features of google reader.
le nubian - Feb 21, 2010 5:11:13 pm PST #12961 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Also, I have used gmail and google reader mobile versions when I'm on a metered data connection so I don't blow it out.
tommyrot - Feb 21, 2010 5:28:56 pm PST #12962 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Also, I have used gmail and google reader mobile versions when I'm on a metered data connection so I don't blow it out.
Cool. I was wondering if that was possible.
DCJensen - Feb 21, 2010 5:30:57 pm PST #12963 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.
tommyrot - Feb 21, 2010 5:34:51 pm PST #12964 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
you may want to turn off the offline features of google reader.
Oops, first read this as "online version". I didn't know there was an offline feature. (I was using google gears for that on my netbook. (Gears is now dead, to be replaced by features in HTML 5)).