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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.

Dashcode can create backwards compatibility, but it may not do it by default.

Hmmm. [link]

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)).

tommyrot - Feb 21, 2010 5:36:42 pm PST #12965 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.

Dashcode can create backwards compatibility, but it may not do it by default.

Yeah, I was thinking if I did any more widget stuff I'd download Dashcode. Maybe I'll try it out tomorrow.

le nubian - Feb 21, 2010 5:41:17 pm PST #12966 of 25501

"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

Gears might be dead, but there is still an offline feature. I don't know how much data it takes up, but I turn off gmail and reader's offline features when I am on metered data.

tommyrot - Feb 21, 2010 5:48:29 pm PST #12967 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.

Thanks, I'll give that a try next time I'm on the... 3G... modem... thingie....

§ ita § - Feb 21, 2010 8:44:37 pm PST #12968 of 25501

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Android Contacts suck. All my numbers that were listed by company name are now just listed by phone number. The company name information is still stored, just not on the primary screen, and not searchable.

Is there any simple way around that? They're listed sensibly in gmail contacts.

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