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le nubian - Oct 20, 2011 4:59:22 pm PDT #18227 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

yeah, I'm not particularly happy about it. Note: Siri before did not have all the capability of the current one, but it was pretty good.

Now, I have Vlingo with a google calendar address book hack to do what I used Siri for (asking Siri to remind me of something at x time while I was driving).

I also use Dragon Go for the other functions Siri used to do.


§ ita § - Oct 20, 2011 5:03:21 pm PDT #18228 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Meanwhile I can't work out how to get Navigate to recognise names from my address book. The names aren't that screwy! But voice recognition comes back with celebrity names before my contacts. It's pretty decent at taking dictation of English, but speaking a text or email is a luxury. Asking for directions is more important.


Morgana - Oct 20, 2011 10:37:35 pm PDT #18229 of 25501
"I make mistakes, but I am on the side of Good," the Golux said, "by accident and happenchance.” – The 13 Clocks, James Thurber

I have a question for those of you who are using Pinboard: when the red flares first went up about Delicious, I imported my bookmarks from Delicious to Diigo, looking for a safer harbor. My links and tags came through the transition okay, but I tend towards long descriptions and my descriptions were truncated (Delicious allows up to 1000 characters -- as does Diigo -- but Diigo cut off all the imported Descriptions at 256 characters.) Any new descriptions can be 1000 characters long, but all my old bookmarks are chopped off. That was 10 months ago, and I opened a bug ticket (as well as loads of other people) but they haven’t offered any kind of solution and I don’t want to have to go back and edit each entry individually.

So, my question is, did Pinboard have this kind of issue? When you imported your bookmarks, did everything – links, tags, and the full description – come through?

Because the New Delicious makes me want to knock my head into the wall, and I really, really want to find something else to use.


le nubian - Oct 21, 2011 4:11:38 am PDT #18230 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

Morgana,

Pinboard has a money back guarantee if you contact him within x amount of days (maybe 2?) so you could get an account, import and if you don't like it, get your $$ back.

I have been using pinboard for 1-2 months and I really love it. I also love because it works with ifttt.com.


§ ita § - Oct 21, 2011 4:34:13 am PDT #18231 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

How does ifttt work? I mean, you have to give it all your passwords, right? Hmm.

Is there a massing exodus from Delicious? The alternatives I tried back in the day just were not appealing to me. And even with the changes they've made--if they just rstore the functionality they broke, no sweat.

My inertia, she is large.


le nubian - Oct 21, 2011 4:37:46 am PDT #18232 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

I don't believe so. I think for twitter and google I went through oauth.

I did need to provide pw for pinboard.


§ ita § - Oct 21, 2011 6:03:51 am PDT #18233 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I think for twitter and google I went through oauth.

Ah, okay.

In a project I'm working on right now we're coming up against third party storage of user passwords, and it's on my mind right now.


le nubian - Oct 21, 2011 6:13:10 am PDT #18234 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

yep. I won't let any third-party store my google passwords for any reason.


Consuela - Oct 21, 2011 10:13:10 am PDT #18235 of 25501
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

I imported into pinboard with no problems. The only real issue is replicating my network there, since not everyone has moved over.


le nubian - Oct 21, 2011 10:15:03 am PDT #18236 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

BTW,

I found something really cool that I thought I would share. You can convert files (quite a few of them at once) from word format to pdf using google docs!

You also can make PDFs OCR using google docs as well.