I'm very sorry if she tipped off anyone about your cunningly concealed herd of cows.

Simon ,'Safe'


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§ 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.


§ ita § - Oct 21, 2011 11:56:53 am PDT #18237 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I seem to have lost my app switcher on the Galaxy I've installed Launcher Pro on. Could those be related? If I hold down the home button I get the task manager, but I can't switch apps. If I hold down the one that usually brings up a strip of apps on the left side, nothing happens.

I can't work out if there's a Launcher Pro setting I'm missing, or maybe it's because I have two launchers installed. I have two launchers on my phone and it app switches just fine.


§ ita § - Oct 21, 2011 12:59:31 pm PDT #18238 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Completely unrelatedly, I'm experimenting with location-aware software. I'm trying to work out in which ways it can be useful or interesting.

I tried the obvious first, and got a restaurant recommendation service (Urbanspoon) which will take my location into consideration when helping me choose (or randomly choosing) a restaurant.

I've seen references to location-aware to do managers, and Astrid, which I use, has a paid plugin, but I don't know how sophisticated it is. The documentation is really sparse. I mean, will it tell me to get milk when I pass *any* grocery store, or just the one I said I get milk at? Or maybe any Ralph's? Not asking those questions specifically about Astrid, just location aware task managers on the market.

Somehow in this experimentation I turned on Google Latitude (I blame Ambien). Scary. But at least Google sends you an email when you turn it on, so you can then panic and turn it off. I don't know precisely what it does, just that I didn't want it to do that. Is it like FourSquare?

In a rhapsodic 4S/iOS5 review Gizmodo talks about Find My Friends being a game-changer. What does it do that's all that changey?

Part of me thinks it would be entirely cool to know where my friends were, and if they were accepting sociability, and then reality strikes that I'd always for get to turn Do Not Disturb either on or off.


NoiseDesign - Oct 21, 2011 1:09:49 pm PDT #18239 of 25501
Our wings are not tired

I'm starting to use location based reminders for things like "Call client x when I get to the office". Combined with Siri it is pretty slick.


Morgana - Oct 21, 2011 1:41:42 pm PDT #18240 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

Thanks, le nubian and Consuela. I've been hearing good things about Pinboard but I'd had that last lingering question. Diigo fell through for me and I just ran out of patience waiting for Delicious to fix itself.