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

I did need to provide pw for pinboard.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I'm starting to use location based reminders for things like "Call client x when I get to the office"

It determines that by GPS?

Back in the day I had the best phone companion software (pre-Android, it never worked with Android, and is discontinued now) that would do all sorts of Bluetooth proximity stuff with your phone and your Mac. Mute iTunes when the phone rang, caller ID display on the Mac, take actions on the Mac when the phone comes into range and vice versa. It was so cool.

But I haven't thought deeply about that stuff since then.

Although my rental car can sync with my phone. I just don't keep Bluetooth on for battery reasons. Not sure what the hit is.