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Jon B. - Nov 16, 2012 8:38:09 am PST #21521 of 25501
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

This help?

Thanks, Rob! That did the trick. Hopefully, there won't be any side-effects.


beekaytee - Nov 16, 2012 8:49:15 am PST #21522 of 25501
Compassionately intolerant

I remember Egghead so clearly!

At the time, I was the Special Projects Juggler for Qualitas (that was my real title), developer of 386Max and Movem. Memory managers that were huge at the time and which became obsolete in the later 90s.

We toured with Softeach, doing product demos and instore trainings. I trained lots of Egghead folks. I can see their logo in my mind like it was yesterday.

Now, if I could only remember important stuff!


NoiseDesign - Nov 16, 2012 9:56:35 am PST #21523 of 25501
Our wings are not tired

I sold a lot of copies of 386Max and other memory managers while I was at Egghead.

I remember one of their early slogans, "For people who can't tell a computer chip from a potato chip." The Professor Egghead mascot. I had so many of those T-shirt and sweatshirts.


beekaytee - Nov 16, 2012 11:35:16 am PST #21524 of 25501
Compassionately intolerant

Heh, universes converge.

Bob Smith, the Qualitas developer, was a certified genius...but bored easily. Ours was a whirlwind lifestyle, that is for sure. He kept telling me that, if I never missed a flight, I spent too much time in airports. Of course, my job was to get him all over the country for some pretty big-time interviews, etc. I didn't find it all that funny.

We definitely ran with the big dogs, at a time when the software industry was actually fun.

We started off in Bob and Mary's dining room, with revenues of 100K per year. In about six months, we took over an entire floor of a Bethesda high-rise and were raking in 100k every month. Craxy.


Rob - Nov 16, 2012 3:23:52 pm PST #21525 of 25501

Hopefully, there won't be any side-effects.

Not until other browsers start implementing it, it ever, Then it might get interesting.


Jon B. - Nov 16, 2012 5:12:15 pm PST #21526 of 25501
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

That's what I'm afraid of...


§ ita § - Nov 17, 2012 5:59:59 pm PST #21527 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I don't know what it's like on Windows, but in OS X, the Chrome Evernote web clipper is pretty damned slick. Opera's my main browser (obvs), but I've found myself switching over to Chrome just to clip a page efficiently. It's much better than the general JavaScript applet. It's been picking folders right for me, for instance. Plus better control of what parts of the page to clip. Yet again, I'm jealous about Opera.

I have to say--Tumblr has the most assholish support team I've encountered in a while. I get that not everyone that contacts them knows what they're talking about, but they really treated me like I was stupid, so it took 3 goes round before they would answer what I told them in the initial ticket, and their eventual answer was "switch browsers".

On another issue, I followed a set of steps outlined in a post that came across my dash, and I managed to block one of my accounts from the other, but there's no way in the settings I can find to remove that block. I asked them if they could, and they said, no, I was permanently banned from one of my tumblrs.

How badly designed does a piece of software have to be in order for that to be actually true? I can only imagine there's some reason they don't want to get into that business, but maybe they should think twice about letting users do something irrevocable without any warning anywhere.

(FTR, you can ban anonymous accounts. The post going around said that when you ban the anon that just sent you a message, you can find out who they really are by going into your block management screen. Whoops! Big hole, no? Well, you can't. They don't show up on that screen, so there's no way to remove them...in perpetuity. Also they wouldn't explain what banning that user and IP really means. If I "ban" the IP address of my laptop, does that affect my other accounts? That account itself? TELL ME. They won't.)


Gris - Nov 17, 2012 6:14:59 pm PST #21528 of 25501
Hey. New board.

The Evernote Chrome plugin is awesome on Windows too. So much so that the complete inability to clip to Evernote in a useful way out of the box on Android really felt like a slap in the face after getting used to it.


§ ita § - Nov 17, 2012 6:18:56 pm PST #21529 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I wonder if it's a limitation with browsers in Android, since I had so much difficulty trying to get my hands on HTML too. But Pocket and Springpad are doing something so why the fuck not Evernote? It has a pretty good ecosystem around it (still working my way through the trunk), so that omission--I never would have used it on the desktop if I hadn't discovered it on Android. I still kind of consider that my primary Evernote platform. But I can't do that, and I can't make copies of notes. V. frustrating!

I'm also not quite getting used to the Evernote upgrade on OS X. I should check my Windows box and see if it's still got the old interface.


Gris - Nov 17, 2012 6:34:04 pm PST #21530 of 25501
Hey. New board.

It did as of this morning.

I was able to get the javascript clipper to work (kind of) with Firefox Mobile once. But it was too slow and clunky to be worth pursuing.

I don't see why there should be a browser limitation. As you said in an earlier post - the HTML is clearly reaching the android phone. I could imagine that the Evernote app might not be able to parse the code for offline clipping, but the web clippers send it to Evernote's servers to parse so far as I know.