It's also by far the best headset I've ever owned, which as Ben states, says a lot about the industry.
]]>Last night, I realized that left to my own devices, I’d put this move off forever. My entrenched usage was going to prevent me from ever actually switching. I’d become very comfortable with my everything bucket. The only way to handle this was like a Band-Aid; do it quick and get it over with in one motion.
Unfortunately, I’ve never been good at ripping Band-Aids off, and I treated the move much the same: a painful series of small (and often repeated) motions that only served to increase prolong the discomfort. If you’re thinking about doing this, learn from my mistakes.
Here’s what you’ll need to do to make the move:
The script worked great for me, once I made pretty much every mistake I listed above. As always, this is what worked for me, but your experience might be different. I hope that nothing goes wrong for you while making the move, but if it does, I at least hope that different things go wrong.
Partially because I just enjoy Yojimbo. But the lack of cloud sync, and the sporadic release cycle really made me think that Yojimbo just wasn’t getting the love. ↩
If you have a really big library (more than a gig), you’ll want to break the transfer up into chunks, and spread it over several months. Which sucks. I don’t know of a way around this. Maybe try contacting Evernote support prior to moving. ↩
For every item you add once you’ve crossed that data transfer threshold, Evernote throws a modal alert. When you click “Ok” on the alert, it opens a webpage trying to sell you Evernote Premium. I had about 120 modal alerts to deal with. Just buy it up front. ↩
]]>The organizers of the seminar, Inpro, actually set the tone for the film in a three-page memo from one of Inpro's principals, Ted Mills to Henson. Mills outlined the nascent, but growing relationship between man and machine: a relationship not without tension and resentment: "He [the robot] is sure that All Men Basically Want to Play Golf, and not run businesses — if he can do it better."
Kirby is the same guy who did the excellent Everything Is A Remix.
[via Daring Fireball]
]]>I think comments solve a problem that a lot of people don't have anymore, in a way that encourages a lot of bad behavior. And we have much better solutions to these problems, now, that have far fewer downsides. And comments are these relic of the past…
I'd add that the past that Marco was talking about was back when coming up with a blog was much harder. It required having a host and installing or building a CMS, maintaining it, and adding content. Comments back then were the only way to get validation and feedback on your writing. Now that anyone can have a blog in just a few minutes of typing with tumblr or Squarespace or any of dozens of options. By doing this, you have an immediate commenting system for literally anything on the Internet.
]]>It's the first step toward tying together a collection of desktop, Web and mobile apps that were assembled through a hodgepodge of acquisitions. "It's a conceptual redesign of the whole product," Costolo told reporters at the launch event.
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The company is laser-focused on two things right now, insiders say: Refining its product and making money.
This really identifies the heart of the problems that so many long-time Twitter users have with the Twitter website and iPhone app redesign: the focus is on Twitter as a product, and on making money. It's no longer on the user experience or on clear, concise communication between Twitter users.
The argument that "you're not [Google's/Facebook's] customer, you're the product" is very clearly applying to Twitter, too.
]]>Since this is a Software as a Service installation, we couldn't exactly muck about in code to kill unterminated but inactive sessions. Someone proposed (and temporarily implemented) a method that blocks based on user agent string. Not a very user-friendly solution, but it keept everyone else running while we figured out a better fix.
My idea was that I knew if you went into edit mode on the Top Sites page, and clicked the "X" on one of the thumbnails, that site would never come back onto the list again. I figured that if we could just write to the list, it should be easy to permanently keep the web app off Top Sites. I just didn't know where to do that.
A couple hours of defaults read commands, and a few trips to Google turned up the best solution I could come up with. It's not exactly as clean as I'd like, but it seems to work well enough for us, until we can get our vendor to limit the number of concurrent sessions per user.
I created a shell script which we can push out to the user computers. The script does the following:
#!/bin/bash
# This script is to ban a URL from appearing in the Top Sites in Safari
# since Top Sites was spinning up hundreds of unterminated sessions per user.
killall Safari # Kills Safari
echo "Removing Safari Caches"
rm -rf ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari/Caches.db
rm -rf ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari/Website\ Caches
echo "Clearing Top Sites List"
defaults write ~/Library/Safari/TopSites.plist TopSites '{ }'
echo "Banning URLs from Top Sites"
defaults write ~/Library/Safari/TopSites.plist BannedURLStrings -array-add http://yoururl.com/watever/
defaults write ~/Library/Safari/TopSites.plist BannedURLStrings -array-add http://www.yoururl.com/whatever/
I don't like that I can't politely quit Safari from the commandline without installing some additional software. Additionally, I'm not really clear why I have to add the URL both with and without the "www." when Safari doesn't seem to have to do that when it automatically adds to the Banned URL Strings array.
Finally, I'm not too cool that I have to clear the whole Top Sites array before making the edits. While I don't have anything pinned there, I can see a situation where someone uses Top Sites as a quick way to get to their favorite sites, and any change there might be a big deal.
]]>We will shift our strategy to improving profitability from pursuing market share blindly with cheap and unprofitable products.
It's arguable that Alienware went this route with their hardware, but Acer would be the first non-niche PC manufacturer other than Apple to start aggressively trying to produce high-end products. Who knew that producing quality, profitable products and selling them to customers might be a good business model?
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