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Re: UI: Songbird vs. Spotify

kiwibird — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:09:39 -0000

Make songbird look like spotify: http://addons.songbirdnest.com/addon/1440

Re: Happy New Year

Mike — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 17:12:38 -0000

Got it, thanks Paul!

Re: Happy New Year

paulmwatson — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 14:08:00 -0000

Email me your email address so I can invite you Mike (paul@paulmwatson.com)

Re: Happy New Year

Mike — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 02:01:18 -0000

Happy New Year to you, as well! I was stopping by to see if you would be willing to lend a reader a Spotify invitation. I am desperately hoping to be able try out the service. Thanks!

Mike

Re: Just do it

paulmwatson — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 12:15:05 -0000

Nice one Jamie. Even more ironic is that that "mass production" is probably still underpaid, underage workers in some 3rd world country sweat-shop.

Re: Just do it

Jamie — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 12:06:36 -0000

Aha! The irony!
The anarchist sporting mass produced, capitalist attire. Reminds me of the popular t-shirt, popular amongst anti-consumerist protests of the iconic Che Guevara image. Mass produced etc, etc, etc
Ah hell who am I kidding, I have one stuffed away somewhere too.

Come to think of it, in ancient greece, Nike originally referenced(quick wikipedia search) .... Greek goddess of victory. Ahhh now I get it. This protester as a rich sense of humour.

Re: Just do it

paulmwatson — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:37:49 -0000

hah, quite the opposite. Our culture of "just do it" leading to rapidly snowballing riots of misunderstanding. A cop makes a mistake and within hours all of Greece is in turmoil, under a "just do it" mentality. The home of philosophy should be the first to take a step back and think about an event. To see these tensions have been rising for awhile and a major change is needed, not rioting.

Re: Just do it

cubikmusik — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:31:20 -0000

those pics are just something else.
are you encouraging me to riot paul?
:)

Re: S3Fox

jonsagara — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 02:03:16 -0000

Hi Paul,

I'm looking for a good offsite backup solution for my SVN repository backups. One thing that keeps coming up is Amazon S3. Are you still using S3Fox? Do you like it? Anything bad about it? And how about S3? Would you recommend it as a good place to store backups?

Thanks,

Jon

Re: Stephen Fry and #oddsox

paulmwatson — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 19:39:01 -0000

Wow. Zombo rocks. I learnt more from Zombo in 5 minutes than I did in an hour of Twittering!

Re: UI: Songbird vs. Spotify

paulmwatson — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 19:38:53 -0000

Good points Shog9. In fairness to both apps I "maximised" them. They usually don't take up the whole screen nor have lots of empty space.

Re: UI: Songbird vs. Spotify

Shog9 — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 14:54:38 -0000

I donno, Paul. Both of those apps are ugly. I mean, how hard is it to display a huge list of songs? You're right about Songbird's bad font, but Spotify pisses away the advantage by choosing a horrible low-contrast color scheme; i had an easier time reading titles in the former.

And what's with the messed up spacing? Both apps appear to chew up the whole screen, yet shove everything to the left leaving a big empty space on the right. What about a bit of a margin between that bulky useless sidebar and the list? Or maybe use it to display info on the currently playing track, or a nice animation or something. Heck, since you're blocking my view of everything else, maybe let me see incoming emails? Or at least a clock? Or, god forbid, put some frickin' labels on those tiny little buttons?

Ugh. I'm sure the differences you focus on are more noticeable in use than in screenshots, but i'm simply disgusted by how *both* apps look like shoddy iTunes / Napster knock-offs circa 2001. For shame...

Re: Stephen Fry and #oddsox

Shog9 — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 14:43:15 -0000

Heh... I'm not gonna pretend to know who Stephen Fry or this "Barack" guy are; maybe they're just the most cool and interesting people ever and totally worth watching in excruciating detail...

...But socks? Even odd ones? No thanks, i'm sticking with Zombo.com.

Re: Stephen Fry and #oddsox

paulmwatson — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 04:42:59 -0000

I'm guessing that is a "holy crap what a load of pants!" wow and not a "I am in awe" wow ;)

Re: Stephen Fry and #oddsox

Shog9 — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 22:35:49 -0000

Wow...

Re: Scoble and how I don’t like video

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Re: Google to kill the desktop app

Chris Gallagher — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 12:48:05 -0000

Dont know if you've seen this app before Paul?

http://www.pixlr.com/app/

Works pretty well but is far from being the finished product with regards to bringing a version of photoshop to the web!

Re: Sex Ed. Blocked

Erin — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 12:51:49 -0000

The real question here is why your University feels the need to block "students" web access to anything, let alone sex-ed sites.

Re: Stop the page flipping madness

paulmwatson — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 03:29:18 -0000

Thanks AlbinoRhino, I'll check Categories out.

Re: Stop the page flipping madness

AlbinoRhino — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 12:16:32 -0000

This is a very good idea. For those of us that are running custom firmwares on our phones we have a program called Categories. It allows you to create "folders" that you can customize to hold different categories of apps ie a Games icon when touched opens up a page that holds all of your game icons, web folder that holds all of your web clips, a utilities folder that holds all of your utility apps...etc etc. So even if you have 160 apps you don't have themfilling up pages.

This idea would be very cool and tremendously sought after if it can be achieved.

Re: Rumba roomba, cat

Sam — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 20:34:13 -0000

that is so funny. When i need a good laugh i always turn to this. It is enen saved so i can keep watching it. Love it and keep it up. My cat would never do that.

Re: Google Reader for Google Apps for Your Domain

paulmwatson — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 17:23:42 -0000

Craig, not sure how I got it working way back then. I just login in to reader.google.com with my Google Apps account (user@domain.com) and it works.

Re: Google Reader for Google Apps for Your Domain

Craig — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 08:14:59 -0000

Hi Paul,
I found your site whilst looking for google apps reader. I can't get notifier or reader to work for my apps account and google say they don't provide the service - any advice on how to set these things up?
Cheers
Craig

Re: 28 Years Later

FHIQ — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 12:55:57 -0000

Very nice thought. Excellent

Re: iPhone SMS woes

NECATI ILGUN — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:02:14 -0000

I HAVE IPHONE WITH VERSION 1.1.4 AND CANNOT OPEN SMS PAGE, WHEN I TRY TO OPEN, AFTER A WHILE IT RETURNS TO MAIN MENU PAGE,