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17y ago
What we do is a top level filter to map subdomains into a group of top level folders: Filter: Group pages by hostname Filter type: Custom Filter Field A -> Extract A: Hostname (. ) Field B -> Extract B: Request URI (. ) Output To -&
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Glad I did a text search before commenting so I could vote you up for Pimsleur: I found the Pimsleur language learning approach great for the car when the commute is mostly on a freeway rather than a road with traffic lights.
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17y ago
It's not a mail app, it's a search index. Like X1 Search (Windows desktop search application) except on the iPhone and indexing Gmail/IMAP accounts. Its settings are separate from the iPhone's Mail app.
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17y ago
I have 149,508 messages in my primary Google Apps box, which is using 4,706 MB. In ReMail, the same box is using 466.2 MB of storage.
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17y ago
It's also aggravating that quotes don't allow matching of specific symbols within the quotes. And, yes, the results are different. I'd agree with you they seem enhanced (eg., classified results) and fresher for popular culture, but somewha
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17y ago
Dagnabbit! One of my favorite urban dictionary entries: "(exclamation) Oldcootism used during great consternation or surprise. Used by 1890’s prospectors, cantankerous old farmers, and young people playing old people on TV in the ‘60’s and
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17y ago
All the international footprint video delivery networks support 2 mbps streams, and Akamai is not the only one (not even the first) to support the various flavors of adaptive streaming, from Windows Media "MBR" to Silverlight's Smooth Strea
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Yes.
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Sure seemed there was no way this could go any other way for Palm. Their letter to USB seemed a PR stunt at best, and likely to backfire at worst. For the sake of OS stability, I'm glad it did. Each vendor of devices and software for those
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Yes. In the real world, 8% surveyed (by Google) in Times Square knew what a browser was. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4MwTvtyrUQ&feature=playe... Now try explaining difference between URL bar and Search bar in Safari, Firefox, etc.
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I screen-grabbed it on the iPhone--looked like a fish out of water. If their code really did provide an Explorer interface on the iPhone it'd be almost worth installing on purpose.
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Sure you can. Set status permission to "Everyone". Facebook introduced the feature here: http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=98499677130
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17y ago
Try GTD, aka David Allen's "Getting Things Done". Book: http://www.amazon.com/Getting-Things-Done-Stress-Free-Produc... Read the book, then get a tool like "Things" (for OSX) or try web software like http://vitalist.com/ that works cros
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17y ago
Go with the full size Kindle for comfortable reading of PDFs.
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17y ago
Two words: Push Email Yes, there's a preset icon for both Yahoo and Gmail but iPhone supported push email for Yahoo mail accounts, still does, and still does not have push email from Google. To get Yahoo push email working before the 3.0 wi
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17y ago
That's what I'm wondering. Degree, so what. I want to know: where's the beef?
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Except the “typical user” will never succeed at typically using those supposedly basic features on that $20 candy bar. Your mom can and will use every feature on the iPhone.
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17y ago
Uses ABP lists.
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17y ago
I'm hearing from some SEO folks that since Google started running CSS and JS, standard DIVs that get shown as tooltips or accordions or sliders now count against your page quality because CSS and JS hide those divs until the user hovers ove
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17y ago
More after the break.
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I'm still trying to figure out why iTunes only talking to iPod is (according to Palm) any more of a USB agreement violation than Nikon Capture only talking to Nikons, HP printer software only talking to HPs, or any other vendor software/ven
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Having “come here from Reddit” some time ago, I can vouch that for newly arrived redditors this is moot, since I’m still not offered a downvote button. I’d guess that by the time the downvote button shows up, most people should have had tim
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Outliers suggests it's neither the motivation nor the method we see as genius or talent, but 10,000 hours of practice combined with the "luck" of being in the right place at the right time. While reading the Pyramid article, it seemed to
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Oh, so there are supposed to be results. In Safari and FF, I complete the texts, the gates stop, and it sits on an empty road.
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Regardless of the position of this article, Amazon has agreed with the public that revoking these books was an inappropriate action for Amazon to take, and has said it will not take that action in the future. http://www.informationweek.com
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Sony Reader allows you to categorize your materials, while amazingly, Kindle doesn't have any hierarchy, just a long list. As a bonus, the Sony Reader doesn't have wireless DRM to remotely delete your books. That's not a bug, it's a featur
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Thank you, as this puts paid to anyone here saying there's no visible difference except to pixel peepers. (Well, assuming one is comparing on a true 8 bit screen.)
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Usability folks at Apple already thought this problem through and came up with the compromise seen on the iPhone. jQuery implementation here: http://blog.decaf.de/2009/07/iphone-like-password-fields-usi...
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box.net Both the start point on the home page and the start point on the pricing page.
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Back in 2004 or so, Payflow Pro was down for a Sunday because they neglected to renew an internal Oracle security cert and the DBs stopped talking. Took 'em a day to sort that one out. Random events and being human affect all 24/7 services
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