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by elblanco 16y ago
From the first link: OSX Image Resizer 0.9.2 About OSX Image Resizer Performs one simple task in a fast and easy to use way; resizing a large number of images quickly on your computer. The software allows you to resize a collection of imag
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by elblanco 16y ago
The funny thing is...some of this tech really exists. I have voice to voice translation out of my Android phone, and Samsung sells a phone with a projector. And http://apps.absolutelyandroid.com/harmonica-iphone-1537/app Some things, like
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by elblanco 16y ago
http://www.gsmarena.com/samsungs_first_projector_phone_sees_...
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by elblanco 16y ago
Yes please! (actually I'm surprised in their pseudo desktop mode while docked they didn't try and use the display as a touchpad like interface.
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by elblanco 16y ago
One thing I also forgot was the way software on Macs handles choice buttons. On a Windows box it's usually, "OK" and "Cancel" or some such preceded by a question. "Do you want to do actions XYZ?" This can sometimes be confusing. In OSX land
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by elblanco 16y ago
You're cute. It's also commonly shortened to "Mac OS" and "MacOS". Extant examples of "OSX" (sometimes mixed with OS X) http://osx.hyperjeff.net/ http://code.google.com/p/git-osx-installer/ http://www.mono-project.com/Mono:OSX htt
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by elblanco 16y ago
I've actually never seen an ad, and I have a pretty complete profile online. I didn't even know they put ads on the user pages until a few weeks ago when I saw them on somebody else's.
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by elblanco 16y ago
Actually, it's "Mac OS X".
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by elblanco 16y ago
Yeah, lots of the differences are just differences. > and windows 7 has definitely fixed a lot of the clutter that really annoyed me with the taskbar and makes it a lot less annoying to minimize a whole bunch of windows. I agree, it rea
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by elblanco 16y ago
> However, I still think the multiple-window model is powerful when single-tasking with multiple tools. Oh most definitely. Having multiple tools available all at once (particularly monitoring tools) is really powerful and can shorten u
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by elblanco 16y ago
enter to rename is just a lot faster for me than f2, bigger clearer button makes it much faster. from a usability standpoint, i'd rather rename easily than open easily. I agree that f2, as an interface key, is less convenient that enter.
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by elblanco 16y ago
Ircle - Gah! That's like everything that was ever wrong with GUI design. Disconnected windows implies disconnected functionality, overly complex design, buttons . There's no indicator that the input area has anything to do with the chat log
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by elblanco 16y ago
"Pound" as in "Pounds Sterling" not "Pound" as in "Oglethorpe" I take it?
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by elblanco 16y ago
> Growl. It's not a Mac OS X builtin, but it's a must-install. I describe it to PC users this way: "Those little popups that Outlook does when you get new mail? Growl is a system-wide service that gives those to any application that wa
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by elblanco 16y ago
This is one of the few interface niceties I miss when I go from OSX to Windows. The action of springing through a file structure while holding onto a bunch of stuff is really great.
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by elblanco 16y ago
* enter to rename files, best keyboard shortcut ever. someone please enlighten me on an easy way to rename in windows. * F2. It's the universal rename key in almost every renamable control in the OS. You can also do two slow clicks. But the
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by elblanco 16y ago
Oh my...this is just the preamble from my own list. I just never understand some of the age old interface issues that still linger on in OSX...small things that a bit of attention to detail would resolve in a patch release. Ugh. So pretty,
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by elblanco 16y ago
Of course doubling their user base twice is something like 30% of the human species. I'm not sure that's realistic.
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by elblanco 16y ago
This is really a great piece of analysis. I don't have anything to add at all. Basically, becoming a platform is where both companies need to go, and start monetizing that platform. But unfortunately for Google, they are much further away f
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by elblanco 16y ago
I think you guys are both right. How early stage is FB is the golden question. Here's Google's track record (since everybody seems to want to compare the two even though they're in entirely different businesses in theory). https://investor
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by elblanco 16y ago
Thanks! dunno why you ended up downvoted. I'm totally the wrong person to look at Twitter I think. I can find almost no value at all in the entire platform (wheras I do find lots of value in FB). But I know many people here who think it's
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by elblanco 16y ago
These are excellent points. Basically, FB is going to have to radically change their revenue model in order to make this valuation seem worth it. More ads, more cross licensing deals, bigger cuts of current deals, sell junk direct. I can on
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by elblanco 16y ago
Actually, I'm using a fairly recent $800m/yr revenue estimate figure (which btw has been downgraded from just over $1bil for 2010 (though I saw estimates earlier this year betting the farm that they'd break $2bil) ).
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by elblanco 16y ago
I agree. But with some of the FB valuations, we're talking 30x or 50x valuations -- which are not just hype, these are cocaine and ecstasy fueled hooker party numbers. Even if, given their current revenue model, they tripled revenue tomor
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by elblanco 16y ago
I wonder if it's a function of "I already have enough money doing this for the love of it"?
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by elblanco 16y ago
Jobs' money is closer to real money than some arbitrary (and frankly unbelievable in the realm of fantasy) valuation metric. Steve could (in theory) cash out tomorrow and those 5.5million shares would be worth more or less their face value.
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by elblanco 16y ago
You forgot that the Mayor of D.C. and his School Czar, after spending years actually making progress in improving D.C.'s school and cutting costs, just lost the election to a new guy who swears he's going to fire the school Czar because she
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by elblanco 16y ago
I bet using a small motor, 1/2hp or so, could do wonders in an ornithopter like this. Humans can't sustain that kind of workload for very long.
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by elblanco 16y ago
That's exactly what I was thinking. The iPad is about as powerful as the desktops of the day were when NKS was written. It wouldn't take a whole heck of a lot to have interactive simulations embedded in the pages instead of diagrams.
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by elblanco 16y ago
I've worked under a person very much like Wolfram in terms of an ego so large they can't see the world around it. I remember having a product planning meeting one time where he went into a great detail about this sweeping plan he had come u

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