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Re: quickly, a few photos

Cindy — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 21:40:12 -0000

Congratulations!!

Re: firefox + dropbox = profile synchronization across machines

robzand — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 03:51:43 -0000

weird things happen when you keep 2 browsers open simultaneously, which, i must admit, i do out of laziness. nonetheless, the quirks are outweighed by the syncrhonization that does occur. to me, this is "good enough software" at its finest

Re: firefox + dropbox = profile synchronization across machines

NikLP — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 18:35:35 -0000

Well, I'm assuming the issues are because of there being so many files open at once. We have a lot of SQLite files knocking about, and if these open and then changed, this can play nasty with Dropbox. Mostly it annoys me because the drive never looks synced for that very reason, so if you're waiting for a file to sync but can't close your browser for some reason, you'll never know if it's finished.

I might try again with FF3. I would also like to find a way to change the default directory that Google Gears stores its offline files in, so I could encrypt all of this stuff together on the local drive.

Re: firefox + dropbox = profile synchronization across machines

robzand — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 11:45:59 -0000

i have been running ff3 though. maybe - for reasons beyond synchronization - you should upgrade?

Re: firefox + dropbox = profile synchronization across machines

robzand — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 11:43:51 -0000

i'll be the first to admit, this is a "good enough" solution. you will experience some "wonkiness" if you keep multiple browsers open simultaneously (which creates conflicts and prevents some config files from being written). if you want a 100% solution, you might try weave. i've been running like this for 6 months and feel the advantages outweigh the disadvantages. incidentally, the machines i run this across include 2 xp boxes, including my primary work machine, and i have not experienced the issues you list. good luck.

Re: firefox + dropbox = profile synchronization across machines

NikLP — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 21:27:13 -0000

I tried this out with FF2 across two XP machines, and it just didn't work. Menus vanished, dialog boxes were broken, all sorts of stuff. I had the same idea myself, and was sure it would work, but it seems something in the process just "disagrees" with the FF internals... :(

Re: playing with fireEagle

robzand — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:19:37 -0000

what you describe is what i called "wonky" - thanks for the response

Re: playing with fireEagle

adityac — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 05:31:06 -0000

yeah. we've been following up with yahoo on this, see this thread:
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/fireeagle/me...

Basically, when someone changes their address, we geocode it and send it to fireeagle, when we ask fireeagle back for the same location, we use the 'name' of that location (in your case, 9th Ave, NY, NY) now when we geocode 9th Ave, NY, NY it becomes 32nd/9th.

It would be nice if they gave us back the original address you used to update but they're still thinking about that.

Centralized location brokerage has a little while to go, I think :-)

Thanks for the feedback though - much appreciated!

Re: playing with fireEagle

robzand — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 05:19:58 -0000

the coordinates are for 52/9th.

so, enter coords at 52/9 in radar -> fireEagle updates -> refresh radar ->. now radar is at 35/9. something lost at fireEagle when it interprets the coords as "9th Ave" and sends them back?

Re: playing with fireEagle

adityac — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 05:16:57 -0000

yep, radar is 2 way to FireEagle... those coords are for 9th/35th right? or is it 52nd?

Re: playing with fireEagle

robzand — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 05:12:48 -0000

the weird piece is when you enter those coordinates in radar, then fireEagle updates. it becomes "9th ave" and then the mapping in radar is then at 9th and 35th

Re: playing with fireEagle

adityac — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 04:41:04 -0000

weird, i can enter those coordinates in FE and it works. Radar obviously is trying to display your location and it doesn't have a name for those coordinates so it just displays nothing at all, just pushed a fix to display your coordinates if we don't have a city/state. not sure why FE is breaking...

Re: this is how they get you

mapkid — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 04:19:04 -0000

wow, that's really something. i think they have no shame when it comes to collecting revenue from parking

Re: tweetup topics

Dave — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:19:05 -0000

i just don't get this twitter stuff...

Re: tweetup topic ideas

jpriceless — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:06:13 -0000

Monetization is not always fun, but it is a worthy topic for discussion. How will trying to lasso these tools to increase profits, "ROI", and other such terms, make them lame? What ways could companies gracefully enter the conversation without being lame? We've already seen some examples from the client support realm and there is a quote from a Dell employee regarding many millions they made as a result of joining the conversation as humans and not marketers. There are also plenty of examples of how not to join the fray. What are the factors that will determine lameness-to-coolness spectrum?

Re: tweetup topic ideas

Ruth — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:32:55 -0000

I definitely like the first topic. I think the second one is important, but I've never really adopted RSS, as I've consciously avoided information overload on my quasi-personal time... but maybe mine is an interesting case study anyway, as I have always depended on my networks (including in forums, discussion threads -- not just twitter and WOM) to guide me to what's important. Not to mention my own tendency to nose into research about whatever's on my mind (active v. passive?). As far as the facebook design goes -- I barely noticed, as I don't care about facebook anymore :-).

Other topics? Would it make sense to talk about "where's aarf in all this?" That is, aarf as a generic corporation, as well as our own employer.

Location: I'll get back to you. Coming up blank.

P.S. there's a chance I may get pulled into working late. Will keep y'all posted.

Re: firefox + dropbox = profile synchronization across machines

robzand — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 02:49:05 -0000

i've read that other's have redirected successfully. i haven't tried because i have one windows machine and one mac and couldn't immediately think of a way to redirect in both environments.

ultimately, i'm hoping weave will solve things - https://services.mozilla.com/

Re: firefox + dropbox = profile synchronization across machines

ZiGz — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 01:57:15 -0000

I have recently done this as well and while wondering about what I could do with the very large urlclassifier3.sqlite file (28mb so far and I know it grows larger) I came across your blog and learned about "about:config" very cool.

Do you think the location of "urlclassifier3.sqlite " could be redirected?