November 2009

Smultron’s source is more interesting a subject than what I’m supposed to be studying for tomorrow.

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Keeps getting better. @atebit’s Tweetie 2.1 is like a 3.0.

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@ankur_sethi You said the design is fail. Then you said they use JS to switch categories. Which makes it look like JS made it fail.

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@ankur_sethi Just because those guys don’t know JavaScript doesn’t mean that JavaScript is fail.

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All my todo lists are full of things I think I should do, but later realize I am better off ignoring.

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@ahujaankit What are the IPs assigned to your computer. Hope they’re on the same subnet. If you’re using wifi, then it’s obviously the same.

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@ahujaankit It should work fine then. If you’re on Win 7 64-bit, you could try the 64-bit version of iTunes.

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I have a gigabyte of apps on my iPod touch. Android phones have 256MB limits for app storage!

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Oh wow. Airtel doesn’t know that it sells the iPhone. Spoke to a couple of “senior” reps and I had to lead them to the Airtel landing page.

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@ap00rv Vuze even lets you merge two internet connections to realize double the speed. If you have wireless + broadband or some such combo.

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We love to talk about the environment. Yet plastic bags never make it to the Twitter trends.

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@ankur_sethi Buttons with depressed states to indicate a selection?

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This is how awesome the new iMac is. http://x.xabhishek.com/b

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Android Market vs. iPhone App Store. Excellent analysis. http://x.xabhishek.com/a

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@seesmic Does Seesmic work on Android QVGA?

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Why don’t we have such sales in India? http://x.xabhishek.com/9

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achitnis The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder - Alfred Hitchcock

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Wish we had laws for such simple things. Mera India is also Mera Spitting Ground. http://x.xabhishek.com/8

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aalaap #WIN !! RT @aatifsumar: AWESOME! TRAI fixes Rs 19 reference rate for portability fee charged for changing operator while retaining number

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@ap00rv Somehow, it didn’t shorten them automatically.

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OMG. N900 for 529 bucks. Dirt cheap for an unlocked A8-Cortex.

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@ankur_sethi Dude, you said Ubuntu was the shit. Then you said it was worse than Win 98. Are you going to contradict yourself again?

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And a little bit mor than the 140 I can type out here. http://x.xabhishek.com/6

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Interestingly, Chrome OS is timed for release at the same time when Google Docs will evolve to be as powerful as desktop office apps.

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When replying to someone, pulling down that frame let’s you see the tweet you are replying to. Awesome. Tweetie. Discovery.

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@kitallis Nescafé is as bad as Bru. If you don’t use real coffee powder from real coffee beans, it ain’t coffee.

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@ap00rv There’s an option at the bottom that lets you change your display preferences.

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Double tap on your DM icon to mark all DMs as unread if not in sync with Tweetie on your Mac.

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So, it’s Thursday and Google is going to have an OS to show us.

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Magellan in. TomTom in. Only Garmin’s left.

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@ap00rv Mine stays on too, you know. If this was my other computer, it would have been a MacBook Air.

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@achitnis Tweetups are way too casual to be of any value. I mean, what’s the difference between a Tweetup and lame chatrooms?

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@emkwan Well, because I’ve seen far too many people complain about it failing. Some even dislike Apple computers b (cont) http://tl.gd/102j8

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@achitnis Anything less than something like FOSS.IN is a waste of time.

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@ap00rv Oh, and Reliance is an AASP too. At the iStore.

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I hate door bells. There should be a better system.

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@ap00rv It gives credit to the person who actually posted the original tweet. If you like to edit the tweet, you can use the traditional RT.

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The Super Drive has got to be the single most defective piece of Apple hardware.

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Somehow, I fail to understand why Jimi Hendrix is better that Eric Clapton.

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If people spend money on an app they generally tend to give it a better rating. Almost all the free top 25 have only a 3 star rating.

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I’d love Brizzly’s ‘explain this trend’ integrated into Tweetie. I don’t know whether that’s even possible.

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Chrome is my favorite browser on Windows. Safari on the Mac. Firefox because of unpolished alternatives on Linux.

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Looks like the Opera team has some catching up to do with the IE team.

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@ap00rv Read the blog post along with it. It’s true. All of it.

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RT @rungta Bye bye phpMyAdmin, hello SQL Buddy. http://www.sqlbuddy.com/ (via @shauninman)

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@aalaap Been a couple of weeks.

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@aalaap Still so fugly. The VAIO. MBA all the way!

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@ap00rv Those machines you talk about are humans in India. When I start hating it, I know I’ve had enough. :)

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Google Chrome still looks too playful on Mac OS X. Wonder if that will ever change. Maybe they could learn from the Google Quick Search Box.

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Is there a Twitter app that you can authorize to delete bots?

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@kbhargava Call Apple Support. Report your case and tell them you read about battery replacements on a support arti (cont) http://tl.gd/vdhl

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I got iWork for Keynote, but I use Pages is the app I use the most. So much more affordable than a Microsoft Office license.

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@kbhargava How many cycles? If under 300, you get a new battery.

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@ap00rv Oh come on. uTorrent is in beta, and it’s not at all bad.

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Holy shit, this cyclic multi-language code generator is cool. http://bit.ly/2ydyug (via @ahujaankit)

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Ooh. ASUS is bigger than Toshiba. Wow EEE!

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@ajuonline That’s because their own solutions don’t work.

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Wow. Post ‘Make Money’. And discover new bots.

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The next fortnight is going to be a fortnight of d’oh! 8 exams.

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Maybe Twitter will continue making money forever from its investors, with all plans to make money postponed to the the next decade.

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I’m surprised that after all these years, I’m being forced to de-authorize a computer on iTunes only now.

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Only Chuck Norris can parse HTML with regex. - at Stack Overflow

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Finally, a decent unlocked Android device. http://x.xabhishek.com/4

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A whole bunch of us were heading for FOSS.IN. Stupid DU ruined everything.

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␛.ws is such a cool domain. Should I?

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@ajuonline Did you Android let you install paid apps? Ones that are copy protected.

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A SPeeDY web protocol Google wants to use in place of the aging HTTP. http://bit.ly/16JEE1

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Drat. More exams. I need a year’s break from this for the real learning.

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I wouldn’t be surprised if Jobs quotes this in his next keynote. http://j.mp/27OiWh

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Thank you Verizon for creating the hype the Android needed.

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Just discovered ‘Watch me do’ in Automator. So indispensable.

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And just when I posted this, I saw this on an Adsense spot somewhere. http://www.istoreindia.c…

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RelianceDigital’s Apple iStore. Now in Delhi. http://www.indiaprwire.c…

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@ankur_sethi And you can notice that the Dell plasticky feel on Alienware computers too now.

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@ankur_sethi it’s shocking that unpacking something can look so fugly.

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Oh shit. Yahoo advert now on the Flickr homepage. #yahoodouchiness

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@shivaas The problem is these obvious things don’t need to be stated. They’re obviously very ignorant.

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@ankurb because that’s where I ask friends and family to get stuff that’s dirt cheap for me.

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@ap00rv The ones I have are excellent.

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People might say that Verizon didn’t do the ad well, but I think it’s awesome. iDont, Droid Does. http://bit.ly/RXlQJ

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@ahujaankit And they gave it 4 stars (or so I heard).

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@ankurb Btw, the link to my rss feed has changed from /feed/rss/ to just /rss on both ES and xAbhishek.com

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Sure, I like to pay for software. But these are software licences that developers have agreed to give out for free. http://www.macheist.com/

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@ankurb Oh, I wish. Not yet, no.

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I love Costco.

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@ap00rv There’s this thing called a sale. During Thanksgiving. Halloween. Christmas. New Year. Black Friday. It’s endless.

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MacBook Pros have had LED backlit displays since revision 3. How nice to know I have something I felt I didn’t.

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@ap00rv I think my $5 Levi’s jeans are the cheapest jeans I’ve ever got. So, it also depends on where you look for stuff.

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@ankur_sethi You got SL on two discs?

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@ap00rv Ok, but they still don’t beat Threadless.

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@ap00rv Links to the designs you chose on T-Shirts.in?

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@ap00rv 3 dollar tees at walmart are better than those.

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Why do you call your smart phone smart?

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@lut4rp Ubuntu has native support for the hardware on most MBPs now.

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@ahujaankit Much like the Indian regulations on several IT Acts. If they were followed the internet would look exactly like it does in China

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So Windows Vista lets me use the display connected to my desktop as the secondary display for my Mac. But it doesn’t let me transfer files.

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I can’t buy T-Shirts at @threadless because the ones I like are sold out. Some other time, maybe.

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Some very nice TV ads promoting Twitter on Airtel. http://www.airtel.in/twi…

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Rock Music. Doesn’t Pop out or Rap itself off the playlist.

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