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Fun with Safari’s Top Sites feature and Comcast Internet pre-activation
This is Safari 4’s Top Sites view after moving into our new place today, but before Comcast arrived to activate our service. It couldn’t check any of my 20 Top Sites for new content, so it displayed the only thing that was returned for each attempt: Comcast’s pre-activation new customer landing page.
My favorite thing is that one site, the login page for Quicken Online, held its ground.
A close runner up is that 5 Comcast landing pages had new content, while the other 14 didn’t.
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Here’s a tip, if you’re signing up for a service and think you might need support, use a real email address. If I can’t reply I can’t reply.
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Twitter / Shaun Inman
One of the many reasons I love MobileMe email aliases. They make it easy to sign up for service without giving away your real, main address. If one starts collecting too much unwieldy spam, just delete it (or temporarily turn it off) and create another. Tricks like Gmail’s “attach a +anything to your address” are way too easy for spammers to see through. True, separate aliases like MobileMe offers are a far better way to go.
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Tumblr introduces Photosets
What is not mentioned, however, is whether we can attach multiple photos to an email to create a photoset in a single post. That sure would be handy considering that iPhone OS 3.0 finally allows composing just such an email.
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Doom Resurrection Review for iPhone - Touch Arcade
It uses a unique control style to eliminate the weaknesses of FPS gameplay on an all-touch device. Movement is automatic along a scripted path, but you use the display, accelerometer, and various HUD buttons around the screen to aim, shoot, pick up items, and dodge fire. This looks really tempting.
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That we had to wait two years for the iPhone’s text selection and pasteboard is a good example of one aspect of the Apple way: better nothing at all than something less than great.
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Went to the BMW dealer. Told them their cars should totally be $0.99, spat on the carpet and walked out.
Am I doing it right?
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Sigh. Apple, you’ve had a year to tell your spelling dictionary that MobileMe is an actual, proper noun.
Also, considering who I work for now, you can consider this photo as a wink-wink, nudge-nudge.
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This tired strategy of using old tensions to scapegoat other countries won’t work anymore in Iran. This is not about the United States and the West; this is about the people of Iran and the future that they — and only they — will choose.
Tumblr gets a little more social
Tumblr gets a little more social Tumblr gets a little more social
Tumblr now allows us to publicly share the posts that we like. You can enable it from your preferences page.
Unlike Google Reader’s icky URL system for shared items:
http://www.google.com/reader/shared/17323533843022648317
Tumblr’s is simple and straightforward:
http://www.tumblr.com/liked/by/chartier
Of course, this feature is optional and turned off by default. If you prefer not to share your liked items with anyone outside Tumblr, you have nothing to worry about.
This is a fun feature that will help expose more non-Tumblr users to some of the content that gets posted across the network. Sure, there’s the Popular page that collects the über-posts that collect hundreds, if not thousands, of these little hat-tips. But now users can publicly share their own favorite slice of Tumblr with the world.
Tumblr ProTip: Tap the purty pi'tures on iPhone
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By now you’ve probably seen the redesigned iPhone Dashboard. What you may not have seen is that you can tap image thumbnails in posts to get a larger version. You don’t lose your place and the page doesn’t refresh—some AJAXy sexiness just redraws a larger version of the pic right in-line in the post. Hot.
