g_lined's comments

I like this site. I think the idea is good. One of the main ways I get good recommendations is by asking friends about their top 3 apps. I've submitted my applist. Here are the suggestions I would make:

  * Use geolocation to guess at whether to show German or English.
  * Bring out the App Store selection from the preferences to the main window
      in the OS X program. Link this in to the in-website selection of German
      and English language (it's a good guess about which App Store they use).
      This way you don't need to do the next bullet point.
  * Don't rely on people seeing your .txt and .jpg in your zip file; I didn't.
      Distribute your program as a .dmg disk image so that you can have an
      image on the background of your window to tell people to change the
      preferences.
  * Might be good to have a Deutsch/English link on the applist web page.
  * Consider using the App icons in the selection list on OS X. The name
     shown on the iPhone is not always the same name as the official App
     name so identification can be difficult in the list.

Expanded scope:

  * Consider a small set of categories - just 3 perhaps - along the lines 
     of 'useful' 'essential' and 'fun'.
  * Although the core idea is good and I enjoy it, the website for me is 
     not very useful. I could stop writing at this point but thought I'd 
     say that in an ideal world I'd like to you to 'allow me to see applists
     of people who would be my friend if only I knew them'.

Thanks for sharing, I enjoyed the site.

I don't think much to the idea in the article, however I think it's worth pointing out that iOS can be locked with a password instead of a PIN. http://www.apple.com/support/iphone/enterprise/ http://www.9to5mac.com/14318/Alpha-numeric-Passcode-on-your-... http://wn.com/Alpha-numeric_passcode_for_iPhone [video]

I did a similar trip to his in April 2007. While you visit, you have to put aside your issues with the regime, that's not why you're there. You're there to experience something which seems so implausible yet exists, or rather, before it doesn't. We got to meet some really nice people and what we saw was remarkable. If they could make the rest of their country like the capital and the other places I was shown, then it would be a really nice country in the political sense. The culture that is there seems to me to be fragile yet precious. I shudder to think what will happen to it if reunification happens in anything but a gradual way.

My trip is documented here in the radio show Off The Wall: (link to mp3) http://www.2600.com/offthewall/mp3files/2007/off_the_wall__2... and http://www.2600.com/offthewall/mp3files/2007/off_the_wall__2...

My phone, 4.2.1, woke me up at 06:53 with a non-recurring alarm this morning. The alarm was set after 00:01 on Jan 1st.

This, to me, sounds like a classic case of not knowing what you're protecting against. TOR hides your IP address by preventing the destination server ever needing to do a TCP/IP handshake. There is no way to complete a TCP/IP handshake without you revealing your IP address. TOR then also stops the server you /do/ handshake with knowing the destination of your packet.

This is all TOR is supposed to do. This allows you to be anonymous to the receiving end, but it does not guarantee it. It is your responsibility to surf safely, to sanitise your traffic, to encrypt your traffic and do the rest. We know that most people can be uniquely differentiated by combining all the available information from their browsers (some of which doesn't need javascript) http://panopticlick.eff.org/ . Therefore we know, using TOR or not, that we need to be careful to do things well when we want to be anonymous.

There is little in this article which makes me worried about TOR. TOR isn't the problem, if any of this is true, then the problem is the government collecting data in various ways. Whether you agree with this is a matter for yourself to consider and not a reason to avoid using TOR.

Virgin offer packages which don't require a BT Line. It may be that you are not cabled up suitably for such a deal (we used to pay our cable operator, now Virgin, for a telephone line which we could not get but they gave us 'free' TV which is what we actually wanted to buy).

http://shop.virginmedia.com//bundles/specials/affiliate/dual...

All other providers do require a BT line, though some people would say it's a landline phone line that you /always/ use...assuming you leave your router on.

Those pictures are from either different photos or different frames in a video. Do you have a link to the webpage discussing them? I realise it may not be possible to present the same frame with Lenin and without, but knowing whether they were taken several minutes or seconds apart would be useful in understanding the power of the tools the were using.

It's very impressive and responsive but takes about 55% on both of my 2.8GHz Pro 2 Duo cores on OS X 10.6.

I don't know why our numbers are so different. But I do know that on both my G4 iBook and G4 mac mini, any flash meant that I was maxing out. Since it was a G4, I wasn't surprised. What I was surprised about is that when I got my intel iMac (CPU as above) flash wasn't slow but used most of my CPU power.

Edit: removed typo

My guess is that it uses some newer APIs which were introduced in 10.6. This may be because they wanted to use Grand Central Dispatch (better multi-core support), a later addition to Core Graphics or simply an API which gave their GUI the more iOS feel compared to the GUI elements in 10.5.

15 years ago, Danish researchers completed a 13 year study of over 400,000 mobile phone users and found no increased cancer risk. So there has been enough time for that data to start to show itself.

http://jnci.oxfordjournals.org/content/93/3/203.abstract?ijk...

It would appear that it is correct or partially correct. I couldn't find data for the whole time, but as of the end of last year, OS X market share appears to have flattened and then gone both up and down from that point by a fairly small amount.

Here is an article talking about market share http://annasoft.wordpress.com/2010/10/04/report-ios-driving-...

and here is one which doesn't mention mobile: http://www.statowl.com/operating_system_market_share_trend.p...

I have a tendency to agree with you. For viruses, the numbers don't add up. I couldn't find numbers for how many viruses/worms were written last year. In 2004 there were around 28000 written, so let's assume viruses are on the decline and say 8000 were written last year. With a 5% share, Apple should have anything up to 400 viruses. I am aware of none.

I think the reason for this is two fold, firstly, to write a viruses on the Mac, which by their nature need to spread, is harder due to the (*nix) security models used. But also, it seems to me viruses are getting passé and targeted emails with trojans are becoming more popular.

Trojans are one thing that Macs have been shown to be susceptible to although often by fooling (social engineering) the person into clicking all the right buttons and typing in their password.

I would therefore suggest that any future major problems on OS X will be due to a trojan that gets sent out and manages to auto install through an exploit rather than a virus which does the spreading on its own.

The challenge for Apple is being good enough, fast enough to make sure trojan attacks are relegated to social engineering and tainted pirate downloads.

There are enough questions about where their numbers come from that it would be advised to think before using them as any more than a guide to some costs involved.

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2009/04/13/isuppli-shuffle http://daringfireball.net/2007/07/isuppli

The problem with this approach is that each person has their own picture. On a very popular page, this has the tendency to make the page very slow as it loads another 100+ items on the page yet adding nothing to your experience.

I, for one, very much appreciate the fact this site doesn't require an e-mail address.

Many websites should offer e-mail-less logons since it's simply not necessary to have password retrieval or anything but basic authentication.

It makes signing up much easier. Since convenience is generally the price of security, I appreciate it when a website affords me the convenience of using the correct level of security.

Hi there, here are my thoughts:

Overall very good. I like the URL recognition. Here're my nitpicks:

General: * If we select the time zone, let us know whether you've taken into account DST. * I would prefer an e-mail-less signup process as I don't feel there's a need for it. AFAICS password retrieval is the only use and I can't see any evidence you've implemented that. Why do I have to give an email address if I don't even need it to log-in? For the free service, I think you should consider ditching the need for email addresses. * To-do, unless a branding decision, should not be capitalised unless grammar dictates otherwise. c.f. 'Add this To-do' button. * Consider moving the 'Add this To-do' button to the side of the to-do entry box. * Consider changing OS-native buttons to graphic/css buttons which fit in with the style/colouring of your site.

Ease of use: * Whenever I can see the to-do list, any typing whatever should go into the text box. You can do this with a javascript key bind. Why should I have to deal with clicks and focus when the only point of that page is to jot down items and tick them off? * Personally, I would advocate a log-in boxes on the front page as well as signup boxes, but I guess that's a design choice. * Why insist on alphanumeric only usernames particularly as this isn't a restriction for passwords? As a minimalist site, I shouldn't have to worry about what I type in, or be informed about the rules until I break them. The rules should be (as far as possible - and this is where the 'art' of design comes in) the same as I assume. Therefore, unless you have a technical issue, I suggest you allow as many punctuation and non latin characters as possible for both passwords and usernames. Only when I try and use one that's not possible to use due to technical limitations do you apologise and give me the rules. * It's difficult to delete many items. I don't mind hitting delete myself many times, but the delete button only comes up when you go over the main part of the to-do list meaning there's a lot of mouse movement to delete. If that's a design choice/attempt to stop accidental deletions, fair enough, otherwise it would be good to have it changed.

Bug: * If you manage to click/select the input box before the page has loaded you can end up with the wrong font and no 'Add this To-do' button. Additionally, pressing return doesn't actually add the to-do although it still brings up the 'Hang tight' box.

As I said, good site!