Comments for gilest http://gilest.wordpress.com world why dweeb Thu, 15 May 2008 16:57:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU Comment on The write window by se71 http://gilest.wordpress.com/2008/05/07/the-write-window/#comment-750 se71 Wed, 07 May 2008 16:52:24 +0000 http://gilest.wordpress.com/?p=521#comment-750 Word, on the PC, lets you have the wordcount displayed on screen, but makes you press a little button to update it. Surely that would have been easy to automate. When I attempted NaNoWriMo a couple of years back, I used it a lot :-) Word, on the PC, lets you have the wordcount displayed on screen, but makes you press a little button to update it. Surely that would have been easy to automate. When I attempted NaNoWriMo a couple of years back, I used it a lot :-)

]]> Comment on The write window by Jack http://gilest.wordpress.com/2008/05/07/the-write-window/#comment-749 Jack Wed, 07 May 2008 11:54:38 +0000 http://gilest.wordpress.com/?p=521#comment-749 It's amazing how rare live word count is. You'd think it'd be a default feature for every text editing/word processing app, yet as far as I know, WriteRoom is the only one on the Mac that implements it well, and most of the rest don't bother at all. It’s amazing how rare live word count is. You’d think it’d be a default feature for every text editing/word processing app, yet as far as I know, WriteRoom is the only one on the Mac that implements it well, and most of the rest don’t bother at all.

]]> Comment on The modern wedding list by gilest http://gilest.wordpress.com/2008/04/30/the-modern-wedding-list/#comment-744 gilest Thu, 01 May 2008 08:30:08 +0000 http://gilest.wordpress.com/?p=512#comment-744 I think it's more common these days for a couple to find that between them, they already own all the necessities of life before they get round to getting married. So wedding lists have to be more creative. Much of the rest of this list was comprised of garden centre vouchers. You're dead right about the charitable donations, though. I think it’s more common these days for a couple to find that between them, they already own all the necessities of life before they get round to getting married. So wedding lists have to be more creative. Much of the rest of this list was comprised of garden centre vouchers.

You’re dead right about the charitable donations, though.

]]> Comment on The modern wedding list by se71 http://gilest.wordpress.com/2008/04/30/the-modern-wedding-list/#comment-743 se71 Thu, 01 May 2008 07:58:27 +0000 http://gilest.wordpress.com/?p=512#comment-743 This strikes me as pretty sad actually. The whole point of a list is to help people who probably haven't much money to set up home with essentials. If you have plenty of money and everything you need, perhaps you should ask for charitable donations instead. Maybe I'm just bitter, I didn't even have a list, and ended up with three useless carriage clocks :) This strikes me as pretty sad actually. The whole point of a list is to help people who probably haven’t much money to set up home with essentials. If you have plenty of money and everything you need, perhaps you should ask for charitable donations instead. Maybe I’m just bitter, I didn’t even have a list, and ended up with three useless carriage clocks :)

]]> Comment on Where have all the cheap, simple, low-cost, long-battery-life mobile computers gone? by Lawrence http://gilest.wordpress.com/2008/04/11/where-have-all-the-cheap-simple-low-cost-long-battery-life-mobile-computers-gone/#comment-742 Lawrence Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:18:52 +0000 http://gilest.wordpress.com/?p=506#comment-742 Just thinking about this, hidden in a box of 'tech junk' were 2 Psion 5mxs that I'd forgotten about. One oof them came to life with new batteries (I think I'd given up on one of them as it kept losing data). I'm going off on a train trip to Munich and ooh I thought, that would be nice to take. I'll let you know if it was as lovely as I remember and if I can someone get it to post emails to my blog via my phone again. Just thinking about this, hidden in a box of ‘tech junk’ were 2 Psion 5mxs that I’d forgotten about. One oof them came to life with new batteries (I think I’d given up on one of them as it kept losing data). I’m going off on a train trip to Munich and ooh I thought, that would be nice to take. I’ll let you know if it was as lovely as I remember and if I can someone get it to post emails to my blog via my phone again.

]]> Comment on The “I’m feeling lucky” presentation technique by Dan Keldsen http://gilest.wordpress.com/2008/04/02/the-im-feeling-lucky-presentation-technique/#comment-741 Dan Keldsen Wed, 23 Apr 2008 03:32:00 +0000 http://gilest.wordpress.com/?p=501#comment-741 Quick look through your blog and the slides you'd put together... suspect you might have some useful feedback on our forthcoming Market IQ on Findability. Feel free to weigh in on the topics we're going to cover within the umbrella of Findability - see http://www.biztechtalk.com/2008/04/put-on-your-fin.html Cheers, Dan Quick look through your blog and the slides you’d put together… suspect you might have some useful feedback on our forthcoming Market IQ on Findability. Feel free to weigh in on the topics we’re going to cover within the umbrella of Findability - see http://www.biztechtalk.com/2008/04/put-on-your-fin.html

Cheers,
Dan

]]> Comment on Keynote is killing me by Dan Keldsen http://gilest.wordpress.com/2008/04/01/keynote-is-killing-me/#comment-740 Dan Keldsen Wed, 23 Apr 2008 03:26:51 +0000 http://gilest.wordpress.com/?p=500#comment-740 Strange - I've run into Keynote bugs, but not the reboot bug. Have been using Keynote since it first became available. There does seem to be a memory leak bug - also identified and known for months, yet not fixed. Try having some looping videos playing as backgrounds, and at some point, POOF, Keynote will likely blow up. Won't reboot the entire machine, but still, not good. Strange - I’ve run into Keynote bugs, but not the reboot bug. Have been using Keynote since it first became available.

There does seem to be a memory leak bug - also identified and known for months, yet not fixed. Try having some looping videos playing as backgrounds, and at some point, POOF, Keynote will likely blow up. Won’t reboot the entire machine, but still, not good.

]]> Comment on Unrestricted access by Paul Mison http://gilest.wordpress.com/2008/04/18/unrestricted-access/#comment-738 Paul Mison Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:48:45 +0000 http://gilest.wordpress.com/?p=507#comment-738 Well, it's still an interesting observation. If you had to agree every time you installed any app, maybe you'd think more about it. Software authors might be encouraged to declare exactly what they're going to do. Another part of that dialog box, code signing, is certainly coming to the Mac OS X (it's already enabled, but not enforced, in 10.5). Maybe the desktop-integration web apps are actually leading the way? Well, it’s still an interesting observation. If you had to agree every time you installed any app, maybe you’d think more about it. Software authors might be encouraged to declare exactly what they’re going to do. Another part of that dialog box, code signing, is certainly coming to the Mac OS X (it’s already enabled, but not enforced, in 10.5). Maybe the desktop-integration web apps are actually leading the way?

]]> Comment on Unrestricted access by gilest http://gilest.wordpress.com/2008/04/18/unrestricted-access/#comment-737 gilest Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:11:06 +0000 http://gilest.wordpress.com/?p=507#comment-737 Yeah, I found myself thinking the same thing shortly after posting this. I'm just being overly paranoid, I suppose. Yeah, I found myself thinking the same thing shortly after posting this. I’m just being overly paranoid, I suppose.

]]> Comment on Unrestricted access by Paul Mison http://gilest.wordpress.com/2008/04/18/unrestricted-access/#comment-736 Paul Mison Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:53:16 +0000 http://gilest.wordpress.com/?p=507#comment-736 If that was a standard desktop app, and not built with Adobe AIR, installing it would give it unrestricted system access, but you wouldn't get a warning about it. Yet you've probably dragged apps from DMGs and run them without thinking too hard about it - I certainly do. Hmmm. If that was a standard desktop app, and not built with Adobe AIR, installing it would give it unrestricted system access, but you wouldn’t get a warning about it. Yet you’ve probably dragged apps from DMGs and run them without thinking too hard about it - I certainly do. Hmmm.

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