I use histre (http://histre.com) to accomplish this functionality, not only within Firefox but across browsers, computers, and even colleagues.
My favorite feature is being able to save all tabs within a window, send a link to a co-worker, and have them open up all the tabs. It takes like 5 secs, end to end.
Best of all: if they have the histre extension as well, they can instantly open all the tabs at once and even see my highlights - it’s like being able to send a browser window state to another person!
I understand that $2 / month is not trivial for everyone, but this criticism alone is simply not helpful. If a person, such as yourself, does not value the benefits the service provides as greater than the price, they are simply not his/her target market.
Your argument could be that the price asked would limit his/her market needlessly by simply being too high, but at this price point I doubt that to be the case.
He / she built a service with a clear value prop (fastest food logging possible, backed by high quality / custom data, with a privacy focus). For those interested in food logging without having their eating and nutrition habits / data sold off, I doubt the price would be a deterrent.
Maybe you can say the service is not meeting expectations in some way. That’s fair, but then please provide more specific feedback.
Given the nature of this forum, let’s try to be either more supportive or at least more clear about what could be improved. Drive-by negativity is just not helpful to anyone.
I, for one, applaud his/her efforts, find the offering enticing and the price to be very reasonable (Probably too low, in reality) given the attention to detail, data provided, and problem being solved.
Disclaimer: I have not used the service and have no association, only browsed the site. I rarely comment, but wanted to balance out this low-effort negativity.
It’s unfortunate, and I don’t fully agree with the policy. Regardless, building an iOS app in any of the “vice” trades has to be recognized as high risk at this point. Right or wrongly, Apple has been consistent about this since the earliest days of the App Store.
Just curious, would you have made the same arguments against RescueTime? It too transmits your activity data (and who knows what else) over the wire.
I don't know if you use(d) RescueTime or not, so I don't mean it as an attack against you. I guess I just don't remember these types of arguments being leveled against RescueTime (maybe I'm wrong about that, but a quick search didn't reveal anything) and I'm curious as to the reason. Is it b/c of the recent privacy concerns being raised by the US govt's actions, that RescueTime had more cachet when it launched, they got the messaging right to alleviate these concerns, or something else?
I bought timingapp and had high hopes for it, but immediately ran into various issues. First and foremost, it wouldn't let you edit the names of activities or the duration spent on any of them. You could enter a duration, but if there was a typo (like entering 12 hours instead of 12 mins), then too bad. I contacted support, but they said the features to edit...well, anything, were not currently available.
That stuff I could forgive since it's a new app, but my major issue was actually more insidious. It uses a background applescript to track your apps and your activity in each and I think it might either contain or inadvertently be causing a memory leak. I keep a memory tracker in my status bar and so I'm fairly in tune with how much memory I have on average. Within a day or two of installing the app, I noticed my memory usage going from ~50% to ~95% usage with the difference sitting in "inactive memory."
I had not changed any other major configs, started using a different set of apps, or installed any other apps since installing TimingApp, so I was very suspicious of it. Still, I gave it the benefit of the doubt and restarted my machine. I worked for another few days and my memory would just casually creep back up to ~95% and stay there until a "purge" command or another restart.
I uninstalled, restarted, and all my memory issues have since disappeared.
That would be like saying "since everybody already knows about Apple and their products and they are bringing in substantial cash, they can cut their spending." But instead, Apple has been increasing their ad spending as revenue has gone up http://gw5.appleinsider.com/article/?id=14437 (bit old, but still holds).
Personally, I know that I only reach for a groupon or a coupon of any sort when it's shoved in my face. For them to make such a drastic shift amidst questionable profitability on exactly the first day of a new quarter makes me inclined to agree with the author and say that it's a strategic shift in direction.
Local client-side scraping of CG to bring about similar results to Padmapper - I like it.
Noting that CG has recently gone on the offensive, I wonder where they would draw the line. At the moment, everything is done locally and it doesn't look like the extension is communicating with any central source. What if there was a central server that aggregated the results of all the distributed scraping to cache results and a) display them more quickly to users, and b) reduce the number of hits to CG?
Would CG rebuke the extension b/c its communicating with a central server and sharing CG's data in a manner not controlled by CG?
"That's the difference between producing content and producing journalism." Quite a bold, powerful statement. I wholeheartedly agree that there is a distinct difference between the two, but not that one is "bad" and the other is "good"
Instead, I would argue that they serve different ends.
Producing "content" is the quick and easy, but not "bad." Producing content to satisfy the fleeting curiosity of the masses is not "bad," it is simply not going to produce quality work. It is a perfectly valid business though. There is nothing inherently wrong or evil about producing content that will satiate an individual's quick desire to get a few facts about something topical.
On the other hand, producing "journalism" should not be considered "good" simply b/c it holds itself to a higher standard. Yes, it may produce better work, but that alone does not make it a viable business plan.
Associated Content should not be condemned simply because it does not produce quality content. AC serves a specific niche well and profits from that service. How is that evil?
While it is true that anything you don't exercise will atrophy, like you said, but - at the same time - you can't be a master at everything.
The person that can be a master programmer and a charismatic salesmen is very rare indeed. In fact, so rare that I would be surprised if they exist at all.
So I agree, you shouldn't completely ignore tasks that don't fall under your speciality; but also, work on those tasks only enough to maintain a certain level of competency and skill. Then you can hopefully stay in touch enough and not "loose sight of the company as a whole."
The overall lesson to learn from the article is "Both men and women decide if they belong in an environment based off cues from the environment itself."
That seems clear enough, but I started to think about how the lessons learned here might be applied elsewhere. Namely, how could this lesson be applied to help us, my fellow geek friends, out with the ladies?
Basically, what I'm saying is that if you want women to feel comfortable around you and in your surrounding (ie home or office), then you have to provide some cues to make them feel like they belong - barring that, at least remove the cues that make them feel like they definitely don't.
I'm not saying redecorate your apartment with pink unicorns everywhere, but maybe just start off small:
- Replace the 1-foot-tall Yoda replica with a potted plant
- Replace the wall of empty Mountain Dew cans with a bottle of water on your desk
Like I said, just simple things to make any potential women that might see your environment avoid the feeling that they "simply don't belong here."
I know the article isn't really about how to improve your odds with the ladies, but I see no reasons not to apply the lessons they are learning with actual research to other areas of our lives - especially one that our demographic has historically had difficulty with.
For once we are getting info on how to make women feel more comfortable that is backed by actual research as opposed to mere speculation and guesswork. Why wouldn't we try to make use of that information in as many ways as possible?
I signed up with Slicehost a few months ago. It was my first experience with VPS hosting and Unix.
As a beginner, Slicehost was really great. The control panel is really straight forward and easy to use, their support is quick and helpful, and their how-to articles are really great for beginners.
So they both have articles for the absolute beginners, but it still seems like Linode slightly favors the more intermediate to advanced users in their how-to's. Purely subjective, but Slicehost's seem a bit easier to read / follow.
That being said, this article was incredibly interesting. Now that I have a bit more experience with VPS's and Unix, I am very tempted to head over to Linode.
I am still developing my web app on Slicehost but I have not seen any performance problems since I have very little traffic. I am now considering setting up the production server over at Linode when I'm ready to go live.
My favorite feature is being able to save all tabs within a window, send a link to a co-worker, and have them open up all the tabs. It takes like 5 secs, end to end.
Best of all: if they have the histre extension as well, they can instantly open all the tabs at once and even see my highlights - it’s like being able to send a browser window state to another person!