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kita replied on July 18, 2008 03:32 to the question "Is anyone else's Macbook losing plastic around the edge of the keyboard?" in Apple:

Both of my daughters and myself all got Macbooks last Christmas and all three computers have developed cracks on the right side!! We are a Mac family and have happily had Macs since day one, but this problem is a big concern and obviously a design fault. I am very disappointed with Apple.

kita replied on July 18, 2008 03:32 to the question "Is anyone else's Macbook losing plastic around the edge of the keyboard?" in Apple:

Both of my daughters and myself all got Macbooks last Christmas and all three computers have developed cracks on the right side!! We are a Mac family and have happily had Macs since day one, but this problem is a big concern and obviously a design fault. I am very disappointed with Apple.

lhiver replied on July 18, 2008 01:19 to the question "Is anyone else's Macbook losing plastic around the edge of the keyboard?" in Apple:

i have a macbook pro 17 - about two years old, problem has just started a few months ago, plastic on the edge above my front-loader superdrive slot. hard to avoid resting my hand/wrist on it when typing, but i'm hoping it doesn't break or catch on something one of these days!

Fabian replied on July 18, 2008 00:12 to the question "Is anyone else's Macbook losing plastic around the edge of the keyboard?" in Apple:

I live in belgium, same problem right corner in the magnetic area, will go to apple store too bought it november 2007 and it broke 2 months ago, so it's only 8 months old!!! I thought it broke because it transport it in a laptopbag with school books and the schoolbooks had been pressing against the cover, if it wasn't for this site I also thought it was my fault!! Thx alot guys!!

pizzalover replied on July 05, 2008 21:22 to the question "Is anyone else's Macbook losing plastic around the edge of the keyboard?" in Apple:

Today mine also broke in exactly the same place like yours on the bottom right side and it looks like the left side is giving up too.
I am totally disgusted with Apple,as I have bought (via a mail order catalogue company) my laptop few months ago.I have shouted at my kids thinking it was them that done the damage,but I would have never thought that an Apple Macbook,would come with this sort of problem.I am disgusted.
I am still paying for mine which make me even more angry.I have also checked for my warranty and somehow the apple website it is telling me that my warranty is expired and this can't be.
I will be phoning them tomorrow and I live in London,so I do not know how it will end up for me and my laptop.
What a disgrace for a company like Apple.

Rafael Fonseca replied on July 03, 2008 21:12 to the problem "Links opening in new Firefox Window instead of Tab :-(" in Seesmic:

I understand that the point is the Adobe AIR framework, as I have been recently finding some other issues on it, which makes me think it's not quite finished yet.

The problem is that even though Firefox is NOT set as my default browser, Twhirl is still trying to open it.

When I said other AIR apps were not doing the same thing, I was reporting what I experienced. Last time I've tried navigateToUrl() on an AIR app, the framework was in beta, and it worked like a charm.

Did anyone experience that with AIR 1.0? Or beta/alpha?

Kels replied on July 03, 2008 16:04 to the problem "Limit Exceeded issue..." in Seesmic:

I'm having the same problem! I just installed Twhirl yesterday and I saw the updates/tweets of one of the people I was following. But when I opened it today it opened up two twhirl windows and neither of them show any tweets. Also, I updated it and have the 8.3 version and have adobe air. I'm not quite sure what the problem is, but it'd be rather cool to get it fixed.

At the bottom of the box it also says "limit exceeded, paused 5 min"...

Marco Kaiser replied on July 03, 2008 16:01 to the problem "Links opening in new Firefox Window instead of Tab :-(" in Seesmic:

Scott,

thanks ;-) I'm not sure if this issue has been solved on Windows with one of the last AIR releases, but originally it was more prominent there than on OS X.

Even the official release notes from Adobe for AIR contained a workaround to solve the issue on Windows.

Anyway, I share everyone's feelings here that this is a really annoying thing, but as you pointed out, it cannot be solved from within twhirl.

Marco

Scott-O-Rama replied on July 03, 2008 15:53 to the problem "Links opening in new Firefox Window instead of Tab :-(" in Seesmic:

Per David Coletta, Adobe Employee:

"Just wanted to say, we are aware of this problem with navigateToURL() in AIR when Firefox/Mac is the default browser, and we are tracking it. To the best of our knowledge it is only a problem on the Mac, not with Firefox for Windows.

I can't promise if or when it will be fixed, but I hope that it's at least some comfort that it's on our list"

You can find his reply here: http://getsatisfaction.com/adobe/topi...

mflinsch replied on July 03, 2008 15:43 to the problem "Limit Exceeded issue..." in Seesmic:

I'm running much better now with some blog plug-ins disabled (Twitter for Wordpress, Twitpress, Twitter Updater) and installing the new version of Twhirl. I need Twitter, but I love Twhirl.

Scott-O-Rama replied on July 03, 2008 14:46 to the problem "Links opening in new Firefox Window instead of Tab :-(" in Seesmic:

After reading around the web, Marco's reply is absolutely right. Many (all?) Adobe AIR apps are experiencing this exact same issue particularly when Firefox is set as the default browser.

This is an Adobe AIR issue, not a Twhirl one, so I would highly suggest that everyone go the this thread and add your voice asking Adobe to fix it: http://getsatisfaction.com/adobe/topi...

Håvard Pedersen replied on July 03, 2008 13:54 to the problem "Links opening in new Firefox Window instead of Tab :-(" in Seesmic:

Rafael Fonseca, I'd love to hear which Air apps that open links in new tabs.

Most Air apps like the Pownce client, Spaz (another Twitter client) and others all have bugs registered for this behaviour, and they all seem to agree it's Adobes fault (though it looks like it only happens when used with Firefox as the default browser).

It also looks like it's a very old bug, so I can't understand why Adobe can't seem to fix it.

Marco Kaiser replied on July 03, 2008 13:43 to the problem "Limit Exceeded issue..." in Seesmic:

Hi everyone, the just released version 0.8.3 fixes issues with the auto throttling twhirl can perform for your API usage.

But as the limit is as low as 20 at the moment, it's still likely that you will run into limit exceeded problems, because of other clients / apps accessing your account. We can only hope for twitter to raise the limit soon, so the problem will be less significant.

Sorry, unfortunately we cannot do more then trying to keep twhirl's API usage below the limit.

Marco Kaiser replied on July 03, 2008 13:39 to the problem "Links opening in new Firefox Window instead of Tab :-(" in Seesmic:

Well, actually I'd be happy if it would be a problem in twhirl, because then I could solve it!

This problem affects ONLY AIR applications, so if all other (native) apps use another browser, that has nothing to do with this issue.

To give you some technical background about this issue: twhirl is based on Flash and the Flex framework. There is just one way to actually open a URL in an external system browser from these kind of AIR applications. There are no options we could send with the URL that can influence how, where or by which application that URL is captured and opened in the end.

For reference, the call used to do this is navigateToURL().

I would be interested to know which other AIR applications you are using that open a link in another browser?

jasonechols replied on July 03, 2008 13:37 to the problem "Limit Exceeded issue..." in Seesmic:

I am still having this issue. I have my requests set to 40 per hour. I will decrease to 20 and see if it works. This is getting really annoying.

mflinsch replied on July 03, 2008 11:57 to the problem "Limit Exceeded issue..." in Seesmic:

Solved, finally. I turned off two plugins on my blog, which runs WordPress, and all is good.

Robert Basil replied on July 03, 2008 03:50 to the problem "Links opening in new Firefox Window instead of Tab :-(" in Seesmic:

Rafael,

Same exact thing here. So the problem is not air but Twhirl. Hey Twhirl team, how about a fix now that we know the problem is on your end and not with air?

Rafael Fonseca replied on July 03, 2008 02:29 to the problem "Links opening in new Firefox Window instead of Tab :-(" in Seesmic:

Interestingly enough, Twhirl is the ONLY application that is trying to open Firefox.app instead of my system default one (Minefield.app - Leopard-optimized version of FF3), so I think it is something within Twhirl.

Furthermore, my other AIR apps DO open a tab in Minefield, as they should.

mflinsch replied on July 02, 2008 22:15 to the problem "Limit Exceeded issue..." in Seesmic:

Still having limit exceeded issues...

mflinsch replied on July 02, 2008 14:23 to the problem "Limit Exceeded issue..." in Seesmic:

Dang, limit exceeded again.

Now I'm really stumped. Wish I could look at a log of my Twitter updates and requests to the API using my credentials.

Update - Twitter is showing the whale. Turning FaceBook off may still be a valid solution, just can't validate it at the moment.