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A comment on the question "Please include Google Lattitude as a network" in Ping.fm:

And since Talk is a Ping.fm network, this should work. – Andrew Conkling, on May 13, 2009 18:48

Andrew Conkling marked one of Flavio's replies in Ping.fm as useful. Flavio replied to the question "Please include Google Lattitude as a network".

Andrew Conkling replied on May 13, 2009 18:46 to the problem "Won't update Google Talk status" in Ping.fm:

Clearing my custom statuses also helped me. Maybe I update too often? :)

Is there any way to fix this properly though?

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Andrew Conkling replied on May 11, 2009 23:54 to the question "More Frequent Checking of a Feed" in Brightwurks:

Nick, I'm not sure how you guys are implementing these changes, but I'd like to add that for some uses, one email per RSS item would be ideal.

I don't particularly care about "real time" updates (and I understand the load that'd have on a server), but it'd be acceptable for me to receive (for example) three messages every five hours (or whatever the frequency is).

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Andrew Conkling replied on May 10, 2009 05:49 to the problem "RTM Won't Respond After 4pm" in Remember The Milk:

Hm, I'm also on EST but I've never noticed this problem and I do plenty of RTM'ing after 4PM. Have you by chance tried from multiple locations? Or did the problem happen to go away in the last months?

Andrew Conkling started following the praise "RTM is an invaluable crutch to overly busy, multiplexed modern lives." in Remember The Milk.

Andrew Conkling replied on May 10, 2009 05:44 to the idea "addedBefore search needs to support phrases like "three weeks ago" etc." in Remember The Milk:

I think the following will work for you:

NOT addedWithin:"3 weeks of today"

Then you can save that as a smart list.

Hm, I think I'll add a 6-month one and use that in my weekly review to decide whether those are still worth doing/past their time/etc.

Andrew Conkling replied on May 10, 2009 05:36 to the idea "Notes updating task time estimate" in Remember The Milk:

I'm wondering whether it'd be more useful to use a dedicated time tracker (not sure the scope of your work to be able to recommend anything specific, but there are plenty out there!) and then to put your times into RTM once you've finished tracking your time or at the end of your day.
Give me some more specifics and I will try to think of something particular for you.

A comment on the question "when are new features expected out?" in Remember The Milk:

The mobile app (not sure which you mean) may be more limited, but even the mobile site shows "Today" as the first smart list available.
On the website, you can use the overview or the tasks as your starting page (you set it on the overview), so you should be able to start on whichever is more useful to you. – Andrew Conkling, on May 10, 2009 05:26

A comment on the question "when are new features expected out?" in Remember The Milk:

I find that being overwhelmed about my tasks means I'm looking at too many different contexts/categories. If you're using the list/location/time estimate fields, you should be able to select just tasks you can work on where you are, e.g. at work, driving in the car (where you can make phone calls), at home, on the internet with time to kill, etc. – Andrew Conkling, on May 10, 2009 05:18

Andrew Conkling replied on May 10, 2009 05:16 to the question "when are new features expected out?" in Remember The Milk:

For subtasks, maybe you'd be interested in Doug Ireton's remarks about implementing GTD in RTM. It's a comprehensive system, so if you're just looking for subtasks, take a look at the section called Brainstorm Project Tasks and Tag your Next Actions with “na”.

Andrew Conkling replied on May 10, 2009 05:06 to the idea "Visualize my time" in Remember The Milk:

The RTM blog recently covered a similar tip concering using time estimates in tasks.
While you can't format the tasks that will take longer/shorter, you can always search for them, e.g. (timeEstimate:”> 15 minutes” AND timeEstimate:"< 45 minutes"). That may be more effective in picking a task to complete than sifting through a larger list of your tags.

Also, this idea could be similarly effective for managing priority or due date (e.g. a red gradient as its due date approaches) but I would still suggest searches or sorting in those cases.

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A comment on the question "100% CPU usage with Ubiquity, FF slows to crawl; memory leak?" in Mozilla:

It's official that Weave is not the problem. :) – Andrew Conkling, on May 06, 2009 18:57

A comment on the question "100% CPU usage with Ubiquity, FF slows to crawl; memory leak?" in Mozilla:

Yes, Weave was my thought too but disabling is the best way to test! :) – Andrew Conkling, on May 06, 2009 12:13

Andrew Conkling reported a problem in Mozilla on May 05, 2009 16:33:

Memory increases and Firefox will not close

When using Ubiquity 0.1.8 on Firefox 3.0 and 3.5b4, memory seems to leak and after about 4 hours Firefox is using approximately 600 MB on my system. My Firefox UI will also hang for a second every 10 seconds or so, and when I close Firefox the window will disappear but the process will continue to run in the background until I close it with Task Manager.

My list of installed add-ons:
Remember the Milk for Gmail
Twitterfox
Ubiquity
Weave
Web Developer
Xmarks

I've disabled all but Ubiquity and the problem still happens. I'm unsure what other information I could gather/provide, so let me know if there's anything else that could help to narrow down the issue.