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beiju shared an idea in The CocoaBots on December 20, 2008 22:20:

Make the menubar icon default to the Space Switcher

I would like it if clicking on the icon or text in the menubar shows the space switcher by default, or at least have an option for it. At the moment it only works if you right-click on it. Thanks!

A comment on the discussion "Check Off 4.0: What Do You Want?" in Second Gear:

Just out of curiosity, why do you need an encryption feature? What do you store there that's so important? – beiju, on November 19, 2008 00:27

beiju replied on November 13, 2008 21:42 to the question "What characters make Twitter messages truncate?" in Twitter:

This issue seems to have been resolved. Good on Twitter for getting around to it, although it did seem to take them a while, considering it had been working before.

A comment on the discussion "Check Off 4.0: What Do You Want?" in Second Gear:

Hmm, that sounds odd. To help the developer, can you check the "Login Items" tab, in the accounts pane of System Preferences, and see if Check Off is in there? If it is, then the problem is with OSX. If not, uncheck and recheck the checkbox in Check Off and see if it shows up. If it's still not there, you should probably report the bug to the developer. In the meantime, you can make that happen manually by dragging the icon from the Finder to that list. It should then open when you log in. – beiju, on October 22, 2008 01:23

A comment on the discussion "Check Off 4.0: What Do You Want?" in Second Gear:

Hmmm... maybe trying to go the same way on your other Mac? preferences->dropbox instead of the other way around? – beiju, on October 10, 2008 14:10

A comment on the discussion "Check Off 4.0: What Do You Want?" in Second Gear:

You're welcome! Always good to help a new user. I use this to sync some folders in my Documents folder and my Scripts folder, as I'm an applescripter. I'm also glad it worked, because I don't have two Macs to test it on at the mo'! – beiju, on October 10, 2008 04:59

beiju started following the question "is there a plugin to sync my foxmarks with safari?" in Xmarks.

beiju replied on October 10, 2008 04:35 to the question "is there a plugin to sync my foxmarks with safari?" in Xmarks:

I have the same thing; I use Safari for it's Cocoa integration on my Mac, (because if you use Cocoa other system-enhancing apps can add to your contextual menu, which I use primarily in Safari), and I use PortableFirefox at school because that's the only way to not use IE, which is to be avoided at all costs (If I need it I use IE Tab), especially because they won't let us clear our history. It's a matter of principal and the fact that I don't want them to block Twitter. I really wish I could sync them for convienience. Thanks!

People have done Safari plugins and Firefox plugins, so I can't imagine it's too difficult.

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A comment on the discussion "Check Off 4.0: What Do You Want?" in Second Gear:

If you really want this, there is a way to do it. If you create a symbolic link using the instructions here http://www.macworld.com/article/58177... to the file com.carpeaqua.checkoff.plist in your Preferences folder, and move it to your DropBox, then rename it whatever you want, sync, and on your other Mac do it in reverse (from DropBox to ~/Library/Preferences), MAKING SURE TO RENAME IT WITH THE ORIGINAL NAME com.carpeaqua.checkoff.plist, it should work. – beiju, on October 09, 2008 23:21

A comment on the question "What characters make Twitter messages truncate?" in Twitter:

Very eloquent! – beiju, on September 24, 2008 22:53

beiju replied on September 24, 2008 04:06 to the question "If the max is 140 characters, why can't Twitter show the whole line? Why cut off the last few characters with an ellipsis?" in Twitter:

I asked the question of what characters cause that problem here:http://getsatisfaction.com/twitter/topics/what_characters_make_twitter_messages_truncate. Please feel free to contribute. I don't mean to be pluggy, I just want to help my followers have a better time reading my Tweets and others do the same for their followers.

beiju replied on September 24, 2008 04:04 to the problem "New Twitter interface unusable in Opera Mini" in Twitter:

I don't have a way to use Opera Mini, but have you tried hahlo.com? It seems more AJAXy, but there's a chance it would work better with Opera than the Twitter site.

beiju asked a question in Twitter on September 24, 2008 03:54:

What characters make Twitter messages truncate?

According to @ihnatko, and verified by me, in the new Twitter UI some special characters take more than one bit to display. Twitter counts one character for each on it's character limit, but when displaying in the website it only shows the first 140 characters of HTML code, apparently. Andy's example was that " shows up as QUOTE, and thus creates a little clickable ellipsis (...) to see the rest, which takes you to another page. This wouldn't be as bad as it is if the Twitter API would pass the whole thing to, say, Twitterrific or Twhirl, but it doesn't–it shows the same thing as the web, and THE ELLIPSIS IS NOT CLICKABLE. Either tell us what characters are one HTML character and which are not (is ' better than "?) or fix the API. Anyone else with a list of these please reply.

beiju reported a problem in Soup on September 20, 2008 01:02:

Inappropriate images the soup homepage

I went to www.soup.io, and it suggested I try to scroll down. I had seen in the temporary soup a setting for continuous scrolling or something similar, so I tried it. It seemed to work, but there are some VERY inappropriate images on your page. I will not use soup until you rectify this situation-please do something about this. If you can't delete the post or ban the users, at least take it off the homepage.

Thank you.

A comment on the discussion "Check Off 4.0: What Do You Want?" in Second Gear:

About what you don't want: Yes, but other apps don't do things that Check Off does. I think a compromise is in order- maybe a preference to enable these features.

About the Anxiety appearance-one reason I use Check Off is that I like the interface. If you like Anxiety better, use that. I would use that, but I like the check off interface.

On all other counts I'm with you. – beiju, on September 05, 2008 00:25

A comment on the discussion "Check Off 4.0: What Do You Want?" in Second Gear:

It is there- in the Preferences, uncheck the preferences that say "Retract the list when..." – beiju, on September 05, 2008 00:20

beiju replied on August 24, 2008 19:37 to the discussion "Check Off 4.0: What Do You Want?" in Second Gear:

Another idea- how about a Remove Completed button, to delete all tasks that are checked. That would be an easy feature to implement (as far as I, with no developing experience would know), and useful.

A comment on the discussion "Check Off 4.0: What Do You Want?" in Second Gear:

Nice answer. I don't fault you - I know I wouldn't want to give due dates if I was a developer, but no harm in trying! – beiju, on August 24, 2008 01:18

beiju replied on August 23, 2008 23:11 to the discussion "Check Off 4.0: What Do You Want?" in Second Gear:

Can we have a possible due date? I recently found another task list app (called Things) and am considering switching. As much as I love Check Off, it's not cutting it for what I want to do. I want to be able to compare check off 4 and Things, and want to know if I should make the effort to transfer my items just yet. Any dates?