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Daniel Raffel replied on September 20, 2008 01:13 to the question "What are Songbird's system requirements?" in Songbird:

Up-to-date system requirements for Songbird can now be found on the Songbird site.

tm351 replied on September 17, 2008 15:55 to the question "What are Songbird's system requirements?" in Songbird:

songbird's running very slow for me on macbook with 512MB ram and OS 10.5, got just under 13k tracks in the library, want to add another 35k stored elsewhere on my external hard drive. is the slowness due to the size of library then? i prefer this software to itunes but at the moment the freezing mid-track and whenever i try to do anything is kind of annoying...

ben asked a question in Handcrafted on September 10, 2008 18:06:

Self-service user add

Some of the other ideas touch on this, but in the context of exactly how it might be done (eg - retweet via @reply, etc). So, not sure if this qualifies for it's own topic, but...

I'd like to see, in general, a way that users could add themselves to the "list" (what would be the term for users who get retweeted?), as opposed to the admin having to manually add them.

gabe replied on September 10, 2008 17:57 to the question "Retweeting from everyone / followers instead of list" in Handcrafted:

the internet is messy :)

if you add that feature then i could use tweetbots for a project i'm working on, which i would love. Otherwise I'll roll my own. Do you think this'll make it in?

ben replied on September 10, 2008 01:21 to the question "Retweeting from everyone / followers instead of list" in Handcrafted:

ooo, that's pretty nice.
Good point about the visibility of @reply vs DM
I like the fact that that bot credits the source.
If someone retweets a particular one that they liked, the bot would probably retweet it right back, and it might get a little messy, but I guess that's not really a big deal.

gabe replied on September 10, 2008 01:13 to the question "Retweeting from everyone / followers instead of list" in Handcrafted:

http://twitter.com/lotd is a nice retweeting bot that i'm a fan of - it utilizes @reply and seems to be pretty nice. The nice thing about @reply is that is also raises awareness of the bot to the senders friends - something you lose with a DM

ben replied on September 10, 2008 01:09 to the question "Retweeting from everyone / followers instead of list" in Handcrafted:

My sense is that people may @reply the bot not intending/not knowing that it will retweet them, causing some havoc.
I've been trying to figure out how to work a "self-service" sort of retweet situation as well, just to make it more automated for followers to participate.
Perhaps they begin their reply with a certain character or code, indicating that they intend this for retweetion, while normal, innocent @replies remain as intended.

Adam Stacoviak replied on September 09, 2008 18:26 to the idea "admin tweetbots via Twitter commands?" in Handcrafted:

Nice recommendation Ben. Thanks for chiming in!

Daniel Raffel replied on September 02, 2008 21:39 to the question "What are Songbird's system requirements?" in Songbird:

Windows

• Windows XP, Windows Vista

Minimum Hardware:

• 733 MHz Pentium III CPU (Recommended: 1.5 GHz Pentium IV or comparable)


• At least 256 MB of physical RAM (Recommended: 512 MB)


• At least 40 MB of available space on your hard drive


• 16 bit sound card (Recommended: 32 bit Sound Card)


• Speakers or headphones

Mac

• Mac OS X 10.4 or later

Minimum Hardware:

• Macintosh computer with an Intel x86 processor


• At least 512 MB of physical RAM


• At least 200 MB of available space on your hard drive

Linux
The Songbird QA team has tested Songbird on Ubuntu 7.10 32-bit & 64-bit, and Fedora 8 32-bit. Please note that Linux distributors may provide packages for your distribution which have different requirements.

• Linux kernel - 2.2.14 or later with the following libraries or packages:




• glibc 2.3.2 or later


• XFree86-3.3.6 or later


• gtk+2.0 or later


• fontconfig (also known as xft)


• libstdc++6

Minimum Hardware:

• 233 MHz Intel Pentium II or AMD K6-III+ CPU (Recommended: 500 MHz or greater)


• At least 64 MB of physical RAM (Recommended: 128 MB or greater)


• At least 52 MB of available space on your hard drive


• 16 bit sound card (Recommended: 32 bit sound card)


• Speakers or headphones

NOTE: Performance requirements will scale to the size of the user's library.

Josh Owens replied on September 02, 2008 13:31 to the idea "Auto Replies for Followers" in Handcrafted:

Yeah, good suggestion. Have you used tweet later? What info do you have to give them to get it working?

The api doesn't have easy methods to find *new* followers, so we would have to track your follower list pretty closely.

Josh Owens replied on September 02, 2008 03:36 to the idea "admin tweetbots via Twitter commands?" in Handcrafted:

Smart idea. We will think about this and the smart ways to implement it. This is definitely something we are interested in.

ben shared an idea in Handcrafted on September 01, 2008 17:45:

admin tweetbots via Twitter commands?

I'd love to be able to add a retweet source to my tweetbots directly from Twitter.
For example, twittering this: "d webchimp addRT budesigns" would add @budesigns as a retweet source for @webchimp, without me having to log in to Tweetbots.

ben replied on September 01, 2008 17:36 to the idea "Auto Replies for Followers" in Handcrafted:

yea, I'd use that.

ben started following the idea "Auto Replies for Followers" in Handcrafted.

Clay Newton replied on August 27, 2008 16:09 to the question "Google Checkout - "Edit purchase" link" in Remarkd:

This is great information. Bug filed!

ben replied on August 27, 2008 15:58 to the question "Google Checkout - "Edit purchase" link" in Remarkd:

thanks!
The cancel button's not working:
"Exception at /r/item/cancel/
Item Id is not valid
..."

Clay Newton replied on August 27, 2008 15:55 to the question "Google Checkout - "Edit purchase" link" in Remarkd:

Ah yes, we are working out the kinks to that for the next bugfix release.

From your home page, click "Your archive" from the left nav.


In your archive you will see a list of items you have already bought and sold. You will also see the one you just tried to purchase. From this page you can click "Complete" which will take you back to Google Checkout to complete the order or "Cancel" which will make the item live again.

Thanks for pointing out this issue on the return link... it should point to your Archive.

ben asked a question in Remarkd on August 27, 2008 15:31:

Google Checkout - "Edit purchase" link

On the checkout page... link at upper right... I think it said "Edit Purchase"...
Anyway, clicking it brought me back to the cause page, as opposed to the item I was in the middle of purchasing.
Now I can't find the item. Might the site thinks it is sold...?

Clay Newton replied on August 26, 2008 20:11 to the question "Network Settings: What is "Co-friend"?" in Remarkd:

What co-friend does is when you sign up your account we look to see if other friends of yours on the service are also on Remarkd.

If we find a connection, we will add them as your friend on Remarkd. Of course, if you don't want us to that, leave it unchecked.

Clay Newton replied on August 26, 2008 18:35 to the problem "can't send invites" in Remarkd:

Thanks for letting me know that, Ben. We're working on getting that fixed ASAP.