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Eric Caron shared an idea in boxee on May 21, 2009 04:30:

Prevent Boxee from being opened multiple times

When loading Boxee via the remote, I just point to the exe. If I have multiple programs open, programs (like GBPVR) just bring themselves to the front when re-executed. Boxee presently launches a 2nd instance, rather than bringing itself to the forefront.

I'd imagine everyone would want it to regain focus, rather than launch a 2nd version. So my suggestion is to wrap the exe to prevent it from launching twice and, rather, on subsequent calls just regain focus & bring to front.

A comment on the idea "Resolving latitude/longitude to city/state" in Seesmic:

If you can point to some more international (free) databases of zip to lat/long, I'll happily incorporate them into the code. – Eric Caron, on May 12, 2009 12:17

Eric Caron replied on February 24, 2009 21:07 to the idea "Adjust font size" in TweetDeck:

This idea is a duplicate of How do you change the font size in Tweetdeck?.

Eric Caron replied on February 24, 2009 21:05 to the problem "Login popup OpenID erases comment" in Get Satisfaction:

There's a typo in the popup message. I believe you mean lose instead of loose.

Eric Caron asked a question in TweetDeck on February 23, 2009 18:35:

Why am I seeing UTF-8 code instead of the real characters?

When looking at a tweet via tweetdeck, such as http://twitter.com/guykawasaki/statuses/1241662666, I see the "“" and "”". but when looking at it through the browser, I see the character as the poster intended.

Eric Caron replied on February 14, 2009 17:14 to the problem "Deleted tweets show up in search results." in Twitter:

The tweet saying "cision" is showing up in search results for "mntruck"
Search showing deleted tweet
Place where deleted tweet was

Eric Caron started following the problem "Deleted tweets show up in search results." in Twitter.

Eric Caron shared an idea in Twitter on February 06, 2009 13:32:

After login, send user back to referring page

After login, Twitter sends the me to the last page loaded, rather than the page I was on when I clicked "Login".

To reproduce:

1. Be logged out


2. Load tab for twitter/personA (replace with whomever you want)


3. Load tab for twitter/personB (again, pick your fave person)


4. Go back to tab for personA, click "Login", and login


5. You'll be sent to the page for personB

Expected result:
Step 5 should take you to personA

Eric Caron started following the idea "In the daily reports, all of the URLs should be clickable URLs." in SocialToo.

Eric Caron replied on January 22, 2009 15:34 to the idea "Improve formatting of the daily reports" in SocialToo:

Also, within the reports, I see the "last tweet" for all users (yesterday was 11) is the exact same tweet that I said. Although I do care what I said just before the signed up (perhaps it was what motiviated them to follow me), seeing it repeated & not seeing what they have said isn't an useful as this report could be.

Eric Caron started following the question "iphone app?" in lala.

Eric Caron shared an idea in Mr. Tweet on January 06, 2009 03:03:

Convert geo-locations to human-readable locations

When the location says something like "41.791214,-87.600098", its just not that useful. Sure it looks cool, but that fades away quickly.

Instead, its easy to setup a system that quickly converts that to city/state. I setup an example here - http://geo2city.jobdig.com/ - its based in PHP, requires no database (just memcache) and I'll give you the source if you want it. There's also a python-based alternative in-progress that'll run easily on Google's AppEngine.

Eric Caron shared an idea in Seesmic on January 04, 2009 23:02:

Resolving latitude/longitude to city/state

It'd be great if Twhirl would resolve latitude/longitude to city/state. I've provided a sample framework for resolving this here - http://geo2city.jobdig.com/ (Let me know if you want the source code)

Its really frustrating when iPhone users post their geo-location, but I don't have my Atlas in front of me to figure out where they actually are!