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  • hdm42 started following the problem "Small BUG when having "snap to top" enabled" in atebits.

  • hdm42 started following the idea "Growl integration" in atebits.

  • hdm42 started following the idea "Auto-Complete Twitter Names" in atebits.

  • question

    hdm42 replied on March 21, 2009 04:23 to the question "Why don't I see all statuses from Facebook?" in The Cosmic Machine:

    hdm42
    Same issue... I get all facebook updates just fine, but for a couple of friends who I have never once seen a status for appear in EventBox. It's not like EB is just randomly dropping updates, it just never works for those specific friends, who seem to have no particular "technical" connection, to me....
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  • idea

    hdm42 shared an idea in TRNSFR on March 10, 2009 05:25:

    hdm42
    Intelligent Shrinking
    I would love something like this in TweetShrink... shrinking adaptively, only as much as necessary for maximum efficiency.

    For instance: say a long update contains "I can not believe it!", and use this sentence as a representation of the entire thing.

    -if the tweet is just barely over the limit, "I can't believe it!" would suffice.
    -if just a little more is needed to fit in 140 characters, take out the apostrophe. "I cant believe it!"
    -Should we need to be more dramatic, one level up: "I cnt believe it!" (what tweetshrink currently does)
    -Now we can get more creative... the sentence still makes sense if we remove the I and its accompanying space, for instance (something I sometimes wish TS did for me, already, from the start). Someone smarter than I can suggest a good way to abbreviate "believe" in levels.

    But I think I've gotten my idea across-- hey, it's just a suggestion. Too many tweets are being well over-shortened . An "optimal" result isn't always the absolute shortest possible, but the most intelligently abbreviated. IMHO.