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jgarbers asked a question in OpenDNS on June 30, 2009 01:09:

Members login page for webs.com is blocked as phish

We manage a few Web sites at webs.com, but tonight we're unable to log in to administer the sites. The login page at webs.com sends us to http://members.webs.com/s/login and that URL is apparently being blocked as a phishing site by OpenDNS. Oddly, after the first few times trying to log in, we get an empty page at the phish.opendns.com URL rather than the expected diagnostic message. Can anyone offer a workaround?

jgarbers replied on June 04, 2009 23:47 to the question "Can't get past licensing dialog in Changes demo" in Connected Flow:

I uninstalled Changes using AppZapper and reinstalled, and after that I have another 15 days worth of demo time, so I seem to be OK for now. Thanks!

jgarbers asked a question in Connected Flow on June 04, 2009 22:36:

Can't get past licensing dialog in Changes demo

I'm trying to install the demo of Changes for review. I looked at it a long time ago, so there may be something left on my machine keeping it from running, but when I launch it I get a dialog asking for license information The "Purchase Changes..." button takes me to a nonexistent Web page (http://changesapp.com/buy_internal.php) and I can't find any way to get past "the guard". Any suggestions? Thanks!

jgarbers started following the question "Files vanish from S3 one second after uploading" in ExpanDrive.

jgarbers started following the problem "Cannot use Amazon S3" in ExpanDrive.

jgarbers replied on May 14, 2009 17:07 to the question "Troubles accessing S3 folders with ExpanDrive" in ExpanDrive:

Yes, I'm running 2.0.1. I'm connecting to the root, which has two buckets in it; there are 3 or fewer items (sorry if I'm getting the S3 terminology wrong) in each. ExpanDrive shows both buckets empty; Transmit shows the items correctly.

jgarbers asked a question in ExpanDrive on May 06, 2009 17:34:

Troubles accessing S3 folders with ExpanDrive

My Mac locked up hard when attempting to browse folders on an S3-based ExpanDrive -- had to power down to restart. Before that, I had noticed a S3 root-level folder appeared empty in ExpanDrive, but Transmit showed its contents properly. When attempting to add a file to the incorrectly-empty folder using ExpanDrive, I got a Finder error code -36. I don't see any relevant console error messages. Can you suggest some troubleshooting tips?

jgarbers replied on April 22, 2009 14:52 to the question "Why isn't there an icon in the source list for Twitter "Favorites"?" in The Cosmic Machine:

Well, I got the icon by removing the old 'Favorites' item and creating a new one. Oddly it didn't have the custom icon at first -- just a generic smart folder icon - but when I restarted EB I got the nice yellow one. Problem solved, and apparently it wasn't a matter of turpitude.

jgarbers replied on April 21, 2009 21:18 to the question "Why isn't there an icon in the source list for Twitter "Favorites"?" in The Cosmic Machine:

Aw, I hate cursed apps. And me without a registered copy of iExorcist.

I just downloaded a fresh copy and re-installed (v 1.0 r567) and still no Favorites icon. Weird.

jgarbers asked a question in The Cosmic Machine on April 21, 2009 18:43:

Why isn't there an icon in the source list for Twitter "Favorites"?

This is really minor, but it always looks like there's a "hole" in my EventBox source list next to Twitter "Favorites".



Why doesn't that item have an icon? All the others do. Seems like a little star would fill in the gap nicely...

jgarbers replied on April 20, 2009 20:11 to the question "Stop annoying Alerts for Sync" in Xmarks:

I'd like to suggest that Growl notifications only get generated when something actually changed as a result of the sync. Turning them off completely isn't much of a solution if I want to know when something actually did change.

jgarbers started following the question "Stop annoying Alerts for Sync" in Xmarks.

jgarbers replied on April 17, 2009 21:49 to the idea "Easy flipping among views in HUD" in The Cosmic Machine:

Those are indeed very helpful - thanks! Guess I should read the docs...!

I do think a "favorite" flag on a view (container?) would be a nice way to allow a user to just step through a subset rather than all of them. I can *almost* get what I'm looking for by arranging my folders in the right order and using cmd-option-up and down to step through them, but I can't intermingle Facebook ones with Twitter ones, etc.

Another approach would be to let me have 10 "speed-dial" favorites. I can put any container in one of the ten slots, and then Cmd-0 through Cmd-9 would go directly to that container (rather than the nth top-level container). Option-Cmd-Up/down would cycle through just the favorites, not all.

Thanks again for the speedy reply! I'll stop now (well, at least for today)!

jgarbers replied on April 17, 2009 21:36 to the question "Should be able to sync EventBox between computers." in The Cosmic Machine:

I use NetNewsWire's sync through NewsGator to coordinate reading between several machines, and it's massively handy... another vote for some kind of read/unread sync from here!

jgarbers started following the question "Should be able to sync EventBox between computers." in The Cosmic Machine.

jgarbers shared an idea in The Cosmic Machine on April 17, 2009 21:28:

Easy flipping among views in HUD

I'd love to be able to mark selected views (service, flagged, unread, folders, etc.) as "favorites" and then be able to switch among them rapidly by pressing left and right arrow in the HUD. I have three or four views that I usually use, and selecting them from the dropdown is just a little awkward when making a quick check of messages.

jgarbers replied on April 17, 2009 21:15 to the idea "When selected, folders should show items from whatever's in them" in The Cosmic Machine:

Perhaps "Show these items in folder" would be generically applicable?

jgarbers shared an idea in The Cosmic Machine on April 17, 2009 21:09:

Default to selected tweet's user when clicking "Profile Peek" button

As long as I'm spouting off this afternoon... was going to add some Profile Peeks so I could put friends in a folder, now that I know how folders work. I clicked a tweet and then clicked the "Profile Peek" button at the top of the window. Was surprised to see a blank field for username... thought the username from the selected tweet would be preloaded as default. I know there's a "Profile Peek" option on the gear menu, but the "Profile Peek" button at the top is much more visible so that's what I was drawn to. Thanks!

jgarbers replied on April 17, 2009 21:05 to the idea "Improve functionality of the "delete" button" in The Cosmic Machine:

Fair enough. However, I think their placement suggests broader functionality - they sure look like they'd affect anything in the left side of the window!

jgarbers replied on April 17, 2009 21:02 to the idea "When selected, folders should show items from whatever's in them" in The Cosmic Machine:

Okay, cool - got it working! I have to admit that "Aggregation > Aggregate Container" didn't leap out at me as the way to solve the problem... something like "Show this user's tweets in folder" might have been more obvious. In any case I think having it on by default when you drag into the folder is a good idea. Thanks for the super-quick reply!