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JP shared an idea in SoundCloud on November 23, 2009 14:50:

Gravatars please!

I'm quite happy letting all my online accounts have the same profile picture rather than having to keep all of them up to date. Could you please allow users to choose to let the gravatar system deal with their profile pictures?

JP reported a problem in boxee on November 15, 2009 14:30:

"Incorrect password/internet connection not available" though it is

Boxee is claiming my password is incorrect (and once that the internet connection wasn't available) however I can log in to boxee.tv perfectly well. No proxy. Almost brand spanking new install of Snow Leopard (Perian is installed, VLC, XCode, MATLAB and textmate - that's pretty much it!) Any ideas?

A comment on the idea "Geotagging of Individual Posts" in Tumblr:

I'm afraid its a dreadful hack! But in brief:
- you tag your posts with 'geo:lat;long' as I described above
- a little bit of javascript iterates through all the tags associated to a post (your theme must include a hidden list of all the tags as li elements inside an ul element)
- When a geo: tag is found a few mouse events are attached to the post so that when you rollover an image from google maps is shown in a suitable place on the site.

Its an annoying hack for a number of reasons, firstly a whole lot of javascript processing has to go on while the page is loading and you have to find your lat and long as a decimal number from somewhere before you post, then format it and bang it into your post (something I gave up on doing while writing that tumblog, shame really. I wrote on my iPhone so the info was readily available had the software supported it)

Anyways, if you'd like to do the same I threw this together, illustrating the steps to get the hack working. Let me know if its not understandable, it will require that you know your way around web development though! http://gist.github.com/178487

Hope that helps! – JP, on August 31, 2009 14:35

JP marked one of ctopherlove's replies in The Cosmic Machine as useful. ctopherlove replied to the question "iPhone App?".

JP started following the idea "SMS on the Skype application for iPhone" in Skype.

JP replied on July 29, 2009 15:12 to the idea "Geotagging of Individual Posts" in Tumblr:

I've actually implemented this in javascript on my travel blog - posts tagged with 'geo:12.34;-56.78' will automatically have a google map rendered in the description. I'll post the javascript if anyone is interested. Take a look: http://jpinjapan.tumblr.com/post/1460...

Finanzas' reply to "STOP developing Firefox" was just promoted to the most useful! JP and 3 other people think it's one of the best replies.

It was predicted that the popularity of Firefox would result in more attention from malware authors, which has happened. But also what has happened is a bunch of other legitimate software has targeted Firefox as a dumpster for all their plugins and extensions.
Go ahead and look in Tools -> Add-ons, "plugins" section, and ask yourself how many of those things you were asked about before they were put there?
Same for "extensions". The reason they get away with this is because it doesn't "seem" to be a visible change in Firefox. After all, you don't see them installing a new Firefox theme without your permission, do you?
And of course inevitably, the build-up of so many of these does cause annoying slowdowns and is revealed as the source of many bugs.
Now, the only way Firefox can better deal with this, is to

KEEP DEVELOPING!

JP shared an idea in atebits on July 29, 2009 10:00:

TwitVid/Video Viewing Support

TwitVid (http://www.twitvid.com/) support on the desktop client would be great so I can watch videos inside tweetie like I can currently see pictures from twitpic etc. (example tweet: http://twitter.com/jphastings/status/...)

JP shared an idea in Tumblr on July 29, 2009 09:26:

Change the Timestamp Tumblr Uses for Mobile Posting

At the moment if your mobile device is in offline mode when you send an email to the tumble mobile posting service, the timestamp on the post is the time tumblr receives the post.

I'd like to see that changed to the 'Date' field of the email (if it's available) as this would mean people could send emails to the tumblr mobile posting service while their mobile device is offline (over a number of days even) and have the posts appear at the correct time when they reach WiFi/reception and are able to send them.

I've used my iPhone in 'flight mode' to illustrate. A similar email posted to the tumblr service would be timestamped at 10:17:03 (I grant you, the timezones make this less than obvious, but I'm sure you get the idea) Here is the raw email sent from the iPhone:

Return-Path: <xxxxx@gmail.com>
Received: from ?192.168.1.69? (xxxxx.co.uk [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx])
by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id xxxxx.2009.07.29.02.17.02
(version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5);
Wed, 29 Jul 2009 02:17:03 -0700 (PDT)
Message-Id: <XXXXX@gmail.com>
From: JP <xxxxx@gmail.com>
To: JP <xxxxx@gmail.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed; delsp=yes
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Mime-Version: 1.0 (iPhone Mail 7A341)
Subject: Sent at 10:10
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 10:10:57 +0100
X-Mailer: iPhone Mail (7A341)

This post was 'sent' at 10:10 but left the iPhone later,
at 10:17 when 'flight mode' was taken off.

JP replied on July 29, 2009 09:12 to the question "Posting a quote to tumblr by mobile?" in Tumblr:

Its complete! You can send quotes in by email now: http://www.tumblr.com/docs/email_publ...

JP started following the idea "iTunes Compatible Podcast Feed for Audio Posts" in Tumblr.

JP shared an idea in Tumblr on July 27, 2009 23:47:

Geotagging of Individual Posts

For those of us that don't stay in the same place it'd be fantastic to be able to tag individual posts with a latitude and a longitude so that readers can have a frame of reference for each post.
Yes, you can manually tag each post (much like you could manually geotag flickr images back in the day) with geo:lat=44.823947 geo:long=-67.322996 but this is a bit inelegant and huge swathes of javascript will be needed in the tumblog itself to do anything useful with it (and there's no geo extension to the RSS feed).

My dream is to have this working and auto-geotagging on the iPhone client, making it perfect to write about your travels from!

JP shared an idea in Tumblr on July 21, 2009 21:13:

Offline queuing of posts on the iPhone app

I would really like to use my iPhone and tumblr as a travel journal, but I don't want to buy a SIM card and I won't be near WiFi that regularly. I would adore an offline queue for posts on the iPhone app so that I can write as many posts as I like (at the moment you can only save one at a time) and have them all upload when I finally find WiFi in a net cafe.
(Obviously the time of 'pushing to queue' would be recorded as the post time when they were finally pushed!)

JP started following the idea "Twitter/Queue/Publish/Draft Options in Tumblr iPhone App" in Tumblr.

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

JP shared an idea in atebits on June 28, 2009 16:20:

Drag and drop images onto Tweetie

I'd love to be able to drag & drop images onto tweetie, have them auto upload, then have a new tweet waiting for me to add to.

JP replied on May 23, 2009 19:53 to the question "Why not make Spotify portable so you can run it on a USB-stick?" in Spotify:

I think it is? I certainly installed it to a pen drive and it works on a variety of my campus' computers

JP started following the idea "Text ads in growl notifications" in Spotify.

JP started following the question "Classical music tags" in Spotify.

JP started following the idea "Make it possible to post comments in collaborative playlists" in Spotify.