Louis Bourque's dashboard

A comment on the idea "Text Message, SMS, updates from Mobiles to Ping" in Ping.fm:

... so was Nirvana *smile* – fspressonline, on October 10, 2008 22:22

A comment on the idea "Add more fields to flights" in Jetrecord:

I'm taking a closer look at these and others offered by desktop software. Note that single-engine and multi-engine time is determined by the aircraft type on Jetrecord, so those will not be necessary. – Harry Love, on September 10, 2008 20:57

A comment on the idea "Allow SMS updates to be 'Direct messages and @replies'" in Twitter:

awesome! thanks for the tip. – quepol, on September 09, 2008 05:47

mdy replied on September 09, 2008 05:37 to the idea "Allow SMS updates to be 'Direct messages and @replies'" in Twitter:

I recently came across a third-party service called TweetTrak that lets you track any keyword (including your @username).

If it detects any public tweet that contains any of your specified keywords, TweetTrak will send you that tweet as a DM. If you have DM enabled, you'll receive the @reply as a DM from TweetTrak.

It's not instantaneous, since it's searching Twitter Search for your keywords. But if you're away from your computer, it's a great supplement.

See http://tweettrak.com for details.

The best part: you don't need to give it your Twitter password. You only need to follow @tweettrak so it can send you DMs.

Edited to add: they're also here in GSFN: http://getsatisfaction.com/tweettrak

quepol replied on September 09, 2008 05:30 to the idea "Allow SMS updates to be 'Direct messages and @replies'" in Twitter:

great idea - especially since "track" is still AWOL

Louis Bourque replied on September 08, 2008 01:43 to the idea "Add more fields to flights" in Jetrecord:

The way my logbook is setup, I have the following columns:
Single Engine:
Day:
Dual (1)
PIC (2)
Night:
Dual (3)
PIC (4)
Multi-Engine:
Day:
Dual (5)
PIC (6)
Co-Pilot (7)
Night:
Dual (8)
PIC (9)
Co-Pilot (10)

These columns are "mandatory" in that all flight hours must fall into one (and only one) of these columns. Flights that for example start during the day and end at night would be split up so that the number of day hours are under day, and night hours under night. There's no "Duration" field, it's just the sum of the columns.

In addition to these fields, I have extra fields that I enter the times to log cross-country, etc. These times are not part of the grand total, so the times are entered here and in one of the 1-10 fields. The fields I have are:
Cross Country:
Dual
PIC
Night
Instrument:
Actual
Hood
SIM
# IFR Approaches

I think you could get rid of the "duration" field, and set it's value to the sum of 1-10. It would be one less thing to fill out when adding flights.

A comment on the idea "Text Message, SMS, updates from Mobiles to Ping" in Ping.fm:

The hack didn't work for me. Has it been taken down?

:-( – Happibun, on September 07, 2008 20:51

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radione replied on September 02, 2008 16:13 to the question "identi.ca support ?" in SocialThing:

would also like to see identi.ca added to the list.

Will Humes replied on August 18, 2008 06:34 to the question "identi.ca support ?" in SocialThing:

same here. i'd love to see identi.ca here

James Cridland replied on August 01, 2008 20:58 to the question "identi.ca support ?" in SocialThing:

I'd very much like identi.ca support too; quite a few peeps on there.

Louis Bourque started following the question "identi.ca support ?" in SocialThing.

mdy replied on June 18, 2008 16:59 to the idea "Allow SMS updates to be 'Direct messages and @replies'" in Twitter:

You can choose to receive "direct messages only" on your phone by going to http://twitter.com/devices and making that selection.

The only way I know of to receive @replies on your phone is to track your username. Unfortunately, Track is currently offline and won't be back until they've had a chance to recode it.

Louis Bourque started following the idea "Allow SMS updates to be 'Direct messages and @replies'" in Twitter.

Noah Everett replied on May 29, 2008 14:39 to the question "TwitPic uses header image instead of my picture" in TwitPic:

Thanks for the heads up on this. I will get a fix for this started. It looks like your right and that's why the header image was being posted an not the real image since the full version is not present in the email. Hopefully we should have this fixed soon.

Louis Bourque replied on May 29, 2008 02:59 to the question "TwitPic uses header image instead of my picture" in TwitPic:

Thanks for the reply. I looked at the e-mail that Virgin Mobile generates, and I think the issue might be similar to Sprint. Virgin sends an e-mail with a thumbnail attached, and a link to "View Message". This page has the thumbnail, and a link to "Larger Image" and "Download Media".

Larger image is a compressed version (~30KB) and Download Media gives a form that allows to chose which images to download (uses javascript for submit), resulting in a zip file with the uncompressed images (~300KB in my case).

The "View Message" link contains a unique invite code:
http://pxt.virginmobile.ca:80/shareMe...(invite code)
Which is used by the "Download Media" link as:
http://pxt.virginmobile.ca/guest/down...(invite code)

Noah Everett replied on May 26, 2008 17:44 to the question "TwitPic uses header image instead of my picture" in TwitPic:

Twitpic will post the largest image it finds when posted via phone/email. I will look into this and see if I can find a solution or if there is a way for the image to not be compressed so much. I apologize for the inconvenience.

Louis Bourque asked a question in TwitPic on May 25, 2008 02:25:

TwitPic uses header image instead of my picture

I tried to send a picture using Virgin Mobile (Canada). The e-mail that they generate has a header image stating "A PXT for you" with their logo. TwitPic uses this images instead of the one I actually want to send. The header is actually bigger (63KB) while the image I send was compressed to 10KB. See: http://twitpic.com/1gaj

Is there anything that can be done about this or am I out of luck? Does anyone know why my picture was compressed so small (It's 250KB on the phone) and if I can prevent that?

Louis Bourque reported a problem in SocialThing on May 04, 2008 12:38:

Last Facebook Status repeats

When I look at my lifestream, the last facebook update repeats itself evey other item. Right now my lifestream looks like this:

(about 10 twitter updates)
facebook status update 1
twitter message 1
facebook status update 1
twitter message 2
facebook status update 1
twitter message 3
facebook status update 1
twitter message 4
facebook status update 1
twitter message 4
flick update
facebook status update 1
facebook status update 2
(some other items that are normal)

Last night the facebook message that was repeating was different, so it looks like it's just repeating the last facebook status message.
I'm using "Sort Lifestream by Time" and using FF3b5

Louis Bourque marked one of Ben's replies in SocialThing as useful. Ben replied to the idea "Why can't I aggregate/link entries from different applications but the same person?".