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Matthew Pennell reported a problem in Sophiestication Software on July 09, 2009 09:04:

CoverSutra constantly crashes

I use CoverSutra at home and at work. Home is fine, but on my work machine (MacBook Pro) it won't stay open for more than a few seconds before crashing.

It worked fine when I first installed it, so my guess is that it's having problems with something else I have installed - but I have no idea what that might be. I tried killing various background processes (Dropbox, Evernote, etc.) but no luck.

I can supply a list of currently running processes if that would help. (It's not the iTunes Open File dialog bug previously reported.)

A comment on the problem "csv file upload - file type not recognised" in FreeAgent Central:

www.npbs.co.uk - A small, regional building society with no plans to start offering downloadable statements. ;) – Matthew Pennell, on February 14, 2009 14:51

Matthew Pennell replied on February 14, 2009 07:24 to the problem "csv file upload - file type not recognised" in FreeAgent Central:

It would be great if you published the CSV formats that you support, for those of us using banks that don't offer downloadable statements.

A comment on the problem "403 forbidden" in ClickOnTyler:

Aha - immediately after posting, I cracked it. It looks like installing VirtualHostX automatically switched on Web Sharing (under System Preferences > Sharing), which screwed up MAMP's virtual host management.

Switching off Web Sharing and now everything works fine. :) – Matthew Pennell, on February 05, 2009 17:14

Matthew Pennell replied on February 05, 2009 17:07 to the problem "403 forbidden" in ClickOnTyler:

I have the same problem - I'm using MAMP.

As far as I can tell, adding a new vhost with VirtualHostX does exactly what I would have done manually; creating a new VirtualHost block in the httpd-vhosts.conf file, which is included in MAMP's httpd.conf, and adding a line to the /etc/hosts file.

I think that the app has done something to Apache, because now all my old virtual hosts are returning 403 errors as well.

The MAMP httpd.conf seems to have everything pointing to the right places.

Matthew Pennell started following the problem "403 forbidden" in ClickOnTyler.

Matthew Pennell started following the idea "Stop asking for Twitter passwords" in Get Satisfaction.

Matthew Pennell replied on September 22, 2008 05:48 to the idea "Include Tumblr as a Web Service" in chi.mp:

It looks as if they do - my default API feed has a reference to the basic Flickr URL in the feed-item attribute. (It also does a JSON feed too.)

Matthew Pennell replied on September 18, 2008 19:57 to the idea "Include Tumblr as a Web Service" in chi.mp:

Just something to add to this - Tumblr allows you to import other feeds into your Tumblelog stream, so if you were to allow users to include their Tumblr RSS feed in their Chi.mp lifestream, you'd have to filter out duplicate entries (e.g. my Flickr stream is included in both my Tumblr and Chi.mp streams).

Matthew Pennell replied on September 18, 2008 19:37 to the problem "Flickr imports are publishing weird tags" in chi.mp:

Me too. It looks like the importing of Flickr descriptions is incorrectly encoding the embedded HTML tags and escaping the closing tag slashes. See my last two Flickr photos (http://matthewpennell.mp/) for examples.

Matthew Pennell started following the problem "Flickr imports are publishing weird tags" in chi.mp.

Matthew Pennell replied on September 10, 2008 08:06 to the idea "Clarify the concept of profiles?" in chi.mp:

I can't promise that we'll go into full-blown personas

I think if you're promoting the service as a means to consolidate identity and use as your OpenID, offering personas (limited, default, full, family, business, etc.) is an essential part of that.

Matthew Pennell started following the idea "Clarify the concept of profiles?" in chi.mp.

Matthew Pennell replied on September 10, 2008 08:02 to the idea "Include Tumblr as a Web Service" in chi.mp:

Well, Tumblr's API identifies content as particular types (quote, video, picture, etc.) so I guess you could parse and display the feed accordingly, rather than just a generic "X posted something to Tumblr".

Matthew Pennell shared an idea in chi.mp on September 10, 2008 06:48:

Include Tumblr as a Web Service

Tumblr, the micro-blogging service, would be easy enough to include as a Web Service (instead of having to add it in the list of "My Websites"). It also has an API to extract lifestream data from, instead of relying on detecting RSS feeds.

Matthew Pennell replied on May 01, 2008 06:51 to the problem "Change my username?" in Brightkite:

Awesome, cheers - don't know why I didn't see that earlier!

Matthew Pennell reported a problem in Brightkite on May 01, 2008 05:57:

Change my username?

So I misspelled my username - is it possible to change it without creating a new account? Twitter lets you...