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A comment on the idea "integrate the forums and upsu.net with facebook" in University of Portsmouth Students' Union:

I do somewhat agree with your concerns regarding anonymity and forcing users to register for facebook, however, looking at the current upsu.net forums, there are currently 4329 registered users which is not a huge proportion of the current ~20000 student body in itself, on top of this there have been a total of only 10 posts on the forums in the past academic year, the majority of these being adverts of some kind for either societies, clubs or items for sale and there has been absolutely no use of the current discussion forums for... discussion.

The migration or integration of the forums, either entirely or in part with facebook also does not have to mean that some level of anonymity can not be maintained by either allowing the use of pseudonyms or aliases or by the provision of a separate space for feedback and discussion (such as getsatisfaction.com for instance).

Finally I am not convinced that a discussion forum (even one that does actually have an active community) is always the best place to discuss issues that require such anonymity. – rich86, on December 18, 2009 15:20

rich86 shared an idea in University of Portsmouth Students' Union on December 17, 2009 12:57:

integrate the forums and upsu.net with facebook

Joomla facebook integration;
It is clear that absolutely nobody uses the forums (http://www.upsu.net/union/forums/) or any other part of upsu.net for social networking and yet there are 1000s of new students arriving at university every year. upsu.net should be better integrated with facebook in order to provide more of a student community for new and current students.

rich86 started following the idea "Add support for mounting subversion repositories as drives" in ExpanDrive.

rich86 marked one of Marc Edwards' replies in Bjango as useful. Marc Edwards replied to the problem "Strange name appearing in the iStat Server client list.".

rich86 started following the idea "Gates by Blackwell's - opening up?" in University of Portsmouth Students' Union.

rich86 replied on September 04, 2009 22:31 to the problem "Strange name appearing in the iStat Server client list." in Bjango:

This is happening to me too since my fresh install of snow leopard. I am also unable to use iStat on my iPhone; Instead I simply get a empty window where the stats for my device should be.

rich86 asked a question in Bit Maki Software on August 02, 2009 13:58:

Better 3rd party voice(s)?

Hi,

I found that Alex was ok, and definitely a massive improvement when compared to previous voices however I'm just wondering if there are any better 3rd party voices available? Maybe you could have a list of links to 3rd party voices on your website so that its easier for users to find them all in one place?

rich86 started following the idea "Save Original Text as "Lyrics"" in Bit Maki Software.

rich86 asked a question in Bit Maki Software on August 02, 2009 13:52:

Importing Wikipedia articles and other website content

Hi,

I really love the idea of Textcast and am considering purchasing it. On trying it out I thought that It'd be great to be able to listen to Wikipedia articles, unfortunately there is a lot of content on the pages that I don't want read out such as headers, footers, tables of contents, referencing, etc..

I have been playing around with templates and realised that the CSS "display: none" property achieves most, if not all of what I need (at least on sites that uses CSS correctly).

Are there any plans to include support for scraping website content in a more listen-able manner? Is there any way I can achieve this using Textcast in its current form?

rich86 started following the idea "Push notifications" in Prenvo.

rich86 replied on August 01, 2009 16:30 to the question "Pay as you go compatibility?" in Prenvo:

I'm not sure how long ago they added this, but O2 do provide this information to PAYG users as you can see from this screenshot.

rich86 shared an idea in Twitter on August 01, 2009 16:15:

Feature Request: "Flash" (class 0) SMS updates

Hi,

I'd like to suggest the option to receive SMS updates from twitter as class 0 "flash" SMS messages (a "flash" SMS is displayed on the phone screen on receipt and and is not stored in the SMS Inbox). See http://www.ozekisms.com/index.php?ow_... for more details.

rich86 started following the idea "Future Enhancements" in Grindr.

rich86 started following the idea "Push, pictures, password, winks, pay version." in Grindr.

rich86 started following the idea "Support Push Notifications" in Grindr.

rich86 started following the idea "Receive responses without having application running" in Grindr.

rich86 reported a problem in atebits on April 28, 2009 11:49:

Menu bar icon shows new messages even after reading

The menu bar icon remains blue after opening and reading new tweets until I scroll up and down to register that I have read tweets. Simply unhiding/opening the tweetie window should deactivate the new message icon.

New adverts also appear to activate the new message notification which isn't very helpful.

rich86 started following the idea "same icon on both tweetie mac and tweetie iphone" in atebits.

rich86 started following the idea "Once you change the icon I'll buy it!" in Prenvo.

rich86 shared an idea in TV Plus on October 22, 2008 10:19:

Support for Elgato EyeTV tvtv.co.uk scheduling

Hi, I believe the Elgato EyeTV software for OS X allows for remote scheduling using the tvtv.co.uk service, in a similar way that Sky+ can be scheduled from their website. Would it be possible to add support for the tvtv.co.uk service to TV Plus?

Thanks
Rich