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R. Richard Hobbs replied on February 17, 2009 23:03 to the idea "Facilitate Google apps support for mail - amazing" in chi.mp:

Would love to be able to add my Google Apps email and contacts to chi.mp

R. Richard Hobbs started following the idea "Facilitate Google apps support for mail - amazing" in chi.mp.

R. Richard Hobbs started following the question "Why are my feeds not updating?" in twitterfeed.

R. Richard Hobbs replied on October 25, 2008 00:55 to the question "Locify hangs and freezes Blackberry during setup" in Locify:

I downloaded, successfully installed, configured and ran Locify on my Blackberry 8130 but as soon as I tried to use Google maps and now as soon as I start locify or if I try to start any of the apps I am getting the following error "We are sorry but an erorr occured... please report it to Google Group... the error detail is:
description - java.lang.NullPointerException
place - CookieData.getValue
Data - session

R. Richard Hobbs replied on October 17, 2008 21:33 to the question "google maps api error" in outside.in:

Thx all :)

R. Richard Hobbs asked a question in outside.in on October 17, 2008 21:07:

google maps api error

currently your story map on my site http://nyc.locationscout.us (as well as your site, itself) is generating google maps API errors - are you aware of this?

R. Richard Hobbs asked a question in Get Satisfaction on September 13, 2008 14:04:

how do you report spam?

how do you report spam on GetSatisfaction?

see "damian's" reply http://getsatisfaction.com/google/top...

thx

R. Richard Hobbs asked a question in Locify on September 11, 2008 21:59:

Locify hangs and freezes Blackberry during setup

I installed Locify 8.1 on my Blackberry 8130 (Verizon) - I let Locify set the permissions and checked them - read / write is allowed - then I open the application and it tries to set up the root folder files. The BB says Locify is attempting to access local content and asks if I want to allow it - I say yes and the phone freezes. VERY annoying.

R. Richard Hobbs replied on September 06, 2008 16:36 to the problem "GeoPress Issue in Google Chrome" in Mapufacture:

AJ - I am what would probably appropriately be termed an "internet shade -tree mechanic". Whats great about GeoPress and WordPress (for me) is they both help me get LOTS done without TOO much work "under the hood"; - in a nutshell I am not far enough with javascript programming to have much idea about what you are talking about - so I hope you'll pardon my ignorance, at least for the time being. Going forward, if I find anything that seems relative to what you mentioned, I'll pass it along.

Thanks as always for all your hard work and the great GeoPress tool.

P.S. I was fairly delighted to find none other than Google itself is on GetSatisfaction - Mapufacture is rubbing shoulders with the Big G ;-)

Anyway I left them a note about the Chrome probs - Chrome just updated itself on my box too so lets see how we go...

thx
RH

R. Richard Hobbs reported a problem in Google on September 06, 2008 15:44:

Chrome cut / copy paste, form content problems

Chrome is lightning fast but I am finding Chrome frequently misses text characters on the ends of strings when trying to select text to cut/copy and paste.

There are also times when text is selected, once you right click to select to copy or cut, Chrome deselects the selected text.

Also, using the GeoPress Plugin in WP 2.6, when editing a post in the plain text editor if you choose a preexisting location from the GeoPress list it disappears as soon as you scroll up/down the page. I am ending up flipping over to FF to set up my map (works fine in FF) I have reported this issue to GeoPress devs as well

R. Richard Hobbs reported a problem in Mapufacture on September 06, 2008 15:20:

GeoPress Issue in Google Chrome

In the new Google Chrome, using GeoPress in WP 2.6, when editing a post in the plain text editor if you choose a preexisting location from the GeoPress list it disappears as soon as you scroll up/down the page. I am ending up flipping over to FF to set up my map (works fine in FF)

I suspect this is Chrome's fault and not GeoPress - Chrome is lightning fast but in addition to this GeoPress issue I am finding Chrome also frequently misses text characters on the ends of strings when trying to select to cut/copy and paste - i.e. filling in the misc. GeoPress form boxes using other text in a post...

This is not the appropriate venue for a Chrome discussion so I'll end things here and discourage Chrome specific followup.

R. Richard Hobbs asked a question in Loki on September 03, 2008 14:10:

BlackBerry / lat - lon input

Any plans to make Loki available on Blackberry - preferably with support for cel tower positioning via Google Maps Mobile :)

I like that you and Fireeagle "talk" to each other :)

I am looking all over for an app that updates my path automatically as I go - via cel tower also allows manual input of lat / lon (hiking in areas where no towers and using standalone GPS)

I want it!

thx

R. Richard Hobbs replied on September 01, 2008 17:02 to the question "GeoPress display problem / K2" in Mapufacture:

Doing as described above actually kills the paragraph breaks - for the most part its still better than the "hole" above the map - but its definitely not the "correct" solution - back to the drawing board....

R. Richard Hobbs replied on August 29, 2008 19:21 to the question "GeoPress display problem / K2" in Mapufacture:

I found it :-) - Line 543 in the core.css.php (I didnt change this line but rather changed it in my styles...)

margin: 13px 0;

(pertains to .entry-content blockquote)

Changed 13px to 0px fixed it - that blockquote " displays higher up the page (never has displayed in IE - I can live with that...

R. Richard Hobbs asked a question in Mapufacture on August 29, 2008 18:39:

GeoPress display problem / K2

GeoPress has always worked well for me for the most part - especially with some past tlc at times from AJ Turner (thx again) - There is one ongoing glitch I have using K2 - the map displays with about a 10px blank background at the top and the zoom controls are misaligned - I have searched high and low in my CSS for many hours using Firebug and all over the web for a fix and have in fact just reported this problem to the K2 developers http://code.google.com/p/kaytwo/issue... I cant seem to find the magic bullet that will fix this. Suggestions? Ideas? See my profile http://getsatisfaction.com/people/rrh... for the link to my site. - thx

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R. Richard Hobbs reported a problem in Mapufacture on August 20, 2008 19:53:

Mapufacture KML File will not open in Google Earth

When I try to open my Mapufacture KML file in Google Earth, its broken with the folllowing error(s): "open of file ...(temp file)...1635-2.kml failed. Parse error at line 1 column 1: no element found.

KML file url: http://mapufacture.com/maps/1635.kml

If I try to open the URL in Google Maps I get a "file not found"

???

thx

R. Richard Hobbs replied on August 20, 2008 19:42 to the question "How can I get KML output from GeoPress?" in Mapufacture:

Thank you both. I have had success generating a KML file as you describe above.

R. Richard Hobbs asked a question in SKOUT on August 19, 2008 01:16:

requested feature: public url

what is my public profile url? / nods to http://getsatisfaction.com/wichro/top...

Also be nice to edit / delete notes after piblication / didnt see a way to do that - thx

R. Richard Hobbs replied on July 02, 2008 18:49 to the problem "SEO Friendly Images Plugin might conflict with GeoPress" in Mapufacture:

I did a quick once over with Firebug before I deactivated the SEO Friendly Images, with emphasis on quick - I didnt really have time to try to really crunch it - so you could be right - I am planning on following the author's site to see if he has insights - its a great idea I'd love to have GeoPress and SEO Friendly images playing happily together side-by-side, but the maps are the priority at the moment so at least they are fixed :-) thx