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Sean Johnson set one of Sean Johnson's replies as an official response to "http://bubbletimer.com/today could point to, well, today." in Snooty Monkey

Sean Johnson replied on November 19, 2009 23:45 to the idea "http://bubbletimer.com/today could point to, well, today." in Snooty Monkey:

Added support for /today, /yesterday and /tomorrow. Also /today is favored in the site's own redirects from things like login and registration so that it's more likely you'll have bookmarked /today rather than a specific day. Thanks for the good idea naxoc.

If you use sharing then note that these work as well:

/share/<email>/today
/share/<email>/yesterday
/share/<email>/tomorrow

Thanks!
Sean
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Sean Johnson replied on November 19, 2009 21:56 to the idea "Hours Toolbar" in Snooty Monkey:

I'd say no... except I get asked this all the time! So I guess it's time I figure out a way to say yes. Tell me why you want them at the bottom? Is it because you have so many activities that the ones at the top are far away or even scrolled off the screen? Or some other reason? If that is the reason, please count your activities and let me know how many you have, and at what number you'd find it helpful to have the hours at the bottom too.

Thanks!
Sean

A comment on the problem "chime.mp3 downloading instead of playing?" in Snooty Monkey:

I can see the Nobel Prize interview now: "Qrystal, you are one of the most productive human beings on the planet, what's your secret?" "Well Ted, Google broke MP3 playing in Chrome so my BubbleTimer chime no longer works. I have no choice now but to never procrastinate."

Thanks for the update Qrystal. I trust one of you will let me know when they get it fixed.

Sean – Sean Johnson, on November 19, 2009 21:52

A comment on the question "What one thing would you add?" in Snooty Monkey:

George,

I'm just waiting to get confirmation from them that at $19/mo the ads go away. I've actually longed criticized them, that their paid plans start so high, so I'd like to support their decision to move "down market" with a lower priced offering.

Your account transfer is complete.

I very much agree that an iPhone version would bring some visibility. I don't think I'd charge anything for it in the app store, but you'd have to have a paid subscription to the website to use it beyond the 14 day trial.

If only I had the time to do it right now. (Ironic, huh?)

Thanks,
Sean – Sean Johnson, on October 22, 2009 11:15

Sean Johnson marked one of sgeorgii's replies in Snooty Monkey as useful. sgeorgii replied to the question "What one thing would you add?".

Sean Johnson set one of Sean Johnson's replies as an official response to "chime.mp3 downloading instead of playing?" in Snooty Monkey

Sean Johnson replied on October 22, 2009 11:10 to the problem "chime.mp3 downloading instead of playing?" in Snooty Monkey:

Joel,

I wouldn't get too worried about the Chrome/Chromium thing. I looked it up and Chromium is just the name of the open source project that creates the Chrome browser. So not every developer build will be called Chrome, but it's the exact same code base (they use a different logo for official Chrome builds I guess).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium...

Seems like this could be related to your Chromium problem:
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/iss...

So they are aware of it and are likely going to fix it soon (apparently the new Facebook chat tries to play MP3s so all of a sudden good, seamless MP3 support is an important bug). I'd keep trying it each time you get a new Chrome/Chromium build and I suspect it'll just start working for you again with one of the updates.

Thanks,
Sean

Sean Johnson replied on October 22, 2009 10:17 to the problem "Impossible to click boxes on 1024x768 screen" in Snooty Monkey:

Eric #1,

So, by "red dot" I assume you just mean any color dot. It's red if it happens to be the current time, black if not.

Can you tell me what your font is? (Preferences -> Appearance) I have the defaults for Safari 4.0.3 and mine is Times 16 and Courier 13.

Eric #2, you also have Times 16 and Courier 13?

Thanks,
Sean

A comment on the problem "Impossible to click boxes on 1024x768 screen" in Snooty Monkey:

Almost... I'm sure he doesn't want to always hide his red dots! But you're right, knowing the exact element causing the twitching means we are closer than ever to a solution. – Sean Johnson, on October 22, 2009 10:14

Sean Johnson replied on October 22, 2009 10:12 to the idea "Didn't know where to click to show avanced charts + Android app?" in Snooty Monkey:

Marcin,

I forgot to mention. I do have a Web API defined and it won't take to much to implement. I'll announce it pretty widely when it's available and if you'd like to take a crack at an Android app., that'd be awesome!

Thanks,
Sean

Sean Johnson set one of Sean Johnson's replies as an official response to "Didn't know where to click to show avanced charts + Android app?" in Snooty Monkey

Sean Johnson replied on October 22, 2009 10:06 to the idea "Didn't know where to click to show avanced charts + Android app?" in Snooty Monkey:

Marcin,

Never apologize for your English. I'm a native speaker and I butcher the English language as much as anybody. On top of that, I can't speak/read/write or understand any other language at all. So anyone that manages to communicate in more than 1 language has my instant respect.

Don't feel at all bad about #1. I get countless emails asking me for this feature from people that haven't found it. The aesthetic of BubbleTimer, keeping things close at hand (1 hover or click away) but out of the way until you need them really works against new users finding all the features. I really have to address this because I think a staggeringly large number of new users leave the application thinking it just doesn't do what they want.

I plan to add an interactive tour for new users that's just 4 or 5 extra clicks before you get started, but that points out the hidden stuff.

As for #2, I'll probably never do a native Android version, even though a native iPhone version is planned for sometime in the future. Eric and a couple of other users have confirmed the iPhone web version works on Android's browser so that's probably the only nod to android. Maybe I'll add the subdomain android.bubbletimer.com and do the same auto-detect of Android browsing as we do for iPhone. That's not a bad idea.

Thanks,
Sean

A comment on the question "What one thing would you add?" in Snooty Monkey:

Hmm... I've been long planning for the eventual "real" iPhone application. The most ironic part, is that I'm an iPhone developer and I wrote a book on iPhone development. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0672...

The idea of push notification for the chime... I love it! Hadn't thought of that. Maybe that's enough to push me into action on this app. You'll be the 2nd to know George if I do get started on it soon.

Thanks,
Sean – Sean Johnson, on October 22, 2009 09:51

A comment on the question "What one thing would you add?" in Snooty Monkey:

Up until recently, the lowest priced supported version of Get Satisfaction (to remove the ads) was $99 a month. BubbleTimer does not bring in the kind of revenue (or support needs) that can justify $99/month for support forums. So we just had to live with the ads. Recently the ads have gotten more prevalent, larger, and more intrusive (inline ads). Not good. But they also now offer a more affordable $19/month community plan. That's something I could maybe justify if I was sure it would make all the ads go away. I asked if it does here: http://getsatisfaction.com/getsatisfa...

Thanks,
Sean – Sean Johnson, on October 22, 2009 09:45

Sean Johnson replied on October 22, 2009 09:41 to the idea "feedback on the in-line advertising" in Get Satisfaction:

Do the ads go away at the new $19/month community level? Why isn't "ads/no ads" listed in the feature comparison matrix?

Sean Johnson set one of Sean Johnson's replies as an official response to "Clicking through time in bigger steps" in Snooty Monkey

Sean Johnson replied on October 22, 2009 09:33 to the idea "Clicking through time in bigger steps" in Snooty Monkey:

Qrystal,

Yeah, that's a good idea. And it's much easier to implement than the scrolling (which is maybe ultimately the way to go). I'll look at some graphical treatments of a fast forward/backward arrow and if I can make it so it doesn't look too busy/confusing then this is one I'll put in there (I would use it for sure).

Thanks as always!
Sean

Sean Johnson replied on October 13, 2009 10:16 to the problem "Impossible to click boxes on 1024x768 screen" in Snooty Monkey:

Eric #1,

Let's make sure we do EXACTLY understand the behavior your seeing. We've matched the browser version, screen resolution and activity name length, but maybe we aren't doing the same behaviors.

I assume it doesn't twitch while you just have the window open and aren't interacting with it. What do you do exactly when it twitches? Is there anything you do that's similar but doesn't cause a twitch? Ex:

If I mouse over an activity name that spans more than 1 line it twitches. When I mouse over a one line activity name it doesn't twitch.

Thanks,
Sean

A comment on the problem "Impossible to click boxes on 1024x768 screen" in Snooty Monkey:

Eric #1,

That's interesting... "zooming down the font". When you say that, do you mean to smaller than the base size? Or do you mean smaller than what you typically use, which is zoomed larger than the base size?

The reason I ask is that there are known twitching issues with running BubbleTimer with a zoomed font on every browser. It's really meant to be run at the normal font size only.

Let us know.

Also, I appreciate the offer to help us out, but I don't know that noodling around in Safari debug would be fruitful. When the browser "twitches" like it sometimes does, usually nothing is happening in the DOM or the Javascript or anything. It's just internal to the browser, as it is deciding it needs to re-render portions of the screen. I'm guessing that those twitches would be entirely transparent to anything you can see in Safari debug. You'd have to be noodling in the Webkit source code to really see it happening (and I don't recommend that!)

Thanks,
Sean – Sean Johnson, on October 13, 2009 10:11