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Damien Laughton replied on October 07, 2008 10:45 to the question "Can I save my blog to Word or Notepad?" in SleepyDog:

Hi

Sorry to hear you are having problems. All I can say is 'You are not the only one'. Currently we dont have a backup facility or a synchronise with PC/Mac facility but they are both something that we are considering. Also as I've put in another post - in the not so distant future we will be revisiting the whole scenario of blogger posting so that we can try to figure out what is going on - this will be done when we move blogger posting over to reblogr technology.

Regards
D.

Damien Laughton replied on October 07, 2008 10:24 to the problem "long posting, a problem?" in SleepyDog:

Okay

We are stumped on this one at the moment - here is our plan - with the introduction of 1.2 we will start to use reblogr technology with LifeCast - and as a priority we will move our blogger support to reblogr which means we here at SD will be able to diagnose what is going wrong somewhat better. So while this doesn't help you all immediately, blogger support via reblogr.com should help us find out what these problems are.

thanks for sticking with us anyway and being so patient.

Regards
D.

Richfuel replied on October 06, 2008 19:46 to the problem "long posting, a problem?" in SleepyDog:

I am having the long post problem as well. I have the (null) error and my post (to Blogger) is just text. A second "test post" consisting of the word Test in the subject and Test in the body DOES post just fine.

I'll be watching this thread.

KThxBai

striegelm replied on October 06, 2008 12:49 to the problem "long posting, a problem?" in SleepyDog:

I too am having problems after loading 2.1 iPhone. On wifi or edge only getting 50% of messages posted to blogger acct. Even short messages. Also posted one photo to blogger fine. Next photo goes to picasa album but not post. Any help?

Damien Laughton started a conversation in SleepyDog on October 02, 2008 13:58:

A Change in Provisioning

Soon (for LifeCast 1.2) we are going to move LifeCast from it's current provisioning profile to SleepyDog's account - this is going to cause upheaval for which we apologise in advance.

I've blogged about the why and the wherefore on the lifecast blog here

As always we welcome your thoughts and if you have an alternate solution or are able to get us on the Apple inside track - then get in touch!

Regards
D.

Damien Laughton replied on October 02, 2008 13:52 to the idea "Possibly increase the picture size to Tumblr posts?" in SleepyDog:

Doh I meant 800x800!

That however is the current (one choice) size of image!

Regards
D.

Damien Laughton replied on September 29, 2008 12:04 to the idea "Possibly increase the picture size to Tumblr posts?" in SleepyDog:

Hi William

Our next version of LifeCast, version 1.2 - will support up to 800x600 images.

Regards
Damien

Damien Laughton started a conversation in SleepyDog on September 24, 2008 17:40:

LifeCast 1.2 Beta

Tomorrow those of you who have signed up for the Beta test of LifeCast will receive an email detailing how to get 1.2 on your device.

Thank you for agreeing to Beta test, we at SleepyDog are very grateful for your help!

If anyone else wants to join up then send an email to lifecast@sleepydog.net

Regards
Damien
p.s. a link to new neater blogger image post

http://sleepydamien.blogspot.com/2008...

Aureilus replied on September 23, 2008 18:10 to the question "The hellawhack shiznit that happens inside your brizzle" in SleepyDog:

markbr.wn@gmail.com -- i don't think changing would make any difference. I'm posting to a blogger account

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Damien Laughton replied on September 23, 2008 08:37 to the question "The hellawhack shiznit that happens inside your brizzle" in SleepyDog:

Hi send me your email address and (if you dont mind) I can supply you with some credentials for a blog and you can try some test posts.

Regards
D.

Damien Laughton replied on September 23, 2008 08:17 to the problem "Photos posted on Blogger are oversized" in SleepyDog:

Hi

This is a known issue to do with the blogger template and we address it with our next release, with, to be honest only partial success. When you post with version 1.2 the image that appears on your blog will be a thumbnail image, like your "Test posting via email" post on your blog. And when you click on the thumbnail it should pass through to Picasaweb as described. Unfortunately the click through functionality is currently not working for a reason we cant fathom. But bear with us we will address it as quickly as we can.

Your complete image has still been uploaded to blogger by the way - you can see it by right-clicking on it in your browser and opening it in a new window.

Also the current size of your image is 800x600 which to be honest is relatively tiny in web terms. With 1.2 you will be able to choose 1 of 3 different sizes of image so if you decide that 800x600 is too big then you wont be stuck with that size.

Regards
Damien

Aureilus replied on September 23, 2008 03:38 to the question "The hellawhack shiznit that happens inside your brizzle" in SleepyDog:

No. It doesn't stop spinning. I also don't ever get an error message. I can post a photo just fine, but if I try to post a text entry which should take no time in comparison to the photo, it just doesn't do it.

Damien Laughton replied on September 22, 2008 09:38 to the question "The hellawhack shiznit that happens inside your brizzle" in SleepyDog:

Hi

Has it stopped spinning yet?

regards
D.

Damien Laughton replied on September 22, 2008 09:04 to the question "Change the date of an entry" in SleepyDog:

Hi Kelly

I have a load of points and they all start with "Yeah But..."

I think instead what I'll say is, "Ok we'll think about it seriously" - like we do with all requests that come through this site and other routes.

I can tell you though, that the next version, 1.2 doesn't have such functionality. That version is due out 'soon' as soon as we've done a beta test.

Regards
D.

Kellyg replied on September 19, 2008 20:03 to the question "Change the date of an entry" in SleepyDog:

Wow, I didn't think that being able to change a date so that it corresponds to an entry would be such a philosophical issue. I thought that by saying that I didn't always have time to enter information on the same day that it occurs was explaining myself enough, so if not, let me clarify. If I'm out during the day and snap a picture of something that I would like to write about, (say, when I visited Notre Dame). I'm on a tour, and have the time to take the picture, but I don't have the time to comment on what I've seen. If I enter the information after midnight or the next day, the date of the photo and the date of the journal entry do not match. Now I start having journal entries with pictures on one day and comments about the picture on other days and have to go searching around to find the information when I would like them to be together. It is absurd to think that every single person who uses this application will be able to enter pictures and journal entries every single time they use it. I would hope that it was not your intention to have this application for people to use only when it's convenient and forget about what happens in their lives when they're busy. Being able to change a date so that information occurs on the date that it happened in your life is not by any means "creating a novel which is authored to suit an audience" as you put it. It is recording life!!

Damien Laughton replied on September 17, 2008 07:32 to the question "Login information -- Privacy Policy?" in SleepyDog:

Hi Phillip

We store your credentials only on the phone and submit them to blogger/picasaweb/tumblr. Shortly - when we release our update which uses Wordpress we will be making use of a new tecnology, reblogr.com. Reblogr.com is a relay for blog updates so your credentials will go to reblogr.com and then onwards to the desired blogging service. At no point will we be hiving off your credentials (or any other personal details) for nefarious uses.

Regards
Daie

Damien Laughton replied on September 15, 2008 09:34 to the question "Change the date of an entry" in SleepyDog:

Hmmm - I'm dubious about why we should do this. Ultimately, when you take a photo or write a text entry the date stamp that is applied to the entry is the 'creation' date.

Kelly, in terms of analogies with printed media I think currently Lifecast works as a log or a journal whereas I think being able to change that created date or indeed change by revisiting an entry in any way morphs the log philosophy into something closer to a novel which is authored to suit an audience.

So I think for LifeCast such a philosophical shift in functionality is risky and I would think long and hard before allowing users to alter the 'creation date'.

Now I'm not saying it will never happen and I'm interested in why you want to use LifeCast in such a way as you describe, so tell us more about what you wish to do with the software and why....

Regards
D.

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