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Tom Morris started following the question "Plain FTP support" in Magnetk.

Tom Morris started following the idea "open drive/connection in terminal" in Magnetk.

Eric Suesz replied on May 13, 2008 06:05 to the problem "Services as well as products" in Get Satisfaction:

Good point, Tom. I often have a hard time with curating products and services on our site because the line does sometimes seem blurred or not as apparent to users. I'll see what we can do on the next updates to these pages and try to either fix the language or presentation when people are adding products and services. Love the feedback.

Lane Becker replied on May 12, 2008 22:26 to the problem "Services as well as products" in Get Satisfaction:

If you go to the product page, and click "Edit this Product" (blue button), there's a radio button there to let you choose between product and service, and you can just switch it up!

Tom Morris reported a problem in Get Satisfaction on May 12, 2008 21:51:

Services as well as products

I added 'Southeastern Trains' recently, but when I go to add a problem I have with the service, it asks me what 'product' I want to report it on. My local train company don't really offer a product - but a service. It would be helpful if the UI reflected the fact that not all companies make products, some offer services - some only offer one service (like trains).

I can cope with cognitively mapping 'product' to 'service', but others may find it more difficult.

Tom Morris reported a problem in Southeastern Railway on May 12, 2008 20:56:

Train seats uncomfortable

The 'high density' rolling stock used on the London-Hastings line is extremely uncomfortable. Unlike the other seating used on the service, it tends to leave both myself and others feeling quite uncomfortable.

Tom Morris replied on March 21, 2008 15:48 to the discussion "why would a college student use twitter?" in Twitter:

Group conversations. It's all about your individual set of friends and their outlook on the world. It's more passive than IM - you just put your ideas out there, and sometimes people react.

It's useful as a way of blasting all your friends with a piece of information. I have been at events or parties and gotten a Twitter message telling me that another event is on nearby - and decided to drop in to that event on the basis of that Twitter message.

Similarly, if you need some help or suggestions, you can put it up on Twitter and often get useful responses quickly from friends.

It's totally addictive. That said, most of my university friends don't use it. They prefer Facebook, which I think is utterly crap. Horses for courses, different strokes and all that.

Tom Morris reported a problem in friendfeed on March 21, 2008 15:43:

FriendFeed uses password anti-pattern

The site requests my Gmail password despite the presence of the Gmail Contacts API. This is an instance of the password anti-pattern (Google it). There are a variety of ways not to do this - allow people to import their data using the API, as well as using hCard/XFN, FOAF and other importers that do not require me to give out my password. This teaches users to phish. Good functionality, bad implementation.

Tom Morris reported a problem in Netbeans on March 21, 2008 11:39:

NetBeans won't start on OS X

I can't launch NetBeans 6.0.1 or 6.1 Beta on OS X. Every time I try, it appears momentarily in the Dock, then disappears. I've tried removing the ~/.netbeans directory, and trying to reinstalling NetBeans. Neither seems to work.

I can launch NetBeans from the command line by typing:
open "/Applications/NetBeans/NetBeans 6.0.1.app"

Tom Morris reported a problem in Google on February 26, 2008 23:35:

Groups does not allow you to have multiple e-mail addresses

I have a Gmail account which has numerous e-mail accounts feeding into it - all of which are recognised as sender names. But my Google Groups account is tied to my gmail.com address. This means that either I have to sign up for multiple Google accounts for each different email account and keep them all in-sync, or I have to send all my mailing list e-mail from my gmail.com address, even though that's not my primary address. I therefore get lots of e-mails back from Google Groups telling me that I'm not allowed to send to that list. This is annoying and is preventing me from fully participating on some mailing lists.

I am a human being. I am not my khakis or my sofa and I sure as shit ain't my inverse functional properties! ;) Please fix this!

robb1e marked one of Tom Morris' replies in Google as useful. Tom Morris replied to the question "gmail sort by unread emails".

robb1e replied on February 25, 2008 20:35 to the question "gmail sort by unread emails" in Google:

http://twitter.com/tommorris/statuses...

Tom Morris replied on February 25, 2008 20:34 to the question "gmail sort by unread emails" in Google:

You can use "is:unread" as part of a search string to select e-mails which have not been read. In fact, my Gmail is bookmarked so it takes me directly to the results of is:unread when I get there because that's what I care about the most.

(Repetition, yes, but this is more permanent than a Twitter message.)