Skeuomorph

What we do is a top level filter to map subdomains into a group of top level folders:

Filter: Group pages by hostname

Filter type: Custom Filter

Field A -> Extract A: Hostname (.)

Field B -> Extract B: Request URI (.)

Output To -> Constructor: Request URI (/subdomains/$A1$B1

Field A Required: Yes

Field B Required: Yes

Override Output Field: Yes

Case Sensitive: No

"/subdomains/" can be any arbitrary top level grouping that makes sense to you. We use an additional filter to strip /subdomains/domain.com and /subdomains/www.domain.com back off, so the primary site's URLs appear in the report normally.

Glad I did a text search before commenting so I could vote you up for Pimsleur: I found the Pimsleur language learning approach great for the car when the commute is mostly on a freeway rather than a road with traffic lights.

It's not a mail app, it's a search index. Like X1 Search (Windows desktop search application) except on the iPhone and indexing Gmail/IMAP accounts. Its settings are separate from the iPhone's Mail app.

I have 149,508 messages in my primary Google Apps box, which is using 4,706 MB. In ReMail, the same box is using 466.2 MB of storage.

It's also aggravating that quotes don't allow matching of specific symbols within the quotes.

And, yes, the results are different. I'd agree with you they seem enhanced (eg., classified results) and fresher for popular culture, but somewhat worse for domain specific queries.

Dagnabbit!

One of my favorite urban dictionary entries:

"(exclamation) Oldcootism used during great consternation or surprise. Used by 1890’s prospectors, cantankerous old farmers, and young people playing old people on TV in the ‘60’s and ‘70’s."

All the international footprint video delivery networks support 2 mbps streams, and Akamai is not the only one (not even the first) to support the various flavors of adaptive streaming, from Windows Media "MBR" to Silverlight's Smooth Streaming to Apple's adaptive HTTP. Akamai's just the first to take what's been working great on all these networks for months or years and say, "Oh, we could press release this and because we say so, everyone will think it's new and unique!"

It's good to be the incumbent.

Yes.

Sure seemed there was no way this could go any other way for Palm. Their letter to USB seemed a PR stunt at best, and likely to backfire at worst. For the sake of OS stability, I'm glad it did.

Each vendor of devices and software for those devices should be able to have its drivers and apps listen to and interact with its own devices without worrying about interlopers.

Good for USB-IF.

Yes.

In the real world, 8% surveyed (by Google) in Times Square knew what a browser was.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4MwTvtyrUQ&feature=playe...

Now try explaining difference between URL bar and Search bar in Safari, Firefox, etc... Give up yet?

I wonder if that survey relates to why Google decided the OS should be the browser, so people might actually use Chrome. ;-)

Best mantra for web design isn't "Web 2.0", it's "Don't Make Me Think."

I screen-grabbed it on the iPhone--looked like a fish out of water.

If their code really did provide an Explorer interface on the iPhone it'd be almost worth installing on purpose.

Sure you can. Set status permission to "Everyone". Facebook introduced the feature here:

http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=98499677130

Try GTD, aka David Allen's "Getting Things Done".

Book: http://www.amazon.com/Getting-Things-Done-Stress-Free-Produc...

Read the book, then get a tool like "Things" (for OSX) or try web software like http://vitalist.com/ that works cross platform and supports some group collaboration too.

And about those software project management books -- the guy who evangelized software engineering for the past three decades just published an article saying he was wrong: http://bit.ly/pRrkd (links to PDF).

Go with the full size Kindle for comfortable reading of PDFs.

Two words: Push Email

Yes, there's a preset icon for both Yahoo and Gmail but iPhone supported push email for Yahoo mail accounts, still does, and still does not have push email from Google.

To get Yahoo push email working before the 3.0 with "push" for everyone, Apple allowed Yahoo's mail a feature only shared on the iPhone by the MobileMe subscription service.

That's what I'm wondering. Degree, so what. I want to know: where's the beef?

Except the “typical user” will never succeed at typically using those supposedly basic features on that $20 candy bar.

Your mom can and will use every feature on the iPhone.

Uses ABP lists.

I'm hearing from some SEO folks that since Google started running CSS and JS, standard DIVs that get shown as tooltips or accordions or sliders now count against your page quality because CSS and JS hide those divs until the user hovers over something or clicks something (which the Googlebot doesn't do).

They're saying these are counted as hidden text, and considered a spam technique. What I see people using them for is usability and self-discovery.

Anyone know any data on this?

More after the break.

I'm still trying to figure out why iTunes only talking to iPod is (according to Palm) any more of a USB agreement violation than Nikon Capture only talking to Nikons, HP printer software only talking to HPs, or any other vendor software/vendor hardware combination that only works with the vendor's devices.

Palm's confused if they think a compatibility check is a violation as opposed to, say, faking a hardware vendor ID. USB hardware IDs and network MAC addresses clearly have to respect the vendors' address spaces or the hardware standard falls apart.

Seems more likely this is a play to, yes, have the Palm device get press, but also ensure their site gets Page Rank from all the unique news articles' and blog entries' inbound links.

Having “come here from Reddit” some time ago, I can vouch that for newly arrived redditors this is moot, since I’m still not offered a downvote button.

I’d guess that by the time the downvote button shows up, most people should have had time to realize HN generally offers more interesting discussion because it works the way Reddiquette FAQ says Reddit should work: do not downvote points of view.

// Now I’ll go back to lurking.

Outliers suggests it's neither the motivation nor the method we see as genius or talent, but 10,000 hours of practice combined with the "luck" of being in the right place at the right time.

While reading the Pyramid article, it seemed to me that both an amazing amount of practice and exposure to (or in) the right venue figured in.

What the Pyramid article seems to add to practice and luck is accelerated self-improvement through a feedback mechanism. Playing hockey needs a coach. Writing a novel needs an editor. Rapping needs an audience.

Oh, so there are supposed to be results.

In Safari and FF, I complete the texts, the gates stop, and it sits on an empty road.

Regardless of the position of this article, Amazon has agreed with the public that revoking these books was an inappropriate action for Amazon to take, and has said it will not take that action in the future.

http://www.informationweek.com/news/personal_tech/drm/showAr...

As for the enemy being DRM itself instead of Amazon, I'm not sure it's DRM as much as fragmented or proprietary 'standards' that are the problem for casual users just trying to experience frictionless media. Consider the cross-device annoyances of unprotected WMV, DIVX, or Flash, for example. I understand why Amazon and Sony want to protect their "software" sales, but am disappointed that these protected books are not cross compatible. Both ebook stores have a limited selection, yet each device meets a usability niche.

On that point, I also would argue against the final jab from the article:

"can we stop making silly comparisons between the Kindle and Sony's or whoever's two-bit book reader that no one's ever heard of?"

In December 2008, Sony said that it had sold 300,000 units of its Sony Reader since the device launched end of 2006. Meanwhile, TechCrunch says Kindle sold 189,000 units in 2008.

Originally, however, the Sony Reader was available only through Sony and Borders. Sony began selling its Reader and related accessories in Target stores at the end of 2008.

By mid-2009, Sony Readers are sold at Apple stores, Best Buy, Borders, Brookstone, Costco, Fry's, Office Depot, Sam's Club, Sears, Staples, Target, Walgreens, Walmart, and many web retailers including Amazon. It is also available in the UK in Waterstone's, Dixons, and more. The Kindle is available from Amazon.com in the US only.

Given the Sony Reader's wide retail distribution, it's unlikely "no one's ever heard of" it, and purely anecdotally, I feel I see more of them on planes.

(Disclosure: I own an original Sony PRS-500, a newer Sony PRS-505, and a Kindle DX. My leisure books are on the Sony Reader for ergonomics, battery life, and travel. My technical books and documents, both Word and PDFs, are on the Kindle DX for the screen size, though it needs to be recharged from dead every few days.)

Sony Reader allows you to categorize your materials, while amazingly, Kindle doesn't have any hierarchy, just a long list. As a bonus, the Sony Reader doesn't have wireless DRM to remotely delete your books. That's not a bug, it's a feature.

(I have both devices. The Sony is more usable while the Kindle DX handles full size business and engineering PDFs.)

Thank you, as this puts paid to anyone here saying there's no visible difference except to pixel peepers.

(Well, assuming one is comparing on a true 8 bit screen.)

Usability folks at Apple already thought this problem through and came up with the compromise seen on the iPhone.

jQuery implementation here: http://blog.decaf.de/2009/07/iphone-like-password-fields-usi...

box.net

Both the start point on the home page and the start point on the pricing page.

Back in 2004 or so, Payflow Pro was down for a Sunday because they neglected to renew an internal Oracle security cert and the DBs stopped talking. Took 'em a day to sort that one out.

Random events and being human affect all 24/7 services.