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Re: UPDATE: Facebook Deals Are Not Dead Contrary to Popular Belief!

Alisa Meredith — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 12:31:14 -0000

Thanks for that, Skeeter! I was among the many who had counted them out! Looking forward to hearing what F8 reveals...

Re: Apple OS X Lion – Finder, iCal and Address Book

Skeeter Harris — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 00:04:26 -0000

Thanks for your comments about Lion and in particular Address Book. To me you pick on a very sore point with Mac OSX that I and friends of mine have had for years. Coming from the Windows world I have come to expect and like an integrated Calendar, Contract, and To-Do organizer aka Microsoft Outlook or something more powerful like a customer management Tool.

With regard to OSX Lion - The Address book is a utter Joke, and while iCal has seen a new skin it still is as bad as ever. One app that I found that makes at least entry of appointments usable is Fantastical. One solution you might want to look at is from Chronos which is SOHO Organizer, its combination Calendar and Address book are pretty good and they do sync with the native databases as well as google.

With regard to Mission Control and Genstures - I use a trackpad on both my MacPro and MacBook and I just love them. Yes it took me a little bit to get used to them but once I did I find myself a lot more productive across 4 - 6 desktops at any given time, along with apps that go into full screen mode.

As far as going back to Snow Leopard at least for me - I love the new features overall, and speed on my Macs is noticeably improved.

Re: Apple OS X Lion – Finder, iCal and Address Book

Tortellino — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 20:22:16 -0000

I have just restored SL and abandoned Lion as I could not stand the address book being a heavy user of the three pane functionality. It is really puzzling to see how they managed to make the already worse application in Mac even more abysmal. I found most “improvements” in Lion quite gimmicky and not real functionalities. Mission control and Launchpad are pure gimmicks, they don't really ass much. Some gestures you have to learn are ridiculous (try the one to get to your desktop - you will succeed 1/5 times and will be swearing by then). The only real improvement I found in mail - except the search which drove me crazy as it did not yield the same results as in SL...go figure.

In address book I would be looking to resolve at least these issues:

1- Revert to original 3 pane view

2- Restore the counter present for every folder to give number of entries in a given group (now you have to scroll to the bottom of the group to see it)

3- Restore the icon to distinguish entries between companies/persons

4- Offer the removal of alphabetical letter grouping as option

5- Changing that horrible leather skin for both address book and ical

6-Allow font selection to facilitate reading and page display and reduce waste of space

7-Option to display contacts in table view for quick bulk editing

8-Show which group or smart group each contact belongs to on the contact’s page

9-Facilitate the creation of a new contact from the same company without having to copy across most details such as website, address and tel

10-fix the list printing bug issue (see below)

11-more contrast please, everything is grey as one user puts it

really seems they have given over the app to develop to some kids that could not think of anything better than making a book view. The long awaited table view for quick editing is still missing. And no serious apps to compensate for this in the app store, address book is a real disaster with Lion

Apple has not even bothered to de-bug the previous version and replicated the same bug that has been around for over 2 years: if you want to print a set of contacts (company type) that belong to a group in list mode and you want to see the name of the person along with the company basic request!) you cannot do that. By selecting “Name” in the print dialog list, the “Introduced by” appears instead. This I have written to Apple about 2 years ago and told the “geniuses” countless times... Pathetic.

Re: CarZar – One App to Tag Them All

Ryan G — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 00:15:57 -0000

Yeh man the app looks pretty nifty. I do not have an iPhone so will have to wait for it to be on android. Your site is nice Skeeter.

Re: facebook Groups – a little too friendly?

Skeeter Harris — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 00:48:07 -0000

Thanks for the comments Brian. Well the answer is really very simple, what you have to do is go into the group you have been pulled into. Then on the upper right side of the where the group members are listed there will be a link called "Leave this Group". Click on this group and your gone! The good news, once you do this no one else can pull you back in!

Re: facebook Groups – a little too friendly?

Brian Malthaner — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 09:52:37 -0000

Thanks for the great post... This explains why I'm getting emails from Facebook when ANYONE, in the group that my friend added me to, makes a new post. Skeeter, can you post the steps for removing oneself from a Facebook Group. Thanks Much!

Re: facebook Groups – a little too friendly?

Eric Miltsch — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 10:50:05 -0000

Skeeter - def. a valid point with the issue of being pulled into groups; Facebook took a leap of faith that your friends will pull you into relevant, interesting groups. Not gonna happen...

One small saving grace though, even though you have to manually remove yourself from the group, once you leave - you can't be pulled back in again.

Should be interesting to see the changes that come down the road - maybe even some add-on features will become available within the groups...wouldn't shocked if they added collaboration features similar to Google Wave. A group could turn into a virtual white-board with tools, apps & widgets...that would be cool.

Re: facebook Groups – a little too friendly?

Skeeter Harris — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 08:20:07 -0000

Totally Agree Ed. It will be interesting to see how quickly they fix this.

Re: facebook Groups – a little too friendly?

Edwin Ritter — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 07:50:22 -0000

An easy fix to resolve the issue with permissions. Having a prompt to accept if you want (or, decline) is a requirement, not a 'nice to have'.

Re: CarZar – One App to Tag Them All

Eric Miltsch — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 23:56:28 -0000

Skeeter,

Thanks a ton for taking it out for a spin...appreciate the support!

Looking forward to more good stuff for you to check out.

Like the new site BTW!

Re: Hello world!

Skeeter Harris — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 23:11:26 -0000

hello there