I have switched to Google’s Chrome 6.0.453.1 dev as my main web browser of choice from Apple’s Safari 5.0 (6533.16). Safari has been acting up more often recently. It will hang or freeze at seemingly random times. Facebook games do not work well with Safari any more. Getting the spinning beach ball too often with Safari 5 has made the decision for me. Firefox has always been too slow for me, with or without extensions. Safari has been twice as fast as Firefox.
Importing my Safari settings into Chrome was simple and fast. In Chrome tabs are located on the top of the window versus below the bookmark bar in Safari. There are other subtle differences that will be easy to adjust to as time goes by.
EDIT: Chrome imported all bookmarks from Safari but without my folder organization. Import order was as if folders did not exist, not alphabetically. This will make it easier to re-establish some kind of organization. Using six extensions with Chrome does seem to slow initial launch down a few seconds until google reader and gmail indications load, still not a decision to use deal breaker.
My Facebook account was re-enabled Monday 8/04/08, 3 days after being disabled on a Friday. I did send an initial reply to their 1st email explaining what I have been doing and my thoughts on the possible cause, apologizing for any misunderstandings.
Since I am no power user and have well below the max of apps and friends, I find myself a bit apprehensive from doing much communication on or using Facebook. I do not want my meager actions to be deemed spam.
I do understand Facebook’s position in trying to limit spam and any other action that harms their community, but whatever algorithm or automated method they use to watch and track misuse needs to be improved in order to prevent the small causal user from surprise headaches.
One suggestion would be an actual warning well displayed on the users home page and an email message. Both could be sent more than once. First maybe 3 to 4 days in advance of disabling action as a warning. Then a second more threatening message 24 hours before action is taken.
My Facebook account was disabled yesterday with no warning. All I have been doing recently is playing a monster game and posting links to the monster types forum for fighting and feeding. Which it turns out was too many duplicate forum posts – I assume.
I did receive a warning email from Facebook after my account was disabled. I replied explaining my situation and received an acknowledgment. I hope this is resolved soon.
This is frustrating due to the fact that there was no real warning and I have no access to my account info. I feel cut off, similar to when I lose access to my email or website, etc.
Has anyone else had this problem? What is the turn around time for a response?
If you are on Facebook and use the Zombie app use the link below to FIGHT or FEED.
At the date of this post I have a Level 4: Zombie, Slayer, Vampire, Werewolf
I have been using the netflix 3.1 plugin by Albert Banks to display my Netflix@home movies in my sidebar. I had the plugin set to display an image with link. Last month a problem developed. The image displayed was wrong for the top 3 movies @home and the same image was displayed in all 3 slots. Initially the links were still pointed to the correct movie, but later changed to the displayed image. Screen shots below.
On my About page the image display for @home and in queue both showed the wrong movie duplicated in all 3 slots. The movie displayed was not in my queue or at home.
Later the above displayed titles reversed themselves. About 48 hours later the display was back to normal showing the correct titles with links.
This problem has happened twice that I know of. Not a big deal. But since I rent mainly TV series, the displayed image shown is a generic “image not available” from Netflix for almost all of the TV series selections. This defeats the purpose of having an imaged displayed, so I have changed to text w/link only.
Strange thing is I have a netflix app on my Facebook page that does correctly show all images for selected titles.
Awhile ago after reading various blogs, I came across the below video on Vimeo. This is one of the best lip sync music videos around. It looks very professional. Timing and syncing are great. Enjoy!
MenuMeters is a menu bar app that provides monitoring tools – CPU, network, memory, and disk. MainMenu is a menu bar app that allows you to run various tools and maintenance scripts.
Both are unobtrusive and provide needed information and control. Every Mac user should use them.
Yesterday I finally achieved 100,000 credit on my 3 combined BOINC projects.
If you have available computing time and power download the BOINC client and support a project that could find extraterrestrials with SETI@home or cure some human disease with Rosetta@home.
