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Quick Thought – Things I’d like to see in Digsby
Dec 3rd
Love using Digsby, but its missing some features that I’d love to see implemented to further put it at the top of my “Favorite Apps” list
- Multi-Person Chat : How many times have I said this. On the Instant Messenger side of things, Digsby is behind everyone else just because of the lack of multi-person chat. (It’s also the highest ranked request on the Digsby wishlist last I checked!)
- Pandora: If Pandora could be a plugin in Digsby itself, or the “Listening To” plugin would support OpenPandora, that would be fun to have considering that I like to use Pandora when I am not in the mood for anything from my iTunes library. Not a super necessity, but that would be really nice to have wouldn’t it?
- Voice / Webcam support for each IM protocol: Well, I just use Skype and Google Talk to voice chat with my relatives, but then having all of them would be convenient.
Well of course, this is just a wishlist, and not a “If Digsby doesn’t put this in I quit Digsby forever” post, because really, when they’re making great software like this for free, its great as it is, and I’m happy for what we’re getting, but maybe having these features would make Digsby cooler?
Raditude – Theres no going back.
Nov 3rd
I remember really well when the Red Album came out. I believed that the album was gonna be Blue Album all over again, and that Rivers found that the sound in Maladroit, Pinkerton, and the Blue album, were the sounds that made Weezer so special. Well, not Maladroit, not for everyone else anyways. (I loved Maladroit, their heavier experimental sound broke from the pop, and I saw it as the start of a return to the old Weezer). Make Believe was great, but it was too pop-ish for me. The Red Album was going to save the day, it was going to make me fall in love with Weezer all over again. Then like in traditional blues style, it let me down. I remember listening through it and yelling “Why God, why?!?” at the top of my lungs (Personally, I blame Scott Shriner, damn new bassist *shakes fist*). Apparently a lot of others agreed. I remember after the Red Album, Rivers said something about how it was their new sound and its just the natural evolution, or something along the lines of that. I responded by calling BS and having an “old good Weezer that ISN’T THE RED ALBUM” marathon. Now 2 years later with the release of Raditude, I realize something. Rivers is right, this is their new sound, and we can’t simply dwell in the past forever. They’re getting older, and naturally their sound will change. Its not selling out to a pop crowd, but its just them going the way that they want to go (which could be selling out). But Weezer’s history is like a parabola, the Red Album was the bottom of the parabola, and now they’re heading back up. I think they’ve found a mix of old and new sound in Raditude because some songs sound like if Weezer was taken right out of ‘94 and put into 2009 and forced to write and others sound like well, the middle ground between Make Believe and the Red Album. Like for instance, in August when I heard (If you’re wondering if I want you to) I want you to , it was music to my ears (see what I did with that?). It had the theme of awkward love and nervousness that was absolutely Weezer, and the sound that sounded more modern. It seems to me that Weezer is starting to see some sort of middle ground between the new sound and the old sound, and the product of that is great (it also redeemed Shriner, so if you’re reading this, you win this round.) Of course seriously I’m not blaming Shriner or saying that Weezer drove itself into the ground in a ball of crap-smelling fire.
[The review after the break]
Mozilla Prism – It fills the gap I had in my daily computing experience.
Nov 2nd
Mozilla Prism is an extension for Firefox, and it turns websites into accessible applications. This is tremendously useful I have to say. Really useful. Its one of the reasons I reinstalled Firefox even after I made the switch to Chrome. (Since Chrome also has this feature, but on Windows 7, the Chrome version just comes out as extra chrome browsers, and Prism makes it run like a separate app.) I have to say that Firefox’s speed is already fantastic, so the step down from Chrome isn’t a steep one. This has been a game-changer for me. Before I had Thunderbird with Lightning for my default Email and Calendar. This resulted in me having to sync my contacts and email through Thunderbird with IMAP . It wasn’t so bad, the email worked fine, but the contact sync and calendar didn’t work so well. They didn’t always sync up and I couldn’t remove events from my calendar, or dismiss them.
So in comes Prism. Since I had to reformat from the Windows 7 RC to the RTM, I used this opportunity to play with Prism to create an app for Gmail and Google Calendar. The moment I did this, the need for Thunderbird and Lightning disappeared. It was amazing. They ran as their own apps and it ran quickly and smoothly. I’m starting to see the whole offline-online integration through the browser now. This has been very usefull and I’ve even used it for the parents. It saves time installing applications that don’t do much other than that one thing, and its an extension on Firefox, which is already a great browser. My problem is that I couldn’t get it working with Adblock though, which would have been nice (its ok since the sites that I made apps for aren’t ones that use annoying ads anyways). Its great, and for those hesitant for using it, try it out because I’m pretty sure you will find it as innovative and helpful to your daily internet usage as I did.
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Sep 26th
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