Lately I’ve noticed several of my friends’ posts on Facebook are tagged with a Twitter icon, and most of the updates I want to post are small, so I figured I’d give it a try. Searched for Twitter on FB and got two apps, Twitter and Selective Tweets. First I tried installing Twitter, but when I enter my name and password, it gives me an error, ‘Oops! Something went wrong: Invalid credentials Invalid user name or password.’ Of course, both are correct.
Now for that special Facebook touch – I click on Applications on the left side and it lists both Twitter and Selective Tweets under My Applications, but neither of them are active and there’s no way to remove them!
The Facebook FAQs aren’t helpful as they say there’s an Applications button near my chat button, which there isn’t, and it’s the place to go to delete apps. I think it more likely you can’t delete an app unless it’s been configured and activated, which of course I can’t do because the API is broken. I’ve tried this off and on for three days now!
tl:dr no one knows for sure yet but there sure are a lot of … opinions!
Unity3D Answers: is-unity3d-banned-by-new-apple-sdk-licence
It’s unlikely this language is aimed at Unity, but it could easily become collateral damage in this fight.
Edit 12 April 2010: Jean-Louis Gassée gets it, which is kind of cool for me because when I worked at NeXT I remember visiting Be for their OS pitch, and at the time was too naive to know we were also looking at taking over, I mean, being bought by Apple.
I’ve got a few email accounts that don’t support Push. On the Settings->Mail->Fetch New Data screen, you can choose whether to fetch new data every 15 minutes, 30 minutes, Hourly, or Manually. An uncharacteristically long paragraph of text explains that for better battery life, fetch less often, so I had it set to Manually. Almost every time I make or take a call, the phone dings at me as soon as I hold it up to my ear, and even though I know it’s telling me it has new email, it’s still surprising and disruptive, because I’m not expecting it to do that.
Conversation between me, today, and me, circa March 2006:
“Hey Frank, it’s me, Frank, but from the future — 2009! I wanted to tell you a few important things. All these Web 2.0, social networking sites, and mash-ups are going to to make a ton of money in the markets, but they’ll lose most of it. There’s also a global recession on, so buy up now but dump all your stocks and mutual funds to cash or CDs by early 2008.”
“…”
“By 2009 half the people you know will be tweeting regularly!”
“TWEETING?”
“Oh, never mind.”
Over the holidays I had the opportunity to see some daytime television shows. Rachel Ray’s show is engaging, and both Andrea and I saw her make a Chili Shepherd’s Pie, but my Web Search Fu apparently isn’t as strong as it used to be, ’cause I can’t find it. I did find one that looks good, and it’s nice to have recipes, but using leftovers really gets to the point of Shepherd’s Pie. So next time we make some chili, instead of making nachos with the leftovers we’ll put it it in a baking dish, slather some mashed potatos and cheese on the top, and bake it. Yum!