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Last seen: 21 hours ago
David is a 39 year old guy from London, England, UK
Profile as Top Trumps score:
Opinions - 9
Optimism - 5
"Humour" - 8
Nostalgia - 6 (and rising)
Shennanigan Intolerance - 10
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Get on TV: Video Reviews for 2012, Fantastic Mr. Fox and...
Rated • 2 reviews • current.com
Though I realise that nowdays if you can't 'YouTube' it, it ain't worth jack, this still strikes me as a particularly horrible idea.
True enough, a (very, very) small percentage of amateur reviews are worth hearing. But even then, I would prefer them to make the effort to write it all down. In sentences and everything.
The thought of having to sit through enthusiastic gushing and/or attempted sarcasm being piped straight into my eyeballs would be enough to make me confess to any crime you could mention. A long spell in chokey is a milder punishment by far. A fact I'm sure some of the more far-sighted espionage agencies have not overlooked. Bets are that even now the latest episode of The Rotten Tomatos Show is being cued up at some secret CIA detention centre.
Heartless bastards.
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Lebanon County woman, 92, not worried about lack of...
Rated • 9 reviews • counterculture • pennlive.com
Techno-phobia and advancing age seem to go hand-in-hand.
Sometime in your late 30's/early 40's, the appeal of the latest wizzy gadget starts to pail. Very soon, it feels like the whole world has turned Blade Runner and you've been marooned on the technology super highway.
I'm sure this is a trend that's going to continue.
So while we can all laugh at an eccentric old lady who won't allow electricity in her house, here's a little word of warning. In decades to come, when we all reach pensionable age ourselves, we'll be rejecting those new-fangled immersive AI suits and clinging desperately to our X-Boxes. Or "proper technology", as we'll probably be calling it.
And the kids will laugh at us too.
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Iconfinder | Search through more than 114,000 icons
Rated • 104 reviews • iconfinder.net
Or you too can fully indulge that perennial sense of dissatisfaction by changing your avatar on an almost hourly basis.
The glut of user-friendly apps, both pointed and point-less, currently sloshing round the web should be a good thing. However, they mostly seem to appeal to the strobe-lit goldfish in all of us. Constant change is not an end in itself.
Anyway, when it comes to avatars, there's really only one basic rule:
This...
or this...
will always get you more visitors than this...
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onyxstones reviews - StumbleUpon
Rated • 2 reviews • stumblers • stumbleupon.com
Before we crack on, I'd like to give due credit to onyxstone.
Their SU Editor Greasemonkey user script is the sole reason I'm going to start posting on SU again.
So three cheers and a hearty round of applause for an app that is much better than the old SU visual editor...
But "boo-hiss!" to the official, paid-up SU developers, who's responsibility it really is to create stuff like this. And have so far continued to turn a deaf ear to all the many requests for a proper SU wysiwyg editor.
Luckily, we have people like onyxstone, who's work enables us to side-step SU's short-sightedness.
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BEING MY FINAL WORD ON THE SUBJECT...
As you've probably noticed, reams have already been written on the changes StumbleUpon is currenly undergoing (or 'V4' to give it it's whizzy nickname). Depending on what you want from SU, you'll either think they are a massive improvement or harbour serious misgivings. I've seen both points-of-view expressed with equal fervour.
I can understand the wishes of the SU hierachy to 'future-proof' their system. To simplify the interface, and architecture behind it, so further revamps don't require such drastic changes. But it's also obvious that there's a dogmatic aspect to this as well. From what I've read coming out of SU HQ, this new system is the one they always envisaged SU being: a light-weight approval and sharing app. Nothing more.
Which is all well and good. However, it's worth remembering the old saying "no plan survives contact with reality". This may have been their original intention. But over the years SU has evolved into something different. It has become a unique combination of social bookmarking and blogging platform. The one aspect feeding the other, and vice-versa. This may have developed accidentally, and regardless (or perhaps despite) the owners' wishes, but the fact remains that there is nothing else like SU on the web. And I don't think that's hyperbole either.
So this desire to return to first principles, while resulting in a more slimline, focused service, also throws the baby out with the bathwater. The reduction (and, it could be argued, crippling) of the blogging side will cause the loss of something special. And that's very, very sad.
I don't understand why we still can't have both aspects. Sure, cut out all the Greasemonkey tweeks if you have to, but what is the problem with simple HTML code tags? Or even background colours?!
Does everything have to be stripped back to the same plain template?
Well, apparently the answer is "yes"...
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Anyway, the argument is over. These changes are here. So, what does the future bring?
For myself, I will still be using SU as a random search engine and to keep in touch with friends. However, all my review posting will move over to the Default Setting Blogger account. I don't have the energy to fight the new system to get even the smallest formatting tweek to work...
If they ever see fit to bring back Visual Editor, I'll probably reconsider. But gut feeling tells me it's gone for good.
So, here is my last comment on these pages, possibily for good.
As soon as I post this, I'm going to hit that 'Switch' link and then that, folks, will be that.
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http://dirpy.com/
Rated • 12 reviews • dirpy.com
Proof that the barrel has begun to be scraped in finding 'quirky' names for Web 2.0 applications.
Dirpy just makes this sound pretty crappy.
Which is appropriate, as why the hell would you want to convert YouTube videos to MP3??
Pointless as a broken pencil.
