- Updated Topify Gmail FiltersMay 6
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Well, Twitter got prettier follow and direct message notifications today. Bully for them. Now I have to publish this update.
Update (05/07, 22:45): My update was broken, so the update had to be updated. The filter should now catch DMs, too. Believe it or not, I was wrong that Twitter changed the address that direct message notifications come from; it stayed the same. So that part of the filter didn't need to change. All's well that ends well, right?
Update 2 (05/07, 23:05): Well, scratch the new filters. Twitter went back to the old From addresses tonight. Y'all can use the old filters again. What a fast-paced 24 hours, eh? :P I'll leave this post up just for posterity, but please don't try to use these new filters and then complain that they don't work. ;-)
To make things easier for myself, I'll assume that everyone's seen the old filter setup I published at the end of last month.
The old method was quite convenient for those of us with multiple Twitter accounts, because the email addresses in the From headers changed depending on the address associated with each account (after October 30, 2008 and before this afternoon). Now they all come from noreply@twitter.com (as they used to last year), with the account-specific email addresses tucked away in the reply-to headers (which I can't filter on in G
- How To: Safely Use Twitter Notification Enhancement ServicesApril 28
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As you all have probably heard, Twitter is gaining popularity in leaps and bounds. All the new users mean more follower notifications arriving in my inbox, and Twitter's default messages aren't very useful. (The direct message notifications are pretty bare-bones, too, but I don't get many of those so it wasn't a priority.)
Update (05/06): Twitter prettified their emails, but I still think Topify's are better. Unfortunately, Twitter also went back to using the same address (noreply@twitter.com) for all users' notifications, putting the email-address–specific addresses in the reply-to header. So the filter setup in this post doesn't work any more. I had to come up with a new, more complicated filter... Stupid Twitter...
Update (05/07): Twitter went back to the old From addresses, so the filters from this post should now work again.
The Beginning
The first enhanced-notification service I discovered was Twimailer, created by a British developer named Jon Wheatley (and apparently later sold—shortly after I signed up—to a Romanian named Toni).
Despite the admonitions in the article above (on ReadWriteWeb) about changing passwords and all kinds of se
- I Never Thought I'd See This Happen...March 30
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Fires show up on the news all the time, right? Right.
Fires happen in one's neighborhood all the time, right? Uh, no...
I never thought I'd see it happen in my neighborhood. But today, it happened. It got me out of the shower, too. (Yes, my schedule is weird, and late. Don't bother me. :P )
My mother just happened to look out the window. It was really a luck thing; otherwise, I would have missed the beginning part of it. I heard the sirens as I was getting into the shower, but sirens are common enough in this city that it wasn't anything remarkable. The smoke (that I couldn't see), however, was. I quickly cut my shower short and rushed to get dressed, grabbing my camera on the way outside.
Having my camera paid off, too; I got about two hundred shots of the scene, 132 of which I uploaded (after my mother helped de-duplicate and de-crappy-shot the set) a few hours ago. If you're interested, have a look at my fire photos. I went through a battery-and-a-half in the approximately three hours that I was shooting.
As you can see from the photo at right, the middle unit was practically gone. That tangled mass
- Theatre Experience Q&A [via Facebook]March 19
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Facebook is teeming with chain notes like this. Usually I ignore them, but this one was actually interesting. So, I'm filling it out. Facebookers, I'm giving you guys a link to this post; Facebook is still not getting any content from me, besides statuses and comments.
Without further ado, the "survey":
What was the first play you ever did?
I believe it was The Wizard of Oz. I was a munchkin. (I was also seven years old.)
What was your most recent show?
Interesting question. The last show I was really "in" was Romeo & Juliet at Children's Theatre Company (part of their educational division, not the production that just closed—which was awesome). It was actually just a series of five scenes from the show, not the whole thing.
I've been involved in a couple other shows since then, including Imaginary Invalid (as a musician in the lobby, pre-show) and a selection of scenes, songs, and dance that really can't be called a "show" (it was a "revue").
What was your favorite show/role?
My favorite show would have to be Alice In Wonderland at Temple of Aaron.
My favorite role was Martin in "Canker Sores and Other Distractions" from Performance Company last Spring.
What was your most challenging show/role?
So far, my most challenging show was Tristan & Yseult
- GrandCentral Becomes Google Voice!March 13
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It's taken 21 months—almost two years—but GrandCentral ("One number for all your phones, for life") has finally gotten an upgrade (and a new name). I'm totally excited, and happy that the long-awaited upgrade (previously known as GrandCentral 2.0) is finally here. Meet Google Voice: "One number for all your calls and SMS".
New Features
Yes, Google Voice added several new features. One of the things that always, always bugged me about GrandCentral was the fact that my number couldn't receive or send text messages. Well, now it can. According to TechCrunch's expansi
It's taken 21 months—almost two years—but GrandCentral ("One number for all your phones, for life") has finally gotten an upgrade (and a new name). I'm totally excited, and happy that the long-awaited upgrade (previously known as GrandCentral 2.0) is finally here. Meet Google Voice: "One number for all your calls and SMS".
