Comments for Ryan Block

Comment on The iPhone’s long-missing two-pane email client by Carlos

Carlos — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:14:03 +0000

When I read email with my iphone, my computer mail program cannot access my email server anymore.
It seems the server is blocked when the same account is accessed from 2 different sources at the same time.
Is it a server problem or a recurrent issue with users of iPhone and Macs.

What could I do if I need to have my phone active while working with my desktop with the mail application checking constantly for emails
Rgds
Carlos

Comment on Questioning iPhone SIM unlocking on the App Store: is the obvious unimportant? by Jon

Jon — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 23:38:44 +0000

No regrets as you found out yesterday the press that covers apple are a bunch of ninnies they are owned by the company..

Comment on Where’s IrfanView for Mac? by ageor

ageor — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 19:49:53 +0000

My 5 yo Fujitsu-Siemens finally gave way (QQ), and while waiting for a brand new Dell to arrive, I am stuck with an iMac at work. I have several dozens of 16bit grayscale images to go through looking for a representative picture, and it shoul;d come to no surprise to you I was looking for the IrfanView equivalent for Mac. Little did I know people have been looking for one for 4 years! O.M.G. Why, why would anyone choose to limit oneself to this extent? Ridiculous… Can’t wait for my PC…

Comment on Don’t be like Andy Marken / Marken Communications by Pappaous

Pappaous — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 12:17:58 +0000

I haven’t read-up on this Andy but he looks like the “A-typical” MaigicJack (TM) actuary that seems to sit in the pyramid scheem of the “Cartel/Mafia” International investers (Amer-Europeen). The ring has some significance to Solomon’s ring?… interesting…

Comment on Don’t be like Andy Marken / Marken Communications by Ecommer

Ecommer — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 21:06:36 +0000

Bling bling! What a pose! That picture should go right there with that blog post.

Comment on Don’t be like Andy Marken / Marken Communications by Ryan Block

Ryan Block — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:29:37 +0000

Looks a little more like the living dead if you ask me.

Comment on Android using Java VM for apps — whatever! by Ramon

Ramon — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 04:10:28 +0000

Java sheeps

from the so many new and better language
Google had to choose JAVA.
a slow, bloated, outdated, useless language out from the 90

Java and their apps should be in a museum
next to the Borland Turbo C/C++
Well at least you can use the old Borland C++
to teach kids programming

Comment on A day in a DRM-free world by on the ongoing digital media revolution « Work(ing Title)

on the ongoing digital media revolution « Work(ing Title) — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 02:40:15 +0000

[...] equation). I hope with time, other content providers will hear what the market is saying to them. Ryan Block’s A day in a DRM-free world is a wonderful vision for this version of the [...]

Comment on Don’t be like Andy Marken / Marken Communications by Rick

Rick — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 01:11:58 +0000

Oh man, Andy looks like an old rock star. Look at his bling-bling!
http://img525.imageshack.us/i/snap20100205164922004.png/

http://www.berkeleyabc.org/2009/images/Andy%20Marken.jpg

Comment on Don’t be like Andy Marken / Marken Communications by Mary

Mary — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 02:02:03 +0000

I used to work for the guy about 25+ years ago (before email). Sounds like not much has changed.

Comment on Don’t be like Andy Marken / Marken Communications by The Guy

The Guy — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 03:30:25 +0000

Don’t stick to the old ways..Businesses change year round!

Comment on Where’s IrfanView for Mac? by nandieux

nandieux — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:02:27 +0000

hallelujah! try winebottler. it allows you to install windows apps on your mac.
works fine on my mac now!

Comment on Where’s IrfanView for Mac? by nandieux

nandieux — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:46:11 +0000

Just so that one is sure that this is a GLOBAL issue!
I want irfanview in India too.
I have used it for as long as I can remember on my windows machines, and since moving over to mac about an year ago, have reaaaallly missed IV.

Comment on Don’t be like Andy Marken / Marken Communications by Anon

Anon — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:29:21 +0000

I’ve been working with Andy recently and thought I was replying emails to a 10 year old with a keyboard. Excessive use of exclamation marks and poor/humorous attempts at using slang.

But totally agree, I get an excessive amount of emails from the man about random video encoding tools and other products that no one really cares much for. I only realized that he’s in his 80s or something after I tracked down his LinkedIn page to find out more about him.

It’s impressive and surprising that he’s been able to keep his agency running for a couple decades. Most of these PR agencies are all targeting the “social media” audience instead.

Anyways, I haven’t had any problems with him per say, but hope he can change a few practices.

Comment on Android using Java VM for apps — whatever! by seeplusplus

seeplusplus — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 13:57:20 +0000

Java was a solution looking for a problem,
Java is a solution looking for a problem,
Java will always remain as a solution looking for a problem.

What earthly benefit do you get with the following layers?
OS as an abstraction on the hardware, then Java(the JVM) as another abstraction on the OS and finally “your” apps accessing the Java layer (if you call that as an abstraction). It’s like asking your “message” recipient to go check her voice mail to check her email to check whether she received the postal mail that was sent last week.

Comment on Where’s IrfanView for Mac? by Dave

Dave — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 03:46:17 +0000

I just played with this for 3 minutes. YES it’s like Paint for Windows, as it was designed to be, but maybe it can get some Irfanview jobs done! I just confirmed it can crop, and annotate things with a virtual red (or any color) marker. Also, say you place text on an image, and do something else, and go back to the text tool, you can edit the text you already placed. AND it lets you type your text BEFORE you place it, instead of having to move it after-the-fact of you already typing it, as is usual with other programs I’ve used.

http://paintbrush.sourceforge.net/

This was linked to here: http://www.wikihow.com/Choose-a-Paint-Program-for-Your-Mac

There’s a few more programs linked there that you may enjoy.

–Dave

Comment on Don’t be like Andy Marken / Marken Communications by Ian Bell

Ian Bell — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 06:47:23 +0000

I have asked him a hundred times to remove me from his list and he never has. I don’t even get mad anymore, it’s that sad haha.

Comment on Where’s IrfanView for Mac? by Are we still in the land of OS9 here???

Are we still in the land of OS9 here??? — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 20:05:10 +0000

sigh.

Comment on Don’t be like Andy Marken / Marken Communications by Anton

Anton — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 23:34:12 +0000

Haha, that was a classic slap.

Beleive me, Markens exist on all local markets. I’d retweet you on that but I’m too much afraid to hurt as here in Russia Andy Marken’s spirit happened to be reborn in a sensitive and somewhat naive 25 yr old girl.

Comment on Don’t be like Andy Marken / Marken Communications by Nick

Nick — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 19:33:23 +0000

As a college student hoping to enter the tech world someday, things like this are helpful.

Thank you.