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instapaper is working ok for me. (i was actually under the impression that pinterest quickly fixed several issues with best beloved marco's abandonware but guess i must be mistaken)

r|t|c, Thursday, 11 May 2017 17:46 (six years ago) link

he kind of let it sit there without any changes for several years, it got an influx of capital after the majority was purchased by some venture capital thing and they released the mobile apps, then it kind of plateaued again until that recent pinterest acquisition

I think the only issue was it wasn't saving new links for a couple days because the server admin alerts weren't properly transferred over and the database ran out of space

mh, Thursday, 11 May 2017 17:51 (six years ago) link

so a "read offline" browser option would be enough, or do you want to be able to read them later 10 years from now, (like a mini personal archive.org)?

yeah i just need good read offline functionality. the pinboard apps i looked at were all weirdly bad at that.

Uhura Mazda (lukas), Thursday, 11 May 2017 17:57 (six years ago) link

tbh I use services like ifttt to pipe stuff from pinboard to instapaper, or files to dropbox

little workflows

mh, Thursday, 11 May 2017 17:58 (six years ago) link

I've had issues with instapaper not saving links for months. I'm done with it.

dan selzer, Thursday, 11 May 2017 18:07 (six years ago) link

fair enough

mh, Thursday, 11 May 2017 18:48 (six years ago) link

the software developer in me wants to plead for you to officially report the bug though

mh, Thursday, 11 May 2017 18:49 (six years ago) link

Does anyone have a good method for archiving a webpage? Say I read an article that’s only available in HTML, and I want a copy of it in my Dropbox. What would you do? I know you can create a PDF of a webpage in Safari, but is that usually of good quality? Is there another method? Anyone have any experience with this?

Are you all missing the obvious? In Safari you can just go File – Save As and it'll save it in web archive format, with images etc embedded, for offline viewing. It works pretty well.

Alba, Friday, 12 May 2017 12:17 (six years ago) link

But yeah, if you just want the bare bones then Pocket works a lot better than Instapaper these days. Evernote can do it too.

Alba, Friday, 12 May 2017 12:19 (six years ago) link

Hi all. Thanks for the responses.

I am not talking about read it later stuff like Instapaper and Pocket. I’ve used both of those, and now I use Reading List, which is built in to Safari. That stuff is fine for its intended purpose.

What I am looking at doing is creating a permanent copy of a webpage that I can store in Dropbox for later reference. I think mh was the one who brought up using a service to create an image of a webpage. That’s a possibility, although probably not ideal. (Perhaps I could do that in addition to something else.)

I could also create a pdf of a page, which might be the way to go. Unfortunately, Safari’s “Export as PDF...” kind of sucks ass. Is there a better tool that gives you an accurate pdf copy of a webpage?

Finally, I guess I could just download the webpage as a webpage and all of the included files too. (Someone might’ve mentioned some webarchive shit, whatever that is? Perhaps I should look into that.)

the ghost of markers, Wednesday, 17 May 2017 06:07 (six years ago) link

Yeah. In Safari it's literally as simple as File – Save As.

It'll bundle up all the related images it needs into the one web archive file.

Alba, Wednesday, 17 May 2017 06:20 (six years ago) link

yeah, Safari's webarchive is pretty good compared to older options, Chrome seems ok. If you want to evaluate how well it does, you can always try saving a page then killing your network connection to make sure you're seeing what's archived and not some trickery that's still pulling stuff from the web

mh, Wednesday, 17 May 2017 13:35 (six years ago) link

Alba-- Interesting. Thank you.

mh-- Not sure I’ve ever done the webarchive thing, at least on purpose. Might have to try it out.

Found this last night too: http://ricks-apps.com/osx/sitesucker/index.html

the ghost of markers, Wednesday, 17 May 2017 18:53 (six years ago) link

american iphones have google assistant now

early morning reverse rumplestiltskin rage (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 17 May 2017 23:25 (six years ago) link

R Sikoryak. I've been a fan of his since reading his The Metamorphosis in the style of Peanuts and Dante's Inferno in the style of Bazooka Joe. He does a lot of stuff like this:

https://www.amazon.com/Masterpiece-Comics-R-Sikoryak/dp/1897299842/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1252881734&sr=8-1

dan selzer, Thursday, 18 May 2017 14:05 (six years ago) link

iCloud Photo Library issue: Photo Library seems to work fine between the iOS Photos app running on my iPhone 6 and the Photos app on icloud.com. The Photos app on my iMac, however, is stuck on “Updating...” and no new photos are showing up. This has been going on for a while, and I haven’t been able to figure out how to fix it. It sort of resolved itself at one point, but now it’s still fucked up. Thoughts? Do I need to go to the Apple Store?

the ghost of markers, Thursday, 18 May 2017 21:33 (six years ago) link

Make a new smart album on your Mac called "Not on iCloud" and assign it this condition:
Photo - is - unable to upload to iCloud Photo Library

My guess is that a photo(s) somewhere on your Mac library is horking things up. Creating this album makes it easy to ID which one. Usually an export, delete, reimport the export does the trick.

Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 20 May 2017 10:26 (six years ago) link

ugh I'm overdue for an iPhone upgrade but all these iPhone 8 rumors make it look like something that you can't put in a case (possible home button/fingerprint sensor on the back, edge-to-edge display, etc)

he not like the banana (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 26 May 2017 14:28 (six years ago) link

Same, waiting not even so much for the 8 as I am waiting for the price drop on the 7s

insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Friday, 26 May 2017 15:08 (six years ago) link

still mad about headphone port

Nhex, Friday, 26 May 2017 16:30 (six years ago) link

switching to wireless headphones has been one of the best parts about my new phone

jason waterfalls (gbx), Friday, 26 May 2017 16:47 (six years ago) link

Elvis: Thanks so much for the advice. :-) Nothing showed up in that album. Might have to make a trip to the Apple Store ’cause I’d like for this to start working again.

the ghost of markers, Friday, 26 May 2017 16:49 (six years ago) link

xposts

the ghost of markers, Friday, 26 May 2017 16:49 (six years ago) link

which ones do you use gbx? xp

, Friday, 26 May 2017 16:54 (six years ago) link

jaybird x2, which i think they don't make anymore. they sound just fine for my purposes (listening to music/podcasts while i'm at the gym)

jason waterfalls (gbx), Friday, 26 May 2017 17:36 (six years ago) link

ew @ having to charge your headphones

he not like the banana (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 26 May 2017 21:21 (six years ago) link

so stoked for ten minutes of updates and hearing about $70bn paid to App Developers

stet, Monday, 5 June 2017 16:42 (six years ago) link

& more about Siri!

droit au butt (Euler), Monday, 5 June 2017 16:49 (six years ago) link

this video is terrible

stet, Monday, 5 June 2017 17:11 (six years ago) link

also a world without apps would be bliss and joy and no more trump

stet, Monday, 5 June 2017 17:11 (six years ago) link

ewwwww

𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 5 June 2017 17:11 (six years ago) link

wow can't believe macOS is dead, it's all iOS now

haha just fuckin' with you

mh, Monday, 5 June 2017 17:15 (six years ago) link

tbh every time a developer conference becomes something every nerd who doesn't know shit about development feels like they have to watch, I sit there hoping the biggest announcement is something like "We've retooled our threading API!"

mh, Monday, 5 June 2017 17:16 (six years ago) link

watchos has never moved really quickly in its life

stet, Monday, 5 June 2017 17:17 (six years ago) link

"We've retooled our threading API!"

oh the glory day of snow leopard

stet, Monday, 5 June 2017 17:18 (six years ago) link

tbh I don't think you want your watch OS to move too fast, that seems like the last device you're going to want to replace all the damn time

mh, Monday, 5 June 2017 17:19 (six years ago) link

I think my skiing app is nearly finished launching in fact

stet, Monday, 5 June 2017 17:21 (six years ago) link

weed joke alert

softie (silby), Monday, 5 June 2017 17:30 (six years ago) link

huh sounds like it really is a snow leopard release

stet, Monday, 5 June 2017 17:30 (six years ago) link

so sad that vocalwriter is no longer supported since leaving os 9

Violet Jax (Violet Jynx), Monday, 5 June 2017 17:31 (six years ago) link

weed tracker on watch plz

mh, Monday, 5 June 2017 17:31 (six years ago) link

lol I love how web browsers keep leapfrogging by doing a skunkworks version of their next javascript engine so every release is something-or-another percent faster than the competition

mh, Monday, 5 June 2017 17:32 (six years ago) link

curves in Photos! yes

stet, Monday, 5 June 2017 17:34 (six years ago) link

oh heck yeah they're finally doing the filesystem transition

mh, Monday, 5 June 2017 17:36 (six years ago) link

so sold on the 27" iMac (he says before they announce the blinding price)

stet, Monday, 5 June 2017 17:45 (six years ago) link

I'll buy that new 27" iMac. Now to sell one of my monitors.

dan selzer, Monday, 5 June 2017 17:46 (six years ago) link

holy shit a demo that was actually kind of fun

mh, Monday, 5 June 2017 17:50 (six years ago) link

I TAKE IT BACK.

IMAC PRO.

dan selzer, Monday, 5 June 2017 17:54 (six years ago) link


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