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Julian marked one of Jason Goldman's replies in Twitter as useful. Jason Goldman replied to the question "What is Twitter's stance toward abuse?". Julian and 10 other people think it's one of the best replies.

Julian replied on April 29, 2008 00:41 to the question "Stop charging my credit card?" in Apple:

It would help if you could tell me what kind of account you're talking about, and what charges are being made.

Julian started following the question "Why don't you offer Paypal?" in Threadless.

Julian shared an idea in Get Satisfaction on April 28, 2008 23:31:

"These topics may help" could do with a close/stop/go away button

While the "These topics may help:" thing on the start a topic page is a good idea, the complete lack of a close/stop button, it's disinterest in ever not continuing to update, as well as the yellow Ajax effect designed to make you aware of the fact something just got updated, makes it really distracting and annoying when you're typing. The ability to kill/neuter it in some way would be much appreciated.

Julian replied on April 22, 2008 16:08 to the question "o2 UK" in Twitter:

I think they do, as I'm getting updates on my O2 contract phone.

Julian replied on April 21, 2008 17:03 to the question "New member email address already taken?" in Twitter:

As I'm not a Twitter employee I can't really tell you who is using your email address. Having said that, due to the wonder of the Gmail search thing, and the fact you just posted your email address on a public site (might want to edit it out before the spam bots notice), it seems your email is being used by http://twitter.com/Cedric22 , though until a Twitter employee can come to your aid, I still think resetting your password is probably your best option.

Although a minute after doing it I realised I probably shouldn't have since it crosses a weird line, I popped your email address into the password reset form on Twitter which is why you probably just got an email from them, sorry about that. Needless to say, you can ignore the email if you want.

Julian replied on April 21, 2008 16:40 to the question "New member email address already taken?" in Twitter:

Assuming Twitter sends an email to new account holders to check their email really is email (I signed up 2 years ago and I can't remember), the only way I can imagine it happening, beyond it being a bug, is that someone had access to your email, though it seems like a slightly odd thing to do.

Julian replied on April 21, 2008 16:16 to the question "New member email address already taken?" in Twitter:

Although I know you didn't sign up, have you tried using the reset password thingy?

https://twitter.com/account/resend_pa...

Julian replied on April 16, 2008 03:04 to the problem "delete not working" in Twitter:

Now unable to delete again, particularly annoying since you've still not got any kind of edit option.

https://twitter.com/hopkapi/statuses/...

Julian replied on April 02, 2008 02:55 to the problem "Time Capsule eats all my bandwidth." in Apple:

Well then that's really odd, seeing as I only get 54 and have never had this problem.

Julian replied on March 30, 2008 02:13 to the problem "Time Capsule eats all my bandwidth." in Apple:

What transmit rate does the Airport menu say it's using? I've got 802.11g and I've never really had any issues with my connection becoming slower, so I'm not really sure what's going on.

Julian replied on March 30, 2008 01:35 to the problem "Time Capsule eats all my bandwidth." in Apple:

It sounds like your wireless (?) connection is likely not working so great, if you hold Option/alt and click the Airport menu bar icon, it should tell you the transmit rate it's using, if it's pretty low that would probably explain the slowness, and I'd recommend perhaps moving your Time Capsule (if you can) so your computer gets a better signal.

You could also try turning Time Machine off in System Preferences, clicking the "Show Time Machine status in menu bar" box, then triggering a backup when you're not downloading lots of stuff via the menu bar icon.

Julian replied on March 30, 2008 01:05 to the question "Switching between multiple pages in iPhone Safari the old ones are almost always blank and need to be reloaded" in Apple:

If I remember correctly it works on the basis of how much free RAM the iPhone has at one time, so if there's not much free, it stops storing inactive tab's contents. My guess is that not listening to anything at the time would probably free up some and make it less likely to 'forget' them.

Julian replied on March 30, 2008 00:59 to the question "Supported transfer speeds at the same time" in Apple:

They can, though usually if devices with older wireless standards join the network the speed will drop.

Julian replied on March 30, 2008 00:52 to the question "Why is my exhaust fan rpm so high?" in Apple:

Assuming that your MacBook isn't one of the ones that shipped with it's ventilation vent blocked by a bit of plastic, you might want to open Activity Monitor (Applications/Utilities), click the CPU column once or twice and see what's eating your processor.

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Julian started following the idea "Which Size Timbuk2 Bag is Right For You?" in Timbuk2.

Julian replied on March 27, 2008 01:30 to the problem "My iPhone battery drains too much overnight!" in Apple:

Have any of you set the iPhone to auto-check for new mail relatively often or installed any applications, especially ones that might run in the background? I've got push mail and WiFi turned on with it officially checking for new mail once an hour (officially because push mail shouldn't need to check in the same way), and leaving my iPhone asleep overnight hardly hits it's charge at all.

Julian replied on March 27, 2008 00:57 to the question "Shutting Down My Airport/Computer for Long Holiday" in Apple:

While I would assume that your Airport base station would remember your details even without power, you can always make a backup copy of your configuration using Airport Utility.

Open it (found it Applications/Utilities), select your base station, click Manual Setup, Save a Copy As on the File menu, and assuming you can remember your base station password, tick the box next to "Include passwords as encrypted data", pick somewhere you'll easily be able to find it, and click Save.

To restore from it, open Airport Utility, select your base station and click Open Configuration on the File menu and find the file you made earlier.

Julian replied on March 06, 2008 20:54 to the question "When will the Hemp Messenger bags be available in anything but gray/orange?" in Timbuk2:

Since it's now early March, any chance of an update?

Julian started following the problem "Quicktime playing in Leopard's Dock" in Apple.