Where can I find (free) recommendations for movies ?

I know of IMDB top 250: http://www.imdb.com/chart/top

Are there other places worth visiting ?

From web app Tal Galili

• Check out metacritic. From their own site:

  Metacritic compiles reviews from respected critics and publications for movies, DVDs, music, television and games.

  Tal Galili : Cool (fill in words)
  From LBushkin

• Theres always Rotten Tomatoes best of page: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/top/

  From Jessie

• I use The Numbers to see which movies are highly rated; as well as historically which ones did well in the theater, or on DVD.

  Tal Galili : I just gave you my last vote for today :)
  From George Stocker

• Two really famous sites are:

  • Rotten Tomatoes where you have also a section for the Top Movies.
  • Metacritic that has All-Time High Scores
  From marco.ragogna

• If you've already got a Netflix account¹, there's the Netflix Top 100, Critics' Picks, and Award Winners.

  ¹ Yes, of course Netflix isn't free, but if you're already paying for an account there's no incremental cost for these lists.

  From Al Everett

• You already mentioned Imdb Top 250 but in general the whole site is very useful and I find the User Rating pretty accurate. I tend to like movies that get good marks and dislike the ones with bad marks. In some cases I had to disagree, mostly because I found films with low marks better than expected. Another great site is Roger Ebert's who makes short and well founded reviews of most popular films.

  From Omar Kohl

• Criticker.com

  From Fczbkk

• You might be interested to check out Flickchart.

  It's a recommendation tool by way of ranking your favorite films via movie matchups. It keeps track of your preferences and the movies you haven't seen yet, while automatically building a list of your favorites movies and a list of the best movies you've never seen.

  From Nathan Chase

• MovieLens is a research project at the University of Minnesota that gives movie recommendations based on your ratings of other movies. I believe it was one of the first collaborative filtering systems, created over 10 years ago.

  http://movielens.umn.edu

  Here's its wikipedia page:

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MovieLens

  From dreeves

• Check out Jinni. It's a "Taste Engine" that recommends movies based on what you tell it you like.

  Catchwa : plus NetFlix, Amazon, etc. integration
  From tnorthcutt

• i check movies best site for movie tracking It has so many top lists. It has recommended movie feature as well. Some of the top lists you can browse are

  • Rotten Tomatoes
  • IMDB top 250
  • Reddit top 250
  • All AFI Lists

  Many more.

  It has 65 Various Top Lists including different countries top lists

  Aaron : Great site, thanks! +1

  pramodc84 : u r wc Aaron :) @ http://www.icheckmovies.com/profile/pramodc84/
  From pramodc84

• A really good one is clerkdogs.com

  From

• I found http://www.hellomovies.com/ to have a nice UI for tracking what you have seen and what you want to still see.

  The "recommendations" (using some sort of algorithm I assume) are not great, but they have a meta-ranking on top of IMDB that shows unseen top movies which you can then filter down by genre/year/taste/your social circle, etc.

  Combined with the straightforward way to track what movies you want to watch and the ability to see where you can access these movies now online (Hulu, Netflix, etc) it's a winner.

  From Boris Terzic
• • abetteropinion.com ABetterOpinion - Movies, Books, Video Games
  From DEF

Can I control how often Gmail polls POP3 accounts for incoming mail?

I use Gmail to handle my mail, but it's mostly imported by Gmail from an external POP3 account.

Normally this works fine, but I;ve had some instances where Gmail has gone almost 24 hours without even trying to contact the POP3 server.

Now, on Gmail 'desktop', I can push the "refresh" button, and it will do it, but when I access Gmail from my mobile, the mobile version of the site (on Android 1.5, not that it matters) doesn't seem to have a way of doing this refresh. AFAIK I can't even access the POP3 settings.

How can I get Gmail to poll in a guaranteed timely fashion?

From web app Roddy

• You can't.

  Polling a external account works when you have a legacy account, that you don't want to abandon, but it's not very important.

  If you want to be sure the account is checked frequently, add it as a separated account in the Android device (you can leave the messages in the server if you want this mails consolidated in GMail)

  From Eduardo Molteni

• Lifehacker.com just published a trick to increase the frequency of the checks.

  http://lifehacker.com/5580553/increase-the-frequency-gmail-checks-your-other-email-accounts-for-new-mail

  Its a bit of work to set it up, but essentially you need to ensure that your pop3 accounts frequently get new mail.

  Gmail bases its mail-fetching frequency on how often it finds messages in the account when it checks; if the account only gets email rarely, Gmail will check it once per hour. From what I've been able to tell, given a regular rate, Gmail's mail fetcher seems to stabilize at fetching twice as often as mail appears in the account.

  Senseful : You can also use Google Calendar for this: Make a dummy calendar and an event that is repeated every X minutes. Set up an email reminder for this event.
  From geoff

• If you look under Google Labs, there's a feature called:

  Refresh POP accounts

  "Fetch messages from your POP accounts on demand by using the refresh link on top of the inbox."

  From Pierre Nel

Is there any way to turn off friend suggestion on Facebook?

Imagine that I have two friends - Alice and Bob - and I want to prevent Alice from showing up in Bob's friend suggestions ("people you might know"). Can I do that?

From web app Andrew

• You cannot do that directly, but you can ask Alice to block Bob and then Bob will not see her.

  To block Bob, Alice can go to Bob's profile and click "Report/Block this Person" and check the "Block this Person" box, or she can go to Account » Privacy Settings » Block Lists » Block Users and enter Bob's name or email address.

  Andrew : Hmmm, I haven't thought about it this way. Thanks!
  From mark4o

• You will need to tell Alice the following:

  Choose the "Privacy Settings" option in the Account drop-down menu at the top of any Facebook page. Select "View settings" in the "Basic Directory Information" section. Change the setting for "Send me friend requests" to "Friends of Friends"

  Source - How do I prevent myself from appearing in Suggestions?

  mark4o : Unfortunately that won't work in this case because Alice is a friend of a friend to Bob.

  phwd : Ok my bad I thought the friend of friend worked only if person A intentionally suggested person B (via their profile page) to be a friend to person C. I have no way to test this as I do not have two friends who will want to use their time like this :D
  From phwd

Any alternatives to Google Apps for your domain?

I'm specifically interested in webmail service but will appreciate suggestions to replace other components too.

From web app Andrew

• Microsoft officelive has web pages, email, etc. for your domain.

  From Alex B

• Zoho offer a pretty comprehensive range of products, most of which are free for a limited number of users/projects/whatever...

  • Calendar
  • Challenge
  • Chat
  • Creator
  • CRM
  • Discussions
  • Docs
  • Gadgets
  • Invoice
  • Mail
  • Meeting
  • Notebook
  • Office for Microsoft Sharepoint
  • People
  • Planner
  • Polls
  • Projects
  • Recruit
  • Reports
  • Sheet
  • Show
  • Viewer
  • Wiki
  • Writer

  Even though the functionality overlaps, they integrate with Google Apps in some places, so you could have a hybrid solution.

  Harlan : I like but don't love Zoho. They seem to be rather over-extended, and they're substantially buggier than Google Docs. This said, they have a lot more features, and if you're OK working around their quirks, they can be a great solution.
  From x3ja

• Yahoo is still alive, at least as for webmail

  From Miro A.

• Zimbra is a good alternative. You can find people that propose to host Zimbra for you on Zimbra Hosting Providers.

  From CharlesB

Sync Google Apps Calendar to my iPhone

I have a Google Apps account through work. I've noticed that when I add a calendar event there is a significant lag time between when I add the event and when it appears on my iPhone. Additionally, edited events don't seem to be reflected on my iPhone. Is there a way that I can ensure that events are added and updated in a timely fashion?

From web app Justin Gallagher

• On the iPhone under Settings->Mail... go into Fetch New Data and turn on Push.

  Justin Gallagher : I already have push turned on.
  From nevster

• From http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=151674:

  To sync with your device, follow these steps:

  1. Open the Settings application on your device's home screen.
  2. Open Mail, Contacts, Calendars.
  3. Select Add Account...
  4. Select Other.
  5. Select Add CalDAV Account.
  6. Enter your account information: * In the Server field, enter [ google.com ] * In the Username field, enter your full Google Account or Google Apps email address. * In the Password field, enter your Google Account or Google Apps password. * In the Description field, enter the name you'd like to appear on the account.
  7. Select Next at the top of your screen.

  After you've completed setup, open the Calendar app on your device and syncing will automatically begin.

  By default only your primary calendar will be synced to your device. You can sync additional calendars by visiting the following page from any web browser:

  * https://www.google.com/calendar/iphoneselect
    (Google Apps users can go to https://www.google.com/calendar/hosted/your_domain/iphoneselect, replacing 'your_domain' with your actual domain name.)
  

  Select the calendars you'd like to sync, and click Save. The selected calendars will display on your device at the time of the next sync.

  666damo : Personally, I used the Exchange ActiveSync method with my iPhone. http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=138740

  Justin Gallagher : Is this different than adding my Google Apps account as a mail account and switching the "Calendars" option on in the settings panel?
  From 666damo

Delicious tagged items by Bookmarked count

Delicious has different ways of showing the bookmarks, but there isn't anything that lets you discover the most bookmarked site for a specific tag. For eg., if the tag is Visio, it should show the bookmarks where visio is a tag in order of how many times its been tagged by all users.

Is there something out there??

From web app Rakesh

• Perhaps not exactly what you wanted but do you know about the popular keyword?

  e.g. http://delicious.com/popular/Visio

  From Daveyjoe

• Your intuition is correct, getting most-bookmarked-link in a tagset is an awesome way to whittle down solutions to find really common links that are tagged. I recently needed a quick solution for an HTML form that I needed to be emailed with PHP for an old client that had been using an offsite service that broke.

  I went to delicious.com/tag/form+php+email and found a lot of bookmarks tagged. I tried going to delicious.com/popular/form+php+email but it just truncates the single, first tag.

  My final good-enough solution was this greasemonkey script that adds a couple links to sort the visible links by popularity (and others) with javascript. I then set the # visible to 100. The obvious popular link floated to the top and saved me a lot of time of sorting through bad solutions!

  Its like Stack Exchange says--the best result should float to the top! Why didn't Yahoo think of that? Why can't we sort all bookmarked items? Is it some sort of caching concern?

  From thadk

Are there any only music services that permit re-downloading purchased music in the event of a data-loss?

I've been using Amazon because their MP3s are drm-free, but now I'm curious are there any music-resellers that have distribute drm-free, and have a decent policy that in the event of data-loss I can redownload my legally purchased music?

From web app Evan Carroll

• I've bought from 7digital in the past. They provide tracks in DRM-free MP3 as well as AAC and WMA. There is a "Locker" where you can redownload songs that you've previously purchased.

  From mikej

• Also, http://thesixtyone.com allows it.

  From Andrew

• Magnatune.com meets your criteria. They offer you convenient redownload links, do not use any DRM, and even don't mind if you give those redownload links to some of your friends.

  From Tadeusz A. Kadłubowski