TECHNOLOGY: TechCrunch’s favorite 13

Wednesday, January 3, 2007

http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/02/2007-web-20-companies-i-couldnt-live-without/

Free 411
http://free411.com/

Cheap no-DRM music
http://amiestreet.com/welcome

Local maps
http://city.ask.com/city

Anohter bookmark sharing site
http://bluedot.us/

Social News Site
http://www.digg.com/

Pictures
http://www.flickr.com/

A “social” web browser
http://www.flock.com/

GMail

NetNewsWire (30$)

A personalized webpage
http://www.netvibes.com/

A music meme
http://www.pandora.com/

Skype

A tech meme
http://www.techmeme.com/

WordPress

YouTube

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TECHNOLOGY: New AOL IM client has “interesting features”

Wednesday, January 3, 2007

Took a required upgrade to AOL IM today. The folks at work use it a lot, otherwise I’d have tossed it.

Interesting it comes with an almost mandatory integration with Plaxo. But, it doesn’t presuppose that you might already be a plaxo user. Argh!

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TECHNOLOGY: Not everything that is ordered gets delivered. Even if you pay for it!

Tuesday, January 2, 2007

From: Mandriva Store [mailto:noreturn+store@mandriva.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2007 2:23 PM
To: reinkefj
Subject: Mandriva Flash information

(Version francaise plus bas)

Hi,

You recently bought a Mandriva Flash and perhaps you have not been delivered yet. First of all we would like to thank you for your order but also to apologize for the inconvenience if you have not received your product.

The Mandriva Flash has been launched on december the 7th and became immediatly a big success, thus our delivery platform ran out of stock.
New Mandriva Flash keys will be delivered by the first week of january and the orders will be processed in the meantime.

Finaly, if you want to purchase another Mandriva Flash do not forget you have only a few days more to get benefit from the special introductory price at 59 euros / USD 69 on http://store.mandriva.com

Thank you for your interest in our products and sorry again for this delay.

The Mandriva online team.
http://www.mandriva.com/en/company/contact/customercare

Arghhh!

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XPfails – luggable – OUTLOOK

Tuesday, January 2, 2007

Outlook, aka LookOut, takes an error in a reminder. It hangs up. Eventually performance goes to zero. And MSWORD locks up. Arghhh! Reboot required. Lost time ~30 minutes to close up and restart. And, about 2 hours running at reduced throughput. Arghh!

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XPfails – luggable – WSOD is back

Sunday, December 31, 2006

I was using NEO OBJECTS EIGHT to edit my web site for simplyaligned doe to emerge next month. The White Screen Of Death occurred with a short wait rebooted. Argh! I don’t now what I lost. I suspect I lost all the changes I had made, but not saved, to the new site.

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XPfails – luggable – PAYTRUST website won’t authenticate

Friday, December 29, 2006

I actually had to call their support and undergo a lot of pain “authenticating”. Will someone please tell me how knowing my details authenticates me? Now, if they said “we’ll call you back”, then I might believe it. Asking me my address and phone number and email address doesn’t “authenticate” squat.

And, don’t tell me you are “doing it for my protection”! That’s Barbara Striesand. They’re doing it for their protection.

No explanation of why it worked yesterday but not today. No explanation of why it didn’t work today. They want me to use IE (I don’t!) Telling me that their site is not “optimized” for Firefox or Opera.

PFooey.

And, that they were voted the best bill payment service. By who, their employees.

The only reason, I put up with this … (PayMyBills was acquired by the competitor Paytrust after I selected PMB over PayT. Subsequently acquired by Quicken.) … is that they are the only service that will receive a paper bill, scan it, and email me. And, they keep pushing ebilling!

Their idea of ebilling is that I do all the work and setup an online account with a biller. Then turn over all that authentication information to them so that they can then go pretend that they are me. I don’t think so!

Any way, if there was a competitor, I’d sure consider it.

Arghh!

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TECHNOLOGY: ROBOFORM continues to prove its worth

Wednesday, December 27, 2006

I have complicated web form that I fill out often. So today, (DUH what took so long), I said “Hmm, wonder if roboform can do this. Even in part would be helpful.” Bingo! I created an extra identity. And, tested it. Seems to work right the first time. Sigh, what was I thinking all along?

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TECHNOLOGY: LINUTOP (linux desktop) for $400 that might be better than a desktop or notebook?

Tuesday, December 26, 2006

Reinke,

Thank you for your mail,
We are updating the web site and it should answer most of your questions. our street price for one unit is € 280 without VAT, plus shipping, and lower by quantity. We will notify you for ordering, within 2 months

MERRY CHRISTMAS and HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Best Regards,
Frederic Baille (Paris)
www.linutop.com

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TECHNOLOGY: Don’t like how Picasa doesn’t work with filenames

Monday, December 25, 2006

http://picasa.google.com/

Picasa

***Begin Quote***

Picasa is a free software download from Google that helps you:

* Locate and organize all the photos on your computer.
* Edit and add effects to your photos with a few simple clicks.
* Share your photos with others through email, prints, and on the web

***End Quote***

Well, I just found something I don’t like. It doesn’t bring the file name in with the picture. I collect pictures of my fellow Jaspers when I find them. I carefully put their name and class year as part of the filename. So why does Picasa make me title them after it sucks in my files. Arghh!

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RANT: Learn from the WW1 death of Henry Gunther who died one minute before peace was declared

Monday, December 25, 2006

http://www.lewrockwell.com/vance/vance100.html

They Won’t Be Home for Christmas
by Laurence M. Vance

*** begin quote ***

The war in Iraq is lost. Although the president won’t admit that we are losing, he did recently acknowledge: “We’re not winning.” But the war has been lost for some time now. Even many who supported the initial invasion would agree with those of us who opposed the war from the very beginning that the point has long since passed the place where the United States could claim “victory” in Iraq. That point can now be measured in years. Wasn’t it in 2003 that Bush made the claim, in front of a “Mission Accomplished” banner, that “the United States and our allies have prevailed”? Although the death of every American soldier in Iraq has been a tragic waste of human life, every day that this senseless war continues makes the deaths of U.S. servicemen even more of a heartrending tragedy.

*** end quote ***

Get the boys and girls home now! It’s a mess. But, it’s now the Iraqis’ mess.

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