http://www.google.com/support/cloudprint/?hl=en
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Troubleshooting Google Cloud Print
Why is my document not printing?
Why can’t I print to my cloud printer from Chrome?
For now Google Cloud Print is only available in mobile devices such as smart phones and Chrome notebooks.
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Argh!
So after much ado about a FUTURE service!
I find out about it’ll work “real soon now”.
Great idea.
Just not useful … yet
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I’m not a fake Kate! Facebook bans royal bride’s namesake for being an imposter (but boyfriend Jonathan Ross can keep using his account)
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
Last updated at 5:52 PM on 24th January 2011
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Banned: Kate Middleton has had her Facebook account suspended after being accused of impersonating Prince William’s fiancée
Facebook has accused a woman of being an impostor and suspended her account – because she shares her name with Prince William’s future bride.
Healthcare assistant Kate Middleton, 29, has been locked out since last Thursday after the social network site claimed she had registered under a fake name.
Ironically, Miss Middleton’s partner Jonathan Ross has not been accused of being a fake, despite sharing his name with the television presenter.
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This is going to get interesting. Especially since FACEBOOK is being touted as the arbiter of identity.
Any competent Information Security practicioner could have predicted that “NAME” would not be a unique identifier. Or, any combination of LNAME, FNAME, LNAME||FNAME, or even if you throw in SUFFIX, TITLE, MI, or NICKNAME.
Sigh!
I learned this lesson in High School — too many moon ago — when the Good Christian Brothers had to revamp their “information systems” — manual on clay tablets — to accommodate identical twins Peter and Paul. It was a hoot. They were the first twins I remember meeting. (You really count Playboy twins as having been “met”. Yeah, I know TMI!)
So you can establish “identity” with any combination of name, email, phone number, or even address.
How does the internet establish identity?
I have, always, thought that the ISPs were absolutely best suited to provide “identification”.
Of course, they never agreed. But when there is a credit card transaction, you actually have something that you can hang your hat on.
It doesn’t assure that you can say it is a “unitary id”. I can, and do have, multiple ISP accounts paid for separately on different credit cards for what would be “multiple identities”.
But, it’s better than depending upon FACEBOOK.
FACEBOOK has even abandoned requiring College email accounts, so even they have realized the flaws in their original design.
What to do? What will they do?
Bottom line: Nobody does nothing! And, the problem goes on.
This is important because IF the ISPs stepped up, we could have a good age differentiator on the internet. But no one cares much! Unless you’re a parent.
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I use a Google Site as an overflow area for my alumni ezine.
But it’s frustrating.
Take for instance, tables.
A basic concept.
SITES requires you to use HTML to get it working.
Not User friendly.
APPLE’s MOBILEME and IWEB isn’t much better.
Argh!
And, I hate the thought of investing a lot of time, effort, and attention on something that may go away of change.
Argh!
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I signed up for this a while ago. And, for a variety of reasons, forgot about it. Found some of my left over labels. Hey, let’s see if the service is still up.
Yup! I was. Yay!
So, I “registered” one. And, found out it forgot me. (?)
“call 1-800-yeah-right”
I don’t do phone in “customer non-service”. My blood pressure can’t stand it. It has to be really really important for me to endure that particular hell.
From what I remember, it only had one level of service. And, there was zero charge for recovery. (I know I had one.) Now before you “tag” any thing, make sure you’re willing to pay 50$ for it’s return. Argh!
I don’t like folks that suck you in and then change the game after you’ve bought in. I had to buy the labels. If they had presented this value equation, then I’d have passed.
NOTRECOMMENDED!
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No secret I use a lot of email accounts. For a purpose. For a community. For relatives. For friends. For projects.
Interesting that some ISPs (i.e., Saint Peter’s University Hospital and Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital) offer free wifi.
Unfortunately, like most things you get for “free”, they both have their own “unique” opportunities.
Not everyone has a VWBBIE (i.e., a Verizon Wireless Broad Band Service for 70$/month) or an IPAD with the AT&T 3G turned on!
SPUH doesn’t permit email. I chatted with a fellow nerd from a past employment and he had no idea why or even who “decreed” this. But the diktat couldn’t be overturned.
Now clearly with web access, you can use the web front end that most email providers have. But that’s not a very efficient or effective imho. Your really want a unified mailbox for the different account with the capability to send from the correct account.
GMAIL to the rescue.
It was trivial to set this up so that “emergency” could read and write in the “important” accounts.
Now when I need it, I have it.
Kudos to GMAIL.
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http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/01/02/0233231/Some-Hotmail-Accounts-Wiped
Technology: Some Hotmail Accounts Wiped
Posted by Soulskill on Sunday January 02, @08:21AM
from the you-didn’t-need-that,-right? dept.
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“PC Magazine reports that many Hotmail accounts have lost all their emails. Users’ entire email histories have apparently been lost. ‘Users can still log in sans issue. However, they arrive at empty inboxes: No custom folders, no messages in “Sent” or “Deleted,” nothing. As one might expect, the abruptness (and unexpectedness) of the purge has left some of Hotmail’s long-time users a bit in the dark.'”
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You can’t trust vendors!
Have your own domain. Keep your own email archives. And, plan a backup strategy.
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In my new burst of “religion” … … I always “worshiped” at the “Church of Murphy” … as in “Murphy’s Law” … … (no disrespect intended; I let you know when I intend to be disrespectful. I usually “slouch”. That’s an inside joke with my fellow Prepsters.) … anyway, after the recent failure of my (NOTRECOMMENDED) Mac Book Air Version 1.1, I have been improving upon my paradigms, memes, as well as procedures and practices.
• Backing up bookmarks. Used to use XMARKS, but they went broke. Came back to life under LASTPASS, but the old free data was nuked. (Argh!) So, I pick GMARKS add in to FIREFOX3 which uses the GOOGLE_BOOKMARKS service, (no need to have too many moving parts and Google will always be my free friend. Won’t they?) But, I’m moving to CHROME from Firefox (It “swallowed the pig” too many times. Hogged memory. And THUNDERBIRD is on probation.) And I can figure out how to move my CHROME bookmarks into GOOGLE_BOOKMARKS. I’ve got the html export file but where’s the insert button. Help says to use the GOOGLE_TOOLBAR button. But that’s not on CHROME?
• GOOGLE_TOOLBAR is only for FIREFOX and INTERNETEXPLORER?
Ahh, such is life on the “bleeding edge”. Unfortunately, I did not think I was on that edge but six months back.
Argh!
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Update: So being the smart fat old white guy injineer, I figured I’d just bring up FIREFOX, install the GOOGLE_TOOLBAR, and import the the file. Problem solved. And, I’d call it a “work around”. You know the joke about Omar the fat man’s tailor! “Just walk this way”. So, quick like a bunny, up goes FIREFOX, download the GOOGLE_TOOLBAR, install, restart. And SHAZAAM! No toolbar? Argh!
So I’m off to find another solution. Argh! I hate technology.
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http://lifehacker.com/5659358/google-shuts-down-goog+411
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Google is closing 1-800-GOOG-411, their first speech recognition service that acted as a free “voice-powered directory assistance”, on November 12.
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BING 1-800-246-4411
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Why do I suspect the phone companies are protecting a very lucrative income stream?
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http://lifehacker.com/5603492/create-a-better-emergency-contact-number-with-google-voice
Create a Better Emergency Contact Number with Google Voice
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A lot of us have more than one Google account (in fact, Google just launched a new feature specifically for multiple account owners), so the idea would be that you set up one of your non-primary accounts with Google Voice, then make that number, when called, ring everyone you’d consider an emergency contact—maybe your significant other, your parents, your sister.
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I’ll try it.
My samsung phone displays “ice calling” when any of the three people I have listed call or texts me. It’s confusing.
We’ll see it it works.
I have a “spare” GV#. So what I’ll have to do is to schedule the authentication with my four ice (f,p,m,w) contacts and my four home (mc, ec, h, s). So, when some one call ICE it’ll ring all of them. That’s a real E!
First limit. You can only forward to six phones. And, each of the numbers has to be validated.
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