Why I cancelled my PayPal account
On 2009/03/30
lastpass was recently recommended to my by Ed Bott as a multiplatform password manager. I like lastpass a lot. It does exactly what I wanted and needed and it is free. They have a product LastPass Premium which adds functionality—BlackBerry app and YubiKey [...]
Google Image Ripper, a better image search tool
On 2009/03/30
When I need to find a graphic image—photo, picture, or drawing— I used to use Google’s Images search. However, there is an alternative interface, Google Image Ripper, that improves on Google.
Google Image Ripper (GIR) saves steps. GIR serves up the images. Google Images search serves up [...]
Do you overpay for audio and video components?
On 2009/03/28
Many people equate price with quality. Their mental equation must be something like, “higher price = better product.” I have been a skeptic about this equation for as long as I can remember.
A recent Consumerist.com post Do Coat Hangers Sound as Good as Monster Cables? highlighted how [...]
I’m a PC. I’m a Mac and I cost a lot more.
On 2009/03/27
Microsoft is running new video ads, Lauren is one, that highlight the affordability of Windows computers compared to Macs. The ad is quite good, the best that Microsoft has done in recent memory.
Mac enthusiasts are likely to counter that they get value for the extra expense—simplicity of use, [...]
Checking if your email was sent
On 2009/03/26
You hit the Send button but did your email provider really get the message and send it? I always bcc myself (with a different personal email address) to see. If I get the message in my other email account, I can be assured it was sent.
Cablevision redeems itself
On 2009/03/26
If the rest of the world treated me this way I would feel like royalty.
My post of March 21, 2009, Another angry Cablevision customer, recounts my frustrating and anger inducing experience talking with the billing department about what happened after the technical department fixed a problem with my service.
Yesterday I was [...]
Another angry Cablevision customer
On 2009/03/21
Cablevision is my cable company. They provide me with three services—cable TV, Internet service and telephony, respectively Optimum IO TV, Optimum Online, and Optimum Voice. I used to be a happy customer, even a fan of Cablevision. They have top-notch, often bleeding edge technology and good technical support. What’s not for a geek like me to like—their billing department!
All the good will they built up over more than twenty years was extinguished by my encounter with their billing department.
Gmail adds oops button – Undo Send
On 2009/03/20
The engineers at Gmail are continually tweaking Gmail, adding new features. These features are nice additions, but I wonder if they aren’t muddying the application with too many features.
Undo Send, the latest change, adds the ability to stop a message from being sent after you click on the Send button. The undo capability lasts a few [...]
I never needed tech support for a book
On 2009/03/18
My three-week love affair with the Kindle 2 ended when it slipped off a couch and gently fell 20 inches to a carpeted floor. The display was corrupted by this fall. The upper 20% of the screen was a useless jumble. The lower 80% had a dark grey cast and vertical lines that [...]
Kindle 2 – The screen breaks
On 2009/03/17
Yesterday my Kindle 2′s display went bonkers. I have included a couple of photos below. I tried resetting the device by holding the power switch in the right-most position for 30 seconds, twice, without affect.
I called Amazon’s customer service. …
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