My wife was doing a little on-line shopping today on her Mac and ran into a couple of sites that wouldn’t accept her credit card information. The transactions failed in both Firefox and Safari. They were small, local shops, not national retailers, and the credit card information was accepted just fine working in Firefox on…
Flickr is raising the limits on their accounts. Pro users have no limit, and free users can upload 100MB per month. There are also some details on how you can buy a pro membership for someone, even if they don’t currently have any kind of Flickr account. Angela and I have thousands of photos, imagine what…
I had to laugh when reading this column comparing blackberry users to smokers, in terms of the annoyance caused. As a blackberry user myself, it got my attention, but as I read it I realized that this was basically the same column I’ve read about cell phone users, and the bottom line was the same….
Actually, it’s a question about the shared items RSS feed. I subscribed to Scoble’s Shared items in Bloglines the other day and discovered something odd. Instead of the title of each post showing as the title, the title of the original blog shows as the post title. That makes scanning the feed a lot harder…
The local newspaper announced the winners of their annual photo contest and I am very proud that out of 6000 entries, my wife was given honorable mention. Nice job Angela! They’ve run this contest for a few years now, and we generally enter it without much success. The whole process is sort of odd to…
Long-time readers of this blog know that I’ve had my share of issues with hosting companies over the years. That’s why yesterday morning I got a somewhat pleasant surprise. My current provider was doing some network maintenance over night, and, apparently, ran into some problems with the upstream provider in the process. Now, this was…