I was sent an email by GoDaddy concerning verification of contact information for the domain igooglejobs.info. There were two peculiar things that stood out for me. #1) I am not a GoDaddy customer and have no domains with them. #2) I don’t recognize or know anything about the domain igooglejobs.info. In all 10+ years I …
Category Archive: Technology
Apr 09
T-Mobile MyTouch 4g Visual Voicemail Error Aggravations
I am writing this post for the sole purpose of making sure this gets into the Google search engines. I am pretty upset because I have been hit for the 3rd time in 2.5 weeks with this upsetting message: “Visual Voicemail: This phone was associated with a different account. Existing emails will be deleted.” Quite …
Apr 06
Adobe Premiere Elements 9 and DivX are Incompatible
I just lost nearly 2 days video editing time because I just now discovered that installing the DivX suite of software cripples Adobe Premiere Elements 9. I uninstalled so much software and reinstalled Adobe Premiere Elements 9 trying to figure out the problem. Not only that, Adobe Premiere Elements 9 kept locking up on me, …
Oct 13
First Impressions: TubeMogul Service Starts at $500
Before I even contacted TubeMogul (a video distribution web service), I suspected that I would be in for sticker-shock. It is always a bad sign when a company offers a free service but then list no prices for the upgraded versions. It is sort of like buying a car with no sticker price. It does …
Jul 15
ScanCafe Comes Through Again
I recently sent a batch of very old 110 and 126 negatives along with a variety of developed paper photographs collected over the years (some going back over 20+ years) to have them scanned and preserved digitally. Many of my negatives and paper photos were showing signs of age and I decided I better do …
Apr 14
I am Boycotting the Stock Photo Industry
This article first appeared on “The TurnKey Publisher’s Blog” ========= Because of my personal distaste and dismay of the Stock Photo industry which started with the Getty Images Extortion Demand Letter, I have taken steps to personally boycott the Stock Photo Industry and advocate not using stock photos altogether. The stock photo industry seems to …
Mar 16
Breaking in the Blackberry Pearl 8220 Flip Phone
It has been over a month since I upgraded my “old” Samsung cell phone to the Blackberry Pearl 8220 Flip Phone. I wanted to give the phone a good workout before I posted any comments. I have literally waited years for this type of phone to come out. For years, I have been looking for …
Mar 16
Looking forward to Microsoft Windows 7
I have been following the news on Microsoft Windows 7 and installed it on a backup machine to see what the hoopla was all about. It has gotten a lot of positive buzz on the Internet and I wanted to see if there were truly any differences. Although I did not find dramatic differences, the …
Feb 10
Ordered the Amazon Kindle 2 eBook Reader
In last year’s review of the original Kindle, I speculated that there would be a Kindle 2.0 and how user feedback would be incorporated into a newer model. I complained about the clumsy side buttons and speculated that there would be improved battery life. It looks like I was right on those two issues. Not …
Jan 21
My Concern for Apple CEO, Steve Jobs
I have read the “official” news releases regarding the medical status of Steve Jobs, Apple CEO. It could be said that I may be reading more into the news releases than is actually there but pictures do not lie. Steve Jobs looks terrible. Whatever he is going through is pretty serious. Despite Steve’s personality quirks, …