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Apple iCloud or iClobber?
Just when you thought Microsoft Outlook was frustrating enough, along comes Apple iCloud to clobber your contacts and calendars – and all at the same time! Unlike other sync programs that screw up...
View ArticleBreaking News: Instagram’s “Suicide Note”?
Thanks to a tip-off from a friend on Facebook, it seems that Instagram’s new policy, which becomes effective 16 January 2013, states that it has the right to sell your photos without your knowledge and...
View ArticleThe National Rifle Association (NRA) Are Idiots (Stupid Marketing Tricks File)
The National Rifle Association will never, ever, get a dime of money from me voluntarily. I have nothing against the 2nd Amendment. I have nothing against gun ownership. I think gun control is an...
View ArticleHow to Lose Customers and Adversely Influence People
Dale Carnegie wrote the famous book How To Win Friends and Influence People (also available in Kindle edition). According to Wikipedia, “it has sold 15 million copies world-wide”. That’s all well and...
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What’s Important To You?
Metric measuring tape (image by Zapyon) I previously wrote in “Projects, Process Improvements, Etc., But What of the Intangibles?“: More to the point, are you measuring what is important? Chance are,...
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A Survey? Really? Do You Think That Is Appropriate?
Subject: Customer Service and My Change in [Service] Hello [Company name], I contacted your company’s customer services yesterday in order to [change something about my service]. It is handy that I...
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Why I Still Might Leave Facebook (and Take My Business Page With Me)
I honestly wasn’t planning on posting anything today, but this morning was when “it” happened. I get it, Zuckerberg. Facebook is free, which means I’m not the enduser but the product. I also get...
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Is the NSA in Your (Electronic) Wallet?
Image by Daniel Kroc Privacy Damage The NSA is on the net The NSA is on the net Seeking games and easy web targets Got to keep the spooks on the path The NSA is in email The NSA is in email The emails...
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Sellers: Know What You’re Selling, and Why eBay Is Such a Pain
eBbay sign outside of eBay HQ Photo by Denis Grgecic Valput (Samoborac) There really are some things you would think would be common sense. If you sell a car, I would think that knowing the horse...
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gPodder Review (Now That iTunes Is Stupid-er)
Now that iTunes is officially stupid, it did not take me long to start searching for an alternative, and hopefully one that works on both Windows and Linux. The last iTunes update populated every...
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Is Snow Leopard Apple’s XP?
How a dumb business strategy turns unethical and makes Apple look stupid In a rather scathingly toned article, TechEYE.net tells us that “Apple betrays its Snow Leopard users“. The problem I have with...
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No-IP Dynamic DNS Service Partially Shut Down — By Microsoft?
Since when is Microsoft part of the government again? Microsoft security forces, anyone? OK, I was minding my own business today (for a change, perhaps), and I wasn’t of a mind to post anything, but...
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Weekend Special: Microsoft Ships Another Defective Patch KB293651 and Hides...
You had nothing better planned for Labor Day weekend, right? The way I see it, there isn’t any other explanation for this other than Microsoft engineers rushing something out the door before the Labor...
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Nelnet Is Stupid
Some companies would have made Ernestine proud. What Nelnet’s logo should look like We’re the phone company. We don’t care; we don’t have to. ~ Lilly Tomlin as Ernestine, the telephone operator You...
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Moronic Monday: Avast Deserves Being Ditched For Spying on You
Seriously, there is shaky, and then there is unethical! It is one thing for some piece of freeware/shareware sneaking on a toolbar or some other potentially unwanted program (PUP), but it is another...
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Microsoft and Apple Updates Racing Towards the Bottom
Updates are important, but if you keep screwing them up who is going to do it? We’ve all heard the mantra that updates keep us secure, updates fix those nasty bugs, and updates are good for us. Well,...
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Why I Still Might Leave Facebook (and Take My Business Page With Me)
I honestly wasn’t planning on posting anything today, but this morning was when “it” happened. I get it, Zuckerberg. Facebook is free, which means I’m not the enduser but the product. I also get...
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