I thought I’d seen it all until this WASHINGTON – US coffee chain Starbucks on Wednesday began allowing customers in its US stores to keep their cash and credit cards in their wallets and pay for their drinks with mobile phones. Starbucks said the mobile payment system, which has been tested in selected cities since … Read more
so over the past month my computer had decided that being made of fail, was grand, but it’s lenovo running microsoft windows, so you’d expect things to generally suck, right? yeah, except not on the magnitude of this. My wireless adapter was sorta being a pain in the ass, since my last trip to the … Read more
So yesterday everyone and their mother was wining about facebook shutting down but sadly, it’s not so please do be shutting your mouth and do your research before you wine. More proof that the claim was false can be found right over here so in short, please get your facts straight before believing things like … Read more
people always ask me, why won’t you buy a mac. My simple answer, I’m happy with what I’ve got. If I want to play in the mac environment I’ll crank it up in a VM. Well, I’ve found another reason. Reading RSS feeds, we see that an apple service provider is suing a customer for … Read more
I’d like to state for the record that microsoft office outlook, is a pain in the ass. I installed. google apps sync as we were going to use google apps to provide our mailing services, (on a professional level). Ever since then outlook’s decided, that in it’s infinant wisdom that running multiple IMap accounts under … Read more
Since I’m lazy, have the following small notes to three companies, crammed into one post, and in list format. Freedom scientific it’s good practice not to break your access to windows mobile applications right after an upgrade. Windows mobile: When your told to send mail on an alternate port, actually doing it, without throwing 7 … Read more
I read this earlier today on james blog. Then I ran across this story that in it’s summary stated Yahoo will not shut down Delicious and instead is trying to sell it to another company. At least, that’s what Yahoo wrote on the Delicious blog Friday, a day after reports circulated that it planned to … Read more
as posted previously I threw a clue by 4 at the Ottawa citizen and 1310 news regarding their assumption that the iphone was specially designed for the blind. I wasn’t disputing the fact that the IPhone wasn’t a barrier remover and hasn’t enhanced the lives of blind users. I’m saying that, their was no special … Read more
So when I got home today, under a lot of stress, still going through mild bouts of mind implosions, still am, to this hour, I decide, I’ll take a shower, then crank up the computer and go through e-mail, twitter, etc. etc. etc. Come to realize, I had no dsl sync, at all. I swore … Read more
so a couple of days ago, the fitchburg state university student network started having massive issues that were made of utter failure. Packet loss, dropping us on the floor, horrid DNS resolution, etc. etc. etc. We chocked it up to students on this router being bandwidth hogs, and generally a detriment to the ability for … Read more