One of my friends (hey Brad!) asked me a while ago if I had seen the Battlestar Galactica. We don’t have cable TV, so no I haven’t. But I just watched the first two seasons in 43 minutes. I downloaded Battlestar Galactica: The Story So Far into iTunes. It’s a 465MB file, but it looks […]
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Reason #603 to Use Your Own Domain Name
Another example of why using your own domain name is better than relying on free services out there. Change iTunes feed for Odeo podcast This user was using Odeo to create her podcast. Now she’s stuck using them, since Apple’s iTunes podcast directory has that URL. And Odeo doesn’t provide a way to get out […]
Reason #602 to Use Your Own Domain Name
Like I wrote in Investing in a Deadend, here’s another reason to only create content (your writing, photos, music, or movies) in a web space that is under your direct control so that you can easily move to another web host if you need to. WordPress.com is giving people only 7 hours to remove content […]
Investing in a Deadend
A friend of mine runs a blog at Blogware.com. Her site is at example.blogware.com. She recently went through the accumulated spam comments and blew them away. Unfortunately, she also blew away six months worth of trackbacks to her blog. I tried to re-trackback to it, and I can’t now, because I’ve been labeled as a […]
Re: Reality Check, I Am Not Part of the New Tech Savvy Generation
In Reality Check, I Am Not Part of the New Tech Savvy Generation, James R. Stoup shares his experience in getting a new Verizon cell phone. My wife and I have switched over to prepaid Tracfone phones. Other than getting lots of calls from the previous owner of my phone number, it’s been a lot […]
The verb you should hate
Watch out! A mega-zillionaire company’s lawyers might be coming after you. Do you “Google?” details Google’s lawyers’ thoughts that we the public shouldn’t use “Google” as a verb. Give me a break, has any company ever successfully fought off John and Jane Public from using their name as a verb? The answer is “Yes, I […]
The Best PDF Manager You Don’t Know You Have
Most people have a ton of PDF (Adobe Acrobat) files scattered on their hard drives. Most are downloaded from the web, some are receipts of purchases made from the web, some are actual documents created on your computer or sent to you by co-workers. How can you keep track of all of these PDF files? […]
Anyone noticing any problems with Google Pagerank?
I was just testing the new Firefox 2.0 beta, and I noticed that PlanetMike.com now has a Google PageRank of 7. (It was at 6 back in February.) Wohoo! So of course I tested my other sites. My Washington DC theatre information site has jumped from 4 to 6, above the other two DC area […]
OpenOffice 2.04 is out
OpenOffice 2.04 is out, and they finally have a version for OS X. The download page for OpenOffice OS X is much more nicely designed that the old international listing. I really like the question and answer process. Do you have Intel or a PowerMac, then they have a nice link to a page telling […]
Eudora is dead
Qualcomm is releasing Eudora to become a colloration with the open source project Thunderbird. Read the press releases from Qualcomm and the press release from Mozilla. So much for the exalted Real Soon update of Eudora. Now to figure out how to migrate tons of ancient mailboxes to Thunderbird.