Archive for the ‘Internet’ Category
Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
So I'm trying to test this new site that was passed along to me: DownForEveryoneOrJustMe.com and am experiencing trouble finding sites that could be potentially "down". (Internet, you are just too perfect today.) But finally found one with one of my favorite radio stations, WFMU. When I tried streaming their ...
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Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
Looks like Twitter is down again for database maintenance. They have come up with this humdinger of a "be right back" image. I have yet to scope the "failwhale" recently.
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Monday, November 10th, 2008
Last Friday I clicked on Twitter>>Find people>>Search, typed in a name and hit enter. And today it says the same thing it did then:
This feature is temporarily disabled.
Thanks for your patience while we work to restore it.
And there is an image of a bird staring down a bug. What ...
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Friday, October 31st, 2008
A text message appeared on my iPhone yesterday and shortly thereafter came an email stating that AT&T is finally offering up free Wi-Fi to iPhone customers "at thousands of hotspots". Here are the instructions to connect if you happen across one:
Activate Wi-Fi from the settings icon on your iPhone.
Select “attwifi” ...
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Monday, October 27th, 2008
Update: http://www.netflix.com/silverlightoptin is the link to sign up for the Mac Beta, right now.
It's about time. Crunch Gear says Netflix will enable its "Watch Instantly" feature for Intel Macs by year's end by utilizing Silverlight. Looks like Netflix will still use DRM, but at least those Netflix subscribers with ...
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Wednesday, October 15th, 2008
If spammers can spam it, they are going to spam it. So it goes with Twitter. I'm sure many already deal with this, but today is the first I've seen of it as three or four nonsensical Twitter accounts have started to "follow" me, thus resulting in an email notification. ...
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Tuesday, October 14th, 2008
Considering following someone on The Twitter? Check out Follow Cost. This snappy tool asks: "How annoying will it be to follow blank on Twitter?" Blank is where you type in who you are pondering to follow on The Twitter and Follow Cost will then spit out the average updates ...
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Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
Seth MacFarlane is the creator of Family Guy, but you most likely know that. He's also doing short online animations called Seth MacFarlane's Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy (as embedded above). Also, the season premier of Family Guy is below.
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Friday, September 26th, 2008
Damn you Twitter. You are always coming up with blog worthy stuff. This time it is some spiffy election page. It basically a big filter to show only election related tweets, you know, tweets with the candidates and/or VP candidates names in them. And the interface is slick because it ...
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Thursday, September 25th, 2008
What do you know, Twitter issues. When I try going to twitter it says:
Authorization Required
This server could not verify that you are authorized to access the document requested. Either you supplied the wrong credentials (e.g., bad password), or your browser doesn't understand how to supply the credentials required.
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