Archive for June, 2009

I’ll make this very brief… mostly because I’m tired and ticked at two usual suspects. Last week, I updated my PayPal profile, removing an old default address. Tonight, I bought something on eBay. Used PayPal to checkout. Also used an eBay coupon. To my chagrin, I noticed the transaction went through, with my old erroneous [...]

I’m going to go out on a limb here, and just flat out say it: DEMO is overpriced. It’s no secret that MechaWorks will be announcing a new product later this year. And, in this economy, paying $18,500 for a staffed stage, and a kiosk in a conference… is just something we don’t think is [...]

This weekend, PhoneCashback.net Later this week, MobileEdition (for real’s this time, unless Apple decides to be a sadist once again). End of the week, something completely different. All three are relatively in the can, so we expect this to go without a hitch. All for now… back to sitting on a beach, earning twenty percent.

You might have seen a blog maintenance notice. If you don’t, great! That means you’re on our new server, powered by HostGator. We’ve signed up with HostGator because, while we’ve been growing, so have they. HostGator now delivers hosting that is both speedy and resilient… with a support team to match. We’ve been testing them [...]

As I noted earlier in the morning on Twitter, we’re doing an in-town office move Monday. So, I’m up late preparing for a smooth transition tomorrow. Anyways, on to the post… Sunday’s are becoming more of a day of rest for me. As a recovering workaholic, I don’t really have that balance down quite yet. [...]

Okay, taking a page from the deals at CheapenGadget.com, I’ve written a how-to for getting the Volt for only $28,000. That’s less than the cost of Saturn’s VUE hybrid… which doesn’t happen to be electric. And, it’s only $6,000 more than the Toyota Prius 3G (seriously, they need to stop with the 3G references, it [...]

Sprint has crowned me the first Palm Pre owner on their Relay Data-only plan. Unfortunately, being on the bleeding edge of things isn’t so easy. Sprint didn’t relay (no pun) the activation protocol to the Relay team… so they’re trying to figure out how we’re going to get activated. Obviously, Sprint wants to keep Relay [...]

As the title says, MechaWorks is building an Apple site. Because of my proximity to Apple however, I will have no editorial relations with the site. The news will not be driven, or touched by me… beyond any general advice and council (which, I would give to anyone, anyways). More details on it will be [...]

Not as bad as Trend Micro, but just about. I specifically told Panda to not auto-quarantine items, but instead to ask about each instance. Like other antivirus software, it now treats tracking cookies as an infection (which I hate, since it falsely tries to convince uninformed users about the importance of their antivirus software). This [...]

Long story short, rather than doing something productive, I’m undoing a mess created by the near-final beta of Trend Micro for Windows 7. I was installing the betas in a random pattern across the machines, to find out which one would give me the most headache. And, we have a winner! Long story short, some [...]