Recently, I was trying to make reservations on Southwest Airlines’ website using Firefox. For the life of me, I was not able to make it work. Yes, I’m using the current version of Firefox. Maybe that’s the problem. All I ...
Read More »Oreck XL Air Purifier review
Have you seen the Oreck ProShield™ Plus Air Purifier with Helios Shield™ infomercial on TV? I did too. And since I’m a victim of advertising, I decided to order it and try it out. The unit is approximate the size ...
Read More »Buffalo TeraStation NAS Failure Recovery
So it’s been 3 years since I originally reviewed the Buffalo TeraStation NAS RAID drive I got. As you can see from the picture, the red light indicates a drive failure. The firmware automatically found the error and indicated the ...
Read More »Palm Pre Bus Ad
According to Gartner, at the end of 2009, Palm WebOS still has only 0.7% of the global smartphone market. In the same 1 year period, iPhone went from 8.2% to 14.4%, Google Android from 0.5% to 3.9% and RIM went ...
Read More »Mobigamedepot.com Opens
Regular readers of this blog may have noticed a reduction of posts here. The reason for this has been that I’ve been working on Palm WebOS games and a corresponding website mobigamedepot.com. This new website will be the portal for ...
Read More »Splashscreen WordPress Plugin Version 0.30
Since the last release of my WordPress plugin Splashscreen version 0.20, there’s been many requests for new features. You may also want to read the original post for version 0.10 for completeness. One of the most requested feature was to ...
Read More »Sexy Voki Speaking Character
While setting up my Google Voice account, I found a link to a website called Voki that has a text to speech app. This app can be used to create your voicemail greeting for Google Voice. They have a bunch ...
Read More »Google Voice Features and Impressions
I had a dream. In this dream, there was a service that allowed me to have just one phone number which would ring any or all my phones (cell, home, work) and even allow me to make long distance calls. ...
Read More »PHP strtotime Bug Workaround
If you’re not into coding in PHP, skip this post and read the next one. A few months ago, I was working on some PHP code and found a bug in the strtotime function in PHP version 4.3.11. It’s been ...
Read More »Redbox Comes to LA
Although the original company was partly owned by McDonald’s, Coinstar bought them out and created redbox. It’s only very recently that they have put their new DVD rental machines (made by Flextronics – also manufactures Zune, Xbox 360) at Southern ...
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