In my last post I lamented the near lack of free internet in Las Vegas and how I couldn’t see paying for it. I was planning on schlepping my laptop to the few free hotspots, just to check my email a time or two.
My husband said I should just bite the bullet and pay for it since I wouldn’t be happy if I didn’t. And he was ever… Continue reading
I am getting ready to leave for Las Vegas on Monday and I realized that the hotel where we are staying does not have free wireless access. In fact, it is rather expensive, especially since I am used to being able to go almost anywhere and get free wireless access. Fort Wayne is an amazingly progressive town and has had many free wireless access points for a very long time… Continue reading | 2 Comments
So as you know from my first post on this “Google Blogger vs. WordPress, Blog Wars Part 1: The Test“, I am reviewing and evaluating several different blog engines, with an emphasis on Google Blogger and WordPress (.com and .org). You can see my previous post to see the different blogs in action. And I’m sure this is going to be a large post, just reviewing the Blogger… Continue reading | 14 Comments
I have recently gotten into blogging and in the process, wanted to determine which blog engine I felt was best. So I created a working blog in the following engines:
Test of slashdigglicious plugin for social buttons. See the bottom of each of my posts now. It has Slashdot, Digg, Reddit, del.icio.us, facebook, technorati and Google bookmarks.
I tested digging a post and it worked and I tested putting a post on facebook and that worked too. Very interesting, putting it on facebook, I have not put a post on facebook before but it worked well.
You can… Continue reading
12/12/09 UPDATE: OK, it appears JibJab got rid of my videos, I suppose because I haven’t logged in for quite a while. Here is a new one I just made with Sean and his brothers. I plan an update post on JibJab soon, but for now, enjoy this:)
JibJab lets you upload a picture of your face and… Continue reading | 4 Comments
Well I’m sure you all are getting as sick of the repeated speculations as to what really happened with Skype. So am I.
In many ways, it is unfortunate that so much has been written about the Skype outage, to the point that now that people are looking at it from a broader perspective, such as why did their communication fail, or how companies need to review their backup… Continue reading
We use Skype and we purchased the SkypeOut plan for unlimited calling in the U.S. and Canada and we buy Skype minutes to call New Zealand since my husband’s family lives there. We also use it to talk to his brother in Italy and we use the video sometimes too, which is really nice.
I like Skype a lot and have been a strong supporter of Skype. And it… Continue reading
In my post of August 8, I wrote about the very cool Library Genius 2.0 t-shirts that Kay Gregg and Sean Robinson of the Allen County Public Library created for the Learning 2.0 program for the library staff that the ACPL is going to kick off on Sept 19 when Stephen Abrams, VP of Innovation at SirsiDynix comes to speak on Library 2.0 at the ACPL. By the way, this… Continue reading
I just have to say that I really, really, really want one of these cars! You can see them at the Smart Car website. They cost under $12,000 for the basic model, up to under $17,000 for the Smart fortwo Passion Cabrio which is a tricked-out convertible model. I like the middle of the road model, the smart fortwo passion, for… Continue reading | 3 Comments
Skype appears to be starting to become available. I have been able to access it consistently for several hours. But it is hard to find out how many people are still without Skype and if you cannot get Skype yet, please send me a comment so we can keep track of what the real picture is.
Skype has not been forthcoming at all with what the problem is and… Continue reading | 4 Comments
Well I got up this morning and despite my hopes that Skype would be up, especially since it was partly up last night, no such luck. I did see it briefly flicker on this morning (for about 15 seconds), but essentially it is completely unavailable for me.
Interestingly enough, in my Skype Yahoo News feed, there is a big headline from Infoword that says Outage of Skype’s VoIP
Skype is up again! Well, it is fluctuating on and off but it appears to be getting there. Skype Heartbeat issued this statement at 2:15am GMT saying essentially that they are working on the problem and feel they are making progress (could they say any less and still issue a statement?).
I’m going to bed and hopefully it will be good to go tomorrow morning. And I do… Continue reading | 3 Comments
Well, there has been an overwhelming interest in my last post about Skype being down. So I thought I would do a little research for people into what alternatives there were. Gizmo seems to be the big competitor and is highly regarded. Here is a great article by ZDNet on Skype vs. Gizmo and the comments are equally interesting. Here is a list of some popular voip… Continue reading | 1 Comment
We had a big thunderstorm/tornado warning last night and lost power several times so I disconnected my computer. When I reconnected it this morning (and reset a couple of power strips), everything was fine except Skype would not connect. I wondered what was going on, but was just happy to be all up and running except for that so I just let it go and kept waiting for it to… Continue reading | 7 Comments
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