To anticipate and prevent
I feel bad for blizzard. They made a great game (read: World of Warcraft) thats insanely popular, but they get a bad rap for it. They knew it would be a hit, but the amount of subscribers they were expecting to have in 18 months, they got in 2 months. This morning I was surfing…
So I recently started playing with Picasa2. Its rather nift photo program. It stores pictures nicely and also allows your to manipulate them. It has tons of features, camera import, print, email, collage, send over Hello, Send to Blog, Order Prints online, Export, Slideshow, Timeline, Gift CD (think slideshow with built in software and auto…
I’m impressed. The SBC DSL person I talked to actually admited to blocking port 25. As of March 1st — They are blocking SMTP unless you: A- Put in a special request or B- Have a static IP. The “help” article is here.
Ok, so I love Gmail who other than Google could manage to provide 1gig of space for your email and a sweet interface, for free. Regardless of all this, I actually use their service for POP/SMTP access from Thunderbird (PS. Great email client). Recently, while I’ve been getting my email via POP just fine, the…
Little bastereds. Set up thunderbird to use SSL over SMTP (port 465), which luckly Gmail supports. Email goes out just fine now. Also in the mean time I port scanned my local DSL gateway (64.170.193.254 if you want to scan them too) and it came back with a snark load of ports that are filtered…
Surfing the RSS feeds this morning and I found two new intresting topics to bitch about in the wide wonderful world (WWW) of technology. First off is a moving article from ars technica, about the new Google mobile search. Ars’ first and foremost has a problem picking a side, their poking at it claiming that…