I was helping a friend set up her new iBook MacBook yesterday, and we were unable to get iChat to log in to her Google Talk account. We kept seeing this error: iChat can’t log in to talk.google.com because your login ID or password is incorrect. And this XMPP error was logged to Console: iChatAgent[33567] …
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How to display the latest blog post on a WordPress page
There are a lot of ways to display the latest blog post. They’re all complicated and ugly. I made a very simple WordPress plugin to handle this. It has no settings or options. All you do is stick [get_latest_post] where you want the post to go. You get markup like this, which you can style …
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Dear Adobe: please don’t crash while logging
I recently upgraded my copy of Creative Suite to CS5. When you install CS5 Design Premium, you don’t just get Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator and the like. You also get a ton of other bits, like Adobe Help (despite the existence of a built-in Help Viewer), Adobe Application Manager and CS5ServiceManager. Many of these strike me …
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Why UBB charges are bullshit
Cogeco charges $1.50 per GB. Amazon charges 14¢ per GB. Netflix estimates they pay 3¢/GB. Netflix figures the ISPs’ cost per GB is under a penny. So they’re charging 15,000% markup. 15,000%.
stamps.com, now featuring time travel
Looks like stamps.com borrowed the USPS’s time machine:
Perhaps MBNA isn’t the best place to keep your money
After all, they don’t seem to be responsible enough to renew their SSL certificate.
Eric Schmidt at DLD
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USPS has a time machine?
Expected Delivery Date: January 12, 2011 Class: First-Class Mail® Service(s): Certified Mail™ Return Receipt Electronic Status: Arrival at Unit Your item arrived at 5:26 am on January 14, 2011 in NEW YORK, NY 10019. The Postal Service expects to deliver the item on Wednesday, January 12, 2011. Information, if available, is updated periodically throughout the …