Here’s a couple of ways companies lose potential customers very quickly online:
Refuse to give quotes online — require that people call a salesperson to get more information, thereby negating the convenience of researching online.
Even better — ask a person all the information about a system or service, and after they’ve filled out two or [...]
I’ve been using Google Notebook off and on since last year, and it’s been extremely handy. I logged in yesterday to write up a to-do list, and noticed that something seemed… different.
And then I started reading all over the place that Google Notebook has been upgraded and made multi-lingual to boot. If you haven’t checked [...]
I do a lot of reviewing products, hardware and software, and I try as best I can to put the products through the paces thoroughly before writing up a review.
But. Still.
There’s only so much a few days or weeks of testing will really tell you. Readers want reviews of products more or less as [...]
So, 2007 has been “the year of travel” for me. Usually, I spend 99.999% of my work time at home, with my “main” computer handy.
When I travel, I used to just rsync my home directory to my laptop, and go. Lately, though, I’ve been relying on online services like Gmail, del.icio.us, and whatnot to [...]
A YouTube clip of Kermit the Frog performing Hurt by Nine Inch Nails. How much more wrong could this be? None more wrong, that’s how much…
Gmail has been behaving exceptionally well the last few weeks, until today — I’ve been getting “operation cannot be completed” errors for about 20 minutes. Anyone else seeing this?
I wonder if I’m the only person who does this: I collect background images for my computer like crazy. If I see a post on Lifehacker about computer backgrounds, I must click on it to see what sort of spiffy backgrounds there are, and I’ve downloaded zillions of them. I even pay for a subscription [...]