As a person that has more than half a brain [that's working], this makes me dangerous and intimidating to most corporate ‘tech support’ nut heads out there.
The corporate tech support nowadays is the equivalent to the introduction of a voice mail box or an automated response to ‘if your skin is blue press #2 on your phone.’
Trying to find answers to your own issues is [in my experience] the best way to go. Contacting tech support for Nuance, Target, Creative, Acer or some other corporate sweat shop, your just gonna get crap.
I don’t like contacting support, but when I absolutely have to I’m pleasantly reminded each time how stupid they really are.
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Tags: canned, community, corporate, dumb, Forum, Sucks, support, worthless
Google’s toolbar is a piece of junk. As I stated in my previous post Leaving Google, you are track everywhere you go on the web by google. That is an invasion of my privacy. I don’t want them to know that I like to look at snow flakes in the shape of Atari 2600s ( and I do). That is just the tip of the iceburg. The pop-up blocker in the google toolbar is a little too good. I have numerous people who have added a site to the ‘White List’ (list of allowed sites to have pop-ups) and the google toolbar still blocks it. The only way I have seen someone to have a pop-up work is to hold the control key down as you click on the link to open the pop-up, that is if the site has a link to the pop-up. If the site does not have a link, then you are s.o.l.
Join me in saying that the google toolbar sucks. If you need a pop-up blocker, use the one in your browser (even IE has one). Here is a link to google’s faqs on the toolbar.
Till next time
Sir Slur
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Tags: Google, google pop-up blocker, google toolbar, pop-up, pop-up blocker
This 
is what I consider good comedy.
So I’m checking my emails and reviewing all my new stuff, and I like to say I notice the small stuff and then I saw this little thing on GMAIL; it says ‘ GET FASTER GMAIL’. So me being curious- oh whatever do you mean? There’s this listing.
While it may not be funny to some it’s hilarious to me. Why? Well, it’s because I think it’s a slap in the face of Microsoft.
The Google boys are saying hey! Do this faster! And then they list the large ICONs for Firefox and Chrome. Lastly, they toss this little shout out for Microsoft saying ,and by the way there’s this other browser, INTERNET EXPLORER, it’s in beta.
While Microsoft lovers are just clammering about the new version of Internet Explorer , nothing, absolutely nothing is going to get me to go back to a browser that has had so many faults and unresponsive/stagnant support.
The saying in business is that it takes years to find a customer and just seconds to loose them. I wonder if Microsoft ever heard that one?
Regards,
NapoleonAG
Email/IM: NapoleonAG.TSS@Gmail.com
Website: www.TechSideStories.com
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Tags: comedy, Google, Internet Explorer
I am trying to limit and possibly end my dependence on Google. Don’t get me wrong, I like A LOT of their services (I am writing a series on Google Reader 1 2 3), but they are going against their credo of ‘Do no evil’. I will give some examples of why they are going against their credo a little later.First, Google is becoming the Microsoft of the web. Yes, we all know that MS is not very good at anything web, Internet Explorer, MSN, Live, etc. Google is becoming too big to be the innovative one on the block. How many of their products, THAT THEY DEVELOPED, have been a success? Search has. Gmail has. Reader has in my eyes. But what else? They bought YouTube.
With that being said, Google is looking to find a way to grow. They are not that good at building products, aside from the few I wrote above. What they are doing is keeping as much information about everybody who uses any of their services to slap them with ads, or have someone else do it. I have a problem with this. I do not mind companies showing me ads to make money or provide me a service. I do not like how much detail they keep.
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Tags: Gmail, Google, google health, google privacy, google reader, HIPAA, leave google, leaving google, live, microsoft, msn, privacy, rss
The infinite question is which browser is better, which is more secure, who’s more compatible and which is more flexible?
This is a argument that’s going to be asked everyday, if not multiple times a day.
While others have their opinions, I’ve mine; the thing that has me just regurgitating with joy is the tight integration of the Operating System and Internet Explorer. A browser is a browser is a browser; and the thing that gets Microsoft their market share and also damages the Internet at the same time is this tight sitting pair. Microsoft has taken the position of pairing the Operating System with their browser, so that means they can push out updates to computers that are running Windows [90% of the world] and then claim to have market dominance. Duh! No kidding. Kind’a like saying. ‘…we make roads; you’ve to use this car.’ [Read More]
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Tags: Chrome, firefox, Internet Explorer, market, microsoft, security
One of the most common things to expect nowadays when purchasing a PC is 24/7 tech-support. The people behind the scenes to provide these types of services; not all of them are super smart at what they do. Some of them look at screens that give them instructions on how to fix problems, others have the ingenuity and intellect to figure out what other forces may be working to produce to problem the customer is having; these are the good guys.
Whether the technicians looking at a screen or taking time to troubleshoot your problem, you should have a level of respect for this individual. This person has chosen to torture himself by speaking with you and trying to resolve problem with a PC that’s not theirs. Undertaking this task is not done lightly. It’s either provided to them in a tech-support queue or is coming in from a friend or family member who feels that ‘you’re that guy’; you can fix it. And when they call you they have no concept of time. They think this issue they’re calling about will be resolved in just a matter of minutes, but on a regular basis, and from personal experience, this is not the case. It’s going to be the hours of torture that you always dreamed about. [Read More]
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This is so honestly funny; I’ve to share.
Let’s set the stage, you’re there mucking around on your computer, everything is fine and dandy and then Microsoft says you’ve some updates to install; you’re like okay- do your thing buddy. Upon reboot you get this nice error that keeps you from getting back in to the Operating System; I’m think’n SWEET! I needed something to suck up all my time over the weekend. [Read More]
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Welcome to the 3rd installment of this series. The first discussed what an rss feed is. The second one talked about how to add feeds to Google Reader. In this one, I will go over how to organize your feeds in Google Reader.
The first step is to log into Google Reader, duh. Then click on the feed under the Subscriptions area on the left hand side. You should see all the article for that feed populate the reading area. You can now add that feed to a folder. Now, click on the button Feed settings… on the top of the reading area. You are presented with several options, such as sorting, unsubscribing, rename it, translating it into your language and finally adding it to a folder. If you have already created a folder you want to add the feed to, just choose it. If you want a new folder created for this feed, then choose New folder…. You have now just created a folder.
Now that you can add feeds to folders and create folders, here is a quick tip on how to bulk import feeds. First you need to have an xml file with all the feeds you want. You can try this one ,google-reader-subscriptions(right click and save as). It has a few different folders of some of my subscriptions (tech news, finance, and friends). Then click on settings in Google Reader and go to the Import/Export tab. Click the Browse button and find your xml file with your feeds. Then hit the Upload button. You now have subscribed to many sites in one shot.
Next time, I will cover how to use Google Reader on your phone.
Til next time,
Sir Slur
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Tags: Google, google reader, rss, rss feeds, xml
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