I got a new game on my phone called Pandora. Pictures of products pop up over your music and you have to find the X as quickly as possible.
Category: technology
video editing program free until June 30
Videopad is free until June 30th (for non-commercial use).
Nice network packets…it'd be a shame if anything were to happen to them.
As Comcast (and now Verizon) start charging Netflix for the “privilege of sending data to their customers in a timely fashion”, Netflix should start adding a “Comcast peering fee” to the bills of their Comcast customers and a “Verizon peering fee” for their Verizon customers, etc. This would at least make the general public more aware of the charges. It would also avoid charging people extra at ISPs that are actually doing what their customers pay them to do.
The secret to depositing checks with the Bank of America app
A little while back, I downloaded the Bank of America app for my phone so that I could deposit checks with it. A neat idea, but it only seemed to work about 1 out of 7 times. You’d keep having to re-take the picture. I’ve finally figured out the secret…take the check outside and take the picture in direct sunlight. It’s just that easy! 🙂
Thanks, bank of America
Nothing makes me want to do things the old fashioned way more than using the Bank if America app to deposit checks. I just photographed a check 10 times.
they're listening!
From some things I’ve been doing at work, I finally learned why customer representatives so faithfully follow their scripts on the phone. There’s a program listening for them to make all of the required statements in their script. If they fail to do it, the computer alerts their supervisor and they get in trouble.
bring your own network
I recently learned from watching several presentations that if you’re doing a major presentation at a customer site that you should bring your own laptops and cell network. Do not trust the customer’s network or PCs. Their firewall, proxies, and PCs will stop your presentation cold if you try to use them.
no double-clicky!
Double-clicking may have been a terrible Windows design idea. It does a lot of different things depending on the context. Many people have just learned over time that you should just double-click everything just to make sure. This makes web application development a bit harder, as you need to anticipate the possibility that people might hit that button twice quickly and so on. Double-clicking on tabs in the Office ribbon will hide the tab and you’ll wonder what happened.
In summary, don’t double-click anything except files you want to open in Windows. Click on links in the web browser once. You can tell the difference between things you want to open and links by…oh, I see the problem. 🙂
BBC 6 Music in your car…in America
I found an Android app to listen to BBC 6 music in my car…in New Mexico. It’s the future!
the new version, but not quite
Instead of calling it 5G, they called it 4G LTE. Instead of calling it SQL Server 2010, they called it SQL Server 2008 R2. Maybe these names are technically correct, but they’re horrible. They don’t exactly roll off the tongue.