Zooomr are giving away free pro accounts to bloggers (like me) that sign up and post an image from their servers so the image below is my deer photo taken with the cameraphone last night whilst out to do a geocache – GCWFY1. Funny thing is that I can’t see any information about what a pro account is on their site – a free account gives you 50mb storage (plus 1mb per user you refer).
I finally managed to get hold of Garmin on Friday afternoon and found out the reason I was having the problem is that the licence code for the software (and the outer packing) was for Garmin City Select. However the dvd was for Garmin City Navigator. Therefore the activation code did not match the software and that is why it didn’t work – it would have been nice if it had told me that. I had to wait about 20 minutes on hold first thing Friday morning but apparently first thing is the best time to ring them. The annoying thing was that I didn’t realise that it was first thing (8am) CENTRAL time – so I had to wait an extra hour before ringing them. Fortunately I had some work that I could do whilst hanging on the phone.
IE HistoryView: Freeware Internet Explorer History Viewer (or iehv.exe) allows you to view the internet history usage. Great for checking out what sites someone has been to when they get a virus on the pc. I’ve used this before but can never remember the url for it, so I’m blogging it now. There are some other good utilities from this site too.
I posted this on my caching blog – Not very happy with Garmin at the moment….
The Legend GPS arrived last night and I eagerly tried to install the software – installing the software on the computer worked great – unfortunately the product activation does not work and I can’t install the maps to the gps. The activation runs through the process, tells me there is an unlock code, but doesn’t actually unlock it. Garmin’s phone support is only open 8-5 – whilst I am working which is useless if they want me to try various things on the computer as I’m not going to be there.
I managed to get lunch at home today so called them – there’s currently a 30 minute wait. So I thought i’d email them – their autoreply on the website states that the response time is 5-7 business days! What sort of response is that to customers? I’ve purchased software that i want to use NOW – not next week.
If you are going to do product activation like Microsoft does, then at least have the support to provide activation 24/7 so your customers can use something they have paid for.
Grrrrrrrrr
After surviving the tornado that wasn’t (although it did chuck it down with rain) I went out with friends to Columbus’s Red, White and Boom firework show. We had a great time, we spread the picnic blankets down on a nice little park (that google doesn’t have on the map) and enjoyed the show. As Kristen has the camera there are no photos to upload though.
Huh – I go outside to get stuff into the car for a picnic tonight and all of a sudden the tornado sirens go off. Apparently Dublin is in the path of a severe storm that could develop into tornado’s. I’m really not sure if a picnic is a good idea or not….
Start transcript within Powershell will capture data entered into a powershell prompt. Pretty handy for recording scripts / development work.
Someone has too much time on their hands. I’m not a fan of Starwars but this telnet of StarWars at towel.blinkenlights.nl is cool. (Say yes if you are asked to open an application and then hit enter a couple of times at the prompts. Thanks to In the Trenches
I downloaded greenborder this evening as it sounds like a good tool – the catchy name is because each browser/directory that is protected by the software has a green border around the window – a nice simple, catchy name. It is worth architecture page gives a little more information on what it does, although I’m not really sure how you can virtualise a web browser. Anyway, the software is incompatible with encryption, Windows One Care, needs a slight hack to work with firefox and needs some funky registry permission changes in some circumstances.
Sorry guys if I sound like I’m bashing the product without trying it, but some of the marketing details need to be ironed out before I’m going to try it out.
I think I only got round to installing beta2 last week, and beta3 is out today – this post has details on what is new. No mention on whether the unsupported hack for running ie7 in parallel is fixed within the application though – it would be nice if all it takes is some registry changes!
