As an added incentive to switch to something better if you already haven’t, consider what happened to my Yahoo Japan email account (used as a third backup) after I didn’t log in for four months: They deleted all my messages and declared the same would happen time and time again unless I logged in more often or subscribed to one of their pay services like broadband or “online security!”
Then, waiting in my inbox was a mysterious email saying that all of my deleted messages could be restored – for a fee, of course. This whole affair reminds me of Hotmail of olden times, except that Yahoo Mail has nothing, absolutely nothing to offer users that they can’t get more of – and in sweeter packages – elsewhere.
F ’em.
Category: Toys & Tech
Best speedtest for Thailand
I’ve tried a few, and this one gives the most consistent results from different areas, even though many of them are supposedly based on the same speedtest.net parameters: http://speedtest.3bb.co.th/
Blog –> FB + Twitter Test
I’m experimenting with a combination of Twitterfeed and the Twitter app on Facebook. Feedalicious.
Best Firefox Plugin, Ever
At least, that’s what the guy who sent it to me claims.
Check it out:
(thx hui)
Papa Piggy
Almost a month ago, a big storm came and blew my ceramic boo-chan (pig-shaped mosquito coil holder) over. As you can see, he did a Humpy-dumpty which made me really sad because I bought him for half off at Jusco in Sumoto a few years back and will probably never buy a 7,000 yen ceramic pig ever again.
Luckily, it was nothing two and a half tubes of super glue (the most popular brand in Thailand is called Power Glue) couldn’t fix:
Actually, if you look closely, you can see that mommy pig’s been put together again, too.
Adless Gmail
I don’t really mind the ads in Gmail*. I’d actually feel kinda guilty/uneasy if Gmail were totally free, because I depend on it so much. This is interesting, though: How to avoid Gmail’s Sponsored Links
Forget Big Brother – we need top worry about those who we willingly trust with our privacy every day.
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*If they bother you that much, you can always use a dedicated email client with Gmail.
The Pigs Are Out of the Barn
Amazon yanks bought copies of 1984 and Animal Farm from customers’ Kindles due to publisher’s demands: LINK
So, you know that snooty question from the douches that think they’re too hi-tech for dead tree media? The one about what’s so different about printed books and e-books? I guess the difference is that book stores don’t come around to your house and steal back the books you bought unannounced (but reimburse you).
Tab Mix Plus for Firefox 3.5 (unofficial release)
If you are like me, you need this addon and are willing to install a dev version: LINK
I can’t stand having to scroll through tabs in a single row…
UPDATE: Just to be clear, clicking the link above will initiate an installation of a Firefox Addon. Please see the comments of this post for clarification. (thx Luis)
Torrent alternative
Download your torrents via http: furk
I tried it. It was free and it worked as advertised. It probably isn’t an RIAA honeypot; they ain’t that smart.
Still in broken PC limbo
The homebrew LCD hack didn’t work, but it wasn’t for lack of trying. My backyard repair dude rewired and replaced one old broken set of fluorescent tubes with old working (?) ones with some brilliant desoldering/resoldering skills and only charged me 80 baht, and I managed to get the monitor back together again without even having extra screws left over afterward, but it was all for naught. Sometimes you jess gotta say SHEEEEIT Clay Davis style. SHEEEEEIT!
Anyway, I’ll get around to taking new photos of Max the Destroyer and posting them from my laptop I guess; sorry it’s taking so long but I’m busy, busy, busy, and hate downloading photos to anything but my redundant archives (main PC) first.