29 Jan

“How not to run an online business” » JavaSigns.com Customer Experience and Review

Posted by Jeremy in Personal, Reviews | Tags :, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Even though my experience with this company was quite painful, long, and drug out, I’m going to attempt to keep this review short.

Bottom line: Although the design and ordering process is very easy, streamlined, and simple, placing an order with this company, based on my personal experience, runs a very high risk of cumbersome delays, phone tag, and a major investment in your personal time.

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29 Nov

Twitter weekly updates by crimulus for 2009-11-29

Posted by Jeremy in Commentary, Twitter Updates | Tags :, , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

  • Well when it all comes crashing down it sure does so with a fury … #
  • I have Google #Wave invites. Will send you one if I know you and you would like it. (Let me know your email) #
  • The light at the tunnel just makes it impossible to enjoy the simple peace of the dark. #
  • RT @YouQuotedQuotes Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. ~ Mark Twain #Quotes #
  • RT @Historyday On this day in 1991 Freddie Mercury, the lead singer of Queen, died at the age of 45 from AIDS complications. #history #

21 Aug

GoDaddy Webmail eMail Notifier Under WINE in Linux :)

Posted by Jeremy in Computers, How-To | Tags :, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

I use GoDaddy email for my work email, and it is a pain having to remember to check every so often to see if I got mail, especially when I only have new mail about 1 in 20 checks.

I have a notifier for my personal gmail account, and that is very handy — saves me a lot of time checking to see what has come in.

GoDaddy only offers a prepackaged notifier for Windows, however (although they supply a Mac executable if you try to download the notifier under Linux).

I checked the FireFox plugins for a generic webmail notifier, but the best one, WebMail Notifier does not have native support for GoDaddy (email.secureserver.net), and I didn’t feel like spending the time writing a custom script, especially since there is forum activity on this exact subject dating back 2 years, with no easily findable script.

Lo and behold?  The windows notifier works under WINE.  :)

Just download the Windows installer (it was wbensetup_PL.msi for me). Then in a terminal run msiexec /i <path_to_file>/wbensetup_PL.msi

Follow the instructions, and, at least in my Gnome toolbar, a notifier appeared.

Nice.

I should note that my current setup is Ubuntu 8.04 with OpenBox as my window manager, running the gnome toolbar.