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My blog wasn’t loading earlier thanks to a new plugin

July 19, 2008 by Tricia

If you tried to visit my site earlier today and had trouble it was probably due to a plugin that I just started using the other day.

I added the SezWho WP plugin to my site sometime last week. This plugin allows you to rate others comments and even see where else on the web they’ve been commenting lately. Likewise, the blog owner can be tracked on the web through their comment profile on SezWho as well.

I had been using the plugin on one of my other sites for a few months, but when EntreCard partnered with Sezwho last week I decided to add the plugin to two more blogs.

Unfortunately it seems that when you use the plugin your blog is connected to the Sezwho network and if Sezwho goes down or experiences server slow downs so does your blog.

After I got back from the beach I discovered that the sites using Sezwho weren’t loading properly and when I tried to access the Sezwho website I couldn’t reach it either. So I turned off the plugins. Problem solved.

SezWho appears to be up and running again now. Their blog says they had a Kernel crash this afternoon and that was the cause of the problems. Still I think I might just keep the plugins turned off for another day just to make sure they’ve corrected their server problem.

In other news … I’m still trying to find ways to supplement my at home income. Blogging and maintaining my websites brings in a fairly good income but I’m looking for other ways to earn a living from home. Anyone have any tips on good small business opportunitites – definitely not scammy ones please! I seem to be doing well with internet related opportunities so I guess I’m looking for something else to add to my internet earnings.





Filed Under: Blogging, Computers, Internet, Make Money, Software, Web and Technology, Wordpress, Wordpress Plugins Tagged With: beach, blog, Blogging, blogs, comment, comments, computer, Crash, earnings, EntreCard, Internet, network, plugin, problem, problems, profile, rate, rate others, server, SezWho, slow, small business, Technology, trouble, web, website

Free Music downloads with MP3Rocket

May 12, 2008 by Tricia

I don’t listen to enough music these days. We used to have a stereo, but it was old and when we moved to this house several years ago we never set it up. Instead I’d use the radio tuner on our home theater system to listen to the radio or I’d listen to CDs, or music stored on my computer.

Unfortunately, about half a year ago, our home theater system started giving us an overload message whenever we turned it on. We haven’t fixed it or replaced it yet so that means no more radio or CD music through the surround sound system. I’ve noticed that I’ve slowly stopped listening to music over the last few months because of our home theater system being on the fritz.

So earlier today I went searching for music online and I found a site that offers unlimited free music downloads. It’s called MP3Rocket. They have free software that you can download. Within minutes I was able to begin searching for shared MP3 files.

rocket_logo.gif The MP3Rocket software works by connecting to the Gnutella network and it’s very user friendly. I won’t go into all the details of how it works here because there’s a software demo on the main page of the website that explains everything way better than I could in this post!

The only thing I noticed when I was finished installing the software was that it had added an Ask.com toolbar to my Firefox browser. I’d rather know about those things ahead of time and either opt in or opt out during the installation process. It wasn’t a problem though – some of you might actually appreciate the Ask.com toolbar. I’ve already got way too many add-ons for my browser so I simply went to my computers Control Panel, clicked on Add or Remove Programs and easily un-installed the Ask.com toolbar. Simple.

There’s a Pro version of the software too if you want to upgrade. There’s a lot of added features in the Pro version.

I already spent sometime using the software searching for MP3’s earlier today. Now I’m going to spend some more time this evening looking for my favorite bands.

Filed Under: Cool stuff, Entertainment, Great Sites, Home and Lifestyle, Internet, Music, Recreation, Software Tagged With: cd music, cds music, computer, control panel, Entertainment, firefox browser, free download, free downloads, free music, free software, fritz, gnutella, gnutella network, home theater system, Internet, listening to music, Mp3, mp3 files, mp3 software, MP3Rocket, Music, music downloads, music online, radio music, radio tuner, share music, Software, software demo, software works, web

My email program keeps crashing

March 27, 2008 by Tricia

This is so frustrating. I use Eudora as my email program and for the last several months anytime I visit a website that has flash on it – say a widgetbucks ad or something else, heck even a YouTube video will do it – my email program freezes up until the next time it’s set to collect email.

It even freezes as I’m checking my email. As I said in a recent post I get about 25,000 emails a month (yes a lot is junk, but a lot of it is from the mailing lists I run, comments on my blogs or websites and from friends, family and business connections) so it’s really frustrating deleting five emails, having the program freeze, waiting for five minutes and then going back to approve a comment and so on.

I’ve gone to the Eudora site to see if others had this problem and I found that a few had similar complaints. I tried the fixes but they don’t work for me.

Does anyone else use Eudora? I’m using version 7.1.0.9. I think there’s an upgrade, but I have a feeling it won’t help. It’s got to be something on my laptop clashing with Eudora. I use Eudora on my desktop computer (maybe one version lower) and it doesn’t act up like this.

Filed Under: Internet, Software, Web and Technology Tagged With: approving comments, blog, blogs, business, comment, comments, computer, desktop computer, email, email program, Eudora, Family, FLash, freezes, friend, friends, frustrating, help, junk, junk mail, laptop, mailing lists, post, problem, sites, Video, website, websites, Youtube

Avot mV allows you to watch near real time video on your mobile device

December 21, 2007 by Tricia

Mobile phones that are capable of accessing web based video are becoming more common. I’d say one of the most well known mobile phones would be the iPhone and also the iPod Touch.

Unfortunately, just like in the old days when everyone connected to the internet using slow modems web based video delivered to cell phones can be slow to download and when playing while downloading the video could go through delays or be of poor quality.

I don’t have an iPhone but I do have a mobile phone with web capabilities and I’m excited about the Avot mV video delivery platform that’s been introduced by Avot Media.

Avot mV is apparently the first solution to give mobile users unlimited access to any web-based video. The platform, once installed on your mobile device, will enable you to quickly and easily search, personalize and play videos from all over the internet.

To download Avot mV directly to your mobile phone you can just point your mobile browser to the Avot mV – Product Site. If you are using your computer you can simply visit the Corporate Site to learn more about this innovative program. You’ll also be able to download a copy of Avot mV to your desktop. At that point you’ll need to hook up your mobile device to your computer in order to upload the program to your mobile device.

I’m certain that you’ll enjoy using Avot mV. The platform features intelligent search capabilities that will incorporate your personal preferences which will make searching for videos across the internet easier and faster.

I hate typing in urls or even much text on my cell phone. I bet you do too. One feature of Avot mV that I’m sure you’ll appreciate is that you can simply point and click on videos that you’re interested in instead of having to type in urls. This is of course most beneficial to iPhone users since the iPhone is a true “touch” phone.

Once you’ve found a video that you’d like to watch the Avot mV platform transfers the content to your mobile device in as little as a few seconds. This is much faster than earlier mobile solutions. Since the video is transferred to your mobile so quickly you’ll be able to play the video in near real time and as a result you should not experience grainy video quality, delays or jitter.

You can maximize the size and clarity of the video just like you can when viewing a video on your desktop computer screen.

If you’d like to download videos and then organize them into a playlist that you can watch when you are commuting to and from work or when you are taking a break you can do so with the Avot mV platform. In fact you can create an unlimited number of playlists. I know if I was still taking the subway to and from work each day this feature would definitely be of interested to me!

You can see a list of supported web enabled devices on the Corporate site. Mobile devices such as the Apple iPhone/iPod Touch are supported.

If you are interested in the Avot mV platform visit the website to learn more about it and you can also visit the Avot Media Official Blog to keep up with the Avot mV platform news.

Filed Under: Cool stuff, Entertainment, Home and Lifestyle, Internet, Movies, Recreation, Software, Video, Web and Technology Tagged With: apple iPhone, Avot mV, cell phone, computer, download, free, install, Internet, ipod, media, mobile device, multiple playlists, no delays, organize, personalize, platform, play, playlists, program, quality, quick download, real time video, search, site, Software, support, upload, Video, watch, watch videos, web capable mobile

Ultra Hal – make your computer talk and understand commands

October 25, 2007 by Tricia

Did you hear the news? Ultra Hal, created by Zabaware, won the grand prize for “most human” computer of the year – this means that they’ve basically created the Smartest artificial intelligence software ever. The award was given out at the 17th annual Loebner Prize Competition for Artificial Intelligence.

Their software gives your computer a personality with the ability to speak and understand the English language. Of course this means that when talk to your computer it really can talk back!

If you’d like to try the Ultra Hal Assistant 6.1 software you can download a free 30 day trial at the Zabaware website.

Zabaware’s Ultra Hal software won the “most human” computer of the year in the 17th annual Loebner Prize Competition for Artificial Intelligence (AI). The contest was held in New York City hosted by philanthropist Hugh Loebner.

The Loebner Prize is an annual competition where software programs attempt to convince human judges that they are actually people. The format of the competition is called a Turing Test. In a Turing Test a judge talks with 2 “entities” simultaneously through a text-based instant messaging system. One entity is a human and the other is a computer. It is up to the judge to decide which is which by typing questions to both entities and receiving answers.

Zabaware is an Erie, Pennsylvania based company that specializes in artificial intelligence technology. The company’s mission “giving your computer the power of thought” once considered a futuristic pipe dream is becoming a 2007 reality.

It is one thing to talk to your computer it is quite another to have a conversation where you are exchanging information and the computer learns and utilizes the information in the future. Zabaware’s Ultra Hal technology and its associated brain are currently doing just that. The software can give your computer a personality using AI technology, speech recognition technology, and real-time animation. It can be used as an entertainment program, a companion, or an office assistant. It learns from conversations and evolves and improves the more it talks with a person. In addition to chat it can perform useful functions such as remembering and reminding of appointments, keeping an address book, dialing phone numbers, launching program, and more.

Zabaware’s Ultra Hal software runs on most standard Windows computers. The artificial intelligence software is available for download at www.zabaware.com as a free 30-day trial.

Filed Under: Computers, Cool stuff, Internet, Services, Shopping, Software, Web and Technology Tagged With: 30 day trial, A.i., animation, artificial intelligence, award winner, companion, computer, english, office assistant, Software, speech recognition, talk, tech news, Technology, Ultra Hal, Ultra Hal assistant, understand, won prize, Zabaware

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