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Entries from July 2007

Fire Up A Colortini

July 31st, 2007 · No Comments

sit back, relax, and watch the pictures, now, as they fly through the air – Tom Snyder. One of the greatest interviewers has passed away. There has not been another interviewer with a regular show other than Howard Stern that gets real interviews and guests talking honestly and openly than Snyder. He was absolutely the […]

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Kayako Help Desk

July 20th, 2007 · No Comments

I was just online submitting a trouble ticket to a company and while entering the information a bunch of knowledge base articles started popping up underneath the web based input form. One of them had the answer to my question so I didn't even need to submit the ticket. This is the best implementation of […]

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Velocity Server / DataPoint Inc

July 20th, 2007 · No Comments

I used to be able to recommend Velocity Server (who was recently bought by DataPoint) as a pretty decent Virtual Private Server (VPS) provider. That is no longer the case. It seems that whenever they were taken over by DataPoint mass incompetence has taken over. We used to deal with a few very competent people […]

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GMail / Google Apps For Domains False Positives

July 17th, 2007 · No Comments

I've noticed an alarming increase in false positives being detected by Google Apps For Domains GMail spam detection. It is so bad actually that I'd rather turn off GMail spam detection altogether. My own service SimpleFilter does a much much better job at spam detection and so much less false positive that I have to […]

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