ZOHO limiting usage after July First.

Zoho is limiting the number of applications that can be used with the free account to five.  They want to you to upgrade to the business account, which is still free but has a limited number of users that can be assigned to the same account and thereby share the services. 

 

I would like to see the business plan that came up with this idea of limiting entry level users.  Perhaps they are being overwhelmed.  That would explain the limiting of applications, but I don't see where registered users can overwhelm a system such as theirs.

 

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Opera 9.51 Fixed All

Opera 9.5 is an amazing, and now my default, browser, email reader and RSS reader.  

There were amazingly only three things that irked me:

1. When I mistakenly clicked on the RSS reader header the browser would crash.  The good news here, prior to its repair in 9.51, Opera by default remembers all your open pages and tags.  When it restarts it gives you the option of reloading them.  

2. Blogger wouldn't load without clearing the cache.  That was an easy work around, but with 9.51 it is no longer needed.  Blogger loades just fine.

3. IMAP double messages.  I had Gmail loaded to read in IMAP in M-2 the embedded Opera email reader.  It would download duplicate messages.  No big deal, but slightly annoying.  Now it's fixed.  

As with any software, I am sure there will be bumps here and there, but for now, Opera 9.51 works just fine.

Not Quite The Mall, But a Good Place to Visit

If you want to get lost looking at old photographs, the Smithsonian’s Flikr pages
will gladly provide you with hours of distraction.

LiveJournal Tags: Smithsonian Flikr pages

Ashlynd & Sean

Modern Art Museum by dumpr.net

Scribefire and FF 3.0

Just installed FF 3.0 and am using the Scribefire Add-on to post this short message to the Belltower News.

Belltower News is an AP Free Blog

LiveJournal Tags: AP Boycott

TechCrunch has reported in this blog entry that the AP, Associated Press, has taken on a heavy handed policy regarding quotes from its online service.

Though this blog, as far as I know, has never quoted the AP, we have decided to show solidarity with the Blogosphere, by continuing this afore unknown already existing policy.

Wikimedia POTD

Wikimedia has an RSS Feed called POTD, Picture of the day.

The pictures cover a variety of subjects, from fine art to close up pictures of insect faces.

I have yet to be disappointed stopping in my RSS browsing to appreciate the image selected for the day.

Consider it one of those stop and smell the roses pauses in your day that make it all easier in the end.

Happy Fathers Day!

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A Sad Story

LiveJournal Tags: Aspergers

In this morning’s NYT there is a story of a man purported to have Aspergers Syndrome and is focused on the workings of the New York City Transit System.

http://preview.tinyurl.com/6ey3j9

He is an adult with a long history of behavior and non-violent confrontation with the NYC TA and their  employees.  He has driven busses and subway trains along their routes.  He has made an effort to become part of the system.

The fact that he’s been allowed to do this over and over again shows he has the skill and knowledge to slip right into the role.  It appears to me there has to be a way to make him part of the system in a controlled role so that his “obsession” as the NYT is calling it, can be used in  a positive way.

Rolling Along With the Breeze

Left to my own resources to day, I have decided to avoid all actual human contact.  So, what do I do, I click on the Leo Laporte Stickam presence. 
Beware of going there.

His voice is very soothing and he seems so real, you just settle right in and hang out.  He fiddles with the tech gear and the software that runs the show and connects with the three or four thousand people in one of three active chat rooms.

There  is building up in the chat rooms the myth of the Green Colleen.  She just appeared one day and started making things right in the  TWiT studio. Attributes are being associated with her not proven in fact.

Many subjects, all near and dear to the heart of Geeks are handled in each of these meetings.  Today it was The KFI Tech Guy.  Yesterday it was Net@Night, with Amber MacArthur.

Before that it was the show the gives the growing network its name, This Week in Tech, TWiT.

21 hours of continuous broadcasting. Live at TWiTLive.com

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It Has Been Very Busy

As the end of the school year approaches, the amount of administrative work has quadrupled.  Hopefully by the end of June we will able to give this blog more attention. 

We’ve gone from cool and wet for most of the days past Memorial day to instantaneously HOT. This doesn’t inspire work on a Saturday beyond doing the laundry and installing a new, hi powered rain style shower head.

And then, there are the parties.  If it isn’t a graduation, it’s a birthday.  Let’s do the math, June minus nine... September!  It is amazing. The beginning of the school year coincides with an increased birthrate.  Could it be, when Junior is carted off to school for the first time the parents find themselves alone for the first time since Junior entered their lives???

Makes sense to me.