I was recently paying some bills and realized that I had not received a current invoice for my phone service. I logged into the company’s website and found (much to my surprise) that the account had been switched over to “paperless billing”. As I do not recall anyone ever asking me to opt-in to this service, I chose to switch it back to paper.
Remembering Toll Free Phone Numbers
I recently upgraded to a Motorola Q Smartphone and ran into an interesting problem. I was trying to call a company who’s toll free number was spelled out in the form of a word (to allegedly help me remember it). As it turned out, the knowing the word did not help.
Print-Ready Cheat Sheets
Here is a great HTML Cheat Sheet post on SixRevisions.com; It features a total of 23 different printable sheets of coding samples for web developers. Frankly I have to say that I am posting this just to bookmark it for
Netflix Profiles
My wife and I have been Netflix customers for about a half dozen years. We have used the four movie at a time plan. With Profiles, this gives us two movies each and our own separate queues. This works well because our DVD tastes differ. Sometimes one of us will be working through many disks to catch up on a TV series, while the other just wants to watch a movie. Profiles have allowed for this.
Paypal Virtual Debit Cards
I have to say that I like the concept of the PayPal Plugin. (While in Beta, this was formerly called the PayPal Virtual Debit Card.) This tool allows you to create a one-time or a one-site Debit Card for shopping on-line. The one-site feature is particularly nice because it allows for recurring charges, but still protects from fraud as the charges can come from only one website.
Encryption and Thumb Drives
Recently my wife ran into a situation where she had misplaced her new thumb drive (thankfully, she found it), but it got me to thinking about securing mine. These flash drives are a great way to carry around information, but they are also quite small and obviously, easy to lose.
Electrical Outlet with a Toggle Switch
A while back, a friend sent me a link to this picture of an Australian electrical outlet with a On/Off switch (have to scroll down past the kangaroos). I need to find a similar outlet that works in the US.
Security Questions
Folks need to start choosing better security questions for web accounts. I keep running into situations where I do not want to share the information the site is asking for. Or, I am creating a web account that is likely to be used by multiple people (at work, etc.) , but I am prompted to choose a series of very personalized security questions to go along with the login ID that I am creating.
Taking a Look at the Cable Bill
Our Comcast cable bill came today. For a change I sat down and read it, instead of just paying it. It turns out that along with their 6Mbps internet access and “Digital Starter” cable tv service, we are paying $10.95/mo for their “Digital Classic” package.
Printing from Acrobat Pro 8.1
I recently purchased and installed a copy of Adobe Acrobat Professional 8.0 (well, 8.1). I have been mostly pleased with this application, but while using it I have discovered that I have a new pet peeve.
When I go to print a document from Acrobat, a Print window is displayed and there are a number of choices that I can make regarding my print job. The vast majority of the time I am just looking to print one copy of the file, so I click the OK button and my file prints out. Every once in a while I need more than one copy, so when the Print window is displayed, I go to the Page Handling area and enter a larger number in the Copies option and click the OK button to have my job print out.
