You’ve got this awesome thing; this product, and you think it’s awesome and then one day you’ve a question, or if you’ve a problem, you’ve got to contact support. You’ve to contact a manufacturer, or a support line somewhere, and when you do it absolutely destroys your conceptions of your product/service.

I think everyone has been there.

Your idea of what you thought was this cool thing and whatever you though was small issues, just can’t be bypassed by the complete failure or treatment you get trying to get something fixed, or to simply have someone listen to you.

Products and services die in this area, and they do so… quickly.

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If you look at Alexa, Facebook is listed as one of the most popular websites in America, and around the world and one of the most perplexing things about Facebook has always been they would provide you with an email notification, but they wouldn’t let you reply.

I don’t know about all the rest of the world, but when I’d get emails from Facebook, I’d just delete them. I even had a rule in Thunderbird setup to simply delete them as they came in.

That’s changed.

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The idea of having a world without having to buy gas for your car is outstanding; speaking solely of electric cars- the direction we’re going in now.

But what if you could make fuel out of thin air… that would spark your interest; it sparks mine.

Here’s some extracts…

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This is a short post, but a valid point.

As any user out there on the web, you’ve your monitor set for something like 1680 or higher, and you’ve your fast computer and everything is just hunky-dory, but the confusing part is that most sites are only created to handle or work with 1280; that’s just the way it is- It’s sad really.

Why are people torturing themselves with these itty-bitty little images and text?

It cries stupidity and it doesn’t make any sense!

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When your sitting at your desk and your thinking, ‘man, I just wanna go home.’ or your thinking you wished you could just work from home; wouldn’t that be awesome. You need to think about what your saying and try to understand the requirements to work remotely.

You need to understand there’s trade off’s and that working remotely can be a double edged sword.

It’s not all ‘this is easy this is fantastic and to Hell with all those other guys.’- nah- there’s more to it than that.

The concept of working remotely is nice as a passing thought, especially when those days can be just absolutely beautiful; the skies are blue, fresh cut grass, birds chirping and the billowing clouds the glide through. I know, I’ve been there.

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Email is such an official occurrence. For me when I get an email it’s a notification something has been completed, something official like my account has been opened or if I just registered for a website/forum.

When you get as many emails as I do, I’m looking for entertainment, something thought provoking and stimulating. And with 15+ years of Internet surfing and emails- I’ve seen all the chain letters, the scams, the crap and the just plain stupid emails… and I really don’t want to.

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Dragon NaturallySpeaking has been a part of my personal productive arsenal for quite some time. I’ve been using speech to text technology for almost 7 years, back before technology could really handle speech to text.

I started off using Dragon NaturallySpeaking at work. I was in a position where I had to create large amounts of documentation and I typically had small windows of opportunity to create this information. I needed the ability to get the bulk of my information into a textual format so it can be refined and then ultimately distributed to other individuals; to be precipitated down to my work associates.

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I found this article and thought it was so cool. I’m not going to do anything, but show the highlights.

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