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08 March 2011 ~ 3 Comments

HipChat Firewall Problem: Fail

Update 3-9-2011: Turns out the issue was on my iMac — PeerGuardian software appeared to be blocking the port required (5222) for HipChat to connect. I’ve no idea why other services have worked fine on my iMac and so far only HipChat seems to have been an issue. Turning off Peer Guardian resolved the issue. [...]

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01 February 2011 ~ Comments Off

Google Latitude Adds Automatic Check In To Places

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVLsRo7-3Lk[/youtube]Google today have just released a new upgrade to their Android based Google Maps v5.1 which includes check in to their places pages as well as designations as described below: Latitude is built right into Google Maps for Android so check-ins work across Latitude and Maps seamlessly. For example, check in at that new hamburger [...]

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19 January 2011 ~ Comments Off

Trapster Latest To Suffer Apparent Hack And Lose Your Password And Login

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Trapster’s apparently the latest to send around the “If you’ve been using the same password and login on multiple sites – then you’re a moron because we think we just got hacked”. Of course these follow Gawker Media’s famous episode of losing secure web visitor information. If it wasn’t gone before – the days of [...]

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12 November 2010 ~ Comments Off

Google Voice Down Again

In what’s becoming a very sad and regular occurrence the Google Voice system is once again down. Callers to my voice number hear a “you have reached a non-working number” message. Attempts to access the web interface return the above error message.

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08 September 2010 ~ Comments Off

Why Google Multiple Accounts Still Suck

Supposedly Google “fixed” their flawed login system which caused mega problems if you regularly used more than one Google account for email or apps. Here’s a great example showing that the Google login is still broken and not any better than before. In the example before is a Google Apps document that’s been shared to [...]

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