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My Problematic Domain Reseller II

As a continuation to my post five days ago regarding the problems with a domain reseller, I finally got through to the guy through his office number after failing to get him as his mobile number.

I asked him if he was doing business because he did not reply to both my emails. He said that I have sent to his personal email address and that he receives plenty of emails daily and he does not check his personal email account.

In the first place, I did not mention where I sent my email to, but I “replied to” his email so how would I know if that was his personal email address or primary email account. How come he was so certain that I sent it to his “personal email”?

What pisses me off is that he said that me making “noise” will not solve the problem and my main concern is getting back the domain name only, right?

Anyway, he told me to email the admin clerk who would help me with gaining control of my friend’s domain name. Fine. I did that TWO DAYS ago! There was no acknowledgement, no follow up, no nothing AGAIN!

I am seriously pissed off with dealing with such a person. He is just totally wasting my time.

Finding A Beauty School

I was surfing the web looking for information on various beauty schools in my city when I was introduced to Find A Beauty School. Although the information found on this website is not applicable to me, I thought that it is great that anyone who is looking for information on Beauty Schools in the United States of America could do it so easily by just going to FindABeautySchool.

On this website, you will be able to get more information on the beauty courses that are being offered by various top beauty schools in the country. In addition, you could easily search for any beauty school in your area or learn more about careers that await you after graduating from a beauty course.

What I like is the ease in requesting for information from these beauty schools as web addresses are provided if available.

No More Lawsuits For Illegal P2P File Sharing

In a surprise move, the US music industry will no longer bring P2P music file sharers to court but they have signed a few agreements with various internet service providers in Europe to stop subscribers from continued sharing of music illegally over the internet by blocking them and kicking them off the network. Sounds like a pretty drastic move to me.

Does this mean that these violators will no longer have access to the internet? While every European country has various internet service providers, I am sure, if this happened in Malaysia and if we get kicked by Streamyx, no matter how crappy its service is most times, which ISP could we turn to?

Those P2P users who are facing RIAA lawsuits have to see though that but for those who haven’t get sued, they have escaped lawsuit but this new agreement will apply to them.

Converting Gmail Into Google Docs

Gmail has continued to build Labs with features that would continue to make emailing and reading email faster and better.

I wouldn’t say that I completely trust Gmail because of the blunder of mis-sending an email intended for another person with a legitimate Gmail address into my own Gmail account, but I have to admit that all these newly introduced features like converting Gmail (email) into Google Docs or the ability to view .pdf files without having to download the attached .pdf file, let alone have a .pdf viewer installed on the computer, make Gmailing a better experience than it was when it first launched.

The thing is, after five years or so, Gmail is still in beta and I think that it’s too bad that nobody acknowledged my complaint or perhaps one should say, feedback, about receiving an email that was meant for another. It’s awfully unsettling!

Database of Legal Documents

I was surfing the internet looking for the exact legal term to use in an official document when coincidentally, I came to know of RealDealDocsâ„¢ which has a website that stores Legal Documents and other professional letters and text that would provide us a fine example in the drafting of our documents.

Although we are able to browse and search the website for free, to use any of these documents, we are required to subscribe to a monthly, quarterly or yearly membership. Membership offers unlimited access to these documents so we just have to determine how long we need to have access to these documents. Of course, if we need to refer to legal terms and clauses all the time, a yearly unlimited access to these documents at $37 per month, saving you 45%, is well worth your money.

I don’t know about you but for someone like me who is always in need of legal reference, having all sorts of documents at my fingertips helps me greatly in streamlining my research work and saving my precious time. That’s why I find it most convenient to have a website to head to when there is a need for me to refer to certain agreements from different countries. That’s what I like about it.

Microsoft Emergency Security Patch For Internet Explorer

Microsoft will be issuing an emergency security patch for all versions of Internet Explorer and a little later, for IE 8, which is still in beta.

My friend told me that the only way to be free from such security threats is to never connect to the internet and I am thinking how true this is!

This security threat, which has said to affect over two million computers already, exploits a security flaw in Internet Explorer and allows hackers to steal log in IDs and password from victims’ computers. At this point, it is said that most of these data stolen are of gaming sites which are then sold in the black market.

However, with more than 10,000 phishing sites already on the web, it is feared that other more personal log in IDs and passwords, particular for financial and banking sites, are compromised as well.

Some people say that IE users should use an alternative browser first before a security patch is released. Microsoft says that this patch will be released Wednesday but I think that if you have set your Windows to update automatically, then I guess you don’t have to check Microsoft download center.

That’s why it’s so important to use only original software, no matter what it is. But I so wish that as a chronic internet user, I don’t have to worry about these security threats all the time!

Gmail Streamlines .pdf Viewing

If you are familiar with Google Docs, you may already be viewing your .pdf files in your web browser. Well, with the same principle, Gmail has now provided us the ability to view .pdf files that come in via email to our Gmail inbox.

How many times have you wished that you could view a .pdf file without having to download it, particularly if you were using a public computer? Personally, though, I prefer to download all my .pdf files and view them later because opening these files in my browser could cause the browser to freeze or hang, and I can’t have that because I surf the web using multiple tabs and I hate to have to reopen everything should my browser close.

However, if I receive a .pdf file anytime soon, I surely would try it out. I’d love to see if it is buggy or if it would be a smooth view, just like opening a .pdf file with Adobe Reader.