Archive for April, 2009

PayPal resolution center is useless

Posted on April 18th, 2009 by Shan

Twice now, I’ve had companies where I paid for services via PayPal. Last year, I was co-locating one of my servers with FDC Servers. They decided one day to unplug my server and throw it in a closet, and hold it hostage for an evening. Needless to say, I canceled my service and moved it [...]

Nabaztag API for Actionscript 3 updated to 1.1

Posted on April 9th, 2009 by Shan

Thanks to Matt Chotin, Violet has added a crossdomain.xml file to their API. So, I went in and removed all the code that was needed for the proxy.
Enjoy version 1.1!

How to stop Charter’s DNS hijacking

Posted on April 1st, 2009 by Shan

As a new Charter customer, I quickly became frustrated with Charter’s automatic search page. What happens is, if you type something like “google” into your browser’s URL bar, you get redirected to a Charter branded search page. This is extremely frustrating, and the best that Charter offers is an opt-out cookie that you have to [...]