Jane Talks Tech!

So, I use Twitter daily and am very thankful that Twitter has been a boon to some companies in terms of customer service. However, I've had my first sour experience. To give you some background, I purchased Acronis Disk Director back in 2007 and it worked fine on my Vista system. The last update to Disk Director (when I last checked) was in 2007 so when I saw that an update to Disk Director had occurred in September 2009, I got excited and assumed (wrongly as it turns out) that it would be compatible with Windows 7. ...

So, thanks to Andy C, @andy on Identi.ca, I've been able to get posting enabled to my Habari blog via the Metaweblog plugin available for Habari. Awesome. I miss having a WYSIWYG interface for composing posts so I'm especially glad that I'm now able to have more ways to have brain farts. :)...

So, my father-in-law called me the other day and let me know he had received a check for ~ $3800 and his instructions were to deposit the amount the check was written for, pocket a paltry $200 and wire back the rest. Where have we heard this before?...

So, I'm sure you all were on pins and  needles in wanting to find out the end of my Ovi Store issues. Well, to cut a long story short, here's what happened:...

On the 28th of July, 2009, I made the mistake of purchasing an application (if you must know, it was the JoikuSpot Premium app) from the Ovi Store. My download of the app got interrupted and they made the dumb decision of not having your purchased apps available for re-download. I contacted them to get access and when I sensed that the process was going to be long and painful, I went ahead to purchase the same item from the Joiku Shop. Satisfied that I had fulfilled my craving for the JoikuSpot app (which sadly turned out ...