Month: October 2006

Follow-Up post to No more popups!:

In order to get my blog pop-up free (pop-ups that most likely seldom or never appear in Opera), I decided to take the next step: I removed my WebStats4U Basic Counter because as a friend pointed out in other browsers, there constantly pops up an ilead.itrack.it window – something which I think costs me visitors! Since I had an English WebStats4U account, it seems they missed to inform me about the fact that there is now a pop-up since August 2005 due to a change in their Terms Of Service what I found out by a German forum post finding.

Because I do meanwhile have a Google Analytics counter, I do not leave WebStats4U anymore! =)

So, please enjoy your stay without pop-ups now!

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I decided to show you a bit about the successful Swicki, the community powered and controlled – more about it can be found at Wikipedia, (especially the external links provided!). This special mix of search engine and Tag cloud is great.

Here an example of the submitted sites by you, my readership – it also lists sites you wish to be deleted out of search results or totally be blocked.

And here, we see sites you promoted for the searches you did to be listed at the top. This way, the results will be more to according to your wishes, requirements and needs 🙂
So in the end you have a tool for making my tool more valuable to you, since it lists related blog entries (from this blog and from BeConfused) to your search tag entered as a priority.

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Orkut maps which has been removed returned now – will it be forever? Let’s wait and see! 😉

Weird Orkut!

At least a very nice feature which got even announced on your friend page when you login to your account! 🙂

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Update: I have found the problem.
A contact of mine uses &RQ. If a contact comes online or is already online with his &RQ, it will crash all the contacts he has an use ICQ 5.1
Solution: http://go.icq.com and delete the contact that uses uses &RQ and it will work again! 😎
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Again the ICQ server seems to be down, but in a strange way. As seen here, ICQ 5.1 just stucks at “Loading Contact List” and then it freezes. Unfortunately Friday & Saturday is weekend in Israel, so do not hope for a fast fix! 🙁

Notice: Only some user accounts are affected by this.

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Skype newletters never arrived to me in 2006. Now, things changed. They have sorted it out, and above you can see the Newsletter arrive to me! Unfortunately unlike before in German this time! 🙁

if you want to see the newsletter from the screenshot completely, visit this link.

If you want to change your newsletter preferences, you have to do it using this link.

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60 Minutes free SkypeOut for Germans – this is how the new Skype Campaign sounds like.

More in detail: Check the campaign site. In general: Buy SkypeOut, SkypeIn or Voicemail for 11,50 € and get 60 minutes SkypeOut for free. And the best thing: It’s for every purchase you make – till November, 15th, 2006 – then the campaign is over.

It’s only valid for Germany!

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Skype has at the moment problem with illegal sites selling SkypeOut and SkypeOut inofficially. That’s why some accounts got blocked which caused users in rage in the English and interstingly also in the recently launched German forums.

Well, finally, the official statement from the Skype Staff has been posted in the Forums here:

“Hi !

We have experienced several payment incidents due to the use of fraudulent payment methods. All these events are connected with a limited number of unofficial websites reselling SkypeOut Credits. All accounts that were linked to these fraudulent transactions are temporarily restricted.

We are now investigating these accounts and websites and we check every concerned account in order to evaluate its possible participation to this fraud scheme.

We want to stress the fact that these websites are NOT official Skype partners.

We apologize for the inconvenience and ask for your patience. We are working on this matter.”

It has also been translated into Russian which suggests that a lot of users from Russia were affected.

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I have got a new record of daily visitors, yesterday: 541!

Normally, I have around 80-120 visitors a day, but yesterday I have got 541 – I wonder why, but I want to Thank all my visitors and readers!.

I don’t know what causes this sudden boost of visitors, but it’s nice to see that my blog gained interest within the large Blogsphere! 🙂

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So, Russians reverse Engeneered (not completely yet as I understood) – interesting, is this a new area of IM clones but this time “Skype clones”? 😉
More about this with screenshots can be found here

Another thing I learned today – which is not in the Skype Knowledge Base:

In Text Chats you can enter “/help” and then you get a nice list of commands:

“Available commands:
/add
/help
/topic
/me
/history
/find
/fa or /
/leave
/alertson [text to match]
/alertsoff
/call [skypename]”

Definately a thing to check out! 🙂

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Seems like I am not the only one. Now ICQ Support campaign is not alone anymore. Another ICQ Support campaign can be found here:

“Who wants the support team back again?

Who wants those people coming round here weekly/daily/constantly?

Who wants it to be possible, to get back a stolen account/PW again?

Who wants a unique support email address, and/or a -form?
And a quick reaction?

Who wants a quick reaction and an updated, plus detailed, central support guidance for the most different current and general problems? (Starting, lost passwords, pictures, ICQ-mail, etc.)

Who wants to get the possibility to report those users who have behaved themselves roughly wrong/misbehave themselves (Etiquette).
With adopted measures by ICQ.”

Well, so let’s shudder ICQ’s HQ! Heheh.

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