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People can buy Moo Cards now without a need to have a credit card.
I have received the following email from Moo today:

“Dear Joerg,

Just thought you might like to know that we have launched our Paypal payment system at www.moo.com

Please feel free to contact us again if you have any questions.

Best Regards,

Dan Moross
Service Agent – MOO Print Ltd.

That’s pretty cool, isn’t it? 😎

Also the addressing error has been fixed:

“We had a small BUG that dropped the email address into the mailing address, this is now fixed.“

Time to get some mil….errr….cards! =)

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The USBCell rechargeable batteries are also available in many European countries.

The company sent me today the following email:

“You’ll be pleased to know that since our launch 2 months ago USBCELL has received considerable attention worldwide. As a result www.usbcell.com is now shipping the AA product beyond the UK, to the USA and parts of Europe (Ireland, Germany, France, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Austria), with other geographies to be announced soon.

Since our launch 2 months ago, the web-site has become the most visited battery company online, and has been covered in USA Today, WSJ, ABC News, FT (e.g. http://www.usbcell.com/pr/5 ).

We are also running a special Christmas offer of a Gift box of 10 packets (http://www.usbcell.com/product/8 ) for homes or offices wishing to reduce battery waste – e.g. by using our re-usable batteries in wireless mice/keyboards or other devices.

regards
USBCELL Media Team”

That’s pretty wicked, isn’t it? =)

I am soooo excited, I will try to get my hands on some of them! 🙂

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Now it’s possible to Digg a post if you like one very much, since I have added DiggIt links!

To quote their homepage:

“What is Digg?

Digg is a user driven social content website. Ok, so what the heck does that mean? Well, everything on digg is submitted by the digg user community (that would be you). After you submit content, other digg users read your submission and digg what they like best. If your story rocks and receives enough diggs, it is promoted to the front page for the millions of digg visitors to see.

What can you do as a digg user? Lots. Every digg user can digg (help promote), bury (help remove spam), and comment on stories… you can even digg and bury comments you like or dislike. Digg also allows you to track your friends’ activity throughout the site — want to share a video or news story with a friend? Digg it!”

Happy digging! 🙂

I have found actually manuals for both, Digg It for Blogger / Blogspot (old) and Blogger in Beta!

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I just noticed today, that I got dumped for BlogDumps!

Revealed thanks to Technorati, i.e. Wolfbernz’s post mentioning the dump. The person who dumped me is EvaD who bloogs about health.
Her reasons to dump me, she described here:

“ I chose to dump Nafcom. I found great info about Skype on his blog, and as I’m an avid Skype user it was like finding treasure. I’m off to download the RSS feed reader to Skype!“

I am so glad that there are real fans of my blog. I will try to keep on going the same way! =)
Thanks!

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I found something pretty neat by surfing around: USBCell, the rechargeable batteries, that can be charged at an USB port! 🙂

Now, this is neat and handy, isn’t it? 🙂 It can be only purchased in UK, Ireland and USA yet (from here) but if you are living in another country, they can notify you once it’s available in yours (sign in here.).

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SMC vs.. SPH101 which one is better (well the SMC one is like 100 € cheaper)

After I read SMC reviews and this thread, I am happy I invested the extra money for an SPH101:

SMC wi-fi Skype standalone – Skype Forum.

The SPH101 does not have such issues which make the phone barely usable, fortunately! 🙂 I even received my headset today and it works! 🙂 – even for the RTX Dualphone but not on SkypeOut or PSTN line calls, only on Skype2Skype (the first ones cause an echo or constant disturbance noise).

But I originally bought it for the Netgear SPH101 and there it works perfect! =)
It even switches it off if not in use to save battery! 🙂

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Today, the ICQ Team – i.e. ICQ 6 Programmer Sami A. elaborated about how sent messages are displayed:

“There are a lot of things I’m excited about in this new version. As an experienced programmer, I can say there are elements which are very innovative. For example, a new and friendly way of sending IM to your friends, or the ability to see easily and clearly all the messages received.
In general, I like this version for its user friendliness and great colors. I think this serves the ICQ brand perfectly.“

Which does allow the guess that the most missed feature in ICQ 5.1 – A Message History Search & Archive could find its way back into ICQ 6 as I predicted earlier.

Read the complete entry at the ICQ 6 Blog

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This post is a followup about my Headsets for Dual Phone post.

There are a few unclear things about the new Netgear SPH 101 Skpye Standalone Phone because they are not mentioned anywhwere/everywhere, so let’s mention them here:

The phone is available e.g. as IS or GR version at Amazon.de, so what is the difference between the two?

The answer we find here: at http://netgear.de/Support/vermerk.html

-GR version: German speaking (Germany) packaging and installation manual, partly German graphical user interfaces (depends on product)
-IS version: International version (International Spelling) with manual in German, English, Italian, French, Swedish

Here the answer from Netgear:

“GR and IS are only names thare are given internally from Netgear used for different regions. GR stands for Germany. The products themselves do not differ!

Sincerely,
Netgearsupport“

I even got information from Netgear and Sennheiser regaring headset compatibility:

“Good Day,
Please excuse the waiting time.

Sennheiser headsets have been tested by our co-workers including every day usage.

Headsets for the Motorola V226 and E6801 should be compatible, too.

But generally, there is no official compatibility list from Netgear, yet.“

Senneheiser’s statement:

“Dear Mr. Jörg
I thank you for showing us the interest in our products. The MM-headset with 2,5mm jack is specifically designed for Motorola.
RTX is right I’m afraid and what this means is the way everybody have chosen the pinout config. All the jacks are standard in terms of dimensions (2,5/3,5/6,3mm)“

About the question whether the Sennheiser MM30 is compatibe:

“Dear Mr. Droege
These models can be found in our selector and that means that it is compatible yes!

Venlig Hilsen / Best Regards

Niels Hostrup
Technical Support Coordinator
Sennheiser Communications A/S“

Also important: Forget about the German product info page has errors, e.g. that there is a contact list limit of 200.

Netgear regarding this:

“At unclear information about a product, always the information at the English site is valid (netgear.com)!“

Maybe this headset information will help also with my Headsets for Dual Phone issue, since according to AperorDirect‘s Howard Chang:

“The headset comes with my old Motorola works just fine. I called the Skype
echo123 test center and passed the test. (The headset is with a 2.5mm 2-ring
jack.)”

– so it could be that it also will work with my Dual Phone! 🙂

The Sennheiser MM30 should be here soon, then I will post about it again! 🙂

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The public chat “Skype English blog chat” got a new home. The following could been read in the old chat:

“[17.11.2006 15:43:43] stephanie robesky says: everyone – since jaanus has left the chat and

can’t seem to get back in (bug filed) we are starting a new chat
[17.11.2006 15:43:47] stephanie robesky says: i will post the link here
[17.11.2006 15:43:51] stephanie robesky says: and then set this chat to read only
[17.11.2006 15:43:52] stephanie robesky says: sorry!
[17.11.2006 15:44:02] stephanie robesky says: skype:?

chat&blob=RFpluOA7hhg6evYa_5na__TOAavjGl1wqUoRhFxHDfsyPjJcST4KKvSJTejTEugm3fOIE6ZEYOtapO55xKGYibs6stqhgg“

So all this hassle because of a bug which prevented the Staff member Jaanus Kaase to join again his own public chat.

It will take ages to get into the new chat since tehre is a limit of 100 participants and most people bookmark the chat and stay there forever.

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My earlier post about the ICQ 5.1 crash problem solution and ICQ’s URL fix seems to have spread quite well! 🙂 Infact it was linked to on serveral blogs. E.g. here and here. It’s a great feeling to know that I have been helpful to many! 🙂

Thanks for the links! 🙂

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