I just tried the new Facebook Chat plugin for Pidgin. My experience so far has been flawless. I shut off Pidgin, ran the Windows Installer and started Pidgin back up. Then I created an account in Pidgin’s “manage accounts” area. I didn’t have any trouble at all. So far, it’s worked 100%. I really like [...]
Archive > October 2008
eBay selling tips
I’d say I’m a casual eBay seller. But somehow, everything I list ends up selling for more than the average comparable product. My friend asked me how I do this. Here are my tips:
Set your initial price low. That gets people interested. If you set it at the price that you want, nobody will even [...]
DIY cow USB flash drive
I saw some pictures of animal USB drives on the internet and thought it would be cool to make my own with a stuffed animal and a Sandisk Cruzer 256 mb drive I had laying around. Here is the usb drive and cow (sorry, I forgot to take a picture of the cow before I [...]
Fixing Error 550 when sending to/from Google Apps email
My problem was that whenever I sent an email from my boogly.net email (hosted by hostgator) to my email at celiacclub.com (email managed with Google Apps for domains), the message bounced, replying with this error:
550-Verification failed for <email>
550-No Such User Here
550 Sender verify failed (state 14).
It only happened for the boogly.net-to/from-celiacclub.com connection–emails from hotmail got [...]
My experience moving to slicehost from HostGator
It’s been 11 days since I’ve had a slicehost account, so I figured I would write about my experience with it. Slicehost is a Virtual Private Server (VPS) host that pretty much gives you webspace, an internet connection, and lets you do whatever you want with it. It’s nice to have the control…but that also [...]