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Problem accessing secure pages and other web pages on amazon newegg and more

Eric — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 06:07:09 +0000

For a week or two (I’m pretty sure this started before Hurricane Irene) I’ve been having trouble accessing secure pages on amazon.com. I can’t see my past orders, reach my Amazon Cloud Drive, or now even place a new order. I discovered today that I can’t get the newegg.com site to work either — so [...]

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Problem accessing secure pages and other web pages on amazon newegg and more

Amazon’s New Look

Eric — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 14:30:34 +0000

Amazon showed me a new clean look today… Nice design with lots of white. here’s a product page:Update: September 4, 2011 Now amazon has gone back to looking how it used to. (But I still can’t access my amazon account!!!). I did find this interesting article on the evolution of the amazon add to shopping cart button. Post [...]

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Amazon’s New Look

Problem accessing secure pages and other web pages on amazon newegg and more

OCR is super powerful now — and free

Eric — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 19:27:24 +0000

I found a printout of a webpage that is long since gone (and not archived at http://www.archive.org — that would have been too easy). So what to do? Scan it in and use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. Um, but I don’t have any software like that and I’d rather not buy any. A quick [...]

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OCR is super powerful now — and free

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Phone Message Scams

Eric — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 03:55:09 +0000

I turn on my cell phone about once or twice a month — I only use it when necessary — so I was surprised that there was a message on it. It was something about being able to take care of the problem I had called about and that the rep would be able to [...]

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Phone Message Scams

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How To Include Amazon Text and Image (Enhanced Display) Affiliate Links In WordPress – Part 2

Eric — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 03:37:11 +0000

Feh. As per my previous post on inserting iframe tags in the TinyMCE editor in WordPress for amazon affiliate links and youtube videos, this is something a user needs to be able to do without having the editor delete them as soon as you switch into WYSIWYG mode. This plugin — Amazon Widgets Shortcodes — [...]

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How To Include Amazon Text and Image (Enhanced Display) Affiliate Links In WordPress – Part 2

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Eric — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 02:55:03 +0000

Cute little helpless robots depend on people for help. It works -- people like to help the cute.

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I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

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How To Include Amazon Text and Image (Enhanced Display) Affiliate Links In WordPress

Eric — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 02:27:21 +0000

You can't use the WordPress visual editor and insert code with an iFrame tag. The editor eats it. Here's how to teach the editor to accept the iFrame tag (and thus allow you to put nice Enhanced Display amazon.com affiliate links in your post).

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How To Include Amazon Text and Image (Enhanced Display) Affiliate Links In WordPress

How To Include Amazon Text and Image (Enhanced Display) Affiliate Links In WordPress – Part 2

A Man Walks Into A Bar And Says Ouch

Eric — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 20:50:19 +0000

Internet Marketing passive income streams - yay!

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A Man Walks Into A Bar And Says Ouch

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Enhance PayPal Security With A Security Key

Eric — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 23:39:32 +0000

PayPal can give you a keyfob or card that is required in order to log in to your account -- making you more safe from hackers. Or PayPal can text you a password code when you want to log in.

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Enhance PayPal Security With A Security Key

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Voice Recognition Really Works Now

Eric — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 18:30:38 +0000

You can type as fast as you speak if you use voice recognition software. Wow!

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Voice Recognition Really Works Now

OCR is super powerful now — and free