SuperStock.com get heavy over stolen images
October 21st, 2008 by Sarah KingSuperStock isn’t a site I’d visited before but they appear to be one of the bigger stock photography companies on the web. Right now I’m following a case where a guy used one of their images without permission (or paying, I’d guess). The image has been removed but he also checked online to see if he was doing the right thing. Unsurprisingly he didn’t get much sympathy. Read the rest of this entry »
Is Yahoo losing control of it’s systems?
May 21st, 2008 by Sarah KingI had reason the other day to ask Yahoo a question about it’s directory and someone who was acting as an agent for the directory. I used their “other abuse” option on the contact forms to ask if the reseller was legitimate.
After a couple of days I got a reply focussed on spam. I replied hoping that I might trigger a human to actually read what I had posted. Given the delay in sending and receiving then surely there was a human involved? Computers are much quicker than that! Read the rest of this entry »
Docapy and the law of diminishing returns
July 4th, 2007 by Sarah KingI’ve been using a crossword helper for a while, usually when helping my Mother with questions about French Presidents and button collections and Google fails to give me a sensible answer.
The tool I use is at http://casr.adelaide.edu.au/craig/wow.html
They have a little teaser on the page saying What is docapy? Read the rest of this entry »
A fool and his money are easily parted: e-gold and PayPal scams abound!
June 29th, 2007 by Sarah KingPeople who do business online frequently have their earnings held by pseudo-banks such as PayPal and e-gold. A problem then arises when the same people need their money out of these pseudo-banks or transferred between them.
The most common way to do it appears to be to find someone who is happy to trade. So A puts money into B’s PayPal account and B puts money into A’s e-gold account. Read the rest of this entry »
Defeating Child Pornography
October 26th, 2006 by Sarah KingI’m no fan of pornography but I accept that people do get their kicks from it. To each his own…
However abusive pornography and anything involving kids should be a no-brainer. However the stats link adult pornographers with child pornography and that’s sickening.
So this little post is to provide links to RACE4INNOCENCE and Light a Million Candles.
Make a visit and remember that even if you like porn it’s not for kids. Read the rest of this entry »
Who serves who at Yahoo?
October 25th, 2006 by Sarah KingLast year I took a punt on a 4 letter .com domain: nzrh.com and bought it through Yahoo Business. All went well and then as part of a consolidation exercise I moved it, and some other domains to a new registrar.
The transfer worked without a hitch so imagine my surprise to be getting the heavy now from Yahoo because they can’t auto renew the domain! Read the rest of this entry »
Setting up Electronic payments for Adsense
August 14th, 2006 by Sarah KingI logged into check my Adsense the other day and saw that New Zealand is on the list of countries which are eligible for electronic payments.
Setup is easy enough, just follow the steps. The only point of confusion might be in the terminology surrounding the account details.
Sort Code is used in the UK to describe the bank and branch information – in the US too I guess. But it’s alien to us kiwis… Read the rest of this entry »
