A couple weeks ago I wrote about my experiences with 1&1 Internet at length, but decided not to post the article as it came off more like a rant. Instead I think it suffices to say that 1&1 is not a respectable company. In my opinion they do not deserve your business, and should not be trusted with any sensitive services. They might not be there to help you when you need it the most.
My latest issue with them resulted in more than a week of technical issues and wasted time. It was only resolved when I moved my domain to a different company. I was further irritated when they billed me for the domain, that had been transferred to another company a month earlier, and forced me to fill in a form and fax it across the continent to be reimbursed.
A word of advice for 1&1 customers trying to setup or change GLUE (nameserver IPs) for their domain. After making changes to your subdomains ns1 and ns2.yourdomain.com, you must go into the settings for yourdomain.com and click “update” to start the update process. Otherwise nothing will happen and your GLUE will not be updated, and sometimes even this doesn’t work. Best of luck.
Remember Cookies? About a week ago I finished my second, much better stop-motion short. Keeping to the theme of things making themselves, its about the coffee brewing autonomously! Enjoy. And please comment and share if you like it.
I’ve been using the iPhone OS 4.0 beta since last week, and so far I’m very impressed. There a few things that haven’t gotten a lot of attention elswhere and I I’ll point them out here.
Cellular Data switch: This is great news for people outside of the US and UK who have limited data plans. Now if you have no data plan, are reaching your limit, or just don’t want to use any data at a given time you can turn it off independently of 3G/edge voice and SMS.
Missing music controls: Double tapping on the home button to bring up Multitasking has come at the cost of the iPod controls (the little blue menu that would appear over whatever app you were working in). I suppose this doesn’t matter when you’re using Apple earphones, but I already miss that feature quite a bit and I hope they can re-implement it.
Threaded email doesn’t work (yet): The universal inbox works perfectly, but the actual threading makes strange mistakes. Completely unrelated messages from different people are grouped together, not all conversations are threaded…its a mess. Hopefully Apple can get this figured out by the Summer release date, and I’ve just disabled the threading for now.
A PayPal account. Its important that your name is entered exactly the same on both your PayPal and Coast Capital accounts.
To link a new bank account you’ll want to start by opening PayPal and logging in there. Under My Account click Profile, then under Financial Information open Bank Accounts, and from this page click “add”. Depending on your situation, there are a number of ways you can get the rest of the info you’ll need.
A couple weeks ago I wrote about my experiences with 1&1 Internet at length, but decided not to post the article as it came off more like a rant. Instead I think it suffices to say that 1&1 is not a respectable company. In my opinion they do not deserve your business, and should not be trusted with any sensitive services. They might not be there to help you when you need it the most.