April 24th, 2010
Yeah. I’ve got one freaking amazing phone. My iPhone did pretty much everything almost flawlessly for a long time. I even have a great app called “Tune-In” which actually played streaming internet radio in the background by utilizing Quicktime in the Safari browser. Then it broke out of the blue!
I believed the background streaming feature broke the very day I upgraded the app to the newest version, but after emailing their support, they told me that they’ve never heard of it doing that.
I scoured for endless hours on the internet for a solution to this problem and found nothing…. ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. I couldn’t believe it. Something so insidious…just sitting there laughing at my every effort to fix it.
I tried a lot of different things, but in the end, the whole reason it wouldn’t play any audio in my safari browser anymore, was (unknowingly) the iPhone Safari setting (Settings->Safari) had been switched to OFF. Once I switched it to on, the feature immediately began to work again.
I hope that if any other soul out there had this issue, that some how my blog post could help them. I’ve been living with this for months now. Today I just couldn’t take it anymore, and that’s when it dawned on me to try looking for a Safari setting.
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March 29th, 2010
More like CenturyWin…
I have to admit that when I wrote the previous blog post that trash-talked CenturyLink, I had no idea that they would find my blog and actually try and make it right. I wasn’t even aware that ANYBODY was even reading my blog at all, other than the occasional friend who felt obliged to read what I was babbling about.
I hardly expected that they would get to the bottom of it. It was a cohesive effort between CenturyLink management, CenturyLink techs, and myself and a bit of help I enlisted. I had to prove that the issue was not coming from inside wiring or anything like that. So I got a friend’s help and we ran brand new CAT5 wire straight from the box outside to the modem with no other taps anywhere. After that, CenturyLink was able to determine that everything looked good all the way from the central office to the modem.
They managed to discover where the problem was on their end, and they fixed it. We got credit to our account, and we also got our speed bumped back up to the full 10mbit/sec.
If you’re thinking about getting CenturyLink DSL service, …it’s likely to be a lot more reliable than wireless service, and now that they are aware of how this problem occurred, they should be able to avoid that pitfall again. Plus paying for the wireless equipment and install from a wireless broadband company is pretty spendy. I’d recommend going hard-wired.
Now if only Microsoft would take as much initiative and fix the stuff I complain about on this blog…
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March 1st, 2010
Ok, I think this is gonna be short, because frankly, I’m sick of talking about it already. MS Windows 7 RC1 told me a few days ago that I had 12 days before it would start rebooting by itself. Well, only a day or two later, it said, “You have 2 days left,…” WHAT?!?! TWO days??! So it went from being nice and giving me a decent amount of time, to only 2 days which is entirely unacceptable! I have hundreds if not THOUSANDS of apps and tweaks and various things I have installed. There’s no way I could get this ready in that amount of time even if I didn’t already have a million o
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February 27th, 2010
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EDIT 3-29-2010: The following is a former
expression of how I felt about CenturyLink.
Since the time of writing, CenturyLink got on
the ball and fixed the problem and made it right.
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Well, I told somebody about my gripes and rantings on my blog here, and I just realized they would have to dig through to find them because all of my more recent blogs were actually trying to be rather up beat.
So I present to you, … another rant about CenturyLink (yes, they changed their name). I had my pet(or pet-peeved) name for CenturyTel, it was CenturySmell. Then they recently changed it to CenturyLink, which I of course call CenturyStink.
Am I serious about my disdain for this company? Oh you bet I am. The company royally screwed over my parents. They took something like 6 months before they FINALLY ported his business phone numbers out to our new phone service. In the process they cost him hundreds or maybe thousands of dollars.
I have my own complaints about the company too. They have their own stupid mini-contracts that they never tell you about. I got DSL internet a few years ago on my own phone line, then when I moved, I couldn’t just switch the service to my new location, they had to charge me a cancellation fee…which I couldn’t pay, and I didn’t need the internet at the new place anyway, so I was really wanting to just drop them, but nooooo, they had to tell me I was under a contract and had to pay an early termination fee to cancel it early. Eventually I got the family there to take over the service, so I got out of it. Still, they have no right to act like a freaking cell phone company.
On the list of other dings on CenturyStink’s record, are CRAPPY internet, TERRIBLE customer service, and non-existant repair. They sell us an internet speed of 10megabits/second, and they don’t even bother to pro-rate it when their stupid techs bump it all the way down to 3.5mbit/sec so they can supposedly “fix the disconnects”. They didn’t FIX it… they made it WORSE. It disconnects nearly 30 times a day, or else at least acts completely retarded 30 times or more a day. They always say we’re the only ones having this problem, and that it is probably because we’re so far out from their office, which is …what,…a MILE exactly maybe? Golly… if they can’t make 3.5 megabit/sec work without problems just 1 mile away, I wonder what it’s like right in their office…probably 40% uptime!
I know we’re not the only ones with crappy DSL service from them. They also refuse to come out and look at the situation anymore. They figure they replace the modem (which doesn’t fix anything). They come in and make sure that the “Auto-Reconnect” feature is turned on, and that’s it…. now they don’t even come out.
Tell me CenturyStink… if we’re the only ones with this problem, then you obviously have the time to come and look at our issue and fix it right? Except they don’t know HOW to fix it, because they’re not as bright as they claim to be. I hate living out here where there’s no quality options for things like internet. I’m going to move elsewhere as soon as I can!
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February 2nd, 2010
Ok, you may not realize this, but I make dance music. I go by the name of JHT3 most of the time. I’ve just finished a new track called “Restart”. It’s got some pretty neat female spoken word vocals courtesy of SitePal’s text to speech generator.
It’s available to hear on my Sound Cloud account here: http://soundcloud.com/pwm-scout/jht3-restart-original-mix
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