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Re: Creativelive – please do the simple things properly!

miccullen — Thu, 27 Jun 2013 18:54:14 -0000

Cindy, not all of the content is poor, some of it is awesome. I have bought several courses (Zack, Sue) but the production quality and the backend "organisation" is very very poor.

Re: Creativelive – please do the simple things properly!

Cindy — Thu, 27 Jun 2013 09:55:31 -0000

Agree the content is poor I have watched several hours today of fluff and dancing on stage, yes I said dancing and this is marketed as leading marketing content ha I'm still waiting to aha but just getting more ha ha. I would not pay for this material from creativelive Frankly is a joke.

Re: Moving to Gmail? A first look @ Postbox

miccullen — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 14:19:40 -0000

G'day Sherman,

is there a GOOD way to ask questions? If they're not bugs, the bug-reporting process is a PITA (five screens...), and doesn't actually give much hope of getting a reply if the final screen is anything to go by.

"Postbox will evaluate each bug submission in an attempt to find
issues that are impacting multiple customers. These issues will then be
prioritized and fixes will eventually be scheduled into a Postbox
release.
Our goal is to spend less time talking about bugs, and more time
actually fixing them. While we greatly appreciate each bug submission,
we may not respond to each one, particularly for issues that are already
known."

Re: Moving to Gmail? A first look @ Postbox

juice — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 01:40:39 -0000

G'day Adam,

my main beef with Gmail is that because I get so many emails, a lot of which I quickly scan and delete, I use the "delete" key a lot. And I can't do that in Gmail. Yeah, I can use #, but it's nowhere near as convenient as the delete key, which I have mapped to a thumb button on my mouse :-)

I also forget to look at email when it's browser-based, although now I look at FB so much that may not be so much of an issue, maybe I'd remember.

Re: Moving to Gmail? A first look @ Postbox

juice — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:37:07 -0000

Thanks for that Sherman. I'm liking it, and am about to move over to GMail fulltime as a result.

Re: Moving to Gmail? A first look @ Postbox

Sherman Dickman — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 01:44:06 -0000

Thanks for the write up, great stuff! A couple of quick comments:

* You can change the selection order after delete here:
http://support.postbox-inc....

* To always show HTML images, go to Preferences / Privacy and uncheck "Block loading of remote images"

* Just log a bug on our support portal if you get stuck on anything.

Re: Moving to Gmail? A first look @ Postbox

Adam — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 07:01:53 -0000

Interesting. I used to have a strong aversion to the idea of mail-in-a-browser in the days before gmail existed. I used Mutt for years and was quite happy with it, but wanted to move my mail to something hosted. I went from Mutt to gmail (talk about a culture shock!) and to be honest it's never bothered me at all. I never thought I would, but here I am. :) Gmail's browser interface is just so damned good, and so damned fast.

I found your comment about focus when deleting emails interesting, as my Outlook (work, Exchange) has always worked the opposite way to what you're used to, and it's never bothered me at all.

Cheers,
Adam

Re: Good work Spreets

susan armstrong — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 23:44:27 -0000

just like you and probably many others i had the same experience with this jason geraghty waiting for my aromatherapy oils to come,what a cheat and low life, and he has the nerve to still advertise himself as a reputable business person, new ventures, more unsuspecting people to cheat on and thieve from.

Re: What’s google up to?

juice — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 23:26:17 -0000

I too hope that it works, but google is not helping itself with this sort of launch. Is there not one person in the company who gets listened to in relation to doing this sort of thing correctly?

Re: What’s google up to?

David de Groot — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 07:49:51 -0000

Thing is, GMail launched in the same way, but because nobody had expectations, this haphazard launch technique was tolerated by the masses.

Of course now GMail has been out for ages and is used by a LOT of people. There are certain expectations in the online community that just weren't there before and thus Google needs to change it's launch technique (although clearly they're not going to).

Back in the day, people sold gmail invites on eBay. There was a real buzz about the service, it was new and so was the invited launch technique. Now, people expect to be able to get in on the new craze early and don't tolerate the invite only model (esp. when said invites don't work because Google closes the invitation period before you can redeem them).

'twill be interesting to see if this service gets off the ground and goes anywhere. There is a definite need for a credible FB alternative, just remains to be seen if this is it.

Re: What’s google up to?

Franwella — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 07:37:31 -0000

I ♥ Google+!

Thought I'd start off with e disclaimer.

Having said that though, I agree with your main point; let people in!

I was lucky enough to get in pretty much from the get go, I have since been able to get quite a few people in via a 'loop hole' in the invitation method (a loop hole I am sure Google werfe well aware of); however, the mechanism is vague, the success rate is varied, and the process is starting to scare people off.

I don't know if Google were simply niave to how many people would be interested in the new product, or just massively underestimated the resources needed to manage to initial flood.

Overall though, I think Google+ is a positive step in the the social networking world. Handing privacy and moderation back to the user is a good start. Allowing simple things like being able to moderate comments to our own posts, and editing of posts is something that should be a given with social networking.

The 'Hangout' concept is very attractive and may well be the feature that wins G+ some points. The potential to group video chat up to ten people, at no cost, is a feature no one has offered before. I can see this being utilised socially (family and friends spread far and wide) as well as professionally (meetings, training sessions etc). As you point out though, it's hard to test when there aren't the users to test it with.

It's going to be an uphill push for Google to convince people to migrate from Facebook. Despite Facebook's widely knows security flaws, massive advertising, constant hacking, and general user 'unfriendliness', it is familiar and it takes a pretty attractive offer to capture attention and swing the vote.

I hope G+ is a success. My initial views are positive, and I would like to see it grow. The mobile support (at least for Android) is impressive, and the features attractive. Fingers crossed that Google can take advantage of the momentum, let people in, and get this thing off the ground.

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PS That would be Google with an uppercase G Mr Cullen!