Congrats to Walter Higgins of sxoop for getting another positive review for his pxn8 (an online photo editing app) on TechCrunch today.
The TechCrunch article is a review of six online photo editors and of pxn8 TechCrunch says:
PXN8 is the best of the Ajax based editors (and the best overall until Picnik launched) and has a great user interface with the main features highlighted on large icons. The basic “enhance†feature does a very good job of fixing the obvious problems with pictures. Edited photos can be transferred to Flickr or Webshots’ AllYouCanUpload service.
I see Conor has written this up too.
I bought a Western Digital My Book Pro Edition II external hard drive recently. This is a 1TB external drive. It wasn’t cheap.
It was delivered last Friday and I went about installing it on Saturday.
It doesn’t work.
The lights come on when it is powered up but it doesn’t appear on the computer’s desktop, nor does it appear in the RAID Manager software which ships with the product (or in my Mac’s Disk Utility program).
It doesn’t seem to matter whether I try to connect using USB or Firewire - I get the same results. Swapping the cables which came with it for USB and Firewire cables which I already own make no difference either. My old La Cie external has no problem showing up.
The support documentation which comes with it doesn’t list any contact details for Ireland and the Support site has no useful info on this drive.
And it is Monday.
Not happy.
I was pitched another website to review again today - this happens regularly - some I review, some I ignore depending on how useful or interesting I think they are.
The site I was pitched today was Ugenie.com by someone calling themselves Archana - the fact that this person chose not to use their real name should have alerted me to the fact that this was going to be bad!
Archana said in his/her email:
I really enjoyed reading through your blog, I thought perhaps, you might be interested in checking out the beta website of the place were i work -www.ugenie.com
You enjoyed reading through my blog, did you? Then why did you waste your time and mine pitching me a site which couldn’t possibly be of any use to me?
Ugenie.com is a price comparison site which is US only.
Hello? It is the World Wide Web - not the US Wide Web. We have running water, electricity and yes, even Internet access in countries outside of the US these days.
If you are pitching sites to bloggers, at least have the courtesy to only ask them to look over sites which may be of use/interest to them. And don’t lie about having looked over their site, even a cursory glance over my site would tell you that I am based in Ireland, not the US.
UPDATE:
Oops - Archana came back in the comments (below) and informed me that Archana is, in fact, his name - apologies for that Archana.
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