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To celebrate transfer your domain day, I am offering to help you transfer your domains at no cost.
That’s right, I will do all the work to transfer your domain from GoDaddy to a registrar of your choice (I went with NameCheap [affiliate link]).
If you do choose to go alone, check out these handy dandy step by step instructions for switching from GoDaddy to NameCheap.
Stop putting it off, make the switch!
In case you haven’t heard the news, GoDaddy supports SOPA (Stop Online Privacy Act). As a result, I am pulling all my domains away from GoDaddy, and I suggest you do the same.
Here is a step by step guide to transferring your domains from GoDaddy to NameCheap.
Also, here is the original Reddit thread that started the GoDaddy transfer movement. It contains a lot of great information, alternatives, and discounts. As of now, GoDaddy seems unimpressed with the effort, and has released this statement to Ars Technica:
Go Daddy has received some emails that appear to stem from the boycott prompt, but we have not seen any impact to our business. We understand there are many differing opinions on the SOPA regulations.
Let’s show them that we won’t go down without a fight.
In addition, whether you have domains hosted with GoDaddy or not, I urge you to call your representative and express your sentiments on SOPA. Let’s prove that the people still have some power.
Update: GoDaddy has changed their stance and now says that it is opposing SOPA. I, for one, will still be taking my business elsewhere.
Jillian has completed her first round of artwork donated to the Maimonides Surgery Fund. I wanted to share them all with you since every single piece turned out so amazing.
For some more back story, check out the original post, the post about Jillian’s artwork, update 1 and update 2.
Again, thank you all for your support. Maimonides is healing up so fast: he’s back to jumping around and the hair has mostly grown back. 🙂
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I was an avid Google Chrome user until I upgraded to OSX Lion. The new operating system did not play nicely with Chrome’s Cookies, and I found myself unable to use Google Apps about 95% of the time. As much as I wanted to stay with Chrome, I had to switch back to Apple’s native browser in order to maintain a usable internet.
The main thing that infuriated me with Safari is the separate address bar and search bar. Google announced the appropriately named Omnibar with Google Chrome, which would allow users to enter URLs and search from the same bar. Firefox adapted this functionality as well, allowing users to search from the address bar, while still visually keeping the address bar and search bar separate.
As of writing this, Safari still does not offer this functionality. Nor are there any official extensions that allow users to search from the address bar.
And then I found the SafariOmnibar on github. It does exactly what I wanted.
Just wanted to share with everyone. Happy browsing.
Zach Holman wrote a great article on his blog yesterday titled Don’t Give Your Users Shit Work:
Some people still like shit work. They can spend an hour moving Twitter accounts to special Lists, and then at the end of it look back and say “Boy, I spent an hour doing this. I really accomplished a lot today!” You didn’t. You did shit work.
I think this is one of the most important lessons for people and companies developing web services. As the article shows, Facebook is a great example of a company that handles shit work very well. While Facebook may be filled with numerous other issues, Facebook handles shit work, such as categorizing friends, better than any other social media outlet around.
Users want the highest yield from the least amount of work. Facebook continues to succeed, despite its terrible track record of privacy blunders and usability issues, because it allows users to seamlessly share status updates, links, pictures, games, and information all in one feed. While many people complained about the most recent Facebook overhaul, it was completely necessary to keep up with the sheer amount of data being entered into Facebook. Facebook is now doing even more shit work, such as figuring out who (they think) you want to read about and separating friends’ action updates from the newsfeed updates. Users may have retaliated at first, but the storm has now settled and I think people have come to understand the benefits of the new layout (or have become too lazy to fight back anymore).
In the end, it’s all about creating a useful, usable, and unintimidating stream of information with the least amount of input from the user. It’s about being intuitive as to the consumer’s needs, and providing without asking. Technology is moving so fast that users really don’t know what they want. Successful companies of the future will be the companies that tell the user what they want. Ask too many questions and you’re bound to fail.
To everyone who donated, commissioned artwork, commissioned web work, or just offered your support: thank you.
It was overwhelming the amount of support that came pouring in after Maimonides needed surgery. With everyone’s help, we were able to raise a significant portion of the vet bill, and I’m sure that with the referrals and resources provided by all of you, this debt will be paid off in a reasonable amount of time.
More important than my recovering bank account if my recovering cat. Maimonides is healing up at an extremely fast pace. Not only does he now have his stitches out, but his scar is already starting to look healed! He still walks with a bit of a limp, but that is growing less day by day.
Maimy has a follow up appointment in three weeks, where additional X-rays will be taken to determine whether steel rods have shifted. Then I have to keep an eye on him for about four months after that, for additional signs of rod movement, and then he’s pretty much in the clear. He’s set to make a full recovery.
Again, thank you for all of your support, from both myself and Maimonides.