Category: English posts

Få pengene retur for en fejlkøbt app! (iTunes)

Endnu, da…

 

Den Korrekte og hurtigste måde er således:

1. Åben iTunes, log ind på iTunes Store

2. Under Kontoinformationer find “purchase history”/”Købshistorie”. Klik på “see all”/”Se alle

3. Klik på knappen “Report a problem”/”Anmeld et problem”

4. Find appen, du kom til at købe og klik på “Report a problem”

5. Vælg “I inadvertedly purchased this application” fra pop-down’en (“jeg kom til at købe denne app”)

6. Skriv en kort beskrivelse af, hvorfor dit køb var et fejlkøb.

7. Vent på, at Apple returnerer dine penge.

Lad være med at bruge det her til at teste apps. Brug det, hvor du kan se en klar linie mellem dine forventninger baseret på billeder og beskrivelse af app’en og dens faktiske funktionalitet, som du oplever den. Det kan godt være, du synes Apple er et skrapt firma, men alle poster er faktisk bemandede af mennesker, der reagerer på dig som menneske.

Du KAN også klikke “report a problem”, når du får kvitteringen for dit køb – men jo hurtigere du reagerer, desto bedre står du nok.

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The CORRECT and fastest way is like this:

1. Open iTunes, log in to iTunes Store

2. Under Account information find “Purchase History”. Click on “see all”

3. Click the button “Report a Problem”

4. Locate the app that you inadvertedly purchased and click on “report a problem”

5. From the popdown choose “I inadvertedly purchased this application.”

6. Write a brief description of why your purchase was a mistake.

7. Wait for Apple to return your money,

Do not exploit this to test apps. Use it, where you see a clear link between your expectations from images and description and actual functionality. Apple as a company may be strick in some parts, but all posts are manned by humans, who react to you as a human.

You CAN also click on “report a problem”, when you receive your receipt for your purchase – but the faster you are to make Apple aware of your mistake, the better.

OUTCASTS (2011->, SciFi, TV)

You can never have too many poets. But who will the scriptwriters choose to let live:
The female poet Nobel laurate, or the charismatic evacuation administrator?

33 minutes into ep.1 of

The president speaking to the captain of the approaching ship ferrying colonists from Earth:
      ”Are you carrying any VIPs?”
      ”Margaret Baker. Poet and Nobel laurate.”
      ”Good. You can never have too many poets!”

The English can’t write decent dialogue. They spell everything out AND show it too. It makes for long, boring, predictable scenes, drawn out character building or characters with a flimsy, singular trait – she’s sensitive, so she cries; he’s scizo, so he’s violent; the president is the president, so he’s wise and all fatherly. But no american production company would allow the above quote. In my book, that alone gives the English credit.


Newly colonized planet, 10 years ago, has lost contact with Earth, and is eagerly awaiting new arrivals, 5 years underway.

Trouble is brewing on the planet, so Jamie Bamber couldn’t help say yes to the role of psychopath after his many years aboard the Galactica, but still hasn’t learned how to vary his acting, and therefore may not be such a big threat after all, well, probably not… No-no, he surely won’t be leading the rebellion away from the safe city and into the wilderness, as is mentioned a suspicious number of times. So, other trouble will come, probably from the criminals out there, who should have been executed, but weren’t. Then Jamie will probably come to the rescue, with or without acting lessons.

And the great ship from Earth will probably make it through the atmosphere, despite heat shield problems, which has proven catastrophic for other ships. The reason for this: The president wrinkled his nose over the mentioning of a certain VIP on board the approaching ship – someone he would not love to see contesting his leadership in the city, so at least this guy will make it safely to the ground. Whom the script writers can invent spanners for to cast, throw, deposit or slip into, over time, well defined wheels and cogs in the city’s administration and general well being.

Not much meat on this. So, unless the Tygers, several times referred to, chiefly by the darling, brainwashed son of Jamie Bamber, are neither among the approaching ship, nor harboured as rebels among the citizens, but rather already on the planet in some significant number and force and ready for a quick shoot-out, BBCs usual 8 episode seasons won’t be enough to provide this series with any real corpus.

Too bad. But do keep trying; it IS refreshing to see the British try to move into space. Not holding my breath, though. They’ve seen way to many American SciFi movies!

Kommerciel censur, korporativt kontrolleret Internet

Google censurerer særlige ord og kombinationer af ord. I dag tækkes de frivilligt kapitalinteresser.
I morgen den amerikanske præsident? I overmorgen er de ejet af Rubert Murdoch?

 

Google Instant hedder en funktion, der autofuldender ord, man som bruger indtaster. Dette ud fra en database, der registrerer blot ét tilfælde af en søgning med et nyt ord eller en ny kombination af ord. Men Google har slået funktionen “auto-fuldendelse” fra ved indtastning af særlige ord og kombinationer af ord. Se nedenfor, og gå til link.

via Google Starts Censoring BitTorrent, RapidShare and More | TorrentFreak.

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Kenneth Krabat, 29.1. 2011

A Newbie’s Guide to Publishing: You Should Self-Publish

Ja, der er altid et marked. Men først skal bøgerne skrives. Og SÅ udgives…

A Newbie’s Guide to Publishing: You Should Self-Publish.

UPDATE: A few days ago I read of 4 Swedish bestseller authors, who have gone into self publishing. Can’t find the link to the article, but it concluded that only for the very largest names would self publishing be worth their while – considering all the processes involved. When it comes to e-publishing there are fewer processes than in the production of analog books, and Joe Konrath makes it look easy! Maybe… it’s because his road is light entertainment; hard to tell. But if you don’t mix with the rest, you are watching the herd from outside. Free to be the one to accidently stumble over new pastures, and free to chew on the herd’s discarded remains, depending on your luck. But like a friend said to me many years ago: You have to reach for luck.

Når du sætter dig for at skrive et digt

Den tidligere amerikanske “hofdigter”, Charles Simic, har nogle enkle råd, der faktisk ikke er helt tossede. De er i hvert fald nede på jorden og til at gå til.

Du ved ikke bedre end andre, er ikke den eneste, der lider, digte behøver ikke være lange, sæt ord på dine indre billeder, sig ordene højt og brug dine ører, det du skriver nu kan tage måneder og år at gøre færdig, og det fordrer arbejde at få digtet til at kunne leve uden din hjælp.

Poet Laureate Charles Simic On Writing Poetry – Poetry (Library of Congress).

Læs mere om Simic

At få et godt råd for en lille, hvid løgn og gratis kaffe!

Modellen er fra USA

 

Modellen er fra USA – betal med kaffe for en fremmeds tid og pitch din idé under dække af, at din bror er ved at gældsætte hele familien på denne idé.

Kan man leve med den lille, hvide løgn gentaget en del gange, kan man få uvurdelig feedback, der taler ærligt ud af posen, fordi det er din brors idé og ikke din, og fordi du beder dem om at redde din og familiens røv ved at slashe din brors…!

I like. Psykologien er åbenlys.

via Monkey Opus.

Radio WFMU, Too Much Information with Benjamen Walker

Benjamen Walker som radiointerview-vært er… ja, det er sgu svært at sige. Sig selv? Jo, sig selv. Svært placérbart sig selv.

Playlists and Archives for Too Much Information with Benjamen Walker.

Se også (=HØR også) Benjamen Walkers Theory of Everything


Bog-apps: Reklame eller selvstændig udgivelse?

Hvad en bog-app er i dag kan snart ændre sig: Apple er på vej med skarpere retningslinier for krav om interaktion og selvstændige udgivelser.

 

Nogle forlæggere betragter app’en som en måde at promovere allerede etablerede forfattere på; andre ser det som en selvstændig “udgivelse”, der forøger en forfatters virkefelt.

Der er, hvis ikke direkte stor forvirring, så ikke den store enighed om, hvad man skal betragte en app som, men det kan snart ændre sig: Det forlyder, at Apple er på vej med skarpere restriktioner om, hvad der kan sælges i deres App Store. I dag er det meget almindeligt, at forlag blot omformer en bog til en app og så håber, at den ikke drukner i udbudet af apps, men med tiden vil kravet givet blive større interaktivitet og selvstændige udgivelser, hvis bøger og boglignende objekter skal kunne sælges gennem App Store. (Husk, at der findes en selvstændig App-Verden for jailbroken Apple-mobil-tingester).

Indlægget rummer interviews med forskellige store og større forlag om strategien ift. brugen af apps.

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Kenneth Krabat 29.12. 2010

How Publishers Are Tackling the App Question.