Apologies to all who ....

[juane]

sent me private messages lately.

I'm not ignoring you intentionally. I just forget to check.

Is there a way to set it up to ring a chime, kick me in the shins or route to my regular email account?

juane

 

[Ruadhrigh]

I'm not the expert Mike is, but...

in the upper left corner is a button "User CP," click that and then click "Edit options" on the left column. Go through the options and you can choose to be notified of new messages.

 

[pappy]

Juane,

I don't know what I did, but when I log into MUD, and I have a PM, it opens a box telling me I have mail. I also get a notice when I'm on MUD and a PM comes in. I think there is also a way to get an email notification.

Jon

 

[Beowulf]

sent me private messages lately.

I'm not ignoring you intentionally. I just forget to check.

Is there a way to set it up to ring a chime, kick me in the shins or route to my regular email account?

juane

* Rory covered routing Forum PM to your regular e-mail.
* Pappy's suggestion covers when you remember to open the HDC Club Forum on 'Mud and click on "User CP" (FYI, I have that as my default link for the HDC forum)
* Ringing chimes and shin kicks can be accomplished using RSS feeds. They can be really helpful if you have a number of web sites that you need to monitor for updates.

Are you using a tabbed browser? (Firefox or the new IE V7 I think) If you are, then just keep the HDC forum in a tab and press "User CP" whenever you want to check for new posts. If that isn't practical then do some research on RSS feeds as "shin kicks" is exactly what they were designed to do.

It helps if you have a Smart Phone (ala Treo or BB) that has a powerful vibrate feature. Then you can strap the phone to your shin with velcro and when a new message arrives it gets routed to your Smart Phone's e-mail which initiates a phone vibrate sequence (PVS). This is known in the industry as an SSK (simulated shin kick.)

I prefer Firefox.

-Mike-

 

[Ruadhrigh]

mike is the master but the way I described will give you a pop-up when you have a new message. it will come up whenever you get a meesage, but only when you refresh whatever page you're on, or go to a new page (just to make it confusing )

 

[SteveLCetc]

I just set mine up to get an email for a thread I've posted on or a PM.

BTW, I tried Firefox and am now using it - it seems to work much better usually, except when it doesn't - then it *really* doesn't...

 

[Cruisergreg]

*I prefer Firefox.

I don't. It totally screws up the presentation of my website and I can't find a single reason in the code why it translates so poorly.

 

[SteveLCetc]

Sheesh Greg, I didn't know you had a web site - what is it?

 

[Beowulf]

Firefox has included tabbed browsing for several years. I couldn't live without it. I would rather go back to dial-up modems than give up FF. The ad-block plugin is outstanding. FF does a much better job at blocking other pop-ups. Malicious web sites and Spyware are a thing of the past for me since I stopped using IE. I love the built-in spell checking (hasn't everyone noticed that I don't misspell as many words any more?)

The new version (2.0+) has a "restore session" setting that lets you restore all your tabs exactly like your prior session; whether you close FF down normally or not. FF has always had an "Open All in tabs" option that lets you build a "favorites" toolbar and just 1-click will open all of the pages. I don't use that as much since they implemented "restore session."

There are a couple of "internal use" web sites that don't play well with FF. Mostly Java enabled web sites who have clueless dolts writing the Java code. One of these days these same clueless dolts will fix their junk but until then Billy Gate's brain-dead IE has to stay around.

But that's just my unbiased opinion. ... and I am not implying that everyone with a non-working web site is a clueless dolt. I'm sure some of them are brilliant and could care less about making their web sites work with the other 20% of the world that doesn't use IE.

-Mike-

 

[Ruadhrigh]

Safari is the best





take that you PC lovers!

 

[Beowulf]

Safari is the best

take that you PC lovers!

Funny you should mention this.

As some of you know, I rode with Robbie for about 2 hours the first afternoon at TOTH. We got into a long discussion on the Mac and how he uses it to communicate with his family while he is on the road. I told him we wanted to get Ross a new notebook PC for his birthday so Robbie gave me pointers on the various Mac notebook models.

He almost convinced me to buy a Mac except I couldn't bring myself to go through the learning curve. You know... the adage about teaching old dogs new tricks.

Dell got an order last week.

-Mike-

 

[alia176]

Mike

X2 on the FF. It's awesome and virus attacked a lot less that IE. I emailed you a question on a specific thing on FF that I'm trying to do.

X2 on the Mac (and I'm not nearly as old as you)

 

[Ruadhrigh]

Funny you should mention this.

As some of you know, I rode with Robbie for about 2 hours the first afternoon at TOTH. We got into a long discussion on the Mac and how he uses it to communicate with his family while he is on the road. I told him we wanted to get Ross a new notebook PC for his birthday so Robbie gave me pointers on the various Mac notebook models.

He almost convinced me to buy a Mac except I couldn't bring myself to go through the learning curve. You know... the adage about teaching old dogs new tricks.

Dell got an order last week.

-Mike-

its funny you should mention that

it is less learning than un-learning. sounds weird but that's how it is. with PC you have to go through memorized processes, the Mac pretty much works the way you would think it would. (unless you are thinking that it will act like a PC) I'd say the hardest thing to get used to on a Mac is that the close, minimize and maximize buttons are on the left.

besides I am an young dog, but I don't know any tricks

 

[Cruisergreg]

Sheesh Greg, I didn't know you had a web site - what is it?

I'm talking about the company one.

 

[Cruisergreg]

... and I am not implying that everyone with a non-working web site is a clueless dolt.

I suspect that in my case the issue is that I used the MS Word web editor. I don't think I would be excessively paranoid to suspect it is intentionally incompatible with anything other than IE.

 

[juane]

Safari is the best


Safari was released waaaay before it was ready, even as beta.
I can not get it to work and I'm not the only one:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=992780&tstart=0

 

[Cruisergreg]

I couldn't live without it. I would rather go back to dial-up modems than give up FF.

I think a great reality show would be Mike on a desert island with a 28K dial-up and IE. Oh, and no access to Mud. I say he'd crack within a week.

 

[Beowulf]

Back in '98, I took a 6-month contract assignment in El Paso. The company supplied me a corporate apartment near the office. It was furnished and had everything you need including phone and cable TV. Road Runner was the cable company in El Paso at that time. I was still on dial-up at home here in Albuquerque and found out that RR was rolling out broadband internet in parts of El Paso. Long story short, I was the first in the apartment complex with RR internet. The 6-month contract extended to 18-months and all was well in "Net Surfing" land (aka my bachelor pad in El Paso.)

Then comes early 2000 when the contract tapers off and they boot me out of my comfy bachelor pad and send me back to Albuquerque where I was again stuck with dial-up at home. I think it was over a year, maybe 2 years before they rolled out RR service in my area (once again I was on the waiting list and called Comcast daily demanding a progress report )

So you would lose the bet if you predict that I would crack within a week. Like Martha Stewart and unlike Paris Hilton, Maynard can do hard time without collapsing into a heep and crying for my Momma.

-Mike-





[ Wait... did you say no access to 'Mud ? ? ? Not even 28k dial-up? ?]
Ohh crap. All bets are off.