I went to my local phone shop and managed to buy a shiny new Palm Pre, without a contract, but locked to O2 figuring sooner or later someone should be able to unlock it to work on T-Mobile (who I have a monthly contract with).  After seeing so many people asking, but only one mention of someone in the US unlocking it for voice (no data) I started worry a little.

Then I came across the Rebel Sim Card which has worked a treat.  I now have my Palm Pre, unlocked from O2 and working for voice, data and 3G on my T-Mobile sim!

Thanks a lot to the guys at Rebel Sim Card for unlocking the Palm Pre!!!

This will impact any email marketing campaigns and email lists you may have.

It is important that you go through your database(s) for any email address using the following domain names:

• Denmark - e-mail.dk, jubiimail.dk, jubii.dk, jubiiconnect.dk
• France - caramail.fr, jubii.fr, lycos.fr
• Germany - firemail.de, jubii.de, lycos.at, lycos.de
• Italy - jubii.it, lycos.it
• Netherlands - lycos.nl, jubii.nl
• Spain - jubii.es, lycos.es
• United Kingdom - caramail.com, jubii.co.uk, lycos.co.uk, lycos.com, multimania.com, jubii.com

We rcommend you take the following steps:

1. Identify any addresses in your database that use the domains above
2. Send an email campaign informing them that their email address will soon be invalid. So In order to continue receiving your emails, they need to provide you with a new email address
3. This is also an opportunity for them to update their contact details and profile and for you to gather more information

We recommend you perform the following actions

It is vital you run this campaign as soon as possible. As sending emails to non valid address can lead to a high hard bounce rate and could damage your sender reputation and hence your overall deliverability.

The Samsung TV’s will support the new TV Widget service, called “Internet@TV - Content Service.” This service adapts the Yahoo! Widget Engine to allow viewers to engage in a variety of experiences, normally only accessible on a PC.

You will be able to track your stock portfolio, stay on top of headline news as well as browse through videos, share photos and interact with friends.

Users can access the service by connecting the HDTV to a home network via the built-in Ethernet port or using an optional Wi-Fi USB dongle.

Announced 5 January 2009 on Yahoo! Finance

We did - for a while -rely on various sites (Netrenderer for example) to take a snapshot of pages under construction.  While this allowed us to view a page in IE6, we were unable to “use” the site to check for those oh-so-frequent IE6 CSS bugs.

The best method of testing in older browsers on older operating systems is to run a browser on that operating system, but having several machines purely for testing is expensive and takes more space that we would like.

Having a dual boot machine is an option, but switching between operating systems gets to be time consuming and frustrating.

Our weapon of choice for testing is Windows Virtual PC. Virtual PC for windows allow you to run a windowed version of Windows 98, NT Workstation, 2000, XP, Vista,  NT Server, 2000 Server, Server 2003, Server 2008 and even OS/2 with various configurations.  This means full testing in IE6 on an XP machine, through a Vista machine.

You can download the Virtual PC from Microsoft here.

From http://www.new.facebook.com/help.php we chose ‘Pages’ from the ‘Ads and Business Solutions’ section, then - as our problem was not listed - we saw a link in the right column which we clicked that said ‘To get more information about Pages, ask other users your own question‘.

The page we landed on can be seen below, prompting us to ask our question by saying

If you don’t know the answer of Pages, then I can’t be bothered to tell you. Google it.

The Facebook Message (click for full page)

Looking into the other possible translations listed, it seems that

If you don’t know the answer of {category_title}, then I can’t be bothered to tell you. Google it.

was chosen over

What is your question about {category_title}?

It seems the people have spoken.

They go on to say that Microsoft is investigating and will prepare an emergency patch to plug the hole, but at Outside5 we have always recommended alternative browsers such as Firefox.

There have been attacks detected against IE7 (the most widely used version of Internet Explorer), but Microsoft are warning that other versions may also contain the same vulnerability.

Antivirus software maker Trend Micro say that as many as 10,000 sites have been compromised by criminals since last week to take advantage of the flaw, mainly serving up programs that steal computer game passwords.  On Monday they went on to say that the flaw could be “adopted by more financially motivated criminals”

Original story here.

First, a quick search for Outside5 Blog returns our blog:

Google Search Result

Clicking the speech bubble icon oppens a text box to add comments

Google Search Result with Text Box

Adding our comment and pressing “Make a Public Comment” shows our comment on the SERP.

Google Search Result with Public Comment

Clicking the up arrow will move that result to the top of your results, and the cross icon will remove the item from your results.

The Google Blog says that this function will not affect the google rankings for anyone other than yourself when signed in to your iGoogle account.

I just remembered how much I love the Weapon of Choice video directed by Spike Jonze and featuring Christopher Walken. It is right up there in my top 5 music videos of all time.

If you have not seen it, you can see it on youtube.

Questions from Digital Futures, Crystal Balls