Pages Tagged “Amazon”
Reviews
- Amazon Music ★★★☆☆ I want to use it to listen to music. Amazon wants to use it to sell me more subscriptions.
Tech Tips
- A9 and the demise of SiteInfo (Obsolete) Amazon.com’s search site, A9, has scaled back drastically. The rewards program is gone, as are bookmarks and history. They’ve even discontinued the A9 toolbar.
- s3cmd crashes with ‘expected str instance, bytes found’ s3cmd 2.3.0 breaks on Python 3.12. The fix is simple, and will be in the next s3cmd release, but here’s how to fix your local copy before it’s released.
- Setting Expiration and Lifecycle Rules on Non-AWS S3 Storage DreamObjects, DigitalOcean Spaces and others may not have expiration and lifecycle controls in their web panels, but they still use the same API, so you can use s3tools or the AWS CLI.
- Third-Party App Stores Won’t Install on Android? Check Screen Dimmers Android won’t react to an Install button if the screen image is filtered by an app like Twilight or Lux. Fortunately it’s easy to turn them off temporarily.
- Toolbars That Phone Home (Obsolete) I installed the Firefox versions of four toolbars and used netstat to see when they connected.
- Using BOOX Devices’ Page Flip Buttons With Third Party eBook Apps A few eBook apps work with the buttons out of the box, but most need you to enable page-flipping with volume buttons, one app at a time.
Blog Posts
- Remember Amazon Drive? No?
Amazon is shutting down their Drive service. You might not remember it. I didn’t. But you might have files on there you don’t remember. I did.
- Tech Giants’ Core Strategies
The Verge makes an interesting point about Microsoft’s acquisition of Bethesda: for the most part, Microsoft doesn’t care what hardware you run their stuff on, they just want you to buy the software. So it’s less likely to be about trying to gain Xbox exclusives and more likely to be about getting more games for […]
- Apple opens dictionary, abandons lawsuit over “App store”
It’s about time common sense prevailed. “App store” describes a store for apps as generically as “book store” describes a store for books.
- Amazon Affiliate No More
Amazon & California’s battle over taxes has kicked me out of the affiliate program. I never made much, but it was nice to have a little extra to counteract hosting costs.
- App Store: Apple vs. the English Language
Apple denies that, based on their common meaning, the words ‘app store’ together denote a store for apps.
- Explicitly Tainted Tracks
It’s silly to mark a song as having explicit lyrics only because another song on the same album does – especially since the song, not the album, is now the base unit of music.
- Kindle DX: A Digital Comics Platform?
The Kindle DX screen is comparable in size to a manga page. It’s black and white, but it could easily handle print comics without formatting or zoom.
- Amazon Annoyance, ATM Stupidity
Grr. Amazon wants to stop paying me because they think I’ve been buying search keywords to link to them. No, I haven’t. Update: Two days later, they responded: it’s a bad form letter, and even if I were buying keywords, they’d only stop paying referral fees on those links. More concerned than usual about person […]
- Thoughts on #AmazonFail (or is that #SorryAmazon?)
Even if it was unintentional, Amazon screwed up responding to the PR disaster.
- Blocking the Impulse Buy: Shazam, Amazon MP3 Store and Android
How I *almost* bought an album from my phone immediately after hearing a song on the radio, and what obstacles stopped me.
- Firefox, Kindle(ing) and more
Firefox 3 Beta 1 is out. Nice so far. Oddly enough, it runs better than the current Opera 9.5 previews on my old Linux box at work, though that mostly seems to be the fault of the find-in-history option. I usually avoid any sort of shopping on the day after Thanksgiving, online included, but I’ve […]
- Based on WHICH recent purchases?
I let Amazon.com send me notices every once in a while, just in case something interesting pops up. This qualifies, though not in the way I expected: Based on your recent purchases, we thought you might like to know that you can save up to 65% on summer favorites in men’s, women’s, children’s, and shoes. […]