I have been trying to add a UK based USD ($) bank account to my Uk based paypal account and not having much joy. After seeking support from Paypal they decided to really clarify the situation by sending me an email which contained both these statements.
“You can add your UK based foreign account with PayPal as long as the address in that bank account matches the address you have with PayPal. It is also possible to withdraw money from your PayPal balance to your UK based foreign currency account.”
and
“The British bank account has to be denominated in Sterling Pounds only, because the currency is converted prior to being received by the bank A British bank account denominated in US Dollars should not be added as that would likely result in a failed transfer”
I only visit software support websites or forums for a product when I really need help and can’t find an answer myself. When I get there I find I almost always have to register and wait (sometimes hours) for a confirmation email before I can ask my question or submit my problem.
This just frustrates me, even if the whole process only takes a few minutes. Mr software vendor when I come to you with a problem I want to feel my problem is the most important thing to you in the world. When you make me go through this I feel your mainly interested in your own administrative needs not your customers issues. Before making your customers who have a problem with your software go through your administrative requirements ask yourself the question do they really have to.
Email is a huge part of my life as I currently have 9 accounts comprising of my personal Mobile Me account, an account for each of my companies MDN, Mamooba and Streambyte. An account for the church , my personal newsletter and some a number of accounts for other organizations I am a part of.
When using Mail.app on “OS X” all this is fine as it offers a merged inbox to work with however when checking email on the iPhone (which is something I do more and more) I have to look at all 9 inboxes to check mail.
So I began to see what I could do to solve this problem and like most things in my life my solution became bigger than my original problem and turned into an experiment.
I have basically abandoned all of my existing email IMAP accounts and set them all up to forward to a new gmail account. Gmail has a feature called “Send As” which allows me to send email out as though it was coming from any of my existing accounts
While doing all this I took the complex array of IMAP folders I had under all these accounts and simplified them down to just 2 under my GMail account, Action and File.
Now when an email comes in it is either read, actioned, replied to if possible or needed then moved to the File folder, read actioned, replied to if needed or possible and deleted or if something needs to be done with it I cant do right now it gets moved to the Action folder. An email should never be read twice while in the inbox.
When I get a moment I go through the emails in my Action folder and either do what I need to do with it then move it to the File folder or create an action for the task in omniFocus then move the email to the File folder. Either way an email should not be touched in the Action folder more than once. Moving everything I need to save to a single File folder means I will now rely on search to find archived email which is actually what I was doing before even though stuff had been sorted in folders. If I have to search for it why organise it in the first place.
I am experimenting with only using Google’s web interface on both the Mac and the iPhone. I have set myself the goal of doing this until the 1st of Jan 2010 just so if I abandon it I know its because I can’t make it work for me rather than I just didn’t try very hard. The advantage of doing this is I will also use the same interface on any machine and become efficient where ever I am.
Sometimes you can see a photo or video of somewhere and think “I have to Go”. After I saw this video of the Kuruoshio Sea Aquarium in Japan it was added to the list.
I was sent this today. It just shows things are not always what they seem at first and you should always check your child’s homework.
Here’ the reply the teacher received the next day.
Dear Mrs. Jones,
I wish to clarify that I am not now, nor have I ever been, an exotic dancer.
I work at Home Depot and I told my daughter how hectic it was last week before the blizzard hit. I told her we sold out every single shovel we had, and then I found one more in the back room, and that several people were fighting over who would get it. Her picture doesn’t show me dancing around a pole. It’s supposed to depict me selling the last snow shovel we had at Home Depot.
From now on I will remember to check her homework more thoroughly before she turns it in.
Sincerely,
Mrs. Smith
I have been getting a lot of SPAM comments recently so I have installed a CAPTCHA plug-in to try and reduce this problem. If your interested i Used the CAPTCHA implementation at http://www.protectwebform.com
Last week I took Grace my 11 year old daughter to audition for a part in Tetbury Amateur Dramatics societies next production The Wizard of Oz.
The good news is she got the part of a crow, along with two of her good friends. The surprising thing was I also ended auditioning and got the part of Uncle Henry.
Its only a small part appearing in just two scenes so it should be fun without being too arduous.
Over the last year I have been running BusySync to keep my wife’s (Mandy) calendar and my calendar in sync.
It has been working really well. During this time my wife has been using an iMac at our home while I have been using a Mac Book Pro from where ever I happen to be.
Using this method syncing only takes place when both machines are logged in at home on the same network.
Recently I also started using a Mac Pro at home. I now wanted to keep three machines in sync. As the Mac Pro is basically now my main machine with the Mac Book Pro only being used when I am out of the house I decided to reconfigure our calendar syncing so it used BusySync between the iMac and the Mac Pro. As these are in the same house on the same network and almost always on syncing is now very quick.
To keep the Mac Book Pro in sync I have opened a MobileMe account. I use this to sync the Mac Book Pro to the Mac Pro. In turn the Mac Pro will sync with the iMac.
This means if I am now away from home and my wife adds something to the calendar on her machine it will be on the Mac Pro within a few minutes , then as the Mac Pro keeps MobileMe up to date it should be on my Mac Book Pro within an hour.
Overall a pretty pleasing outcome.
As I have never had a .mac account or MobileMe account before I am now beginning to investigate the other syncing options available to keep my desktop and laptop in sync.
This is my first post in a long time and I a doing it from San Francisco.
I am here for WWDC.
Arrived yesterday after a 10 and a half hour flight that passed amazingly quickly. I have a policy when flying long haul not to read the film reviews to pick what movies I watch but simply pick the longest. The 747-400 I flew on was reasonably new so had movies on demand even in economy so that was quite nice. Just in case you interested I watched There will be blood (a good 2 and a half hours) and National Treasure: Book of secrets (getting on for 2 hours). Both were quite watchable. I also listened to this weeks episode of Mac Break Weekly which I was really pleased to see was over 2 hours long.
Its now Saturday morning and my body is still adjusting to the 8 hour time difference. I managed to sleep (well forced myself to keep my eyes closed) until about 6am but the body is insisting it is now the afternoon and I should be out of bed. Oh to be a teenager again where the fact of it being the afternoon would have brought no guilt about being in bed.
Going to go to local farmers market today with John and Viola who I am staying with. Then I will begin the task of finding my children Converse All Star shoes.
I have basically abandoned all of my existing email IMAP accounts and set them all up to forward to a new gmail account. Gmail has a feature called “Send As” which allows me to send email out as though it was coming from any of my existing accounts
While doing all this I took the complex array of IMAP folders I had under all these accounts and simplified them down to just 2 under my GMail account, Action and File.
