• WordPress – This free app from WordPress has allowed me monitor and update all of my blogs from just about anywhere.
• Pandora – There are several free streaming music apps for the Blackberry. With Pandora I can enter favorite bands or songs and channels with similar music is created.
• Facebook and MySpace – I’ll just lump these together, since they pretty much do the same thing – updating the social networking sites.
• Google Sync – Blackberry has its own calendar, but I already use Google Calendar. This app syncs the two, as well as you contacts.
• Google Mobile App – Sometimes it’s too time consuming to bring up a the Blackberry browser and manually typing in your query. With this app, you can speak your question, or keywords and it will search for you. (Apparently, this does not work on the Blackberry Storm)
• UberTwitter – This is pretty much the king of Twitter apps for the Blackberry and retains most, if not all, of the functionality Twitter.com offers. Of course, it’s no match for a PC client like TweetDeck.
• PayPal – There’s not too much to this one, but being able to send payments and check your acct history while traveling is pretty cool.
• The Weather Channel – I prefer this weather app over others, like WeatherEye, because it offers a longer forecast and has less intrusive advertising.
• Poynt – From locating businesses, restaurants movie times and gas prices near you, this app does a lot!
• Blackberry Messenger – This one is pretty muck a given. It’s a quick and easy way to chat and share pictures with friends and famiy.

Most of the Blackberry apps listed above can be found at BlackBerry App World and the CrackBerry App Store. Enjoy!

The person claims that they paid and could not log in. The email address that they contacted me and filed a dispute with is not in the system, so I can’t verify any of the claims. I also cannot check the logs to see if the person did, in fact, log in and use the membership.

My only thought is that the claimant has multiple email addresses under one account and used a different one to register than he did to contact me and file the dispute. There is no way for me to know and he hasn’t responded to my email yet. And, he’s cancelled the subscription, so he’s not due the ability to log in at this point anyway.

It’s a small fee, so I will be refunding the amount without too much of a hassle, but it does irk me that this can and did happen and I don’t have any answers, yet, that will help me avoid it in the future. Another concern is that the person simply wanted to access the information to copy it and use it elsewhere. If the fee is disputed, and I issue a refund, he gets it for free. Therefore, it’s important that I get this figured out.

The frustration with PayPal mainly stems from the fact that I cannot adequately communicate, nor resolve, this situation via their system without refunding the money. It largely works in the buyers favor because he immediately escalated it from a dispute, which allows me to respond, to a claim, which doesn’t. Here are my three options:

• I can provide proof that the item has shipped
• I have not shipped the item and I will refund the payment
• I can provide proof that I refunded the payment for this transaction

Well, I can’t provide proof that the buyer got what he paid for without verifying who he is in the system and whether or not he was able to log in. I can’t make sure he has access, and he’s already cancelled the subscription, so I can’t give him access at this point. I don’t want to refund the payment without knowing that, so I can’t provide proof that I refunded the payment.

There’s no way for me to select one of those three options, or to post the facts to the PayPal Resolution Center. I would like to respond to get more information and to clarify that, despite his claims, he did not contact me numerous times. I received one extremely brief one line email with no name or other information, which seems suspect in and of itself.

Mozilla has a newer feature included that appends the URL of the site onto the Favicon (along with the green background) to show that it has a valid SSL certificate. Clicking on a Favicon in Firefox brings up a dropdown with some information as you can see below.

Clicking on the More Information… button brings up the Page Info window. You can view PayPal’s below.

You can see that on sites with SSL Certificates there is additional information on the Security tab of their Page Info windows. Compare these to your site’s to see how they differ.

Another use of the Favicon in Firefox is the ability to drag it to your Bookmarks or History menu items or sidebars to easily save your favorite sites. You can even drag and drop it onto your computer’s desktop.

Click here to download Firefox 3

UPDATE:

I should point out that just by having a SSL Certificate Firefox will not automatically display a green “secure” Favicon… Click here for an example of various packages offered by one provider, one of which includes the green address bar.

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