“New to Go Daddy? Not sure where to begin?”

Understatement of the year! I was so confused and lost with information overload I figured I’d best just follow their Product Advisor / personal guide, only to get half way through the process and find out the country code extension I wanted wasn’t available through it! 30 solid minutes, multiple failed credit card attempts, emptying and re-adding the domain to my shopping cart and countless forms later I was able to get the domain I wanted. Domain purchasing shouldn’t be like this.

Granted I am sure a veteran GoDaddy registrant may be able to whiz through the process in no time at all, but for a new customer it’s ranked right up there as one of my worst expereinces I have ever had purchasing something online. My next personal project? Start a domain registrar and do it right!

“To use MobileMe’s push email service, you will need to use their me.com domain. There is really no way to configure your iPhone to use the push email service without using the @me.com domain name. I agree that it is a really cool and short domain, but I am totally against the idea of using an email address that I have to pay for the privilege to use, since you’ll be stuck paying for a service just for its email address.” – Chris Erice

This is my main concern with MobileMe. Syncing is fantastic and what I really want from the service, but being locked into using their email address is a major turn off.

You can grab a set of these prints from Chris’ My Little Underground where he sells some of his other fabulous work.

I just wanted to make you all aware that I am considering selling Posh CSS. I have been running the site now since October 2007 and unfortunately just do not have the time I had back then to dedicate to the site. Sadly, I feel the best opportunity for the site and for the readers is to pass it on to somebody who can push this site forward and make it the best it can be.

If you are, or know someone who may be interested please let me know. Thanks.

Shortwave is an extensible quick-search and shortcut system.

Shortwave is a quick little app that Shaun Inman created in 24 hours (a current trend, I’ve got one coming soon too!) that is proving to be a very useful little tool, especially on the iPhone. You can customise the shortcut system with your own commands, my waves.txt file includes a few additional commands including Google UK Search.

Billed as “Multiple account twitter tweeting”, Ryan Carson and the gang spent the past 4 days creating a web app from the ground up, this they have to be congratulated for. Mike Kus’ design is not only gorgeous but has great character, Keir and Elliot look like they put some serious work into the backend, all of which has to be commended. But for a team of 10 people to drop everything and spend four days building an app that, let’s be honest, lacks mass market appeal in the Twitter-space, cost $10,000 and will likely see zero ROI, seems a bit superfluous.

I’m not wanting to rain on their parade, don’t get me wrong, Matt looks great and works perfectly fine and I absolutely respect Ryan, Keir and Carsonified, but like many others I was looking forward to their next big app-in-a-week just as much as the next person, but this... I was a little disappointed with.

Keir sums it up best himself:

The app is in many ways secondary to the experience. The end result showed how a team of people with diverse skills can pull together and achieve something great within a given time period.

On August 15th, 2008 we will begin phasing out support for Internet Explorer 6 across all 37signals products. In order to continue using the products without any hiccups, Internet Explorer 6 users should upgrade to a newer browser.

This is a pretty bold move by 37signals, and is something I have been doing on a site by site basis for several months now (based on usage statistics). I do wonder how many of their customers are actually using IE6? One can only assume not a particularly high percentage.

Skip forward a year; I was just about to re-register the domain today only to baulk at the new price of 1 years registration, $115! I like this domain a lot, it’s my name, it’s short and super easier to remember, but $115 a year is ridiculous, especially considering that is 3 times more than what I initially registered it for last year. Even after my registrar kindly offered to give it to me at base price, $100, it is still too much. Time to wave good bye to that domain.

Interestingly, a few people have been asking why I registered and use brown .tc. The .tc ccTLD stands for Turks and Caicos Islands which is a group of tropical islands in the West Indies. I wanted a domain where I could have the email address sam@brown.whatever, at the time there was only two ‘brown’ domains available, .tc and .tv. As is still the case, registering brown.tv will only cost you a mere $50,000 per year. brown.tc it was…