Earthling

Dave,

The blog looks great.

I look forward to reading more...

Travis

I need reading to be demanding. I want it to tell me to do the dishes or to clean my room.

Furthermore, I am demanding and I need you to tell me all about Space Travel. Thank you!!

I like what i have read for the first time. And the print is great being I'm blind in one eye and my good eye is going bad. so maney people print to small.

thank you

Howdy, I am real new at all this stuff. This being my offical first computer, first email adress, so my question is simple. Who, What When Where, and Why? Oh yeah I want a job like yours.
Sharon

It's great to hear from you all.

Travis, your support is appreciated.

Peglet, how's this for being demanding of you -- send more postcards please.

Leisa-Ann, I'm very pleased that you find the text readable. I saw your comment while I was at the CES and it made my day. Let me know if anything changes on that. No matter what I do, my eyes get sore from reading my laptop screen all day.

Sharon, glad to hear from you. How can I help? What would you like to know first?

For Leisa-Ann:
If you hit start, settings, control panel,internet options, then accessibility (at the bottom), and check the box that says "ignore font sizes specified on web pages", you can control the font size on your computer with the wheel on your mouse. Press down on the wheel to make the adjustment. It sure helps me read the small print!

Another way to enlarge font size: start, programs, accessibility, magnifier. It acts like a magnifying glass you can control over the page. Also a big help to those of us plagued by tiny font size.

Hi Dave. Nice blog. As a current Earthlink Bkackberry user, I would like a full explanation regarding the cessation of Blackberry device sales by Earthlink. I would also like to know how long Earthlink will support these devices. I am refering to the new (4/05) Blackberry 7250 devices, not the old 957 devices. When these PDAs were rolled out by Earthlink in April, 2005, a big deal was made of the desire to expand Earthlink's Blackberry user base. Stopping sales of the device, and not informing users of future intentions is not a good way to go about this. With Earthlink and RIM both being big players in the wireless email market, I would consider this to be news worthy of any tech weblog.
Thanks.

Well hello, hello I'm not your ordinary blogeenie so I'll just try to keep this meaningless, ostentatious,bloviating and simple. How do you get lots of visitors to come see what you've been working on so hard and tiringly long?? I dunno, but, I'm open for any suggestions. (keep it clean now)
olePK

I am having a technical problem that the Earthlink suppport people have NOT been able to fix. Perhaps someone on this blog will be able to help.

I am a dial-up customer. When I connect, I get a random number of my own start pages opening up. This can be any number from 2 to about 8, but it has gone higher. EL Support has not been able to recommend a fix for this. I am using three separate Sypyware programs: 1) The Earthlink supplied product; 2) Microsoft Antispyware Beta; 3) Spybot.
In addition, I run the McAfee virus protection product.

Does anyone have a suggestion on how to stop multiple Start-Pages from openiing when I connect?

Thank you very much.

67 Bill: Thanks for providing the tips!

Darryl: Thank you for posting a comment on the blog. I appreciate your concerns.

As far as your specific questions about which products will be supported, I'm looking in to them for you.

As far as the more general concerns, I'd like you to e-mail me at earthling (at) blogs.earthlink.net with as much detail as you can, and I'll pass it along to the relevant parties.

I want to emphasize that I can't guarantee that any specific action will be taken as a result, but at least I can help pass your thoughts along.

Bob: Thanks for your patience. I've spoken to the Call Center team and they've looked up your case. They feel your problem is solvable and would like to continue to investigate it. They suggest working with them via telephone if possible to get to the bottom of it.

I have heard so much about blogs from my niece but I just don't get it.

Do you run "blog/art"? I do some pretty good cartoons. I am trying to put together a blog of my own. Still struggling. I'll send one to you via email. Ted

hey dave, great blog, I have a problem with herthlink, the overcharged me. once i changed to dsl they continued to charge me for dileup. i called earthlink and I was told after several call that earthlink sent me a check arround the first of november. well its january and I have not received any thing the amount was 459.00 please look into this and if you can not send me a # of somone that can take care of this for me. Ps I love earthlinks service and i think this all was just a missunderstanding that can be easily fixed.
thanks
Bridget

If you like music, visit Sue-Side-Up.com
We need your vote to continue.
Thank you!

Hi again Darryl - I've shared your comment with the Wireless folks and I have some information to pass along. This is from Greg Roberts, Senior Director of Marketing Strategy:

--

Thank you for your note. EarthLink Wireless made a strategic decision
to discontinue the sales of the Blackberry product for one main reason:
our EarthLink customers told us they were interested in other wireless
products. Part of our success as a company has been listening to our
customers and providing products and services that best fit their needs.
In this particular instance, our loyal EarthLink customer base has
indicated it's time to shift our product portfolio to cater to more
general wireless products, thus we recently introduced the Samsung A560
wireless phone that, initially, has been very well received.

EarthLink Wireless will continue to support our Blackberry customers
with exceptional technical support and customer service. Customer
satisfaction is very important to us and our Blackberry and Treo
customers will continue to experience the high level of support that we
offer today.

--

Hi Dave. Thanks very much for the information. And please pass along my gratitude to Greg Roberts for taking time to respond. There are Blackberry users at BlackberryForums.com who will be very interested in this news. Those Blackberry users who have Earthlink as their service provider will be glad to hear that Earthlink will continue to support its Blackberry customers. Thanks again for your help.

good job Dave. I'm legally blind, and am glad you using a font i can somewhat see. Could you make your font bold, darker, please? Good luck. this is my firstime reading a blog.
PEACE

I have a question regarding the 2006 political campaigns taking place around the nation. Is this blog considered an appropriate forum for such discussion?

Sherree: Welcome to Earthling.

T: Thanks for your question. Nah, this thread is definitely not about politics, and I doubt if I'll have a reason to cover politics on Earthling at all.

Thanks for the easier way to ask questions! Mine is a simple one: how much longer before EL supports Mozilla's Firefox browser? I've heard there is a move afoot and I grow weary of hearing "El doesn't offer support for Firefox or Thunderbird".

FYI I'm a long time customer with practically the first EL DSL line in Houston and I brag all the time how good my service has always been. TIA for your reply.

Yes, please let us use Firefox. You just can't compare it to IE. It's easy and fun and exciting.

Hi Edie and Mary,

Thanks for the comments, and thank you for reading the blog.

Which EarthLink products and services are you finding don't work with Firefox? I'd be curious to hear, as I am a Firefox user as well. As far as the my.EarthLink portal, it's tested against Firefox and should work well.

As a note to everyone with specific questions or suggestions for topics I could cover, please send them via e-mail rather than leaving them as comments.

I'm glad to hear from all of you, and I've let this comment thread grow since it's the first one and we're all learning. But I'd like to keep comments for discussing the entry they are attached to.

As, I'm new to this web surfing business/play seeing a lot of appreviations. Is there a place that has a dictionary just for this web world? For instance What is URL stand for.
Thanks,

Hi Brenda,

Thanks for a good question. I'm going to write a blog entry about this. Look for it on the home page, and I'll also post a link to it right here.

In the meantime, you might start at by looking at the tutorials on the EarthLink Personal Support Center. Try the "Browsing The Web" tutorial.

*Update: Here's an entry I've written about your question. Let's see what suggestions other readers might have.

Hi this is my 1st visit to a Blog,TY for starting this one! I would like to know if anyone else out there is having this problem with thier dial-up online?? Recently everytime I go to my homepage @ Earthlink and click to go anywhere on site even to hotmail,yahoo,reading email,etc at the top of my page this comes up:
Please Take A Moment To Visit Our Sponsers.....Will redirect to www.earthlink,etc in 8 seconds, then in a few seconds in top middle of page it will show in little letters...click to stop.... If you miss this before you know it you have 4 to 8 pages of CRAP that you can't get rid of unless you fill out all of these forms,which I refuse to do....It makes it almost impossible to stay online in peace,I have all kinds of protection but nothing works to stop this HIJACK!!!!! I have to put in-Ctrl+Alt+Delete just to escape and by then I am so angry I am ready to give up on Earthlink.PLEASE can someone help me:(
All help Very Much Appreciated,TY!!!!

This is totally new to me. I am amazed that I acutally found this site. My main goal is to get everyone to go to my website and buy my books. I am a new author. Is this okay to write? I told you I am a novice at this.

Hi GypsyMoon,it sounds like you have adware on your computer that needs to be removed,if you don't have Earthlink's Protection Controll Center installed on your computer,you can download it from the Earthlink Site,then you can scann your computer and remove all adware/spyware.

Larry: Thanks for the hand. Do you work for us? Somehow GypsyMoon's comment slipped past me in a flurry of comment spam. Here's a link straight to the Protection Control Center:

http://www.earthlink.net/software/pcc/.

I'll e-mail GypsyMoon as well.

Vicki: thanks for your comment and I'm glad you found Earthling! I do ask that you not promote money-making products and services in the comments. I'm going to leave your comment up there and just delete the URL.

Here are the ground rules, fyi: http://blogs.earthlink.net/the_ground_rules.php

Earthling,no I don't work for Earthlink,but I have used your internet services( DSL ) for about three years now,and I am very happy with it. The Protection Controll Center is a great multi-tool,and itworks great,everyone who has Earthlink's Internet Service should use it.

Great reading, keep up the great posts.
Peace, JiggaDigga

i am not fighting or biting just telling you guys and gals to get a job or volunteer do something useful with your life

first time commenting with a blog keep up the good work i'm from south florida its about 89's today anyone elso from SFLA??

Hi Dave, and welcome. This particular set of comments turned into something of a free-for-all but usually, the comments are supposed to be for talking about the story they are attached to. Please feel free to stop by and post comments on topic, or send me an email if you have some more general thoughts or questions. Here are the ground rules if you want to know more about how this is supposed to work: http://blogs.earthlink.net/the_ground_rules.php

Thanks!

Yes How Do I Get started Making A Blog?

Hello,
Testing out this new blog thing. I really like the name of "Earthling" very "trekkie". I haven't read all the comments as yet, but will check out this page every so often. Would like to know how many new "bloggers" like me are out there - let me know. Signing off: Brig-Bow

Lisa:

You could set up a free one at www.wordpress.com or www.blogger.com . Both sites will walk you through the process with some step-by-step instructions. If you get stuck, let me know.

Brig-Bow: Glad you found Earthling. If you want to check on what's newest here, come to the main page each day, which is http://blogs.earthlink.net . And if you'd like to set up your own place to post your thoughts, look at those two sites I wrote about above.

what is a blog? Did I just do one?

D.S.: Nope, you just commented on someone else's blog.

A blog is just a particular kind of web site, that has dated entries and usually shows them in reverse-chronological order, newest first.

What is everyone talking about? The pics never came up on my computer....I wannna know what's going on. Dave please help me I'm so confused. Dave tell me more about our cool blog. :-)

Dave, I still haven't gotten answer from you, what's going on? Why are you ignoring my comments? Is it because I'm a homosexual? It's not contagious so you have nothing to worry about, I just wanna know more about what your blog is about. Thank you for listening. :-)

ok, i finally got thunderbird to work with earthlink. for the smtp server i used smtpauth.earthlink.net, changed the port to 587, check the use name and password for security. the key is to use your full email address for the user name. now it seems to work!

Help with song lyrics/translation

I've checked all the usual sites but I must have missed one:)

I have the soundtrack from the movie, Munich (Spielberg, 2005) and I am looking for the lyrics,and translation of lyrics, for the song:

"Munich, 1972" - its sung in the opening credits - composed by John Williams - not sure of singer's name but its a woman

Please help if you can either send the lyrics and translation here or give me John Williams phone number (maybe he knows) give a direct link to a site because I'm tired of slogging through (mostly) misleading lyric sites. It gets weary. I appreciate any of the above possible ways of assistance.

THANK YOU.

Davida

HOW DO YOU OPEN A DVD CASE WITHOUT CRACKING THE DVD?

I admit, I was born before most homes had televisions.

Therefore (???) I have never been able to open a CD without injuring at least one finger, wrist, arm or if my aim is really bad anywhere else.

NOW I opened a DVD movie and broke the DVD just trying to get the sucker outta there. Whats with that? Secure is nice but this is worse than prescription bottles labelled "keep away from children" but only children can open them.

I've opened other DVD movie cases without breaking them or myself. I had a terrible time getting them out of that round holder with the indentations for supposedly assisting the fingers to eject DVD from case.

By the way I have no idea what most of these entries are about but you sound like you are all having fun. I just feel lucky each time my PC responds to a command like "open" "close" "sign out" "quit" "cancel". I'm a basic kind of person. I'm lost with most anything else. Not that that matters. I just want to know how to get a DVD out of a case...sigh. I'll wait until next year to ask what kind of DVD I need to buy to record a DVD in my DVD player. I am instruction manual phobic besides being old.

Ques.:
Will Erthlk ever consider providing a service (at no extra cost) that will allow you to be on the net and still place phone calls on the same phone line connection? Sorely needed here? Sorely!!

I took a risk and paid a little more than the "other"
going fees for earthlink. I thought...you get what you pay for and I am impressed. From my e-mail all the way to trellix site-builder I feel without investigation I could get no better technological answer to my basic cave-dweller needs. Thanx earthlink and best regards to the corporation and your continued efforts towards quality.

I am having trouble using Mozilla Thunderbird in conjunction with Earthlink. Does anybody know how to use the two together?

Davida:
Although I would have to agree that many DVD cases are difficult to open , many just need to be pryed out in the right way. Usually you just need to press down the center button (the one that holds down disc) and the disc will pop out, as indicated on the case. If that doesn't work, you can attempt to remove it by again pressing the center button and trying to slip a fingernail under the side of the disc, pulling it off slowly.

Thanks for this site. My 1st time on a blog. I'm a very satisfied longterm customer. EL's growth in services over the years has been amazing. I have no plans to go elsewhere. Now I have a new site for learning--works well for an over the hill grunt like myself. EL has made the computer a easier tool to learn. Thank you

How-tos are always a good thing to write about it.

Question? Does earthlink pay you to write blog? What is their profit?

how do I post my own personal blog? Please let me know....thanks!

Debbie -- There are several free services you can use, like blogger.com, wordpress.com and now vox.com. Depending on what you want to use it for, I might recommend any of those. I'll e-mail you with some more details.

TRUSTABLE WEBSITES?? Pardon me for being new and akward about this/any blog stuff. I have tried looking for ways to tell if a site has integrity. Example: Word of mouth led me to a wonderful site for grants for college...unfortunetly a computer crash and a brain burp and I have yet to find that site ever again. And as I am sure all of you have experienced > been to many wanting $$$$ How do you tell if a site is reputable? Any information to an alternative version of the Better Bussiness Bureau to websites or crafty suggestions would deeply be appreciated. Bright Blessings!

Sounds interesting....where do I go for "best" lists?

Charlotte: ScamBlocker can help you distinguish legitimate sites from fraudulent ones -- you can get more information here: http://www.scamblocker.com

Sue: You can click the category navigation at the top of each page, or this link.

i sincerely dont understand anything!!

re:Leisa-Ann and the too-small print.

I just learned the magic of Ctrl-plus(+) and Ctrl-minus(-) to control the base size of print on a web page. This has the advantage of letting all the different sizes of characters show up, they are just all magnified or reduced!

How do I Upload from another site to my site?

I do have a blog site and am writing articles from personal opinions and I get some help from professionals when needed. I am enjoying the blog experience especially after last year when I had a heart attack and I did not know if I would even be alive this year. I am grateful for the chance to write articles as they are therapy for me.I am not at work anymore so this is a way to keep myself involved with the world. My kids are helping me with the workings of the computer. Ah! It's pay back time kids...Mom needs help!.
I just signed up for Earthlink and I know I will enjoy all it has to offer. Thanks for being out there.