[box type=”note”]Unless you are using MediaTemple, you should try the directions to install Drush using Pear on a shared host first, as that method is preferred.[/box] A while back I wrote a quick guide for getting Drush up and running on a shared Dreamhost account and it was great to see lots of folks taking advantage of the power of Drush on…
[box type=”note”]If you have issues with these directions, please read the alternate directions for installing on a shared host manually without using Pear. MediaTemple is one provider where you must use the alternate directions to get Drush working.[/box] One of the easiest and most convenient ways to get your hands on Drupal is on a shared hosting environment. It’s pretty much where everyone is going to start from…
Windows has a few really cool tricks for managing applications that get almost no attention, but once you discover them can dramatically improve your workflow. You can drag the title bar of any resizable application window to the left or right side of your screen to have it resize to exactly fill that half of your display. It’s excellent for file management,…
May 2, 1012: A late update that WooThemes eventually did understand my position which was shared by a few others and monthly prices for existing customers didn’t increase when new sign ups did at the beginning of this year. A big kudo to WooThemes for realizing the value in their long-supporting customers! This is a classic example of how startups and growing…
When helping someone debug their computer this comes up a lot. If things aren’t good in Windows-land, getting your computer to boot into safe mode can sometimes give you enough access to your computer to recover Windows. If you need to uninstall a misbehaving application, troubleshoot a blue screen of death (BSOD) or remove a bad driver, safe mode is usually your…
Me and my good friend, danrulz98 on YouTube, wanted to find out if any of the sub-$5 in-ear headphones (earbuds) sold on Deal Extreme were actually usable. Think no set of earbuds selling for such low prices are any good? You might be surprised by our results! We’re also willing to review other gadgets (doing this review video was incredibly fun). Feel free to send more suggestions…
I love disruptive companies that spring up in markets that are traditionally dominated by powerful corporations and monopolies and force everyone to reconsider the product or business model involved. In Canada and US, one such dominated market is cellular service. Everyone knows they’re being ripped off, but no one really has any choice or say in the matter so they keep paying, and the incumbent companies keep squeezing…
Looking for context?
If you’d like to read the previous two posts about VIAddress to gain a fuller context, you can read my first post about VIAddress being under Postal Quarantine and follow-up post about their ignoring of customers, and then return here.
When this series was written, the company was called VIAddress. They’ve since renamed themselves to Viabox in an attempt to escape the bad reviews searching VIAddress on Google would display.
It’s been a long while since publishing the last posts I made about the discount package forwarding service VIAddress. At the time I became involved after getting caught in a massive backlog and found myself joined there with many other customers, and looking for answers which were scarce and hard to separate from the hype and fiction of other forwarding services that seemed equally interested in pitching their own product (I filtered dozens of obviously fake comments from the original two posts).
Eventually though, the backlog was handled, the comments and emails from concerned customers stopped coming — and VIAddress refunded my shipping fees from the test I ran way back when this whole thing started. They also asked me to take down my earlier posts, but, I made a counter-offer: Lots of folks still come to this site searching for VIAddress and I thought the fairest thing I could do for those curious about the company would be to give VIAddress a chance to tell their story and conduct an email interview. They agreed and below is the full interview with David Wallace, Vice-President of VIAddress.
