According to Mediacom, network problems are responsible for a widespread loss of internet service that began Tuesday night and continue Thursday. The company said that the loss of internet service is not related to the ice storm. Mediacom further said that their network engineers are still troubleshooting the cause of the outage.

What the heck Mediacom! I have lost few hundred dollars of earnings because of your below standard, intermittent internet connectivity. Should you refund me for those days that you did not provide my home any service? What about the income that I should have earned in those days that I don’t have the connection? Will you pay me for that? Because I tell you, I pay my bills without fail. Not getting what I paid for boils my blood!

Is this customer service for you? My gully Mediacom!

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So how would you know it’s fake? Simple.

1. Check where the email was coming from. In this case, it came from support [at] gmadcenter [dot] com. That is not the official email address of Google. Google will not use a gmail address either.

2. Gmail team will never tell anyone that your account will be deleted.

3. Gmail makes notices in correct grammar. This one fails the English grammar test.

4. Gmail does not and will not ask users of their passwords or bank accounts!

5. Gmail does not use colorful text notices. This emails comes with a signature with each letter in different colors. So fake!

6. Phishers always employ the “fear” factor when sending emails. They will threat you of closing your account if you won’t reply. Gmail team, on the other hand, will not.

If you receive emails like the one above, never hesitate to send them to the bin! Protect your personal information all the time.

What about if you have a video on Facebook and you want to have a copy because you lost the original one? Then that is a problem. Some sites suggest you download Firefox add-ons such as “Greasemonkey” or “Facebookvideo”. It worked before, but not now.

So if you cannot make use of a web service to download Facebook videos, not even use a web browser add-ons, then the best way is to use software programs.

Here are few steps to download Facebook videos:

Step 1: Download and install Streaming Video Recorder to your computer if you don’t have one.

Step 2: Once installed, run the Streaming Video Recorder, in other words, open it. Click “Settings” to set up the location of where you want to save the downloaded and converted videos.

Step 3: Log-in to facebook.com and play the Facebook video you want to download. The moment the video plays, the Facebook video downloader will detect it automatically and start the downloading process.

Step 4: After downloading, preview the downloaded videos by click “Play” button or double-click the downloaded video open a new window and play it.

Notes:
- This also works for YouTube and MySpace videos.
- Don’t download copyrighted videos.

That’s it. Enjoy!

Last night, I received a note from Verizon to update the software on my phone. It says that while it is updating, I won’t be able to send messages or make or receive calls. Fine with me. It took only few minutes to update and the phone was back to its normal screen.

Only after I received a message from a friend early today that I noticed I could not access my inbox anymore. Clicking inbox automatically switched the screen to what seemed like a “start screen”. It automatically reboot and then returned to the homepage. Powering the Samsung Trance phone off and back on did not help at all.

I called the local Verizon office in Brookings, South Dakota for help. The lady at the customer service seemed to have no idea what the issue is about. I told her about the problems I am experiencing after updating to their newest software – including the details of all my attempts to access the messages in my inbox, yet to no avail. All I got from her was “to bring the phone to their office and they’d gonna look at it.” She said there might be something wrong with the unit because (this is the funny part) humans made it and is prone to error. Duh!

After few more tries, like taking out the battery and turning the phone off and on, I became frustrated and deleted all the messages in my inbox. Lo and behold, the deletion fixed the problem!

How I did the fix…

On your phone welcome screen, select “message”. This will open the MESSAGING window. Do not scroll down and select “Inbox” because there is no way you can open it. Instead, select “options.” You can find “options” on the lower right corner of the screen. Selecting “options” will give you four “erase options.” You can either “erase inbox”, “erase sent”, “erase drafts” or “erase all.” I chose “erase inbox.”

If you select “erase inbox”, you will be prompted with two options: “all messages” and “only read messages.” Select “only read messages”, especially if you have important unread texts.

That’s it. You can now access your inbox!

Warning: I do not have any explanation why this method works. Do not use this if you don’t want to delete your stored messages.

As of now, this is the easiest solution to this Samsung Trance inbox accessibility problem. Leave me a message it this will work on your phone.

According to NASA, the live streaming will start at 6:15 am EDT/3:15 am PDT. The first hour will include commentary and status reports. The actual impact should start at 7:30 am EDT/4:30 am PDT (11:30 UT).

NASA’s rocket will hit extraterrestrial beings big time! War in space starts now!

Update: LCROSS Lunar Impact