http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ Giveaway of the Day Forums: Forum: Technical problems with our forums, blog or web-site - Recent Posts en Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:19:00 +0000 http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2827#post-38525 Sun, 20 Jul 2008 08:20:34 +0000 hotdoge3 38525@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>gimm you are right like in my Firewall I need to add in settings Trusted sites &#38; name of the site,all so IE &#38; Firefox can go bad with spyware or need a clean. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2827#post-38272 Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:08:34 +0000 gimm 38272@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>As graylox said, logging on is not necessary for downloading the giveawayoftheday. I think that's just for posting in this forum. </p> <p>I have dl'ed about 20 programs using IE &#38; Ffox. I think if one is having repeated issues or a complete inability to dl from this site, it can often be traced to the user's security program. </p> <p>I have Norton Internet Security 2008 on this laptop. I created a rule in the Personal Firewall options to "allow" the program "setup.exe" to run from Giveawayoftheday and I'm able to dl, install, and setup without issue.</p> <p>Don't give up or get frustrated and leave. It's well worth it to figure out what settings need to be modified in order to enjoy the gifts on this web site. =) </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3572#post-37410 Sun, 06 Jul 2008 13:40:33 +0000 billybob1 37410@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Oh ok :)</p> <p>I did not know of this. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3572#post-37408 Sun, 06 Jul 2008 13:30:58 +0000 copmom 37408@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>billybob1.. maybe it's because they're still in the midst of changing servers? See the blog.<br /> <a href="http://blog.giveawayoftheday.com/" rel="nofollow">http://blog.giveawayoftheday.com/</a> </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3572#post-37388 Sun, 06 Jul 2008 08:35:22 +0000 billybob1 37388@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>It appears there is something wrong with the PAD submission for freeware applications, while trying to submit mine it didn't work. It says "Service Unavailable". The PAD file works as I have added it to over 10 software websites.</p> <p>Does anyone know what could be causing this?</p> <p>Kind Regards<br /> /<br /> Billy </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3548#post-36994 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:33:46 +0000 FABScott 36994@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>If you use firefox or Internet Explorer 7, you could consider having GAOD as an additional home page...[I have 4 home pages which open together] - then you can have a look and simply X it off when you have finished.<br /> In this way you see the offering every day and can ditch the emails altogether. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3548#post-36992 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:34:31 +0000 copmom 36992@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I don't have anything like that either. And like everyone else, I seem to be here more for the forums than anything else! </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3548#post-36973 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 07:39:21 +0000 goodgotd 36973@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>like today. no ipod, no zune, don't know anyone who does have one. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3548#post-36972 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 05:19:34 +0000 goodgotd 36972@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>well, I spend more time in the forums, but I've only skipped downloading the giveaway and at least giving it a spin maybe a couple dozen times, usually for os reasons or it needing some M$ product I don't have.</p> <p>just dumped the emails. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3548#post-36971 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:25:58 +0000 sukibabe 36971@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>When they dropped the weekly games, I dropped the Email!!!!! </p> <p>They haven't had very good offerings at all, I think they need a break, the only thing that keeps me here is the Forums now!</p> <p>Suki </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3548#post-36963 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 01:31:47 +0000 goodgotd 36963@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I'm thinking of unsubscribing from all but the blog as usually I already have the giveaway by the time the emails come in between 1 and 2 am.</p> <p>the site rolls over at midnight for me. </p> <p>which is when I take my main meds, so I'm awake. and make a check for forum replies anyhow. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3548#post-36901 Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:17:16 +0000 copmom 36901@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>etruss.. my emails come in about 4:30 am, for THAT day. Since you miss the Saturday game, I suggest you just log into the website ON Saturday, Sunday, and daily, so you don't miss anything for that day. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3548#post-36898 Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:43:08 +0000 etruss 36898@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I keep getting the email notifications at 6AM on Monday morning and it's too late to get the Saturday game by then. Is this when you send them out? </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1704#post-35109 Tue, 17 Jun 2008 06:26:29 +0000 Ovi Dogar 35109@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Here is a free resource for creating amazing ebook covers: <a href="http://www.absolutecovers.com/blog/2008/06/03/free-ebook-cover-action-script/" rel="nofollow">http://www.absolutecovers.com/blog/2008/06/03/free-ebook-cover-action-script/</a> </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3456#post-34312 Wed, 11 Jun 2008 05:41:28 +0000 funkymom 34312@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>hi ambrosia and bubby- i just have to comment on the exchange that occured in this thread between you two.</p> <p>i am <strong>very</strong> impressed with the way each of you expressed yourselves without getting nasty. so many people would jump to conclusions or read someone's post wrong(which is very easy to do).</p> <p>i cannot express the respect i have for the two of you.<br /> ----------------------<br /> ok- i'm done with my little outburst.</p> <p>carry on.</p> <p>:D </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3456#post-34217 Tue, 10 Jun 2008 12:29:11 +0000 Ambrosia 34217@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Thanks, Bubby...</p> <p>Yesterday was the 4th day in a row of very high temps. We lost 22 rabbits to the heat on Friday and I had been fighting as hard as I could to save them. We have other animals as well and yesterday I was out hosing them down with cold water while I ran back and forth to the rabbit barn with ice bottles, cold water spritzes for their ears, and iced marble tiles. We are in an area of the Northeast US that is not supposed to have these kinds of temps and if we do have a hot day, it is never this early in the year. Multiply that by a number of days and it is beyond belief. It was only a couple weeks ago we had our last killing frost. Very difficult. Luckily we haven't lost any more animals, so my efforts for the other days haven't been in vain like they were Friday. I am just beyond exhaustion though.</p> <p>Having been admin on a couple other sites I do understand your thinking on giving the simplest answer to reach the largest number of people. I apologize for overreacting and taking it personally. Like I said, stress does a number on me.</p> <p>I appreciate the work you do here. Thanks. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3456#post-34129 Tue, 10 Jun 2008 01:40:34 +0000 BuBBy 34129@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Ambrosia, sorry if you felt my explanation was a little simplistic or even condescending. The fact is, I don't actually know the age or how much computer experience each user on this site actually has. Even if you wrote the original version of "Rocket Science Software 1.0" back in 1960 on the back of a paper napkin - there will be numerous other users who purchased their first computer at a department store last tuesday who are wondering the same thing you were (and probably a lot more) when you wrote the question. ;)</p> <p>I would rather go overboard and answer a question once - in a manner that all the users can understand - than leave people wondering. By answering a question like this, I am not implying you are silly but trying to kill many birds with one stone.</p> <p>Good luck with your animal saving from the heatwave. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3456#post-34101 Mon, 09 Jun 2008 21:31:11 +0000 Ambrosia 34101@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>That makes sense, Paali. Thanks. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3456#post-34086 Mon, 09 Jun 2008 19:56:12 +0000 Paali 34086@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>When you rate a comment, only the rating for that comment will be refreshed, not the whole page. So if you read through all the comments, then rated them, you would refresh them one by one. In the time it took you to read through all of the comments, and then go back to rate them, it's very likely that seven people rated that same comment in the meantime. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3456#post-34069 Mon, 09 Jun 2008 18:27:49 +0000 Ambrosia 34069@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Bubby,</p> <p>I have the utmost respect for you. We are dealing with a heat wave here and I am trying to save animals. Thus I am a little stressed so forgive me if I say anything in such a way that is the least offensive. I certainly don't mean to be rude or anything. I just have a low capacity at the moment due to the heat and the stress.</p> <p>I felt your reply was a bit like an adult explaining to a small child how something works. I have been dealing with computers since the 80's and on the Internet while most people didn't know it existed. I do understand about other people reading and rating the comments while I am rating them. I understand about page refreshes and how the current 'score' would not show until the page is refreshed, either by manually refreshing it or by voting and having the page update. It isn't rocket science. I understand that it may have been a very busy time during the time I was doing the comment rating. I have, however, never seen it happen like that before, since first joining this site back around Feb or March of last year. You would think I would have experienced the wackiness at least once in all that time. Also, you assume I read each post and then rate each post. Which would indeed give time between rating each post for multiple people to change the numbers by 8. However, I don't. I read through all the posts and then go back and rate them. The rating goes very quickly because I have already read the posts and am just clicking off the 'yes' or 'no' on each of them. Given that my method doesn't take more than a few seconds between rating each post, you would think there would not be 7 other people who hit the button at the same time as I did.</p> <p>It is not impossible, it just seems highly unlikely, especially given my previous experience here. Was the counting software actually checked to make sure it isn't throwing errors? Or was it just assumed I had not taken into account 'the world moving on' while I read and rated the comments? </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3456#post-34026 Mon, 09 Jun 2008 14:49:28 +0000 BuBBy 34026@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>It is not a problem with the site. You need to remember that while you are reading the comments - other people are reading and rating those comments also. The updated figure is not redisplayed until after you vote.</p> <p>If for example a comment is rated +2 when you load the page. It might be 4 minutes until you get to rate that comment. In that 4 minutes another 6 people also rate that comment as yes (so the total is really +8)</p> <p>When you come to the comment it is displayed as +2 (but the website knows the correct total is +8). If you refresh the webpage - it will display the correct total, but instead you vote "No" which appears to you that +2 -1 = +1 should be the result. However +7 is displayed.</p> <p>Remember, the world, and the ratings for the comments - do not stand still while you read and rate the comments. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3456#post-33964 Mon, 09 Jun 2008 12:51:55 +0000 Ambrosia 33964@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I personally don't put a lot of stock in the rating systems of either the thumbs up/down or the comments. However, on occasion I will look over the ratings of the comments and when the whim hits me I will go through and rate the comments. </p> <p>Today when the whim hit me I found that the rating system was not putting down an accurate count for my vote. Instead of changing the rating by 1 it would change it anywhere from 0 to 8 points. And it did not matter if it was a yes or no, except there were more 0's on the no side. Now if the multiple numbers had happened once, I would have chalked that up to someone rating at the same time as I did. But it happened almost every time. And then those times when it didn't change at all proved to me that the system is broken. I really doubt anyone was hitting the counter simultaneous with me to zero out my vote.</p> <p>It really is a non-issue for me, like I said. But I wanted to let you guys know there is a problem with the site, albeit imho a tiny, inconsequential one.</p> <p>Thanks! </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3419#post-33246 Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:03:56 +0000 funkymom 33246@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>bigun- offtopic, but are you in arizona? if so there are a lot of arizonans (native or transplants) in this forum.</p> <p>i'm in tucson.<br /> :D </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3419#post-33120 Thu, 05 Jun 2008 20:34:25 +0000 Robert 33120@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Go to Help - uncheck "check for update at startup". </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3419#post-33087 Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:59:59 +0000 Bigun 33087@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>After downloading EASUS Partition Manager (GOTD offer for 04 June 2008), I started using it. I opened and closed the program four or five times. Each time I double clicked on the desktop icon I got a message from ZoneAlarm that a connection to the Internet was being requested. The EASUS program opened even when I blocked the outgoing connection. Requested connection:<br /> 208.48.254.17 (Global Crossing<br /> OrgID: GBLX<br /> Address: 14605 South 50th Street<br /> City: Phoenix<br /> StateProv: AZ</p> <p>Today the requested connection is for 127.0.0.1 (ports 1609 and 16300 followed by a request for 216.92.126.234DNS. I am assuming this connection is to my self - but it is a funny way to open a program. May be that in order to give me information on my hard drives the program goes through an Internet connection??</p> <p>The file calling the Internet connection is "epm.exe" </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2907#post-30415 Fri, 23 May 2008 07:55:36 +0000 hotdoge3 30415@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>dial up connections OK for me may be best not use a download manager see if that work's my down's are all good,Test and see. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3099#post-29465 Thu, 15 May 2008 00:33:44 +0000 hotdoge3 29465@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Try later may be over load &#38; dose it say way cannot open page? </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2767#post-29462 Thu, 15 May 2008 00:25:12 +0000 hotdoge3 29462@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p><a href="http://kb.mozillazine.org/Unable_to_save_or_download_files" rel="nofollow">http://kb.mozillazine.org/Unable_to_save_or_download_files</a></p> <p>It fix my download's OK </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2986#post-29273 Mon, 12 May 2008 11:01:13 +0000 AxCut 29273@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Hotdoge3,</p> <p>For now I am going to leave this alone. It has been working good do far.</p> <p>Thank you for taking the time to look into this and post your suggestions.</p> <p>Peace,</p> <p>AxCut </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3263#post-29023 Sat, 10 May 2008 09:54:03 +0000 graylox 29023@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>creamy, did you say lousy proggies ? Therefore all that itching in my<br /> graylox </p>