In case you find it as difficult as I did to find the Bug Reporting page for MindManager software from Mindjet, I’m posting the link here.  Its not listed in their site map nor on any menus that I could see. 

However when I did a search of their site with their search tool on the keywords bug report, the second or third option was the right place.

Here is where you report MindManager Software bugs to Mindjet

For those of you that have been following, I did report the potential bugs I found in MindManager Pro 7

Article 1 with video

Article 2

I included the urls for these articles in my bug report.

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About a month and a half ago

I did some refinancing with several of my Loans.  I consolidated several different lines of credit and tidy things up quite a bit.  Over time couple the credit cards I was working with a been purchased and consolidated by the same critic or company and so I had both will account for the same company and it was just annoying.

About two years ago I had attempted to put together a home-equity loan to consolidate several of these things and I was working at the time through Intuit.  The makers of Quicken had gone into the mortgage business apparently and they were offering what looked like a pretty good deal.  Unfortunately when I got halfway into the loan process I realize that they were trying to pump me into a higher interest rate after promising me an extremely low interest rate.  I ended up bailing on the deal.  It cost me a few hundred dollars and it cost them a few hundred dollars and I was extremely annoyed with the way that they treated me.

This time around I went with one of the bank severity do business with, and I essentially gave them more my business as I consolidated other items into their accounts. They got a good deal because I move some unsecured debt into some Personal secured loans, (example here but not the same company). I got a good deal because I got a great interest-rate and I don’t have to make as many payments each month to multiple accounts. 

The experience with Intuit definitely  Gave me a taste of the dark side of the mortgage industry.  It was a scam pure and simple, but it was legal and there was nothing I could do about it.  These days the authorities are on to that type of thing but there’s no legislation to protect people from these pump and dump or patent switch interest rates games.  At the end of the day I’m in better shape now because I’ve tidied up my own Personal Loans.

I actively manage my finances on a regular basis, but I do find the need to reset things every two or three years and get a balanced out again.  I do think it’s important to manage your finances otherwise your finances will manage you, you just have to watch out for the people that would take advantage of you while you’re in the middle of trying to do the right thing.  Technology can help you choose better rates and other services, but at the end of the day you still need to utilize your own senses to determine if the person on the other end of the phone is trying to rip you off.

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Dragon Naturally Speaking 9 does get it wrong sometimes and I have been continuing to accumulate a number of odd ball examples.

These can be pretty funny especially in context, so here is a list of some of these bizarre misquotes.

The first phrase in each of the examples below is the misquote and the second phrase is the words that should have been dicated and were later corrected.

 

nor Josh out the Boers husband

Zsa Zsa Gabor’s Husband

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horrible quince indents

horrible coincidence

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some dinner on the PlayStation

somewhere around the police station

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Bush ministration

Bush Administration

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he cosmo not

cosmonaut

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Christina Aguilara

Christina ideal Arab

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Dutch Equity

Check with you

.

except Chennault

exceptional

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E. Dano bitch book

Janet Evanovich book

.

great big pair meds

great big pyramids

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a Stickle experiences

mystical experiences

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a rubato

Aruba

.

poll for which

Paul Wolfowitz

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to sting whooshes

Note when I trained the correct word I felt very silly having to speak this phrase to clarify the difference in my profile!

distinguishes

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law sufferers

Philosophers

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color of the Koran

color with a crayon

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Domino walls

abdominal walls

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DeGaulle Fitch

The Golf Itch

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rogue ram

program

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an iso-place

a nice little place

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parasail groove

paris hilton news

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pickled bent

big event

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If Google is banishing your content to the “supplemental index” gulag you might just have this problem … and need this solution!
Great article.

Each time I consider this problem I keep thinking that we are fixing something that isn’t broken. Google is the problem here not the website owners. Google is essentially missing important information on the web that their google bots have mistakenly dumped into a supplemental file (reminds me of a ‘I will file it later stack that never gets filed’).

If Google doesn’t get around to getting a better grip on this, their search engine results will continue to degrade and eventually the market will offer up some company that can do the job more effectively (again).

It would also seem that Google already has some of the technology to deal with this scenario present in Google News. Instead of penalizing a site for perceived duplicate content, Google should offer up an alternative option with these listings with a link in their results like ‘All 1,534 Pages of similar content’.

If I am searching the web and I find the version of content that Google deems to be correct, its possible and often likely that Google is wrong. I’d much rather have the ability to drill into a look up of other sites with similar content and find the source (possibly the primary source that isn’t as search engine friendly).

From a webmaster’s perspective this is a great article, from a web researcher’s perspective it shows the failing of Google to get things right and opens the door for competition. Isn’t it about time someone knocked off the king of the hill for search? Its been a few years now. . .

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Digital cable has a great deal of promise but in many ways it has failed to deliver.  A decade ago as people were starting to transition from analog cell phones to digital cell phones in the states, many people rightly recognized that the digital phones were not as powerful or as good as their reliable analog phones.

The two phones ran on different systems and the chopped down nature of digital made the early sound quality sound rougher and in general the service was not as good.  The technology was really good for the carriers because they could now quadruple the number of calls that an antenna could carry from say 1,000 to 4,000.

Digital cable is supposed to deliver more channels to cable subscribers, just like digital cellular antennas could handle more calls.  The problem is that the digital packets often times get chopped up and don’t always make it back together again.

This week I have been watching the digital cable channel lottery as I watch one channel after the next fall victim to pixelation.  Its usually either Fox News or CNN and sometimes a few others, but this week it seems to be rotating through about two dozen channels through out the day.

If I am going to pay for 500 channels of nothing on I expect them to be clear and crisp and well watchable!

This isn’t the case and at times it is almost worthless to have a 24 hour news channel that you can not hear or see more than half of the time.  I currently have Comcast, but used to have a different problem with Dish, called rain storms that wiped out all of the channels for a couple hours every few days out of the month.

Until the cable companies can figure out that I do not need 100 more channels of nothing on, but I do want the first 500 or at least the first 100 to be viewable with some reliability, I am going to be very tempted to jump ship and take the first alternate option that comes along, just like we all learned to jump ship with our wireless carriers a decade ago, until we developed a cellular churn culture.

The cable companies are likely to learn very soon that digital TV can lead to a subscriber churn culture as well.

Technorati tags: Broken Technology Series, Digital Cable, Comcast, Dish, Pixelation, Why does my digital Cable look fuzzy

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