http://i-want-a-better.com Make a better world Thu, 27 Mar 2008 00:50:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Every time I register for a new online service I get a message: Thank you for registering with example-service.com. Please add registration@example-service.com to your whitelist page and make sure to check your bulk folder if you don't receive the service activation email. We have three potential problems here: Some people don't know how to ... http://i-want-a-better.com/2008/03/i-want-a-better-email-whitelisting-integration/ Many people move houses every few years or even more often. The problem is that when they move they need to remember to notify various organizations about their address change. It's not easy to remember who needs to be notified. And sometimes it takes more than a single notification ... http://i-want-a-better.com/2008/03/a-new-service-to-update-address-after-house-moving/ Recently I have bought and sold a few websites and the experience of domain transfers was quite horrible. First I acquired a site that was originally hosted by MelbourneIT, which is sold as yahoo hosting (i.e. Yahoo outsources the service to MelbourneIT). I did some research before starting the transfer, and ... http://i-want-a-better.com/2008/02/i-want-a-better-domain-transfer-mechanism/ The American legal system is confusing enough to work your way through it. It would seem the least we can do is index and tag cases that have passed through the court system better so we can use them for reference. If you have something happen to you that ... http://i-want-a-better.com/2008/01/i-want-a-better-legal-case-history-search-engine/ It's not unusual that a flight gets delayed or canceled and one has to find an accommodation, while waiting for the next flight. Just recently flying home from Castlegar, BC, we had several flights canceled one after another due to weather conditions, and eventually we boarded a plane, just to ... http://i-want-a-better.com/2008/01/i-want-a-better-airtravel-experience-handling-delays/ The way Facebook forces us to communicate with people just sucks. I either get an email from Facebook, telling me that I've a message and giving me a link to facebook's site. Or I get an email with the actual message, but I can't reply to it, because the From: ... http://i-want-a-better.com/2008/01/i-want-a-better-facebook-communications/ It seems a bit lame to me to get an email that tells me I have email. (Those of you who subscribe to multiple social networks know what I mean.) It would be good to have an uber social net like a gmail InBox where, with a single sign-on, I ... http://i-want-a-better.com/2007/12/i-wanna-better-way-to-interact-with-social-network-sites/ Linkedin.com is a business social network, which I like because it's not very noisy. I mainly use it as a great tool to maintain business contacts. The best part is that my contacts maintain their own records, saving my time. If someone changes their email address or job, I can ... http://i-want-a-better.com/2007/12/i-want-a-better-linkedincom/ I recently started cycling a lot and my body likes most of the experience. However my toes go numb after cycling for just a bit longer than 20 minutes, the seat cuts of the blood flow. I've now bought a new bike, that came with a better seat, which ... http://i-want-a-better.com/2007/12/i-want-a-better-bike-seat/ I often use craigslist.com and it is a very useful service. It let's me accomplish what I need, no ads and no usage charges. The problem is its search feature. Ideally when I search to rent a place I want to narrow down the search results not only by $$-range and ... http://i-want-a-better.com/2007/12/i-want-a-better-search-at-craigslistcom/