Busted Tees Stole My Money

A word of warning - Busted Tees may have a serious great collection of hip tee-shirts, but you may want to pay with a credit card that has fraud protection to be safe. A while back, I impulse-bought a shirt online from their website, but it was the wrong size. I taped the package back up, slapped on the label and sent it back after filling out the exchange form. Halfway into my vacation (returning the shirt was the last errand I took care of before a well-deserved beach week), I realized that I was supposed to include a $6.00 check for exchanging an item (kind of a rip-off, but whatever). I waited a while, thinking that when they received the return, they would contact me for the additional money in order to process my return. They did, after all, have all my contact information on the form. Since I never heard from them, after a reasonable period of time, I contacted their orders department via the email address published on their website. I included all my information again. I have yet to hear back. The email was sent on October 24th, 2007. I guess they really wanted their $6.00. Well, I’d like the $19.98 I spent back (shirt -$13.99 & shipping - $5.99), but since that’s obviously not happening, hopefully I can cost them a sale or two by posting this online.

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Yes, it’s another Twitter post. Couldn’t resist! (By the way, if you are in love with Twitter, too, I have a Twitter feed of all the Twitter news I read here).

• Twitterbar: With the Twitterbar Firefox add-on, you can post to Twitter from your address bar. You just click the icon that sits to the right of your address bar after typing in your tweet in the address bar. This extension is no longer updated, though. Bummer!
• TwittyTunes: from the folks that brought you FoxyTunes, TwittyTunes lets you post the songs you’re listening to with a single-click.
• Twitbin: lets you send & receive tweets from Firefox’s sidebar
• Twitterfox: adds a tiny icon on the status bar that notifies you when your friends update their tweets. It has a small input field to update your tweets, too.

Google Maps for your mobile phone is out now with a new, improved version called Google Maps with My Location (beta). The new version offers several new features, the most important being its ability find your location using either your phone’s built-in GPS or by triangulating your location using cell towers. If your phone doesn’t have GPS, the triangulation feature will get you somewhere within 500 to 5000 meters of where you really are. You can then use the “0″ on your phone to position yourself more accurately on the map. In addition to the “my location” feature, the new version of Google Maps for mobile also has real-time traffic (I could have used this today!), more detailed step-by-step directions, integrated search results, easily movable maps, and even satellite imagery. You can see a demo of the service here. Also, check out the video below for an explanation of how it all works. To get the latest version of Google Maps, point your mobile browser to www.google.com/gmm. Most web-enabled mobile phones are supported, including Java, Blackberry, Windows Mobile, and Nokia/Symbian devices.