Simple Inside

I recently came across this illusion.

The Right Brain / Left Brain Test.

The image looks different for each person that sees it. I was watching it with my wife and we saw different things at the same time.
I still do not know how it works. If you know, please share your views.

Tags: Funny, optical illusion

To those of you who are having some issues, because my other websites are down

Don’t Worry, I am still here.

• If you would like to get the latest update of my popular MistyLook theme, you could get it at
  MistyLook.org
• If you would like to make a donation to me for removing the footer links from the theme, please use the Donation Page at MistyLook.org

Please help me spread this information

Please post a link to this post, on your website(s), so you can pass this message to all who are wondering why my sites are currently down.

Thanks.

Tags: 1and1, site downtime

Some of my websites like WP Themes, WP Theme Park, WP Theme Support by Sadish are currently down from yesterday evening.

1and1.com is the one hosting it and I already sent them an email. These sites will be back soon.
Update 4: October 13th 2007 7 AM

WP Theme Park is back online.

Update 3: October 11th 2007 9 PM

WP Theme Support by Sadish forums is back online.

Update 2: October 11th 2007 9 AM

After a lot of emails back and forth, I was able to get the backup file as of Sep 30th 2007 and restored my WP Themes website back up and running.
To get my other websites also online, I need to get a “Virtual Private Server” and I am in the process of doing it.

Update 1: October 5th 2007

It seems that my websites receive a lot of traffic and since it is on a shared server, it is affecting the performance of other sites on the same server.
They have decided to move my sites to a different server and now I have to sign up for “dedicated server” plan with them in order to get my sites up again.
I have never been informed about their decision to move the account to a dedicated server and all of a sudden they do this.
I find it ridiculous. how about you? what I should do now?

Tags: 1and1, hosting issues

Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs announced a $200 price drop on their product “iPhone” within 66 days from its launch.

As an iPhone owner, I already know that they will be dropping the price, but I never expected that it will happen so soon. I was having mixed feelings yesterday.

I saw mixed reactions from the people at websites like gizmodo.com or macrumors.com. Those who have bought the iPhones for $600 were crying for their apparent loss and those who never bought the thing were all happy about that.

Anyone who bought the iPhone within the last 14 days can get the $200 discount from Apple, but I was thinking about the frustration of people who bought the iPhone just 15 days ago.
They are not eligible for the $200 discount from apple, as they exceeded the 14 day return policy. They would be really disappointed, isn’t it ?

Also many of the people who bought the phone during the past 2 months are loyal fanboys to Apple and disappointing them would be bad as well.

As per the policy, Apple does not have to care. If the same thing happens to some other company, they would not care as well.
but Apple made a move yesterday, I would say it is very clever, to give $100 back to those early adopters as a store credit.
Now, with that, they have achieved a lot of things in one shot.
1. Apple got their reputation and they showed that they care.
2. They are now making those people to spend that extra $100 again at the Apple store.
3. Since most of the products are above $100, people would spend more money at Apple again and this way they get a bigger market share.

I would say it is a very clever move from Apple. Good Work Apple !

Tags: apple, iphone, Living In America, price drop

As this is a long weekend, and the summer is coming to an end, I decided to make use of it. I will be offline for the next 4 days and will come back on 5th September.

Enjoy your weekend !

Tags: Announcements

As many of you know, I sell some of my premium wordpress themes at WP Theme Shop and people can pay for the theme using Paypal and download the theme immediately.

If a fraudulent person knows someone’s paypal user id and password, they can use it and download the theme. Since they entered the right user id and password, no one knows if this was entered by a fraud, and they can safely run away with the theme.

Now, that someone realizes this transaction is not done by him and disputes it with PayPal. Paypal is always on the buyer’s side and they pull the money from my account and give it back to the buyer and then everyone is happy !

Wait !

1. Paypal is happy as their only job is satisfy the buyer. Their Seller Protection Policy covers only products that can shipped. They do not cover intangible goods [like in this case, a wordpress theme].
2. The buyer is happy as he got his money back.
3. The fraud is happy as he got one of my premium themes without paying a penny and without getting caught.

but I am still at a loss here.
How do I prevent this from happening again? Please throw in your ideas to solve this issue.

Thanks.
Also Read:
Beware of these Paypal Payments !

Tags: fraudulent, payment, Paypal