The Insomniac Coder

Warning: This is a technically oriented rant. It has nothing to do with the money side of PayPal . It is simply about things that shouldn't happen the way they currently do. Dear Geeks That Work for PayPal: I don't know if you people are lazy, or stupid, or simply use cost benefit analysis before you fix the stupidest dumbest fucking things that plague your platform. Somebody came up with an amazing idea: let's add two-factor authentication , and the sonofabitch works just right. I have used your two-factor mechanism with SMS on no less than two carriers, and the VIP token application in iPhone , Blackberry and Android and they all do the job perfectly. The problem is that you have external apps that rely on authenticating with PayPal, and these apps can't handle the two-factor authentication. The first this happened it was with the older version of Blackberry App Word. I assumed that this was the BBAW programmers not implementing the mechanism correctly. I...

Image via Wikipedia I just ran into this service while going through what is almost a regularly scheduled, weekly paranoia attack over my backups. I had just checked pricing on maybe upgrading my online backups service, or my social accounts online backups service, when I noticed that iDrive now has contacts backup for free for Blackberry , iPhone and Android.  I am already using Google Sync , but it wouldn't hurt to have a plan "b" in case Google takes a shit, so I decided to give it a try. The application has nothing to configure beyond signing up for the free account and letting it run the backups. As far as I can tell from the exhaustive four minutes I spent testing this, you can only backup manually, there is no way to let it run in the background. With Google Sync you just let it run and that's it. Also, it mangled my contacts, the fields in the contacts I checked in my Blackberry don't match the contacts as seen in their website. I modified a contact,...