July 1, 2007 by Santaduck.

Like many of you, I live on both sides of the fence. I’ve had Apples through the ][+ and SEs and PCs since the original 8086 and XT.

Currently I have a Peecee, specifically a Compaq laptop. However I <3 the Apple GUI.

So I wanted to share one teeny Apple-like tweak that gives me pleasure on my Peecee, a Dashboard jury-rig. If you have a Compaq, you may very well have those “One Touch” buttons along the top. I have one of these buttons set on something like Exposé. XP has a “show desktop” function, and that’s what I’ve set it to; it’s not exactly the same, but the essential gestalt gut feel of it is the same: If I’m sick of overlapping windows, I just reach for a physical button, without thinking, and they are gone. I push it again, and the windows are back.

To set it, do the following:
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July 1, 2007 by Santaduck.

Well the auction ended. At first I was happy, I got more than the iPhones were going for. Currently iPhones are not sold out at all the Apple stores yet (and the waiting time at the online Apple store is 2-4 weeks), so people can just walk into a local store and buy one at cost. Consequently, eBay prices have been low the past 24 hours, but I’d gotten more.

But something was fishy.

The red flags: I had a reserve and the auction ended right at the reserve. I looked closer. The second place bid was in the range of what iPhones were selling for today, which was way below my reserve which I had set back when they were selling for more about 36 hours ago. That meant the winning bidder just bid WAY above the going price. Red flag number one. Then I got the email from eBay that I had sold an item. The email address of the winning bidder looked like a spam email, a senseless 15-long jumble of random letters and numbers @ jetable.net. That’s #2. I checked out jetable.net, and it’s an email REDIRECT service. That was red flag #3. I looked at the bidder’s account. Feedback was low, only 5. I looked closer and the last transaction was 2 1/2 years ago in January 2005. That was red flag #4. Damn. Well I’m nervous at this point, but figure if the PayPal address is truly confirmed, then who knows. I post a question to the eBay answer center and think. I’ve received no payment yet.

As I’m fretting with my capitalistic greed, I receive a new email.
It was from eBay’s security department and here’s what it said:
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