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Fellow Affiliate Marketers - Does anyone else have issues Linkshare's home page not loading???

For a long, long time now, in fact the better part of a year I have been able to log into my affiliate account LinkShare.com but this PHP script that runs their first page after logging in simply will not load. We're on Macintosh computers, all current Intel powered Mac mini, MacBook and MacBook Pro all running the most up to date version of Mac OS X "Leopard". It doesn't matter what web browser we use same outcome, absolutely nothing loads in the page but you can see up in the web browser tab a PHP script is trying to run but it stops or gets stuck every single time.

We've contacted
LinkShare.com more times than we care to think about and they keep giving us the standard answers about allowing pop-ups, virus protection and firewalls, etc. None of those things are the problem. It's clearly an issue on their end with regard to us trying to log in to their new website from Mac computers.

I'm tearing my hair out because they manage some top notch companies that I affiliate with for example;
Apple's iTunes, Macy's and Sephora just to name a few.
As fellow affiliate marketers know
LinkShare manages the affiliate program for a lot of multi-national brand name companies.

I need to know if other's are having this problem or similar issues; please post your specific comments here at my blog and let's try to move this forward, maybe we can get
someone's attention at
LinkShare who actually gives a damn about solving this problem instead of handing out pat answers and frankly ignoring very specific issues as laid
out in our emails. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE FELLOW LINKSHARE (MAC) ACCOUNT HOLDERS POST COMMENTS ABOUT YOUR EXPERIENCES TO THIS BLOG POST. THANKS.

HERE'S A SCREEN SHOT OF WHAT THE WEB BROWSER "LOOKS LIKE" -- pay attention to the PHP reference in the tab of the web browser window screen shot.


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Bemidji State University bullish on Intel Mac...

“With the Intel Macs,” explains Brian Allen, director of technical support at Bemidji State University in Minnesota, “students now have the potential to have both systems on their machines, so they can run both Windows and Macintosh applications. They can easily switch between Apple’s iLife suite and AutoCad. It’s the best of both worlds; they’ll really have two computers for the price of one.” In addition to offering students more flexibility, Allen and his team discovered that “Windows applications run faster on the Mac.” Best of all, dual-booting Mac computers offer BSU “the potential to save $150,000 to $200,000 a year in lab hardware purchases.” What’s next for Boot Camp at BSU?

Read more…

Source: Apple Hot News RSS feed




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Apple Reinvents Cool All Over Again with the iPod Touch...

page0_blog_entry79_1 Apple unveiled the latest update to their hit digital music player and it's called iPod Touch and it's gorgeous as it's a slightly smaller version of the iPhone so it contains features first seen in Apple's hit cellular phone, the iPhone. One of the coolest features, in my opinion is finally has WI-FI which allow you to purchase via WIWI-FI from Apple's new WI-FI iTunes music store directly to your iPod Touch. I've been waiting for WI-FI to come to the iPod Touch and it's pretty cool now that it's here plus the deal with Starbucks is brilliant for Apple and Starbucks. When you enter a Starbucks with WI-FI your iPod sees the network and you're allowed onto the network at no charge (in other words, no fees to T-mobile to access the WI-FI hotspot). This is of course to facilitate the ability of visitors to purchase music they're hearing in Starbucks in that very moment; purchase it via the Wi-Fi iTunes store as they sell Starbucks music already. Cool beans. The new iPod Touch comes in 8GB and 16GB models beginning at $299.00. As I learn more I'll update this post and include a full review once I've used it. Check out the video demo. at apple.com to see the new iPod Touch. So cool, so Apple.



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Another Positive Step for the Mac. Cool beans...

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Carry Hit TV shows in Your Pocket...

So, I'm sitting here ogling photographs of the new iPod nano on the internet and I really love the size and shape of the new design plus the thinness! Last evening I watched the keynote of Steve Jobs unveiling the refreshed and reinvented iPod lineup at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA. Well, during his speech he was literally slipping the new iPod nano and the brand new iPod Touch in and out of the front pockets of his signature blue jeans. As it turns out he had the redesigned iPod nano in one front pocket and the brand new, stunning iPod Touch in his other front pocket; the new iPod nano is only 0.3 inches thin. It's all just so fun to think about because he walked us through the history of the iPods and how much thicker they used to be yet some how Apple's designers and engineers continue to innovate and make them even thinner while increasing capacity and battery life; no matter whether you're running music or video so you're getting even more bang for your buck.

Which brings me to how damn cool would it be to have episodes of my new-to-me favorite TV show right in my pocket on my
iPod nano or my iPod Classic [new moniker, more on this in a separate post] at least the first two seasons which are available at iTunes. How fun, favorite, hit shows, on the cool new iPods which are hitting stores shelves as I type this. I've owned an iPod going back to the first generation and I was surprised at the quality of the video on what used to be called, iPod Video (it's now called the iPod Classic) and I understand the screen on the new iPod nano is brighter and has the a higher resolution. I have yet to see what video looks like on the iPhone but I understand the color resolution (image quality) are stellar, which is the same on the new iPod Touch. Enjoy.

Hit TV shows, music,
iPod nano and iTunes - it doesn't get any better than that now does it!

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I'm thinking the
iPod nano would make a great gift along with an iTunes gift card so the recipient can get started downloading music and video right out-of-the-box as the saying goes.


iTunes Gift Certificates – Easy, last-minute Gifts for the Holidays.show


Download Weeds on iTunesshow





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