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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




Apple Online Store


Check out the incredible selection of all things Mac - iPod - iPhone; you name it's here & at a great price too!


Apple Online Store








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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




Apple Online Store


Check out the incredible selection of all things Mac - iPod - iPhone; you name it's here & at a great price too!


Apple Online Store








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I'm turning a corner, in a manner of speaking...

As blogMerit evolves and grows the tone is taking on natural, added character and this is one of those times. Don't be offended its me but its some of the 'me' that I've been curb checking so as to appeal to the broadest audience. However, I do have some very strong opinions so I will begin sharing those here, and as always all my posts are open to comments. That said is also one of the features that's not back online yet. It's being sorted and will be live again very soon.
Oh, and by the way I want to say I create, upload and manage my websites with this wonderful application from a company called Real Mac Software, its called Rapidweaver. I believe the current version is 3.6 and yes, its "Leopard" ready. I work on a Mac and I have for years. Jumped right into iPod and iTunes when they became available. I always upgrade my OS X I tend to upgrade pretty quickly when the updates come out; they're pretty scheduled about every 18 months there's a system upgrade and unlike Windows there's no confusing upgrade paths to try and figure out. If you have one Mac you'll probably buy the single user license but if you have more Macs say an iMac and MacBook you'd buy the Family Pack license for only a few bucks more then you can legally install it on up to five (5) Mac and all this is $129.00 - $199.00. What's that saying, of that's it, It's a no-brainer. More on these wonderful resources for Mac users later. I'm marking this as one of my Cool beans topic for later followup postings. iPod, iPhone, OS X "Leopard", iMac, iTunes, Safari just to name a few.
iPhone gifts they'll love. Give iPhone with signature gift wrap and free shipping. Maybe's its time you take another look at the Mac. I mean, come on what do have to lose?!


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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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Here's One for Customer Service 101...

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

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Lots of Cool New Products from Apple, Inc. today...

I have been waiting for these upgrades but I thought I was going to have to wait until Leopard comes out in October but YEAH they're here today along with the sexy, sleek, new iMac, new Mac mini plus major upgrades to iWork '08 and iLife '08. 10492186-3You know, when you compare the features and the cost of Apple's iWork suite Apple's wins hands down, a single license is only $79.00 and if you need a family pack it's only $99.00 for installation on five MACS for $100 and five, registered installations versus $350.00 for the standard version of Microsoft Office for Mac. OK, well that's a no-brainer $80-$100 versus $350+ for MS Office, isn't it obvious. I've been using iWork '06 via PAGES and a little bit of KEYNOTE and I really like what I've created. I've also had a lot of fun creating my documents. I'm a creative writer and I can honestly say opening PAGES and using one of the included templates sparks my creativity and I hit the ground running every time. Plus it's really intuitive and easy to use. Another reason why I love my MAC.

Don't Miss Out on Apple's Education Bonus:

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Check Out the Sexy, Sleek, New Apple iMac & Mac mini...


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Buy the new Mac mini (with iLife '08 - PAGES, KEYNOTE & the new spreadsheet application NUMBERS)

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It's Back To School Time...

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Here's One for Customer Service 101...

INSERT C.M. CLIP HERE ABOUT MSFT CUST. SERVICE STORY
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Another Positive Step for the MAC. Cool beans...

INSERT C.M. CLIP HERE ABOUT PERSONAL TECHNOLOGY

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