Seems like Amazon has scooped Google and Apple. It appears to work.
Just as you should buy your ebooks for Kindle, seems like you music should be from Amazon. (The buying process is clunky! imho)
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SERVICE: AMAZON CLOUD_DRIVE and CLOUD_PLAYER scoops Google and Apple
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
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Posted by reinkefj
SERVICE: The problem with “cloud” services; they “disappear”
Tuesday, March 29, 2011Ahh, yes, a plaxo competitor, but not as obnoxious, is going down.
First they stopped performing the service in January. Then, they told folks at the end of March.
It was a useful service (i.e., update your email once and it told every one who had your card). It was originally tied to the business card scanner. No word if they are going to stop selling those. (Who uses business cards today?) I doubt it.
Sigh, an idea who’s time has past.
BTW, their product still had the same fatal flaw it’s always had: YOUR data was locked in their database with no way to extract it.
I blogged that they needed to be open. Interact with Google contacts. Instead of keeping their own database, use people’s GMAIL contacts as their database. Require some innovative business and technical thinking, sure.
Go to Google and offer to make GMAIL’s contacts “social”.
I think their problem was in their thinking — memes and paradigms again — they thought they were selling business card scanners. What they should have been thinking was “we enable communication”.
They could have been LinkedIn, ACT / Salesforce, or something else.
Their thinking did them in.
RIP CARDSCAN. “Ya coulda been a contender”
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Posted by reinkefj
MACBOOKAIR: AppleCare …
Tuesday, March 29, 2011fcsk-ed the disk cmd-opt-r-p reset. Reboot.
Case #212-319-493
Cross your fingers!
There’s 17 minutes of my life I’ll never get back. What life?
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MACBOOKAIR: another panic; lost a document I was writing
Tuesday, March 29, 2011Argh!
Scheduled a call with support.
Dropping back to netbook. Can’t take the losses. And interruptions.
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MACBOOKAIR: yet another panic
Tuesday, March 29, 2011Have to solve this or “mare metal restore”.
The Apple Time Machine isn’t working either.
Argh!
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TECHNOLOGY: Geo tagged photos
Monday, March 28, 2011http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2vARzvWxwY
Opinion: Smart phones might be a tad too smart.
Bottom line: Turn off geo tagging on your smart phone for ANY pic you plan to post on the inet.
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HARDWARE: WD’s MyBookForMac installs but …
Saturday, March 26, 2011WD’s MyBookForMac installs but …
… … the Smart Ware software doesn’t install or execute. Argh!
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MACBOOKAIR: another panic
Saturday, March 26, 2011I am going to have to schedule a trip to the apple store?
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MACBOOKAIR: Yet another panic last night
Saturday, March 26, 2011Argh!
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SERVICE: Any color as long as it’s black
Saturday, March 26, 2011EMAIL TO A VENDOR EMAIL CAMPAIGN SOFTWARE
I’m interested in offering my 100 chapter book by email.
I want to set up a sequence of 100 emails that will form up what I would call a “campaign”. When I get a victim, I want to put in that email address and forget it. I want the software to every day fire out the appropriate day’s email.
At any given point in time, I could (hopefully) have lots of them at different points in the process.
Every time I have spent time investigating a software product or web offering, I eventually found out it couldn’t. Sometimes I was told it could, installed the software and tried a test. Fail.
Hence the email message before I waste everyone’s time.
If yours doesn’t, do you know something that does?
Thanks,
fjohn
AND THEIR PROMPT RESPONSE
Hello fjohn,
Mailings can not send out a schedule of separate emails, but it can send out one specific message at a specific scheduled time, and then repeat that using a specified time interval:
I am not aware of other products that do exactly what you want.
Ciao
Joe
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How expensive is an Indian Programming Project?
Do it myself? Argh, that sounds like work.
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SOFTWARE: APPLE IPHOTO doesn’t allow you to …
Thursday, March 24, 2011APPLE IPHOTO doesn’t allow you to …
… easily mange the size of the Photo Library.
And, the backup function is lame. There’s no way to do a backup to an external drive except by doing individual exports.
It would have been trivial to allow it, but they didn’t.
One can only imagine that the decision to implement this way was to drive sales to Time Machine or Mobile Me. Clearly, that might be speculation. But, it fits how I see APPLE. Exploitive. The software is designed and implemented in a way that’s best for APPLE; not the User. imho
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IPHOTO is unsuitable for use on the MACBOOKAIR due to limited hard disk space and the software’s inability to compensate for that.
When one imports pictures into IPHOTO from a camera, that is the easiest time to create the external backup.
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MACBOOKAIR: two panics today
Thursday, March 24, 2011Argh!
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MACBOOKAIR: So much for that upgrade
Wednesday, March 23, 2011Spent a lot of time yday making space for the upgrade purported to fix panics.
Had one last night after the upgrande and two today so far.
“Bare metal restore” is looking like my only option.
If I wanted to have these type of problems, I could have stay on windoze.
Outlook’s looking better and better.
Argh!
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Another panic
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Another panic
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Another panic. Moved to backup machine. Argh!
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MACBOOKAIR: Applied 10.6.7 update but still having panics
Tuesday, March 22, 2011Bare metal restore time?
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SOFTWARE: POSTBOX2 on MACBOOKAIR doesn’t have scheduled send
Tuesday, March 22, 2011Fedinand Reinke, Mar-18 11:49 pm (PDT):
Sometimes I would like a message to be delayed until tomorrow, next week, or some time next year. I can’t find how to induce POSTBOX2 to do that for me. I know it’s in Outlook. How does a POSTBOX2 User do that?
It would be really nice if POSTBOX2 would handle that very smartly (i.e., wake up when a deferred request triggers and send it) but I could even live with it doing it the next time it is “alive”.
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Justin Rochell, Mar-21 07:47 pm (PDT):
Hi Fedinand,
Postbox has a “Send Later” feature, but without scheduling.
http://support.postbox-inc.com/entries/247672-using-the-send-later-command
If you don’t mind, please submit a request for scheduling in the Ideas & Feature Requests Forum so we can keep track of it.
Thanks for using postbox!
Best,
Justin Rochell
Postbox, Inc.
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(1) This seems to me to be an OBVIOUSLY needed feature. OUTLOOK does it; I’m no MICROSOFT fan, but they have certain features. It just WINDOZE that sucks.
(2) WINDOZE may suck; MACOSX has its problems too. The question is how much suckiness will you the User tolerate. If you do a real good job of separating your data, your applications, and the OS on a WINDOZE platform, AND IF you do a real good job of managing your WINDOZE OS — slipstreaming fixes into a WINDOZE DISKIMAGE (by like ACRONIS) so you can bare metal restore at the drop of a hat, I’d give the nod to WINDOZE over MACOSX. On to Linux anyone?
(3) The meme of “personal computing” is that you can have your little PLATFORM and it’s “personal”. The new meme of “cloud computing” is nice if you never leave home and you high speed connection to the inet never fails. Once you leave home or if your inet provider is flaky, then cloud computing is challenging at best. Wifi ain’t that ubiquitous or that “free”. If you use the phone as you’re inet gateway, you’re stuck with an expensive “data plan” and find out that “unlimited” doesn’t mean “unlimited”.
(4) Clearly, the applications developers have to design applications that can work either with or without the cloud. I haven’t seen one yet that does.
(5) The regulators are back in 1910 and are (deliberately?) clueless about how companies are ripping the folks off.
(6) I love how developers want the Users to do their work for them. Assuming that “scheduled send” is a valid useful “new idea”. Why ask me, the User, to do your data entry work? That’s down right rude. Do I get paid, or anything, to be your R&D staff? It’s not like this is Open Source Software, where there’s more of a collaboration between developer and User. Argh!
(7) Many enterprises treat the Customer like they are an unpaid staff. The cable and telephone companies come to mind. I may have no choice but to put up your “barbara streisand” now, but there will come a time. Payback is a bitch!
Argh!
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SERVICE: KODALGALLERY is down?
Sunday, March 20, 2011It’s not just you! http://kodakgallery.com looks down from here.
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HARDWARE: FIOS is “tone deaf”
Sunday, March 20, 2011Here;s yet another example of an organization being “tone deaf”. An unmonitored email address? Wasn’t one of their commercials “Can you hear me now”. (Just shaking my head) Argh!
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Ok guys, now that hardware you said is defective is working perfectly today. And, I have no way to tell you!
And look at all the stuff I’m supposed to do for free! Argh!
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HARDWARE: Verizon sucks; FIOS NOTRECOMMENDED!
Saturday, March 19, 2011It was a pleasure to assist you. Your chat session has ended. Thank You.
Your chat ID number is 03191189238.
Chat Subject: FiOS Television (Other)
Your Question: Box is cycling every few minutes.
A Verizon Service Representative will be with you shortly. Thank you. (21:05:16)
<<< Ten minutes?>>>
21:15:01 Estimated wait time is 4 mins 42 secs. We apologize for the delay. You are next in the queue. A representative will be with you shortly.
Agent George has joined. (21:15:22)
George : Chat ID for this session is 03191189238. (21:15:22)
George(21:15:27): Thank you for using Verizon FiOS Technical Support. I apologize for any delays in reaching an agent today.
My name is George, for security purposes please post the name and address on the account as well as a good can be reached telephone number.
While I access your account and start running some diagnostic tests, please open a new browser window and type http://www.verizon.com/inhomeagent in the address bar and follow the prompts to download our new In Home Agent support tool, if you?ve not already done so.
Ferdinand Reinke(21:15:28): I don’t think there is much that can be done. The box is recycling every few minutes. And, my other box is running fine. Argh!
Ferdinand Reinke(21:16:11): I don’t want the inhome agent on my hardware.
George(21:16:36): please provide the information, i have asked for above please
Ferdinand Reinke(21:16:50): {Extraneous Deleted}
George(21:17:30): address on the account also
Ferdinand Reinke(21:17:45): {Extraneous Deleted}
George(21:18:20): ok
George(21:18:30): After our chat session is completed, I will send you a helpful email to the email address listed above reinke@reinke.cc
George(21:18:30): I’m sorry for any frustration this has caused, but I’d be glad to assist you with your issue today.
George(21:18:51): For security purposes can I please get you to confirm the account number, the last amount you paid, or the install date, please.
Ferdinand Reinke(21:19:07): I have no idea of that information.
George(21:19:42): i also need that information, i can wait also. if you need me to
Ferdinand Reinke(21:20:26):
{Extraneous Deleted}
George(21:21:01): thank you
George(21:21:27): also which box has the issue, the dvr or the sd box?
Ferdinand Reinke(21:21:51): the hd dvr box
George(21:22:22): is there any clicking or humming noise from the dvr/
Ferdinand Reinke(21:22:29): no
George(21:22:50): are you in front of it now?
George(21:22:55): i just flashed the programming on it
George(21:23:00): i need you to test it and see if it reboots
Ferdinand Reinke(21:23:03): sounds like the other tv has stopped playing
Ferdinand Reinke(21:23:19): press menu
George(21:23:34): i programmed both
George(21:23:40): go ahead and press menu
Ferdinand Reinke(21:23:44): done
George(21:23:54): picture?
Ferdinand Reinke(21:23:57): yes
George(21:24:03): let it play ok
Ferdinand Reinke(21:24:08): yup
Ferdinand Reinke(21:24:18): recylced
George(21:24:29): just did?
Ferdinand Reinke(21:24:32): yes
George(21:25:07): I’m going to mail out a replacement Set Top Box to you. It will arrive by UPS Next-Day Air (typically within 2-3 business days).
1. Once you receive the new Set Top Box, unplug the bad STB and power adapter and use the new STB and power adapter.
2. Then send back the bad Set Top Box using the supplied UPS shipping label and dropoff at the nearest UPS Store (www.theupsstore.com) or UPS Dropoff location.
Ferdinand Reinke(21:26:11): And I’m supposed to be happy about that. I’m without the TV service for 2-3 business days and I lose all the programs on the DVR?
George(21:26:31): yes you will lose all the recorded programs
Ferdinand Reinke(21:26:47): I know but I am NOT happy about that.
George(21:27:02): i am sorry, there is nothing we can do to make it not reboot
Ferdinand Reinke(21:27:36): OK let’s delete the DVR service completely. Just send me a replacement HD box.
George(21:28:06): can not do that, you have to talk to billing to do that
Ferdinand Reinke(21:28:26): This is the third DVR box that is being replaced.
George(21:28:31): if you want to swap to a lower priced box, they will have to do an ordr
George(21:28:36): i am sorry, but this isnt billing and orders
George(21:28:52): we do not, do orders to downgrade your box
George(21:29:02): i can only send you out a like for like unit
George(21:29:07): no downgrades
Ferdinand Reinke(21:29:43): Well you can credit the bill for at least four days out of service.
George(21:29:53): no
George(21:29:59): this isnt biling, this is repair
Ferdinand Reinke(21:30:04): NO>
George(21:30:24): repair, does not handle your bill or orders
Ferdinand Reinke(21:30:25): just shaking my head.
George(21:30:45): you understand, in repair we do not handle billing or orders
George(21:30:45): correct?
George(21:31:00): im going to send you out a replacement unit for your dvr
Ferdinand Reinke(21:31:00): I understand only to well.
George(21:31:05): since it keeps rebooting
George(21:31:11): it has been ordered
George(21:34:07): do you have any other questions, about the replacement unit
Ferdinand Reinke(21:34:32): NO!
George(21:35:08): I’m glad I could help. Chat Support is available everyday from 8am-9pm Central. Additional information on all 3 FiOS services can be found online at http://verizon.com/residentialhelp/.
Also, we have the Verizon In Home Agent that you can download at http://www.verizon.com/inhomeagent Thank you for choosing Verizon and have a great day.
Your session is now closed.
Thank you, have a nice day.
Your session is now closed.
Thank you, have a nice day.
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This is not help.
This is the THIRD DVR!
VERIZON FIOS is NOTRECOMMENDED!
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MACBOOKAIR: Another panic
Saturday, March 19, 2011Argh!
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SOFTWARE: Chrome takes all free disk space
Saturday, March 19, 2011OK, I think I have ‘evidence’.
With only POSTBOX2 and CHROME running I get message ‘no space’. So, I quit CHROME and now I have 1+ Gig back.
(I have to figure out how to shrink IPHOTO. But there doesn’t seem to be any way to do it other than just delete stuff. Argh!)
Argh!
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MACBOOKAIR: Panic on sleep?
Saturday, March 19, 2011This is getting absurd. Every time I come back to MCBA it fails to resume. Argh! In the ultimate act of desperation, I turned off all hibernation. WINDOZE is beginning to look better. Argh!
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HARDWARE: VERIZON FIOS TV/DVR problems
Friday, March 18, 20112011-03-17 @ 2241
Several dropped signals and restarts early this evening. I just noticed that the DVR is working. “Cloud crap”? Argh!
Inet working fine. Don’t know about phone.
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2011-03-18 @ 0845
Checking the DVR and the initial menu comes up. But then it recycles. Powering down the DVR.
Watched TV again. Get ready to touch the DVR and it recycles. No signal. “Press menu to watch”
(Argh!)
Ran the DVR trying to find the Jaspers on Saint Pat’s Parade. Recycles again.
@0854 recycles again.
(Argh!)
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MACBOOKAIR: Another panic
Wednesday, March 16, 2011Sitting all alone, it locked up! Argh!
Reminds me of windoze.
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MACBOOKAIR: Refuses to resume from sleep
Wednesday, March 16, 2011Again this morning. Another bare metal restore in our future?
Argh!
I’d rate MACBOOKAIR and OSX10.6.6 as no better than windoze!
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MACBOOKAIR: Fails to resume from sleep
Monday, March 14, 2011Argh! Twice yesterday. Need to be sure I never leave anything valuable unsaved.
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MACBOOKAIR: Watch out for “cascading” update?
Friday, March 11, 2011Applied an Mac update. It triggered an IPAD update. It triggered a reprocessing of all photos.
About 3 hours later, it’s bout 75% done.
I’ll be more careful about updates on the MACBOOKAIR.
I thought that MICROSOFT had the monopoly on bad updates.
Argh!
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