SERVICE: Emailing gift cards and “wish lists” are a new techie trend

Thursday, December 8, 2011

https://www.amazon.com/gp/gc/order-email?ie=UTF8&ref_=gc_lp_4ways_email_top

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Not that I’m panhandling for either. But this strikes me as the difference between “having a gift” and “giving a gift”.

Lot’s of very well-meaning loving relatives give me gifts. But do they really understand that it’s not necessary.

Holidays are a bad time. For a lot of people.

For me it begins in childhood when ANY holiday (didn’t matter; Saint Patrick’s Day, Fourth of July, Columbus Day) was for another occurrence of parents fighting. Usually with alcohol involved. So for as “happy a time” as it’s supposed to be, it’ll never be for me.

So call me Ebenezer, but I ain’t gonna be your typical “holiday person”.

It’s interesting thought that the techie trend for email gift cards and wish lists can make gifts STRANGELY more personal.

I always thought it was funny when her relatives gave Frau Reinke Barnes & Noble or Borders gift cards. ROFL! Actually I made out cause she give them to me. For safe keeping. (She lost everything.) Eventually, when I’d drag her kicking and screaming into a bookstore, usually for a “books on tape” (She never called them “on disc”?), I get something for me.

So here we have the technology solution to how to know what your recipient really really wants.

And, there’s a good search function for by name and town.

If your at loss, you can always email me a gift card. I’m an ITSJ (Yeah, I know it’s ISTJ, but as an IT guy, I like ITSJ. And no it’s not too profane.) And, I don’t like people much anyway. I’ll email you a TY. (TY = a quick Thank You; I can’t be bothered to type it all out.)

So is this “service” good or bad?

Time will tell.

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SOFTWARE: Browser war; FIREFOX

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Firefox: LastPass OK; not as fast as Opera

Chrome: LastPass OK; seems to have slow downs.

Opera: LastPass OK; seems faster; doesn’t do a toolbar of bookmarks. Doesn’t display gmail header correctly all the time.

Safari: LastPass doesn’t show up anywhere. NG!

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SERVICE: DISPORA needs some work

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

https://joindiaspora.com/users/invitation

Fill out their invitation, enter, and get:

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That’s rude. Did NOT!

Argh!

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SERVICE: KODAKGALLERY doesn’t listen

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

http://gallerystudio.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3072

Where’s the access to the address book from the first screen?

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Recently you requested personal assistance from our on-line support center. Below is a summary of your request and our response.

If this issue is not resolved to your satisfaction, you may reopen it within the next 7 days.

Thank you for allowing us to be of service to you.

Subject

Feedback for Answer ID 3072 (Rated: Not Helpful)

Response Via Email (Roberto E.) 12/04/2011 11:27 AM

Dear Reinke,

Thank you for contacting the KODAK Gallery Customer Service Team.

We understand your interest in locating your address book. We’ll be glad to assist you in this matter.

You’ll need to click the “Contacts” link in order to see your address book. To do so:

1. Sign into your account at http://www.kodakgallery.com

2. Click “My Gallery”

3. Click “Contacts” next to the blue “Upload Photos” button

4. Your address book will display along with your contacts and groups.

Our teams are continuously researching and creating new ways to provide you with the highest quality in Prints, photo products, and services.

We thank you for being a Gallery member and look forward to continuing to be your photo sharing partner.

If you have any further questions or concerns, please let us know.

Sincerely,

Roberto E.

The KODAK Gallery Customer Service Team

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Any surprise that I rated it “unsatisfactory”.

I don’t want two clicks. I want one after I sign in.

Repeating how to do it is just torture.

And, I suspect a “canned” bot.

No wonder they are going broke.

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SERVICE: Microsoft HealthVault can’t just easily print all

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Incident title:

GLobal print

Support request number:

1166454853

Severity rating:

Severity C (Minimum business impact)

Type of response:

Email to reinke@reinke.cc

Response time:

Your expected response time is: 1 Business Day

Monday – Friday 6:00 A.M. – 2:00 P.M. PST

Note:

Your question was successfully submitted to Microsoft.

A Microsoft support professional will contact you within the response time specified for the support that you chose.

If you are using a spam blocker tool, make sure that you can receive e-mail messages from *@microsoft.com.

Full name:

Fedinand Reinke

E-mail address:

reinke@reinke.cc

Contact numbers:

(732) 798-0508

Product:

Microsoft HealthVault (All Languages)

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SERVICE: GOOOGLE READER changes silently

Sunday, December 4, 2011

http://www.jasperjottings.com/2011/jj2011W49.html

Lots of techie problems this week and it shows. Took almost 5 hours to do what normally takes 45 minutes.

Biggest problem is that GOOGLE READER changed. Silently, no notice. Now I can NOT cut ‘n’ paste an expanded series of stories.

No way; no how.

Chrome, Firefox, and Opera — all act the same.

Why I don’t like “the cloud”!!!

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SERVICE: “Cloud” translates to “Could disapear at the providers’ whim”

Friday, December 2, 2011

From: Google Wave <wave-noreply@google.com>
Date: Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 12:15 AM
Subject: Google Wave Sunsetting in 2012

Dear Wavers,

More than a year ago, we announced that Google Wave would no longer be developed as a separate product. At the time, we committed to maintaining the site at least through to the end of 2010. Today, we are sharing the specific dates for ending this maintenance period and shutting down Wave. As of January 31, 2012, all waves will be read-only, and the Wave service will be turned off on April 30, 2012. You will be able to continue exporting individual waves using the existing PDF export feature until the Google Wave service is turned off. We encourage you to export any important data before April 30, 2012.

If you would like to continue using Wave, there are a number of open source projects, including Apache Wave. There is also an open source project called Walkaround that includes an experimental feature that lets you import all your Waves from Google. This feature will also work until the Wave service is turned off on April 30, 2012.

For more details, please see our help center.

Yours sincerely,

The Wave Team

© 2011 Google Inc. 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043

You have received this mandatory email service announcement to update you about important changes to your Google Wave account.

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This should make anyone wary of depending upon any “free” services. “Cloud” translates to “Could disapear at the providers’ whim”. Yeah, this could never happen to “GMail” or “Yahoo” or … or … — time to wake up folks. If you ain’t paying for it, you may not have it. And, even that’s no guarantee. ?????

And how or why would you try to copyright an email like this? A lawyer’s wet dream!

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HARDWARE: Wait for the IPAD3 until March 2012

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57329053-1/$4.23-a-day-on-the-timing-of-a-black-friday-ipad-2-purchase/

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$4.23 a day: On the timing of a Black Friday iPad 2 purchase | Crave – CNET

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It appears that waiting until March next year to buy an IPAD3 is a good idea.

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SOFTWARE: POSTBOX has space management issues

Sunday, November 27, 2011

From: Postbox Support <noreply@postbox.zendesk.com>
Date: Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 10:34 AM
Subject: Archive messages under subfolders named after year received

There is a new comment in topic Archive messages under subfolders named after year received

Jeff Gehlhaar

I agree with James. On the Mac, where Time Machine does my backups, this is a big issue. These per year mailboxes quickly get HUGE. This is a feature which is already part of the Thunderbird base code and it would seem straightforward to port the core logic. In talking with customer support, they said this feature is not on the roadmap as it runs counter to the direction they want to move the product.

For my part, if this feature were on board and some of my favorite plugins were supported (or their functionality supported natively), I’d probably jump in and buy postbox, but for now, I’m going to stick to Thunderbird.

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This is what I experienced with POSTBOX. Almost immediately after installing and using it I had space problems. Since almost all of my email accounts were defined as IMAP, I was at a loss as to why I was always “out of space”.

I bet this software was making hidden backups.

Argh!

I’m gonna eventually have to wipe and upgrade to Lion.

WINDOZE has the same problems that require a clean reinstall to restart with a clean slate. This was the exact problem that I was hoping to avoid with the MACBOOKAIR.

Clearly there’s still much improvement need in computing appliances needed.

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SERVICE: FACEBOOK and LINKEDIN don’t clean

Saturday, November 26, 2011

http://nicholasnigro.blogspot.com/2011/11/destined-to-be-crossed-out.html

Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Destined to Be Crossed Out…

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Slightly off-topic—but nonetheless inspired by my perusing this physical phone and address book—I cast my eyes to the future and ponder what, for instance, people’s Facebook friends list might look like in ten, twenty, and thirty years. Of course, I conduct this speculative endeavor of mine in a metaphorical laboratory. Foremost, I assume that all things remain equal—i.e., pretty much as they are now on the Facebook frontier in, say, 2020, 2030, and 2040—which is highly unlikely. I also presume an unfathomable reservoir of long-term patience for inappropriate behavior, the bane of countless people’s Facebook walls, and not a bountiful human trait.

Okay, it’s the year 2035, and that guy with 1,263 friends in 2011 is down to 347. He hasn’t heard a peep from at least 163 of his remaining friends for more than a few years, and 42 of them have only recently disappeared from sight and sound, seemingly vanishing from both the virtual ether and face of the earth. And since Facebook doesn’t comb through obituaries and the Social Security Death Index, nor readily delete accounts, many of these missing in action friends are very possibly deceased, and more than a few are living in assisted living homes or—worse still—in nursing homes sans any access to Wi-Fi. Who would have thought that a Facebook page enduring long after one’s death might be an individual’s best chance at immortality? Life is full of surprises…and so is death…especially now in the Information Age…

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It’s well know that FACEBOOK and LINKEDIN don’t clean out the “dead”. Including in that, the accounts that are never logged on to.

Argh!

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