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Eyefly Rep comments on Virtual Sunglasses, Real Shopping

Eyefly Rep — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 18:12:32 +0000

Thank you for the kind comments about Eyefly and the Virtual Try-On tool! We are glad you purchased our sunglasses from our Living Social deal and I just wanted to let you know that we can fill optical frames with sunglass tinting on request. If you know which optical style you'd like filled with tinted lenses, please let me know at feedback@eyefly.com. Thanks again and hope you enjoy!

Angela Lampani comments on You Give a Kid a Kindle - Then What?

Angela Lampani — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 00:31:50 +0000

Thank you for posting this. I didn't want our libraries to be combined and this is a great solution although it would be nice if Amazon addressed this problem.

Vivek comments on Tether your Virgin Mobile MiFi 2200 to your Mac

Vivek — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 06:02:19 +0000

Hit this gem on google! What a good read you have going on here!

Cheers!

kormir comments on Virtual Sunglasses, Real Shopping

kormir — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 23:42:49 +0000

Didn't know that they got those cam shot thingy, I tested some.

Thanks for this useful article.

jf comments on PSE&G: A Public Utility's Failure to Inform the Public

jf — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 19:03:54 +0000

Thanks, Dan. That's exactly the kind of thing that PSE&G should be doing.

Our power finally came back on around 2 AM this morning. I'd like to think that my post had something to do with it, but I doubt it. ;)

-jf.

Dan York comments on PSE&G: A Public Utility's Failure to Inform the Public

Dan York — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 14:02:13 +0000

John,

Yikes! Really sorry to hear what you all are going through and I hope you get your power back soon. Up here in New Hampshire we were also hit hard by the storm and our major utility, PSNH, has been tweeting out updates via @psnh and also interacting with customers. They, though, have created two pages along the lines of what you are looking for:

Town-by-town listing of # of customers with and without power

Town-by-town list of "estimated time of recovery"

Obviously this doesn't help you out, but I thought I'd pass along that at least some utilities out there are trying to do a bit better with getting this kind of info out.

You're absolutely right - in this era of instant access to information it is NOT crazy for customers to want info like this from their utilities.

Best wishes,
Dan

jf comments on Try Pre-Paid Mobile Broadband for Occasional 3G Data Usage

jf — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 11:50:40 +0000

The MiFi is a mobile hot spot - it "just works" - with the proper setup.

If the tech support folks have helped you set it up properly, you should just select it from the Airport menu, enter the password and you're done.

Make sure that it's NOT plugged into USB when you do this. The USB drivers are not 64-bit (as you mentioned) and will not work and neither will the wifi - wifi is turned off when the device is plugged in via USB.

-jf.

Todd comments on Try Pre-Paid Mobile Broadband for Occasional 3G Data Usage

Todd — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 03:53:22 +0000

I don't know how you got the MiFi to work. I tried the USB stick first only to find out there were no 64-bit drivers. Virgin tech support told me the MiFi worked just fine, so I returned the USB MC760 and got a MiFi. Guess what? It didn't work and although I had told this different tech about five times I was using Lion, he informs me that "the MiFi is not compatible with 10.7." I asked why and he said "because it won't work." I asked why specifically it won't work. He said "Because it isn't compatible" and said to take it back and get a refund.

So, what did you do to make it work?

jf comments on QR Codes Provide Quick and Easy Access to Facebook Likes On-The-Go

jf — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 15:27:51 +0000

Hi, Paul.

Thanks.

Lately I've been using Kerem Erkin's QR code generator (http://keremerkan.net/qr-code-and-2d-code-generator). It works well and Kerem is a great developer. He also created the excellent QR Code Scanner for iPhone called Qrafter (http://itunes.apple.com/app/qrafter-qr-code-reader/id416098700).

What phone did you use? What OS? Which scanner software?

Regards,

-jf.

Yoshimi Digital comments on QR Codes Provide Quick and Easy Access to Facebook Likes On-The-Go

Yoshimi Digital — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 22:51:52 +0000

Great post,

Have recently got a QR reader for my iPhone and have been playing around with QR codes for promotion. What service are you using to create your code?

I know that some can offer codes that do a lot of things now -such as link to Youtube videos, iPhone apps, google maps etc so looks like their use is very broad.

P.S with my QR scanner both images came up with the same call to action: Send a text to 32655.