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Licensing Notice: followup email

Hi Steve,

Thank you for writing. I can appreciate your frustration, and please trust that we, in no way, intended to offend you with the email you received. We simply wanted to get customers' attention so we can work with them to resolve their licensing issues in the short and long term.

Am I correct in assuming that you have been attempting to log in to groove.net with email address: (deleted)? If so, it makes sense that you would not see My Software. We contacted you about your web account associated with email address:(deleted). It appears you have duplicate user accounts utilizing your license. See attached.

You should have never had to purchase a new license because your PC crashed. Licenses are transferrable - it's just that reinstallations are required, and often times, new account creations, depending on whether or not the account was backed up to another PC. I would be happy to provide a refund for one of those licenses, if you wouldn't mind providing the order #, or perhaps another email address/web account under which it was purchased.

Kelly Ford

Director, Product Marketing

Groove Networks

posted Wednesday, October 06, 2004 10:51 PM by sdhebert

Licensing notice

Dear Groove user:

Groove Networks has embarked on an initiative to ensure customer compliance with its license agreements. Our hope is to uncover the factors contributing to Groove software license over usage, including the complexity and inefficiency of our existing system, so that we can improve your license management experience.

Our records indicate that you have exceeded legal use of your Groove software license(s). Over usage simply means that you are using more Groove licenses than you have paid for. In the majority of cases, weve found this to be the result of reinstallation of the software, or misuse of our "multiple computers" feature.

You can verify over usage by logging into your Web account, (this is the web account associated with the email address at which you received this message), clicking on "My Software" and referencing the Active User count associated with each product listed. For example, a 15 of 10 Active User count indicates entitlement to ten licenses, 15 issued, and therefore, five licenses in illegal use. License over usage represents breach of the Groove End User License Agreement accepted upon your and/or your users' installation of the product.

To resolve this, you should revoke the licenses most recently activated that exceed your legal limit. Users will not lose data upon license revocation; however, they will revert to Groove Trial limitations until they enter a new license activation key. To obtain a new license activation key, you can purchase new licenses through your Groove Sales rep or at our Website.

If you believe you received this notice in error, please contact us right away at via email at licensing@groove.net. If the illegal licenses are not revoked promptly, Groove Networks will revoke them within 14 days.

Thank you for your cooperation and attention to this matter. We welcome your questions and feedback at licensing@groove.net.

Regards,


Groove Networks

posted Wednesday, October 06, 2004 4:19 PM by sdhebert

New appliance plan

Stove - 5 burner, dual fuel, warming thing for bread, sealed gas burners  - model #79913

Dishwasher - stainless steel exterior and interior with antibacterial wash cycle - model #17463

Water Softener - upgrade to 40,000 grain capacity - model #38828

Microwave - tbd

Refrigerator - 25.5 cu ft., 55603

 

posted Tuesday, August 24, 2004 9:42 AM by sdhebert

House Features

 

Alloc wood laminate flooring (more durable/expensive than Pergo) in the kitchen and dining room

Reverse Osmosis Water filtration unit

Gas furnace

Gas water heater

Gas stove

Air conditioner

New dishwasher with anti-bacterial cycle

New over-range microwave

New carpeting upstairs

Newly painted upstairs

Fancy mailbox

Cherry stained oak woodwork and cabinets

Cable and satellite wiring runs throughout the house

Satellite dish

 

 

 

 

 

posted Wednesday, July 28, 2004 11:16 PM by sdhebert

Downloading Images to my Motorola/Nextel i730 & i95cl Phones

While I don't have an i95cl phone, an owner of that phone reported that these steps worked identically for him. I personally have an i730 phone myself.

This process turned out to be more cumbersome than I thought. I purchased a USB data cable, and no documentation was included.  Given that (1) Nextel provides sounds and wallpapers for a price at their site and (2) the support costs of having people create their own wallpapers (along with all the potential errors), they probably aren't crazy about promoting it.

First, I found the USB driver at the Motorola site here.  I found this page by doing a google search on “iDEN Update Software Application”.  It's easiest if you install the driver before plugging in the cable/phone.  Upon completion, you can connect the phone to your computer.

Next, I found I needed an app that would download content without Motorola/Nextel. After some searching, I found an app called myJal that can be downloaded here. I did a search on “myJal” at google to come across the link. This link had some other useful information as well. The program comes with a 7 day free trial period and has a one-time $9.99 purchase fee as of this writing.  (There was another product called “webJal“ that required purchase, no free trial and had to be renewed yearly - I ignored that product.)

Finally, I created the pictures at the recommended 120 horizontal by 126 vertical pixel resolution and saved them as a gif.  Everything seemed to be fine, but the images would not appear on the wallpaper list once downloaded to the phone.  I checked out a number of sites, and people generally preferred the IRFanView product for resizing and saving the gif files. This is a freeware product that does a nice job with resizing and maintaining image quality.  I found that I still had a problem until I turned off saving the original picture comment information.  (It turns out that most digital cameras store information in the picture comment fields - and these comments will prevent pictures from loading on the phone.)  I removed the comments by using the option box provided by IRFanView when saving a gif image.  Just make certain all boxes are unchecked, the image size is below 16kb, dimensions are 120x126 and you're set. 

Once I had the picture, I used myJal to send the wallpaper gif file I created to the cell phone.  Then, using the phone's buttons I went to [Menu]/Settings/DisplayInfo/Wallpaper and my picture was on the list and viewable.

Based on reading other sites and posts on the subject, I believe the picture comment information causes the most hangups for people who have all the software loaded and everything else seems to be working correctly. 

posted Tuesday, June 29, 2004 8:55 AM by sdhebert




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