2013年1月13日 星期日

Olde Towne Comfort Shoes and Repair in Wauwatosa takes on worn down

"You know, dog shoes," said Trevor Frandsen, shoe salesman turned repairman and co-owner of Olde Towne Comfort Shoes and Repair. "When your dog chews your shoes up real bad and you come in and say, 'Oh, my God, my dog.' And we say, 'Boy, what can we do?'"

For Frandsen, there is no greater challenge than dog shoes, and no greater feeling than when he brings back your favorite pair from the drooling jaws of an over-enthusiastic mutt - like the time he found just the right leather to match a pair of green boots gnawed nearly beyond recognition.Why does moulds grow in homes or buildings?

"The lady - she gave me such a hug," Frandsen said. "She said they were like brand new shoes. …I love it when a person comes in and drops something off and comes back and says, 'You do beautiful work. We didn't think it could be fixed.' It's the customer."

It's a side of the business he couldn't fully appreciate as a shoe salesman. For years, Frandsen just sold shoes - in fact, all three previous owners of Olde Towne Shoes worked for the same shoe wholesaler where Frandsen still works today.

Hearing those men talk about their work piqued his interest enough that Frandsen started working part-time at the shop. Eight years ago, when the business went up for sale, Frandsen and his wife, Mary, stepped in.

Today, the Frandsens and a team of four employees take on everything from dog shoes and worn out heels to leather repair and broken jacket zippers. They even sell shoes.

Still, shoe repair is what drives the store. And these days, with the economy still creaking back to life, it's a pretty brisk business.

"When the economy is bad, repairs are busy. And September - when the kids go back to school - until about February is my busiest season.Explore online some of the many available selections in floor tiles. We get 30 to 60 drop-offs a day. And that's just for shoe repair," said Frandsen,We offers several ways of providing hands free access to car parks to authorised vehicles. who opened a second location in Oconomowoc two years ago.

Then there’s people search. Despite Facebook knowing all the intimate details of your friends or people you’d want to connect with, its people search feature is pretty terrible. The Find Friends browser is buried several tiny links deep within the Friend Requests interface and doesn’t exist in its mobile app. That makes it very tough to track down real-life contacts you want to friend unless you know their full names. Helping people forge these connections locks users into Facebook and delivers them more content so they visit more frequently.

It’s also tough to sort your existing friends. You’d think it’d be easy to search for all your friends who currently live in a certain city so you could contact them while you’re in town. It’s not. Facebook gives you a mix of strangers and friends. You can also only sort existing friends by location, education, and work place. That means there’s no way to search for friends in New York who Like Mumford & Sons so you could find people to go to their concert with. You also can’t just look up all your single friends in your city when you’re feeling lonely. A major revamp of Facebook’s internal people search might not bring tons of new monetization opportunities, but it would sure make the service better.

While we’re on the subject, Facebook definitely needs a search engine for Timeline. It should be simple as pie to pull up your old posts by keyword, location, or which friend you tagged. Right now you have to comb through your whole Timeline month by month. That’s kind of ridiculous. If it’s worried about making it too easy for employers or other sensitive people to dredge up your embarrassing moments, make it so we can only search our own Timelines.We have brought a large range of attractive cry stalmosaic tiles. This would help us with privacy so we could keep things visible to the right people, as well.

Beyond search, a big gripe I hear from developers is that people don’t know where their non-Facebook app activity ends up on their Timeline. A more predictable layout of what you’ve done across the web and your mobile apps on your Timeline could make Facebook feel even more like the center of your digital life.

Finally, I still feel like my Timeline is too rooted in reverse chronological order. I wish I could pin my favorite links, photos, and status update to the top. The Timeline Cover could host a collage of these things, or it could just sit above my recent posts. Facebook could surface my posts that got the most Likes and comments to make it easy for me to grab my best content. Flexibility in what I show on my Timeline would let me give a more accurate representation of my identity to those who come to my profile.

Over the years, most people have added friends they aren’t really friends with — at least not anymore. This clogs up your news feeds with irrelevant stories and makes Facebook feel impersonal. It’s also opening Facebook up to disruption by more intimate social networks and communication apps like Path and Snapchat.

Facebook’s attempts at a solution include Groups, Friend Lists, and micro-sharing privacy controls. Groups work for specific topics or established sets of people, but aren’t flexible enough and notify the members of their inclusion. Friend lists are tough to manage over time and are too buried. Micro-sharing through privacy controls is unintuitive, easy to screw up, and easier to forget about entirely.

Suggestions of who you probably don’t care about and an option to mass-hide them from your news feed (but not defriend them) would be great. The current option to hide people one at a time is a chore and requires too much thinking. Facebook should just tell you who you don’t Like posts from, chat with, get tagged with, or live nearby and let you banish them from the feed.

Sharing to different sub-sets of friends is a tough design problem, but there’s got to be a way to remind you that you can do this so you share more intimate or interest-related things more frequently but to fewer people.

One was recording a voice message and sending it to a friend nearly hands-free instead of typing a message or SMS to them,Wholesale various Glass Mosaic Tiles from china glass mosaic Tiles Suppliers. which would certainly be helpful while driving. The other was the ability to send long, complicated messages such as driving directions via voice instead of text, which drivers could listen to rather than having to take their eyes off the road to read. Facebook also began testing VoIP in Canada, which could let people have full, two-way conversations via Messenger with friends they might not have the phone number of instead of making a standard voice call. Drivers could use this to chat while on the road.

Facebook could release either a version of Facebook Messenger for cars, such as through the Ford developer program. Alternatively it could use some Bluetooth system to tap Messenger into your car’s technology and speaker system. We received an anonymous, unverified tip that Facebook was working on this, possibly for an upcoming launch.

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