Category Archives: help neededI’ve been using the document-sharing service Scribd to embed documents in posts for various projects. but sometimes the “fullscreen” feature doesn’t work with the embedded document. I’m trying to troubleshoot this. So as a test I’m embedded a Scribd document here, to see if fullscreen works:
1 5 2010 Concurrent Meeting of the Oakland Redevelopment [...]
As I mentioned in my previous post, today I’m liveblogging and tweeting a daylong Las Vegas event by Metzger Associates: Social Media for Executives. It’s a small event for a select group of executives representing several types of companies.
I’m doing this as a pilot test for a new professional service I’d like to start offering: [...]
While I’m here on my 3rd Apple Store visit in as many days to try to recover from a disaster triggered by my attempt to upgrade my Mac to the Snow Leopard OS X, here are some tips that might save other Mac users similar pain and frustration.
1. Back up your entire machine onto TWO [...]
I’m sitting in the Apple Store at 5656 Bay St., Emeryville, CA. It’s the third time I’ve been here in as many days, thanks to a series of unfortunate events spawned by my misguided effort to upgrade my Macbook Pro to the latest OS X, Snow Leopard.
I’ve been here about 3 hours so [...]
It’s the third day since I lost the use of my only computer, a Macbook pro, and I’m about to head off to the Bay St. Apple Store in Emeryville, CA for the third time to try to get it working again.
Please see my post yesterday explaining how a failed update to the much-heralded [...]
NOTE: So far I’ve had 3 visits to Apple Store to attempt repairs. SEE NEXT UPDATE.
I’ve used Macs for many years, and I’ve been lucky: never had a hard drive crash, or a problem installing a software update.
Until yesterday
I purchased the $29 Snow Leopard update, and tried installing it yesterday.
Midway through the installation, [...]
Image by l0ckergn0me via Flickr
Without going into details, I’ve been handling a lot of major personal stuff lately — and I’ve been fortunate to have a strong and growing circle of close friends who have stepped up to offer me a steady supply of energy, support, perspective, honesty, sympathy, empathy, nurturing, and fun.
And I do [...]
Image by niallkennedy via Flickr
This week I’m headed to the Bay Area for an extended visit. I have lots of friends there and there are plenty of cool things to do there. I’ve started mapping all this stuff on a private Google Map — where I’ll be staying, nearby public transit stops, gyms, massage clinics, [...]
For a long time, I’ve been using the Delicious daily blog post feature to syndicate to this site the interesting stuff I’m saving and sharing via the popular social bookmarking service Delicious.
Since the recent Delicious upgrade, that service has had some issues.
First, that daily blog post stopped working for me entirely until I looked through [...]
My Twitter posse is always there for me. Today they offered fast, good ideas for E-Media Tidbits.
Like a lot of people, I’m an avid user of Twitter. But I don’t do so aimlessly. Twitter is worth my time because every day it offers me clear rewards:
Posse power. The 700+ Twitter followers I’ve accumulated have proved [...]
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