Because the internet needed another blog
A little while ago, I had the following conversation over dinner:
Michael, speaking with the same enthusiasm with which he is chewing his dinner (which is a lot, considering it is delicious):
“So I’m trying to decide. Should I write about how to scan on the mac, or something different?”
Everybody at dinner:
“BoooorrriiiiZzzzzz.”
So it’s possible, I suppose, that ‘how to scan on the Mac’ isn’t the most riveting of subjects. But I actually get that question a lot, and here’s why.
You know one of the best advancements in modern computing? I shall tell you: autofill. Long ago, in ages past, a world existed where every time you had to input information into a field, you had to type in the entire thing manually. The fact that you might have to type in the same thing … Read more
From time to time, I get an emailf rom clients on the road about a specific problem. I’ll paraphrase:
When I left my house, my perfectly well-behaved Mac went completely mental and pops up gibbeirsh sounding messages what seems like ever two seconds. These messages are always saying the same thing, something about ‘A PPPoE server cannot be found TECH BLAH BLAH BLAH’
One of the most important questions of our time is this: how are we, as a species, going to cope with the technology we create?
There is an article on the Wall Street Journal website that wrestles with some of the ramifications of that question. It’s titled ‘Are Smart Gadgets Making Us Dumb?’ and it’s dumb.
Special Guest! Len Sawyer with Mat Su Central School will talk about his storied career with IT in Alaska, and current distance learning awesomeness. We’ll also be covering topics such as: Anon vs Westboro baptist church, Google Maps App now on iPhone – again, and computers that smell you – as predicted by IBM. Not … Read more
This is fascinating enough that I have to mention it. We’re all familiar (most of us, anyway), with the LoL cats internet meme. The bane of Facebook pages today, there are actually some legitimately funny entries. But there have been pictures of cats with funny quotes for as long as there have been cat fans, … Read more
With apologies to Richard Murphy.
Extra special note: I am not a photographer. I do not take good photos. But I like taking photos, and as such that places me squarely in the demographic of most other iOS users out there. I wrote this after showing these examples to a number of clients who had this question – to very positive reaction, so I figured I’d save myself the time and just write it up. If the advice here gives you, a professional photographer of fame and talent,an ulcer, I sincerely apologize. Please make sure to write something angry about it and link to this blog, so that I can finally become famous via outrage, the current path to fame du jour. Thank you!
HDR, I’ve found, is a mystery to many people who have an iPhone. The most common emotion seems to be that it makes your built in camera take worse photos slower, which hardly seems like a winning proposition.
Q: How do I have my printer remember my last settings?
Has this happened to you? You pull up your beautifully crafted document, go to the ‘File’ menu and choose ‘Print’. In the helpful little dialogue box that comes up, you realize that, no, you don’t want to print all 80 pages in glorious full color, and in fact, while you might not consider yourself a tree hugger per se, you wouldn’t consider yourself a tree-sucker-puncher either, so you would like to print two-sided. You click around on some menus, fiddle with some buttons and voila! The document prints the way you would like it to. Feeling well pleased with yourself, and rightfully so, you wander away from your trusty Macintosh to save the world/defeat an army/bring about world peace/go to the bathroom.
Yes, they make a Mac now that implants in your eyeball.
I HAVE A GIANT WORD/PDF DOCUMENT HELP ME WHAT DO I DO.
Panic not. First, I must congratulate you that you’ve noticed. Unless your document is so monstrous that you noticed its size because your computer started yelling at you, I’m glad you are being a conscientious citizen and not emailing 15mb files left and right, willy nilly. This is bad etiquette, poor form, not done.
On the other hand, you might want to get that file to someone, so what’s a good etiquette, fine form displaying individual to do?