Believe it or not, I came up with this one all by myself!
Nearly all Mac users, notorious for storing and transporting files using thumb drives are, at some point, interrupted by corrupt files. The problem is, that once files on your thumb drive start corrupting, the only way around it is to reformat the drive. If this happens to you, make a set of backups and follow these steps:
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Really, they don’t. This blog posting is a hi-five salute to our HR Guy, Thom, who taught me how to make coffee this morning! Cheers to you and the delicious coffee we all enjoy so much.
Generally speaking, whenever I make coffee it has two distinct attributes 1) weak and 2) burned. Nobody likes that. On any given Saturday morning, you can come to my house and find me making breakfast for five while burning the weak coffee. Pancakes, coffee cakes, french toast, waffles, even gourmet muffins are areas where I’ve got demonstrated skill (almost mastery). It’s almost always a feast of epic proportions, and guests are more than welcome… But, while the food can be described as tasty and fresh, the coffee is — unfailingly — a disaster. Normally, the whole pot gets remade. I’m still learning.
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So, this quarter I’m writing an article about VoIP phone systems for our newsletter — which goes out to almost 7,500 business people that DE has come to know at some point during the past several years. In general, people who are either “in the know” or really want to be. And so, they read our newsletter for information.
…none other than Bruce F. McCully, Founder of Dynamic Edge, Inc. Just remember, you heard it here first, folks!
If you’re one of those people who struggles with conversions — think: metric, liquid, monetary or other — who just cringes when people say they ran a 5K, this tip is for you. Yes, Google does have feelings… and it cares about its users who are incrementally challenged.
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Super-Technology.
Physics at its finest.
One of the biggest, most expensive science experiments of all time.
“Building a contraption like the LHC to find the Higgs is a bit like embarking on a career as a stand-up comic with the hope that at some point in your career you’ll happen to blurt out a joke that’s not only side-splittingly funny but also a palindrome.”
I heard about the LHC in the office for the first time this week. Yes, it’s true — I live in a black hole. Since Comcast is unwilling to supply cable to my house because it is one mile outside of their jurisdiction; and I simply loathe the idea of affixing a plastic bowl-on-a-pedestal to the roof of my house, I do not currently subscribe to television programming.
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Well, since I’m not the world’s foremost expert on anything computer — or specifically, web — related, I’ve decided I’ll write a layman’s terms review of the newest Google exploit, the Web Browser.
Yes, folks, they’ve done it again. In their latest and greatest attempt at total web domination, Google has reached a new level of triumph… providing a cleaner, simpler, redeveloped transport vehicle for my favorite media mechanism: the internets. What does this mean to you and me? Well, that’s up to you at least partially. I can only tell you what it means to me: not much.
The Chrome browser means that I’ll have to preview this posting in 3 web browsers before it goes live to make sure the pictures look right, and that there are no html tags hanging out. It means that DE’s home page and all of its subsidiaries will need to have some plugins (or something???) updated so that our flash images show up. It means that if I try to log in to hotmail, I’ll be prompted to update my browser even though I just did…
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