This issue came up for me when I purchased an Apple Bluetooth keyboard. The reason I splurged on the $70 device was because I needed a keyboard for my aging Macbook (the spacebar had become unstable), and I wanted a keyboard for my iPad.
When I got the keyboard home, [...] Continue Reading…
How to Play Pirate’s Dice
While in Germany we were introduced to this simple pub game. They call it Mäxchen, which I think is just their pronunciation of Mexican… but the game is really called Pirate’s Dice.
Mäxchen is the art of being deceived and detecting deception with dice. Best to be played with four [...] Continue Reading…
If you’ve ever added the Gallery to one of your WordPress Posts, you might have had the frustration of keeping the other images in that same Post from appearing in the Gallery. This can come up if your WordPress theme supports Featured Images. It can also come up when [...] Continue Reading…
How To Make A Paper Boat
Here is some good clean fun for your inner Napoleon.
How to make a paper boat. (scroll down for step-by-step photos).
What’s so great about making boats out of paper?
No…it’s not that they look cool when you set them on fire –its that they require no cutting, glue, scissors or tearing. [...] Continue Reading…
So you need a website and you don’t have a bunch of money to sink into it. On top of that you are just about as technical as my mom. What to do? How do you get a website without it sucking? Well pony up cowpoke. Here is how [...] Continue Reading…
Locate Your iPhone or iPad for FREE
Using Apple’s MobileMe to locate your iphone or ipad is now free. Has been for some time. If you have an iPhone 4, iPad, or 4th generation iPod touch (iOS 4.2 required), then what are you waiting for?
If you’re afraid of black helicopters appearing over your house, or you [...] Continue Reading…
Metadata is a Beautiful Thing
I’m sitting here listening to an Underworld song. I just spent 5 minutes scanning my iTunes for something that fits my mood. I spent another 3 minutes flipping through my Pandora. Nothing I land on seems to be working.
I’m in one of THOSE moods where only the right balance of [...] Continue Reading…
Throughout 2008 and most of 2010 I was engaged in producing dozens of online videos. These videos were not always posted to websites through Youtube, which simplifies matters greatly–and is FREE. Sometimes, for reasons of control, it was necessary for us to use 3rd party players.
After much trial and [...] Continue Reading…
Fellow Facebookers take heed. What would happen if your entire Facebook profile including friends, posts, links, messages, photos and videos vanished tomorrow? What if you logged into Facebook only to find your account had been deactivated, or worse…deleted!?
If you’re one of the millions of people who have already found [...] Continue Reading…
Ditching Delicious for Pinboard
I was a Delicious addict until my Firefox got so junked up with plugins that I gave them all up for the speed of Safari. When I defected to Safari I lost my toolbar access to Delicious. That sucked ass. Delicious was an integral part of my day. Now [...] Continue Reading…
