Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Streaming video to PowerPoint

I have a bunch of screenshots of lecture slides from a streaming video, and I wanted to put it into a .ppt to annotate myself with notes so they correlate better. Also it helps to run through it fast before the exam. I used Lightscreen to take quick screenshots that automatically save with a keyboard shortcut, and used a built in new PowerPoint image album feature explained here:


Together these gave me exactly what I wanted. Quite serendipitous.

Saturday, April 16, 2011

iPhone GeoTagging

The GeoTagging on the iPhone is really amazing. I was just at a conference and I can tell room by room where I took various photos, and without remembering the name of a restaurant, I can find where it was by the pics I took there. Stunning. 

Sunday, April 3, 2011

Rancilio Silvia Overheat

So yesterday, I did something stupid and left the apartment with my Silvia on. Not only was it on (which I've done before) but I left the steam switch on, which meant that the boiler was full of steam and prone to overheating. Luckily this guy saved me and explained exactly how to fix it, but the only reason I saw it was because he described it as the "Silvia won't heat problem". Perfect. Exactly my search query.

Sunday, March 20, 2011

How to Get Free Wifi

I'm writing this from outside a Best Western in San Mateo, since I'm
waiting for a flight to land at SFO that has been delayed a bit. I
wanted to have Internet connection, and I just got to 90% of my data
cap this morning so I turned off data on my iPhone 4. I parked outside
the hotel, and the connection was unsecured. I connected but arrived
at a splash screen that required a password provided by the front
desk. I was too lazy to go out in the rain to talk to them. I texted
google (466453) to get the front desk number, called, got the
password, and voila! Not that impressive, but it was fun and easy to
use this combination to get what I needed.

Monday, February 14, 2011

Fix Push Notifications on iPhone following Jailbreak

So supposedly during the activation process on an iPhone when using iTunes, it certifies something that allows you to get Push notifications from Apple servers. This can go awry in "hacktivated" phones, but it also went wrong with my iPhone 4 when using AT&T, 4.2.1 legit and subsequently greenpois0n jailbroken. Anyway, PushDoctor fixed it nice and easy

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Point of confusion

Why is the power button for the iPod touch on the opposite side as
the. iPhones?? Is this worth an email to Steve?

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