Very smart idea from Charlene Li for all those school sign-up sheets we get bombarding our home:
Over the past 6 months I’ve worked on a project with Disney to equip the Disney NetPal with software that makes it kid-safe and parent-friendly.
Today I got a massive box via Fedex, with this inside:
It’s Disney merchandise – they know I have kids – including MP3 players, cameras, Club Penguin plushies, playing cards, camera cases … you name it … from Jonas Brothers and other tween-friendly names that I’m not sure I’m familiar with, but probably will be soon. My wife checked it out and it’s no less than $350 USD worth on Amazon.com.
Very cool – thank you Disney … especially Jieun and Ryan!
Birds on the Wires from Jarbas Agnelli on Vimeo.
Everywhere everyone complains about information overload. Forget the 1000-channel universe – we’re dealing with the million-channel universe … times 10.
There’s too much news, too many new technologies, too much information, too many tweets, too many great blog posts, too many ads, too much of everything. As we’ve been saying for years, it’s an attention economy and the scarcity is in our heads.
Here’s how I deal with information overload – mostly influenced by Dave Winer, who invented the “river of news” concept, in addition to a bunch of other interesting and ubiquitous stuff like RSS.
The stream is there. The stream is flowing. I can’t stop right river, and I can’t stop the water. Building a dam is just a temporary solution, as eventually, after backing up, the water will start flowing again, either over my dam or around it.
So …
And when I don’t have time, I don’t. When I don’t feel like it, I don’t. When I’m too busy, I don’t. And don’t stress about it either.
There’s a simple realization inherent in this: there’s just too much to keep up. Maybe there always has been, in spite of a perception that “all the news that’s fit to print” was in the dead tree thing that appeared on your doorstep in the afternoon. So there’s no point trying. In fact, if something is important enough … it will find you.
Adopting this attitude is a wonderful stress reliever if you are the type (seemingly more common in older generations) that feels a need to keep up with everything.
It certainly has been for me.
I just bought the tickets and confirmed: I’m heading to Japan in October.
So far, I know 3 things:
The question is: what else should I do?
Should I try to visit Mount Fuji? How far is it from Tokyo … and how much time would it take to climb? Should I spent all my time in Tokyo – in a city of 12 million or more there’s got to be plenty to do. Questions, questions, questions!
I’ll be researching this in the next week or so – any suggestions would be much appreciated!
The new version of QuickTime included with Snow Leopard (called QuickTime Player X) is almost a complete overhaul of the previous version, from the look and feel of the application windows right down to the preferences menu (or lack thereof). If you were looking to change some options but don’t know where to start, our Preference Pane can help you enable or disable many of QuickTime’s features. It is currently in it’s initial release (version 1.0) with an update coming soon to fix the only known bug. For more information on version 1.0, please read the release notes, which is also included in the Preference Pane bundle. You can see a screen shot of the application running below, and when you are ready, download it here.
I have the following problems: 1.Deleted mail keeps re-appearing:
The mail that keeps reappearing is Apple Hot News
1. I delete from the Inbox
2. Delete Trash
3. Rebuild all M’boxes 2. My notes now also appear in my inbox.
Deleting the notes in the inbox also deletes them form the notes side-panel. Problem 1 now fixed by continually rebuilding the mailboxes (took about a dozen rebuilds). Problem 2 is really annoying – anyone else having this issue??? Fixed problem 2:
Go to Mail Preferences>Accounts>Mailbox Behaviours>Notes you can untick
the box for “Show notes in Inbox”.
Your notes will then appear only under the Reminders heading below all
your Mailbox folders, where they belong. Make sure you do this for every mailbox and make sure you save this option. My notes are now where they belong in the notes section only.
I had the second problem as well … this is the solution.
I have the following problems: 1.Deleted mail keeps re-appearing:
The mail that keeps reappearing is Apple Hot News
1. I delete from the Inbox
2. Delete Trash
3. Rebuild all M’boxes 2. My notes now also appear in my inbox.
Deleting the notes in the inbox also deletes them form the notes side-panel. Problem 1 now fixed by continually rebuilding the mailboxes (took about a dozen rebuilds). Problem 2 is really annoying – anyone else having this issue??? Fixed problem 2:
Go to Mail Preferences>Accounts>Mailbox Behaviours>Notes you can untick
the box for “Show notes in Inbox”.
Your notes will then appear only under the Reminders heading below all
your Mailbox folders, where they belong. Make sure you do this for every mailbox and make sure you save this option. My notes are now where they belong in the notes section only.
I had the second problem as well … this is the solution.
I seldom watch online help videos because it takes so much more time than reading … but this is a very well done and concise overview of some new hidden features in Snow Leopard.
By “Sandman68″ at MacRumors I know I am late responding and I am not sure if you have your answer yet, but here it goes.
iMovie stores data in two folders: iMovie Events and iMovie Projects. The iMovie events folder is larger of the two and contains the thumbnails and video.
You can move the files to an external hard drive, but you can’t do it using Finder as you have realized. You need to do it from iMovie.
1. Open iMovie
2. Change the view in the Events window to View Events by Volume. You can do this by clicking the Volume icon to the right of Event Library or by right-clicking in the Event Library and selecting it.
3. Open the volume where your events are stored. Select it and drag it to the volume you want to store it in. This puts the event at the root of the volume in an iMovie Events folder. I have not tried to move it from the root. You also have to move each event one at a time instead of all on the same volume to the new volume.
This would store your events to the external drive. The iMovie Projects folder which is relatively small would remain on your internal hard drive at ~/<home>/Movies/iMovie Projects
By “Sandman68″ at MacRumors I know I am late responding and I am not sure if you have your answer yet, but here it goes.
iMovie stores data in two folders: iMovie Events and iMovie Projects. The iMovie events folder is larger of the two and contains the thumbnails and video.
You can move the files to an external hard drive, but you can’t do it using Finder as you have realized. You need to do it from iMovie.
1. Open iMovie
2. Change the view in the Events window to View Events by Volume. You can do this by clicking the Volume icon to the right of Event Library or by right-clicking in the Event Library and selecting it.
3. Open the volume where your events are stored. Select it and drag it to the volume you want to store it in. This puts the event at the root of the volume in an iMovie Events folder. I have not tried to move it from the root. You also have to move each event one at a time instead of all on the same volume to the new volume.
This would store your events to the external drive. The iMovie Projects folder which is relatively small would remain on your internal hard drive at ~/<home>/Movies/iMovie Projects
I know I’ve posted on this before … but Wordpress automatic upgrade is an absolute godsend.
Those of us who have been blogging for years will remember the 30 to 45 minutes that a Wordpress upgrade used to take … manually backing up the database, manually backing up the file structure, downloading the new ZIP file, unpacking, uploading via FTP, then upgrading the database structure … and hoping it all worked and you did everything right and nothing was broken.
Now … you click a button and it happens. The magic of technology!
Makes me think of the prototypical when-I-was-young-we-walked-10-miles-to-school-in-the-snow-uphill-both-ways stories.
In this case, we really did, you know.
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