I described the problem I experienced in finding a place to upload a large AVI file in this post the other day. This morning I’ve discovered another alternative. My web hosting company, Dreamhost, has a converter that you can use to convert an AVI file to an FLV file which can then be embedded into [...]
This morning I visited with my friend Tucker Childers at the hospital where he had to go this past Thursday because he had pneumonia. While there, I shot a video message from him to share with some of his concerned friends online. Using my Canon Powershot S2 IS, I shot 57 seconds in an AVI [...]
This post will probably be temporary because I am making it only to test whether I can activate the lightbox component of this template. If successful, clicking on the graphic below should use the lightbox javascript to display an enlarged version of the image “above” the post with the web page still in the background. [...]
The simple act of forming a question in order to ask it sometimes reveals the answer. And that is a meaning of Jesus’ saying, “Ask, and Ye shall receive,” that I had never thought about before. Here’s what led to that insight. This morning I wrote my friend Daryl Houston to ask for his help [...]
On Monday, I spent a bit of time helping a couple of friends with their computer issues. Tom, who is a friend here in Knoxville, called me over the weekend somewhat distraught because his monitor was showing the desktop in a sickeningly green color. I decided to take over the Samsung monitor I had removed [...]
Life should be as simple as possible, I think. That’s why I love the keyword feature in Firefox. URLs are often extremely long and nearly impossible to remember, particularly as you grow older and your memory isn’t what it used to be. Fortunately, there is a way to simplify navigating to websites that you visit [...]
A few days ago, I talked about Face Recognition that was available from this site. On that same date, I downloaded their free genealogy software, called Family Tree Builder (FTB). And in subsequent days I’ve gone through their 56-page tutorial, an optional but useful exercise that helped me understand the software and maybe avoid some [...]
The title of this post is from the lyrics of a hymn, but it describes how I spent almost all of yesterday and most of the evening before. My son Mike is limping along with an older HP laptop onto which he downloads the pictures he has taken with his snazzy, new 10.1 megapixel Canon [...]
I had a priceless opportunity when I was growing up to become a greasemonkey. My dad, Willie Nelson (yes, boys and girls, I am Willie Nelson’s son), owned a used car lot, the Decatur Auto Exchange, during my pre-teen and early teenage years. There were always plenty of cars in need of all kinds of [...]
Adam Pash, the person who writes Lifehacker’s excellent tips section, has just posted “Seven New Year’s Resolutions for your PC” that I think contains some terrific advice. It is written with both the Mac and the Windows PC in mind, and he adds that “most of the required software is freeware, so all you need [...]