For a moment, completely disconnected from anything else, I'd like to express my appreciation for the spicy minds, and generous spirits among the Buffistas.
And, while I'm at it, I might as well add that despite the occasional frustrations and confusions I experience with technology, I'm damn glad to have it.
Coming from a generation that knew not where we would go beyond mimeograph machines and Pong, I am thrilled by the convenience and sheer magic that is technology.
I've been dragging my feet trying to recreate a particular document...just because I really liked the original and doubted I could pull it out of my mind in as good shape. And I was dumb enough to give the last hard copy to a client because, "I'll always have it on the eMac."
Then, I recalled that I probably emailed it to someone over the last 4 years...so I searched my online, all in one communications client and found it as an attachment. For some reason, it had been translated in to a .dat file, unreadable by Word. Opened it up in text edit and then transfered the text back into Word with most of the formatting intact.
A process that took 5 minutes, versus the not getting it done at all I was stuck in.
All hail technology!
For some reason, it had been translated in to a .dat file, unreadable by Word. Opened it up in text edit and then transfered the text back into Word with most of the formatting intact.
Did you try simply changing the file name extension from .dat to .doc? You might have gotten all the formatting and saved a few more minutes!
Never occurred to me that I could do that!!
Filed for future reference. Thanks!
A friend is going to be in Japan for nine months. Anyone want to contribute suggestions for cool tech he could get while he was there that is either cheaper than here, or not available here?
He is not super technically savvy, but as a professor does have use for media capabilities, and does enjoy playing with leading edge stuff. Also he has twenty something daughters who might enjoy stuff he could get there. Daughters also not super techie, but more comfortable with some thing. Like father not phobic, and willing to struggle to master stuff.
All suggestions welcome. Please specify if for him, daughters, or both.
Thanks
iPhone and iTouch users. A very cool new website for us all. Could be very useful when reading/posting in b.org. A wacked out way to copy/paste. Only works in browser. It's more of "copy/paste/paste", but it works!. Here is the link to the newstory and the link to the website
I just took apart my MacBook Pro and replaced the fan without looking at any instructions first. I am both stupid and proud.
SHIT! I was working on a school paper in Word (for Mac, in OSX) and Word crashed! I lost shit! HELP!!! Temp files anywhere????
sometimes when you reopen word it asks if you want to work on the document you were last working on...
that's all I got.
It didn't :(
ETA: I was able to get it back! I looked in the Finder and there was a label for "Today." It had an AutoRecovery version of the file. Thank God!
DH and I are having a Google Chat problem - we're both logged in, but neither of us is showing up on the other one's contact list. What gives?
