Rich Tong's Tips, Tricks and Traps
Had a great conversation with Yohai, Micah, Rebecca and Tim over a Zoom cocktail party yesterday. The conversation rolled around to how does one talk about oneself and ones company in difficult times. While it’s tempting just to stop all marketing as no one is going to buy things. And organic traffic is way down…
OK, so I’ve completely wiped my MacBook Air, time to rebuild it. Here is a list of things that have to happen. Sure sounds Windows like doesn’t it 🙂 # Remote install Mac OS X. Sigh. This is going to take 4 hours over the air apparently # Try the “Time Capsule recovery”:http://www.askdavetaylor.com/how_to_restore_imac_macbook_from_time_capsule_machine_backup.html which comes…
I can’t believe the file formats changed again. You have to load a converter for a Mac at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953823
Wow, I can’t believe Microsoft would ship a product like this. Beware, Excel 2008 won’t recalc XIRR correctly and in fact any sheet that has an intentional reference where loan amounts have fees that are dependent. This has worked in versions of Excel for the last 20 years. So sad, it means that Excel 2008…
I’ve had terrible problems with both iCal and Entourage. With iCal, I first tried to use Google Calendar and then started deleting excessive calendars. Then, when I rebooted, I discovered that I couldn’t see any calendars and also that when I tried to add another calendar with New calendar, iCal just hung. First thing to…
Even when on vacation, you find computers everywhere. Someone asked me, “what do I do? when I try to start my computer, I get a boot drive not found”. “Microsoft”:http://support.microsoft.com/kb/321626 has a good discussion about what happens if you get Operating System Not Found or Missing operating system. The long and short of it is…
I jammed a superdrive back in April. Forgot about not leaving a DVD in there and now Microsoft Office 2008 is stuck in there and it won’t come out. I can actually hear the drive spinup and try to access and then stop. Once I even got the CD icon for a second. Looks to…
Hat tip to Bill on this one, a good source of overview information that shows the size of the internet advertising business. “Clickz”:http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3630011 which is mainly from Neilson Online (really “Netratings”:http://www.netratings.com/). Some tidbits: * Web Media (what ever that is?) is largest at 74B impressions per month* Financial services is the largest segment I understand…
This is a big deal for making Macs enterprise friendly. Can’t wait until next year! AppleInsider | Apple previews Mac OS X Snow Leopard with QuickTime X Mac OS X will include native support for Microsoft Exchange 2007 in OS X applications Mail, iCal and Address Book, making it even easier to integrate Macs into…
“Hitslink.com”:http://marketshare.hitslink.com/ has a cool site. Shows installed base market share for computer hitting sites on the internet. Kind of interesting, although not clear how scientific. Certainly better than counting all those computers that are door stops these days for “operating systems”:http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=8# | Operating System | Share | | Windows | 91% | | Mac |…