Entries from January 2008 ↓
January 29th, 2008 — Technology
If you’ve used a Mac and run OS X you’ve likely encountered a time when an open application window has mysteriously relocated itself on your screen so that you can’t see all of it and you can’t get to the top window bar to reposition it with your mouse pointer. Argh!
I had this happen today with an Adobe Air application today called twhirl. After 10 minutes on Google today looking in vain for a keyboard shortcut I went back to my old standby tech support method. I went exploring.
I was rewarded!
Here’s what to do.
Locate the Air application in your OS X doc. Right click, or control click that Air application icon in the dock to open a menu. There’s a menu item for ‘Reset Windows.” If you click that sucker the app window will promptly BEHAVE and appear in your top right window where you can do what you want with it. I spanked mine.
Do you know how to do this with other applications on OS X? I’d love to know.
[tags]Adobe Air, twhirl, os x, osx, Mac, move window, reposition window, move window without keyboard, move window when window is out of range, [/tags]
January 29th, 2008 — Photography, Politics, Social Media, Social Media Optimization
How’s this for social media and integrating offline and online media?
January 29th, 2008 — Commentary, Photography, Politics
I returned a little while ago from voting in the 2008 Florida Primary. This picture I snapped with my camera phone shows our touch screen voting system AND who I voted for. Obama.
January 29th, 2008 — Commentary, Politics, Video
Got back from voting in the Florida primary today and wanted to discuss my experiences and thoughts (run time around 6 minutes).
January 8th, 2008 — Noteworthy
If you’re a geek like me you know that it’s the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas right now and every morning while CES 2008 is running I’ll be cruising through all the news online looking for objets d’art for the Technophile. Today while reading a New York Times article on Comcast’s upcoming CES announcement I was taken aback in a really good way by a company that I’d least expect innovation from – the good ol’ cable company.
Long the bastion of horrid customer service, boring products, and technically poor image quality, the decrepid old U.S. Cable company Comcast has a new vision of cable T.V. that sounds pretty darn good. Even better, their online strategy is shockingly coherent. How? They’ve launched a free T.V. network online called Fancast that’s open to anyone, not just Comcast subscribers, where you can watch T.V. shows for free – on demand. We’re talking about some good T.V. content – not just old reruns. They’re also reaching out and integrating content from elsewhere on the web (like iTunes and Amazon), so it’s not the typical walled garden so popular with old media companies like Comcast.
They have some really interesting plans in store for the near future for both Fancast and their digital T.V. service.
I hate to admit it, but I’m happy for Comcast – and us.
[tags]Comcast, Fancast[/tags]
