A collection of interesting items I found in my daily reading.
- Springpad Takes on Evernote with Semantic Technology, Barcode Scanner – March 9, 2010
- EVENT – LA Heritage Day – March 9, 2010
- Smart auto-sorting bolt/screw/nut box – March 8, 2010
- Easy Cheesey – March 6, 2010
- It’s the big one: The mega-map of over 80 of the best mind mapping resources – March 5, 2010
- Get Gigabytes of Free, Legitimate Music from SXSW 2010 [Dealhacker] – March 6, 2010
- 6 Critical WordPress Plugins You Should Have Installed – March 5, 2010
- Google Wave Adds Email Notifications [Notifications] – March 4, 2010
- Bourbon Ball Martini – March 4, 2010
- Stop What You Are Doing & Install This Plug-In: Rapportive – March 4, 2010
- Burning Questions: Can I Buy at a Restaurant Supply Store If I'm Not a Chef? Part Three – March 3, 2010
- I am quoted in this blog series today…
- Burning Questions: Can I Buy at a Restaurant Supply Store If I’m Not a Chef? Part Three – March 3, 2010
- Tiny Cordless LED Light – Cool cordless photography light – March 2, 2010
Co-hosts Tracy Pattin and Danielle Gruen talk flip cam and shooting videos with New Media and IT guru, Douglas E. Welch of New Media Interchange. Doug joins New Media Tea Time and yes, via Skype! We are so delighted to have our “go-to-geek” guest starring once again.
My past experiences with unconferences like BarCampLA, PodCampAZ and my own CareerCampLA started me thinking about some sort of gardening/nature/outdoors unconfererence here in the Los Angeles area (or elsewhere). I am totally sold on the concept of unconferences and their ability to facilitate sharing the knowledge we all have with each other and the world.
For a gardening unconference, I could see presentations by attendees on their own special and specific interests like roses, vegetables, sub-irrigated planters, and a host of other topics. For a nature or outdoor conference, I would be interested in bringing in interested individuals as well as groups dedicated to endangered species, habitat preservation, hiking and more.
Any interest in an unconference like this here in the Los Angeles area? Leave your questions and comments on this blog post using the Comments like above or below this post.
I am always up for some fun science and this video is a great find from BoingBoing.net.
I wish there was a little more science talk about the chemical reactions taking place in the video. She gives all the ingredients ( Sodium Hydroxide (NaOH), Glucose (C6H12O6) and water (H20) ) and the change between yellow and red seems to have a direct relation to the amount of oxygen in the solution, shown by the color change when pouring or introducing oxygen.
I guess one use of this chemical reaction could be an oxygen level indicator, but for now it is also just plain cool. (LAUGH)
Please be aware that I am moving away from Feedburner over the next couple of weeks for all of my blogs and podcasts.
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Since being purchased by Google, Feedburner has had regular, on-going issues with their service and little to no recourse for support when things so wrong. Moving to a locally controlled feed gives me much more control over the feed. I am using Blubrry Powerpress as the Wordpress plugin to provide this new local feed.
Through a series of re-directs, I hope to migrate nearly all of my current subscribers over to this new local feed.
That said, if you don’t see updates from My Word with Douglas E. Welch over the next week or so, please resubscribe to the new feeds manually.
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Much like a professor at a university will have set office hours for their students, I have been offering up ad hoc meetings at the Corner Bakery in Encino for people to drop by, chat and ask questions and about New Media like blogging, podcasting, video sharing and streaming and more.
My schedule changes each semester due to my spouse’s changing schedule, so I don’t have a hard and fast time for them, but Wednesdays at 1pm seems to be a good time.
If you would like to come and talk about New Media, drop me a line via Twitter or email to let me know you are coming. Follow my Twitter feed at @douglaswelch, to get notices of upcoming meetups.
I am quoted today in this blog post from “Behind the Knife”…
Burning Questions: Can I Buy at a Restaurant Supply Store If I’m Not a Chef? Part Three
from Behind the Knife by Lisa Rogak
And more great ideas:
… Next, Douglas Welch of Los Angeles is a home cook who regularly shops at his local restaurant supply store for everything from cardboard cake rounds to share his baked goods with friends to restaurant-quality knives and large stockpots for making 20 quarts of chili for his annual Christmas party.
“My best advice is to buy in the mid-range of price,” he says. “Most home cooks can make great advantage of restaurant supply items without paying the premium that a restaurant chef might pay. Avoid flashy gadgets both big and small. Not everyone needs a ice cream freezer capable of making 4 quarts at a time. Finally, look for those things — like cake rounds and parchment paper squares — that make life in the kitchen just a little bit easier.”…
Read the entire article
A collection of interesting items I found in my daily reading.
- Live Bald Eagle Webcam on Santa Cruz Island is Back! – March 2, 2010
- What’s on the Back of Your Napkin? – March 2, 2010
- "Mad Libs" Style Form Increases Conversion 25-40% – February 25, 2010
- 175 free woodworking ebooks – March 1, 2010
- The Best Barbecue Sauce – March 1, 2010
- Podcasts Reap Local Ad Dollars – MediaBuyerPlanner – February 27, 2010
- Gadgets : Mini iPhone Microphone – February 26, 2010
- German Baked Pancake – February 26, 2010
- Homo Competens – learning, doing, sharing – February 25, 2010
- Plan Your Dream Space Virtually – February 25, 2010
- “The list of people who were blown up or poisoned while trying to do so is impressive” – February 24, 2010
- How To Make No-Knead Bread Home Hacks – February 21, 2010
- How to power up your Twitter – February 23, 2010
- My New Favorite Burger! – February 24, 2010
- Modern Birdhouses – February 24, 2010
I get a lot of questions every day and here is a selection from the last few days…
- Q: How do I undo an edited iPhoto picture?
- A: Right-click (Control-click) the photo and select “Revert to Original”
- Q: Trying to find a particular song that isn’t in iTunes store?
- A: Do a google search on the title of the song, artist and the the tag MP3
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- Q: Antispam program for MS Outlook
- A: It may sound like a dramatic change, but moving to Gmail, hosted or not, brings along an excellent antispam filter as well as other benefits.
- Q: FTP instruction and linking to files once they are uploaded
- A: Worked with client via remote control
- Q: How do I release and edited version of a podcast I just posted?
- A: The original podcast will have been downloaded by those that grabbed it automatically. If you want them to receive a new, revised file, you need to post a new blog post with a slightly renamed MP3 file to insure that those people will receive the updated file in iTunes. There is no way to recall the podcasts already downloaded, though.
- Q: How do I recover data from old computers that have been in my garage for 2 years?
- A: In most cases it isn’t worth it. Not matter how important you think that data is, it is not worth the time, money and trouble to recover it now. The machines may not boot or no other computer may be able to read the data. The best solution is always to migrate data off of old computers as soon as you retire them. Every day you wait makes it much more likely that you will never get or use the data.
- Q: What do I do when my Mac won’t printer to my printer?
- A: In this specific case, there were items trapped in the print queue and when the printer was reconnected nothing would print. Remove the trapped print queue items, toggle the power on the printer and then try to print again. I have often found this to work. Even when the printer is re-attached the print jobs will not print automatically and gum up the works until they are removed.
- Q: How to i remove an item from my Outlook Outbox that constantly tries to resend? My friends are getting multiple copies of the email over and over.
- A: You will often not be able to delete an outgoing message while Outlook is trying to send it. The message is locked. You need to click the message in the lower-right corner of Outlook that says “Sending XXX…” there will be an option to stop sending and receiving. Once that is stopped, you should be able to delete the message in the Outbox.
Do you have a question? Why not drop me a line? Use the Comments link above, send email to me@douglasewelch.com or call the voice mail line at 818-804-5049
