Ryan and Debi & Toren

Category: technology

  • how to open Google Reader links in a new tab without changing focus

    If you’re a fan of Google Reader, like I am, that means it is now part of your life – something you’re not sure you could live without.  I use Google Reader pretty much every day to read the news and keep up with the blogs that I can (mostly family, some friends).  I love…

  • OpenOffice Macro to fix UTF-8 and iso-8859-1 encoding issues (–, —, ”, “, Â)

    I’m not exactly sure why it is happening (probably cut and paste issues), but occasionally I get some encoding errors on my blog.  Quotes and dashes end up as: –, —, ”, “. You can see an example in this photo: According to this website, this is an issue of browsers not playing nice using…

  • new video!

    A little less than a year ago I posted footage of a shuttle launch filmed in Titusville, which is about as close as you can get to a shuttle launch for free.  Well, one more perk of living in Florida is that it is narrow enough that you don’t actually have to go to Cape…

  • Sony HDV “AV/C Subunit” Error

    I have a Sony HDR-HC1 camcorder that I use for shooting video. It’s a great camera with lots of features. The only problem I ever really have with it is trying to get the HD video off it and onto my computer for editing (getting SD video off is easier). It usually boils down to…

  • have you done your part?

    If you haven’t downloaded Firefox 3 yet, you still have a couple hours to participate in their Guiness World Record setting attempt at the most software downloads in 24 hours.  We’ve downloaded a new copy for each of our 6 computers:

  • software everyone should know about

    I run into people all the time who are fighting technology. Not everyone spends as much time in front of a computer as I do; and not everyone has the time I do to fidget with computers. But I think people could save themselves hours of frustration and thousands of dollars if they just knew…

  • recommended software page

    I added a page on here with some software recommendations.  I talk to a lot of people who don’t know about this software, so I figured I’d put it on my website for anyone interested.  If you have any suggestions I missed or I don’t know about, share!

  • USB Device Not Recognized with your iPod Nano

    I’ve had my iPod Nano for just under a year now and really like it. It’s not the most full-featured mp3 player on the market, but it does have a slick interface and works really well… for the most part. So, when I started experience bizarre errors with my Nano about 3 months ago, I…

  • Removing Tivo encryption without Sonic software

    I bought a Tivo about 6 months ago knowing that Tivo was planning on releasing the Tivo ToGo feature sometime during 2004. Well, as it turns out, it took until early 2005 to release this software update so you could transfer the shows/movies/programs you record on your Tivo to your home computer. I had actually…

  • How To Fix the Azureus “File Close Fails” Errors

    I occasionally use Azureus (a bit torrent manager) to find episodes of TV shows I missed (which I promptly delete) or to download open source programs (I never use it for anything illegal of course ;). Anyway, a few weeks ago I downloaded a few torrents and started them in Azureus. I was headed out…