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Ubuntu - How to Set a Static IP Address

Submitted by jbellendir on Sun, 11/13/2011 - 23:40

You will need to manually edit some files to set your static IP address. Do the following:

# sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces

Change the file to look like below:

auto lo eth0
iface lo inet loopback
iface eth0 inet static
address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
netmask xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
gateway xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

Change the xxx's with the appropriate network information. Read more »


How to Sync Multiple Google Calendars with your iPhone calendar

Submitted by jbellendir on Tue, 10/18/2011 - 15:55

Well hopefully you are using Google's calendar system to manage your everyday tasks, appointments, birthdays, and special days. If not, you really need to get on the bandwagon. Google Calendar is hands down the BEST calendar software out there and it's free. It's everything you need in a calendar system, fast, super efficient at adding/removing and changing dates. Easily add others, setup reminders, recurring events, etc. It even has an appointment section now that you can set windows of time to be able for appointment and then give that link out to people to set appointments with you. Cool right?!?! Read more »

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Post your Google+ status updates automatically to facebook

Submitted by jbellendir on Fri, 10/14/2011 - 12:31

Go to www.facebook.com/mobile while you are logged into Facebook. It will bring you to a screen where they talk about FB and mobile devices. You will see a personalized email address there. You can email this address and it will post status updates to your wall. So basically copy this address, and add it as a contact on Google plus and then drop it into a circle you typically update to. The next time you do an share on G+ it will send it over to FB and post to your wall. Of course photos and videos don't work. For that, your friends will need to head over to G+ to see it.

Okay, we all know that we wish we could just go in and delete our facebook account and stick with one social networking site (Google+ of course). Unfortunately, our less techie friends haven't jumped on the band wagon yet. They still ask you questions like "what's this google+ thing? Is it cool? Is it like facebook?" Read more »


Screencast and best production settings for youtube and online sites

Submitted by jbellendir on Sat, 10/08/2011 - 01:01

The worst part about making video tutorials and screen casts is how difficult it is to produce the video and ensure the quality remains good once it gets on Youtube. I spent a lot of time testing different codecs, resolutions, etc. However these standards seem to change every year, and then video distribution platforms change how they encode videos, etc. So I wanted to share which format I use and record it to get good results on YouTube currently.

For screen casts I record in 1280 x 720 resolution. Then I use Camtasia studio to edit my screen recording and I output/produce as mp4. This seems to convert fairly quickly and also upload and go live fairly quickly on YouTube. The quality ends up being very good and appears almost loss less.

Enjoy!

 


WOL - Wake on Lan video tutorial has been uploaded to Youtube

Submitted by jbellendir on Sat, 10/08/2011 - 00:49

If you have read my previous tutorial on WOL, be sure to check out my video tutorial which is now up on youtube!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDQnCVw4KZ8


New Favorite Quote

Submitted by jbellendir on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 21:05

My new favorite quote, and I live and breathe by it. "CEOs should care about details. Even shades of yellow. On a Sunday" - Vic Gundotra

If you read the post below it will make a lot more sense...

Vic Gundotra originally shared this post: Read more »


Facebook Share/Like - How to Control what Data is Shared from your Site.

Submitted by jbellendir on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 18:01

For web admins and designers, it's important to control what data Facebook pulls from your site when users share your URL through their wall posts, status updates, and like/share buttons. If you check Facebook's developer pages it explains this quite clearly. You will need to specify metatags to tell Facebook what data to grab. Below are the tags they recommend setting in your header so that the proper data is passed to Facebook. Read more »


Mac - I can't type anything when I'm in the Mac finder - SOLUTION!

Submitted by jbellendir on Sat, 10/01/2011 - 15:42

Well this happened to me today and it took a while to figure out what was going on. Basically I couldn't use my keyboard when in the finder. So I couldn't copy paste with apple C or apple V. I could create a folder with my mouse but I couldn't edit the name of the folder. It was very strange. I even rebooted the mac and still the same thing!

The solution was RELAUNCHING the finder. Go to the apple menu and click on force quit and then click on Finder and "relaunch". I couldn't believe a reboot didn't fix this, but this did, BUT IT DID!

Hope this helps anyone sitting there with a finder that they can't use. Kind of lame that Apple would have such a problem with their main explorer window, Windows would just crash the explorer and tell you to restart it. Mac just sits there looking confused. haha


15 Unique Ways to use Dropbox

Submitted by jbellendir on Wed, 09/28/2011 - 20:05

If you haven't heard of Dropbox by now, you must be living in a cave. It's a free cloud storage service. They give you 2GB of free online storage space to start with, if you refer people you get additional storage space added to your account. Here is how it works:

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