One issue that has been persistent in OS X Lion, it a strange problem in spacing when filling out a PDF Form.¬¨‚Ć Basically the form will not space correctly to the next line and leaves a document with overlapping text.¬¨‚Ć The current work around has been to double space as you fill out the form. […]
After an unfortunate run in with a iMac less then 90 days old I discovered something that has me a bit concerned.¬¨‚Ć The Hard Drive,¬¨‚Ć inside of the iMac where I expected to see a Western Digital Caviar Black Drive, a solid drive with a 5 year warranty, was missing.¬¨‚Ć Instead I found a Seagate […]
The Flip Cam’s are nice easy to use video recorders but when working with Mac’s have had one major flaw. ¬¨‚ĆWhich is that their movies cannot be directly imported into iMovie. ¬¨‚Ć It was first necessary to convert the video using Handbrake or another encoder like Miro(Good Converter for Mac / Free) which is very […]
Apple’s Keynote is an easy and intuitive program to make good presentations. One advantage it has over Powerpoint is that it embeds the video segments into the file itself, no need to send video files and store in same directory. With Keynotes music and movies come with the file making life much easier when one […]
Click Here to Download Chromium for OS X 10.6 and 10.7 Mac Build 20.0.1100.0.0 (131961) – Mac Build for Geneseo District 228 I placed the Release build in a DMG file to give it an easy installer. (Can Click Image to Download Installer as well). So Chromium is the best browser, in my opinion. ¬¨‚ĆLet […]
We have some older Intel based white MacBooks that are 5+ years but work well as units in Mobile labs. ¬¨‚ĆThese machines run a 10.6.8 image and are still capable of meeting teacher/student needs. ¬¨‚ĆA few of these units have started experiencing a problem which first manifests in a weak Wi-Fi signal. ¬¨‚ĆMachines will sometimes […]
Occasionally the Webspeed powered web side of Skyward will take a crash and users will be greeted with a message that simply says service not available.¬¨‚Ć Logging into the server itself you will see generic error messages relating to the wsisa.dll and some executable files attempt to use it.¬¨‚Ć Simply restarting IIS will fix this […]
By default Server 2008 does not use a NTP Time Server to sync its clock but relies only on the internal clock. ¬¨‚ĆIf this server also houses VM images through Hyper V these images will by default pull time info from the host. ¬¨‚ĆTo me I have always like to have clocks synced to a […]
Yesterday I replaced three more Catalyst series switches at the Middle School. ¬¨‚ĆThis stack of switches originally had four switches, one 24 port and 3 48 port Catalyst 3500 XL and 3550 series switches. ¬¨‚ĆI was able to replace these with 3 Catalyst 2960G’s, with one of the units stacked together acting as a single […]