I love simple ideas.
Park your car in San Francisco and then check in with Cherry using your mobile phone. Cherry then knows the location of your car. You’ll get a text when they are on their way. Washers then show up, clean your car and charge your credit card $29 for the service, including the tip. They text you to let you know when they are finished.
As you may have guessed, you can request Cherry air freshener or select from New Car, Lemon Lime and Leather scents.
For years I’ve been frustrated that when I go to address a message in Apple Mail I see old addresses for people or addresses that I’ve typed incorrectly.
Often, I would find that I had sent the message to the wrong person or to the incorrect address. I casually looked for a solution to the problem in the past but not until this morning when my grandfather asked me how to clear that cache did I really go looking for the answer.
Here is the very simple solution.
First, make sure the addresses in your Apple Contacts program (ie: your Address Book) are up-to-date and you have deleted old addresses.
Then, in Mail, go to the tab that says “Window” at the top and choose “Previous Recipients” from the drop-down menu. Clear the ones you never want to see again, or, do what I did and clear them all and start fresh with the new addresses being pulled from your Apple Contacts.
For the record, that’s two Apple Mail problems solved in one day!
For the past few weeks, I’ve had a message stuck in the Drafts folder of Apple Mail. I am using OS 10.7.2 and Mail 5.1.
I would delete the draft and it would disappear. Then it would reappear after a few minutes or after a restart.
I went through everything I could think of several times and was about to give up and then it came to me… Mail the draft to myself and then delete it!
That worked!
So, if you have a draft message that just won’t delete from your Drafts folder in your email, email it to yourself!
The “world’s largest” stop-motion animation, shot on a Nokia N8.
Click here to watch the finished film: Gulp
Hah. There! This morning I decided that the neglectful attentiveness to my blog ends today. I’ve decided that in the past and it seems to take hold for a while.
I read an article this morning that suggested everyone should post their resume as a page off of their domain name (if they have one obviously). I’m happy with my job but I do want to be the top “Bill Blevins” found in search results and I thought…, “Oh, that will be easy” and, “I do have a current resume handy” and “That probably won’t take much time or hurt much.”
In the process –you know how that goes– I decided to switch WordPress themes. It’s only a click of a couple of buttons, right?
That decision will probably cost me a whole Saturday soon cleaning up the mess I’ve made.
The biggest thing missing though is my cool real-time weather sticker from my home weather station. Something like this, only smaller to fit in the right rail:
So, there it is. For now.
I do really like this theme.
This morning there was a fatal accident at the intersection by my office in the WillowBrook Office Park in Perinton.
Fire and Rescue units arrived on the scene at 7:35 a.m. according to the Monroe County 911 site.
News reports say a car turning left at Woodcliff Drive hit a motorcycle traveling on Rt. 96.
Traffic on Rt. 96 in the area of the WoodCliff was snarled for several hours due to the accident reconstruction and the investigation.
After driving around for 40 minutes, I found an alternate route to the office and I arrived just before 9 AM.
When I came inside someone in the hall told me that I was the first to post anything about this on Twitter at about 8:30 AM, an hour after it happened.
I was fairly sure that I wasn’t the first – and I wasn’t, @MCFIREEMSREPORT was – but I was curious as to how the local media used Twitter to report the story.
I was one of those trying to figure out how to get to work, searching online and Twitter for the details of exactly which roads were open and which roads were closed.
Here’s what I found… (after I got to work):
Only one local media outlet Tweeted about the accident!! (as of 10:22 AM when I posted this, almost 3 hours after the crash).
The NBC TV affiliate @news10nbc tweeted at 9:01 AM, 17 minutes after they posted the story on their site.
None of the other sites posted anything to Twitter.
Here are the times the other media posted their initial story on their sites:
8:55 AM – MPNnow.com, the local newspaper @messengerpost
9:00 AM – 13 WHAM / ABC TV @13WHAM
9:00 AM – The Democrat and Chronicle newspaper in Rochester @dandc
9:18 AM – YNN, local TV station @YNN_Rochester
9:23 AM – FOX / CBS TV @news_8
No time stamp on story – WXXI Public Radio @WXXIrochester