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We had a lot of trouble with our front loading washing machine walking, even after being balanced correctly and placed on rubber (sorbathane) feet. As far as I can tell Shoe-Goo is acceptable for use on Sorbathane and we have stopped the washing machine from walking by gluing the front two sorbathane feet to tile. Woe to me if I ever try and get those bumpers off the tile though.
Heat pump failed after a few days of operation (replaced at end of heating season). Parts on order since June - missed the whole cooling season (its not super - hot here so we survived). Hope they arrive before the next heating season is finished.
When you sync photos with ITunes to another device, ITunes has the nast habit of creating huge amounts (Gigabytes) of crufty date in the IPhoto directory. Which makes it hard to backup the IPhoto directory because it is about 50% bigger than it needs to be if you sync all your photos.
The ugly workaround is to move the folder “IPod Photo Cache” to a location you don’t backup, and create an alias to it. Instructions here.
Now if only there were a way to eliminate originals after editing, downsizing (and preferably converting to jpeg2000) after editing, all would be well.
Several times a day, I wish to send a copy of a document on our intranet via email. No browser out there allows you to right-click on the link and email the document at that link to a recipient. Instead you have to download it, switch to email, create a new message, do a bunch of mouse clicks to find the document just saved and attach to an email. Very frustrating.
I use Acrobat on my mac occasionally to put a stamp on PDF file, highlight some text with a highlighter, or combine a few pages together in a document (I also use automator a lot). My Acrobat 8 license came with my ScanSnap scanner.
Usually the documents I need to work with are on my PC, so to save time and hassle I thought I would see how much Acrobat 9 cost, anticipating $50–$100. It is $300!
If you want an opaque stamp instead of a transparent stamp,
create your stamp, convert it to a pdf and save as a .png file.
The Buy American Steel clause in the stimulus package, largely intended to eliminate the use of foreign, subsidized steel, has resulted in the Americans to lose a huge opportunity — to have the Chinese fund a huge portion of the US stimulus package by subsidizing steel for US projects.
I really resist buying books now. Paper is heavy and requires storage space. I look forward to an ebook solution for Canada that doesn’t suck (chapters.indigo currently sucks. most titles I want are available on Kindle in the US and not in Canada. And chapters.indigo might test navigating their site to shortcovers on an IPhone. ).
It seems a little weird that, for almost all of my collaboration with other employees of my firm about work product (mainly word documents) we still use email and send attachments around.
We do use Instant Messaging, mainly our reception lets us know when a client has arrived. For some reason though I never seem to notice the new messages in Microsoft Communicator, so they usually end up phoning anyway.
An Automator Workflow containing an Apple Script to convert pages documents to high quality PDF by printing to a virtual printer called “Virtual Printer” — you need to set that up using CUPS-PDF.
I mainly use this for the output of mail merge from Daylite.