I have learned again, the easy way this particular time, to back up my most important files! I spent hours on something but knew I could back it up later because I had a copy in email anyway. Not! I had two copies of one thing and none of the other. This time, I skated through – I found out in time to get it backed up.
Category: Technology
RTF
Kat (who is so sweet) taught me how to put documents (including Lava’s novel!) on my new Sony reader (thanks again, Wes!). Includes: save the file as Rich Text File and change document properties to correctly display author and title. It works great!
Wheeling On
So much to learn in getting the front wheel back on my bike:
1 Kind strangers can be so helpful
2 There is a release for the brakes and that’s how you get them past the wide part of the tire
3 It can be embarrassing needing help from kind strangers
4 Everything works better if the handlebars are pointed forward and not backwards.
Visiover and Out
Raveen taught me that Visio, or at least our installation of it, does not default to having an auto-save function. You can set it, and you should! Otherwise you can lose your work in progress. Good to know!
No New Messages – Really!
I have learned that there is a menu-accessible setup function on my Uniden phone that lets me turn off the “new voice mail” indicators that happen to be lying but stuck.
Please Release Me
Turns out that the big thing I learned about blogging on the blackberry doesn’t actually work until I move the posts from “draft” to “published”. So that flurry mentioned below was all pending. Until now. Go little blog entries – Go!
Blog My Ride
Today – ok just NOW – I learned how to Blog from my BlackBerry so now I can update my lessons from the bus and I have no excuse for falling behind or for not catching up.
Stay tuned for a flurry of back-dated lessons!
Check It Out
I learned how to use New Hampshire’s online library system to download audio books and eBooks for FREE. I learned that audio books expire on your computer but not on your mp3 player, once downloaded. If they do expire, you may have to wait if the book is “checked out”, but you get an email when it’s back and then you have a very short time to grab it off of the virtual shelf.
eBooks look like they expire on the player itself. I’ll let you know!
Visualize Transition
I have learned that PowerPoint transitions only show up visually (and numbered) if you are in Custom Animation mode.
At the tone…
Today I found out about the valuable options of our boring old Verizon conference calling system. Who knew (well I guess Ben knew) that you could reset all these things, online?
I made it stop prompting for name – I never use the role call or announce-on-entry so it’s just an annoyance and now gone.
I set it up to start when the FIRST person dials in, not wait for the host. Still good to be on time but if not, the conversation.
Easy changes, big payoff!
Jane's Lessons Learned 