Articles on Lr and SSDs

http://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom/kb/optimize-performance-lightroom.html
http://www.computer-darkroom.com/blog/will-an-ssd-improve-adobe-lightroom-performance/

General Lr performance tips:
http://digital-photography-school.com/10-tips-to-improve-lightrooms-speed-and-performance-without-additional-hardware/

RAM test applications, utilities

http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-memory-testing-utility.htm#

Can't believe it - installed 18GB RAM, can only use 16GB

Thanks to Windows 7 Home Premium - limited to max 16GB...arg...not paying $89 for upgrade to allow me to see that last bit of RAM, but man...will wait for Windows 10.

Research to find new graphics card

Battlefield 4 performance numbers
http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/2014-vga-charts/16-Battlefield-4-1080p,3608.html

GTX 760 review including noise
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/geforce-gtx-760-review-gk104,3542-6.html

Installation tweaks recommended for SSD being installed as system drive

http://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/samsung-850-pro-ssd-review,6.html

Overclocked my Core i7 920 to x166

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/overclock-core-i7,2268.html
Did this via BIOS, no other changes.

Great resource on how to plan for shooting the milky way

http://www.photopills.com/tutorials/how-shoot-truly-contagious-milky-way-pictures
http://www.photopills.com/tutorials/how-plan-milky-way-using-2d-map-centric-planner

Potential Thunderbolt future purchase

http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/02/elgato-thunderbolt-2-dock-review/

How to reset permissions on files in Windows

takeown /R /F *
icacls *.* /reset /T /C

New compositional structures for me to try

Pyramid
Golden ratio

Balance too

Nice Vanguard tool for estimating college expenses

http://www.archimedes.com/vanguard/collcost.phtml
http://www.archimedes.com/vanguard/csp.phtml?cbdForceDomain=true

Really interesting book like photo albums

https://fstoppers.com/editorial/new-company-storytag-wants-give-wedding-albums-written-dynamic-42303

Sneaker care

http://www.gq.com/style/fashion/201403/how-to-take-care-of-sneakers

Kid events in the SF Bay Area

http://www.bayareakidfun.com/family-friendly-events-in-the-bay-area/

Oh yeah...things I've been doing wrong

Pizza reheating - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWIJNaA-JNA
How to peel a potato - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RV_3xpnUnHQ
How to peel a banana - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBJV56WUDng
How to avoid boiling over boiling liquids - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hR2oV6hx3Vc
How to take off a tshirt really fast - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVYiHI4cGlE
How to fold a t-shirt in 5 secs - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAxhr0j0thY
How to use one paper towel and get dry hands - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FMBSblpcrc
Tight packing - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5UlxHsgD58
Rolling a suit - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkW-90LLJxE

Sleep pattern recommendations

http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/10/16/want-to-ace-that-test-get-the-right-kind-of-sleep/?_php=true&_type=blogs&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&region=CColumn&module=MostEmailed&version=Full&src=me&WT.nav=MostEmailed&_r=0

How to uninstall the Connect Add-In

First you have to show hidden files on the Mac

• http://ianlunn.co.uk/articles/quickly-showhide-hidden-files-mac-os-x-mavericks/

Then go to the following directory:

• Users/<profile name>/Library/Preferences/Macromedia/Flash Player/www.macromedia.com/bin/adobeconnectaddin/adobeconnectaddin.app
• And delete the contents

Try todoist competitors

Evernote
Any.do

William Ury - professional negotiator

Hospitality is the opposite of terrorism

How to show and hide hidden files on Mac

http://ianlunn.co.uk/articles/quickly-showhide-hidden-files-mac-os-x-mavericks/

How to get the OS X dock on the Mac to appear on the bottom of the external or desired screen

http://www.tips-and-tricks-in-mavericks.com/how-to-use-the-dock-on-multi-monitor-setups-in-os-x-mavericks/

Picture settings for Panasonic plasma TV we bought about a year ago

http://forums.cnet.com/7723-19410_102-559444/panasonic-tc-p55st50-picture-settings/?tag=StickyWin_1332962727578;createThreadPopup

How to turn off banner that appears when turning on a Panasonic plasma TV

Took a year before I realized this was even possible:

http://www.cnet.com/how-to/how-to-ban-the-banner-ads-from-panasonic-smart-tvs/

Try this plugin later

http://www.piccure.com/

Good historical article on Agile frameworks

http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/tech-decision-maker/the-roots-of-agile-project-management/

Fantastic drawing tool for marking up Google Maps

http://www.scribblemaps.com/

Things that stink with Outlook 2011...

Making the switch from Windows to the Mac. Some things that are very annoying:
- No keyboard shortcut to make a new meeting when viewing email or vice versa
- Inability to sync group contacts in Exchange, must enable via Preferences local computer in order to even create local groups
http://www.macwindows.com/Outlook2011.html#101611b
- Inability to just show the subject line in the inbox while maintaining a reading pane on the righthand side
- Bullets are wonky
- Can't see tasks across days in the calendar view. The My Day widget doesn't allow for reordering of tasks in the window

Article on line height size, font size, readability online

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2014/09/29/balancing-line-length-font-size-responsive-web-design/

Interesting job site - you people bid on you and then you interview

hired.com

Apps for simple team time allocation

http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/28/float-does-simple-scheduling-for-teams-and-simple-is-hard/ (see video at bottom)

http://resourceguruapp.com/

Retrospective format ideas

http://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/agile/scrum/sprint-retrospective
http://retrospectivewiki.org/index.php?title=Retrospective_Plans
https://www.scrumalliance.org/community/articles/2013/february/iteration-retrospective-activity-turn-the-tables
http://waynedgrant.wordpress.com/2012/04/01/sprint-retrospective-techniques/
http://www.infoq.com/news/2010/12/agile-scrum-retrospectives
http://skycoach.be/2010/06/17/12-retrospective-exercises/

New sound filtering earplugs

http://getdubs.com/

Great science videos for kids

http://www.brainpop.com/

Toontastic for creating animated videos like the Popsicle theater

Toontastic iPad app

Look into buying chord app

Polychord

Basecamp Text Document hack to get indented bulleted list

http://labzip.com/how-to-add-indented-bullet-lists-in-the-new-basecamp-from-37signals-com/

Safety check original post

http://stevenmsmith.com/ar-safety-check/

The kind of animation tool I've been looking for

http://www.launchpadtoys.com/toontastic/

Future research for Thunderbolt based PC motherboards

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1797010
http://www.anandtech.com/show/5829/a-first-look-at-thunderbolt-on-windows-with-msis-z77agd80/2
http://rog.asus.com/280892013/news/asus-thunderboltex-ii-what-you-need-to-know/
http://www.anandtech.com/show/5935/asus-thunderbolt-ex-upgrade-card-for-7series-motherboards
http://www.computershopper.com/ces-2014/gigabyte-at-ces-2014-thunderbolt-2-motherboards-brix-pcs-external-graphics-cards/gigabyte-g1.sniper-a88x?thisSpeed=35000#slm

New furniture startup, custom sofas

http://www.interiordefine.com/

To determine if I can stream something I want to watch

http://www.canistream.it/

DVD movie blu ray rankings / ratings

http://www.cinemasquid.com/blu-ray/movies/rankings?release-country=us&sort=release-total-score&dir=desc&index=40#release-list

Great Scrum review website

http://scrummethodology.com/

How to still install Encore

http://helpx.adobe.com/encore/kb/encore-cs6-installed-cc.html
http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/multi/library-functional-content-missing.html
http://tv.adobe.com/watch/davtechtable/using-premiere-pro-cc-encore-cs6-for-bluray-dvd-and-interactive-video-for-ipadatv-and-mobile-hd/

Neat way to find teachers online, thinking of using this to find daughter's voice coach

http://takelessons.com/search/index/service/Singing?session=1

Great solution for encrypting Dropbox

Boxcryptor looks like a great user friendly solution (esp. the latest version which keeps the key in the cloud).

https://secomba.atlassian.net/wiki/display/DOC/Boxcryptor+vs.+Boxcryptor+Classic

And this is a great explanation for what the FolderKey.bch file does (they should have named it better to avoid confusion):
https://forums.boxcryptor.com/topic/folderkeybch-can-an-attacker-use-this-file-to-decrypt-my-files

How to count words or characters in InDesign

- Go to Window->Info panel
- Using the text tool select the text you wish to analyze, roll over the text with your cursor and see the results in the Info panel.

Office 2010 click to run responsible for mystery Q drive

Thanks Microsoft...
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/982434

Links for tips on how to set up a conference

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2014/08/15/plan-and-run-a-great-conference/
http://blog.tito.io/posts/look-after-your-speakers/
https://ti.to/signup
http://blog.tito.io/posts/5-tips-to-reduce-conference-awkwardness/

Future links for me to read to improve my high key photography

http://digital-photography-school.com/4-tips-perfect-white-background-high-key-photography/
http://www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/3139086
http://www.sekonic.com/whatisyourspecialty/photographer/articles/portraits-against-a-white-background-step-by-step.aspx

Site for DVD release dates

http://www.ondvdreleases.com/

How to manipulate stills to look like cinema based photographs

https://fstoppers.com/documentary/cinematic-look-how-make-your-photographs-look-films-27534

Long but decent article on kids that overcome autism

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/03/magazine/the-kids-who-beat-autism.html?_r=0

Wifi tests for hotels

http://speedspot.org/
http://www.hotelwifitest.com/

How many times and in different places do I need to turn off auto monitor brightness settings...oy

http://lifehacker.com/disable-windows-annoying-adaptive-brightness-feature-on-1567886994
And #2 here
http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Idea-Windows-based-Tablets-and/Yoga-2-Pro-Auto-brightness-feature-and-how-to-disable-in-Windows/ta-p/1294763

Picture hanging advice

http://www.thinctanc.co.uk/design/hanging_pictures.html

In the future buy a "centerfinder" measuring tape

http://www.utrdecorating.com/about_centerfinder.php

How to check photos for details prior to printing

From Matt Kloskowski:
http://lightroomkillertips.com/if-you-print-from-lightroom-then-watch-this-video/

Go to 3:1, move navigator to the upper left hand corner, then hit page down

Paint ratio

Use Alpaca from Benjamin Moore, flat paint, Ben brand
5 parts Alpaca to 2 parts white paint

Hallway is even lighter

Possible tiers of testing for devices

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2014/07/14/testing-and-responsive-web-design/

Plastic chairs in back

Grosfillex Madras Club Chair, highback arm chair

How to match existing paint colors

http://www.askthebuilder.com/matching-paint-colors-perfectly/

How to tie on picture frame wire

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdU0B8ov2Z0

How to hang a heavy mirror

Some good basics.
http://www.thisoldhouse.com/toh/video/0,,20802905,00.html

Great video on how to remove acne in Photoshop

http://youtu.be/CTNTwJ8h07o

How to make a clarinet from a carrot

https://www.youtube.com/embed/BISrGwN-yH4
TEDx in Sydney

Place for shredding documents in the Bay Area

Normally you get to see them shred it before your eyes.
http://www.reddogshred.com

Great stats from the CDC on causes of death by age group

http://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/pdf/10lcid_all_deaths_by_age_group_2010-a.Pdf
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db37.pdf

How to put a freeze on your credit report in California

http://defendyourdollars.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/CaliforniaSecurityFreezeInformation.pdf

Additional health benefits of pushing yourself during exercise

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/06/25/for-fitness-push-yourself/

How to get a shared google calendar to appear on Android, Galaxy S4

Couldn't find any help until I ran across this post.  The key is that you have to install the Google Calendar app from the Play Store and then syncing will work (even in the old Samsung Calendar app).

Post here.

How to sell my old stuff painlessly

http://techcrunch.com/2014/06/19/gone-will-sell-your-old-crap-for-you/?source=gravity&cps=gravity

Windows clean install Win7

Win clean install

MacBook Pro Win7 clean install

Data backup
- Win 7 disc image from Mac side

Windows
++ Desktop contents
++ Export Outlook rules

Folders (My Documents)
++ Bob's Files on PC (includes Dw sites)
++ Outlook datafiles
++ Digbsy Logs
++ My Shapes
++ OneNote Notebooks

Chrome
++ Bookmarks

Licenses
++ TimelineMaker Pro
++ Florencesoft DiffEngineX
++ Plus DiffEngineX old installer
++ Balsamiq

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- Bootcamp partition
- Install Win 7 SP1

- Win: run Apple Software Update
- Win: install all updates
- Win: add to Adobenet domain
- Win: Chrome install

- Mac: VMWare
- Activate Win7 in Fusion (at work wired)
- Reboot native win
- Activate Win7 again
- Reboot native mac
- Activate Fusion again (or confirm ok)
- Reboot native win confirm ok

- Win: install Cisco AnyConnect
- Win: Adobe wireless setup
  
- Win: install ePo administrator
- Win: install Virusscan
- Win: install Office 365

- Creative Cloud, activate
- Acrobat XI
- Win: install Win Zip (important for installing MS Project from volume servers correctly)
- Win: install corp id fonts

- AIR

- Adobe Directory

- Add printers (\\sjprint-et in start menu)

- Launch Connect
- Launch maillistmgr

- Flash

- Install Digsby
- Balsamiq

- Install Duck Capture

- Polycom RealPresence Desktop

- Install Project 2010

- Install Visio

- Crashplan

- Timelinemaker professional

X  Florencesoft DiffEngineX

- Lastpass

Creative Cloud
- Ps
- Id
- Dw

- Install Dropbox
- Adobe Hub
- Charles with SSH options

- FileZilla FTP client

- CDM+

- Covenant Eyes

- Defragment drive

- Backup image

- Set homepages for browsers

- Spotify
- WinDirStat
- iTunes

----
Data Migration

Windows
- Desktop contents
- Setup Outlook
- Email datafile
- Reimport Outlook data files
- OneNote files 
- Reimport Outlook rules

Seeing exercise as fun reduces caloric intake

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/06/04/losing-weight-may-require-some-serious-fun/?_php=true&_type=blogs&src=rechp&_r=0

Scroll wheel direction registry hack

From a co-worker:

After using touch devices I finally decided to make the switch and change my touch pad on my Macbook to scroll in the “natural” direction.  The problem was that Apple, in all their brilliance tied together the scroll direction of their mouse and trackpad…even though they are in two separate control panels.  So I had to get used to scrolling my mouse in the “natural” way.

Unfortunately I couldn’t find a way to achieve this through the Windows controls.  I did find an app, Trackpad Settings, that I used to change both the scroll direction of the trackpad, and turn off the tap-click feature which I hated, but I still couldn’t reverse the scroll on my mouse wheel.

I did however find that there is a reg key you can modify to make this work.  Head to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Enum\HID…

Then search for FlipFlopWheel, and change it’s value to 1.  I did that, turned my mouse off and back on, and I am in business.

Check out SquareSpace

Check out Squarespace for future website.

Photo popularity predictor

http://www.dpreview.com/news/2014/04/29/mit-algorithm-predicts-photo-popularity?utm_campaign=internal-link&utm_source=news-list&utm_medium=text&ref=title_0_18

Show check mark for completed tasks in MS Project 2013

The check boxes are called Indicators:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/project-help/add-indicators-HA102809409.aspx

The wirecutter of home things

http://thesweethome.com/

Downloading Lucide Grande and Calibri

http://spencerlavery.com/blog/calibri-for-mac-lucida-grande-for-windows/

Change source of existing PivotTable

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel-help/change-the-source-data-for-a-pivottable-HA102840036.aspx

To do Excel string match on #N/A

http://www.mrexcel.com/td0110.html

Finally a way to speed up indexing

http://tomearp.blogspot.com/2013/01/speeding-up-indexing-service-in-windows.html

How to save images out from Excel of charts

http://www.ablebits.com/office-addins-blog/2013/08/27/save-excel-chart-as-image/

Office 2013 migration fixes

• Turn off Send to OneNote helper app
• http://winsupersite.com/office-2013/office-2013-tip-disable-send-onenote-tool
• How to turn off the smooth typing animation
• http://www.howtogeek.com/161826/how-to-disable-the-typing-animation-feature-in-office-2013/
• How to turn off the one line preview in the inbox
• http://blog.laptopmag.com/turn-off-message-preview-outlook-2013
• To see S/MIME secured messages in the web client (OWA) all you have to do is to turn off conversations:
• http://www.utexas.edu/its/help/office365/2332
• 
  

USAA coverage for rental cars

By default, loss of use fee not covered by insurance.  However, if I use their coupon code for a rental it is covered.
https://www.usaa.com/inet/pages/rental_cars_main

Future limo service recommendation

From a colleague - haven't tried them myself yet.  I just used Limo Fiesta for a ride from OAK to San Carlos and they were awesome! I’d highly recommend them. Also, they were recommended by an admin at Adobe and she uses them for her exec all the time J

http://www.limofiestallc.com/

Stanford tuition rates by the year

http://facts.stanford.edu/administration/finances