I have created a new domain, jerry.education, as a place to aggregate all of my educational resources. I feel it will help more people find my digital literacy resources than just hosting them here, as the URL itself is rather self-descriptive. I am going to leave the Desktop Publishing Projects page here for legacy purposes,… Read more »
Posts By: Trav
Wifi Signal Map at My Place
Today I used the free Ekahau HeatMapper on Windows to map out the wifi signal strengths here at the house. I took the resulting map into Photoshop and made, what I consider, a fairly nice map. (Note that it is not perfectly to scale, because I don’t have an actual floor plan to use as… Read more »
Dual-boot Windows Technical Preview (aka Windows 10) on a UEFI-Enable Computer
I’m really excited about the Windows Technical Preview (aka Windows 10) that was released today. I decided to forgo a virtual machine and dual-boot it on my laptop running Windows 8.1. My laptop is an Asus G55VW and the existing Windows 8.1 installation being setup in UEFI (with the requisite GPT partition scheme). I downloaded… Read more »
Appalachia 2050
I just had the pleasure of finishing a documentary by Prestonsburg native Ralph B. Davis entitled Appalachia 2050. Davis interviews several influential and educated people in Eastern KY, asking them what needs to be done so that the region will have overcome the issues still present after nearly fifty years of LBJ’s War on Poverty…. Read more »
A Fix for Windows Installer Error 3728
If you ever get a Windows Installer Error Code 3728, I found a really easy fix that might work for you. ( I say might because I’ve had many problems with MSI installers over the years and it has normally been a lot of trial-and-error to fix them.) As with any fix I post, follow… Read more »
Get Rid of Text Formatting (in Almost Any Program)
Have you ever copied some text from a webpage (or any formatted program, for that matter) and pasted it into another program only to find that all the fancy formatting simply doesn’t look right in its new location? If I had a nickel for every time that copy and paste between program hasn’t played nice,… Read more »
Google Search Tricks
Google is, in my opinion, the search engine that all other search engines aspire to be. You throw in almost any half-way coherent word or phrase and Google will try its best to show you everything it thinks relates to that phrase. The cool thing is that there are many ways to help Google find… Read more »
What to do if the iOS Message App is Stuck Upside Down
Recently, I ran into an issue with the iOS Message app being stuck upside down on an iPad. By that, I mean it would not rotate to the right orientation and was facing 180 from the power button. The first thing I checked was the rotational lock, but that wasn’t enabled (and, besides, all other… Read more »
RaspBMC is Awesome Once You Get It Running
Last night, I finally got RaspBMC running on a 512MB Raspberry Pi, complete with Wifi capability! The setup is serving up episodes of Big Bang Theory ripped from my DVD collection (with more rips coming as soon as I get around to it). I love the Raspberry Pi Project. Furthermore, RaspBMC is definitely a killer app for… Read more »
Right click in the bottom left corner of Windows 8 for some awesome options
I really like Windows 8. I’ve upgraded my desktop and my netbook (which I’m typing this post on) and it has made both machines run faster than Windows 7. Windows 8’s designers thought of all sorts of little things that I absolutely love. My favorite is right-clicking in the bottom left corner of the screen… Read more »