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Re: Troubleshooting Adobe Acrobat 8 Problems ~ Chris Pirillo

Holly — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:15:54 -0000

I upgraded to Abode Reader 8 and now when I publish to PDF from WordPerfect the document goes right to the printer and doesn't save a PDF in my file like it used to. Plus I can't open any of the PDF's that were created in earlier versions. It says "unsupported."

Re: Follow me on Twitter ~ Chris Pirillo

speakurmind — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:10:59 -0000

Hey Chris thanks I signed up for twitter after hearing about it on your stream and it helps me keep up with my friends a lot easier.

Re: Follow me on Twitter ~ Chris Pirillo

Abdullah — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:38:19 -0000

Twitter is sweet. I use it to communicate with my teachers and I also use it as a diary alternative besides my original diary.

Re: Follow me on Twitter ~ Chris Pirillo

Bwana — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:16:03 -0000

Holy moly I was still asleep when I wrote that. Gist of it is, Spammers are here. :/

Re: Follow me on Twitter ~ Chris Pirillo

Bwana — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:15:14 -0000

What's sad is what a lot of feared what happened is happening. Spammers are on Twitter. They're growing like a disease. It's only a matter of time now. :(

Re: How Do you Teach People about Hardware and Software? ~ Chris Pirillo

drWord — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 08:52:35 -0000

Your fourth bullet point is (a) 'way off base and (b) a fine example of poor instruction.
It's off base because creating an effective instructional video requires skill, talent, and understanding. Every recorded item requires editing to adjust for sequence, timing, focus, control. To be fair, Techsmith's marketing babble is equally misleading ("professional content without a ton of production time"). Rule of thumb: 300 units of editing work for each unit of finished run-time. Adobe's Captivate is a much more capable screen capture tool, but its products still need major editing.
As for (b), the fine example: any student of mine who uses "easily", "just", or "simply" in an instruction (as in: "Simply install...") earns a failing grade for the exercise. Those words imply it's easy to do whatever is at issue. That's "easy" in the opinion of the writer--which is irrelevant, and may be frustrating for first-time users, who find an exercise anything but simple. A guiding maxim for instructional writers: "Remember thy users: they are not thee.".

Re: Severe Weather can Strike Anytime, Anywhere ~ Chris Pirillo

dave — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 07:21:10 -0000

do you know of a service that will send you severe weather updates via sms? This would be great! There are places that do weather every day but I have not found any that do it only when it is severe weather. Thanks!

Re: Luck o’ the Irish: Happy St Patrick’s Day ~ Chris Pirillo

datalore — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 06:43:59 -0000

Sorry - I was in Madrid during this recording...

Jessica (my wife) and I walked all around Madrid in IRELAND GAA tshirts and I had a nice BIG IRELAND hat - I'll post up a pick soon :P

The number of smiles and people shouting "Happy St Paddy's Day" made it all worthwhile.

Re: Have you had Your Wisdom Teeth Removed Yet? ~ Chris Pirillo

Daniel Park — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 04:18:13 -0000

The older you get, the more likely it also is for you to develop dry sockets. That happened to be, mainly because I was Chicken Little and didn't want to have them all done at once, so I waited until I was 30 to do the lowers. Big mistake.

Smoking or sucking through a straw are also big no-nos if you want to avoid dry sockets. Which believe me, you do. The pain is unbelievable.

Re: Have you had Your Wisdom Teeth Removed Yet? ~ Chris Pirillo

John Perez — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 04:08:06 -0000

Also, expect to have bad breath and a putrid taste in your mouth for a few days. It's normal. Since brushing your teeth will destroy the blod clots, your mouth will not be thoroughly clean. You can only brush very gently.

Re: Follow me on Twitter ~ Chris Pirillo

Daniel Spradau — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 03:36:16 -0000

And you don't have to deal with messy layouts and "forever loading" pages.

Re: Follow me on Twitter ~ Chris Pirillo

TxNana — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 03:29:21 -0000

I love Twitter its my way to keep up without a lot of rambling.

Re: Severe Weather can Strike Anytime, Anywhere ~ Chris Pirillo

Daniel Spradau — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 03:06:43 -0000

Very informative tips Chris. I myself have a Weather Radio and it is a life saver!

Re: Follow me on Twitter ~ Chris Pirillo

Daniel Spradau — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 02:55:44 -0000

Yes you added Disqus!

Re: Follow me on Twitter ~ Chris Pirillo

Jason Stallings — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 02:55:21 -0000

Hey Chris