Electric Dreams - All Comments

re: Seth on Blogging

Richard Tubb — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 13:51:59 GMT

Tim - Spot on. I still blog today for this reason. Readers are a nice side effect. :-)

re: How To Network

Richard Tubb — Wed, 25 May 2011 11:48:16 GMT

Tim - I'm flattered by your kind words and shout-out for the webinars, very much appreciated!

I will respectfully correct you on one thing though - I've certainly not outgrown asking people like yourself for advice. Perhaps I just pester you a little less than I did when I started out. :-)

Good luck with the GTi network - I know it'll be a success!

I Walk Free

Electric Dreams — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 14:31:13 GMT

Many of my readers will know that I’m currently recovering from an ankle fracture. I broke my ankle in

re: MaxiVista impending problems with IE9 and Windows Live 2011

Tim Long — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 23:06:49 GMT

Bradly, Electric Dreams blog publishes the full article in the RSS feed. When I open it in Internet Explorer, using the RSS for Posts link at the top of the page, I see full articles. So if you are seeing them truncated, that must be something to do with your RSS reader - or, do you use an aggregator service? Maybe they are summarizing my feed.

I will now dispense my own blogging advice, for what it's worth.

A good starting point is to 'just do it' and try to have something interesting to say. I don't blog on any regular schedule, but only when I have something to say that I think may be of interest to others. The first few posts are difficult, it's hard to find topics but after the first few I found that the ideas started popping into my head all on their own. If you haven't yet discovered Windows Live Writer, please stop what you are doing and download it now! Try to use plenty of graphics, pages of plain text are boring.

I just found this interesting thought, I think I must share with my new community at community.tigranetworks.co.uk

Bradley Sisler — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 20:43:22 GMT

I wonder why I can't see full text in your RSS feed, do you allow full articles?

"We hate spam as much as you do" - what the hell is that supposed to mean? What if I love spam, does this mean you love it too?

What's a good starting point for launching an interesting blog? I want people to come and read my articles, and I want to see lots of comments.

I just saw my comments being removed from some sites. I mean no harm, I'm just… sporadic.

Never assume. It makes an "ass" out of "u" and "me".

re: Meade LX200 ‘Classic’ Workshop Manual

Olivier — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 12:40:10 GMT

Hi Tim,

I thank you really a lot for make Meade shematics available for all... I downloaded all of them !

I actually have a problem on my RA motor drive (runaway). I think the photodiodes are deads... Could you explain me what of LEDs and Photodiodes I have to buy ? Did you see that the webpage of MAPUG is actually unavailable ? I remember a post called "DEC FIX", but impossible to see it. I can remember his build is different than Meade's method. What's is the best ? What do you think about it ? I have to rebuild my motor assembly (LEDs and PHOTODIODES) but I don't know how...

Have a nice day Tim, and thanks again.

Regards

Olivier

re: Lean IT

Krys Williams — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 12:27:55 GMT

Hah, we were taught the concept of the "lean library" in my PG library and information studies course 1985-1986. Basically it involves chucking out as many books as possible, so you don't have a library any more. Ideally, the bookshelves will be replaced by a coffee machine, so the "library" becomes user-friendly (even more friendly since users can chat at will because they won't be disturbing non-existent readers reading non-existing books... )

Cynical - moi?

re: Live Mesh is dead. Long live Live Mesh!

Tim Long — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 23:59:48 GMT

This all depends on your perspective. Personally, I don't see anything sad in combining the best features of two products to make a single, better product. The new Live Mesh is faster to synchronize and the remote control features are much more usable for multi-monitor users. I also enjoy the integration with SkyDrive, where I can save Office documents and view or edit them using Office Web Apps.

I don't use all of the Live features. I hate browser toolbars with a vengeance so I do not install the 'bing bar'. I have no need of Live Mail since I use Outlook with an Exchange Server and I prefer not to use Family safety. I get to pick and choose what I install so that is all fine.

For me, Windows Live Writer is the 'killer app' of the Live suite, I use it to edit all my blogs posts and even my company web site. Fantastic! I like Live Photo Gallery, too.

re: Live Mesh is dead. Long live Live Mesh!

Fernando Correia — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 23:18:24 GMT

Sadly, Microsoft often develops overlapping products and some of them are let go. I never jumped into this Live bandwagon and I'm a very happy Dropbox user.

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aparadekto — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 20:43:25 GMT

Hey, I can't view your site properly within Opera, I actually hope you look into fixing this.

re: Live Mesh is dead. Long live Live Mesh!

Flapjak — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 00:29:29 GMT

This is confusing and not a bit helpful to those who knew nothing of mesh past or presant. I was forced to down load windows live 2011, since it just stopped working no warning. I did syc things before but dont understand the mesh thing? I didnt have mesh before ? Have Turned it off anything involving' remote' and i become paraniod.

I have lost stuff off my desk top and of course no stationry.

the new windows live sucks!! the spam filter dont work, sent emails are slow to be sent to out/sentbox. i do like some features if they worked. I guess as a teacher would tell microsoft You have to work on this.

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re: MaxiVista impending problems with IE9 and Windows Live 2011

Tim Long — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 20:19:57 GMT

Update: Since making this post, Tech Support contacted me to say that they 'forgot to mention' that they are working on a new version of the program that will support hardware acceleration and it should be ready by the time IE9 is released.

I asked them if it will be a free upgrade, they informed me that since their developers refuse to work for free, it will not be a free upgrade.

Having already paid for the program twice (I bought the basic version and they made me pay all over again to buy the enhanced version) I find that decision disappointing, and I didn't really appreciate the sarcastic and condescending tone of the email exchange I had. I don;t think I'll be spending any more money on MaxiVista. In the long run, a new monitor is going to be cheaper and will work more reliably.

re: Anatomy of a Browser Toolbar

Richard Evans — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 09:14:55 GMT

Tim

I couldn't agree more, these things are pure poison. Whenever I get a complaint from a customer that the machine is running slowly I almost always find several of these 'Free' toolbars in IE. I always uninstall them and run an anti-malware program such as Windows Defender or Malwarebytes to get rid of the trash that these things bring with them.

A timely warning indeed.

Richard

re: Do Givers Gain?

Tim Long — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 23:05:12 GMT

Thanks for the comments, John. I agree with you, I think BNI can and does work. The point I was trying to make, perhaps not very well, is that one can't go into a BNI meeting expecting to sell anything to the people around the table (sometimes you can, but it's the exception rather than the rule). The comment I hear from the skeptics is "you're just talking to the same people every week". The concept they seem unable to grasp is that they are not there to sell to the people in the room but, essentially, to train a sales team and to motivate them by giving them business.