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Printing out a roster and signing it

September 4th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

OK, when the coaches have turned in their forms and all kids have proof of age verified, you are ready to have a signed roster. This gets sent to the coaches and the registrar job ends
Here are the mechanics:

Click on the league like 2008 Fall Rec
Click on the quick link called Find Participant
Type [...]

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Remote Mac debugging

August 31st, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

So if you have a Mac say at your friends home, is there an easy way to diagnose it. I’ve tried this a bunch with Windows machines, but never quite got all the connections right. So maybe Apple works better. On a single network this is great, you can Share Screen with other Mac’s and [...]

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Eureka! Google Calendar to iPhone and iCal hub

August 29th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

Well, I’m testing it now, but looks like we might finally be able to get off of Exchange. Here is how to use Google Calendar as the hub of all your scheduling:

Upload your calendar to Google Calendar. This is confusing because the Google Calendar user interface has been changing so radically but Google Help. The [...]

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Live Streams of Beijing Olympics

August 15th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

NBC has all live feeds available so you don’t have to deal with tape delays. I can’t believe how they can tell you something is “live” when it ended 3 hours ago! That is what is happening on their channels. For instance, Woman’s All Arounds were done by 11PM pacific, but NBC didn’t finish their [...]

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Canto Pod 2.0

August 6th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

I had given up on finding a lyric writer on the Mac that works. Canto Pod with automatic finding of the current itunes store and it saves the lyrics into your MP3 as well. Main thing that is still missing is finding all the lyrics for all your songs automatically, so you have to do [...]

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