DJRob’s Blog

It always amazes me that after 25 years of using a computer, you can still learn something new every day.  Even the original email system I’ve been using for over 10 years now has had some new tricks up their sleeve for quite some time.  While I’m not sure when they added it, Yahoo mail has keyboard shortcuts for moving your mail into folders.

For that reason, I STRONGLY encourage you to create your folders in yahoo as follows:

Put a 1 in front of the one you want to appear first, otherwise Yahoo will alphabetize.  Then do a 2, 3, 4, 5, so it looks like this:

1 Friends
2 Family
3 Career
4 Business
5 Other

Then whenever you are reading your email, let’s say you get an email from mom and you want to save it, just press 2 to move it to the family folder.  Then let’s say you open an email from a prospective employer and you want to save it, press 3 to move it to your Career folder.

This is an amazing little time saver for those who have 1000 messages in their inbox and need to get organized!  Now I have one more excuse to continue being a pack rat with my emails!

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Cost Plus World Market

Divide a room, give an empty corner new interest or simply add an architectural element to a space. Eco-friendly bamboo screen in a solid Chinese fir frame with distressed black finish. 42"Wx70"H.

Banyan Room Screen

STUNNING! A work of art

DJRobSD San Diego, CA 6/11/2009

 

5 5

Pros: Easy Assembly, Attractive Design, Provides Privacy, Sturdy Construction, Provides A Visual Barrier

Best Uses: Decoration, Privacy, Bedroom

Describe Yourself: Budget Shopper

Primary use: Personal

This screen is fabulous. It’s stunning and will attract many posive comments from your guests. I was looking for a room divider that didn’t look like your typical asian folding screen, or your typical OFFICE industrial look, and this fits the bill quite nicely. It isn’t 100% private like some other dividers are as you can still kind of see through the cracks, but this is definitely breaks the room up if you live in a big open space.

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Apple finally delivers all the stuff we’ve been asking for in the iPhone 3.0 firmware, due out this summer!  Can you say MMS, Copy+Paste, and Bluetooth Streaming?!

I’m not going to repeat what’s already been said, but if you’ve been out of the loop, check out this site:

www.macrumors.com/iphone

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I went through computer hell this weekend, but I had a completely successful outcome in getting my itunes library migrated.  Here are the steps, although a few may be over-kill, they worked for me!  I didn’t even have to re-do any of my settings or re-enter my account info for itunes!  YAY

First, make sure you update itunes on your old computer to the latest version.  This is important!  If your new computer has a different version then your old one, it may detect corruption in your settings or your library because it’s coming from a different version.  So, you can either update your old computer with the newest one, or google the version you have on your old computer and install it on the new one.

Second, install itunes on your new computer, but DO NOT OPEN ITUNES!  Important, install, but DO NOT OPEN IT!!!

Third:

You will need to backup the following folders:

C:\Documents and Settings\DJRobSD\Application Data\Apple Computer (REPLACE DJROBSD WITH YOUR WINDOWS USER NAME)

C:\Documents and Settings\DJRobSD\Local Settings\Application Data\Apple Computer (REPLACED DJROBSD WITH YOUR WINDOWS USER NAME)

Fourth:

You will need to backup your itunes library files.  The files are called “iTunes Library.itl” and “iTunes Music Library.xml”    Make sure you know exactly where these are on your old PC, they are usually in:  c:\documents and settings\DJRobSD\My Documents\My Music\itunes

Make sure you copy these files to your new documents and settings\<your user>\My Documents\My Music\itunes folder on the new computer

Fifth:

COPY ALL YOUR MUSIC.  Make sure you double check in itunes where all your music is located.  If you let itunes manage your music it should be in the c:\documents and settings\DJRobSD\My Documents\My Music\itunes, but if you didn’t, then you need to find all your files.

Finally:

Make sure everything is copied to the EXACT location on your new computer as old.

Fire up itunes and enjoy your library.

Seems tedious, but this gives you all your music, playlists, settings, etc.    You will be asked to login when you open a file with DRM and it will have to authorize the new computer.

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