MediaMonkey Portable Installation

Updates Dec 2019. On the Toshiba Portege, Windows 10, latest updates, the visualization was a little wanky when connected to a Sony Brava TV, over HDMI using clone monitors option.  Kept getting song title over the animations.  Turned off all song animations etc, still had an issue.  Turned on Caffiene, most of the issues with … Continue reading →

How to Reorganize a Media Monkey Library with Lots of Playlists

A work in progress  MM = MediaMonkey Tags “A guide to reorganizing a large MediaMonkey Library” MediaMonkey Version 4.1.18.1853  Gold Microsoft Windows 10 Home 10.0.15063 I wrote this guide as I was researching how to reorganize my music library.  Media Monkey has many capabilities and features that make this extremely easy.  It is flexible and … Continue reading →

Lessons

A few ways to check email problems

Diagnosing email problems requires you to test possible causes in an iterative fashion. For any given email, there are a complex number of factors at play in sending it and having it successfully delivered. If you do not know how to copy and paste from web pages, documents and emails, you need to get someone … Continue reading →

Copy from the Original

  A young monk arrives at the monastery. He is assigned to helping the other monks in copying the old canons and laws of the church, by hand.   He notices, however, that all of the monks are copying from copies, not from the original manuscript. So, the new monk goes to the Old Abbot … Continue reading →

Making a Video while walking using a Smartphone

DRAFT I am trying this rig.  I cut holes on the side of my smartphone case, looped some fishing line through it so I could attach a camera strap. example of Gary using the rig Landscape mode, no zoom Breathe Wear Sneakers / comfortable shoes You must teach your mind to coordinate body movements (Kinesthetic … Continue reading →

Creating a Watchable Video

With smart phones and a few guidelines TSS (The Short Story) Framing – in Landscape mode If Interview – Rule of thirds. If Presentation (Like the news) Subject in middle, eyes on top rule of thirds horizontal line Use some space around the subject top, right, bottom, left and back and front. Stability – not … Continue reading →

MBTA Bus Tracking

Update Oct, 2017 – MBTA – try the Transit app https://transitapp.com/ I have not tested it yet, but, the MBAT likes it https://www.mbta.com/news/2440 When I use Nextbus or T tracker, I occasionally do not see feeds for going downtown, from Sullivan Station.  The 93 route has a regular route and once an hour, they alter … Continue reading →

We Should All Be Feminists

We teach girls shame. “Close your legs. Cover yourself.” We make them feel as though being born female they’re already guilty of something. And so, girls grow up to be women who cannot say they have desire. They grow up to be women who silence themselves. They grow up to be women who cannot say … Continue reading →

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