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[trochee]

Sometimes it's more fun to do family-based tech support than research.

What I taught to trombo2 this weekend:

• craig's list works, even in atlanta
• spam filtering is better when it's on

What I taught to lapartera:

• keyboard shortcuts for Firefox: ctrl-L, ctrl-T, ctrl-K, ctrl-tab, etcetera
• how to subscribe to RSS feeds in Thunderbird
• pointed out the little red star in Thunderbird that says "you've got mail here you haven't seen before"
• how to configure LJ S2 (e.g. so that visited links turn up in different color than unvisited)
• delicious extension for inside Firefox
• windows networks like you to have usernames
• putting convenient things on desktop isn't worth much unless you can find it again later
• (with _dkg_, remotely:) using keywords in firefox bookmarks for addressbar shortcuts
• why gmail multilabels are better than folders

Now I should probably have been harassing my co-author to fix the permission problem that prevents me from actually starting my experiments, but instead I just hung out with lapartera and trombo2. Wish we could have dinner together more often.

Comments

[lapartera.livejournal.com]

And you were so nice about it all, too. I guess procrastination breeds a good and patient teacher!

Anyway, we were so delighted to have you here for a couple of days -- though of course we want more! Really looking forward to some time together in Maine!

I am particularly grateful to you, dear, for figuring out how to get my various computers to see the network in our home. A weird situation that had been pending for some time and I was doing some really ugly workarounds to transfer info from one to another.

I now have some neat tricks in Firefox, too.

Thanks so much for taking the time to come our way. I hope the trip home (via DC!!) wasn't too horrendous.

[boobirdsfly.livejournal.com]

Yay for Troke being so nice about being the only computer literate person around * though i have learned a lot too thanks to him.
I wish i could have been there but I am so happy that you got to spend time together !