USS Rover Comprehensive Tech Radio Show List

Rick — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 22:27:33 -0600

This site is maintained by a gentleman in the midwest and has some cool features for finding tech talk shows on the radio and the web. Check it out!

Ubuntu Keyboard Shortcuts

Rick — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 22:20:44 -0600

A show listener asked about keyboard shortcuts for Ubuntu Linux...ask and you shall receive, click here.

Find where cell towers are located

Rick — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 15:04:01 -0500

Gene called in today and wondered how to locate where cell towers are for his service. MJ in our video chat room had two sites and I know we have one in Tedd's archives. Here are the two that MJ shared:

Cell Reception
Antenna Search

Tedd, our bargain guru, sent me this site:

Mobile Media

Download video from the web

Rick — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 12:59:26 -0500

Here is a link for that downloader program that helps download streaming video from the web.

Convert audio files

Rick — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 13:40:48 -0500

Sally called today and wondered how to get her iTunes to a micro-SD card that she can then listen to on her cell phone. I'm not sure of the legality of this program, but it appears to do the trick. It's called Sound Taxi.

K-Meleon - Super small browser

Rick — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 12:45:18 -0500

Garry called in today and asked if we had mentioned anything about the K-Meleon browser. We hadn't, but now we have. Thanks Garry!

Transfer iTunes from Windows XP to Vista

Rick — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 13:20:07 -0500

Pat called today and needed to transfer his iTunes library from a Windows XP machine to his new Vista machine. We didn't have any great advice besides buying a Mac, but did find this step-by-step process that explains how to do it.

Microsoft Outlook not saving password any longer

Rick — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 13:39:51 -0500

I found this answer at this site: Optimizing your PC So, I haven't tried it or had to use it, but the process seems plausible.

In some cases Outlook doesn't save your password, even if you enable the option to save the password. This error is caused by a malfunctioning of the Protected Storage Space from Windows. To solve this problem, run the registry editor and navigate to the key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Protected Storage System Provider. You will find a key with a long name starting with S-1-5-21 which you have to delete (probably it's save to create a back-up of this key by File, Export). In most cases the problem is solved and next time the passwords will be saved. Be carefull: by doing this you will lose all stored passwords. Read the back-up page how to recover these passwords.

Converting FIleMaker Pro database files to OpenOffice Base

Rick — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 15:00:51 -0500

For Susan in Alaska, here are some forums dealing with converting FileMaker Pro databases to OpenOffice Base format that you can use in any operating system including Ubuntu:

Open Office Outlining Solution

Rick — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 14:58:05 -0500

Greg called in and is using the OpenOffice Word Processor (Writer) and had a problem with outlining. Here are two links to read up on possible solutions or post the question at these forums:

Disabling AutoFormat

Load styles at startup

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