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Comment on Using Air Display to convert my iPad into a second monitor for my MacBook (OSX and W7) by Michele Wood

Michele Wood — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 00:51:17 +0000

Were you ever able to make it work at work? I’m trying, and not having luck.

Comment on Using Air Display to convert my iPad into a second monitor for my MacBook (OSX and W7) by Joao Melo

Joao Melo — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 01:37:49 +0000

Do I need to buy Air Display for my Macbook and another one to my iPad?

Because Air display for mac is 19.99 an for iPad is 9.99… it makes almost $30 to use iPad as a secondary display…

or am I wrong?

thank you!!!

Comment on What Facebook needs to fix in Groups to make them more useful for educators by Colleen Greene

Colleen Greene — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 19:52:43 +0000

I agree with you! Groups lost some of the usefulness when discussion forums were eliminated.

Comment on How to add the Pinterest Pin It button to every post on your Thesis WordPress blog by Colleen Greene

Colleen Greene — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 17:26:49 +0000

I’m not quite sure what you’re asking. Can you clarify what you mean by “on every post” vs. “on an individual post”?

Kikolani’s tutorial explains how to display in-line social sharing buttons on individual posts (single post templates) in the Thesis theme framework without using a plug-in. Her tutorial, however, does not include Pinterest — how to add the Pin It button/bookmarklet to each post. So, I’ve added to her tutorial instructions in my post, noting how to include the Pin It button/bookmarklet alongside the other single post inline social sharing buttons.

This method *does” display the Pin It button/bookmarklet — as well as other social sharing buttons — on every single individual post. If what you mean by “on every post” is your home page (displaying x number of posts or post excerpts) or your archive, category, or tag pages…this method will NOT display the Pin It button (or other social sharing buttons) on those views. Because this method works with the “single post template”, it displays these buttons on the single (aka “individual”) post view.

Does that help?

Comment on How to add the Pinterest Pin It button to every post on your Thesis WordPress blog by Colleen Greene

Colleen Greene — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 17:16:41 +0000

Thanks for the heads-up. It looks like WP.com stripped my original [sourcecode][/sourcecode] shortcode; so I've added it back in to properly display the code markup. You should be able to copy the markup to your own text editor now.

Comment on Was it Facebook, fate, or a bit of both? by Colleen Greene

Colleen Greene — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 03:32:24 +0000

Jeanette, my friend, you made me cry. I love your story, too! Thank you for your kind heart and nature.

Comment on Was it Facebook, fate, or a bit of both? by Jeanette Gardner

Jeanette Gardner — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 01:01:51 +0000

I love your story on getting together with your love. My story is similar. I was in a very bad marriage and we had three boys and it got dangerous. I escaped one day in a u-haul van from northern CA to here with no money or job. I got a job in the Buena Park Mall managing a lady’s dress shop. Some guy that had a dress shop in the mall came in and flirted with all the girls and then tried with me. I threw him out. After a few weeks the girls and I met for dinner and I didn’t know they invited him. We started talking about our kids and our life being divorced and I found out he wasn’t so bad. After several years we got married quick, at the court house in Fullerton, before we changed our minds. We are truly soul mates and we have been so happy and never fight for 39 years. Mostly because if he gets upset he is so funny it makes me laugh and then he starts laughing too. A good marriage is so awesome and we raise all of our kids together, 4 boys and one girl. Our God is such a good match maker.

Comment on How to add the Pinterest Pin It button to every post on your Thesis WordPress blog by bencreated

bencreated — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:00:35 +0000

Basically, I’m still not getting it on every post – only when I click on an individual post. I can’t tell what the difference is between your custom_function.php and the one from Kikolani.

Comment on How to add the Pinterest Pin It button to every post on your Thesis WordPress blog by bencreated

bencreated — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:29:42 +0000

Can you clarify this a little bit? The part where you give the code to add to custom_functions.php will not copy into my editor.

Thanks!

Comment on Family history collaborative content management system by Mlc

Mlc — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:42:01 +0000

I have used Ancestry.com off and on over the years. I araeldy have so much on my family and have published it on the web, plus other branches not named Goode. Ancesry.com is OK if you can connect with folks which I have and share privately. I just use the lowest cheapest grade: I araeldy knew a great deal about the process of researching. Ancestry.com has allowed me to add lots of people, but in the main, its quite a crowd and in the end it’s almost info. than I need to know! If used keeping a budget in mind, and for quietly gathering info for your own site that’s one good use.Another is the number of census documents & other things scanned into the files that are very helpful: for example, my father’s mother, born before 1900, did not have a conventional birth certificate (family bible) & for some reason a search of state archives, no death certificate could be found. I was going to have trouble joining Colonial Dames, until I found I could attach census material “proving” my grandmother had lived nd thus solve the problem. I am also trying and have tried to come up with lists of Georgia marriages, 1850–1860, or Kentucky marriages 1870-1880, and add them by hand when possible: coming from local genealogy books.Such information is helpful. It also assists African Americans in the south and other groups who did not always record births/deaths with county/city authorities. Ancestry.com is one of many tools out there and you can probably get your money’s worth by doing the trial an going for a one month deal (yes even though you”save” by doing more months, it might be best to move and try another service.)There’s one that I tried for 7 days with lots of newspaper stuff, but not a darn thing on my family even though we’d lived in the area 100 years, they’d been lawyers, and were connected in some prominent cases. So I tried for 7 days and bailed. You just have to sample around. And just google up names you’re interested in: there are a LOT of family run free sites out there (I put mine up in 1998: the only problem is that my “netscape” email address is obviously gone, and I can’t get into the site and fix the old emails to let people kow where to write. I’ll just make a new site.. tripod and Lycos still do freebies.