Awesome! I just installed my first font on my iMac. I know that it might sound crazy but it is the first time that I have needed a font that I did not already have. I knew the process would be similar to Windows but I did not realize how simple it would be. Here is what I did…
1) I opened my application folder and then opened the program called “Font Book”.
2) I clicked on File and then Add Fonts…
3) Navigated to the font I wanted to install and selected it
That was it! All done!!
Just the other day I got a new computer at the office and I needed to backup my Skype messages from the old computer and put them on the new computer. I was not worried about the contacts list because those are maintained on the Skype servers. I thought I would share with you how to go about doing that.
On the Mac, at least on my iMac running OS X Leopard, the messages are in the following location:
Users\<user name>\Home\Library\Application Support\Skype
On Windows, the messages can be in one of two places (Windows XP or Windows Vista and up).
XP:
C:\Documents and Settings\<user name>\Application Data\Skype
or
Vista/Windows 7:
C:\Users\<user name>\AppData\Roaming\Skype
On both OS versions you do the following:
1. Copy the entire “Skype” folder contents to offline storage (ie. memory stick, cd, etc.).
2. Then you copy back the contents of the “Skype” folder you saved to the new system at the same location.
That is all there is to it.
As part of my on-going need to get healthy and back into shape my wife and I went out this past weekend and purchased new bikes. I like road bikes best and since we are going to be participating in some tours this year I thought that would be the way to go. Her bike can be used either for touring or off-road.
As a kid growing up I road bikes made by Raleigh and I did not know if they still made them today or not. It has been a long while since I have road. We went to our local bike store and looked around. To my surprise, they still made Raleigh and the fine owner of the store helped me pick out the best bike and supplies for me.
Here it is “The Raleigh Sport – 2009 Model”:
I expect that I will have many enjoyable hours on this bike with my family. I will keep everyone posted.
Here is a little bit of code that I use to make all my Java programs display the host computer’s native user interface theme:
try
{
UIManager.setLookAndFeel(UIManager.getSystemLookAndFeelClassName());
}
catch (Exception e)
{
System.out.println("Error setting native look and feel:"+e);
}
For further reading on the topic, here is a link to Sun’s website describing the topic in detail.
Every year people come up with things that they want to do and achieve during the new year. So, I don’t want to be left out on this, here are a list of things that I hope to keep this year:
Some personal goals:
Some business goals:
Those are my most important goals that I would like to tackle this year. With the grace of God, a little luck and allot of effort I hope to meet my challenges.
I have just recently changed the theme on my WordPress blog. I hope everyone enjoys it. If you have any comments or suggestions please drop me a note and let me know.
This past weekend I decided that it was time to upgrade my laptop, running Vista 64-bit, to Windows 7 64 bit. Everything came off without any problems. It did take almost 2.5 hours to complete the upgrade. The only issues that I had was something to do with ATI’s Catalysis software not wanting to work right.
I had to make some last minute purchases for 2009. I purchased FireFly Visual Designer for PowerBASIC, WYSIWYG Web Builder 6, and Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Standard. I hope these tools will prove productive for me in 2010 and beyond. These were probably the biggest purchases for the year.
One thing that I struggled with in buying the upgrade to Visual Studio was the fact that in VS 2005 standard you could create Windows Mobile applications and, because they can, Microsoft took that option away in the 2008 standard version. So, I guess if I am going to do any WM development I am going to have to find another way.
Work is continuing on the next version of Pick’em and the website is getting a face lift too.
I sincerely hope that everyone had a happy and safe Christmas this year. Our Christmas was awesome. I just wish there were more time to rest and reflect on things. We had allot of places we had to be and did not have the time we would like to have had to just be together as a family. Don’t get me wrong it was a very fun time and we got to be with family it just seems to not have been long enough.
It has been a little while since my last post, sorry about that. We have been on several little excursions as of late and preparing for the holidays. I have finally got to see my first live NFL football game and also finally got to return to the Smokey Mountains in Gatlinburg, TN. If anyone would like to see some pictures they are posted on my website under photos.
