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Logitech Professional Presenter R800 and Yosemite (OS X 10.10)

December 5, 2014 by Gavan 7 Comments

Though not officially supported on OS X by Logitech, I followed these instructions and can confirm that the R800 works in OS X Yosemite with PowerPoint (for Mac 2011).

Posted in: Support Tagged: logitech, os x, Support, Technology, yosemite

Greet, Get, Give, Gauge & Go: a Framework for Student Consultations

February 6, 2014 by Gavan Leave a Comment

As an instructor, it might be tempting to measure the success of student visits by how quickly you can provide a correct answer—but excelling at this particular metric might come at the cost of a student building their own ability to answer similar questions in the future. The 5G framework1 for student consultations not only offers a structure for answering a variety of student questions, but is a tool that can be used to build a student’s future success as well as providing a way to measure the outcomes of consultations. It consists of the five following steps:

  1. Greet
  2. Get
  3. Give
  4. Gauge
  5. Go
  1. The 5G framework draws its inspiration from a framework outlined on page 53 in Nyquist, J. D., & Wulff, D. H. (1996). Working effectively with graduate assistants. Thousands Oaks: Sage Publications. It was my colleague, Dr. Natasha Kenny, who made me aware of Nyquist & Wulff’s work, so a tip-of-the-hat to her as well. [↩]
Posted in: Educational Development Tagged: consultation, framework, learning, student, Support, teaching assistants

Ghosts of WordPress Plugins Past

October 18, 2010 by Gavan Leave a Comment

Installation Tour: Part 2
Creative Commons License photo credit: Scriblio

So, it turns out that most people who have visited the homepage of this website since late May have seen the same homepage. Or, in other words, it would have looked like I hadn’t updated the website since May. Not the case! After noticing this and doing some troubleshooting, it looks like a caching plugin I had uninstalled left a copy of its cache to serve to unsuspecting visitors. None the less, the cache has been deleted and everything should be back to normal.

Enjoy five months of fresh content!

Posted in: Metapost Tagged: Support, troubleshooting, wordpress

Finding missing photos in Lightroom 2

March 20, 2009 by Gavan Leave a Comment

The short.

Grayed-out and question-mark inflicted folders in Lightroom?

This solution works when your photographs’ Lightroom directory structure remains the same but parent directories have moved (due to, for example, installing a new OS).

Quick solution :

If no parent folder exists:

  1. In the Library module, under the Folders panel (ctrl+shift+2) right-click one folder and select “Add parent folder”
  2. Make sure that the old parent folder and the new parent folder share the same name, if not, change new parent folder to match old parent folder name (not in Lightroom, but in Windows Explorer).

Once parent folder exists:

  1. Selecting the parent folder, right click and select “Update folder location.”
  2. Point to parent folder.
  3. Lightroom should now find all you photos.

Good Luck!

The long.

I recently downgraded from Windows Vista to XP. In the process of doing this I had to format my hard drive and reinstall everything. While it’s nice to have “renovated the house”, there are always headaches to deal with with any OS re-install. My biggest was that the directory structure for XP and Vista are different so that, even after I saved my Lightroom catalogue to a second external hard drive (see my post on managing Lightroom catalogues for more information on that) and added it back to my fresh Lightroom install, Lightroom thought that all of my pictures were missing in action.

I was underwhelmed with Adobe’s suggestion, in part because my catalogue structure was without a parent folder and Adobe’s solution would have me selecting each folder and telling the program where it went. With over 100 folders, this menial task seemed like too much repetitive work. I was looking for a batch solution.

After farting around, I found a surprisingly easy solution: when you right click any folder (that is, any folder without a parent folder), you get an option to “add parent folder”. Simply click this and the parent folder should appear. For me, this made “Pictures” appear as the parent folder. This is the default file folder in Vista but in XP, it is “My Pictures”. I changed the file folder name in XP to “Pictures” so that they matched. With this done, there was enough continuity with old and new directory structure to tell Lightroom where to find the photos.

Right-clicking the parent Pictures directory in Lightroom, I selected the “Update folder location” option and, using the folder tree, pointed to the parent directory. Lightroom is smart enough that once it has found a parent directory to look for all the children folders. So, once you’ve pointed it in the right direction, the process becomes automated.

Thankfully, Lightroom found all my photographs.

(Truth be told, my process was a was a wee bit longer. Prior to figuring this out, I had pointed Lightroom to a few children folders. This, problematically created two parent folders called “Pictures”. When I figured out what I was doing and tried to “update folder location” for the missing Pictures folder (that held the majority of my folders), I got a message, to the effect that this folder was already added to my catalogue. Shit! The solution? In windows explorer, I created a dummy parent folder (which I called “Dummy”) and then moved the Pictures folder into it. Now, in Lightroom, all my photos went missing again. Selecting the Pictures parent directory with the most children folders, I updated to the new folder location. Now I had to manually change the folder location for the remaining folders, but this was a much shorter process. With all the folders back together, I closed Lightroom and moved the “Pictures” folder out of the dummy folder back to its original location. Reopening Lightroom caused the pictures to go missing again, but it was a matter of following the five steps above to get everything back in order.)

Posted in: Support Tagged: Adobe Lightroom, file directory, lightroom, lightroom 2, Software, Support

Torbutton extension deleting my Firefox 3 cookies

August 9, 2008 by Gavan Leave a Comment

I was having a problem with Firefox 3 where all my cookies were being deleted each and everytime I re-launched the program. Luckily after some Google-fu, I found some other people having similar problems to my own. The solution? Deleteing the Torbutton extension. Seems to have solved my problems.

Posted in: Computer, Support Tagged: cookies, extension, firefox, firefox 3, Software, solution, Support, torbutton

WordPress 2.6 update and log-in woes

July 27, 2008 by Gavan Leave a Comment

I’ve been the good boy that WordPress wants me to be and I’ve just upgraded to 2.6. It wasn’t without its moments, though. All the upgrade process went just fine, but when I went to log in to my dashboard–the backend of the blog–I was met with a message that said that my password was wrong. I tried re-setting the password twice with no avail. Luckily, I found this post that described the same problem I was having (with the exception that this person was using Safari rather than Firefox in my case). The suggested solution worked for me: clear my browser cookies & cache. So, I tossed my cookies, cleared my cache, closed down Firefox, re-launched the browser and, voilà, I was able to log-in with my newly-reset password.

Posted in: Metapost, Recommendation, Support Tagged: cache, cookies, dashboard, log-in, problem, solution, Support, upgrade, wordpress 2.6

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