WordPress kept bugging me and telling me that my installation was out of date, and I’ve never really cared up upgrade. However, someone shared the InstantUpgrade plugin with me, and it blew me away!
http://www.zirona.com/software/wordpress-instant-upgrade/
The whole process took me less than 5 minutes. Zirona – you guys rocks.
There will be an intensive four-day training course coming up this January. I’ll be teaching a small portion on the course, and personally know some of the other instructors. It will be a great expereince!
January 20–23, 8:30am–5:30pm
All of the information is here:
http://www.izatt.com/training.html
Here are two little tricks that will help you take screenshots on a Mac like a Pro. (But not a Mac Pro).
Use Command + Shift + 3 to take a screenshot of everything that is on your screen. If you have multiple monitors, it will save separate files for each monitor you have connected. The file will be saved on the desktop.
Command + Shift + 4 will give you a selection tool to grab only the section of the screen that you want to capture.
If you press the Ctrl key with either of these combinations, the screenshot will be saved onto the clipboard. (If you have multiple monitors, only the primary monitor will be saved onto the clipboard.)
Finally, my favorite: After hitting Command + Shift + 4, if you hover you pointer over an active window and press the spacebar, then click, Mac OS will capture just that window or dialogue box. This method also maintains dropshadows and transparency 
Enjoy!
Once upon a time, while cranking away at our Web Analytics presentation, Dave tried accessing our main data file. To his horror, he got the following message: “Excel cannot open this file. The file might have been damage or modified from its original format.” We tried opening the spreadsheet in Office 2008 and on the Windows version, but nothing worked. We even tried the “Recovery Toolbox For Excel” and that did absolutely nothing.
Though we eventually had to recreate all of our data, I’ve recently stumbled upon the fix.
A classmate (thanks Karl!) recently told me that Office Open XML documents (docx, pptx, xlsx, etc…) are essentially zip files containing all of the document information. So on a whim, I tried the following, and it recovered the file!
I hope this helps someone out! If the fix works, please add a comment to let me know.
Reed | 
12 31st, 2008| 
