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  • What if a player wants to drop?

    If someone is playing and they decide they don’t want to play. # If it is after September 1 there is no refund # Click on the league # Choose Edit/Registant and type in their name # You should find them and click on them # Now to quick click for participants and seach for…

  • What to bring for games

    So here is the paperwork for each game: * Each coach gets a packet that comes from SYSA and goes to each club registrar * there are smaller sheets with carbon copy pages to be filled out for the ref for the games. * Let’s see for reporting scores…the ref is suppose to report the…

  • Soccer registration closes

    We are well into the swing of the season, but kids can still register * September 30. For select the rules are pretty strict and I really rely on Bob Sigley for this. If you check the WSYSA registrar’s handbook, I think all the deadlines are covered but they often change rules from year to…

  • Libor rates doubled!

    More scary than AIG coming apart or Lehmann has got to be what is happening with LIBOR to 6.44% which is an amazing increase. Bloomberg.com: Worldwide The London interbank offered rate, or Libor, that financial institutions charge each other for loans soared 3.33 percentage points to 6.44 percent today

  • Final decisions on ultracompact cameras: Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX35 vs. Canon Powershot SD790 IS

    !>http://www.trustedreviews.com/images/article/summary/8006.jpg! Well, unless you are going for a pro-grade compact camera like the soon to launch $500 Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX3, probably your main criteria is being small and OK pictures which is what you are going to get. Overall, it is interesting how cameras have not improved much from my trusty “SD500”:http://www.dcresource.com/reviews/canon/powershot_sd500-review/ and Fuji “F11…

  • Lyrics and Artwork on the Mac

    I’ve tried a bunch of tools. Pearlyrics is gone thanks to the RIAA, it was great because it would go through your whole set of songs. All the rest just do the current playing song and most are widgets now: # “Harmonic:http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/2035. This seems to work the best. Listens to the current song and plugs…

  • The perfect home theater system using Macbook’s

    Been experimenting with the Macbook’s as a way to drive a home theater. it is actually quite awesome what you can do assuming you really want something easy to use. Here is what I’ve found: # MacBook Pro’s has DVI and can convert to VGA. With older televisions (like my 10 year old Mitsubishi 73903)…

  • F2 in Mac

    Well, F2 on the Mac changes the screen brightness on MacBooks, but when you are in Excel, you want F2 to be brightness and F4 to be change cell references from absolute and so forth. With the F8-F12 this isn’t an issue, you can unmap those to get to F9 which is recalc by just…

  • Mac Excel function keys

    Mac 101: Reclaim your function keys – The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) The folks at Bitbox have described the simple steps needed to get some of that old flexibility back. First, launch system preferences and click the “Keyboard” tab. Next, select the “Use all F1, F2 etc. keys as standard function keys” option. For Excel…

  • Seeing schedules and team colors

    To view game schedules, the need to enter thru the “SYSA”:http://sysa.org website. Only the Sept schedule is posted now. Bblue and yellow are club colors and ALL teams have been asked (repeatedly, over the years) to use these colors per SYSA regulations.

  • itunes inconsistent in how it handles artwork

    If itunes finds the artwork for you, it never adds it to your MP3 files, so you have to Get Info and copy and past it. If you have art yourself, then you have to copy and paste them in. A little strange. Pushing Album art to MP3 files – Mac Forums n my experience…

  • Canon PowerShot G10 (G9 as a preview)

    This is coming out in October, but is a pretty big update. A reason to wait before buying a LX-3, I think. “Popphoto”:http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1010&message=29122707 had the notice. The previous “G9”:http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/canong9/ did get very good reviews (it is 12MP vs. the 15MP in the new G10) * 14.7 megapixels (wow!) * 28-140mm 5x zoom * 3 inch…

  • Seattle Youth Soccer Association schedules

    Here is the schedule for soccer for Capitol Hill Soccer Club. It is actually on the Seattle Youth Soccer Association. For some reason it is a “PDF”:http://sysa.bonzidev.com/doclib/2008%20B%20Rec%20U12%20games.pdf instead of a searchable web page.

  • Panasonic DMC-LX3

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  • Arrgh I hate PPTX files

    I can’t believe the file formats changed again. You have to load a converter for a Mac at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953823

  • Unassigning players

    More soccer entries, if someone doesn’t want to play after they are registered and assigned, # Send an email to the parents via find member # Wait until you get email from the parents as you can’t just change things # First find their team, click on the league, select the fields last name, first…

  • Digital Picture Frames and HD DVRs

    You can tell Cedia must be in full swing. !<http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/09/9-3-08-vaio_cp1.jpg! Been thinking about getting one for dear old Dad. At http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/03/sony-brings-wifi-enabled-vaio-cp1-digiframe-to-the-states/ they show the Sony VGF-CP1. It is $300 has has a 7-inch 800×480 widescreen. Support Picasa streaming, has an SD/CF card reader, built-in speakers, internet radio and digital clock. So, it really is the…

  • Back in Black

    Does every song use this AC/DC anthem? See the “live”:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXaZmY52gHM video. But what does it mean? Of course there is a site “Lyricinterpretations.com”:http://www.lyricinterpretations.com/lookat.php/bands/ACDC/bc5943285fcf975 that people speculate: AC/DC Song Meanings – Back in Black – Lyric Interpretations.com This song is dedicated to lead singer Bon Scott who died of asphyxiation, after choking on his own vomit…

  • Finding a coach and Removing a coach from a team

    This really shouldn’t be this hard, but to find an existing coach from a team you have to: # Click on the league you want (e.g., 2008 Fall Rec)# On the Quick Clicks in the top left of the screen, look for Find Participant# Click on Coache and type in the last name# You will…

  • Canon Pro9000 printing on an Time Capsule

    Just a reminder on how to print to a Canon Pro9000 via an Airport Extreme or a Time Capsule. This is actually tricky. You have to download the generic Canon IJ Printer (http://www.usa.canon.com/consumer/controller?act=ModelInfoAct&fcategoryid=182&modelid=12892#DownloadDetailAct) This has pretty tight requirements: * Mac OS X v10.5.3* Latest version of Airport firmware* Pro9000osxcp10120ej7.dmg which is the 10.1.2.0 version driver.

  • Cool iPhone Applications

    There are so many coming, “theiphoneblog.com”:http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2008/09/01/iphone-app-avalanche-7/#more-4056 does a great review. Of note: * Asphalt 4 Elite Racing with real 3-D and real cars too now $9.99. get it here* Toy Bot Diaries which let’s you control your bot over obstacles. $4. Get it here* IM+ is free and is a chat client for Jabber, MSN,…

  • Soccer Referee

    Thanks to Chris for this information on being a referee in WA is at “www.wasrc.org”:http://www.wasrc.org. It’s not a detailed website, so the basics are: * U-10 is the first year that games have refs, and a ref has to be at least 2 years older than the players, therefore a ref must be at least…

  • Audiobook Cd Backup with Max Mac Fission for splitting and MP3 Trimmer for joining

    If you have a series of audiobook CDs that you want to backup. What is the easiest way to do it. Well, you can use iTunes to back it up. You want to set it to use very small files. I normally go to iTunes/Preferences/Advanced/Importing and set it to MP3, custom with 32Kbps and 24Khz…

  • Soccer registration

    Ok somehow I’m Noe a soccer registrar so here ate notes ok how to do it. Assuming you use Bonzi which is a soccer club manager. It’s a remarkable database with a terrible interface (and it’s Windows only). In Bonzi there are four important concepts to understand otherwise you’ll never figure any of it out:…

  • Mac OS X Invisible files

    The Mac has this notion of invisible files. Sometimes you want to edit them. There are third party utilities like File Buddy which do this, but you can also “natively”:http://kb.iu.edu/data/ajyj.html view them if you squint sideways. Here are the instructions: In Mac OS X, how do I view invisible files? – Knowledge Base OS X…

  • Excel 2008 bugs make it useless for loans and private equity

    Wow, I can’t believe Microsoft would ship a product like this. Beware, Excel 2008 won’t recalc XIRR correctly and in fact any sheet that has an intentional reference where loan amounts have fees that are dependent. This has worked in versions of Excel for the last 20 years. So sad, it means that Excel 2008…

  • Four ways to make Mac simpler

    Mac 101: Four simple ways to make your Mac more efficient – The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) 1. Easy access from the dock I always drag my hard drive and Applications folder into the dock. No need to minimize windows, invoke Expose or, worst of all, shuffle windows around manually to reach the folder or…