Rob Cottingham - Latest Comments

Re: WordPress and Thesis: How to make a drop-down menu with post titles

Rob Cottingham — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 22:30:12 -0000

Thanks for asking - unfortunately, I don't know Genesis at all!

Re: WordPress and Thesis: How to make a drop-down menu with post titles

Vajrasar — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 07:04:19 -0000

Hi, thanks for such a post. I was looking for the same over internet. But am using Genesis and I want to implement the same. I saw the site (
http://www.alexandrasamuel.com ) and this is very much what I want (just along with thumbs and excerpts).
Can you guide me on the right path?
Thank again.

Re: Social Speech Podcast, Episode 8: Nancy Duarte

Rob Cottingham — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 20:51:52 -0000

Thanks, Dave. I'm delighted to get the feedback - and I'd love to hear any ideas you might have for upcoming topics, subjects or episodes!

Re: The super-private Facebook profile

Rob Cottingham — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 18:38:24 -0000

That's not helpful of them.

But thanks for providing at least one answer to just exactly why are you on Facebook? - and for another, there's also authentication on third-party sites.

Re: The super-private Facebook profile

Carey Evans — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 18:23:41 -0000

I'm on Facebook because my employer wants me to implement "Login with Facebook". Unfortunately Facebook thinks having no friends means I'm a phony, and won't let me create an app so that I can do this.

Re: Social Speech Podcast, Episode 8: Nancy Duarte

Dave Traynor — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 13:37:36 -0000

Hey Rob - Thanks for the great podcase with Nancy. She's been a hero of mine since the Gore movie. I went searching then to find out more about who was behind that incredible presentation. But I hadn't realized her new book was out, so your interview prompted me to go and grab it. It really is an impressive piece of work - especially the innovative design. They kept the unique style on the iPad and it works very well (althought these old, tired eyes have to zoom the page occasionally!)

Thanks again for a terrific interview. I'm enjoying this series a lot.

Dave

Re: Why attribution is important – even (especially) on Tumblr and Posterous

Mariposima — Wed, 16 May 2012 07:12:22 -0000

You can also do a reverse image search on Google by clicking on the little camera icon in the search bar in Google images. The results are way better than Tineye... and it seems not many people know about it.

Re: How to open a WordPerfect file in OS X

Bfidlow — Wed, 09 May 2012 20:13:10 -0000

Thanks for the help, but is there a version of AbiWord that runs on Lion (10.7.3)?

Re: A little respect for audiences, please

Janet Stewart — Sat, 05 May 2012 19:38:58 -0000

Thoughtful words, Rob.

Re: How to cartoon and (almost) post from 20,000 feet

Anna Richter — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 18:58:43 -0000

I'm impressed you still had this left in you after all your hard work at the 2012 NTC! Thanks so much for rocking out the graphic recordings again this year.

Re: How to cartoon and (almost) post from 20,000 feet

Greg Phillips — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 19:00:43 -0000

Fun cartoons as always, Rob. And thanks for pointing me at JotNot – I've been looking for something like that for a while.

Re: Google+ may become Facebook for people who are serious about Facebook

Lloyd Dewolf — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 16:57:32 -0000

I'll have to check this out. I've never experienced Facebook's Video Calling feature either.

Re: Jim Green, one of Vancouver’s great civic leaders

Ian Bateson — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 00:59:23 -0000

A great visionary and agree he was the greatest mayor Vancouver missed out on. Wishing you the very best in your fight Jim.

Re: “Like a punch in the gut. Like our kids don’t count.”

H Fancott — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:12:58 -0000

I read the whole thing. I'm an adoptive mom so all I can say is WORD on that!

Re: How to open a WordPerfect file in OS X

Rob Cottingham — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:38:46 -0000

Konnie, that's wonderful! I'm so glad this could help.

Re: How to open a WordPerfect file in OS X

Konnie — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:53:59 -0000

Thank you! I can now open documents written by my grandmother containing her personal life experiences, a history of my grandfather's life and additional histories of my great-grandparents. This is priceless, precious history to me and my children.

Re: A message from you, in the future: back up your data NOW

Gregory Heller — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 17:51:27 -0000

I'd add looking into a password management tool like 1Password. The worst thing I lost in a recent migration where things went badly was a bunch of logins in my keychain access file on my mac (which is where all your google chrome and safari stored passwords live!) 1password also allows you to store your password file on dropbox!

Re: iChat login woes in OS X Lion? This might help

Alexjberry — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 19:48:54 -0000

Worked for me! Thanks for that, couldn't make sense of it.

Re: Using social media to turn your next speech into an ongoing conversation

Dan Pontefract — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 22:15:53 -0000

To me, this is akin to the evolution of formal learning.

We can no longer teach at the front of the room and expect learning is going to occur.

We need to enhance the 'speech' through social learning techniques and modalities. (all of the ones you mention above and more)

Re: Use tags to replace the RSS feed from Google Reader’s “Share” button (Update: Or not)

David Whelan — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 15:07:51 -0000

[original comment deleted] Nevermind. I thought I'd found a work around (where the SHARE box at the top of the Google Plus bar pushed it out to the old Reader RSS feed) but it stops as of last night.

Re: Steve Jobs

Erin — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 20:17:59 -0000

That was an amazing MacWorld to witness, wasn't it?
I thought a lot of my dad when I found out about Steve. Hopefully they're having some good conversations up there in the Great Apple Store in the sky.

Re: Steve Jobs

LJ Lee — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 00:21:37 -0000

Love your last cartoon - the great ones. Thanks for a great Blog.

Re: Steve Jobs

Julie Hewlett — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 12:50:22 -0000

Love your point about the Mac-focussed workplace at NOW. First person I thought of yesterday when I heard the news was Dennis.

Re: If you see something…

Jim Goss — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 16:49:41 -0000

Google buzzed "If you see something". Will share it on twitter. Thanks for educating this element of the unwashed!

Re: How to open a WordPerfect file in OS X

Kentlocke — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 14:24:29 -0000

If I open a word perfect document using Abiworld on my MacAir and modify it can I then save it in word format?