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Back in college when I was working at the IT helpdesk, we’d sometimes have days that were just really slow. One of my favorite things to do back then was hop onto Yahoo Answers and find questions that I could help answer for people. They were mostly technical questions and I liked being able to help out people with the knowledge I had.
Although Yahoo Answers still exists today, it’s often not taken seriously because of the large number of people there posting fake questions and answers. So where should you go if you have questions you want answered by a volunteer community of experts? Enter “*StackExchange*”:http://stackexchange.com/
Launched in 2009, StackExchange has become host to dozens of excellent topic-specific sub-sites or exchanges where you can ask questions and get answers. The community is exceptionally helpful and friendly. The biggest exchange is “*Stack Overflow*”:http://stackoverflow.com/, where you can ask any and all questions related to computer programming. This is also the main exchange that spawned the rest of StackExchange. Other large popular exchanges include “*Server Fault*”:http://serverfault.com/ (for server admins), “*Super User*”:http://superuser.com/ (for computer power users), “*Ask Ubuntu*”:http://askubuntu.com/ (for Ubuntu users), “*Ask Different*”:http://apple.stackexchange.com/ (for Mac users) and many more.
The cool thing is that although it started off as a primarily technical Q&A site, various exchanges have popped up over the years for other things as well like, “*English Language and Usage*”:http://english.stackexchange.com/, “*Mathematics*”:http://math.stackexchange.com/, “*Travel*”:http://travel.stackexchange.com/, “*Parenting*”:http://parenting.stackexchange.com/, “*Chemistry*”:http://chemistry.stackexchange.com/, “*Pets*”:http://pets.stackexchange.com/ and more. I can’t tell you how often I google search some question I have and end up finding the answer on StackExchange.
New exchanges can be created as well. If you visit “*Area 51*”:http://area51.stackexchange.com/ their new site staging zone, you can see all the proposals for new exchanges. Some up and coming exchanges include Latin Language, 3D Printing, and Arts and Crafts.
So if you’re an expert on something and want to lend a hand to others, or if you are looking for expert answers to very specific questions, give StackExchange a try!
Grace was getting jealous of all the Christmas lighting on the houses in on our little island. She didn’t think that all my Bernie signs were festive enough so she put out some lights that spell out a big LOL. We have gotten some smiles for that so mission accomplished!
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_Don, Dean, Scott & Emily_
Shake That Thing…
One of my favorite features of El Capitan is the Cursor locator. I use a large display and the display on my MacBook Air when I am working at my home office. A lot of times I will have a spreadsheet on the MacBook Air’s display and our database (appropriately named K9) on the other large display. From time to time, I might lose track of the cursor. Where I used to just start cussing out my Mac with Grace asking “what’s wrong, dear?”, now all I have to do is shake my mouse or wiggle my finger on the trackpad and I have mega-cursor and know just where it is.
Okay, so let us just imagine that you might need to wiggle your mouse or trackpad in doing illustrations or something. That jumbo cursor might get in the way. You can disable this curser action if you want. Go to System Preferences > Accessibility > Display and deselect Shake mouse pointer to locate.