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- TL0043 - 2011, Week 31
7/31/11 - Minions can't crit
- https://leagueoflegends.fandom.com/wiki/Critical_strike
8/1/11 - Effective use of Flash in LoL
- https://leagueoflegends.fandom.com/wiki/Flash
8/2/11 - Which frats at UNH are unrecognized and why.
- https://www.seacoastonline.com/article/20081002/NEWS/810020417
- https://www.fosters.com/article/20111026/GJNEWS_01/710269947
- https://www.seacoastonline.com/article/20111107/NEWS/111070335
- https://tnhdigital.com/2014/10/14/unh-buys-former-alpha-tau-omega-house/
- https://www.unh.edu/unhtoday/2018/02/spotlight-tau-kappa-epsilon
8/3/11 - Some decent Singed builds in LoL
- https://youtu.be/_JObZnNmybM
- https://leagueoflegends.fandom.com/wiki/Singed/LoL
8/4/11 - Microsoft Publisher
- https://youtu.be/voTUnZ0bdZY
- https://www.theguardian.com/business/2011/aug/04/stock-markets-exchange-plunge-business
- https://youtu.be/dtLb1BJGCXU
- https://youtu.be/-wlCZMYq3X0
8/5/11 – “chflags nohidden /users//library” unhides the library folder in Lion.
- https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3673035
- https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/users-library-hidden-in-big-sur.2245150/
8/6/11 - The laugh command in LoL
- https://gametipcenter.com/league-of-legends-how-to-laugh
- http://gametipcenter.com/league-of-legends-how-to-taunt
Extra topic - Edmund Vance Cooke's "How Did you Die?" - https://allpoetry.com/How-Did-You-Die-
This episode's music comes from the Free Music Archive.
Tracks featured in this episode include:
- Doctor Turtle - G of the Bang
- Turtle - I Snost, I Lost
- Turtle - Jolenta Clears The Table
- Turtle - Wherever I Lay My Hat, That's My Wife
20 min - TL0042 - 2011, Week 30
7/24/11 - Droid Charge screenshot feature: Just hold Back and then press Home.
- https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/1759/how-to-take-a-screenshot-with-an-android-device
7/25/11 - The Clone Stamp in Photoshop
- https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/how-to/clone-stamp-remove-object.html
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2G0Q58-C0ME
- http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Aq47xw7ZFTs/TyeMMxkqOGI/AAAAAAAAKDI/dDY--4rMUnA/w1200-h630-p-nu/83382c6dovieposter.jpg
7/26/11 - Asset management in Dreamweaver (protip: Ctrl F)
- https://helpx.adobe.com/dreamweaver/using/keyboard-shortcuts.html
- https://www.creativebloq.com/computer-arts/sharpen-your-design-skills-part-two-9089252
7/27/11 - How to play Annie in LoL
- https://leagueoflegends.fandom.com/wiki/Annie/LoL
- https://leagueoflegends.fandom.com/wiki/V1.0.0.122
- https://youtu.be/KOD_aOY7sv8?t=76
7/28/11 - Mountain Dew doesn't taste good when warm.
7/29/11 - HTML5 Article tag
- https://html.com/tags/article/
- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/article
- https://youtu.be/Eyndz5R-Vkg
- https://youtu.be/swWeWesZVZU
7/30/11 - Microsoft Office 4 was released in 1993
- https://winworldpc.com/product/microsoft-office/40
- https://web.archive.org/web/20120829165451/http://www.intowindows.com/microsoft-office-history-in-brief/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Office#Version_history
- https://youtu.be/IEtpqQK3JHY
Extra topic: Facebook account linkage + Yahoo account connections:
- https://venturebeat.com/2011/07/05/facebook-blocks-contacts-exporter/
- https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/18718/how-to-connect-google-account-to-yahoo-account
This episode's music comes from the Free Music Archive.
Tracks featured in this episode include:
- Doctor Turtle - Today's Special: Jam Tomorrow
- Doctor Turtle - The Void Says Hi (long version)
- Doctor Turtle - Lullaby For Democracy
- Doctor Turtle - The Ants Built A City On His Chest
- Doctor Turtle - Rotisserie Graveyard
24 min - TL0041 - 2011, Week 29
7/17/11 - A better tank Heimer build
7/18/11 - Stand in spawn with Tear of the Goddess and spam abilities to gain max mana fast.
- https://www.ign.com/wikis/league-of-legends/Tear_of_the_Goddess
7/19/11 - Tricks to validate pages for HTML5.
- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Attributes/rel
7/20/11 - Asset management in Dreamweaver.
- https://youtu.be/fZov_-7_U7M?t=10
- https://youtu.be/Pp2Cgu6EljM?t=8
- https://youtu.be/HiiZh5ZT2eE
7/21/11 - Pressing "tab" when renaming a file selects the next file with the 'rename box' already opened.
- https://lifehacker.com/rename-files-fast-with-the-tab-key-5597035
- https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/nasas-final-space-shuttle-mission-comes-to-an-end
- https://www.space.com/18162-space-shuttle-atlantis.html
7/22/11 - Boston University's layout
- http://www.bu.edu/backtoschool/location/newbury-biblical-institute/
- http://physics.bu.edu/~okctsui/BU_map_with_parking.pdf
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptrAz5YsT-Q
7/23/11 - defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false fixes the key repeat bug in macOS Lion
- https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5038771
- https://www.howtogeek.com/267463/how-to-enable-key-repeating-in-macos/
- https://lifehacker.com/make-your-keyboard-keys-repeat-properly-when-held-down-5826055
- https://web.archive.org/web/20120606025715/http://slacktory.com/2011/07/os-x-lion-alphabet-which-keys-repeat/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20130117032835/https://discussions.apple.com/message/15665581#15665581
This episode's music comes from the Free Music Archive.
Tracks featured in this episode include:
- Doctor Turtle - And the Darkness Grew Like a Tree
- Doctor Turtle - Fingerlympics
- Doctor Turtle - One Person Listening Now
- Doctor Turtle - So Long, Succour
- Doctor Turtle - Carrot Sticks
23 min - TL0040 - 2011, Week 28
7/10/11 - Mission Control has a few extra gestures built in
- https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2011/07/mac-os-x-10-7/6/
- http://macnix.blogspot.com/2011/07/change-mac-os-x-107-lion-ical-and.html
- https://youtu.be/LPMjUtfQPks?t=863
7/11/11 - CSS3 Gradients.
- https://www.w3schools.com/css/css3_gradients.asp
- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_Images/Using_CSS_gradients
- https://cssgradient.io/
7/12/11 - ASP forms
- https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/difference-html-asp/
- https://www.diffen.com/difference/ASP_vs_ASP.Net
- https://www.w3schools.com/ASP/asp_inputforms.asp
7/13/11 - Archangel's Staff first for better AP scaling (+200 difference by end game)
7/14/11 - More about HTML/ASP forms
7/15/11 - Selling on eBay
- https://www.ebay.com/help/selling/fees-credits-invoices/selling-fees?id=4364&mkevt=1&mkcid=1&mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&campid=5337590774&customid=&toolid=10001
7/16/11 – A quote from an Ars Technica article: "If your new system has a regular magnetic HDD, it's a good idea to install your applications before you transfer a lot of data. This way, the applications will be stored on the outer, faster part of the disk platters so they load faster."
- https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2011/07/making-a-clean-start-with-lion-migrating-without-assistance/3/
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3464414/
Extras - ShiftWindow:
- http://grismar.net/shiftwindow/
This episode's music comes from the Free Music Archive.
Tracks featured in this episode include:
- Doctor Turtle - Over the Water, Humans Gather
- Doctor Turtle - Frosty Jack's Supernova
- Doctor Turtle - Reality Cartwheeled
- Doctor Turtle - Kerchingless Wonder
- Doctor Turtle - The Circles I Went Round In
22 min - TL0039 - 2011, Week 27
7/3/11 - All instruments mode in Rock Band 3
- https://harmonix.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/217924338-How-can-7-people-play-Rock-Band-3-at-once-
- https://www.giantbomb.com/rock-band-3/3030-27919/forums/rock-band-3-all-instruments-mode-ok-idea-poorly-im-462958/
- https://youtu.be/40aL4x0r-qg
7/4/11 - I've been spelling Marshmallow wrong.
- https://mandelaeffect.com/
- https://screenrant.com/nintendo-gameboy-game-boy-real-name-spelling-mistake/
- https://old.reddit.com/r/MandelaEffect/comments/4kgrjh/marshmellow_is_really_spelled_marshmallow/
- https://youtu.be/LB3CybXl8rs
7/5/11 - How to replicate a table in a div
- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13350192/replicate-a-table-with-div-css
- http://jsfiddle.net/tNms9/3/
7/6/11 - My website has fewer validation errors than apple.com
- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7940/how-important-is-w3c-xhtml-css-validation-when-finalizing-work
- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6894256/is-w3c-validation-important
7/7/11 – Internet Explorer is so bad it has its own comments for CSS for alternate styles based on the browser detected.
- https://www.quirksmode.org/css/condcom.html
- https://webdesignerwall.com/tutorials/css-specific-for-internet-explorer
7/8/11 - Parallax effects in CSS (wouldn't want to use it though)
- https://www.w3schools.com/howto/tryhow_css_parallax_demo.htm
- https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/css-pure-css-parallax
7/9/11 - Yorick is an absolutely useless champion.
- https://www.pcgamer.com/e3-2011-league-of-legends-newest-champion-yorick-in-action/
- https://leagueoflegends.fandom.com/wiki/Yorick/LoL/Patch_history
- https://www.mobafire.com/league-of-legends/build/yorick-masters-guide-94005/discussion
This episode's music comes from the Free Music Archive.
Tracks featured in this episode include:
- Gillicuddy - Springish
- Gillicuddy - Thinking of You
- Gillicuddy - A Garden and a Library
- lietoofine - Parachute Descent
- Unknown Artist - Marianne
- Doctor Turtle - Marty, Ladies and Gentlemen
- Kielicaster - Neuanfang (Kielicaster ID 017)
- Kielicaster - Shangri La (Kielicaster 010)
21 min - TL0038 - 2011, Week 26
6/26/11 - Android is technically a Java stack and not really Linux
- https://www.androidauthority.com/android-linux-784964/
- https://www.howtogeek.com/189036/android-is-based-on-linux-but-what-does-that-mean/
- https://linuxhint.com/is-android-linux/
6/27/11 - A better way to power off the TV station computers all at once.
6/28/11 - Image Maps
- https://www.w3schools.com/htmL/html_images_imagemap.asp
- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/83073/why-not-use-tables-for-layout-in-html
6/29/11 - Classes vs. IDs
- https://www.w3docs.com/learn-css/css-id-and-class.html
- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12889362/what-is-the-difference-between-id-and-class-in-css-and-when-should-i-use-them
- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/CSS/Building_blocks/Selectors/Type_Class_and_ID_Selectors
6/30/11 - Z-index
- https://www.w3schools.com/cssref/pr_pos_z-index.asp
- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_Positioning/Understanding_z_index
7/1/11 - The border-radius spec has been made official and standardized.
- https://sitthykun.wordpress.com/2011/02/24/border-radius-and-moz-border-radius/
- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/border-radius
- https://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/syndata.html#vendor-keywords
7/2/11 - overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: auto; makes the overflow work with horizontal or vertical scrolling.
- https://www.w3schools.com/CSSref/css3_pr_overflow-x.asp
- https://www.w3schools.com/CSSref/css3_pr_overflow-y.asp
This episode's music comes from the Free Music Archive. Tracks featured in this episode include:
- Gillicuddy - Adventure, Darling
- Cory Gray - All My Light
- Gillicuddy - Porthglaze Cove
- Gillicuddy - Multitudes
- Gillicuddy - Ferns and Cork
- Gillicuddy - Jupiter the Blue
- Gillicuddy - Travelling Made-up Continents
- Gillicuddy - Pony
- Gillicuddy - The Everlasting Itch for Things Remote
- Lobo Loco - Just Walking (ID 1515)
24 min - TL0037 - 2011, Week 25
6/19/11 - Monitoring my GPU via MSI Afterburner.
- https://www.msi.com/Landing/afterburner/graphics-cards
- https://www.gpumag.com/msi-afterburner/
- https://coinguides.org/safe-gpu-temperature/
- https://www.softpedia.com/get/System/System-Info/MobileMeter.shtml
6/20/11 - Third party cookies being disabled in Firefox causes Facebook “like” buttons to infinite loop.
- https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/third-party-cookies-firefox-tracking-protection?redirectslug=disable-third-party-cookies&redirectlocale=en-US
6/21/11 - Livestream audio recording on the Mac
- https://www.hltv.org/news/9932/own3dtv-confirms-shutdown
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XSplit
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Broadcaster_Software
- http://camtwiststudio.com/
- https://github.com/mattingalls/Soundflower
- https://youtu.be/bJHdFO1Mfls?t=109
- https://youtu.be/EPZXkvl8cT0?t=69
6/22/11 - The Zune mini player can view the current playlist.
6/23/11 - Javascript mouseover menus
- http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex1/dropmenuindex.htm
6/24/11 - Guinness isn't that bad.
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3266819.stm
- https://www.irishcentral.com/culture/food-drink/guinness-good-for-you
- https://doi-org.ezproxy.snhu.edu/10.1016/j.pathophys.2003.10.011
- https://www.veganfoodandliving.com/news/its-official-all-guinness-now-suitable-vegans-draft-bottle-can-form/
6/25/11 - Stacking runes is really helpful
- https://leagueoflegends.fandom.com/wiki/Rune_(Historical)
- https://youtu.be/79XQKhuKq28
- https://web.archive.org/web/0/http://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/news/game-updates/patch/patch-722-notes
- https://web.archive.org/web/20171106152513/http://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/featured/preseason-update
This episode's music comes from the Free Music Archive.
Tracks featured in this episode include:
- Siddhartha Corsus - Mountain Flowers
- Siddhartha Corsus - Song for Ramanujan (Saraswati Devi)
- Speed Limit 35 - Binky
- Siddhartha Corsus - Winds of Change
- Zero V - Don't Rush
21 min - TL0036 - 2011, Week 24
6/12/11 - Archangel's Staff gives Heimerdinger a massive early game buff provided you have the gold
- https://www.ign.com/wikis/league-of-legends/Archangel%27s_Staff
- https://www.ign.com/wikis/league-of-legends/Tear_of_the_Goddess
- https://www.ign.com/wikis/league-of-legends/Blasting_Wand
- https://leagueoflegends.fandom.com/wiki/V1.0.0.94(b)
- https://web.archive.org/web/20200314090140/http://forums.na.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=148864
6/13/11 - How to ship stuff at the shipping office downtown
- https://k.kramerav.com/downloads/pdf/product/1/VM-80V.pdf
6/14/11 – Bonds
- https://youtu.be/IuyejHOGCro
6/15/11 - What the word libido means
- https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/libido
- https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/smells-like-teen-spirit/
- https://www.biography.com/news/kurt-cobain-nirvana-smells-like-teen-spirit-meaning
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teen_Spirit_(deodorant)
6/16/11 - MSN rounds financial statement numbers.
- https://www.journalofaccountancy.com/issues/2018/may/fraud-round-numbers.html
- https://www.accountingcoach.com/blog/rounding-amounts-balance-sheet-financial-statements
- https://www.accountingcoach.com/blog/what-is-materiality
- https://www.accountingtools.com/articles/2017/5/14/the-materiality-principle
6/17/11 - Steam's video driver update system has gotten a lot better
- https://youtu.be/nIn4Zc2NhlY
- https://steamcommunity.com/groups/SteamClientBeta/discussions/1/135508662494900311/
- https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=6416-EYDH-0477
6/18/11 - My computer's GPU overheats easily
- https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/mobility-radeon-hd-4570.c1630
- https://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-ATI-Mobility-Radeon-HD-4570.13885.0.html
This episode's music comes from the Free Music Archive.
Tracks featured in this episode include:
- De Yan-Key - Wade in the Water
- Ketsa - Sunshine-Send-Off
- Jesse Spillane - Number 0
- Lobo Loco - By By River (ID 209)
Siddhartha Corsus - Count Your Blessings, Count Your Stars19 min - TL0035 - 2011, Week 23
6/5/11 - Not caring about anything is apparently the best way to deal with things.
6/6/11 - More accounting stuff
6/7/11 - The Wii U
- https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2011/110425_4e.pdf
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEMz4ZieCwM
- https://www.vg247.com/2011/05/03/nintendo-e3-conference-date-and-time-announced/
6/8/11 - More accounting (it's all I'm doing lately)
6/9/11 - Migrating over Compressor droplets from the old Final Cut Studio to the new one.
- https://youtu.be/EY1bAJmZ_vU
- https://support.apple.com/guide/compressor/create-and-use-droplets-cpsr8747db7f/mac
6/10/11 - Notifications were in Android 1.5, and didn't originate in 1.6
- https://www.gsmarena.com/google_android_through_the_years-news-31123.php
- https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/10/building-android-a-40000-word-history-of-googles-mobile-os/2/
- https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/10/building-android-a-40000-word-history-of-googles-mobile-os/8/
- https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2010/05/android-22-and-developers-goodies.html
6/11/11 - I'm really not into the taste of beer.
Extras:
Six-core Mac Pro "Mid 2010" versus "Westmere 2012:"
- https://everymac.com/systems/apple/mac_pro/specs/mac-pro-six-core-3.33-mid-2012-westmere-specs.html
- https://everymac.com/systems/apple/mac_pro/faq/differences-between-mac-pro-mid-2012-mid-2010-models.html
This episode's music comes from the Free Music Archive.
Tracks featured in this episode include:
- Podington Bear - Relinquish
- De Yan-Key - Night Sky
- Zero V - Indian Summer
- Antony Raijekov - By the Coast (2004)
- Mid-Air Machine - Breakdown
- Revolution Void - Scattered Knowledge
- Ketsa - Origin Funk
26 min - TL0034 - 2011, Week 22
5/29/11 - Computer keyboards in the rest of the world apparently have a very unnecessarily large return key that the US abolished in the Windows 95 days.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enter_key
- https://deskthority.net/wiki/Return_key
- https://www.cnn.com/2011/10/05/opinion/garfield-steve-jobs-fonts/index.html
- https://www.quora.com/Why-do-Apple-Mac-keyboards-have-a-return-key-instead-of-an-enter-key
- https://support.getfreewrite.com/article/44-freewrites-physical-keyboard-layouts-ansi-vs-iso
- https://thomasbaart.nl/2019/02/10/keycap-count-by-size-and-row-for-ansi-and-iso/
5/30/11 - The HoN staff are jerks.
5/31/11 - No matter how much you study you can still screw up an exam.
6/1/11 - "None of the above" usually has the lowest probability of being right.
6/2/11 - Apple Qmaster setup
6/3/11 - Lyme disease can be contracted from ticks and mosquitoes
- https://www.bu.edu/articles/2020/ticks-mosquitoes-infectious-disease-carriers-expanding-their-range/
- https://www.sponauglewellness.com/conditions/lyme-disease-treatment/lyme-study-how-borrelia-bacteria-is-transmitted-from-mosquitoes-to-humans/
- https://www.cdc.gov/lyme/index.html
- https://www.cdc.gov/lyme/mayonii/index.html
6/4/11 - Steve Jobs is apparently called Wally
- https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6401015/
- https://forums.appleinsider.com/discussion/comment/1104763/
Extras:
TagWhat:
- https://vimeo.com/27952772
IvyLoL:
- https://web.archive.org/web/20110602160912/http://ivylol.com/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20140909144340/http://www.reddit.com/r/ivylol
This episode's music comes from the Free Music Archive.
Tracks featured in this episode include:
- Ketsa - New Soul
- Ketsa - Good Vibe
- Kriss - Jazz Club
- Dee Yan-Key - Minor Angst
- Stephan Siebert - When
- Quantum Jazz - If I Can't Dance It's Not My Revolution
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About Things Learned
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What did you learn today? Steve looks back and reflects on daily things he's learned over the course of a decade and counting. Come listen to a relaxing journey and retrospective of things learned.…
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