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Comment on Customer Service and Dollar Rent a Car by Mike

Mike — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 05:13:49 +0000

No Margaret, I never did here from Dollar Rent a Car. Very poor customer service. I took the time to fill out an on-line form, and no one ever contacted me.

Never again will I rent from Dollar Rent a Car – they obviously have an uncaring and unfeeling corporate culture that is only looking for the next visitor and the next credit card.

Next time I rent a car with my family, I will spend more money with a better car company and get a more well cared for car.

Verdict Dollar Rent a Car? Thumbs Down!

Mike

Comment on Customer Service and Dollar Rent a Car by Margaret

Margaret — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:40:41 +0000

We had a similar situation 2 weeks ago. Wondering how your situation was resolved. We had Dollar send us to a ‘mechanic’ in orlando who blew bald tire up after low tire pressure light came on. Tire seemed to be under too much pressure for my liking so I let some air out at my earliest convenience. Next day took car to Disney car care centre and found bald tire at 45 psi after I had let air out. Other front tire was 50psi after I had let air out. My own mechanic said 34 psi should be the max on a ford focus. Since I returned home to canada I have been trying to get some kind of response from dollar-they took complaint and said it would be investigated internally-but I can never know outcome. As I said earlier, I wondered if you ever got a response?–Margaret in Canada

Comment on Table Plugin to Fix WordPress by John

John — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 12:50:24 +0000

You’re a genius. This is by far the best response I’ve found anywhere for fixing disappearing tables in WordPress.

I’ve been having this problem on two sites where pages online would disappear after x number of rows or cells.

Found that TinyMCE was already installed but perhaps corrupted. Deleted the plugin, reinstalled, cleared my browser cache and suddenly no more disappearing tables in WordPress.

You are brilliant. Wish I could buy you a beer. Hell a case of beer. I’ll have a couple for you instead.

Just for SEO purposes let e say again : . This is by far the best response I’ve found anywhere for fixing disappearing tables in WordPress.

Comment on Camstudio and PowerPoint Videos by Mike

Mike — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 05:28:16 +0000

To play flash videos on a website, you need a flash player. JW Player is just one of those.

Hope that helps.

Comment on Camstudio and PowerPoint Videos by Marilyn

Marilyn — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 00:36:14 +0000

Hi Mike;
I am trying to do what you have done and I am not getting anywhere. You have lost me at step 3.

I can do powerpoints just fine and voice over in the powerpoint. However, I have a new conference system that I am using that takes powerpoint presentations but the files need to be in .flv – I am just learning what that is too.

I have looked at Camstudio, VLC media player and another one, but I am still lost.

How is your system working for you? Thanks, M

Comment on CamStudio and PowerPoint by Mike

Mike — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 03:12:15 +0000

I did! And I have made several videos from Powerpoint.

The key is in the settings. And using Camstudio 2.5. There are several YouTube videos that show the correct settings. The default settings of CamStudio will produce crappy vidoes. Here is a video that shows the correct settings:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kiug3H3c4gk

Use those. And lower the resolution on your recording screen to 800 X 600 pixels.

The other key is to only use CamStudio to make avi files. DO NOT use CamStudio to make flash videos.

To convert CamStuido avi files to flash (flv) filtes, I bought ImTOO FLV Converter 6. Funny name, but it just works well. I think I paid $29 USD for it.

So again, download and install CamStudio 2.5, make sure you use the correct settings, then use a third party program to convert the CamStudio 2.5 avi file to a flv file.

Let me know how it goes!

Comment on CamStudio and PowerPoint by Robert

Robert — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 01:11:18 +0000

Were you ever able to get this to work? I am trying to do the same thing, but I get a lot of choppiness during effects

Comment on Why You Should Outsource by Steve Jacobson

Steve Jacobson — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:18:29 +0000

It takes a sick puppy to know a sick puppy. Has this technology been verified? Otherwise, the support costs for such outsourcing will make that $5 appear to be nothing. But nice to see you again, Michael!

Comment on What did you do this weekend by Leon

Leon — Tue, 04 May 2010 15:08:51 +0000

Like your site! Feel free to post anything from my site you can use!

Comment on Table Plugin to Fix WordPress by Mike

Mike — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 04:25:29 +0000

No, I might be wrong, but I don’t think that I am using WP-Table Reloaded…. I think that TinyMCE did the trick alright!