The biggest hurdle in the whole "interactive" aspect of the [now aging] Web 2.0 idea is having sooo many various accounts with every website. As someone who prudently uses a different password for every site that I am a member of - it's becoming tiresome, to say the least, to keep up with all of them.
Many "help" and forum sites (including blogs) suffer from this problem. See also the watch problem in an earlier post. I'm not going to create yet another account with some unknown site just to post there. There's got to be a better way. Allow anonymous postings. There has to be a good balance between that, and getting too much spam. Using a captcha helps... Or, make anonymous posting moderated by default, and known users post immediately.
Without a better solution for this, Web 2.0, and the active participation by individuals at large, will be handicapped.
Best,
-J
P.S. You can post to this site anonymously, without having to sign-up for an "account". ;)
Monday, October 26, 2009
Saturday, October 24, 2009
The Casio CA-53W watch (and manual)
It's so frustrating trying to find manuals online these days for non-common items. My most recent endeavor was trying to find the manual for the Casio CA-53W calculator watch. I have finally located it (under a different model number?) but it's the same watch. Why do companies make finding the instructions on their devices so hard? Is it because the want to sell the manuals?
If you're looking for the manual for this watch, I've posted it [hopefully] forever more at this link:
http://www.audiolightproductions.com/manuals/Casio%20CA-53W%20watch%20manual.pdf
Even with the manual it was not easily apparent on how to find the fix I needed. My son has one of these watches - I'll extol the virtues of it in a later posting - but he had somehow turned off the beep tone that you hear when you press any/every button. This is important on a watch with tiny little buttons, because when you're using, say, the calculator, you want to know for sure that your entry took on each press. The key tone is very helpful audio feedback.
Well, somehow he had turned it off on his watch, and couldn't figure out how to turn it back on - and neither could I - yet. It bugged me bad enough to go out and [finally] find the instructions on it. And that adventure took so long that, I wanted to write a post here about it and hopefully save someone else the time and grief the next time this happens to another.
In fact, in looking, I found one of those completely non-helpful sites (in the top-five results) where someone is asking virtually the same thing, and yet has never gotten it answered [real helpful to me!]. Why search-index it, without an answer? And, now that I know, I'd willingly write to help this person out, but you have to create a whole account with this forum just to post a fix... does that make sense?
The simple fix is, you go into calculator mode - since this is where most people either want it ON for button-press-confirmations, or want it OFF so that it's not noisy when they're trying to make calculations - and you press the indented set button on the side. Once is on, again is off.
I hope it can help someone else out there with the same question. Here's hoping that Google will search-index their own blogs... ;)
Best,
-J
UPDATE (20120521):
Amazon has these with free 2-day shipping (if you have
) for ~$15!
If you're looking for the manual for this watch, I've posted it [hopefully] forever more at this link:
http://www.audiolightproductions.com/manuals/Casio%20CA-53W%20watch%20manual.pdf
Even with the manual it was not easily apparent on how to find the fix I needed. My son has one of these watches - I'll extol the virtues of it in a later posting - but he had somehow turned off the beep tone that you hear when you press any/every button. This is important on a watch with tiny little buttons, because when you're using, say, the calculator, you want to know for sure that your entry took on each press. The key tone is very helpful audio feedback.
Well, somehow he had turned it off on his watch, and couldn't figure out how to turn it back on - and neither could I - yet. It bugged me bad enough to go out and [finally] find the instructions on it. And that adventure took so long that, I wanted to write a post here about it and hopefully save someone else the time and grief the next time this happens to another.
In fact, in looking, I found one of those completely non-helpful sites (in the top-five results) where someone is asking virtually the same thing, and yet has never gotten it answered [real helpful to me!]. Why search-index it, without an answer? And, now that I know, I'd willingly write to help this person out, but you have to create a whole account with this forum just to post a fix... does that make sense?
The simple fix is, you go into calculator mode - since this is where most people either want it ON for button-press-confirmations, or want it OFF so that it's not noisy when they're trying to make calculations - and you press the indented set button on the side. Once is on, again is off.
I hope it can help someone else out there with the same question. Here's hoping that Google will search-index their own blogs... ;)
Best,
-J
UPDATE (20120521):
Amazon has these with free 2-day shipping (if you have
) for ~$15!
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