How To Get Your Canon Pixma MG3620 Onto Your Network

Bought the Canon Pixma MG3620 printer. Installed all of the software and followed what I thought was instructions to install the Canon Pixma MG3620 printer to my network. After 4 hours of frustration trying to find some program “ij network scan”, I did what worked back at the office. Used the cell phone.
No I didn’t call someone who knows more. I connected through my phone to see what options I could utilize. on the plus side, I never had to do all of that. Set up for the phone did it all for me.
Don’t use a USB cable to set up your printer. You’ll be stubbornly clicking through all of the settings to find where you can type in your router passkey information.
Don’t bother plugging the USB cable into your Comcast modem. Doesn’t work.
That Canon Pixma MG3620 printer just won’t do any of that

The trick is to use your android or apple device. Install the canon Print Inkjet Selphy app.
Click through the setup to the point where it asks if you want to set up directly or through your router.
Select “Connect Via Wireless Router”.

after that it will ask you the password to your router.

Once the password is accepted you are done.

You can do the same by using a wireless pc,tablet,laptop.
Don’t bother using a usb cable. that just makes things more complicated. and that IJ network scan tool is useless once your

What has Google plus Become

Google Plus is declared as a social experiment.
I have watched Google plus go from just extreme geeks exchanging tips, tricks, suggestions and information between each other, to podcaster spam, to what now seems like the coffee enthusiast college mind that has just woke up to how corrupt the world is.

Maybe not for everyone else, but for me, Google plus has become a website full of people who want to talk about the movement they are in, and to laugh as much as possible.

Google Plus has taken on a large crowd of intelligent people looking for more information and more people who want more views. This place is growing at a crazy fast rate. Google+ is everything that all of the past social sites have claimed to be, yet it still holds a bit of demeanor that says “I respect me”.

I am willing to see this thing through and see where it goes. I just hope Google doesn’t scrap the site before it gets it’s chance.

The Office Network

Well. The network here is fully, 100% in all ways….. Weird.
Our local I.T. guy has the company all stuffed into one blade with one single hard drive (on a blade that has optional 4 front load 3.5 hd). It’s not his fault. The company doesn’t buy new crap, and leaves him making it all work. Just sometimes, his issues could be avoided, if he would listen from time to time.

But some people have their own way to learn and do things, so they get into them and stick with them. God forbid they step out of their element.

So.  Everyday I have to go reboot some wet fecal matter we call a peachtree server (it’s an old Pentium III single core green machine,pata only), and hope it makes it through the day without someone needing my assistance.

The user accounts on the blade, Could be a whole lot easier to set up, if the weirdo would stop deleting the icons off the desktop and start menu “recent” area. but again, he figured out how to work the server in this weird half fast way (yeah I know how to say it but this is a vulgarity free site), so if I do anything on it, yeah… it screwed up the space time continuum.

Sad thing is, I am the relief I.T. guy when he is out of the office. I fix anything, and he has no idea how I did it, space time continuum issue again. Shoe lace untied? space time continuum issue again because I worked something. power goes out in another state? Space time continuum issue again.

Sure would be nice if the high ups here would understand what I want to complain about. but again… It’s a job.

Things Facebook Needs

Hey, great place. Facebook is free. I know.
But it isn’t a perfect place.
at first I didn’t mean to log into Facebook and rant to my friends about what I think the place needs. Every single day.
It just happened. Facebook fricken screams for me to notice things about it. some of the things I rant about on Facebook are just jokes and staying with my typical theme. So without further suspense about how I feel about Facebook.

Facebook needs

Facebook needs a media player so I can set my own playlist of crap I like so my friends get a chance to sample it as apposed to flooding up the screen with youtube videos… because … well.. that’s pretty much all you got.
Facebook needs ignore a link. If you keep getting the same link from all of your friends and you do not want to ignore your friends 1 by 1. Would be nice to ignore that link.
Facebook needs a fricken time line. I hate logging in to see the crap I saw yesterday. Every post is 17+ hours old. I have to wait 17 hours before I can see what is going on right now????
Facebook needs a thumbs down button. Really you have to check your friends from time to time. If you constantly post only the positive in anything. Well for one, you are a froot! and mainly you do not point out the flaw in their theory. You do not prevent your friend from jumping in a bear cage, just because they like animals, and think the whole world should be more loving.. KINDA like This.
Facebook needs to get rid of that stupid bar at the bottom of the screen. We hated that bar when AOL forced it on us, we hated that bar when netzero forced it on us. We hate that bar.
Facebook needs in the idea of the bar at the bottom, How about private chatrooms that only our friends and their friends can go in. or something like that.
Facebook needs to actually be social. Nothing worse than trying to meet someone and getting a pop up saying ‘ do you really know this person???” how is it social to only meet people you already know ??????

Well I’m out of stuff for now. You can leave ideas below. Comments are open.

Netflix and Godaddy

Should both Netflix and Godaddy really be crammed down our throats every time we boot up our computers?
Have you ever been to their sites?
Netflix, they sponsor every dang podcast I listen to and every online video I watch. (well not all but many). Have you ever looked at the shows they offer on Netflix? I mean even Redbox has a larger, better and higher quality selection than Netflix. I truly do not like Redbox. I stop there all the time, smear my snot on the screen as I flip through the first page or so of videos and walk away feeling ashamed I did it again. Heck the Redbox movies are just a dollar and I can get up, grab one movie and be back home watching it, before it ever even comes out on Netflix. If it shows up there. mean while you hog up all of the bandwidth using Netflix and your spouse is mad and your kids are mad.

Godaddy. You ever decide you want to buy a domain name? Ever find that someone bought that domain name but never did anything with it? Yeah that person is typically on Godaddy. It’s like everyone found a place that has a known name and decided to buy from there. Kind of like Walmart. Everyone knows it’s there and the people that shop there, have no idea why you call their stuff crap. Well the people who buy up domain names and do nothing with them are called “squatters”. That name sounds a bit negative, right? Of course it does. It’s meant to. I mean you have a great idea for that domain name and that jerk has 700 domain names and does nothing with them. One of his domain names you have a brilliant idea and are not able to use it now. Now your Websitedesigner dot what ever domain name has to be 1websitedeigner1 dot what ever is available.

Cool they have a domain auction section on their site. That just further provokes even more people to just buy up random named domain names and sell them at scary high prices. Meanwhile their prices are no better than other domain registrars.

Would be nice if the ads would just lay up or be in relevant media.

What’s more likely to happen, I will end up renting a Netflix movie and find a Godaddy commercial at the beginning. Or register with godaddy and find a netflix ad in some banner I can’t remove from my site.

Have a difference of opinion? Reply.

Comparing Social Networks

We have to look at the word Social first.

“It always refers to the interaction of organisms with other organisms and to their collective co-existence, irrespective of whether they are aware of it or not, and irrespective of whether the interaction is voluntary or involuntary.”

I’m not so sure about the word “irrespective”; sounds a bit redneck to me.  That’s what I hate about Wikipedia. Anyone can edit it, even redneck Jim.

Well, to start…in that sense, Wikipedia is a type of social network but, let’s leave educational means of communication out of the ring of  social networking and, for this case, let’s leave out YouTube and Revver. They do have nice social methods (telling people their video is crummy). Let’s not go into all of that. Also, let’s not use Digg either; their methods of filtering the spam has eliminated most comfortable social connection.

So let’s nail out the big Social Networks.

Myspace . This has been known as the trailer park of the internet. Why? Well, because of the 1997 appeal. The place is full of the mouse tracers and sparkly profiles like Geocities had. Everyone adds every person they see on there as their friend. At one time, it was like a huge challenge to get as many people as you could get added to your friends. Then you spend the next three months weeding out all of the spammers and the real freaky people. It WAS an OK place to go and just read profiles. The profiles used to be like little ” I need a friend” resumes. Now, at most, they are nothing but favorite band lists. Really, why in the heck would someone list 200 bands. The ideal list would be, at most, 10-15 bands; not every dang band you ever listened to and didn’t want to smash your head with a hammer.

Then came the use of MySpace apps. MySpace apps are games that are connected with your MySpace profile. They allow you and your friends  to join in and play against others and their friends. Great concept. For those who chose to not play the games on MySpace, there’s the bulletin board. In the bulletin board you could write a short story and share it with your friends and let them comment on it or re-post it. There was also the use of the “blog system” so you could write a long story and show your friends or even share it with everyone on MySpace. Some days you could get up to 2000 reads of a blog on there. I know I have many times.

MySpace also has the  “mood” section, where you can show the world your mood and give a quick explanation of your mood.

The bulletins have been taken over by the friends who have MySpace applications. Some of the applications set to default the users to post to the bulletin and they do give the option to post to the bulletin, but most people don’t take time to read that junk and they just see the words “post click yes”, so they do. Now the bulletins are flooded with “billy bob just  walked three feet”. Stuff no one cares about.

It is a clunky piece of junk that has not had a major overhaul, since…well ever. But, it is an OK place to find a whole lot of people.

Facebook. Facebook is a lot like MySpace, even though the platform it is built on is different. The people join there and add as many people as they can. There is even an application to allow people to see people who know people they know. This gives them a chance to locate someone long gone. This also leads to 1000 people going “wait, who are you?? how do I know you?” For years I called Facebook the antisocial network.

Well, Facebook is just like the bulletin section of MySpace, but you really have no other means of group socialism. It is hard to just meet random people on Facebook because of the way the place is built. They are working on that, but, at the same time, they are messing up bad by integrating many features that MySpace has.

Facebook now has Apps also, just like MySpace.  If you have one friend who plays the apps on Facebook, then you have a million and one invites in your inbox, 200 app gifts on your main page, and the bulletin is flooded in updates in the  user’s progress in whatever game they find the most fun.

“Facebook is really sucky, with all the app invites and gifts and games and crap taking up the only means of ‘social interchange’, this place is worse than MySpace, except the custom profiles.”

Yahoo Chat .”Hi, look at my profile and lets trade pics” spam bot link farm, full of  regulars who do not like new people. All of the regulars have programs to kick other users out of the room, especially if the user is prettier, wittier or cooler than them. The regulars do not kick out the spam bots. This is the epitome of what everyone ever perceived a chatroom to be. It is not what chatrooms really were.

Twitter is like the Mood and status updates of MySpace. Difference is, the place is a farm of spam, get rich quick and stick it to the man. I have lost a bit of interest in this place also. It seems Twitter has taken another route since it became mainstream. It is not quite what it looked like it would be. Yes, it is a great place for all of  your followers to get a notice at one time about what you are doing or about to do or about to be or just left. Yes, that makes it awesome. Especially if you are ,for examlpe, a musician and no one knows when your show is going to happen. Musicians miss that point. Some think it would be cheesy so they refuse to connect at all; and that makes them crappy and not heart effort musicians. If it ain’t from the heart, it ain’t music.

I truly miss MSN chatrooms. That was really Social Networking. You used to be able to join a chatroom and exchange wit and banter with with up to 50 people per room. The rooms were separated into many categories. Most were separated by location, like city and state. The city chats were always full to the max of 50 people. The overflow rooms were always full of up to 50 people. The chat rolled at such a fast pace, your mind stayed well exercised. I feel as if I am getting slower by the day because there just is nothing that fast paced left to do. I can’t leave one post and wait 6 days for someone to reply to it. It’s just way to slow.

MSN says they dropped the program because it was not that big of a money maker. They have to be kidding. They had rotating banners in every single chat. With 50 people in each room, and there being over 200 main rooms, they had some serious revenue flowing in. I think they tried so hard to be like Google or to beat Google, they missed out on what was really working for them. I swear, just a little bit of innovation for their chatrooms, and they could have potentially kept MySpace and Facebook from ever coming out of the ground. Heck, those places didn’t rise well and established until the chatters had nowhere else to go. Facebook was around for at least three years that MSN still had chatrooms. Now look at the place.

Need More Tech Podcasts

After Leo Leaving the country and not recording the tech guy podcast, I realize how few tech podcasts are left out there.

Linux action show is computer action show now, that’s fine but heck there used to be a tech podcast network. that network kinda fell off the blip now.

anyone know some good tech podcasts ? please leave the link or rss feed in response to this thread.

Face Book With Vanity Urls

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/10/facebook_vanity_urls/

http://www.facebook.com/username/

Wow how cool is that?

Face book catches up to 2001.

Good thing they stopped that whole ” ehh we are too good for that let’s be like tiny url”

Sorry all I hate face book, I call it the anti social network.

It’s not social if you can’t add friends by browsing strangers.

You are not social if you are an E-Hermit.

But back on topic.

Does that mean ” facebook.com/myspacegigolo”

Will be available ??

Ok, I need your help,spamming my sites.

I have been very busy with my social sites.
I will index them all in google and yahoo very soon. When I am done after I get a few people on each of them and get a few complaints and requests so
I can tweak the site. The launches will all be at the same time. So yeah I will get very drunk and and celebrate my efforts on that day.
Thanks to those who have helped and believed in my efforts and knew that I could do this.
I will take  two shots for each of ya.

This is what I have been wasting my time with.

truxter.org

truxtertech.com.

and
iworkwithtech.com

and

iworkwithmusic.com

iworkwithpeople.com

I am sure atleast one pertains to your interests in some shape or fashion.

Do me favor, Sign up to one and make a post for me.
I need to see how well the sites handle stuff before I go full
release with this stuff.  Also let me know what you think and what you
might want to suggest.

Anti-Social Networking

The group from “Wayn.com” are really making me upset. I never originally signed up to that place. but I started getting invites from people who had the same names as some of my friends. Of course it was always the hot chicks I remembered from back in the old days. Hell no it’s some skank who plays model for the “wayn” group. I swear this is a bigger scam than what that one place does match.com or what ever those fake lumps of internet crap are.

I have deleted myself from that place like 5 times now and it will not let me go.

Maybe it’s when they send me that link that says “stacy sent you a message” well since I know a stacy I think it might be her telling me she found me. So I click that stupid link and since it has been a year or so since I unsigned, that click re-enlists me to that piece of scum sight.

Really it should be a law that when people opt out of spam, unsubscribe and un-enlist to your site, YOU SHOULD NOT SPAM THEM with crap that checks their memory because it has been a fricken year .

Tell me this isn’t deceptive business.

TruXter

Owner and writer of :

iworkwithtech.com  and iworkwithpeople.com