Work Life: apt-get -f install Error

When you try to update some of the software on your EeePC, you may run into an error telling you to run the following command: apt-get -f install.

The problem is that your user account does not have the "rights" to run that command. So, how do you get around it?

1. Bring up a Console Shell (CTRL-ALT-t in EasyMode)
2. Type: sudo su (Press Enter)
3. Type: apt-get -f install (Press Enter)
4. Answer YES to any prompts given to you (In my experience, there are usually two questions asked)
5. After the updates are done, type: exit (Press Enter)
6. Type: exit (Press Enter again)

Once you have completed the steps above, you should be able to click on the "Update" button for the program that gave you the error and install your updates.

#iMovie won't start; Reports being updated; #AppStore says INSTALLING

I tried to launch iMovie and it told me it was being updated. I hopped over to the "Updates" section of the App Store, and iMovie was nowhere to be seen as far as needing updated. So, I just searched the App store for iMovie and sure, enough, it showed that iMovie was presently being installed.

No, it wasn't. At least, not that I could tell.

So, I started poking around online, and though many people have/had the same problem, none of the offered solutions worked for me. So, I dug deeper on my own MacBook.

A look through running programs revealed that neither updates nor iMove were running. What the heck!?

Okay, so I looked at the Applications folder. Sure enough, there was an iMovie icon that appeared to be a download in progress. It had an "X" to click, so I did.

That launched the App Store with a prompt to "Cancel Update." So, I clicked that.

Ironically, what that did was actually kickstart the iMovie update again.

So, as I write this, my iMovie update is once again being downloaded...

Tagxedo - Talk about service!

Well, holy smokes!  In my previous post (HERE), I plugged one of my new favorite tools (Tagxedo), lamenting the lack of support for numbers.  In no time flat, Hardy Leung - the site's owner/creator, responded with a comment letting me know that a NUMBERS feature is now available!  In addition, he has added some other cool features worth checking out:

• numbers, 
• punctuations, 
• stemming, (words similar to those you type for weighting)
• stop words (words you do NOT want to include in the count)
• a feature to SAVE you word list
• other things I have yet to discover, perhaps!

I have to say, this is wonderfully amazing news.  Why so?  Because, unlike the big blue-and-white site that turned off its "fans" recently, Tagxedo actually listened to his users and made changes accordingly!

Thanks and KUDOS to Mr. Leung!