Mattalytics v3

Flying in the face of organization since 1981.

LogMeIn: Video Tutorial Help with Installing and Configuring

What better way to ring in the New Year than to get a S.O.S. tech support call from dear old dad? Unfortunately, dad is in Michigan, and I’m in Minnesota. It’s not as easy as going over for lunch and working on his computer. Enter: Log Me In.

Log Me In is a great (free and secure) application to let other users connect to your computer. It’s used during conference calls for product demonstrations, it’s used by computer technicians to work on customers computers, and it’s used by my dad to save us both a lot of frustration.

This short video tutorial covers the first half of that process: installing and configuring Log Me In on your computer using Mac OS X and Firefox. The process is similiar on Windows, but I’d be happy to create a video for Windows users if the need is out there (hint: leave a comment and ask for it).

As always, if you have any questions, get stuck, or need more help - add a comment below this post!


Wordpress 2.7, Herman Miller Embody: Getting closer

Two big things happened today, both of which directly affect the (delayed) timeline Mattalytics has been sticking to.

  1. Wordpress 2.7 came out last night. This new version has a drastically different admininstrative dashboard (the part bloggers, writers, and site owners use). Knowing this change was coming, it didn’t really make sense to publish tutorials and content for the dated 2.6 layout.
  2. Herman Miller just sent me a brand-stinking-new Herman Miller Embody chair. It’s awesome, and this is exactly what I needed to feel good about sitting for insanely long amounts of time.

The time is coming near. Stay tuned.


Herman Miller, Embody. from Matt Albiniak on Vimeo.


You’re early.

Welcome to albiniak.com, the former home of my personal weblog. After crashing the Practicing Entrepreneurs party this week at the University of St. Thomas, it become pretty obvious that a lot of people in the program could use a hand navigating their way through the tech soup.

The purpose of this blog is to assemble non-technical tutorials to let you, the entrepreneur, remain focused on your core competency while still catching the interactive marketing boat. I won’t bore you with statistics, but marketers are jumping ship in droves from traditional marketing to social and interactive marketing. If you’re not sure what either of those are, you’re in the right place. If you’d like to be notified of new tutorial entries, you can subscribe to this blog by email or RSS. If you don’t know what RSS is, that’s on the topic list. Don’t worry.

If you have a question, comment, or idea for a tutorial, leave a comment anywhere in this blog, find me on Facebook, or email me. 

The next post will walk through setting up your own blog, from start to finish, no geeks required.