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Techsmith did it again with Jing Pro… sort of

David M. Doolin, PhD — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:52:49 +0000

Here’s an excellent snapshot of my emotional state right after I upgraded to Jing Pro. I thought about just not publishing this, because I end up chumping myself worse than Jing Pro, but there are a couple of valid points to consider: Jing has several really non-standard user interface “features” which I am not sure [...]

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Techsmith did it again with Jing Pro… sort of

Wrike: almost, but not quite

David M. Doolin, PhD — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 03:21:18 +0000

Evaluated a pretty cool project management tool called wrike. The technical support seems pretty good. Someone replied to questions I had within a reasonable amount of time (a day). But I just couldn’t get a grip on it. After a fair bit of poking around (that’s about 10 minutes) I couldn’t figure out how to [...]

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Wrike: almost, but not quite

ZRGViewer — Displaying PERT charts with graphviz

David M. Doolin, PhD — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 16:22:36 +0000

[Update March 5 2009] This post is the top search result on Google for ZRGViewer! That’s not right… They should be the top result for Google, not me! So I just went to take another look at ZRGViewer by following the link. Evidently, development continues, and the screenshots look good. I’d like to check it [...]

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ZRGViewer — Displaying PERT charts with graphviz

Picasa — Gone!

David M. Doolin, PhD — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 17:55:19 +0000

Picasa hijacked all of my scanner operations when it was installed. Finally got tired of battling it for control of my scanner. It was relentless. Uninstalled it. Database and all. Didn’t take the user survey. Post from: There Is NO BoxPicasa — Gone!

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Picasa — Gone!

TODO: Trackable Lists

David M. Doolin, PhD — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 18:17:13 +0000

Checklisting [11/29/2007] What’s the difference between checklisting and todo listing? I don’t know. Check back later after I’ve had some time to think about it. Time vs. Task [11/29/2007] I am using the To Do feature that is part of the 37Signals BaseCamp web application. The way this todo handling is implemented exposes two other [...]

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TODO: Trackable Lists

Newsgator: A totally cool vendor

David M. Doolin, PhD — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 18:52:55 +0000

The NewsGator folks are totally cool. I tried to get FeedDemon working on some secure links, failed my “6-second rule” by turning into a time sump, which I can’t afford right now (crunch mode for a couple of projects). They are refunding the purchase price. This is so totally cool and unlike almost all other [...]

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Newsgator: A totally cool vendor

Paper and pencil

David M. Doolin, PhD — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 19:40:18 +0000

Working on some tax forms, switching back and forth between Excel and Acrobat. As usual, the user interface behavior of Windows lags 1992 era vtwm. So I am reduced to copying numbers back and forth using paper and pencil. woo effen hoo. Post from: There Is NO BoxPaper and pencil

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Paper and pencil

Pigs on the wing

David M. Doolin, PhD — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 23:28:51 +0000

Look! In the sky! It’s a bird! It’s plane! It’s pigs on the wing! Check it out: I needed to print something on a strange printer, an HP 970Cse. I plugged it into my Dell laptop, it found the printer, connected to Windows Update, downloaded and installed the drivers within 90 seconds, and didn’t force [...]

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Pigs on the wing

SQLite

David M. Doolin, PhD — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 15:38:36 +0000

I just built SQLite from the latest tarball, in cygwin on an XP laptop. It built perfectly! Not even any warnings during the compile, which I find truly remarkable. SQLite was recommended to me by Brad Neuberg, who is using it to code up a number of very interesting applications merging web and desktop functionality. [...]

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SQLite

Traineo lost me

David M. Doolin, PhD — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 17:45:58 +0000

I tried signing up for traineo, a web based fitness tracking service of some sort. Fitness tracking is something I have been mulling over for a couple of years. Anyway, I gave it a whirl. They lost me on the sign up. I need to track what (bench, squats, etc) I am doing, and don’t [...]

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Traineo lost me

LaTeX. Word. Not.

David M. Doolin, PhD — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 20:54:52 +0000

One of the most difficult tasks to perform on a computer: extracting a reasonable facsimile of a LaTeX document into an MS Word file. I am two hours into this. So far: Latex2html won’t install. configure can’t find DBM. Used cpan to update DBM Updated cpan. Exited cpan to install zlib by hand. re-updated cpan. [...]

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LaTeX. Word. Not.