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Computers

How to convert videos using Handbrake

April 10, 2012

If you used Quicktime to make screen recordings as explained yesterday, you realize quite quickly that it does not make the most compact file size.  There is something that is a veritable swiss army knife of video conversion.  That tool is Handbrake.  It not just for ripping DVDs anymore.  More on this after the break

How to record your screen on a Mac

April 9, 2012

As an Instructor I  provide a service where the student does not leave the learning environment for an extended period of time.  They can ask questions about the subject material as presented in the class for a period of time after the class.  Sometimes I need to do a demo over again for the student. [...]

Which Office Suite do I like?

March 28, 2012

I got asked this in a class recently, and I thought I would answer it here.  I decided that I would look at just three of the major office suites out there, MS Office, LibreOffice, and iWork.  I am going to grade them according to usefulness, cross platform ability, and price.  Then I will tell [...]

LibreOffice

March 26, 2012

During the past two years I have sort of lived in a vacuum.  I took and still am employed by a training firm, but I have not kept u; with changes in the various products that I mentioned in my blog.  The one software suite that I lost track of was OpenOffice.  The first inkling [...]

How to get more room on your iPad, iPod touch, or iPhone, the video

March 22, 2012

I was asked to create a video about a pervious topic I touched upon about a year ago.  I did not have the time until recently.  So I now presently video on how to get more room on your iPod touch, iPad, or iPhone, after the break

A real OneNote replacement for Mac

November 23, 2011

I’ve started this blog by complaining about not having a OneNote Replacement on the Mac.  Since then I have forayed into Circus Ponies Notebook, DevonThink, and Eagle Filer.  Of them all Eagle Filer came the closest. I discovered Curio, and wrote about it.  I even resorted to installing OneNote on a VM and run it [...]

Testing BlogJet

September 7, 2011

I have installed an interesting application – BlogJet. It’s a cool Windows client for my blog tool (as well as for other tools). Get your copy here: http://blogjet.com “Computers are incredibly fast, accurate and stupid; humans are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant; together they are powerful beyond imagination.” — Albert Einstein

The Replacement for One Note?

June 30, 2011

For a while I have been searching for a replacement for MS OneNote.  I’ve tried just about everything.  Among the things I tried were DevonThink, EagleFiler, EverNote.  Each of these products does what it does very well.  With DevonThink Everything was a single File.  EagleFiler is an excellent tool for keeping me organized in my [...]

Snow in San Antonio!

February 4, 2011

Yes, it does Snow in San Antonio, but it is a rarity

An Explanation

September 12, 2010

Two things. I have taken a job with a Training firm, and I have been busy sorting things out. The other things has been my laptop has bitten the dust. I will be back to normal in a few weeks when I buy the replacement for that machine. This sudden employment has meant that I [...]

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