Entries Categorized as 'Software'
July 3, 2009
I have a chance to review a new, specialized video editing tool called vReveal, just in time to try to fix up some of the shaky vids I’m making with my new iPhone 3GS. But there’s a catch.
vReveal is a MS-Windows® program. Normally this would not be a problem, since I have Windows XP Pro®, [...]
Posted in Computers, MacOS X, Open Source, Operating System, Video editing, Virtual Machine, Windows 7, WindowsXP, audio, drivers, iPhone, smartphones, sound card, video card 
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June 29, 2009
I’ve been trying to help a friend troubleshoot her blog’s visitor counter today. She’s using Blogger, which I hadn’t tried before, so to be accurate in my suggestions, I created a dummy blog and tried installing several counters on it.
My results were somewhat mixed. I could not duplicate the counter error she’d seen, but I [...]
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June 25, 2009
I was merrily posting a new entry to my personal blog this evening, when I discovered it had been infected with some malware. When I tried to look at the page, all I saw was the background image, and the status bar in Firefox showed “waiting for banished.ru”. After looking at the files on [...]
Posted in Anti-virus, Computers, Firefox, Operating System, Software, Virtual Machine, WiFi, WindowsXP, blogs, iPhone, malware 2 Comments »
June 25, 2009
See update at the end of this post.
A mentioned here earlier, my new iPhone 3GS was activated with only minor problems. Now we have another data point to add to the history. My husband’s new iPhone arrived yesterday, days earlier than promised by AT&T, thank you very much! So, I set about putting to work [...]
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June 24, 2009
Some things have been remade frequently because they are fill a useful niche, and someone thinks they can either do them better, or because they want to see them in a new form, or perhaps they perceive a potential money-maker. This seems to be the case with color wheel applications. A quick Google search turned [...]
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June 19, 2009
It’s here at last. Now, I’m not going to do the “unboxing” schtick — that’s been done. But as I recall from 2007 when we bought our original iPhones, getting the shrinkwrap off was the hard part.
Connecting to iTunes and restoring from the backup I made from my old phone has gone well, but I’m [...]
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June 17, 2009
The iPhone 3.0 software is downloading now, to be installed on my old phone in advance of getting the new one tomorrow or Friday. Ohboyohboyohboy! Well, actually, I’m not all that excited, but it will be nice to have a faster phone with more bells and whistles. The fact that I dropped my old one [...]
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June 13, 2009
Back in the olden days, before the Web and blogs, the way people expressed themselves and held interactive discussions was by using Bulletin Board Systems, or BBSs. Since I acquired my first modem-equipped computer in 1983, a TRS-80 Model 100, that’s how I started my online life. My dad gave me one for my birthday [...]
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June 4, 2009
As mentioned in an earlier post, I’ll be starting graduate school next week. It’s been awhile (a long while!) since I’ve indulged in formal education, so I’m a little nervous about being able to keep up. So, as I habitually do, I’m looking to technology for help.
College study is essentially an exercise in knowledge management, [...]
Posted in Database, Education, Online, Software, grad school No Comments »
May 30, 2009
About a month ago, long-time friend Deirdré (@DeirdreS on Twitter) suggested I try Sun Microsystems’ VirtualBox application, after I’d complained about the necessity to buy yet another copy of Parallels to put on my home webserver. Since it’s opensource software, and I’m a fan of Sun anyway (having used Solaris when I worked at Cadence [...]
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