Registration/Licensing software
Habits of highly productive computer users
1. Use an RSS reader as a way to efficiently find information of interest to you without having to navigate the web or re-visit websites. It’s a "push" technology that comes to you rather than the hit-and-miss method of "checking-in" at websites of interest to you, or having to constantly "Goggle" for new stuff.
2. Use Microsoft’s MSN Desktop Search. I know there are others like Google’s Desktop Search, but the built-in "shortcut manager" built in to the MSN Desktop Search is very powerful and can improve your PC desktop experience dramatically.
3. Use a tabbed browser. If you are online at least a few hours a day or use Google and constantly follow result links to find just the right page, then a tabbed browser will make you more productive.
4. Use email effectively, expecially if you are part of a mailing list, read this article to learn how: "Tips for mastering email overload"
Data Structures and Algorithms
For a refresher course on basic algorithms, check this page out. It has some nice Java animations illustrating some of the algorithms.
iPod Shuffle
Ok, so I learned emperically that you can’t expect to copy over files to the iPod Shuffle and expect them to play. You have to use iTunes. Also, iTunes can import WMA files but it will convert it to ACC format. I prefer to maintain one file format and the preferred format is MP3 for me so I found this nifty free program to do WMA->MP3 conversion: dBpowerAMP Music Converter
Here are some helpful posts:
iPod Shuffle file structure
Opensource platform independent GUI for the iPod (Doesn’t support Shuffle yet)
What kind of dog are you?
Fun 10 question quiz that wil tell you what kind of dog you would be. Click the "Game" link alone the left side to take the quiz
Click the picture below to read my results:
How to Snatch an Expiring Domain
What philosophy do you follow?
| You scored as Divine Command. Your life is directed by Divine Command: Your god and religion give you meaning and direction.
“Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations.” “Even as a tree has a single trunk but many branches and leaves, there is one religion–human religion–but any number of faiths.” More info at Arocoun’s Wikipedia User Page…
What philosophy do you follow? (v1.03) |
Online safety for kids
Rebol – Internet Programming Language
REBOL is a proprietary scripting computing language…messaging language that is succinct, quick to learn, and almost heroically portable.
Rebol Home Page
Rebol overview
Rebol Links
Rebol Review
Rebol Review #2
From what I can tell, Rebol seems to be
a viable language for internet programming.
However, I don’t know that I could recommend it.
1. First there is the cost. It costs money to develop for it and server versions of the software
costs thousands of dollars
2. You would be
committing to a platform that is dependent on the viability of a small company.
Since it isn’t open source, the future of Rebol is in the hands of the company
behind it.
3. Though their may
be a vibrant community supporting it, it is not widespread. Trying to hire for
Rebol support unless you are willing to work remotely, could be a challenge.
4. Compared to other
tools/technologies, the documentation, sample code and support is not
large.
5. I don’t know any
significant programs/companies that use Rebol.
6. Most of the
articles I read on the web, especially those touting it, are 4 years
old.
An example of its
"power". You can send an email with a command similar to:
send someone@email.com "The message."
Cool, a single
line of code to send an email. But that Rebol
command ‘send’ had to be written (in C I believe). That same function could have
been written in C and made available in a library and the syntax might look like this:
send("someone@email.com"The message.");
Pretty much the same
thing. The fact it is "built-in" to the language, and makes the language "expressive", people will argue is a
wonderful thing, and it IS nice, but that argument is not sufficient to motivate me to learn a new programming paradigm..