Software
Friday, October 30th, 2009
This post has nothing to do with my mission work. Just to let you know.
I’ve had a problem in trying to change notifications in the Skype Preferences pane (I’m using OS X, by the way). But, every time I clicked on the red flag (Notifications), Skype would freeze for up to a minute, then crash. [...]
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Thursday, July 23rd, 2009
Some of my recent responsibilities have been to gather profile pictures of our language cluster project team for a collaborative branch poster. Those posters are displayed at conference and each office location takes one back with them. So, I gathered all the photos I could and began sending them to our communications guy, a PC [...]
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Tuesday, February 17th, 2009
Ardour2 is a native-running Mac OSX Digital Audio Workstation (DAW). I can attest that it can run with the big boys. Until yesterday, I considered my best DAW software to be Adobe Audition, but unfortunately it only runs on Windows. So, in order to use my firewire interface from my mixer, I have to run [...]
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Friday, February 6th, 2009
Ever hear of those? Me either until I used them today. They’re really just regular blankets tacked to the tin roof of the studio. I woke up this morning listening to a gentle rain and hoping to have four Nyakyusa speakers to begin recording RUTH and JONAH. I walked into the studio to do a [...]
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Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
There’s no argument about the foulness of some web content. It seems as though temptation can always be just a click away.
I cherish my marriage, my Dana as well as the One who gave us marriage. That’s why I use an internet accountability software called Covenant Eyes.
Dana and I have tried a different setup by [...]
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Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
I searched and searched for a good FREE FTP client for me to use in uploading files to our website. I was using a program called Fetch. I like it but my two issues with it are: it doesn’t ask for confirmation in replacing files on the web server and it can’t resume [...]
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We have a number of DVDs that we want to take to Africa with us and what better way to do it than have them ALL stored on my hard disk?! HandBrake makes this possible and what’s great about the software is that it is available for Mac AND PC. It allows you to [...]
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Saturday, January 20th, 2007
Do you take digital photos? If so, you have more than likely experienced what is referred to as ‘noise’ in some of your snaps at one point or another. Photography is a big time hobby of mine so finding software… FREE software that takes the noise out of them was a blessing! [...]
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