Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips I add the ZaggMate carrying case with a BlueTooth keyboard. It is great. I like the iPad, but… Of course there is a “but.” I write as much as I read and that makes me different from most people and that is the “but” about the iPad – I can’t write well […]

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by Dwayne Phillips How specific should a system specification be? How many resources should the spec consume? I propose a measure to help answer these questions – the Return on Specification Investment. A few years ago, I was reviewing a specification for a system that someone in the office had written. I came to one […]

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by Dwayne Phillips DropBox is a service that allows storing files on the Internet. I learn that I can display and print these files from my iPad. A friend recently introduced me to DropBox. This is a web site where I can put some of my files and access them from just about any computer […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Time marches on; Apple moves forward, and printing from the iPad becomes a bit easier. I use AirPrint from my iPad. I’m a bit slow when it comes to keeping my iPad up to date. I finally moved my iPad to iOS 4.2. I guess I was supposed to do this weeks […]

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by Dwayne Phillips HP’s new Photosmart printers have a feature HP calls ePrint. I can send an email to the printer, and the printer prints it. iPad and iPhone apps allow for taking notes and emailing them. In this case, emailing them to the printer. I can now print from my iPad. Well, I can […]

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by Dwayne Phillips I have a virtual machine running on a Windows XP laptop computer with Ubuntu Linux running in the virtual machine. This is all using WMware’s WMware Player. I had a problem at work where I needed a Linux-based computer to run a test. To be candid, I first saw this as an […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Computer voting systems have proven to be insecure. I suggest building a secure one. The foundation would be a single-user single-task operating system (like CP/M). We could write this from scratch with very little money. There have been recent notes on the net about the Washington D.C. online voting system that was […]

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by Dwayne Phillips A scheme for the government to use the idle computer time of taxpayers. I think the scheme will work, but I wish it never happens. An idea struck me this morning for a way to save billions of dollars of taxpayers money (without eliminating half of the Federal government). Here is the […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Wikipedia now allows you to gather articles into a book. You can download the book as a PDF or actually have a printer make you a hardcopy of you book. For several years now, Wikipedia has allowed printing articles. The printed pages looked good and were easy to read. Recently, Wikipedia has […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Google has an OCR program that works with Google Docs. I found a new feature in Google Docs this morning. Google now has an online optical character recognition (OCR) service. This is some type of experiment or Beta test or something. You go to a strange URL: http://googlecodesamples.com/docs/php/ocr.php . When you first go […]

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