Category Archives: Desktop Software

Primo Searches

Posted on April 12, 2013 Views: 2781

Eleven weeks in two things are clear: 1) use of Primo is increasing 2) researchers begin winding down a week before Spring Break and appear to need another week to get back into the swing of things.     Seems … Continue reading →

Posted in Desktop Software, Library Tech

What different sort algorithms sound like

Posted on October 29, 2010 Views: 18566

from andrut: This particular audibilization is just one of many ways to generate sound from running sorting algorithms. Here on every comparison of two numbers (elements) I play (mixing) sin waves with frequencies modulated by values of these numbers. There … Continue reading →

Posted in Desktop Software, General, Library Tech

Fun with the 245 tag

Posted on October 28, 2010 Views: 13985

Over the past few months I have, on more than one occasion, found myself making a full extract of the bibliographic (MARC) records in our library’s catalog. Turns out, this sort of thing happens frequently when you run your own … Continue reading →

Posted in Desktop Software, General, Library Tech

Anthologize it

Posted on August 7, 2010 Views: 15342

My pragmatic friends over at the Center for History and New Media are at it again. This time, with support from National Endowment for the Humanities, they’ve come up with an interesting (and I hope trendmaking) take on a sponsored … Continue reading →

Posted in Desktop Software, Library Tech

New Chrome beta for Mac

Posted on May 6, 2010 Views: 13816

The latest Google chrome browser beta is making me rethink my ‘default browser’ choice.  Two reasons: 1) The new V8 javascript engine is very quick.  In fact, it wins this race on the SunSpider JavaScript Benchmarks easily (smaller number is … Continue reading →

Posted in Apple / OSX, Desktop Software

MarsEdit 3.0

Posted on May 4, 2010 Views: 14741

This is just a short post…really nothing more than an excuse to try out the latest version of my blog editor of preference: MarsEdit 3.0. Released today, MarsEdit 3 adds several important features (e.g., a rich text editor and integration with … Continue reading →

Posted in Apple / OSX, Desktop Software

Mason Tweets

Posted on November 12, 2009 Views: 13136

Earlier today a tweet from Dan Cohen pointed me to an interesting service offered by NC State: http://twitter.ncsu.edu/ They were nice enough to offer a link to their Zend-framework based PHP code on the site so I spent a few … Continue reading →

Posted in Desktop Software, General