2007

This entry continues my current series on learning programs. This installment is about Asymptopia software that include TuxMathScrabble, Multiplication Station, and Crossword Builder. These applications together teach mostly multiplication, using flash cards, or crossword type puzzles. The home website for these programs is here. But you have to use the [...]

Today’s installment is another entry in my series about learning tools that can be used on your computer. These programs are of the same type since they are all flash card type programs, but one is sophisticated enough to allow you to include pictures and some sounds. Some of the programs have lessons, like capitals, [...]

The next series of entries will all be children’s learning games. These fall into several categories, adventure, puzzle solving, typing, and zappers. My children have played them all from Winnie the Pooh, to various science oriented puzzle games, to the Magic School Bus Games. None of the games that I will be [...]

Today I am sitting at home waiting, hoping to hear from several people hoping waiting for a job to come so that I can have some income to go with the outgo this weekend. In that vein how about your income and outgo, do you create content, generate files, or just plain help other [...]

This entry will be really short since I am coming to the end of my energy.
The first game is a real treat and that is jRisk, The Risk(tm) board game on a computer written in java, and there are maps that are different from reality as well. For use chemically inclined individuals [...]

Today I have been really busy trying to keep my life together and still maintain a semblance of normality for my children. It’s tough when your next infusion of money is uncertain, and the regular bills still keep coming, there is also the uncertainty of should I stop that insurance policy that costs 100/month or [...]

Well in my 20 some odd years of being a professional I have been fired, let go, downsized, etc. It hurts no matter how humane the process. NO matter how many times they told me that “this was not performance related,” no matter how many times they said “we have no issue with your [...]

Today I am going to describe several applications that I use very infrequently since I no longer model experimental systems like I did when i worked as a research engineer at SRI International. in those days i had to write my own code, but nowadays we just plug in the equations into an app [...]

This application can take a plethora of video and audio formats and change them into another format in batch mode.
From the sourceforge web page
Feature Highlights

Convert to and from many audio and video compression formats and re-multiplex into various container formats, on the fly, in batch
Give you the control over the transcoding process and all [...]

This is a jave application that can used in batch files, WSH (Windows Shell Host), or other scripting languages to en/decrypt files with passwords that you can provide, or extract from a database. This tool is so good that I have insisted that all our sales people keep their customer lists encrypted using this [...]

The MIT Website is here.
The courses are so comprehensive that I can not possibly do them justice, I know now I can begin studies in fields like “Statistical Learning Theory and Applications”, “Mathematics for Computer Science”, “Holographic Imaging”, and “Theater and Cultural Diversity in the U.S.” The course works include the books used in [...]

Today I bring you another graphics program that is device independent, and produces graphics that can be sized from small to wall size with no ugly artifacts.
This program is still in the simple stage, so the choices of elements that can be drawn is still limited, rectangles, circles, ellipses and paths. But the big [...]

This entry is like atomic energy. There are good and bad uses for this encryption technology. Us honest folk can use it to make sure that we will never have our customer lists stolen or be the object of another stolen laptop or PC stolen story. The other side of the use is of course [...]

Even though I am “married” to Buddi, GFP is a program that I found a little while ago and have taken the time to read the installation and look through the tutorials. Yes, tutorials with screen shots and descriptions. I know, I know, real men don’t read manuals, don’t need help, and can always find [...]

NUT is a program that I have been using for a while to find the various nutritional components of what is in my pantry. But be warned there is only a command line version and no GUI. So if you do not wish to type, then forget this program and I will try to find [...]