I hope you all enjoy the holidays. I’ll be back in the New Year.
December 2006
Recently I met a couple who didn’t know they have a Print Screen button on their keyboard. In fact they swore up and down there was no such thing because if it was there they would have seen it. They’ve had a computer in their home for 20 years.
I’m not saying this is a rampant situation, but just in case …
What are these funny little buttons for? 
If you already know, I’ll talk to you later. If you don’t, make yourself comfy.
Most of us have random collections of this, that and everything on our computers. And when I started doing genealogy research my chaos increased exponentially. I spent days and weeks inventing and re-inventing and re-organizing my “notes from everywhere” around myriad systems. When I found EverNote and got with the program, as they say, most of that trouble ended.
PDF printing will save you a lot of bother. The first time I had to refill an ink cartridge I realized two things: one, ink cartridges don’t last very long and two, printing could get expensive.
Speaking of portable applications, you haven’t lived until you’ve tried TiddlyWiki. This is a fascinating thing that can turn cartwheels for you.
Portable Apps are applications that can be carried on any kind of portable device – USB key, external hard-drive, iPod, etc. requiring no installation in your operating system. Un-installing is as simple as deleting the folders they live in. These are not mini-versions of your software, they’re the real deal, just as they exist on your hard-drive.
