simple computer technology for genealogists
From the monthly archives:
I’d better say this before so much time passes I think it doesn’t matter.
It’s pretty tough even looking at my keyboard after the week I’ve had at the LUG. Apparently it got so bad the last I read some people have blocked my address. Now there’s a sign from Somewhere. Vengeance is not sweet. Mailing lists can be quite unforgiving.
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Life goes on. I add Arles to the list of IPTC possibilities. This is a tasty little morsel from across the pond. Across the pond from here going East that is. Amsterdam.
What I love about these obscure programs is that they don’t even try to be like Adobe or Corel or ACDSee or anything else you’d recognize. The programmers just go about designing whatever interests them in whatever way they like. And then you can like it too. Or not.
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I don’t know whether to cry, scream or kill myself so I’ll write about it instead.
Cousin Sam took some pictures, about 80 that she wants to send over to me.
But first. We made a deal awhile back that Sam is not allowed to ask me questions about computers. Nothing, nada. She asks the same questions over and over and never listens to the answers because she’s not really interested anyway I figure. Sam is probably going senile. Me, I’m just old and tired. There’s no question Sam is digitally-challenged but she does know how to press the button on her camera and she really wants me to have these pictures.
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Another question that gets asked a lot is how to make photo collages. The simplest way I’ve already explained at Photo Collage, using FastStone Viewer.
But I’ll show you a different way using a photo editor.
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For the past couple of months, at least 30 people having been showing up at JLog every week asking how to crack KeePass. I don’t know if you’re wondering if it’s possible or if you’re hoping I can tell you how to do it.
So, for the 30 who will be showing up every week forevermore if this present rhythm continues, I will tell you everything I know.
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To commemorate America’s military heroes; Ancestry.com is offering FREE access to its entire U.S. Military Collection May 20 thru May 31. They have the world’s largest online family history repository and the nation’s most comprehensive online collection of U.S. military records, covering more than three centuries of American Wars and conflicts.
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If you don’t hang out at the Legacy Mailing List, you’ve been missing the feeding frenzy over the pre-release this week of Version 7.0 at the National Genealogical Society Conference in Kansas. Over the next few weeks, it will be mailed out to people who purchased Version 6.0 with the promise of a free upgrade to Version 7, as well as being made available for download & direct ordering. The exact dates are unknown but I’m sure you’ll hear about it from Legacy. I’m not on the inside track here, just passing it on.
I’m really really looking forward to it but I’m not out of my skull over it. It will get here. It will need some updating and bug-fixing. What’s the rush?
I was such a somber kid I hardly even got psyched over Christmas. If no-one was giving me a horse, there was no point. Just a bunch of people hyped up on sugar caring about things that didn’t matter, i.e. not horses.
But it’s coming. Honest to god, people, it really is. No, not the horse. (Still not the horse.) Legacy 7.0. People who already have the CD from the conference will probably be leaking out bits and pieces to make us salivate all the more. Then the complaints will start and the yeah buts, what about this and that, and the whole cycle will start all over again for Version 8.
Anyway, I have to go traveling again because I’m essentially wicked I guess and life won’t let me stay home and rest. So I’ll be here and then I won’t and then I will.
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Just on the off chance anyone’s taken an interest in Zotero, any of the 800 of you who have traipsed through my site in the past few days, virtually shutting down the LUG yesterday and choking Zotero‘s bandwidth, I’d like to mention a few things that weren’t immediately obvious to me.
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I don’t know how I missed this one. Don’t get around enough I guess.
I said I wouldn’t harp on about Firefox anymore but I just hafta. As if there aren’t already enough reasons for switching browsers, here’s one more and this is the King of them all. You can’t possibly, as a self-respecting genealogist, not want to use this. It’s impossible.
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I suppose you think this is really fun, sitting there wondering what I’m going to say next. Here’s a clue: After 140 postings, I have no idea.
But here’s a story that just cracks me up.
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