Timely Snow

Omniweb, Omnidazzle, Omnidisksweeper, and OmniObjectmeter are now free. I haven’t used any of them yet, but the company has a good reputation.

Fresh, from Ironic Software, maker of LEAP and YEP, keeps track of recently downloaded or modified files, which could be very convenient. If you join MacHeist (also free), you can download and register it for free.

Thanks to Download Squad.

I noted previously that the new version of Endnote (X2) seems to fulfill my needs for something that will a) allow me to search remote databases without leaving the program, and b) grab full-text of articles. I wasn’t sure what it does with them, and was worried it might just keep a link to the [...]

I note an oddly halfhearted review by David Pogue in today’s New York Times. The article notes some very impressive improvements—better battery life, much better grayscale resolution, much greater storage, better user interface design—but argues that it should be called Kindle 1.1 instead of Kindle 2. We’ll see…

One of my favorite books is Pasteur’s Quadrant, by the late Donald Stokes. Among other things, Stokes debunks the idea behind the founding of NSF —and the current push for “translational research”—that pure scientists generate a pool of basic knowledge that becomes the basis for technological development. In reality, the movement as often goes in [...]

When I lived in Texas in the mid 1980s, United Airlines was the best way to go to China and in general had pretty good service. Then it all started falling apart. They became very bureaucratic, passengers on the flights started acting surly (on a memorably delayed flight to Baltimore for SRCD, a passenger ripped [...]

R Graph Gallery :: thumbnails gallery

Amazing list of R graphs, complete with code.

I’ve used Endnote off and on for many years with deep ambivalence. I just upgraded one machine to the latest version (X2) and have to admit that it might be just what I need. It appears that I can search Psyclit directly from the program and (thanks to OpenURL integration) get the papers I want [...]

I’ve experimented with a quite a variety of systems for trying to keep track of the various things I need to do, and haven’t found anything that felt quite right. Of the Mac-based systems, Omnifocus is too unwieldy, Things doesn’t sync well across different computers, and The Hit List is still too buggy. In time, [...]

Converting RealVideo (RMVB, RealPlayer) files to AVI, MPEG, or MP4 on the Mac | Geekology

So far only AVI DivX seems to work, but that’s a start.