After starting the morning with computer hassles, the day has improved! Computer problem solved thanks to a good neighbor who is a real whiz with computers. Then to further improve my day, I got confirmation that the author has finished the rewrite on the next edition of the motor disorders book that I’ve been waiting…
Category: Software
software, learning curve for new….
After a lot of thought, cogitation, and serious deliberation, I’ve done it–just installed SKY Index 7 (SI7). Now I’m working my way through the accompanying manual to be sure that I can get the best out of SI7. While I’m waiting for the final on the 3rd edition of a book on motor disorders, I’ve…
A passing mention….
I’ve just given a huge sigh of relief, hit the send button on the e-mail with the attachments, and had an acute attack of nervousness–is there an error in there somewhere, did I miss something, is there…? It’s been a long, but interesting, project. I’ve prepared the index for a commemorative edition of The Polar…
Laptop versus lap
I posted some time ago about preventing loss of work by cat-proofing your computer with PawSense. This is just an update on my experiences with cat and computer. The PawSense software really does protect work–it responds very quickly to cat-like typing. I worked through the selection of sounds to “annoy” the cat and chase him off the…
Index for “The Polar Times”
It’s a relief to have a cat-proof computer as I’m now editing/proofreading scanned excerpts from The Polar Times for a 75th anniversary publication. The excerpts are coming to me as MS Word documents. I’m doing some formatting and checking for OCR errors, and preparing an index. My indexing software, CINDEX®, is making the embedding easy! It’s a…
Cat-proof computer!
Quite some time ago, I posted about assessing the risk of losing work, cat proofing software, and backup of work. At the time the Keiko (the cat who was with me until 15 December 2011) just was not really a threat when it came to walking on the keyboard. Sadly, Keiko had adenocarcinoma of the…
Take a break–preventing RSI/MSD.
Perhaps it’s because I’ve had to wear them that I’m aware of wrist splints–but I couldn’t help noticing at the ASI convention that there seemed to be a number of them in evidence, which was not surprising given that we do spend a lot of time at the computer. Since I’m a veteran of bilateral hand…
The CAT did it?
As I go about setting up for freelance work as an indexer, all sorts of things keep popping up that I realize I haven’t considered yet in terms of consequences to my work. This whole chain of thought started when I saw a post on CINDEX users list about the incident of the cat on…
Graffito Indexing 