Things I <3: AirVideo

by Jamison Judd on July 8, 2010

Now that I’ve been using my iPad for a while, there are certain programs I can’t imagine living without. One that I use on an almost daily basis is AirVideo, a delightful solution for streaming video across a local network. It’s a downloadable computer-side program that runs to stream video from any accessible location to [...]

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Angry with the insurance company

May 22, 2010

Who’s in charge of my medical care? Apparently not my doctor.
I’m a little peeved with the insurance company right now. I just had my tonsils out on Tuesday, May 18th. My doctor gave me a prescription for Lortab, a common narcotic pain reliever and cough suppressant. On recommendation from the nurse, I have been trying [...]

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I <3 dropbox

April 14, 2010

Finally got around to trying dropbox. I wish I had tried it earlier, before I spent all that time fiddling with subversion. It does exactly what I want, sync a local copy of files with the cloud automatically across all my computers. This is so much better than having to copy things to a usb [...]

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PDF markup on the iPad

April 12, 2010

Just a quick note for those of you looking for a program to do PDF reading and markup (highlighting, commenting, etc) on the iPad. As of right now (4/12/10), Papers does not offer these features. I’m hoping they will soon so that I can keep all my PDF work confined to a single program. In [...]

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Get the hell out of my way

February 11, 2010

I’ve been doing some deep thinking and reflecting about why I never seem to get caught up on anything. My conclusion was that I spend too much time worrying about the how and not enough doing the actual work. Ultimately this is my own fault, but a large part of the problem rests squarely on [...]

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I love this coffee mug

January 30, 2010

It’s just the right size (12 oz.), and the handle is a comfortable shape.
Sadly Starbucks seems to no longer be selling these. Anyone know where I can find a few more?

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What I need on the iPad

January 28, 2010

As a student and researcher, there are a few basic things I’m looking for in the Apple iPad

A word processor
Web browser
PDF reader with markup

At the Jan 27th presentation, Apple announced that each of the iWork applications was ported over for the iPad (Pages, Keynote, Numbers), so that takes care of the first. It’s running Safari, [...]

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Docstoc: making money off pirated documents

January 17, 2010

I was browsing through my Google Reader this evening when I ran across a Google Alert that came up for my name. Upon further investigation, the alert came from a site called docstoc that was hosting a PDF from the UConn Chapter of Phi Delta Kappa. I’m 100% sure that neither I (as acting webmaster), [...]

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New Year’s Resolutions

January 1, 2010

Yes it’s trite, but it’s time once again to make resolutions for the coming year. Here are mine, and how I plan to accomplish them.

Create more, consume less
This is the year where I’m going to try and spend more time making things and less time passively consuming things. I dropped my cable in the fall [...]

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