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February 10, 2007

Foxmarks Bookmark Synchronizer

Filed under: Software — cangione @ 4:57 pm

The Foxmarks Bookmark Synchronizer automatically synchronizes your bookmarks between two or more computers running Firefox. It also lets you access your bookmarks from any computer anytime via my.foxmarks.com

The plug-in also allows you an FTP option that should allow you to host your bookmarks somewhere other than foxmarks.

C. Angione

January 29, 2007

Adobe to Release PDF for Industry Standardization

Filed under: Software — cangione @ 2:38 pm

Adobe Systems announced that it intends to release the full Portable Document Format 1.7 specification to AIIM, the Enterprise Content Management Association, for the purpose of publication by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).

About time!

Read Press Release Here

November 10, 2006

Auto-text Completion Utility

Filed under: Software — cangione @ 9:48 pm

If you are looking for an auto-text feature similar to Word's auto-text (type a few letters and your stored phrase automatically appears), the following link is a run-time free/cheap tool that can provide that functionality for every windows app. I tried it with Arbortext editor and it worked quite well. It appears to use the clipboard heavily so it may mess with some custom applications.

www.phraseexpress.com

other contenders:

www.autohotkey.com/

September 18, 2006

Stop Fetching!

Filed under: Software — @ 5:14 pm







No this blog is not about my Labrador. Trying to stop my Lab from fetching is not possible. Asking Windows XP to stop prefetching IS possible and can really help at boot time. One may wonder why Windows installation seem to get slower as they get older. One of the reasons seems to be the Windows Prefetch. Basically the prefetch goes and gets system items and programs that you have used before in past sessions and loads them into memory on boot for faster load times if they are called. So for people that use or test a wide range of software this can really muck up the works. I was amazed at what my prefetch contained.



To clean things up you can delete all the files in the C:\windows\Prefetch folder.



To keep it from filling up with programs again but allowing windows to still prefetch the system items, do the following:



1) Start => Run => type Regedit => Enter

2) Navigate to this value:


HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\PrefetchParameters


3) Values you can choose from include:




0: Disable



1: Application Launch Prefetch



2: Boot Prefetch (CHANGE TO THIS)



3: Prefetch everything (DEFAULT)





September 6, 2006

Adobe to Quickly End Support for SVG Viewer

Filed under: Software,XML — cangione @ 10:21 am

Adobe announced the end of support for their SVG Viewer arguably the best free robust SVG viewer currently available as of January 1, 2007. Disappointing for companies that have used the plug in within their own applications trusting that they had support for a major player in the industry. January of 2007 is not much time to consider alternatives! The claim is that there is now enough support in Browsers and other free plug ins that they do not need to continue to support the plug in. I'm not sure I buy this as much as it competes with other technologies that Adobe recently bought.

So what is an SVG plug in-less person to do? A comprehensive listing of the SVG Viewer Implementations is available on the SVG WIKI at:
http://wiki.svg.org/Viewer_Implementations

August 6, 2006

To Blog or To Wiki?

Filed under: Software — cangione @ 9:07 pm







At first glance wikis and blogs both provide an easy means of communicating information. With various products it is sometimes hard to identify the distinctive differences. Bob Doyle for E-Content Magazine does a good job in a recent article of pointing out the two main differences that still remain. The first is how blogs and wikis organize their information. The second is the number of contributors and what they hope to achieve.

A blog is organized in reverse chronological order. The Date and time is critical in the organization of the blog. The basic organizing principle of a wiki is to aggregate and organize content. New content and old content are give equal weight. Blogs typically speak in the voice of a single author or organization. The posts tend to stand alone on a topic. Others than add their comments or additions at the bottom of the post. Wiki information may start as a place holder for an idea or topic and then have multiple people contribute to it over time as relevant information is found.


July 10, 2006

show functions – new to Arbortext 5.2

Filed under: ACL,Software — cangione @ 4:49 pm






show functions [package] [output=filename]

A useful new command was added to Arbortext 5.2. The show functions command displays a list of all the functions defined in the specified package along with a count of the number of times each function was called in the current session.

package is the name of a loaded package or the fully qualified path name of the file defining the functions.

Example:

"show functions main" displayed...

Functions defined in file C:\Program Files\Epic\v5.2\lib\init.acl:

Name Calls
is_unix 29
is_windows 12
oid_is_tbl_wrapper 0
oid_is_tbl_viewimage 0
save_point 0
restore_point 0
clear_point 0
re_search_forward 0
...


May 23, 2006

iText a Free Java-PDF library

Filed under: Java,Software — cangione @ 9:36 pm







iText is a good jar available under multiple license options: MPL and LGPL.

The classes are very useful for PDF cutting and assembly.

May 12, 2006

Vex – A Visual Editor for XML in Eclipse

Filed under: Eclipse,Software,XML — cangione @ 2:28 pm







Vex is an eclipse plug-in editor for XML documents that works with Docbook and DITA doctypes. Vex hides the raw XML tags from the user, providing a word processor like interface.

In Eclipse Vex has it's own perspective that provides a panel for attributes of an element, an xpath status bar at the bottom of the editor that provides the current context within the document and an outline view of the major divisions.

In short, a nice XML editor for simple XML document creation.

Screen Shot: http://vex.sourceforge.net/vex1.png

May 4, 2006

NcFTP Nice Replacement for FTP

Filed under: Linux,Software — cangione @ 12:24 pm







NcFTP is an enhanced FTP client that has some nice command line features like displaying the size of the file and the percentage complete.

April 4, 2006

meebo instant messenger clients via AJAX

Filed under: Software — cangione @ 10:24 pm







http://www23.meebo.com/

Very cool AJAX IM implementation for AIM, ICQ, Yahoo, MSN, Jabber and GTalk

Great for when your away from your computer.

March 23, 2006

oXygen Development Enviornment for XML a multi platform alternative to Altova XML Spy

Filed under: Eclipse,Software,XML,XSL,XSLT — cangione @ 9:44 pm







Downloaded the latest version of the <oXygen> XML IDE last night and was impressed with what I saw. <oXygen> is cross platform and supports both Linux and Windows as well as the Eclipse IDE. One things that I have always like about the Altova XML Spy suite (that they remove from their community edition) is the ability to collapse an element in the edit interface. This comes in really handy when working with complex documents. <oXygen> also has a nice Schema interface, XPATH 2.0 interface and diffing tool.

Altova charges big bucks for all of this functionality. The equivalent functionality in <oXygen> for 1/4 the price, cross platform to boot? Summary good deal!

NOTE: If you are running <oXygen> under Linux you do need a Sun JVM. The JVM that comes with the Fedora Core 4 & 5 distributions is not supported. To make it work in Fedora Core, rename the supplied /usr/bin/java binary to java.old and then include a link called java to the SUN JVM.

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