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Saturday, April 19th, 2008Web design can be fun… when you’re doing something new, making progress, and getting good results.
I spent the last couple of days re-designing the SwordSearcher website. It was overdue for an update — it still had a “2004″ kind of feel to it. It was a nice change of pace from coding and doing Uncle [...]
My Mac Adventures: Addendum
Monday, January 7th, 2008As readers of this blog probably know, in 2005 I embarked on an ill-fated voyage to create a native Mac version of my Bible software. I was unable to complete my quest and disappointed several of my users who had already switched to Mac and were hoping I would be able to give them SwordSearcher [...]
Migrating a boot partition to a new drive in Windows
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007I installed a new hard drive on my wife’s machine because she kept running out of space. I didn’t have the time or inclination to do a new Windows XP install, and didn’t want to install the drive as a secondary because that means she would constantly have to redirect where stuff is installed, so [...]
SwordSearcher 5.2 Released
Thursday, October 18th, 2007A new version of SwordSearcher Bible Software is now available: version 5.2.
As I mentioned before, this new version adds “words of Christ in red letters” for the KJV, and also gives the ability to restrict a Bible search to just the words of Christ. The Deluxe study library also adds the following modules:
Morrish Bible Dictionary
Calvin’s [...]
Stupid customer service tricks
Monday, October 15th, 2007My life insurance company has an automated system for contacting customers who miss a premium payment. You see, I got a new policy and I am allowing the old one to expire. My agent told me to simply not pay the bill from the old policy.
So this automated system calls me up in the morning. This is [...]
Keyword Stuffer SpamPro Elite Gold
Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007Web marketing seems to come down to one of two things:
1. Stay on the cusp of search engine manipulation. Keep one step ahead of Google so that you can have well-ranking web pages that customers will blunder on to, only to have to click an AdWord link to get to what they were looking for [...]
More download site scams - stealing content and hurting developers
Saturday, August 18th, 2007A few days ago, Andy Brice did a superb exposé on download site award scams. I’ve known that the vast majority of download site “awards” are completely bogus, which is why I do not display them on my software pages. However, while the award scam is entertaining, it does minimal damage to authors except those foolish [...]
New ToDo list software
Tuesday, August 14th, 2007A few weeks ago I decided I needed to quit using dozens of pieces of paper to manage my to-do list. I had tons of these little notes all over my desk, ostensibly to remind me of various tasks I needed to complete some day.
So, I decided to look for some todo software. I found [...]
Software Has Limits
Sunday, August 12th, 2007As I write this, somewhere around 8,000 people are stuck in LAX waiting to go through customs because of a computer glitch.
Frankly, I am amazed this doesn’t happen more often. This reminds me of a book I recently read called The Limits of Software. Anyone who is curious about why computers and software so frequently don’t work [...]
Red Microsoft beats Pinko Linux
Sunday, July 29th, 2007Interesting post from Jason Hiner at TechRepublic: How Microsoft beat Linux in China and what it means for freedom, justice, and the price of software
“Even with the cut-rate fees for students and the government, Microsoft will still collect an estimated $700 million in revenue from China in 2007. That amounts to only about 1.5% of [...]