Category: Technology
December 3, 2007
Cheap Microsoft and Parallels licenses for NIH users/contractors
This is an interesting tidbit: If you work at the National Institutes of Health as an employee or contractor, you are probably eligible for discounted license prices on many Microsoft products and Parallels Desktop for Mac, or so CIT’s latest…
August 20, 2007
The Inner Life of the Cell
This incredible video was made by some folks at Harvard (supporting by the quite-wonderful Howard Hughes Medical Institute) and came to my attention through the NIH Biomedical Computing Interest Group. Really quite an incredible view of the mechanics of life.…
June 12, 2007
Inconsiderate FBO system design gets my goat
This really shouldn’t bother me as much as it does but check this out:
This is a screenshot from FedBizOpps after a user registers interest in an opportunity. Yeah, let me just click on that “X” at the top most right hand…
June 8, 2007
HOWTO: Scan directly to PDF (well, almost) on OSX
I have to print, sign, scan, and e‑mail a lot of documents and have been seeking out an easy way to do it for a while. It’s been particularly aggravating for multi-page documents because ImageCapture saves each page as individual files. There are…
June 5, 2007
HOWTO: Configure a Linksys WPS54G wireless print server on Mac OSX
While trying to set up our home theater Mac Mini to print to our shared printer, I accidentally deleted the printer on my MacBook (this is what happens if you run too many VNC sessions on machines that share a look-and-feel!). Putting…
June 2, 2007
Use Firefox keyword searches to speed browsing
Via the wonderful Lifehacker, I discovered a feature of Firefox that I can’t believe I didn’t know about before. You can create keywords for search boxes on pretty much any Web page and then, when you invoke the keyword in the Firefox address bar,…
Enigmail — neat‑o GnuGP extension for Thunderbird
I just installed Enigmail, a GnuGP (free, open source version of PGP encryption) extension that makes it incredibly easy to send encrypted e‑mail through Thunderbird. Install of GnuGP was easy using MacGPG, but I hit one snag in getting to grips with…
February 28, 2007
Dovecot Invalid Messageset Error and Solution
Though working for a long time, while trying to read their mail, two of our Thunderbird IMAP users suddenly received the error: “The current command did not succeed. The mail server responded: Invalid messageset: ‑2147483648:*.”
A bit of research revealed that…
January 19, 2007
MS Office Hidden Data Removal tool
Matt Eliot, a colleague here at TCG, suggested this tool in response to my complaints of people leaving comments and tracked changes in Word documents. Rich Renomeron also told me that it works in all Office programs, not just Word. Unfortunately…
January 14, 2007
Grantsfire — grant announcements for the rest of the world
The guys over at Solpath have released a test version of a new project called Granstsfire, which they describe as
an aggregator of syndicated grants information. It enables grantseekers and funders to share and search for information on grant announcements in real…