Family Man Librarian

I don’t pay as much attention to blog traffic for FML as I probably should. I know there are a lot of things I could improve if I paid more attention to the various details. Instead, I tend to look for trends and broad numbers and that’s about it.
This evening I checked summary [...]

I have yet to standardize on one, single way to post to this blog. I never seem to find the perfect fit — if there is such a thing. And maybe it is ok to use multiple ways to post. Some of the editors and/or posting methods I’ve used include the following:

Log [...]

At the risk of sounding like a mindless Google-ogue (because I like Google Reader and Gmail), let me write some good things about Google Desktop. One good thing is that it provides me with a quick way to find files on my PC and any shared network drives that I specify. That’s an [...]

Is desktop search secure?
I love Google Desktop Search. I use it every day. I particularly like the fact that it now supports indexing of Thunderbird. I wouldn’t use it if I was in a purely OS X environment, because the search in Mail, iTunes, and Sherlock in general work so much faster [...]

MacCentral: Apple posts MWSF keynote webcast – a post from MacCentral, highlights the availability of Steve Job’s keynote speech as MacWorld SF. I watched most of it late last night while lying in bed, unable to get to sleep. It was interesting for me to notice some rather important glitches in Jobs’s presentation, perhaps as [...]

I couldn’t agree more with David Pogue’s description in his New York Times column of the “stealth benefit” of the new iMac G5, OS X, as “rock solid.” Mentioned in MacMinute. It really amazes me that more people aren’t clued into the fact that OS X, as Pogue says, is “100 percent free [...]

Some time ago, I read about Grokker, a new type of web search engine that presents results visually in cluster maps (think something like Venn diagrams), rather than in a long series of search results to page through one by one. Put in simple terms, the idea behind Grokker is to enable the searcher [...]

I was reading about Apple’s newest OS X release, nicknamed Tiger, this a.m. There are so many goodies that it is hard to know where to start when describing the things I am excited about. How about a new version of Safari that incorporates an RSS reader? How about an upgraded iChat [...]