July 2011 - Posts

• Windows and Mac not playing nicely with zip files

  I’m having a terrible time with a new Cisco E4200 router and WMP600N dual band wireless network adapter. Cisco directed me to download a zip file of driver files, but they created it on a Mac. Zip files created on a Mac can sometimes unzip on Windows Read More... Posted Friday, July 08, 2011 6:38 PM by John Paul Cook | 10 Comments

• Adding custom medical spell checking to Word

  Adding custom spell checking to Word is easy. Office applications use lists of properly spelled words stored in simple Unicode text files will a file type of dic for dictionary. There is a legally free, GPL licensed medical list of words found at http://www.e-medtools.com/openmedspel.html Read More... Posted Friday, July 08, 2011 2:07 PM by John Paul Cook | 7 Comments Attachment(s): OpenMedSpel100.zip

• Matte vs. glossy

  Here's a great article explaining matte vs. glossy: http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/multi_page.asp?cid=7-10041-10146&sr=hotnews . Scroll down toward the bottom of the page and look at the two photos. Do a mouseover to see what happens to a glossy Read More... Posted Tuesday, July 05, 2011 9:08 PM by John Paul Cook | 8 Comments

• SQL Kinect Management Studio

  SKMS - yes, I made that up. But look here to see that Microsoft has released an SDK to connect Windows machines to Kinect. It's something I've been thinking about for months. I'd like to use Kinect to administer SQL Server. I understand that many people Read More... Posted Tuesday, July 05, 2011 7:18 PM by John Paul Cook | 4 Comments