Updated: 11/14/2005; 12:55:18 AM
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daily link  Wednesday, December 04, 2002

Waaay Behind
I have not opened the Radio news aggregator for many days. Good luck trying to catch up now... 
11:10:00 PM 

VPN Problems
A member of our corporate MIS team asked me to upgrade my Cisco VPN client because of glitches I experienced. I upgraded this last night and now I can no longer connect to work. Spent two hours working on this last night. Tonight I spent 40 minutes on the phone with the tech support guys at our third-party VPN provider. They fixed one problem with digital certificate import. Now I can connect with a secure tunnel, but the freaking tunnel won't pass any packets. Big pain in the neck. Now I have the latest software and no way to connect to work. Bite me. 
11:07:24 PM 

Pinnacle Studio 8
I downloaded the evaluation copy of the Pinnacle Systems Studio 8 video editor on Monday. I'm toying with the idea of converting the old analog VHS videotapes and editing down onto CD or DVD. Ran into repeated glitches in Studio 8 user interface, which do not appear to make it into the generated movies. It may have received the PC Magazine Editors Choice last month, but the product would benefit from some kind of introduction. After you download and install the evaluation, you are left staring at the basic user interface. No pop-up wizard the first time you launch the product. No intro walkthrough from the Help menu. You just have to read the Help file and find your own way. Poor way to entice someone into buying the product. I need more time to play with this. 
11:01:44 PM 

iPhoto on Mac OS X
On Sunday, I played with QuickTime movie generation. I made several test slide shows from wedding photos using iPhoto, one of which I posted here on Monday. A few iPhoto user interface decisions were interesting, but the package is very rudimentary. You are obviously intended to edit photos before importing them, as editing features in iPhoto appear very crude. Cute, but looks pretty limited. 
10:50:04 PM 


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