by Jeffery Battersby | May 16, 2007 | Macworld, Writing
Fantastic and Free! PersonalAncestryWriter II (PAWII) is a free genealogy program that has excellent support, superior documentation, and which can handle a virtually unlimited number of ancestors and an encyclopedic amount of text. While not so hot at handling...
by Jeffery Battersby | Apr 25, 2007 | Macworld, Writing
Put Your Life Into A Box Midnight Inbox is a program designed to bring David Allen’s Getting Things Done (GTD) principles to your Mac. A beautifully designed program, Midnight Inbox, in its present iteration, is weak on documentation and better suited for users...
by Jeffery Battersby | Apr 13, 2007 | HousePosts
Just a few, with good pictures too! So, a shortlistâ€â€mostly because this is all I’ve had time to look through so far. At the very top of my current list is Inside the Bungalow by Paul Duchscherer and Douglas Keister. This book includes numerous photographs...
by Jeffery Battersby | Apr 11, 2007 | HousePosts
And a little weekend cleanup Busy weekend, especially it being Easter. Spent Saturday cleaning up outside the house, planting two apple trees, and prepping for the several new projects we have in mind. (also went shopping for a new front-loading washer and drier, but...
by Jeffery Battersby | Apr 3, 2007 | Commentary, Macworld, Writing
Or, why I still won’t allow my wife to make a list of things for me to do… For the last couple of days I’ve been working on a review of a program that implements David Allen’s Getting Things Done techniques using your Macintosh. Now, I have to...
by Jeffery Battersby | Mar 29, 2007 | HousePosts
I smell a spring project in the air… Ah, you’ve gotta love the smell of spring. Soft earth beneath your feet. Birds nesting on the porch. And the pleasant idea that it may be safe again to embark on a major project. For the last several weeks Kathy and I...
by Jeffery Battersby | Mar 21, 2007 | Commentary, Wanders
Let’s hope not… Friday brought a great (last?) blast of snow to the Northeast. About 12 inches around our house and plenty enough to allow us to put snowshoes on and get out into the woods. Kathy and I kicked it off with a nice, late Saturday afternoon...