Until a couple of months ago, I was frequently frustrated by a shortcoming on the iPod that effects anyone who shuffles their songs or uses any sort of playlist rather than just listening to a single album at a time - the fact that Apple's built-in 'sound check' feature really does quite a poor job of equalizing the volume from one song to the next.
Read MoreFor the past few months, I have been a subscriber to a service that was first called Tweetlater.com then changed its name to Socialoomph.com. The concept has been a good one for me and I have been able to reach more people in different time zones who might otherwise miss my tweets. I am not pretending that I am writing such valuable pearls of wisdom that the world will change by reading them, but it is nice to be able to repeat my tweets, phrased a bit differently each time, every day or so for a few days in different time zones so that they are read.
Read MoreGreat to see Steve Jobs back at the helm; kind of thin looking but I'm not his mother. He now claims to have the liver of a mid 20 y.o. donor and says that he would not be alive had he not received the transplant. It turns out that the "It's only Rock and Roll" tag line for today's keynote was really just about iTunes improvements with minor hardware upgrades. No big surprises at all; minor surprise that iPod Nano got the camera instead of the iPod Touch.
Read MoreI have an Exchange Server (2007) service for my e-mail and recently upgrading my Mac OS to Snow Leopard (10.6) from Leopard. One of the main reasons for doing the upgrade was the fact that Snow Leopard promised full support for Exchange with the Mac's native Mail 4.0 rather than having to use a 3rd party app. Up until mid august 2009, that 3rd party app was Microsoft's Entourage. Now that I have been using both Mail and Entourage, it is worth writing about the experience in case this information proves to be helpful to others.
Read MoreAn AudioBoo article on using a Kodak Zi6 since I still don't have the new iPhone 3GS and wanted to keep the number of cameras I was taking with me on my camping trip. I had a Canon 50D with 2 lenses as well as a Sony HD video camera but couldn't imagine carrying this around while camping and hiking on Salt Spring Island in BC.Ironically, the photo associated with this AudioBoo recording was done with my iPhone 3G as the recording was made from the iPhone and AudioBoo allows attaching a photo from the iPhone when posting.
Read MoreI started this site in 2009 to write about Glaucoma, Health IT (EMR, EHR), Technology and to host my podcast series "Talking About Glaucoma." There is a shortcut to this blog to make it easier to find http://iguy.tv/blog.
I am a glaucoma sub-specialized Ophthalmologist and have a full time clinical practice at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic of the Geisel School of Medicine in Hanover, NH. I have a longtime interest in the use of technology to help in medical care as well as in Education. In addition, I was a very early adopter and developer of Electronic Medical Record systems who has lectured internationally on the topic of making the transition to EMRs in daily practice.
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