The gadget saga continues

[hrj]

My replacement Time Capsule came in and was picked up yesterday. I set it to doing the first (long) backup when I went to sleep and everything went off ok. There are a few improvements to my backup hygiene that could be improved (for example, it was simple luck that the drive didn't die at several of the more inconvenient times that it could have, and there things I can do to change "luck" to "planning"). But all in all it was rather painless. Tonight I got back to the "install all the accumulated software" project. Only one more item to go, which is a voice recognition program that was cheap enough (and worked well enough on the demo) to be worth trying. I honestly don't know how well my work habits would mesh with dictation. I've tried a few times simply recording for later (manual) transcription, but never quite got into the groove. But I'm all about trying new things. We'll see. Tonight's installations were the latest version of the Read IRIS ocr software and the IRIS Pen Express pen scanner. I picked up one of these quite some years ago and worked with it enough to make it useful, but then I think my OS version outran its compatibility. The theory is that the pen scanner would help with pulling personal names out of source texts, although at the moment most of my onomastics projects involve organizing my existing data rather than pulling new data. So many projects, so little time.

Comments

[klwilliams.livejournal.com]

Is your Time Capsule a separate CPU of some sort, or just a backup hard drive?

[hrj.livejournal.com]

It's a combination hard drive (with some native backup software), wireless router, and limited hub (i.e., one usb, 3 ethernet outlets). The primary intended purpose it was designed for is to serve as a wireless backup drive for Apple's Time Machine backup software.

[goldenstag.livejournal.com]

Man do I hear you on the "so many projects, so little time" bits ... gad. On the other hand, never bored is good!