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Month: August, 2008

Backup using Karen’s Replicator

6 August, 2008 (20:05) | Windows

Karen Kenworthy has a wonderful little tool called Karen’s Replicator. It is an automated backup program that will backup files, directories, even entire drives. Karen’s Replicator copies selected files from one drive/folder to another. Source and Destination folders can reside anywhere on your network. Options include repeated copies at intervals as short as a few [...]

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I left my shell in the sun and now it is all GUI

5 August, 2008 (22:25) | Shell

It seems that everything is GUI these days. Everything has to have a graphical user interface. Sure, it looks great, but is it really user-friendly? Do you really get more done with a GUI than with a command-line interface? The saying goes that when you sell software you show the managers the graphical version, but [...]

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Master Bender

2 August, 2008 (21:54) | PawEng Software

The past few years I have been working on Master Bender. It is a tool for Palm and Windows Mobile to assist electricians in the field. It is targeted at bending conduit, but contains a number of other features including a complete scientific calculator and unit converter. When you bend conduit, you must consider that [...]

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PawCalc — A powerful scientific calculator for Palm OS

2 August, 2008 (21:25) | PawEng Software

When I got my first Palm PDA some ten years ago, I wanted to use it was a calculator. I was not satisfied with the rather limited built-in calculator program of my Palm V, so I decided to write my own. The result was PawCalc. Many years and multiple versions later, PawCalc 2.3 was ready. [...]

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