Allen Lew’s Thoughts

If you have a First Name and Last Name in one column in Excel, here’s a tutorial on splitting them into two separate columns (without VB macros) from LauraJ’s blog. It involves using the Data to Text feature. Very handy.
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If you haven’t been able to install Adobe Flash Player on your Ubuntu 7.10 install, Jayson Joseph Chacko wrote an excellent post with a set of terminal commands to get Adobe Flash installed. Thanks Jayson.
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George Mason University’s Center for History and New Media has been really putting out some great online academic tools. They’re the ones behind the Zotero research extension for Firefox. Now they are developing some software for web sites like Omeka, an open source content management system for museum collections and exhibits, and ScholarPress, [...]

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In case you have some old floppy disks around and can’t get the files out, try out FlopShow. It’s a free and simple floppy disk restore program.
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So I just got a Palm T|X from work at Los Angeles Urban League. One of the downsides of working in this part of LA is there isn’t a lot of free wi-fi points to make use of the Internet capabilities. Meanwhile, my current favorite app for the handheld so far is Google [...]

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A few blog posts about some other software and Internet services that might be useful for starting up a company (or nonprofit).

Read and Write Web’s Software for Virtual Teams
Nick Denton’s (owner of Gawker and Lifehacker) Startup Kit

Evan Williams’s (founder of blogger.com) list of business web apps
Added: The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Web 2.0: Top 25 Apps [...]

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Photoshop CS3 looks really cool. The perspective grid looks amazing. By far that was the best conference I attended.

Most of the conferences I wanted to go to were really full, which really sucks. Hope that means they’re good.

I’m tempted to buy the disk for the conferences I missed from Macworld Encore. [...]

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Semagic, the best Livejournal client for Windows, is now also a decent general blogging client. Works with MSN Spaces, Xanga, and others. I’d wish it fetched my Wordpress categories automatically.
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So as some of you know, I work as tech support for the College Writing Program at Berkeley. Our department is all Macintosh, so finding good software can sometimes be expense. Fortunately, there are a number of sites that list freeware Mac programs. One of the ones I like is FreeMacWare, a [...]

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Seed Magazine was rebuilt with Movable Type. Here’s how it was done.
(via Kottke)
Not that it hasn’t been done before, as Matt Haughey had an article on using Movable Type for all sorts of sites.
Of course, nice websites can be built with Wordpress as well, like California Connected. They even [...]

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