<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" > <channel> <title>Software – Dangerous Intersection</title> <atom:link href="https://dangerousintersection.org/category/computers/software-computers/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /> <link>https://dangerousintersection.org</link> <description>Human Animals at the Crossroads of Science, Religion, Media and Culture</description> <lastBuildDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2022 17:49:47 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en-US</language> <sy:updatePeriod> hourly </sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency> 1 </sy:updateFrequency> <site xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">2851851</site> <item> <title>In Praise of FoxTrot Professional Search Software for Mac</title> <link>https://dangerousintersection.org/2022/12/28/in-praise-of-foxtrot-professional-search-software-for-mac/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=in-praise-of-foxtrot-professional-search-software-for-mac&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=in-praise-of-foxtrot-professional-search-software-for-mac</link> <comments>https://dangerousintersection.org/2022/12/28/in-praise-of-foxtrot-professional-search-software-for-mac/#respond</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Erich Vieth]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2022 04:56:34 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[computers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Software]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://dangerousintersection.org/?p=36630</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>I have sometimes struggled to comb through several decades of legal research (as well as science and philosophy research) on my iMac 4tb hard drive. I’ve used Apple Spotlight’s multi-faceted document search function over the years and it is often quite helpful. Today, however, I learned about <a href="https://foxtrot-search.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FoxTrot Professional Search.</a> It is incredibly powerful, allowing you to pinpoint documents, images, spreadsheets and mail in dozens of ways, including proximity searches and tailor-made search strings with exceptions. You can apply complicated search requests to multiple indices on your main HD, as well as external drives (I’ve got another 3+ TB of data on my external drive. I’ve been exploring the parameters of FoxTrot for a couple of hours now and I highly recommend it. $100 per workstation. I hope this helps somebody out there . . .…</p>]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>https://dangerousintersection.org/2022/12/28/in-praise-of-foxtrot-professional-search-software-for-mac/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">36630</post-id> </item> <item> <title>How to Be a Human Animal, Chapter 26: The Magic of Tuna Acceleration and Workspaces</title> <link>https://dangerousintersection.org/2022/03/17/how-to-be-a-human-animal-chapter-26-the-magic-of-tuna-acceleration-and-workspaces/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-to-be-a-human-animal-chapter-26-the-magic-of-tuna-acceleration-and-workspaces&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-to-be-a-human-animal-chapter-26-the-magic-of-tuna-acceleration-and-workspaces</link> <comments>https://dangerousintersection.org/2022/03/17/how-to-be-a-human-animal-chapter-26-the-magic-of-tuna-acceleration-and-workspaces/#respond</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Erich Vieth]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2022 05:24:41 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[computers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Friendships/relationships]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Quality of Life]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Self Improvement]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Software]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://dangerousintersection.org/?p=34990</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>This is Chapter 26 of <a href="https://dangerousintersection.org/2022/02/13/how-to-be-a-human-animal-suggested-reading-for-every-newborn-baby/">my advice to a hypothetical baby.</a> And yes, what I’m really doing is acting out the time-travel fantasy of going back give myself some pointers on how to navigate life. If I only knew what I now know . . . All of these chapters (soon to be 100) <a href="https://dangerousintersection.org/how-to-be-a-human-animal-all-chapters/">can be found here.</a></p> <p>You are only 26 days old, but you will someday escape your crib and your room with the same aplomb with which you escaped your mother’s womb. And at some point in your adventures as a bipedal ape, you might be lucky enough to see some fish. One thing that I always found amazing is how fast a fish can go from zero to some absurdly fast speed. It turns out that this was explained in Andy Clark’s excellent book, <a href="https://smile.amazon.com/Being-There-Putting-Brain-Together/dp/0262531569/ref=sr_1_1?crid=AUQ31QSOUIVA&keywords=being+there+andy+clark&qid=1647578680&sprefix=Being+there+andy%2Caps%2C92&sr=8-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>Being There: Putting Brain, Body, and World Together Again</em> (1998).</a> I had the opportunity to take four graduate seminars with Andy at Washington University and he excelled at filled our heads with non-stop counter-intuitive observations and explaining them in clear English. Here’s how fish can take off like rockets:</p> <blockquote><p>The swimming capacities of many fishes, such as dolphins and bluefin tuna, are staggering. These aquatic beings far outperform anything that nautical science has so far produced. Such fish are both mavericks of maneuverability and, it seems, paradoxes of propulsion. It is estimated that the dolphin for example, is simply not strong enough l to propel itself at the speeds it is observed </p></blockquote>…]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>https://dangerousintersection.org/2022/03/17/how-to-be-a-human-animal-chapter-26-the-magic-of-tuna-acceleration-and-workspaces/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">34990</post-id> </item> <item> <title>Having more fun with photos using Lightroom 4</title> <link>https://dangerousintersection.org/2012/12/03/having-more-fun-with-photos-lightroom4/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=having-more-fun-with-photos-lightroom4&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=having-more-fun-with-photos-lightroom4</link> <comments>https://dangerousintersection.org/2012/12/03/having-more-fun-with-photos-lightroom4/#comments</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Erich Vieth]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2012 06:00:38 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[nature]]></category> <category><![CDATA[photography]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Software]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://dangerousintersection.org/?p=24279</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>Yesterday, my 14 year old daughter JuJu and I spent the entire day at Studio 314 in Midtown St. Louis learning Adobe Lightroom 4. I’d been using Picasa for organizing my photos, and Picasa/Photoshop for processing. Lightroom is an incredible package –it allows you to quickly sort through your photos and also to “develop” them using sophisticated controls that allow for individual tweaks and batch processing. It’s a professional tool, and even after a day of studying it and most of a day (today) continuing to study it and use it on my own, I only think I’ve tapped into 50% of what the program can do. Not that knowing the controls is being proficient at using the program either. I’m sure that I’ll be picking up lots of tips and efficiencies over the next six months or so (there are tons of Youtubes and other videos offering instruction in Lightroom). What I’ve already noticed is that I’m turned some mediocre shots into decent shots and I’ve turned many decent shots into impressive images. Lightroom offers far more flexibility than the free photo organizing and processing programs out there, such as Picasa and iPhoto. Lightroom 4 is only about $100, so it’s well in range of amateur photographers like me.</p> <p>Today I spent a couple hours at the St. Louis Zoo capturing images, so that I could have something interesting to process in Lightroom 4. I’ll paste a couple of my photos below, but also offer a gallery (you can …</p>]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>https://dangerousintersection.org/2012/12/03/having-more-fun-with-photos-lightroom4/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>3</slash:comments> <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">24279</post-id> </item> </channel> </rss>