X3 correction....

My bad. X3 actually WORKS. It's the PDF annotator that was assigned to open PDF couldn't handle the PDF parse. Obviously, now it's MUCH better with me opening PDF directly. However, still will try to shift to Zotero but slower. No rush to transfer all my 100+ to zotero.

Folder Sizes

Areas where windows can improve a LOT:

Haivng visual relative size indicator such as in Opus. Show to relative proportion of File size in folder. One thing I absolutely hate to try to find which folder is taking up too much space. I mean, there are 3rd party software but basic feature such as this to visualize the folder relative size should be a build in. Such bad human UI interface design.

Mac is not that much off either. Although it provides slightly better improvement. I mean, is it that hard to come up with a easy to use relative folder size indicator...

2530p

OMG... the vista is FREAKING slow... the boot time is over 2 min at least I think. sigh.

 

This machine is wonderful but man, the boot up/hibernation time is BLOODY slow. I mena, I kind of expected looking at 1.8Ghz Duo Core, but man... it's doing this even SLOWER than my single core 1.6Ghz Inspiron 9300... WTH?

 

Duo Core are suppose to help and the fact that starting time is over a min is totally unacceptable. Once it's running, it's fine though. but shut off/restart = DEADLY.

 

I heard a lot of Windows 7 excitement and want to move over to that version but do they even have driver for the tablet?

My solution

BTW, my current solution for this issue is to HIGHLIGHT all what's
necessary first in PDF annotator. Save and Close. Open Acrobat or
whatever other software with text extraction... and they IGNORE the
highlight (and allow MUCH MUCH easier text extraction to occur.... )
sigh. Is it THAT hard to come up with ONE software that can do both?
at least PDF annotator is working on it base on their support request.
LOL when it come out... it would be funny to advertise it though...
just like iPhone 3.0 Copy and Paste... WOW... look, after these many
years, we FINALLY have this wonderful feature... COPY and PASTE...
which was incidentlaly avaialble since the inception of computers...
sigh. Why do apple and companies like adobe make this kind of mistake?
Open source format would have wiped out user complains like these
since beta version.

PDF Tablet Highlight sucks.

I vent my anger and frustration here.

I just recently got a tablet HP 2750p and I have to say that the PDF
on tablet sucks so bad. I mean, desktop/laptop annotation is even
worse.

All I was loking for was
a) the ability to HIGLIGHT easily using MULTIPLE color with ONE click
(good luck doing that in Adobe Acrobat, PDF Annotator is the model I
am looking at)
b) the ability to SELECT text and COPY them to clipboard. (not much to
ask right?)

So... I tried a few software already.

Adobe Acrobat
Foxit Reader Pro Pack
Bluebeam Revu
PDF Annotator
OneNote 2007 (yes, desperate enough to try even non PDF file format)

Let me start by saying, that I am not a fancy user. I am not picky.
All I ask are those two features. Nothing else really matters and
frankly, they are the two KEY features you would look for in a eBook
style usage of tablet or even ANY major reading annotation in eBooks
such as PDF.

Acrobat trumps in terms of stability but man.. the highlight sucks so
bad. In order to change color, I need to at least 3 clickso with
excessive movement. That is a BIG fail. higlight should never be that
hard to change color. One click, max. Hover to activate slideout
panel, click to select and high light away. PDF annotator totally did
that right in their full screen view. In addition, acrobat ABSOLUTELY
annoys me with the fact that if you highlight over something, it is
TOTALLY almost PAINFULLY hard to select those same text. To the level
that I have to enable HIGHLIGHT auto goes to comment in Pref in order
to just get those text out. Man... this can be extreme when you read
all your stuff in PDF. I mean... design philosophy... do these guys
atually use simple functions like highlighting?

PDF annotator is VERY good for highlighting and comment but ABSURDLY
missing the SIMPLEST feature to just SELECT and COPY text out. ABSURD,
I say. Why bother open PDF if you can't even copy any text out of
it??? That defeats the whole purpose of using PDF and OCR at all! This
would be THE de facto software of PDF marking if they can just provide
the basic basic basic feature of PDF text SELECTION and copy to
clipboard. Really, Adobe Reader can do taht even, why can't we have
that feature? You gotta be kidding me.

OneNote... love and hate. I know how powerful it is, but the fact,
that imported PDF is already in TEXT format but not SELECTABLE is
ABSURD as PDF Annotator. Like... wth is wrong with these people who
worked on these programs? COPY and PASTE text out of regular PDF
should be a STANDARD feature to anything that can OPEN PDF. My god, is
this message THAT hard to to get aross to the people who designed
this? PDF is not just a reading format, it is also a vessel to carry
text that CAN BE EXTRACTED! Or else, why don't we use JPEG? Jesus.

Revu is so hyped among users, I am sure it is very useful in CAD and
all that but hey, highlighting function is AS bad as Acrobat. Maybe
slightly better since it offers side menu option to allow easier
change but the screen realstate is BAD! I think Acrobat is starting an
TOTALLY bad trend by making even a highlight options SUCH cumbersome
to change on the fly. Try this for yourself. Use Acrobat Pro (not
reader) and highlight first sentence yellow and the next few sentences
red and then next sentence green. If you use marker, that can be done
in about... 5 sec? in acrobat? good luck having fun changing the tip
color... man...

Foxit Reader Pro is just as bad as Acrobat and Revu in that aspect...
Good luck clicking through about a few load of clicks just to change
highlight color.

So... This is why I wanna be a programmer. A program that is LIGHT
WEIGHT... and does VERY basic commenting and higlighting and nothing
more. Someone, please, code it up and make it open source. You will
have millions of people who hit this page trying easier ways to
highlight to thank your soul for it.

World sucks when simple things such as these don't even work well. Sigh.

Long overdue...

I meant to write these since early September, guess already wayyyyyyyyyyy overdue. lol

Subprime mortgage crisis...
This is something I confess I acquired from morning news...  but the economic rocky shape really makes me wonder...  just how secure we really are? with US banks going down like that fast (still remember the day I heard big firms going down daily and I was wondering what the heck, why were they ringing  the same news day after day lol. Just glad I didn't have much long term investment and things are not that bad for my family. However, as I said before, no debt is a good debt.Actively mobilizing my household to reach zero debt by the time I graduate (pretty close now).\

New USA Political and Canada Political turmoil...
US election coming up... this one is  acually interesting enough that I am paying some attention to it.... Obama is either going to really change a lot of things in USA if he get in, or I am really wasting my time watching the debate. Really, I hope it's not the later. It is time for SOMEONE to look at the health care and actually treat people like people (glad I am in Canada... I may wait bleeding to death in emergency but at least  I won't have to make decision on  which finger to save based on my cash...) hell no. (thanks, Sicko.). Made me want to work in europe now... sigh.  Admit though, the film is not entirely accurate but close enough to make the point across...

Other interesting  bits at UWO

SSC dripping....3010... ever since first day... there is this big bucket and the small bucket inside it to catch the dripping, weird...  2 months later, still there and not fixed hahaha...

This happened on the first day of my biochem class... I sat there in the class not realizing I was  in MIT class instead of  biochem so I even sit  and got my MIT3400 course outline... before I realize I am in NS1 not NS7.... sigh... so funny so I had to drag my bag and stuff all the way to NS7 in front of everyone... so funny and embarassing at the same time.

PAB231... that room doesn't ever have data projector....weird... and no screen  either extremely rare room.... that's my philosophy class though... I found  my logic prof have tendency to say RIGHT almost every 5 sec... eg. "you see that, right? That is how we prove the truth propegating property of this logical connective, right? etc etc.... EVERY  sentence... right? lol... soooooooooooooooooo distracting....

I also got a new pet too...so much work.... and finally got its dirty coat shaved...


Here are pic for  comparisons:

more on  Cerebrus next  time... after midterms.



a room without projector, RIGHT prof

Guess technology does help us in one way or another eh?

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Silence to the unfortunate ones. Deepest condolence to the surviving family members...

In Peace.