Random musings in IT

Basic GTD template added to add-on. More about using the template here. As usual the add-on is available on the release site, or on GitHub. You can use this direct link to download the add-on.

This is the seventh post in my attempt to start a blogging habit. Starting up your GTD system in Freeplane is quite easy, all you need is an inbox, a place to put your projects to,  a place to put the items for review, and optionally a place to place your archive tasks. It only takes a few…

This is the sixth post in my attempt to start a blogging habit. When you mail order something really cheap from China, you must prepare to make compromises, or even some modifications. That was the case with this HDMI to VGA converter as well. I got it as a shot in the dark, as I didn't know…

Thanks to Miguel Molina's translation efforts, the add-on is now available in  Spanish! As usual the add-on is available on the release site, or on GitHub. You can use this direct link to download the add-on.

  Interesting how much effect the new posts have on my blog's otherwise quite feeble statistics. Well even though it looks nice, it's still too low to deduct anything about it, and I consider the increase a statistical error. If this trend continues, I might reach and maybe break my all time…

I really hated having to switch languages, when I switched to writing from Hungarian and English. Many times I was writing mail, or working on an article in English, when a Hangouts message popped up where I had all my words underlined by the English spellchecker. Finally after over a year in…

This is the fourth post in my attempt to start a blogging habit. The last couple of months, I've been looking for a new position, after a short sabbatical leave. In these months I've realized, how underdeveloped the state of enterprise architecture is in Hungary. In this article, I'll try to…

Freeplane add-ons can have a properly designed internationalization mechanisms, that change the text according to your language settings. Unfortunately this will also show the [translate me] for all unsupported languages. It's only a few minutes to do your translation if you want to get rid of that…

This is the third article in my 21 day blogging marathon. It is not quite as polished, as it could be. Join the marathon by adding meaningful comments all the way! I got myself a Mercury MW3030R router from China a couple of weeks ago. It's a dual band router, which can actually reach speeds of…

This is the second article in my 21 day blogging marathon. It is not quite as polished, as it could be. Join the marathon by adding meaningful comments all the way! I use a quite old, and battered Acer laptop with an I5 2nd generation processor and a "feeble" 8GB memory, for my personal…