GruntDoc » Web/Tech http://gruntdoc.com Ramblings of an Emergency Physician in Texas Thu, 24 May 2012 11:47:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Trying out embedding a Tweet http://gruntdoc.com/2011/12/trying-out-embedding-a-tweet.html http://gruntdoc.com/2011/12/trying-out-embedding-a-tweet.html#comments Fri, 09 Dec 2011 04:18:24 +0000 GruntDoc http://gruntdoc.com/?p=6084
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    ]]>     http://gruntdoc.com/2011/12/trying-out-embedding-a-tweet.html/feed 0     OSx Lion reverse scroll wheel direction http://gruntdoc.com/2011/07/osx-lion-reverse-scroll-wheel-direction.html http://gruntdoc.com/2011/07/osx-lion-reverse-scroll-wheel-direction.html#comments Fri, 22 Jul 2011 07:58:31 +0000 GruntDoc http://gruntdoc.com/?p=5744
  • Navy Fights Mickey Mouse for SEALs Trademark – FoxNews.com Update 5/26/11: that didn’t take long (via the LA Times):...
    • Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]>     I’m a mac-o-phile, and a late arrival. Lion on the MacBook Air? Awesome!

    On my iMac? HATE that they decided my scroll wheel needed to change directions so my hand motions mimic those of the touchpad. Even though I’ve used a scroll wheel for about a decade, and have to use one on PC’s, so don’t need the cognitive dissonance. And I’m old and dislike fundamental change.

    Here’s how to get back to reality:

    “System preferences”  -> “Mouse” -> see the pic:

    And, normalcy is restored. Life is back to normal. The horizon is righted.

    (Hat Tip to Nick Genes, who turned his back on Jobs just to tell me about this).

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    ]]>     http://gruntdoc.com/2011/07/osx-lion-reverse-scroll-wheel-direction.html/feed 3     Medical Apps? There’s a Doc for That http://gruntdoc.com/2011/05/medical-apps-there%e2%80%99s-a-doc-for-that.html http://gruntdoc.com/2011/05/medical-apps-there%e2%80%99s-a-doc-for-that.html#comments Wed, 11 May 2011 08:45:43 +0000 GruntDoc http://gruntdoc.com/?p=5613 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]>

    When emergency physician Harvey Castro asked a nurse to start a dopamine dose for a hypotensive patient one day, he watched the nurse leave the room, find the book that could guide her to the titratable dose, look in the index and then flip through until she found what she needed. Castro wondered, Isn’t there a more efficient way?

    via Medical Apps? There’s a Doc for That.

    A fellow DFW doc who’s done well in the Medical App world ( Deep Pocket Series ).

    Dr. Castro was nice enough to let me play with some of his apps about a year ago, and while I never found a big use for them (my practice style, no knock on him) they were well done and approachable for me.

    Kudos to Dr. Castro!

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    ]]>     http://gruntdoc.com/2011/05/medical-apps-there%e2%80%99s-a-doc-for-that.html/feed 1     Doximity http://gruntdoc.com/2010/10/youtube-doximity.html http://gruntdoc.com/2010/10/youtube-doximity.html#comments Sun, 10 Oct 2010 15:57:34 +0000 GruntDoc http://gruntdoc.com/?p=5082 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> This is a pretty neat tool for docs.  I’ve signed up (free), have it on my iPhone, and will see if it’s super-useful.  Maybe not for an EM doc, but time will tell.  It’s at Doximity.com

    The biggest plus I see right off is the HIPAA compliant SMS texting, which would make some communications available we just cannot now.

    At any rate, check it out and see if you like it.  I find the web interface easier for adding colleagues, but maybe that’s just me.

    YouTube – Doximity.

    One happy thing I got from this is a list of all my medschool classmates, and where they are now.  A surprising number are in my area, and more than a few are in EM!

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    I’ve been playing around with a beta build of Firefox's 3.6 browser for some time, and while it’s been completely stable, its new tab behaviour has annoyed me.
    via Fixing Firefox 3.6′s tab blunder: Blogs – Null Pointer – ZDNet Australia.

    It’s the one think I don’t like about the newest Firefox release (3.6), opening a link from a tab puts it right next to the one you were reading, rather than off the right end like it used to (which I liked…).  Here’s a fix.

    A like it: it’s simple and it works.

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    ]]>     http://gruntdoc.com/2010/03/fixing-firefox-3-6s-tab-blunder-blogs-null-pointer-zdnet-australia.html/feed 2     Locked iPhone ICE information: an App to fix http://gruntdoc.com/2009/10/locked-iphone-ice-information-an-app-to-fix.html http://gruntdoc.com/2009/10/locked-iphone-ice-information-an-app-to-fix.html#comments Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:46:59 +0000 GruntDoc http://gruntdoc.com/2009/10/locked-iphone-ice-information-an-app-to-fix.html Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> Recently I asked if people were still putting ICE (In Case of Emergency) information in their cellphones.  (The surprising answer was yes, showing that it’s an idea that resonates, at least with my audience).

    I lamented that I have that information in my iPhone, but since it’s passcoded no rescuer would be able to access my dutifully entered ICE contact information.  (I then had delusions of retiring on just such an app).

    There is a solution.  It’s brilliantly simple, and works. Polka have written an iPhone app called “Close Call” that fits the bill perfectly.  And it’s free!

    I made one for this review, using a picture in my camera:

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    Many thanks to Ramona for finding this!

     

    FTC disclaimer: this was completely voluntary.  I paid for my own free app.

     

    A word to those with a Mophie battery pack.  (I learned this the hard way, and only just figured it out…).  When the phone is on external power you don’t get the wallpaper, you get the battery icon:

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    and when I tried to see the wallpaper (unlocking) the ICE info is obscured by the passcode screen.  (This picture was a trial of moving it up from the baseline state so it might get noticed behind the numbers).

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    It’s not enough to get me to stop using the Mophie, but it’s there.

     

    Oh, and in the next iPhone software there needs to be a place in the settings for an ICE contact number (and name) which will come up if the ‘emergency call’ button is used.  The phone would then call that number (or 911) from the phone, so the caller ID would make the ICE contact more likely to pick up.

     

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    ]]>     http://gruntdoc.com/2009/10/locked-iphone-ice-information-an-app-to-fix.html/feed 4     Why does Apple suck at this so badly? http://gruntdoc.com/2009/06/why-does-apple-suck-at-this-so-badly.html http://gruntdoc.com/2009/06/why-does-apple-suck-at-this-so-badly.html#comments Wed, 17 Jun 2009 19:45:01 +0000 GruntDoc http://gruntdoc.com/2009/06/why-does-apple-suck-at-this-so-badly.html Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> Today was the much anticipated roll-out of the new iPhone, and the newest OS for the iPhones (3.0).

    It was entirely foreseeable there would be enormous demand for both.  Again, they’re unprepared.  (This was after enough tries I realized it wasn’t going to work today).

    iphone_nonactivate Makes me wonder at their strategy.

    Update: worked perfectly today (one day after the above).  Cannot tell a huge improvement, except the landscape mail view is more than welcome.

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    ]]>     http://gruntdoc.com/2009/06/why-does-apple-suck-at-this-so-badly.html/feed 5     I’m not dead… http://gruntdoc.com/2009/05/im-not-dead.html http://gruntdoc.com/2009/05/im-not-dead.html#comments Fri, 29 May 2009 18:06:14 +0000 GruntDoc http://gruntdoc.com/?p=3607 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> Just my hard drive crashed. I’m in the midst of a prolonged restoration project.

    No data lost, but a lot of re-installation, etc.

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    EETimes.com – Handheld ultrasound gets FDA approval
    SAN JOSE, Calif. — Startup Signostics got approval Tuesday (May 19) from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to ship what it claims is the world’s smallest ultrasound device. The company describes its pocket-sized, half-pound Signos that sells for about $4,000 as a visual stethoscope and hopes it will someday become as omnipresent as the signature doctor’s tool.

    I’d love to try one out for a few shifts. We use sonography a lot in our ED, and having it even more poratble / readily available would be a benefit.

    Thanks to reader Don for the tip!

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    ]]>     http://gruntdoc.com/2009/05/eetimescom-handheld-ultrasound-gets-fda-approval.html/feed 2     iPhone display of this blog http://gruntdoc.com/2009/03/iphone-display-of-this-blog.html http://gruntdoc.com/2009/03/iphone-display-of-this-blog.html#comments Tue, 17 Mar 2009 10:31:12 +0000 GruntDoc http://gruntdoc.com/?p=3408 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> I have installed a plugin for WordPress that displays the blog contents on the iPhone on a more user-friendly way.  If you don’t like it you can click the link at the very bottom of the page and get the full view.

    I’d be interested in iPhone users’ comments.

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