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Jerry Daniels

Technologist / Entrepreneur / Mentor

As show here, Jerry keeps a separate Field Notes notebook for each mentoring client. Its pages are gridded, making it easier to include drawings and diagrams among text notes.

Work - I write desktop apps and mentor software developers who use Revolution.

tRev - My editor for Revolution application development environment.

tText - My text edtior that you can extend with for Rev plugins.

Home - I am keenly interested in news, gadgets, health and, of course, my family.

Food - My healthy eating site.

Art Life - Mary Jane Mara's (this is my wife) blog of art commentary, observation and technique.

Meals - Mary Jane's site of cool, low-cal recipes.

Current Activities

Current Employment

Current Tools & Toys

Educational Background

  • 1966: High School Diploma, Honor Society from Lindbergh Senior High, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
  • 1970: Two years of General Studies curriculum and one year of Comprehensive Anticipatory Design Science with R. Buckminster Fuller at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Illinois, USA.
  • 1976: Bachelor of Science in the study of Creative Intelligence and Vedic Science from MERU Research University at Seelisberg, Switzerland.

Work Background

Lineage

  • Born on November 23, 1948, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
  • Son of Loretta and Jim Daniels
  • Brother of Jon and Jeff Daniels
  • Married on March 28, 1973, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
  • Husband of Mary Jane Mara
  • Father of Rose Daniels Grimmett and Joe Daniels
  • Lives near Driftwood just outside Austin, Texas, USA

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Jerry's Tools & Toys

  • Hardware
    • MacBook - Aluminum; 2.4 GHz Intell Core 2 Duo; 2 GB 1.07 GHz RAM; 250 GB Hard Drive; purchased December, 2008
    • Time Capsule - router and Time Machine back-up network storage device; 500 MB model
    • iPhone - 8 GB; first generation; running 2.0 firmware; purchased July 2007; used for snap shots and phone primarily
    • The Flip - non-screen video capture
  • Apps (Desktop)
    • Mail/Address Book/iCal - Mail/Contact/Calendar apps bundled with MacBook)
    • Safari - web browser used on Mac and Windows
    • iTunes - media acquistion and playing
    • Jing - image and video screen capture app
    • iWork - Pages, Numbers, Keynote used to do word processing, spreadsheets and slide shows, respectively
    • Time Machine - software used to perform manual backups (auto backup not used)
    • ScreenFlow - screen-oriented video production
    • Revolution Enterprise - develop desktop apps on Mac and deploy on Mac, Windows, Linux
    • Skype - SkypeIn and SkypeOut used for business communications and all international communications
    • Pixelmator - image doctoring app for Mac; similar to PhotoShop (only MUCH cheaper)
    • Interarchy - outstanding Finder-like FTP client ($59 bucks but worth it)
    • ScreenSteps - used to write tutorials
    • SandVox - used to create more generic web sites that are not blogs or social networks
    • Pomodoro - used to manage time without fear
    • Waveboard - a Single Site Browser app to house Google Wave web app.
  • Apps (Web)
    • GoDaddy - used to obtain and register domains
    • Ning - used to create social network networks
    • Posterous - used to create blog sites from emails
    • SquareSpace - used to create full-featured blog sites
    • MobileMe - used for web-based MS Exchange email and calendar
    • Google Wave - used to collaborate with colleagues
  • Hosting Services
  • Fav Blogs / News Sites
    • Daring Fireball - Web site design, tech opinions. Irreverent, funny, insightful.
    • Signal vs Noise - Water cooler talk and rants by the guys at 37signals, makers of Basecamp, etc.
    • New York Times Headlines - The big stories from a big apple point of view.
    • FastCompany - Great news blurbs on technology, design and 'ethonomics'
    • Coudal Partners - If a creative department of an ad agency made a newspaper, this would be it.
    • Minimal Mac - Keeping things simple on a machine meant to keep your life simple.
    • Google Fast Flip - Fast news scanning. Ugly UI, great workflow.
  • Analog Tools
    • Field Notes - little 3X5 notebooks for jotting down tasks, phone numbers, etc. on the fly.
    • Pomodoro Technique - a paper (or device) based time management technique for removing fear and increasing productivity.

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