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Ryan Sasaki
To follow my post from yesterday, Rich made a very interesting comment that I was hoping to address in today’s post. He suggests that perhaps a NMR Lite would be a good approach. I gave reason as to why we didn’t take that approach and strip away existing features from 1D NMR Processor when developing...

Ryan Sasaki
I had a conversation with Geoff, one of my ACD/Labs colleagues just yesterday. He provided me with a great quote from a person he was talking to about software and usability. He said: "User-Friendly…hrmph…what that means to me is: love it for the first week, hate it forever!" I think that’s a great quote. I...

Ryan Sasaki
In a previous post, I asked the question, why does paper spectra continue to persist in chemistry? Of course there is the next challenge, as Rich Apodaca points out on his Depth-First Blog in an earlier post: The previous article in this series, suggested that the same dynamic applied to the compilation, management, and sharing...

Ryan Sasaki
Do you currently use NMR for quantitative analysis? At the University of Ottawa NMR Facility Blog, Glenn Facey provides some acquisition tips for 1H NMR spectra. If you perform quantitative analysis on your spectra, how do you do it? Do you do it manually by hand, or do you use some software to help? I...

Ryan Sasaki
Back to the chemists with their ELN who continue to resort to their paper spectra. Is it just an old habit? No. I think it is something else. In fact I think there are two major (and completely understandable) reasons why some chemist continue to resist the complete transition to the electronic world: One of...

Ryan Sasaki
This is the topic I will be presenting on at our annual ENC Symposium on March 9, 2008. If you happen to be attending this conference in Asilomar, check out the agenda and register here. I mentioned this before, but I follow the Depth-First Blog authored by Rich Apodaca rather closely and I highly recommend...

Ryan Sasaki
Gary Martin has added a comment to an earlier post I wrote on Indirect Covariance and was kind enough to post an updated publication list on this topic. I have simply copy and pasted his comments in this post to provide more exposure to his list: Ryan, it has been a while since you updated...

Ryan Sasaki
What kind of supporting documentation do you prefer to follow when you attempt to learn a new piece of software? The inspiration for my last post on Ease of Use came from a discussion I had with my colleague Arvin Moser. Arvin has spent many years with ACD/Labs as a Technical Support Specialist for ACD/Labs...

Ryan Sasaki
As a software company I believe that we have a responsibility to our users to make our products easy to use. A significant amount of time should be (and is) spent every year evaluating how our software can be more user-friendly. If you browse around the web and look at various software packages, you will...

Ryan Sasaki
One of the unique features that ACD/Labs software has embraced over the years is something called spectrum-to-structure integration. It’s the idea of not only attaching a chemical structure to a piece of analytical data but to also assign that data to pieces of the chemical structure. This topic gives me a good opportunity to show...