Category: Articles

Why Is Deadliest Catch So Popular?

byJon Westfall April 14, 2009 Articles Psychology
Deadliest Catch starts up again tonight, and again I’ll be watching it. Karey & I realized a few years ago that the show really is essentially the same thing year after year. They go out, they fish for crabs, things break (both ships and people), good times, bad times, etc……

Building Software Based Experiments: Techniques, Tools, and Tips

byJon Westfall September 16, 2008 Articles
Welcome to Jon Westfall’s Software Based Experiment Resource site. This site will begin it’s life to serve as a supplement to my contribution to the SJDM Computing Symposium, and continue on as a resource to other social scientists that seek simple solutions to building software. (Whoa, Holy Alliteration Batman!) If…

Getting Into A Psychology Graduate Program

byJon Westfall September 23, 2007 Articles
I wrote the following How-To in order to help my fellow undergraduates understand the process of applying to Graduate School (specifically in psychology).  It’s good information to have, considering that a concise (under 40 pages) How-To doesn’t really exist (as far as I could find).  Hopefully this can help you…

Using Mail Merge To Email Your Class or Group

byJon Westfall September 23, 2007 Articles
I ran across this feature awhile back and didn’t really explore it until now. I’ve often wanted to send out a class-wide email, but was reluctant to type all the information in to mailing list and send out a mass email that exposed all my students email addresses to each…

Recover Master Lock Combinations!

byJon Westfall August 13, 2007 Articles
I’ve always been fascinated by locks, for some odd reason. Master combination locks, the combination lock of choice for most of us it seems, are everywhere and were a staple for my existence as a student. Hall lockers needed a combination lock, gym lockers, orchestra lockers, etc… The result? Well,…

PopGUI for PopRoute GUI

byJon Westfall June 20, 2007 Articles
If you've ever tried setting up an exchange server at your home, small business, or on any server that doesn't have a 100% reliable 100% always-on connection, you've probably needed a tool like PopRoute. PopRoute lets you "pop" your external POP3 accounts and route the mail from them into an…

Jon’s Top Free Software Utilities

byJon Westfall June 4, 2007 Articles
The web is full of free software – you just have to look for it! As someone who saw the dot com bubble grow, and burst, I can assure you – not all free software or service is created the same! However, the stuff below is fairly good, and what…

Make Your Joomla Site PDA-Ready!

byJon Westfall June 4, 2007 Articles
Personal Digital Assistants, and web-enabled Cell Phones, are everywhere it seems. Yet most of us create elaborate websites that look painfully awful on the small screens of our computer’s little brothers and sisters. Wouldn’t it be great to simply flip a switch and have your CMS instantly create a PDA-ready…