© BrenDeBev (all publication rights reserved) At 10:30 p.m. on the night of 29 October 1969, a student programmer successfully transmitted a message from a computer at UCLA networked to another computer at Stanford University. This seemingly inauspicious event marked the beginning of the internet age. In the less than 50 years since, the internet …

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© BrenDeBev (all publication rights reserved) ASI » Advantage Software, Inc., the company that develops, maintains, and sells Eclipse CAT software. Bridge (not the same as “Bridge Mobile”) » A standalone program bundled with Eclipse that allows a reporter to send a realtime feed to other computers over a LAN. Each computer must have the program installed. Bridge …

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© BrenDeBev (all publication rights reserved) One of the most powerful features of Eclipse is the functionality of its conflict resolution.  Punctuation conflicts, well trained, can save the reporter — and scopist — many keystrokes in adding or deleting punctuation. A common mistake is to define a phrase, such as “Your Honor” or “you know,” …

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© BrenDeBev (all publication rights reserved) The speaker list is a very powerful tool that needs to be understood in depth to reap its full benefit. With the advent of Version 7 and the speaker table being shared between reporter and edit team, it is even more important to be aware of its functions. Set …

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© BrenDeBev (all publication rights reserved) Most of us use our software every day without really understanding or even being aware of many of the features available to help fine-tune our user experience. Today we are launching a series of blog posts, Making Eclipse Work for You, that will explore Eclipse’s user settings.  We begin …

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© BrenDeBev (all publication rights reserved) As a skilled court reporter, you’ve learned to cope with unexpected challenges without skipping a beat: the technical expert with the Martian accent, the attorney who speaks at 350 words per minute because he has a plane to catch at 3:00 p.m., the writer that suddenly refuses to connect …

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© BrenDeBev (all publication rights reserved) One of the fun things about realtiming, whether for yourself alone or to others, is seeing your mistakes and being able to address them on the fly, either by using really cool macros from the writer or reaching to the computer keyboard and executing a few quick strokes, thereby …

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