Slope of Hope Blog Posts

Slope initially began as a blog, so this is where most of the website’s content resides. Here we have tens of thousands of posts dating back over a decade. These are listed in reverse chronological order. Click on any category icon below to see posts tagged with that particular subject, or click on a word in the category cloud on the right side of the screen for more specific choices.

Mash and Squash

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A SlopeCharts user (and PLUS member) has been emailing me about using the Macintosh with the system, wondering if SlopeCharts is Macintosh-friendly. I assumed it was, but I hadn’t tested it.

Well, I gave it the run-through this evening, and it passed with flying colors. Apple, in its wisdom, has never given its users a right-button for its mouse (which I think is idiocy), so you need to use the Ctrl button instead (e.g. Ctrl+mouse click). But except for that one oddity, everything works just great. I wanted to mention this in particular since I was surprised to see how many Mac users we actually have here on Slope.

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Huge Improvement in Clarity

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The improvements are happening to SlopeCharts so quickly, I’m having trouble keeping up.

I already told my PLUS members about the “instant data loading” feature, just added this morning.

And now, for ALL users, I’m delighted to tell you that there’s been a HUGE improvement in precision and granularity. Here’s a quick example……..charts that used to look like this:

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