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Managing personal notes

Today in the series "How to do XYZ with software?": How to manage personal notes? Recently I've been looking (again) for some note-taking system that satisfies me. Searching across the blogs, I decided...

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Managing time

Today in the series "How to do XYZ with software?": How to manage time? I have no idea. Well, at least I can tell you how I use computers to help me in managing my time. But beware: people tend to...

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Managing bookmarks

Today in the series "How to do XYZ with software?": How to manage bookmarks? Probably you've once had the moment in your life when you installed some new browser, re-installed you computer or something...

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Managing music

Today in the series "How to do XYZ with software?": How to manage music? Maybe you have a vinyl collection or some cassettes. Maybe you have CDs. Then you're happy, since they can be organised without...

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Linux, OCR and PDF – problem solved

Imagine you've scanned some book into a PDF file on Linux, such that every pdf-page contains two book-pages and there is a lot of additional white-space and maybe the page orientation is wrong. And,...

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Managing photos

Today in the series "How to do XYZ with software?": How to manage photos? Probably you have some photos on your computer. Probably you even have a digital camera or at least a mobile phone with...

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Managing contacts

Today in the series "How to do XYZ with software?": How to manage contacts? Managing contacts has never been easy - there are various kinds of data floating around (phone numbers, email addresses,...

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Managing papers

Today in the series "How to do XYZ with software?": How to manage papers? I have lots of PDFs on my hard-disk, and most of them is half-read or unread. Since I'm studying mathematics, these PDFs are...

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Managing the paper's metadata

Today in the series "How to do XYZ with software?": Annotations and other metadata issues (You might not want to read this if you're not using Linux or if you're not a developer) On Linux there is no...

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Managing news

Today in the series "How to do XYZ with software?": How to manage news? It is vital to get at least some news. You need to know about political developments, to be informed when it's time to cast your...

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A survey of GNU/Linux shortcomings

A long time ago, I switched from Micro$oft Windows to GNU/Linux. Since Ubuntu, I even recommend GNU/Linux to non-computerfreaks. Sadly, Ubuntu is not perfect. In particular, some applications are still...

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Get your own LaTeX-enabled wiki in the cloud with Instiki on Heroku

I guess you all know what a WikiWikiWeb (short: wiki) is, it's a website where you can easily add new pages and modify existing ones. MathOverflow is some kind of hybrid between Q&A and a wiki,...

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