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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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...
View ArticleManaging 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...
View ArticleManaging 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...
View ArticleLinux, 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,...
View ArticleManaging 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...
View ArticleManaging 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,...
View ArticleManaging 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...
View ArticleManaging 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...
View ArticleManaging 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...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleGet 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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