Tuesday, January 19th, 2010 | Author: Konrad Voelkel
Today in the series "How to do XYZ with software?":
Probably you have some photos on your computer. Probably you even have a digital camera or at least a mobile phone with integrated camera. If you're looking forward to take a second look at your photos in a few years, you'll need to sort, catalogue and back-up your photos! How to do this?
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Tuesday, January 19th, 2010 | Author: Konrad Voelkel
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, worst of all, there is no full-text search, thus no full-text indexing for desktop search engines. I consider this problem solved on Linux!
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Sunday, January 17th, 2010 | Author: Konrad Voelkel
Today in the series "How to do XYZ with software?":
Maybe you have a vinyl collection or some cassettes. Maybe you have CDs. Then you're happy, since they can be organised without using a computer. But once you moved your Vinyl/CDs to your computer, to put them on your MP3 player, you need to keep them in order.
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Friday, January 15th, 2010 | Author: Konrad Voelkel
Today in the series "How to do XYZ with software?":
Probably you've once had the moment in your life when you installed some new browser, re-installed you computer or something like that - and all your browser bookmarks were lost. How to do better?
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Wednesday, January 13th, 2010 | Author: Konrad Voelkel
Today in the series "How to do XYZ with software?":
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 be(have) very different in self-management, and time-management is an essential part of self-management.
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Monday, January 11th, 2010 | Author: Konrad Voelkel
Today in the series "How to do XYZ with software?":
Recently I've been looking (again) for some note-taking system that satisfies me. Searching across the blogs, I decided to share my experience with information-management tools with you.
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