Monday, January 25th, 2010 | Author: Konrad Voelkel
Today in the series "How to do XYZ with software?":
(You might not want to read this if you're not using Linux or if you're not a developer)
Continue reading «Managing the paper's metadata»
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Saturday, January 23rd, 2010 | Author: Konrad Voelkel
Today in the series "How to do XYZ with software?":
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 lecture notes, research papers, my own notes and several more-or-less relevant books. How do I organise them? It's a problem.
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Thursday, January 21st, 2010 | Author: Konrad Voelkel
Today in the series "How to do XYZ with software?":
Managing contacts has never been easy - there are various kinds of data floating around (phone numbers, email addresses, private addresses, work addresses, birthdays ...) and the data is always changing ("Hey I got a new phone number ... "). It's better to keep all contacts in one place and to take back-ups of your precious data.
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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!
Continue reading «Linux, OCR and PDF – problem solved»
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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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