Customized Screen Backgrounds
Sure, nice images as backgrounds are ... uh, nice. But you can customize them a little to find that special place for your frequently used icons.
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Month: June 2013
Unintended Messages
Creative ideas can land you in hot water, as some people will be very creative in interpreting your idea. An example.
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Warning: Do not store Circus Ponies Notebook files in DEVONthink
A terrible bug that makes CPN files unusable. Occurs rarely and I suspect it occurs due to a saving error. (Update: Nope, also occurred outside of DEVONthink.)
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Skills
Beautiful music video and some thoughts on the importance of skills.
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Dealing with Secondary Sources
How do deal with articles citing other articles in an content outline -- which one do you add with which source information, and why?
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Workshop: Scientific Work — Writing #3 Re-Writing
Third part of the writing series, here about perfection in texts, the importance of re-writing, how to do revisions and keeping older versions (which Scrivener makes effortless). Also: Recommended Literature.
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We didn’t know it was impossible.
Beautiful PhD Comics video which stresses an important issue in research -- sometimes not knowing can be helpful, if otherwise you know a lot.
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Workshop: Scientific Work — Writing #2 Knowing What To Write
It's easy to get stuck when you want to write, usually because the structure is not clear. You do not know what you want to write (otherwise you'd do it, wouldn't you?). Here's a way to get past that barrier.
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Prism — ‘Private’ Privacy Is Not Everything
The discussion about PRISM violating personal data privacy misses the actual issue that is much worse than violated 'private' privacy.
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Workshop: Scientific Work — Writing #1 Getting Down to Write
How do you get your ass in the chair (or where ever you write) and make it a habit? Some suggestions for starting a wonderfully excruciating journey.
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