Other Programs – Page 18 – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

Using the Computer’s Text-to-Speech Feature as Proofreading Support

2014-11-01

It's hard to proof-read what you have written. You know what it should say, but will you notice when you have written something else? Or whether a construction is too complicated to be readable? The computer's text-to-speech feature can be helpful here.
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yEd — A free and powerful program to create diagrams like flowcharts

2014-09-28

A comment in another blog referred to this powerful program and judging on my first impression -- waow.
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Creating Animated Gifs with GIF Brewery

2014-07-10

For some purposes (Twitter, Tumblr, even eMails) animated gifs are useful. GIF Brewery is a nice app to create animated gifs.
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Paperpile for Collaborative Online Writing

2014-07-05

A way to work collaboratively -- if you trust not only your collaborators but also Google.
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Mashup Frenzy!

2014-06-18

If you like to put together nice digital works, e.g., mashup books or t-shirts, this is the golden age. There are countless fonts, images, texts, programs, and print services available.
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Interesting (but sadly underdeveloped and underused) Add-On: OpenComment

2014-06-10

Reference to an interesting browser plug-in that lets people comment on webpages independent of the people who control the webserver.
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Mac OS X Automator

2014-06-08

Introduction of a very useful tool to ... well, automate actions on the Mac. You can rename lots of files in seconds, edit them, and much more.
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Custom Moleskine Milk Photobooks

2014-05-27

There's an interesting service offering to create Moleskine books with your own photos on the pages. You don't have to stick to their layout options, however. This posting shows how.
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A short comment on computer games, violent and otherwise

2014-05-17

A few comments on so-called "violent" video games, their effects on behavior, what is actually the issue -- and why I think "The Sims" is one of the most violent games I've ever played.
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Scrivener and Paragraph/Character Styles in Microsoft Word (with a focus on Footnotes)

2014-05-02

Scrivener is -- for me -- the best program to write with. But if you have a lot of footnotes and want to do the final formatting in Word, you need the footnotes as actual footnotes. This workaround is not pretty, but you do end up with footnotes in Word.
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A comment for those seeking to use this site for personal gain: Given the increase in requests, let me be clear. I write on this blog because I want to. It’s my hobby, my playground. Sometimes people point me to interesting products/services and I write about them. But any request regarding ads or sponsored placements ends up the trash without a reply. And if you think something would be of interest, differentiate yourself from the spammers by referring to a posting — in an intelligent way. (I get enough auto-generated mails to identify them immediately.)

BTW, posts can get updated after I published them if I spot spelling errors (not a native speaker) or think a different wording might improve precision and clarity.

This blog is not focused on a single topic, or method. As long as it is relevant to improving creativity (or allowing it in the first place), it's fair game.
Some postings on this blog deal with freedom, as I think that we need freedom of thought, of speech, of association, etc. pp. to solve mankind's problems. Thus, some postings may seem a bit remote when it comes to organizing creativity. Freedom is, however, the bedrock of creativity.
The heterogeneity of the postings can make reading this blog a bit cumbersome, at least if you are only interested in one topic. You can either use the search function (above), or use the categories or the tags to narrow down the postings you see.