Other Programs – Page 21 – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

If Copy & Paste from a PDF file fails …

2012-12-11

And easy trick you can use if you cannot copy and paste from an article, whether it's due to bad OCR or stupid DRM.
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‘Server not found’ can happen to any site — are you prepared?

2012-09-09

Online information is fleeting. A few ways to deal with it.
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Old School HTML

2012-08-01

Short info about the relaunch of my personal/professional Website (nope, this one here isn't it ;-)).
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Using Microsoft Word

2012-03-07

Link to a really good side about a really bad program.
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Using Excel for Biographical/Chronological Information

2012-02-24

You can use Excel for creative purposes, even in non-fiction writing. Here's how to use it for biographies.
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GroupZap — Online Shared Whiteboard

2011-08-09

Developing ideas with others, e.g., during a Skype conference, can be difficult. This app allows you to quickly set up a shared whiteboard.
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Sente — Reference Manager for Mac and iPad

2011-08-03

An overview of Sente, an interesting reference manager that has its strengths when it comes to creating annotations.
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Getting that brilliant sentence back when Word crashes

2011-07-15

At least on the Mac, Microsoft Worst is the worst piece of software I have ever used. It crashes way to frequently -- not all the time, but too often. There are some things you can do to minimize the damage, but if you just lost that carefully crafted sentence, have a look at this posting. Perhaps in the future, you can preserve that sentence too.
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Getting a previously existing version of a website

2011-07-11

If you have seen something online and it is not available anymore, have a look at the referenced website in this article. It might still have it.
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Creating your own Tools

2011-06-26

Improving one's tools can lead to great performance boost and is something you might want to look into.
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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.