Tools – Page 24 – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

Remote Usability Testing on Mobiles with WebEx Meetings

2020-07-25

One of the nice results of all this video conferencing — you find out how to do remote usability testing on mobiles.
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Supervising Written Exams with Classical Music

2020-07-25

Something to do while supervising written exams
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Getting the Right Design before Getting the Design Right

2020-07-03

As far as I can see, people are much too quick to trying to improve their design idea. It's often much better to first make sure you have the right design, before worrying to get the design right (kudos to Greenberg, Carpendale, Marquardt & Buxton, 2012, for this one).
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OmniFocus and iCal for Realistic Tasks-for-Today Planning

2020-07-03

OmniFocus is pretty useful, but it lacks in support for a realistic planning of what you can accomplish during one day. However, iCal can help here.
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Quickly Downloading YouTube Videos via a JavaScript Bookmark

2020-05-19

Given how quickly YouTube Videos disappear nowadays, it makes sense to download each and every video you find interesting. Here's a quick way to do it.
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Apple’s Quality Program E1 — Exchange and Repair Extension Program

2020-02-23

Even if your warranty is expired, for some problems Apple offers an extended program that covers your — otherwise expensive — Apple product repair.
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Don’t use shitty tools.

2020-02-20

Ever. Not even just this once, because you can't find your high-quality tools.
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Downloading Comic Strips

2019-12-30

If you like online comics, you might want to have them available offline. Instead of saving them one at a time, why not download them with an R script.
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First Impression of Apple’s Watch Series 5

2019-10-19

A change in iOS infrastructure led me to give the Apple Watch a try.
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Software change infos/version history based on user behavior

2019-10-19

Changes in software are a frequent occurrence. They might be less sucky if information about them take the individual user behavior into account.

Image: Change log of DEVONthink.
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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.