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Sharing Microsoft Office Data — What about ‘None of the Above’?

2018-05-16

After the latest update, Microsoft Office gives you the option to share or to share.
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Ah, Backups …

2018-04-22

Beautiful Sunday when the Macbook does not boot but stops with an error message about a failed update process. Hello safe mode ... and when did I last do a backup?
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Academic Writing: Seeing the whole text at once

2018-04-19

Yep, there are times when working on paper has its advantages — esp. if you just need a very very large screen. ;-)
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Things that work very well with R: short scale (or: Fishfood ;-))

2018-04-19

A short example of using R for short scale development.
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Learning R during your PhD

2018-03-13

The time during your PhD is probably the best and worst time to learn R. I did start to learn R in earnest later, but dang, I wish I had started then.
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Mac: Combining Images to a PDF

2018-03-11

Sometimes a simple thing like combining images to PDF can be a pain in the ass, until you find that the Automator can do it in a second.
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A short shout-out to R

2018-02-15

Okay, R has been around for ages, but it never did grow on me. Recently, giving how commercially unattractive SPSS is, I started to give it another try. And boy, it did blow me away.
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What makes a good outliner?

2018-02-15

Some comments on programming a good outliner app. For the first, basic version, that is.
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OmniOutliner — Auto-Fill Source Column with Filename (without extension) incl Confirmation Dialog

2017-12-04

Still using OmniOutliner — and given I use it to tag each cell of an outliner with the source information, I still use a script that does the job for me. And it's evolving.
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Quickly opening a your idea collection text file on the Mac via Apple Script

2017-11-25

It pays to have a text file on your computer to quickly jot down ideas. If you use Apple Script and Spotlight, you can open it quickly, without taking your hands off the keyboard.
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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.