program – Page 13 – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

How about a “Rehearse Slideshow” Mode with a Virtual Reality Audience?

2016-01-21

Speaking in front of an audience is a skill that needs to be developed. With technologies like Oculus Rift hopefully making virtual reality more mainstream, would a virtual reality audience be helpful to learn how to speak in public?
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RIP, Circus Ponies Notebook

2016-01-08

Comment on the end of Circus Ponies Notebook.
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Looking back at the postings of 2015

2015-12-26

Postings of 2015 ... somewhat sorted for a quick overview/recap.
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Digital Journal with Apple’s Keynote as New Year’s Resolution

2015-12-22

Revisited an idea to use an Apple Keynote presentation as a journal/diary. Sounds strange, but might work.
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Laws for Robots

2015-11-20

A short comment on Asimov's Laws of Robotics, well, the zeroth one mainly. Summed up in three words: "No, hell no!"

Image from "I, Robot"
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Another Way to Use InDesign to Layout your Thesis (with some help from Zotero and Word)

2015-09-21

If you need a high degree of control -- incl. visual control -- of your thesis layout, you might want to check out InDesign. Here's another workflow to use InDesign to layout a thesis.
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Dealing with Apple Keynote’s Backwards Compatibility — or lack thereof

2015-09-19

A really annoying issue with older Keynote files (created prior to version '09) -- they can't be opened by the newest Keynote version. Unless you edit the file externally.
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Converting ebooks (.azw, .epub, .mobi, etc.) to PDF

2015-09-01

If you prefer your ebooks in PDF, there's a way to convert them. Well, probably not in all cases, but in many.
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Organizing Creativity — A few tips to realize creative projects (presentation/video)

2015-08-22

A presentation that gives a short overview of creativity, organization, and the steps you can do to organize your creativity. Plus some reflections on recording a presentation at home.
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Windows 10, Cortana, and the Loyalty of Virtual Assistants

2015-08-06

Given the Windows 10 release, a few comments on virtual assistants (e.g., Apple's Siri or Microsoft's Cortana) and what they mean for us and our privacy. In short, loyalty becomes an issue.
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This is a private blog showing my opinions. If you have an issue with what I write here, either don’t read it or talk to me directly. Don’t waste your time — or mine — dragging my employer into matters where they hold no authority.

The institution I work for, or rather the people officially representing it, have already distanced themselves from this blog. I find this unnecessary, as I’ve clearly stated in the «About this Blog» section that this is a personal blog.

Frankly, I have nothing but contempt for those who lack the backbone to address their concerns directly and instead resort to passive-aggressive tattling to others. Such behavior strikes me as not only cowardly, but also spineless, gutless, and wholly unprincipled. Moreover, these efforts are as pathetic as they are futile.

That said, I might listen if you present compelling arguments and evidence, as constructive feedback is always welcome. Who knows? We might even both gain something valuable from the interaction.

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.