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Guest Posting on Butler Library Blog

2014-06-05

Francis from Butler Library Blog gave me the opportunity to write a guest posting about writing with content outlines (using Circus Ponies Notebook as outliner). Highly useful for academic writing, but also applicable to other areas. Link in this posting.
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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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Circus Ponies Notebook 4

2014-05-26

Review of Circus Ponies Notebook, version 4. tl;dr: For me the best app to keep and sort information, esp. for writing. But there is more ...
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Circus Ponies Notebook Version 4 available

2014-05-08

Circus Ponies have released the fourth version of their notetaking software: Circus Ponies Notebook. Beside buying it from their store and not from the Mac store, not much more.
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What would change if Twitter would be Pseudo-Anonymous?

2014-04-28

Question about the role of the names and profile pictures on twitter -- and what would change if they were anonymous.
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Moving from Papers to Bookends (update)

2014-04-22

Some thoughts on moving from Papers 2 to Bookends (which seems well loved), and why Sente is not an option (for me).
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Bad News for Time-Travelers, Great News for Historians

2014-04-18

Why time travelers are pretty much screwed if they ever decide to visit our present. (image on the left: from Doctor Who: "The Crimson Horror")
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Smarter Smart Watches

2014-04-15

A collection of ideas for smart watches that really deserve the name. Perhaps I should get a Pebble and program my own. But still, that leaves the hardware features I would like.
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The traitor on your skin (Android OS for wearables)

2014-04-05

Wearable technology sure does seem convenient, but is it really on your side? How about the loyalty of the tool you are using? After all, it nestles to your skin and knows you ... intimately.
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I can see and hear you now

2014-04-04

Chances are, people can easily monitor you via your webcam -- without the nice little light turning on. But there is a quick and easy solution that does not involve going rustic, or taking out the soldering gun.
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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.