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Managing music
Today in the series "How to do XYZ with software?": How to manage music? Maybe you have a vinyl collection or some cassettes. Maybe you have CDs. Then you're happy, since they can be organised without...
View ArticleLinux, OCR and PDF – problem solved
Imagine you've scanned some book into a PDF file on Linux, such that every pdf-page contains two book-pages and there is a lot of additional white-space and maybe the page orientation is wrong. And,...
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Managing photos
Today in the series "How to do XYZ with software?": How to manage photos? Probably you have some photos on your computer. Probably you even have a digital camera or at least a mobile phone with...
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Managing contacts
Today in the series "How to do XYZ with software?": How to manage contacts? Managing contacts has never been easy - there are various kinds of data floating around (phone numbers, email addresses,...
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Managing papers
Today in the series "How to do XYZ with software?": How to manage papers? I have lots of PDFs on my hard-disk, and most of them is half-read or unread. Since I'm studying mathematics, these PDFs are...
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Managing the paper's metadata
Today in the series "How to do XYZ with software?": Annotations and other metadata issues (You might not want to read this if you're not using Linux or if you're not a developer) On Linux there is no...
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Managing news
Today in the series "How to do XYZ with software?": How to manage news? It is vital to get at least some news. You need to know about political developments, to be informed when it's time to cast your...
View ArticleMath 2.0
The term Web 2.0 was coined by Darcy DiNucci in 1999 and popularised by Tim O'Reilly in a 2004 conference named Web 2.0. In the beginning, it wasn't totally clear what Web 2.0 really meant for the...
View ArticleA survey of GNU/Linux shortcomings
A long time ago, I switched from Micro$oft Windows to GNU/Linux. Since Ubuntu, I even recommend GNU/Linux to non-computerfreaks. Sadly, Ubuntu is not perfect. In particular, some applications are still...
View ArticleExport purchased books list from Amazon
If you happened to buy books from Amazon.com (or, in my case, Amazon.de) and maybe used the recommendation engine and the wishlist (and and and ...) then there will be lots of data about your books on...
View ArticleGet your own LaTeX-enabled wiki in the cloud with Instiki on Heroku
I guess you all know what a WikiWikiWeb (short: wiki) is, it's a website where you can easily add new pages and modify existing ones. MathOverflow is some kind of hybrid between Q&A and a wiki,...
View ArticleBeautiful New Fonts
In this short rant, I want to convince you to try out some new beautiful fonts for your editor, terminal, wiki or website. In particular, I want you to take a look at Adobe's Source Pro Fonts. I'll...
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