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everybody takes notes. sometimes these notes are taken using a computer. this is interesting!

A survey of GNU/Linux shortcomings

14 February, 2010 in category android OS, computers, english, web by Konrad.

Sadly, Ubuntu is not perfect. A wish-list of future Ubuntu features/applications. Some are available on Windows or Mac OS X, most aren’t.

Managing news

27 January, 2010 in category android OS, english, web by Konrad.

It is vital to get at least some news. You need to stay informed. How to cope with this information overload? Software can be used to control the news flood. Feeds offer interesting ways to organise various kinds of information.

Managing the paper’s metadata

25 January, 2010 in category LaTeX, computers, english, web by Konrad.

Annotations and other metadata issues with PDFs, PostScript documents, DjVu files, XMP metadata, various extraction tools and ways to manipulate document metadata. The focus lies on Linux but something works with Windows and Mac OS X, too.

Managing papers

23 January, 2010 in category LaTeX, english, mathematics, web by Konrad.

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 lecture notes, research papers, my own notes and several more-or-less relevant books. How do I organise them?