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Export purchased books list from Amazon

18 September, 2011 in category computers, english, web by Konrad Voelkel.

How can I export CSV or text files of my purchases from Amazon? By ASIN/ISBN.

Mass renaming papers with BibTex+JabRef export filters

28 June, 2010 in category english, LaTeX, mathematics by Konrad Voelkel.

I wrote a JabRef export filter that takes a BibTex file with file links and writes a linux shell script to rename the files systematically according to the scheme [bibtexkey] - [authors] - [title].[extension].

Managing news

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

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 computers, english, LaTeX, web by Konrad Voelkel.

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.