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Image via Wikipedia <Update> Soon after I hit the PUBLISH button, I received via email, the OpenOffice.org newsletter, with an extensive list of openoffice.org related blogs.</Update> Although there is an abundance of information available at the official openoffice.org site regarding the usability and how to make openoffice.org, the free open productivity suite, work better...
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A while ago, blackcover started a series of posts in order to find the best alternative to our favorite moleskine cahier, journal, notebook. The site has moved to a new domain, although links remain in place. Because of this, and because Rhodia has come with a new notebook, they (blackcover) run a contest to...
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I was out shopping at my local computer shop when I spotted this moleskine-like hardcover journal. To the uninitiated, it may look like a moleskine. After all, it has the elastic band, the bookmark ribbon, even the backpocket (as you can see from the photos). Of course, the color is off and the feel...
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I gave myself an early Christmas gift the other day. A bunch of new moleskines to keep me going. You can see them all in this picture: Pictured, two large ruled notebooks (one with soft, the other with hard cover), a pocket, ruled notebook (soft cover), a weekly planner (hard cover). Also, as a...
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If you use OpenOffice Writer a lot then you may find writertools very helpful. Writertools are a set of extensions for the Writer part of OpenOffice.org. Released under GPL 2.0, they add another menu, appropriately named Writer’s Tools, between the original Tools and Window menus (photo below). You may have to trick writer tools...
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When I decided to take the plunge and switch this blog from blogger to wordpress, I heard the argument (actually, I read it somewhere ) that wordpress was the porsche of blog platforms. WordPress simply offered more choices and greater customization than blogger could offer to their respective users. Of course, the wordpress.com hosted...
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You must read “When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth” (link to full story text), a fantastic, and scary, and grab-you-by-the-throat, and not-want-to-let-it-until-it’s-over story authored by Cory Doctorow. As Cory writes in his site, he started writing the story just as London was being bombed by terrorists in July 2005. The story chronicles a doomsday scenario...
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Several postings I have looked at recently which, of course, all revolve around some of my favorite topics: analog or digital, moleskine/filofax or pda, writing etc. We start from this article from the american chronicle on writing tools authored by Bill Webb. Perhaps, the gist of the article is this sentence: They don’t have...
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As promised in the previous posting, here are some photos of the moleskines I use now: a pocket diary and a pocket notebook. As you can see, the diary on the left is in a much better condition than the notebook on the right. Also notice the little chip on the lower right corner...
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In a thought-provoking (or maybe not so), wired mag has suggested a series of Top Tools for Creative (and Working) Writers.That’s an interesting compilation of technical and non-technical stuff for the aspiring writer(s). They are all in there: the must have’s, such as the palmtop, the notebook, the journal, the pen, the digital recorder/note-keeper,...
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