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Thanks to my sister Laura for sending me The Onion’s article about Mead’s new Grad-School-Ruled Notebook, an innovation that squeezes even more lines on the page.
On a more serious note (no pun intended): I really wish I had stuck with taking lecture and discussion notes using pen and paper rather than going digital (laptop, handheld) […]

If you’re using Parallels to run Windows on your Mac, you may have realized that the program takes up more space on your hard drive the longer you use it. More specifically, the file titled “winxp.hdd” balloons over time whether you’re storing files within Windows or not.*
Good news. Parallels has a built-in tool that allows […]

On January 1 I said I was going to use the Seinfeld method to help me meet my goals, and so far I’ve been successful. My primary goal was to write at least 850 words each day, and I also wanted to wake up at 6 AM every day in January, including Saturdays and Sundays.
Done […]

I swear I’m going to post about my research soon, but I wanted to point out that MacHeist’s deal on a bundle of some cool Mac apps ends today. Here’s what Lifehacker has to say:

Web site MacHeist’s second annual shareware bundle sale, which offers nearly $500 worth of software for the relatively low price of […]

First we saw how a simple ballpoint pen could unlock those expensive Kryptonite bike locks, now pens are wrecking havoc on your locked luggage.  This quick video shows how easy it is to break into a locked suitcase by simply poking a ballpoint pen through the zipper.  The worst part is that you won’t know […]

Scrivener got a glowing tribute in the New York Times Magazine last Sunday.  This is the application I’ve been using for several months to write all my field notes, store ideas, and draft papers.  It’s not a full replacement for MS Word or other word processors — mostly because it can’t handle footnotes like those […]

There’s a quick way to check whether a document being edited in Mac OS X contains any unsaved changes.  Just look at the red button in the upper left corner of the window.  If it has a dark dot in the center, the document has changed since being saved.  If not, you’re all set.
I’m usually […]