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I have for a while wanted to re-map my caps lock key, get rid of it, make it something more useful. While I found several options, some free, some paid, none seemed perfect or bug proof . . . until . . .Today I noticed that in system preferences if you click keyboard and [...]

As I mentioned here earlier, this year I will be finishing my dissertation, and thus am also in the process of looking for a job. As I also mentioned managing all of the job ads, documents, forms, etc. that I need for this process quickly became a job best handeled through Devon. So, what [...]

To any one interested in technology in Higher Education the following job opportunities look interesting. Zotero which is a plug-in for Firefox being developed by the Center for History and New Media at George Mason is hiring. More on Zotero later as I have been giving it a test run, but basically it [...]

I was just looking through iusethis a great resource for Mac apps. and noticed that the sixth most popular application is Quicsilver. This doesn’t suprise me, as I use this application so frequently I almost forget about it. My favorite quote was the person who wrote, “I consider a Mac without Quicksilver broken.” [...]

I just got the MLA newsletter in the mail, and was reading a few of the articles. Apparently MS Word has become a problem in anonymous peer review. Why? Because if you submit a document via email for review, the reviewer can see who created the document. How? Well by default Word tags documents [...]

Okay not quite . . .but. . . many people have emailed asking what the Windows alternative to Devon is. My answer is: Nothing. I did however find this today (via Lifehacker), Evernote, might be your best choice. Fair warning, I haven’t tested this as I don’t have an Intel Mac, or [...]

As an academic it is probably a bit obvious to say that I spend a lot of time looking through our library’s database, searching to see if we have a book or a journal article. I use to bookmark the library catalog page and start there. You can speed up this process by [...]

File this under “how come no one ever told me about this before.” I picked this up from this recent MacWorld post about handling email. There are some good tips on this article. But the one that got me: There is a plugin to help you not forget to attach files. [...]

Another day another web resource. TheLibrarians’ Internet Index (or LII for short) is another web portal to information on the web. Basically the name says it all, a group of Librarians who index and list web sites you can trust on the web. A great starting place for general research. They also [...]

TechCrunch has an article about Citizendium a project by Larry Sanger, one of the founders of the now defunct Nupedia (harbinger to Wikipedia). Sanger apparently wants to make a better Wikipedia, or in his version a more civilized Wikipedia. Strikes me that Sanger has a real loser of an idea on his hands [...]