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More software sales . . . This time OmniWeb. OmniWeb which is normally $29.95 is on sale this month for $9.95. This is one of those things that makes me crazy as I paid full price . . .but oh well. OmniWeb is my browser of choice. Why pay for a browser? Because I want …..

Those who read this blog know I am a huge fan of Devon. At this point I use it for practically everything, from organizing my research to conducting a job search. If you haven’t yet purchased Devon but were thinking about it, now might be a good time. Just head on over to 43 folders …..

I should begin by saying this post is not for everyone, what I am about to write about is merely a matter of preference, but I will say when I started using a computer like this, it made my daily experience so much better.

Zotero is now available to the public. For those who haven’t been following the release, Zotero is free software designed that allows you to collect, manage, and site your references. A couple of things to note before you rush over and download this program. First it is still in Beta which means it has some …..

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 mouse, …..

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 I …..

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.” It’s true, …..

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 with …..

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 creating a …..

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. Basically the plugin reads …..