There has been some buzz on the blogosphere about a new book “the 4 hour work week” by Tim Ferriss. I haven’t read the book and am not sure I will, but from the descriptions I have read it appears he has useful things to say about time management. His focus in on effectiveness and [...]
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April 5, 2007
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New version of Zotero out. Good for PDF storage as well as references.
By shane in SoftwareFirefox integrated reference manager Zotero (which I have posted previously about here) put out a new version last week. Highlights include inpage HTML highlighting and annotation, improved search, autorenaming of PDF’s, and integration with MS Word (Pc and MAC). No sign of online social bookmarking, but its on the horizon. The changelog is here. The continuing usefulness of [...]
March 2, 2007
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Noise for academics
By shane in WritingOn the recent Google group The Efficient Academic, there was a short discussion about the best music to study to. Obviously this is a matter of personal choice to what kinds of music creates a calm relaxed focus state of mind. Most people find that non vocal music is the least distracting. Favourites of mine [...]
February 8, 2007
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Camera Photocopying
By shane in UncategorizedI don’t need to do much photocopying these days, as my trips to the library are rather infrequent. However, if do venture that way I bring along my compact digital camera. I used to have a 3 megapixel camera phone, but darn it, lost it, so its my trusty casio instead, and avoid those long photocopying [...]
December 20, 2006
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Meet your academic neighbours in CiteULike
By shane in Reference management, Software, Web 2.0One of the good (potentially great) things about on-line reference sites is that it can put you in touch with those academics who share interests with you. This particulary true with CiteULike, which by design encourages co-operation, for example, it allows you to see who else shares a reference in your library. The link belows is a tool which works out [...]