Dropbox Saved my Butt Today

Well, I’m back after the holidays. Quess what happened on my New Years?
For reasons that boggle the mind, I decided to type in the Linux equivalent of “format c:/”. Seriously. The result? My entire Windows partition is irrevocably gone.
Not a problem. I back up my data. Everything iimportant is safe, and all my dissertation research [...]

Desperate Times: Reinstalling Windows

One of the real difficulties with Windows (at least versions prior to Vista) is the reinstall problem. After about 2 years or so your computer starts getting too slugish to be productive, and no amount of tweaking, defragmenting, or otherwise coaxing your computer to behave normally seems to help. Or perhaps something else has gone [...]

WebNotes Lets You Annotate the Web

The web is now a primary arena for serious research. With Google Scholar, the Internet Archive, academic blogs where writers self-publish their complete works (such as this one), it is now possible to do a whole host of respectable research on the internet.
But how do you take notes on a web page? Should you print [...]

Bibleworks 8 Announced

The folks over at BibleWorks have announced the release of the eighth iteration of their software product. The announcement includes an extensive list of upgrades and new features. Read the whole announcement. Here are some highlights:
New Features
The biggest advances appear to be in the area of searching and analysis (rather than text handling or diagramming, [...]

Zotero Gets New Partners

A question came up in the Zotero Workshop I did last night: what are Zotero’s future prospects? Will development continue to be strong, or is this a passing fad? The question is a good one, particularly considering Zotero’s ongoing lawsuit with EndNote, but the answer is pretty easy to come by: development for Zotero is, [...]

Setting Up Zotero: Link by Link

The following is a set of links that will be useful for those trying to set up Zotero on their computers. (Not sure what Zotero is or why you would want it? Check out their site, and don’t miss the demo video).
Initial Setup

Firefox Web Browser. Zotero runs as a plugin within this excellent browser.
The Zotero [...]

Nerdlets Now Zotero Compatible

If you use Firefox and browse this site with the excellent Zotero extension, you will now notice Zotero reference links in your address bar. Anytime I reference a book in a post you will now be able to add it to your Zotero database. Similarly, any post can be added to your Zotero database.
Don’t have [...]

Zotero Lawsuit

For those following the ongoing lawsuit by EndNote producer Thomson Reuters against Zotero, this article provides a good synopsis of the story so far.

It’s Official: Zotero 1.5 Sync Preview Release 3

Despite the fact that I have technically already posted on this topic, Zotero announced yesterday the next and last pre-release of the Sync-preview line of software. The biggest edition is Rich text notes editing, apparently provided through a program called TinyMCE. Isn’t open source wonderful?!
Check out the full announcement.

Zotero 1.5 Sync Preview Gets a Text Editor

I upgraded to Zotero’s latest Sync Preview some time ago, and was blessed today with automatic update. To my delight, this update includes, among other things, a full text editor for note taking. It works a lot like a basic/primitive word processor or WYSIWYG HTML editor. I’m pleased as punch; now I feel better about [...]