There are so many applications that facilitate saving and sharing bookmarks that it seems almost trite to mention yet another one. But Read It Later does some clever stuff and meets a very specific need for me, so I thought I’d pay it forward. Read It Later is a Firefox extension that places a little [...]
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Why I bought a Mac
Picture by Benjamin Nagel, via Wikimedia Commons Apparently, I’m a hipster now. According to my friend Bryce, who calls everyone a hipster who uses a Mac. Though I feel a certain kinship with PC in the “Get a Mac” commercials (who doesn’t? how can you not root for the likable underdog?), my purchase now entitles [...]
BumpTop with multi-touch
[Direct link for non-Flash devices] Here’s a new video showing BumpTop using a multi-touch screen under Windows 7. The march towards ‘tactile computing’ continues. I remain unconvinced that this is really what people want to do, for the simple reason that holding your hand/arm extended for lengthy periods like this cannot really be comfortable. My [...]
Out with the old, in with the new…
[Editor's note: This post refers to an older blog of mine that's since been shut down. It's here mostly for historical interest. My misgivings about "business blogging" in the service of my profession remain unchanged...] As many of you know, I work for a Microsoft partner – we provide consulting services and create software solutions, [...]
How to (reliably) make PDFs in Office 2007
For many users, Microsoft’s PDF and XPS Converter for Office 2007 simply doesn’t work. It’s not that I have anything against it per se, but it seems to be plagued by a bug: some users can use it without any issues; other users always get this error message: “The file is in use by another [...]
Taking notes with Evernote
Note-taking is one of those things that get better with age, like wine or jazz. I didn’t take notes for many years at the beginning of my career, and I think I was significantly less productive because of it. In my day, I think university students weren’t taught to take good notes (I certainly wasn’t; [...]
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Carsten Knoch
Software and services professional, attentive music listener, vision enabler, instigator, reader of books and the web, vegetarian, affordable audio hobbyist, thinker, writer, blogger, tinkerer, Internet dweller since 1992. Human being since 1970.
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