“One only needs two tools in life: WD-40 to make things go, and duct tape to make them stop.” — G. Weilacher “It is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.” — Albert Maslow As I’ve mentioned before, I love reading every new post [...]
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What we can learn from gear porn
Nerds get a bad rap. We are being made fun of for our love of, and intimate ways with, our gear. When I say ‘gear,’ I mean computers, musical instruments, stereo equipment, cameras… anything that only reveals its depth when engaged with properly, and anything where there’s always a ‘step up,’ a better version that [...]
Brilliant stuff: Read It Later Firefox extension
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 [...]
Brilliant stuff: Readability bookmarklet
Despite our best efforts in web design and HTML standards compliance, articles can be very difficult to read on today’s rammed-full websites. The New York Times and the Huffington Post are just two examples of essential content bordered and permeated by visual clutter: video advertising, animated ad banners, endless lists of links to other articles, [...]
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 [...]
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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.
I blog about music, technology, business, vegetarian food, politics, culture and life.
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