I have posted about DEVONthink before since I think that it is a great program for Mac users. Here is another nice series of posts about how to use DEVONthink and make the most of its capabilities. 1. Devonthink and Other Mac Apps for History and Humanities Research 2. Devonthink for Historical Research, part II [...]
No, I am not talking about the Kabbalah or subversive rabbinic commentary, rather I am talking about Netflix’s “Watch Instantly” feature. We are Netflix members and I always saw that feature, but I never bothered to learn what it was until I read David Pogue’s article. See, there is a purpose to newspapers. Somebody has [...]
Last year I read this interesting post at Academic Hack about the possible uses of Twitter by academics. I thought that it sounded interesting, but left it at that. Today I read this post by David Pogue and decided to try out Twitter again. Here is a post with some links to Twitter-friendly tools. I [...]
Many people are always trying to make their workflow more efficient. There is a very helpful thread at the Efficient Academic Google group. One of the posts linked to these two excellent articles for academic Mac users. 1. Some affordable Mac apps for academic tasks 2. My paperless academic workflow
Today’s promo at Macupdate is the fantastic Devon Think Pro. It is a great program and I urge any Mac users who are in need of a quality program to organize information to check it out.
Yesterday we got back from a nice vacation on Cape Cod just before Shabbat. During the week I read an excellent book on the history of the CIA, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA. It documents how torture, lying, incompetence, and other related activities has been the bread-and-butter of the CIA since its [...]
For Mac users out there, you have 14 hours left to buy the MacHeist Bundle. For just $49 you get some great programs. Among the programs included are DevonThink Personal, iClip, TextExpander, Write Room and Cha-Ching. If you need more than one of these programs this is a great deal.
Microsoft’s Live Search Books is officially closing its doors (closing its links/portals?). It seems that they couldn’t make enough money to justify keeping it around. See more about it here. Hopefully centralized platforms such as the Internet Archive will get a boost from this.
I have written before about the problem of privacy in the Internet Age, and things are just getting worse. Over at the informative NYT’s tech blog Bits there is a disturbing post describing how ISP’s (Internet Service Providers) are thinking about possibly monitoring your internet traffic and supplying advertising based upon your internet usage and [...]
Two more things from the Internet Archive: 1. Dibre ha-riboth [microform]. Matters of controversy, a rabbinical disputation between Zerahiah ha-Levi and Abraham ben David. Published from a manuscript (unicum) in the possession of the Jewish theological seminary of America (here) 2. A Jewish Calendar for Sixty-Four Years (here- It was printed in London and is [...]
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