Archive for May, 2009

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AML Pages: Iconize Your Folders and Notes

1. Download the Sample Icons I have collected for use with AML Pages. (See below)
2. Unzip the RAR file using your desktop’s unzippling utility. Remember where you unzip the archive. There will be three sub-folders in the “Sample Icons” directory: Documents, Folders, Mixed. Each of those sub-folders will have *.ico files.
3. Open up AML Pages. [...]

17May2009 | alesmeralda | 1 comment | Continued
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Research with Biblioscape

Just after writing the article on note-taking, I found a software application that can help one take, organize and process notes with a computer. I have discussed some information managers in this website but not one of these come close to Biblioscape which started out as an organizer for bibliographical references. Biblioscape version 8 has [...]

16May2009 | alesmeralda | 0 comments | Continued
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TextBlockWriter

Remember when we learned how to use index cards at school? Index cards are great for taking notes that will eventually be used in a research paper. There are software developers that are working on the index card idea and creating software applications that allow one to create index-card-like documents that one can use and [...]

14May2009 | alesmeralda | 0 comments | Continued
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Just What Is Life…?

Just what is life,
is it just a passing dream …?
So goes a song I wrote for musical play that was performed many years ago at San Agustin Center of Studies.  What reminded me of the song was an old cartoon I did in 1995 about an experience I had on my first year at the [...]

11May2009 | alesmeralda | 0 comments | Continued
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Note-Taking High-Tech or Low-Tech

There is an article from Life-Hacker which puts forward Thomas Edison as an example of a successful note-taker. The author describes Edison’s note-taking ability thus:
Famous inventor Thomas Edison is probably the most experienced note-taker in the world. His diary which is still maintained as an important part of the United States historical record contains five [...]

9May2009 | alesmeralda | 0 comments | Continued
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AML Pages

I am currently checking out AML Pages. I have been trying it out for a few weeks, writing articles for the Bible Workshop. The software is currently in version 9.10, a testimony to the kind of work that has been put into it. If one is familiar with other Tree Outliners like [...]

7May2009 | alesmeralda | 1 comment | Continued