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Hipster tablet

Posted on June 20, 2011 by drben

Merlin Mann presented the hipster PDA. I’ve just discovered the hipster tablet.

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Meine Software

Posted on March 8, 2011 by drben

Betriebssystem Mac OS 10.6 Aus diversen Zufällen heraus waren in jedem meiner Arbeitsplätze Macs im Einsatz, und ich bin als Selbständiger einfach bei jenem System geblieben, das ich kenne. Office Microsoft Office 2008 für Mac: keine Liebe, aber unumgänglich (Eloquente … Continue reading →

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How I chose a notebook (3): Bindewerk

Posted on August 9, 2010 by drben

In the course of testing out various notebooks, I bought a Bindewerk Purist in a local shop. My first impression was of a rather rough little notebook that didn’t look like a Moleskine. It has straight cut edges, no round … Continue reading →

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How I chose a notebook (2): paper test

Posted on August 9, 2010 by drben

So, to the testing. Method: For all testing, I used the same pen, a Faber-Castell E-Motion with a medium nib.

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How I chose a notebook (1): a problem emerges

Posted on August 2, 2010 by drben

A couple of years ago, I started using my mobile phone instead of a paper diary to keep my appointments. At the same time, I was getting a bit frustrated with coming back from meetings with loose A4 pages of … Continue reading →

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WriteRoom

Posted on January 25, 2010 by drben

In the beginning they created the screen and the keyboard. And the screen was without color and void, and darkness was on the face of the screen. And an orange (or green) cursor was blinking upon the face of the … Continue reading →

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Joel on Unicode

Posted on December 9, 2009 by drben

Ok just a quick note to get this saved somewhere before it gets away. Here is just about the best, most readable explanation of Unicode I’ve come across so far. You ever wonder why characters in a text come up … Continue reading →

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Kindle Didn’t Light His Fire

Posted on August 9, 2009 by drben

Nicholson Baker reviewed the Kindle electronic book-reading thingy in the New Yorker. And answered questions about it in a chat. Personally, I spend enough time staring at screens. But I think Baker has given the device a fair trial, and … Continue reading →

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