I was issued a new computer in the office recently, and had to decide which of the applications on my old computer were of sufficent utility to be installed on the new one. Not surprisingly, top of the list was Google Desktop Search and another similar program that I have incredibly useful, Actual Doc. I’ve [...]

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As I write this, I am simultaneously doing a task on Mechanical Turk. An Amazon innovation, I discovered it while searching around for some gainful work for my sister who was on a sabbatical of sorts.  The site was a repository of tasks that had partly been done by computers but required some human intelligence [...]

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I feel for Olivia Judson, having been on the same boat as her for as long as I remember. I was never very good at keeping track of notes, and the personal computer was a godsend, seeing as everything could be dumped in one place, and retrieved through search. But that state of affairs lasted [...]

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This post is prompted by a post over at Digital Inspiration on “Selecting a Safe Password Manager for Storing your Secret Passwords.” Of the many Password Managers mentioned in his post, I use KeePass on a daily basis and consider it to be one of the most useful pieces of software on the planet. Of [...]

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While I might not have sufficent domain knowledge or patience to contribute to Wikipedia, I’ve been a regular contributor to Google Map Maker. So, once I got home, I took an afternoon off to go around my hometown with my sister and videograph the main street of Thiruvalla. Unfortunately, most of Thiruvalla is covered by [...]

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