The Scholar’s Phone, Fall 2014
I was in the market for a new phone. A ‘smartphone’. Having had my current phone since 2007, I had never … Continue reading The Scholar’s Phone, Fall 2014
Author: The Digital Orientalist
Mechanical Keyboard (3)
I have recently switched to a different keyboard. I now use a Happy Hacking Keyboard Professional 2. As long as the … Continue reading Mechanical Keyboard (3)
Project Digitize It All: Post-Production Editing (Video)
Click here to see in five minutes how I create fully searchable black and white PDFs from photos. Such files … Continue reading Project Digitize It All: Post-Production Editing (Video)
Project Digitize It All: Using a Digital Camera
For digitizing a couple of dozen books at home, fast, I decided to use a digital camera. In this post I detail exactly … Continue reading Project Digitize It All: Using a Digital Camera
Project Digitize It All: The Aftermath
A while ago I announced the start of a digitization project for my personal collection. At this point, the project is … Continue reading Project Digitize It All: The Aftermath
How to write e-mails
The art of writing e-mails is, I think, little understood. As part of my strategy to offer reflections on exactly … Continue reading How to write e-mails
Manuscripts: The Hunt for Topkapi
Getting images of manuscripts from Topkapi, Istanbul, is notoriously difficult. Here I describe how I succeeded in obtaining them. I … Continue reading Manuscripts: The Hunt for Topkapi
Hardware considerations. Price versus features
Today I was looking at new laptops and it got me rethinking my hardware strategy. Here are some of my … Continue reading Hardware considerations. Price versus features
Software for Getting Things Done
Being terribly caught up with other things, I am not able to write a full post on what software to use … Continue reading Software for Getting Things Done
Typing and transliterating Arabic: an online solution
Fuzzy Arabic Dictionary allows you to simply type the Arabic word you want in an over-simple form in Latin script, and it … Continue reading Typing and transliterating Arabic: an online solution
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