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[link] Electronic Tools for Scholarship – my personal approach

Scot Mcphee — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:36:24 +0000

Electronic Tools for Scholarship – my personal approach from inlustre monumentum est » x=x, January 27, 2012 at 07:27PM.

[link] CFP: Digital Classicist 2012, July, London

Scot Mcphee — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 01:06:52 +0000

CFP: Digital Classicist 2012, July, London from inlustre monumentum est » x=x, January 25, 2012 at 10:56AM.

[link] Decoding Digital Humanities, London

Scot Mcphee — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:51:56 +0000

Decoding Digital Humanities, London from inlustre monumentum est » x=x, January 25, 2012 at 10:48AM.

[link] Citations of ePub electronic books in a research document?

Scot Mcphee — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 09:21:52 +0000

Citations of ePub electronic books in a research document? from inlustre monumentum est » x=x, January 15, 2012 at 07:08PM.

[link] On the readability and usability of Ebooks with DRM

Scot Mcphee — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 02:37:37 +0000

On the readability and usability of Ebooks with DRM from inlustre monumentum est » x=x, January 15, 2012 at 12:36PM.

Adobe software is useless and must be uninstalled everywhere, now

Scot Mcphee — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 06:42:07 +0000

I had cause to use ‘Adobe Digital Editions’ today because of an epub file that would not be added into iTunes (DRM? who knows?). So I open up the Adobe Epub reader which is somehow installed on my Mac to read it. But, it won’t run. It insists I have to install the “latest version” or my other option is to quit. Talk about harassing your customers into upgrades. So I click the “install” button it gives me. Unlike 99% of every other bit of Mac software I use instead of an in-app upgrade it launches the Adobe website. Ok, download the .dmg or .pkg file? Nope. I have to click through Flash Block on that page to get to the installer program (really Adobe – a Flash-based installer?). Eventually it seems to install and launch a new version of the software.

So I right click back on the original file and choose to open it with ‘Adobe Digital Editions’. And the old version of the software opened right up with the insistence to upgrade. With the upgraded version running right along side the original version … facepalm, headdesk. Its like they don’t want me to use their software. It’s ugly and horrible to use.

And these companies wonder why people pirate stuff. Because, Adobe, if I pirated DRM content it would easier for me to read it in any manner I want to read it you f–king morons, even when I try to use your idiotic software with with labyrinthine installation and upgrade bullish-t.

Let me put it this way. I will gladly pay a fair price for content, if it’s good content. I will also gladly pay for software, if I like the software (for example, I’m writing this blog entry in a fully-licenced version of the blog editing software Mars Edit). But don’t foist your insistently sh-tty, demanding-to-be-upgraded-right-now, eye-gougingly ugly, platform standard-breaking installation procedure using, old version littering montrosity on me even if it’s free.

Uninstall. Please go broke Adobe.

[link] Publishing advice for Classics PhDs

Scot Mcphee — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:09:58 +0000

Publishing advice for Classics PhDs from inlustre monumentum est, January 14, 2012 at 08:08AM.

[link] Some stupid fellow Aussies deface Hadrian’s wall

Scot Mcphee — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:07:49 +0000

Some stupid fellow Aussies deface Hadrian’s wall from inlustre monumentum est, January 11, 2012 at 10:03AM.

[link] On daily writing

Scot Mcphee — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 23:52:20 +0000

On daily writing from inlustre monumentum est, January 09, 2012 at 09:45AM.

[link] Now THIS is the BEST footnote. Ever. By a wide margin. – Targuman

Scot Mcphee — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 21:39:35 +0000

Now THIS is the BEST footnote. Ever. By a wide margin. – Targuman from inlustre monumentum est, January 09, 2012 at 07:32AM.