by Daniel Vreeman | Mar 18, 2024 | digital life, Featured, musing
Dubbed “the ultimate instrument for the performing musician,” scores of reviews praise the Nord Stage lineup. When our family’s venerable Yamaha YDP-121 digital piano accumulated nearly as many stuck keys as working ones, I selected the Nord Stage 3...
by Daniel Vreeman | Jan 18, 2021 | digital life, Featured, musing
Many of us are working from home offices more than ever now. With a proper setup, your home office can stimulate your best work. Too often, our high tech digital lives create a tangled mess of cables, chargers, and adapters that distract and annoy. Plenty of other...
by Daniel Vreeman | Feb 24, 2017 | digital life, musing, writing
It’s no secret that I have fallen in love with using Scrivener for writing scientific papers. Scrivener is a magnificent writing environment for academic papers once you get past the small initial learning curve. In my prior post, I described how I use a custom...
by Daniel Vreeman | Apr 22, 2016 | digital life, Featured, musing
After years of struggling to keep my digital photo collection in order, I’ve finally reached a magical place. All my photos get automatically named, tagged, organized into subfolders on my computer, ready for Lightroom, and backed up in the cloud. And when I say...
by Daniel Vreeman | Feb 26, 2015 | digital life, Featured, musing, writing
As an academic, I spend a lot of time writing. Switching to a Mac was one of the best productivity hacks of my life. But there has always been this one nagging problem: Microsoft Word. I loathe Microsoft Word. Especially the Mac version. Word has many flaws, but the...
