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Clay Moore

How to Build a Blog Ideas library in Bento 4

April 20, 2012

When I take notes i use a note book, but there is a problem in keeping notes in a notebook.  I sometimes loose my notes in a notebook.  So I developed a workflow where I move my notes into an electronic format on a daily basis.  Benot for mac has solved a few of these [...]

Be an Observer of Life

April 18, 2012

In a previous post we talked about getting experience with the world, this is a time honored way to get the experience we need for verisimilitude.  Often that is impossible to do.  We cannot get the experience we need in just one lifetime to represent the characters in our stories.  Then how do we get [...]

Selecting the cover page in Scrivener

April 16, 2012

My next project is going to go out as an e-book rather than publishing it as a physical book.  So, my tools needed to be able to produce the book as an e-book.  That is why I was so happy when Pages got an e-book publishing upgrade.  Then Scrivener got the same things, except they [...]

Fear of the number 13

April 13, 2012

This is being posted on my site on Friday the 13th, a bad luck day.  Fear of the number 13 is called Triskaidekaphobia.  I think this is because, at least in the west, the Templars were arrested on friday the 13th 1307.  The specific fear of Friday the 13th is called paraskevidekatriaphobia.  Just thought I’d share.  Have [...]

Schedule your writing

April 12, 2012

One of the tough things about being a writer is either finding the time, or actually doing the work.  I have so many interests that it can be hard sometimes to get the work done.  I’ve found a trick that helps me and I’ll share it with you after the break.

How to use Networked Blogs to post from your blog to Facebook

April 11, 2012

One of the ways that bloggers can let more people know about their blog posts is to cross post them into Facebook.  I consider this as one more way to syndicate your posts.  You can do this by hand, but why do that when there are some automation systems out there.  Networked blogs is one [...]

How to convert videos using Handbrake

April 10, 2012

If you used Quicktime to make screen recordings as explained yesterday, you realize quite quickly that it does not make the most compact file size.  There is something that is a veritable swiss army knife of video conversion.  That tool is Handbrake.  It not just for ripping DVDs anymore.  More on this after the break

How to record your screen on a Mac

April 9, 2012

As an Instructor I  provide a service where the student does not leave the learning environment for an extended period of time.  They can ask questions about the subject material as presented in the class for a period of time after the class.  Sometimes I need to do a demo over again for the student. [...]

Verisimilitude: The Appearance of Reality

April 4, 2012

Most new writer’s are given this piece of advice from countless people, most of them non-writers, “Write what you know about.”  For most writer’s in the genre of speculative fiction this is an impossibility.  How do you know what it feels like to go faster than light?  I have some ideas on this after the [...]

Which Office Suite do I like?

March 28, 2012

I got asked this in a class recently, and I thought I would answer it here.  I decided that I would look at just three of the major office suites out there, MS Office, LibreOffice, and iWork.  I am going to grade them according to usefulness, cross platform ability, and price.  Then I will tell [...]

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