Month: November 2008
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Mendeley Demos at Princeton, NYU, Cold Spring Harbor Labs, Yale, Dartmouth and the IEEE e-Science Conference
Oh dear, I’ve got a hard time keeping my eyes open, so I’ll just recount the facts. I’m sitting in my bed at the Latham Hotel, Philadelphia, where I arrived this afternoon (early-morning flight from London to Washington, then on with a regional jet). Not having slept very much last night, I felt like taking…
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Upcoming Features: Improved importers and folder monitoring
We have been working on improvements to the importing of information from your existing libraries and documents into Mendeley for our next release. Highlights include: Automatic import of PDF files from selected folders: The feature most requested by our current Mendeley users is support for importing from whole folders (rather than having to select individual…
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Donate your database to the migration cause!
As has been mentioned before, we’re currently hard at work on version 0.6 which is an almost total rewrite of the previous version. We’ve cleaned up the database structure to make it easier for us to maintain and add cool new features. Of course, we want all your existing data to be kept totally intact.…
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Interface development and shadow sculptures – essentially the same thing
I think I learned something today! As a non-software engineer, I was always puzzled beyond measure when I asked our developers to change just a minor interface detail – such as, “shift this icon up a few pixels, change the color of this frame” – and was told that this would take days upon days…
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Mendeley Desktop: The About Dialogue (and the Refactor)
New About Dialogue and it’s even closable on Mac! How on earth did we get to this point? Let me tell you a story… Since my last post the Mendeley Desktop team has been very busy indeed! Our “rewrite of some of the internal Mendeley code” has turned into a rewrite of almost all the…
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