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Just a week after installing movable type, the 4.1 release was finalized. Upgrading was pretty easy: 

Papers Application from Mek&Tosj

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If you're a researcher or a student, you probably have dozens (if not hundreds) of downloaded research articles scattered about your computer's hard drive, most likely with different naming conventions and folder archives. Regardless of all your efforts, do you have difficulty finding that one article you know you once downloaded?
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Alexander Griekspoor (known as Mek) and Tom Groothuis (known as Tosj) have released Papers, an application for organizing downloaded research papers. The idea behind Papers stems from the difficulty of keeping track of all your downloaded articles.  It allows you to directly download, archive, and read PDFs in one interface as well as keep notes and email them to colleagues. 
Annotate, highlight text, and create "sticky note" on webpages so you don't have to print them out:

http://www.diigo.com/

Grad school just got a lot better.

* totally using C&C's instructions for installing WordPress as a guide, as well as Oren Sreebny's help.


Step 1: follow C&C’s instructions for installing MySQL, using the C&C installed binaries.


Step 2: follow C&C’s instructions for installing phpMyAdmin.

2a: using phpMyAdmin, create a database for your Movable Type blog. Name it anything you like, such as movabletype or blog.

Step 3: Now you are ready to install Movable Type.