Author Archives: Avram Lyon

Zandy 1.4.2 is out

Zandy 1.4.2, out now, is required to continue using Zandy, as Zotero is changing the default behavior of some of its APIs. Please post to the forum if you have trouble using the new version.

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Zandy 1.3 now out!

I just released Zandy 1.3 in the Android Market— update now to get more responsive syncing,  support for more attachment formats, a French localization of the interface by our kind colleague Frédéric Clavert of the Zotero Francophone blog, rich text viewing … Continue reading

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Zandy Forum now running

Sorry for the lack of updates in the past few weeks– the next version of Zandy should be out by the end of December. In order to make it easier for Zandy users to share their experiences and hash out … Continue reading

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Zandy 1.2 – ISBN lookup and WebDAV support

Zandy 1.2 is out now, with several major improvements: WebDAV support To use WebDAV, check “Enable WebDAV” and enter the appropriate information in the Zandy settings. Tag search Select a tag when viewing an item to search for other items … Continue reading

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Zandy 1.1 Released!

I’m happy to announce that Zandy 1.1 is now available from the Android Market. For those upgrading from Zandy 1.0, please read the Notice for Zandy 1.0 users; the transition is a little messy. This new release of Zandy brings … Continue reading

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Notice for Zandy 1.0 users

On the Android Market, Zandy 1.1 is being released as a product distinct from Zandy 1.0.2. This is because I have lost access to the release keys used to sign the first release, so the security measures in Android make … Continue reading

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Zotero on Android with Zandy

For Zandy documentation, see the Zandy User Manual. Enjoy! In early August, after many months of exhorting others to write clients for Zotero for platforms like Android and iOS, I finally decided I might as well try to do it … Continue reading

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From a Chuvash India to a Turkish Narnia

The Chuvash State Puppet Theater’s Flop-Eared Ilyuk opened the 2011 Nauruz Festival on May 30. The 40-minute marionette, performed solo by Yurii Filippov, the tale of a young elephant’s adventures as he makes the long journey from his home and loving parents in India … Continue reading

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Bitter Fruits of the Fern

This afternoon, Naberezhnye Chelny’s Tatar theater came to Kamal’s small stage with their performance of Rawil Sabyr’s Bitter Fruits of the Fern, a play that treats some of the most difficult and some of the most frequently discussed topics in Russian … Continue reading

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Flop-Eared Ilyuk

The Nauruz Festival kicked off this morning with the Chuvash State Puppet Theater’s Flop-Eared Ilyuk, the tale of a young elephant’s adventures as he makes the long journey from his home and loving parents in India to the far-off land of Chuvashia, where … Continue reading

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