Wed - November 12, 2008

LyX 1.6 is out!


LyX is a LaTeX front end that I use for writing. It's a fantastic piece of software. See http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX16

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Thu - September 11, 2008

iMovie 8: upgrade or downgrade?


In order to use our new camcorder, I had to install Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5) and iMovie 8 on my laptop. Ok, so I've got the video loaded, but what happened to all of the effects?

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Sun - February 10, 2008

Has Apple abandoned iSync?


I love the mac os, but it's getting frustrating trying to find a compatible smart phone.

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Thu - May 10, 2007

LaTeX v Word, useful LaTeX links


There was some discussion on the lyx-users mailing list lately that I thought was useful.

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Wed - December 27, 2006

Open source wiki software: MoinMoin


I tried a couple; this one is a good compromise between ease of install and ease of use for my students.

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Tue - September 19, 2006

Parallels on Intel-Mac


Some scientific software isn't (yet) available on Intel-Macs. Many of my students use Windoze XP. I installed Parallels on my Macbook Pro so that I could run WIndoze software in the same environment as my students.

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Thu - August 24, 2006

GanttProject update


I wrote about GanttProject back in June 2004. The recent prereleases do not include support for xFig output. The attached files provide the means to add a rudimentary xFig output in GanttProject. Install GanttXFIGSaver.java in the io subdirectory of GanttProject sources (either version 1.10.1 or 1.11.1). Then recompile ganttProject with ant.

update 2005 Dec 19 (Mon) Added dependency arrows, fixed chart width bug.
update 2005 Dec 21 (Wed) fixed width font for task description. Start/stop dates added.
update 2006 Aug 23 (Thu) The latest version of Gantt Project exports a legible .png format image. Further, my Java coding skills are not sufficient to add an xfig module to the project. As a result, I'm no longer working on gan2fig.

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ganttProject



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Tue - August 15, 2006

LyX to Open Office converter


copied from the lyx-users mailing list.

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Wed - June 14, 2006

Blogging software for Mac OS X: iBlog, iWeb, and RapidWeaver



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Sat - April 15, 2006

Document preparation vs Word Processor: LyX!


I've been using this package for about two weeks. It combines the strengths of LaTeX with the convenience of a (more or less) WYSIWYG editor.

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Thu - December 29, 2005

Installation of Octave and octave-forge by Fink on Mac OS 10.4 (Tiger)


This article is now outdated; octave-forge and octave-2.1.71 now install easily under fink in Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger).

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Fri - December 23, 2005

Octave: links


I haven't had a chance to try these on Mac OS X yet.
AVI file
octaviz (octave visualization software)

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Sat - December 17, 2005

LaTeX and Mac OS X


From the octave mailing list

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Fri - October 14, 2005

Making a podcast with Garageband on Mac



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Sat - October 8, 2005

Mac OS X link with useful troubleshooting/recommendations



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Fri - October 7, 2005

software: Weatherbug Lite for Macintosh



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Thu - August 25, 2005

adding packages to LaTeX/teTeX on Mac OS X



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Sun - May 1, 2005

High performance computing on Mac OS X



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Wed - February 23, 2005

Apple X11 and X11Forwarding


needs to be set in sshd_config

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Mon - February 21, 2005

Linear and quadratic programming for small scale problems


Need to find some public domain code - C compatible

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