Happy birthday Turing
Today, a 100 years ago Alan Turing was born. As a form of celebration Google has put a functioning Turing machine as their latest doodle. A Turing machine is a device that uses a tape… Read More »Happy birthday Turing
Technology
Technology, Computers, Code
Setting up Posterous in Tweetbot for iPad
UPDATE: Sadly this post is now obsolete with the shutting down of Posterous… I have recently started using Tweetbot as a Twitter client and I must say that I am quite pleased with the… Read More »Setting up Posterous in Tweetbot for iPad
Repulsive Polarons
Yes, indeed this post is about repulsive polarons, but that does not mean that they are repulsive because they cause revulsion or anything of the sort. We are talking about quasiparticles which are predicted to… Read More »Repulsive Polarons
Saving screenshots with a useful name (Mac)
Are you a Mac user? Do you end up taking one, two, thousands of screenshots? Well, then you would agree with me when I say that having them automatically saved with a long and not… Read More »Saving screenshots with a useful name (Mac)
Working Collaboratively Online: Wunderkit and Hojoki
Working collaboratively is nothing new… The challenge of continuing doing so with an ever-increasing use of online tools could definitely make life much easier. However, should you not be careful, you can quickly get a… Read More »Working Collaboratively Online: Wunderkit and Hojoki
Videocasting with a Mac
Continuing with the subject of capturing video, in this tutorial we will cover some tools to capture your screen using a Mac. The tools are Quicktime Player, MPEG Streamclip and iMovie. These tools either come with… Read More »Videocasting with a Mac
Videocasting with a PC
Talking to some people about screen capturing and video tutorials, I came across the fact that, although there is some interest in the activity, there is the idea that you need sophisticated tools to create… Read More »Videocasting with a PC
Structured Documents in LaTeX
Continuing with the brief introduction to LaTeX that I posted recently, in this video I discuss the use of LaTeX to produce a document that has a structure similar to that of a book for… Read More »Structured Documents in LaTeX
Using LaTeX to write mathematics
I have been meaning to do something like this for a long time and finally got the courage to do it. A lot of times I get completely horrified by the way in which some… Read More »Using LaTeX to write mathematics
SOPA blackout
Wikipedia is opposed to the US Stop Online Piracy Act aka SOPA and Protect Intellectual Property Act aka PIPA. Other websites are also taking part in the blackout, such as Reddit and WordPress. For the… Read More »SOPA blackout