I was in the middle of an introductory workshop for Data Science at General Assembly and I was talking about using command line instructions to facilitate the manipulation of files and folders. We covered some… Read More »Using curl to download a shortened URL – Dropbox, bit.ly
I have had this 17-in MacBook Pro for a few years… perhaps about 8 years? Probably a bit more? In any case, I have it more as a memento than anything else as I have… Read More »Failed Battery
I accidentally ended up creating some notes in the Gmail Notes inside my iDevice only to be completely confounded by the fact I could not see them in my desktop. I tried to find some… Read More »Apple Notes and Gmail Notes
I was confronted with an old issue, that had not been an issue for a while: writing to an external hard drive that was formatted with Windows (NTFS) from my mac. I used to have… Read More »Enable NTFS read and write in your Mac
I have been playing on and off with Jekyll and I find it very interesting, useful and once installed, easy tool for creating posts. However, the installation may or may not be that easy. Last… Read More »Getting the latest version of Jekyll to work
The work computer of one of my colleagues has recently closed the circle and he has now a shiny new apple computer. He is very well-versed in a bunch of computer related tasks, nonetheless he… Read More »Navigating the terminal
I am sure you, like me, have had the need to reduce the file size of a PDF. Take for example the occasional need of sending a PDF by email just to find out that… Read More »An alternative way to reduce the size of PDF in a mac
Ever since the previous Java update for the mac, my Gephi installation was not happy. I resorted to uninstalling version 0.8.2-beta and going back to 0.8.1. Not a bad version, but definitely not one with… Read More »Getting Gephi 0.8.2 to work with a Mac
I recently updated my version of Octave using Homebrew and something went a bit eerie… Nothing major except that instead of plotting to the Aquaterm terminal, Octave and Gnuplot were only happy with X11. Not… Read More »Aquaterm plotting issue with Octave and Gnuplot (Mac)
