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 was a bit puzzled by the fact I could not easily change the date/time in an instance of a virtualbox as used by the High Performance Scientific Computing Coursera course run by Dr. Randall J.… Read More »Changing date/time in Ubuntu virtualbox
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)
Some time ago I wrote a post about adding furigana using MS Word for Mac. It seems that the post has been quite useful to a few readers, nonetheless some of you have contacted me… Read More »Furigana (ふりがな) in LaTeX
I have just updated a previous post with some of the UUIDs for using some plugins with Mail.app. The correct strings for Mail 7.0 in Mavericks are: <string>0941BB9F-231F-452D-A26F-47A43863C991</string> <string>04D6EC0A-52FF-4BBE-9896-C0B5FB851BBA</string> For instructions on what to do… Read More »Disabled bundles for Mail in Mavericks
In various posts in the past, I have given some tips using the Terminal and some comments have arrived about how complicated they may seem. Nonetheless, I still think that the flexibility offered by the… Read More »Command Line: a few tips