Ada Lovelace. Painting by Margaret Sarah Carpenter (1793–1872) Ada Augusta Byron, Countess of Lovelace, was the daughter of the poet George Gordon, Lord Byron. She studied mathematics at the University of London with Charles Babbage, whose analytical engines… Read More »Ada Lovelace – Sci-advent – Day 9
If you happen to have a chance to visit Bletchley Park do not miss the opportunity to visit the National Museum of Computing where you will be able to see a large collection of computers… Read More »The Harwell Dekatron is alive… alive!
This happened to me the other day when trying to open an older(-ish) Excel file created with Office 2003 in the new 2010 version of the software: I double clicked on the file and a… Read More »Microsoft Office 2010 – issue with opening files as “Read-Only”
When Apple launched iBooks Author back in January 2012 I was quite curious to see the things that you were able to do with it. It all looked very nice and relatively easy to use.… Read More »iBooks Author supports LaTeX now
Well, I have now made the move to Mountain Lion and for a bit it did look quite good, until I had the nerve of trying to start MATLAB. Now, I must admit that the… Read More »MATLAB for mac in Mountain Lion without X11
There used to be a time when computers came with tools for someone to start programming, something like a version of BASIC would get you started. That has changed to the point that some users… Read More »Python for iOS
Imagine this, you are using Desktop 1 to write a long document and you are doing so with information that is displayed in Desktop 4. You can indeed move the relevant window from Desktop 4… Read More »A hidden shortcut to switch to previous Desktop Space in Mac OS X
I heard via Cult of Mac that the iOS version of Chrome was available in the AppStore. My friend downloaded it successfully and kept on going about how quickly it was. And indeed it was.… Read More »It seems Apple took down the iOS version of Chrome rather quickly. Tantrum?
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
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