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My USB Memory Stick Companion
I have a Kingston Data Traveler 4 GB USB Drive, and a few days ago I decided to use it also as a rescue boot device (to be bootable in order to recover data when needed), as storage device (to move around some files, used on windows, mac, linux, freebsd), to have on it some [...]
Going cordless …
After some time of thinking which mouse to buy to use it with my notebook, finally, I decided on VX Nano Cordless Laser Mouse for Notebooks. It is a great mouse and I can say that I am very happy with it. Now, I have Back and Forward browser buttons direct on my mouse, I [...]
Using LaTeX in Scribus for posters
I am using LaTeX and beamer class to make presentations and posters. A short introduction to start with latex is available. Sometimes I am using LaTeX just to produce eps/pdf text boxes and after that Scribus for poster layout. In the last development version of Scribus, which is 1.3.5svn, there is possible to use latex [...]
OpenSource/Free Software for Windows
Maybe you saw already my previous post, and you realized that I am using maybe 90% free software also on my windows computers. So, I would like to point out just a few links with free or opensource software for windows:
Ultimate List of Free Windows XP Software from Microsoft
Ultimate List of Free Windows Vista Software [...]
Software I am using …
If you would like to see what software I am using on my desktop, laptop, workstation (Windows, Linux, Unix) in order to get my research/scientific work done, or if you want to know what software I am installing on my servers for customers, check this section of my website.
Insert Tables in Wordpress posts
I needed to insert tables in wordpress posts, but I found just one plugin for this task WP-Table. But it will not work, it is not compatible with the new wordpress versions. What I did is to use google docs: File -> New Document -> Table -> Insert, populate your table.
Now, when you finished the [...]
LaTeX useful Tips/Tricks
In my previous post I discussed a “small” but, I would say “complet” template to start your document. If you want to include also movies in your pdf documents, then this post can help you. If you need a good program for bibliographic management check this post.
Below I will post a lot of tips, tricks [...]
Starting with LaTeX/PdfTeX, a small template
Just a short template with some packages included:
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\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}
% let’s use some nice packages
\usepackage{times}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{amsmath}
% set all margins to 2.5 cm
\usepackage[margin=2.5cm]{geometry}
% for fancy and easy modification of header and footer
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
% include hyperlinks in pdf file
\usepackage{hyperref}
% decide if run PdfTeX or LaTeX
\ifx\pdfoutput\undefined
% we are running LaTeX, not pdflatex
\usepackage{graphicx}
\else
% we are running pdflatex, so convert .eps files to .pdf
\usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx}
\usepackage{epstopdf}
\fi
% [...]
Personal bibliographic management software
Handling references and bibliographic information is an essential part of all research. If you are writing just one article or just your diploma thesis maybe you don’t need to use this kind of software because you will not have a lot of references. BUT, if you are writing A LOT of [...]
Top 96 Kick Ass Home Office Setups
“For many of us, we’re on the computer(s) everyday. If you’re a business nerd making money on the web then it’s worthwhile to plunk a few grand into a kickass office setup.” See pictures
