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Yahoo Mail and free IMAP
If you are using yahoo mail, like me, then you missed for a long time IMAP access for your inbox. They provide just POP3 access and I don’t want that. I would like to have/access the messages also via web interface and also to have them on my computer for offline access. So, the solution [...]
Truecrypt and ext2ifs on Vista
When I built my USB Memory Stick Companion I could not mount the encrypted volume with Truecrypt on Vista, every time I got a “nice” blue screen. So, after some search on google I found that the problem is a compatibility issue between Truecrypt and Ext2ifs, but a simple update for Ext2ifs to the latest [...]
Acronis 10 Personal for FREE
Acronis is giving away for download copies of Acronis True Image 10 Personal Edition because a new version is out. That means you get whole disk image backups from a friendly interface. You may use free utility to clone your hard drive but it may not have many features as compared to paid hard drive [...]
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.
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
% [...]
Installing Enthought Tool Suite (ETS) on OpenSUSE 11
Today, I tried to install Enthought Tool Suite on OpenSUSE 11, with the help of my old post. For the moment there are no packages for OpenSUSE. I had to checkout their repository and build the eggs, in order to install the suite. The mentioned tutorial worked but of course that I had some minor [...]
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 [...]
