August 2009
11 posts
Ripit →
Ripit is a recent (as of this writing) DVD ripping application for the Mac that seems to work in tandem with “Handbrakeª:Handbrake. I have to wonder when the process of ripping DVDs to…
Love school with Google Docs →
It’s that time of year again. Time to brush off the sand from lazy days at the beach and hit the books. Time for group projects, club registrations, and dorm events. As I start my senior year at…
LEGO Mindstorms Sudoku Solver →
Lovely, read all about it here…
Literate programming for talks: Beamer, Sweave and... →
The summer conference season is slowly drawing to a close and we can all put our feet up, right? After all, the papers are done and presented and it’s a least a couple of months before…
Quick and dirty magnetic card reader →
[nevdull] found himself in possession of a magnetic card reader. What else was he to do but show us all how to read from it using an AVR? He goes through the basics of how the card…
Supercharge Google Reader with Send To Links... →
Google Reader recently added custom “Send To” controls to its feature list, and we’ve been looking for the most useful links to feed it. Here are 11 excellent send-to tools you can add to…
Are You a Super Geek? Here’s the One Site You Must... →
Are your geek skills primed and ready for a challenge? Super User is the place where you can show off just how good your skills really are. If answering questions isn’t your game, it’s also a great…
Using LaTeXiT to display math formulas →
Filed under: Software, Education
TeX is a typesetting standard that, among other things, allows you to typeset complex math formulas. One flavor of Tex is LaTeX, for which LaTeXiT…
Move Windows around in the Background by holding... →
If you’re like me you tend to have 10,000 windows open at once on your Mac while you work and multitask, thanks to Expose this is not a particular problem in Mac OS X. But, there comes a time…
Convert Google Reader Items to PDFs [Google... →
Once Google Reader added manual controls to its new “Send To” menu, you knew some delicious URL tweaks would follow. Some already have, including a “Save as PDF” trick from the Digital…
Download Your Google Reader Stories as PDF via the... →
Inspired by FeedDemon (see #7), the Google Reader team has added some useful features in their popular web based feed reader program including a new “Send To” option that lets users share and…
