In Proteins this week I wound up with 44g of protein instead of 5. The good news is: I found where I went wrong in the calculations, I was an order of magnitude (10x) out on one thing. The bad news is: I suck! After bagging out a company for not being able to do […]
Mac OS X
Thursday Thirteen #47
Thirteen of my top mac programs. 1. Camino – this is the web browser I use so I suppose it’s one of the programs I use more than any other. Hehe, it’s okay to use something other than Firefox (as long as they make an effort to be compliant). 2. Smultron – beautiful text editor, […]
Charts and graphs on Mac
I had some data from a lab that wanted to graph with two different y-axes. It’s not too difficult an idea to picture in your head, you see the data had incredibly different scales (a maximum of 70 vs. 5), but I don’t know if Excel can do it. Since I was using NeoOffice, not […]
Smultron
When I first got my MacBook I searched for ages for a decent Text Editor. Text Edit was usable but perhaps too light-weight for wanting to edit html and such. I couldn’t find a nice, free, piece of software so I just used Text Edit and jEdit when I really felt the need for syntax […]
Marco Polo
I’ve been using a nice little piece of software called Marco Polo. It’s purpose is to detect which network you are connected to and automatically switch you to it. It can do this according to the IP address that you are assigned or by detecting the usb devices that you have plugged in. This software […]
Random computer stuff
I have raved about Inkscape and GIMP before, I think they’re great graphics programs. Expensive programs might be better but for saving $300 or however much they cost, these programs are excellent. Switching to the Mac versions wasn’t entirely satisfactory. They run under X11, which doesn’t use the apple key and has a click-to-focus action […]