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Custom LaTeX bibliography style files: Part 2/4

Mark — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 21:20:45 +0000

In this article, I will show the steps involved in creating a bibliography style file for the Journal Brain and include the relevant BST file for LaTeX, a powerful typesetting system available for all common platforms, including Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.
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How to make a UK map for TrekBuddy

James — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 15:11:54 +0000

Sometimes you wish to use your GPS and data enabled mobile phone to navigate but either you do not have a data signal, or the map you require is not available through Google or BlackBerry maps. This short article will talk you through how to create a map to be used with TrekBuddy on your mobile, PDA or BlackBerry.

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How to install offline Maps on your BlackBerry using TrekBuddy 0.973

James — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 14:38:42 +0000

BlackBerry smartphones are handy for GPS navigation helped by the excellent BlackBerry and Google Maps applications. When you are out of range of a data signal both these applications are unable to continue to provide a map. With TrekBuddy you can use offline maps, from Google and elsewhere, record route speed and waypoints, or use your phone as a direction finder. TrekBuddy is a great, freeware application developed by Kruch a Czech developer and is suitable for J2ME devices including a BlackBerry with OS 4.1 or greater.

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Pitfalls when buying a BlackBerry from Ebay

James — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:24:49 +0000

BlackBerry produce a range of popular mobile phones that have a instant email function. Purchasing a new or used BlackBerry from a seller using Ebay may seem a low cost way of owning a BlackBerry smartphone. In this short article I will highlight some of the pitfalls in doing so, and how to avoid them…

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Custom LaTeX bibliography style files: Part 1/4

Mark — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 20:45:54 +0000

As part of an ongoing series of articles on BibTeX, I will present examples of using BibTeX to generate and format custom bibliography style files to suit a wide range of biomedical journals. (more…)

How to get free phone calls from MSN Messenger to a BT Home Hub phone.

James — Thu, 24 May 2007 14:35:48 +0000

The BT Home Hub enables consumers to get free or low-cost VOIP phone calls out from their DECT/regular phones in their home to UK 01/02 numbers. The BT softphone application when installed allows you to make these calls from a PC anywhere on the Internet. Using this guide I will show you how to make free* phone calls from MSN messenger back to your HomeHub handset when you are away from home, perfect when you are on business and want to call family. (more…)

TortoiseSVN and svn+ssh problems

Mark — Tue, 15 May 2007 14:22:20 +0000

I’ve had problems with TortoiseSVN connecting to a subversion repository on Mac OS X where the connection would just hang when trying to browse or checkout a repository, or would fail with the error “Unable to write to standard output (stderr)”. I show you how to diagnose the problem, and solve it (in my case). (more…)

Producing Spaghetti Plots using R

James — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 14:27:20 +0000

If you wish to analyse longitudinal data sometimes it is helpful to plot each experimental subject’s data at each timepoint to get a feel for the patterns or trends. You can often learn more from this raw data than a boxplot or line graph of the means. I am a habitual SPSS user but have found myself limited with it’s capabilities. In this short article, aimed at SPSS users who are new to R, I will show you how to produce a ‘Spaghetti Plot’ using R. (more…)

Port forwarding with SSH/Putty

Mark — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 14:37:33 +0000

I regularly exchange data between computers at University and home. To maintain security, I keep a firewall running on all machines, and “tunnel” through the firewall(s) using SSH - the secure shell. For example, I run a web server on my main machine for web application development, and do not wish this to be publicly accessible. My home computer is protected by a hardware firewall, and I use SSH to tunnel access to the web server. Local and remote port forwarding is straightforward, but it can be difficult to understand initially. I have therefore created a list of “recipes” that one can try… (more…)

How to use JabRef (BibTeX) with Microsoft Word 2003

James — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 22:16:12 +0000

JabRef is one of the best reference managers available and provides a realistic alternative to Endnote, as well as being open-source & free. Unfortunately most users are not aware that JabRef (or any other BibTeX based reference manager) can easily be integrated for use with Microsoft Word. In this guide I will show you step-by-step how to install Mike Brookes‘ excellent free Bibtex4Word (v1.12) Word Macro Package on your Windows XP machine. (more…)