This is an absolute must, unless you like contorting your fingers and risk RSI. It is also an easy thing to do on OS X. You need to bring up the System preferences → Keyboard & Mouse and then click the “Modifier Keys” to remap the Capslock to Control. This is available on OS X 10.4 and later versions.
Emacs comes with a ‘locate’ command that uses the locate system command to find files within your system. On OS X, it is easier to use Spotlight, which is trivial to enable in Emacs. In your .emacs file, add the following code: (setq locate-command "mdfind") Now try: M-x locate <enter your search here> Your search results will be displayed in a new Window.
My time-management revolves around email, Calendar and to-do lists. While tools definitely help, it is more important to understand that we are processing information and acting on them, and it is just managing or tracking the items. A few pointers on what I use for Emails: Email The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it. - Edward R. Murrow ...
The latest beta of NetNewsWire (3.2b13) has removed the annoying advertisements that were a major distraction. Also, they have brought back the clipping feature - which is really one of the most useful functions for storing interesting RSS articles for reading later. However, the resurrected clippings do not sync with Google Reader, which cripples the function. In my usual use case scenario, I used to use the Newsgator online web interface to store long articles for reading later at leisure at home. Looks like this is not going to be possible. ...
Hurray! The latest version of the Emacs Operating system … erm text editor has been released today. The new version is at 23.1 and has a lot of goodies packed. The three features I am looking forward to the most are: Native transparency Easy sizing of the font display via C-x C-+ and C-x C– Full unicode support!! The third one is going to be most useful in the long run - with an easy ability to use the editor for texts in my native language and script. MULE was a workable option - but clunky compared to the solution in this release. ...
So today morning I got an email from http://www.newsgator.com, makers of the excellent NetNewsWire RSS Reader for OS X. NetNewsWire was originally a paid for application and a best of the breed at that. It was made a free download last year and has been my primary RSS Reader till date. The main USP I found in NetNewsWire was the companion http://www.newsgator.com/ngs/subscriber/WebEd2.aspx online RSS feed aggregator site, and the excellent synchronization between the local client and the web edition. This basically meant that I could read RSS feeds where I wanted to - even when away from the OSX laptop, and my reading history would be in sync when I fired up the OSX client. Heck, there was even a iPhone client to do the same sync up. ...
Finally managed to move over the entries from the old site! Adieu X10Hosting. It was definitely NOT nice knowing you.
Welcome! This is the reincarnation of my earlier blog site @ http://anupamsg.elementfx.com/ After suffering through frequent outages and juvenile tempers by the admins at http://x10hosting.com/, I have finally decided to give up on the custom Wordpress deployments and have decided to have http://wordpress.com host the blog. I will be moving over the blog entries in the next few days. Till then …
I have had the need to produce charts and graphs for my work lately - and wanted to start using gnuplot. Should be easy right? After all, there is a darwinports port available, and install should have been a breeze, with just a: sudo port install gnuplot Or so I thought. For some unknown &!@^% reason, darwinports with its immense intelligence decided that it needed to download 75 other ports that I did not ask for, including its own version of X11, even though Apple does provide a perfectly decent implementation that I have installed. ...
Found an interesting ASCII Art conversion site at http://www.typorganism.com/asciiomatic The site takes 60x50 pixel JPEG images (size has to be exactly that) and converts them to a ASCII glyph based image.