tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31969655276426498512012-02-22T13:18:19.325+01:00Articles about topics ranging from technology and software to scientific research. Occasional book reviews. Topics of general interest such as lifestyle, and nutrition. Exploration of blogs and the technical side of blogging.Benjamin Auffarthhttps://profiles.google.com/118440342400845052454noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3196965527642649851.post-25389324784051290422009-10-11T18:08:00.002+02:002009-10-23T13:40:56.971+02:00

The Blogger template edit box is tiny and you have to scroll constantly to edit the HTML. The input box for editing the template is just too narrow and too short. In this article I explain how you can increase the size. In a previous article I introduced Greasemonkey and Platypus, Firefox add-ons, which allow to customize web pages on-the-fly and make the changes persistent. In my last article,

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An annoying thing with Blogger is the tiny size of the input box for editing a post. When you write a post, the box is too narrow and too short and you have to scroll constantly. Blogger does not allow to change that size, however you can adapt it using augmented browsing, for example a Greasemonkey scripts. Here I explain how. In my last article I introduced Greasemonkey and Platypus, Firefox

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Augmented Browsing refers to systems that allow to customize the look and function of web sites. It allows to customize web pages on-the-fly and make the changes persistent, so that every time you enter a website, the site gets automatically adapted to your need. In this article I give a short introduction to augmented browsing. Augmented Browsing allows you to change the feel and function of

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Tomboy is an open-source desktop note-taking application for Linux, Windows, and MacOS. Notes are connected over a wiki which makes it an excellent tool for personal information management. In this post I give a short introduction to tomboy. Tomboy supports synchronization, export to HTML and pdf, reminders, and todo lists, and formulae in LaTeX. A criticism to tomboy is that it is

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In latex it's really easy to write mathematical formulas. When I use OpenOffice, should I have to push buttons in the formula editor? No! I googled latex openoffice and found OOoLatex. There is no package yet for ubuntu, but installation is quite fast, following the detailed instructions in this forum post, which can mostly just be pasted directly into the terminal. So now I can enter formulas

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Pre-Post-ScriptumThis post chronicles my attempts to install Microsoft Office on my linux box in the office in order be able to read and possibly edit files that people send to me in Microsoft formats. I now think that given third party format supported by Microsoft Office (particularly sun's odf plugin) and the difficulties I encountered, installing it should not have priority for me.My

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Vim is a fast and feature-rich text editor. It offers syntax highlighting for many programming and scripting languages, editing by regular expressions, and a lot more. In this post I give first a short introduction to vim then I show how to enable some of its powerful features by default on start of vim. Introduction to VimVim is free as in beer and speech and was created as an extended version

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