Can your lab book do this?
When I was a student I used to be a disaster at keeping lab books. Possibly because they weren’t terribly useful to me since back then I had an encyclopedic memory for experimental details or possibly because I never was much of a paper guy. As I grew older my memory started to shrink (oh [...]
Patches for Nautilus “move to trash” bug
Warning, this post contains a geek rant. If you use the nautilus or nautilus-elementary filemanager (the default file manager in any gnome-based linux distro, including Ubuntu), you are probably aware of the annoying bug with file deletion. Like any other file manager, nautilus allows you to delete your files using keyboard shortcuts: permanently (hit <Shift-Delete>) [...]
Imgur uploader :: Add-ons for Firefox
This addon let you upload any image found on the web directly on imgur.com, with a simple right-mouse click. Just move your mouse on the image, select “upload image on imgur” and ready you are! The URL of the newly uploaded image is automatically copied in the clipboard. The official page of the extension is [...]
Nike4All – Upload your Nike+ data to the official Nike+ website.
After a couple of days of hacking, I managed to get a way to upload the data from Nike+Ipod device to your Nikerunning account. No iTunes needed! That is quite cool considering that the Nike+ Ipod Sport kit has been out for a while (2006 according to wikipedia) and linux users had no way to [...]
Videocapture for linux
If you did some hacking with a webcam and python, you probably ended up using the Videocapture module by Markus Gritsch. Unfortunately, the module does not work on any operative system other than windows, which could be a problem if you wish to make your application platform independent. So, here you will find a linux [...]
WinGooglizer
If you are a Linux user you probably already know and appreciate that (amazingly) simple piece of software that is googlizer. If you don’t know what I am talking about: googlizer is a tiny gnome applet that sits in your taskbar; everytime you click on it, it will start a google search using the text [...]
Journal Filtered Pubmed
PubMed Search All Databases PubMed Protein Nucleotide GSS EST Structure Genome BioSystems Books CancerChromosomes Conserved Domains dbGaP 3D Domains Gene Genome Project GENSAT GEO Profiles GEO DataSets HomoloGene Journals MeSH NCBI Web Site NLM Catalog OMIA OMIM Peptidome PMC PopSet Probe Protein Clusters PubChem BioAssay PubChem Compound PubChem Substance SNP SRA Taxonomy ToolKit ToolKitAll UniGene [...]
WinGooglizer: Googlizer for Windows
If you are a Linux user you probably already know and appreciate that (amazingly) simple piece of software that is googlizer. If you don’t know what I am talking about: googlizer is a tiny gnome applet that sits in your taskbar; everytime you click on it, it will start a google search using the text [...]
Fancy Pull-quotes (v0.85)
Fancy Pullquotes is a simple plugin for wordpress that allows you to effortlessy obtain a nice pullquote of a specified text. The pullquote will be formatted with a fancy nice style, exactly like one of those you can read on a regular magazine.
Alt to Legend (v0.50)
Alt to Legend is a plugin for Wordpress 2.0 that allows you to display the ALT text of an image as its caption. Both the image and the caption are included in a box whose appearance is fully customizible through an option page in the admin panel; relative position of the image, position of the caption text and all characteristics of the border of the box are also customizible.
