Category Archives: Software

Retro styling photos in The Gimp

Posted on September 21, 2011 by Anders K. Madsen

So I’ve been playing around with The Gimp trying to process photos to look like they’re taken with old “shitty” cameras. See more on Picasa. I’d love to post a how-to, but right now I don’t have the time, so … Continue reading →

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Mutt: Mailing like it’s 1995!

Posted on February 3, 2011 by Anders K. Madsen

Don’t be confused – it’s not a bad thing, it just means that Michael Elkins got it right back then and, let’s face it, email hasn’t changed a whole lot since then, so why not go with something that doesn’t … Continue reading →

Posted in Computers, Linux, MacOS X, Software | 5 Comments

Writing Phonological Rules in LaTeX

Posted on December 10, 2010 by Anders K. Madsen

Now, I’m no LaTeX wizard, and even though I’ve been using LaTeX for a rather long time, I can’t seem to find a good way to write phonological realization rules in LaTeX. Let me start by showing some code and … Continue reading →

Posted in Linguistics, Science, Software | 1 Comment

Why Running Linux is Not That Hard

Posted on December 29, 2009 by Anders K. Madsen

Back in March the web version of the Danish news paper Politiken ran an article on boosting computer performance [danish], where they list several steps for tuning Windows, with the last two steps suggesting that maybe re-installing Windows or installing … Continue reading →

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Karmic Koala on a MacBook

Posted on October 20, 2009 by Anders K. Madsen

Yesterday I installed a beta of Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala), which is scheduled for release in 9 days, on my MacBook (2,1). I know, it’s only 9 days, but I couldn’t wait — the feature list was too delicious. Actually, … Continue reading →

Posted in Computers, Linux, Software | 13 Comments