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How to delay (and make the startup faster) login items in Mac OS X

admin — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:04:50 +0000

After using your macbook or iMac for some months, you probably started to notice that it is become slower and slower to have you computer ready to go when you boot it. This happens because there are many applications that, when you install, adds items to the login items. These items are applications that start [...] Related posts:

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Setting up a remote git server using ssh

admin — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:20:46 +0000

Hello, This is how to set up a remote git server using ssh. First of all, install git in your machine and also on the server. Then, you have to setup the server by doing the following: Setting Up the server: 123mkdir /path/to/your/desired/repository.git cd /path/to/your/desired/repository.git git --bare init Simple as this. And you are done [...] Related posts:

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Adding footnotes in tables

admin — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 16:35:12 +0000

If you have ever tried to put a footnote reference inside a table, you problem had problems. Unfortunately, in LaTeX the way you have to insert footnotes in a table is not as easy as inserting in the main body of the document. However, it is not difficult at all. The difference is that you [...] Related posts:

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Using colors in LaTeX LaTeX documents are usually written in black font in a white background, but sometimes is...

Using colors in LaTeX

admin — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 12:16:06 +0000

LaTeX documents are usually written in black font in a white background, but sometimes is important to add some colors to your text. Adding colors to your text is very simple, first, insert the color package in the preamble. 1\usepackage{color} By using this package you will have the following many pre-defined colors like: blue, green, [...] Related posts:

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Changing line spacing in LaTeX

admin — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 13:36:37 +0000

Here is a quick tip about how to change line spacing in LaTeX. Basically there are 2 main ways to do this. The first method doesn’t require to use an external package and change line spacing in the whole document. To do this, just add the following line to the preamble of your tex file: 1\linespread{1.6} [...] Related posts:

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Part 5: Adding menus using Zend_Navigation – A not so quick quickstart to Zend Framework

admin — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 08:25:28 +0000

This new part of our series will present how to use Zend_Navigator. We will add navigation menus in our project (“zfguide” ). We will divide this part in three steps: I) creating the menu configuration file; II) Bootstraping Zend_Navigator; and III) Integrating the menu with the layout. Step I: Creating the menu configuration file The [...] Related posts:

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Fixing problem with PNG images with LaTeX

admin — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 13:54:20 +0000

When we are using PNG images in LaTex, if you do not define the bounding box, you see the follwing message: “Cannot determine size of graphic in figuras/picture.png (noBoundingBox)” To avoid this issue, you need to set some extra parameters when inserting PNG images. Look at this example: 123456\begin{figure}[htb] \centering \includegraphics[scale=0.5,bb=0 [...] Related posts:

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Part 4: Creating and using forms – A not so quick quickstart to Zend Framework

admin — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 13:14:59 +0000

In the previous parts, we have seen how to setup the environment (Part 1), start the project (part 2), create the model layer and list the database contents (Part 3). In this fourth part, we will describe Zend_From and how to insert, edit and delete data from the database. Creating a form using Zend_Form To [...] Related posts:

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Using font “Arial” in LaTeX

admin — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 17:24:26 +0000

This is a very quick and simple tip, but also very helpful. If you want to use the font Arial in your latex document,, the only thing you need to do is add these two lines in the beginning of the document: 12\renewcommand{\rmdefault}{phv} % using Arial \renewcommand{\sfdefault}{phv} % using Arial Now just compile your .tex [...] Related posts:

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Part 3: Creating the model, database and retrieving values from them – A not so quick quickstart to Zend Framework

admin — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:12:16 +0000

In the 3rd part of our series, we will now start implementing a user’s management system (as presented in part 2). We will use a MySQL database in our examples. Setting up the database Before starting, let’s create a database to be used in our system. To do that, go to MAMP’s start page and [...] Related posts:

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