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Don’t Forget To Schedule Your Mammogram

linuxandfriends — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:47:49 +0000

A mammogram is the most effective way to detect breast cancer and increases the chances of a cure by 95% in case of early diagnosis. Every woman over 40 should get the exam on a regular basis.

The following advertisement titled “Honk” is a fun video exhorting all women to schedule a breast mammogram. Watch the video with your computer speakers turned ON for full enjoyment.

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5 Free LaTeX Editors For Windows

linuxandfriends — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:10:50 +0000

If you want to create documents in LaTeX, it will be useful if you have a full fledged editor which is designed for creating documents using LaTeX.

There are a couple of choices before you. The following are 5 very popular LaTeX editors available for Windows.

Some of these free LaTeX editors are cross platform as well.

LyX

LyX is a document processor that combines the power and flexibility of TeX/LaTeX with the ease of use of a graphical interface. You can use LyX to create a letter, novel, theatre play, film script, academic articles, thesis, and books.

LyX Interface

Runs on : Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, OS/2
Home Page : www.lyx.org

Texmaker

Texmaker is a free LaTeX editor, that integrates many tools needed to develop documents with LaTeX, in just one application. Its feature set includes a unicode editor, a clean and modern interface, wizards to generate skeleton code, single click support for over 370 mathematical symbols, LaTeX to HTML conversion tools, and LaTeX documentation, just to name a few.

Texmaker editor interface

Runs on : Windows, Linux, Unix, Mac OS X.
Home Page : www.xm1math.net/texmaker/index.html

TeXnicCenter

TeXnicCenter is a feature rich and easy-to-use integrated environment for creating LaTeX documents. Its powerful editor and its tight integration with the LaTeX environment helps you to concentrate on what matters: The content of your document.

TeXnicCenter LaTeX Editor

Runs on : Windows
Home Page : www.texniccenter.org

WinShell

WinShell is a free multilingual integrated development environment (IDE) for LaTeX and TeX. The program includes a text editor, syntax highlighting, project management, spell checking, a table wizard, BibTeX support, Unicode support, different toolbars and user configuration options.

WinShell LaTeX Editor

Runs on : Windows
Home Page : www.winshell.de

TeXworks

The TeXworks project is an effort to build a simple TeX front-end program. It includes an integrated PDF viewer so there is no need to switch to an external program such as Acrobat, xpdf, etc., to view the typeset output.

MikTeX – a TeX distribution for Windows includes TeXworks. So you don’t have to install TeXworks separately.

TeXworks LaTeX editor

Runs on : Windows, Linux, Unix, Mac OS X.
Home Page : www.tug.org/texworks/

All the five above mentioned LaTeX editors are open source and can be used free of cost.

A Cool Spokeless Bicycle Built By Yale Students

linuxandfriends — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 12:14:41 +0000

All bicycle wheels have spokes , right ? You can’t even think of a bicycle wheel without any spokes. At least that is what I believed in till I read about the spoke less bicycle. This bicycle is the brain child of a few Yale University students (9 in all, and Mechanical majors too). This bicycle sports a back wheel without any spokes. Check it out yourselves.

Prototype Spokeless Bicycle built by Yale students

So why a spokeless bike ? Good question. Here is what one of its inventors (I mean student(s)) has to say about it.

Coolness factor.
To do something feasible at the same time challenging for their college project.
Prove the concept of a spokeless bike.
You can do a lot of things with the space that opens up where the spokes use to be. You can stick an electric motor in there. You can install some sort of gyro balanced storage basket.
Finally, the fact that they couldn’t find pictures of a real spokeless bicycle online really sealed the deal.

Source(s): Engadget, Core77, Reddit, Treehugger

ReminderFox – Firefox Add-on for ToDo And Reminders

linuxandfriends — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 13:31:12 +0000

ReminderFox is a Firefox add-on that helps you in task management. Nowadays, most people are spending all their computer time in front of a web browser. So why not let the web browser itself manage your tasks instead of relying on a different software ?

This is where ReminderFox add-on comes into the picture.

ReminderFox Add-on Interface

The ReminderFox add-on for Firefox lets you:

Display and manage lists of reminders and ToDos
Make sure you remember all of your important dates via easy-to-use lists, alerts, and alarms.
Be reminded where you won’t forget – right in your browser without the need for a separate calendar application.

The well designed interface will allow you to repeat the reminder for a day, week, biweekly, monthly or yearly. You can also set a custom range.

You can put your reminders into different categories and attach notes to your reminders.

To know more about the uses of ReminderFox Firefox plugin, watch the following YouTube video.

ReminderFox is a very useful Firefox add-on which I use now to manage my daily tasks and keep track of my agenda. You can download it from it’s Mozilla Firefox add-ons webpage.

Hexxagon – A Fun Game

linuxandfriends — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 03:39:31 +0000

Hexxagon is a retro classic game where you try to take over all the spaces on the board, and you do this by leaping into the spaces next to your opponent’s pieces. You control a red jewel and your opponent a blue globule. This cool game can be played between you and the AI (Computer); or you can play this game with your friend because it has a two player mode as well.

This game has given me hours of fun. Enjoy playing Hexxagon…