I am happy to see that the first point in the new UiO strategy plan is interdisciplinarity, or more specifically: ”Et grensesprengende universitet”. Interdisciplinarity is always easier in theory than in practice, and this is something I am debating in a feature article in the latest volume (pages 32-33) of Forskerforum, the journal of the The Norwegian Association of [...]
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I just discovered that QuickTime X has built in support for screen recording. I have been using iShowU for screen recordings for a while, and while it has the advantage of recording only a portion of the screen, the QT approach seems to be easier and quicker to work with. Short tutorial below:
Read more →I was looking for solutions on how to type the degree symbol (like in 0°) on OSX, but could only find solutions for English keyboard layout (or solutions suggesting copying an image…). After some trial and error I figured out the correct combination for a Norwegian keyboard layout: shift-alt-Q.
Read more →Cleaning up on my hard drive, I came across a couple of .wks (MS Works spreadsheet) documents from 1994-95. I don’t really need to get at the contents of these files right now, but I think it could be useful to be able to open them at some point. So I tried to see if [...]
Read more →I have been using LaTeX for most of my more advanced writing needs for so many years, that I tend to forget that there are so few other good options out there for writing what could be called “complex” documents, i.e. book-sized documents with a good portion of notes, pictures, links, etc. I just had [...]
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