PDF please

I receive a lot of e-mails from students, and even though I always tell them to send me PDF files, they almost always send me the source files for their documents instead (.doc, .docx, .odt, .pages, …). This semester we have started with electronic submission of term papers at our department, and even though it [...]

Prevent .ds_store file creation on network volumes

I have been annoyed by the fact that OSX leaves .ds_store files in folders that you open. This is ok on the mac, but not so on the countless network volumes I open every day. Google helped me find a quick solution to get rid of the problem, by typing the following in terminal: <code>defaults [...]

Negative colours in OSX

My blog has been down for a few days, so I have a few entries that have piled up in the drafts folder of my ScribeFire, while waiting to be published. Here is a trick I learned to turn the entire gui negative in OSX: ctrl+option+apple+8 Very useful for situations were darkness is better than [...]

Linux mint and HP LaserJet P1005

Linux Mint has become my favourite Linux distribution as of lately. It is built on Ubuntu but with the added benefit of native installation of lots of extra drivers, audio/video codecs, and small programs that make life a lot easier. This is particularly important as Linux is not my main platform, and I don’t want [...]

Updated software

I have been teaching at the International Summer School in Systematic, Comparative and Cognitive Musicology 2009 in Jyväskylä, Finland the last week. For that reason I found the need to update some of my software, and have new builds for both Mac and Windows for AudioAnalysis, AudioVideoAnalysis and VideoAnalysis. I have also made a simple [...]