Q. How can I see my album artwork at full resolution in itunes 11?

Ever since i've upgraded to itunes 11 i've lost the ability to see my movie artwork at full screen.  I've spent a lot of time to make sure that all of my movies have high resolution cover art, and as far as I can tell there is no way for me to view this in itunes.... help please.

Q. How do you align equations in Latex or Latexit?

A.  The best way to do this is to you use the array enviroment.  Avoid eqnarray.

The star suppresses numbering of the equations and the & symbol shows point(s) in the equations that you would like to see aligned.  

\begin{align*}

%\begin{eqnarray}

&\nabla T  &\text{gradient}\\

&\nabla \cdot T  &\text{divergence}\\

&\nabla \times T  &\text{curl}

%\end{eqnarray}

\end{align*}

Q. What to do when itunes is splitting albums up?

A. Best resource I found online is here:
http://www.thxbye.de/mac/things-to-check-when-itunes-is-splitting-up-your-albums.html

One other thing to try, is delete the title of the album for all of the tracks, save it, and then reenter it.
That fixed a problem I was having with LOTR albums.

Q. How do you stop Powerpoint 2011 Mac from opening a new/blank presentation every time it opens?

Every time I open powerpoint it defaully opens a new blank presentation.. thank you but no.  I close the presentation and navigate to the "recent" menu.  Also, if i've close all of my presentations but not yet the program, every time I click on the icon, it opens a new presentation 'presentation2' 'presentation5' 'presentation12'... and so on.  Obnoxious!  How do I get rid of this.

Office 2011 Mac: Powerpoint

Q. How to I print a document in Apple's Preview 6.0 without the silly sticky notes in the way?? I can't seem to hide them.

A.  Anyone??

Q.  Why doesn't the imaginary number i have a dot above in Latex's formatting?  \imath and \jmath yeild the symbol i and j without a dot above it.  Boo



A.  Any ideas?

Grooveshark + Safari + ClickToFlash

Q. I primarily use Safari on my Mac and i'm trying to get Grooveshark to work, however, since I have ClickToFlash installed, the program doesn't work. I've tried 'Whitelisting'

http://grooveshark.com/

www.grooveshark.com

http://listen.grooveshark.com/

Nothing works :( Thoughts?

A. ??

Q. What you will need to change your brakes & rotors on the 2006 Rendezvous

A. First of all, its not that hard to do, so save yourself hundreds by reserving a Sunday to do it yourself. For the rear brakes you'll need an 18 mm and a 14 mm box wrenchs. For the front you'll need a 15 mm and a 12 mm. Plus you'll need a lug nut wrench 19 mm. You should also pick up some silcon (not litium) based grease for back caliper screws on the back axel. Nothing is needed for the front.

Now if this is the first time that you're changing the brakes/rotors be prepared that the 15 mm screws on the front brakes require Herculean forces to remove due to the red lock-tite that they come with from the factory. Speaking of, I recomend picking up some blue locktite to replace it with. To remove the 15 mm screws you'll need a pipe or second wrench to increase your applied torque.

Ignore the webpages that say 30 minutes per tire... I can't imagine doing it that fast unless you have pneumatic tools (which aren't necessary). Just some elbow grease and about 1 hour per tire assuming you're jacking up the two tires at a time: front than the rear or vice versa.

As for the actual parts, head to rockauto.com I got 4 rotors and a complete set of brake pads for ~$200. I recommend going with the daily driver sets instead of the economy.

Parts list:

- Jack 2-ton ($25 at Walmart)

- Jack stands ($25 at walmart)

- Wrenches (12, 14, 15 and 18 mm)

- Lug nut Wrench (19 mm)

- Blue lock-tite

- Pad and Rotors from www.Rockauto.com

Q. How the hell do I write a matlab text file with a header?

A.

filename = [filename '_back.txt']

fid = fopen(filename,'w+')

header = ['m4, m1, m2, m3, m5']

fprintf(fid,'%s\n',header)

fclose(fid);

The trick is the %s which writes a string instead of just one character at a time.. otherwise you'll end up with comma's between every letter. There goes two hours of my life :(

Abort Labview??

Q. If i've accidentally got Labview in an infinte loop with an ever-repeating error box, how can I stop execution and save the program so that I don't lose all of my work?

A. Alt+F4 ... often times you won't be able to press 'Abort Execution', but if you Alt+F4 you'll quit the program and should have a chance to save.

Q. RSS Feed Address?

Ok, how on earth do I see the address corresponding to an RSS feed in Apple Mail? If i want to forward someone the address to an RSS feed, how to I do that? A. ????

Q. Copy Figure doesn't work in Matlab on a Mac

A. You can't 'copy figure' while the figure is docked. You have to undock it first

How to add Matlab .m files into Latex

A. There is a guy who made 'mcode.sty' download it and use it. This website explains more:
http://my.opera.com/locksley90/blog/2008/02/25/how-to-include-matlab-source-code-in-a-latex-document

Q. How do you close all open graphs in Igor Pro?

A. There is no default way to do this, but a clever Japanese man (or woman, i don't know) came up with the following short trick to do the job (see above). The actual text is posted in the comment section for your copying ability.

 Key ??

Q. What is the keyboard command for the 'command' symbol in Mac OSX?

A. There isn't one.

alt + shift + k =  but the only way to get the command symbol is to use the character palette. To use it in HTML the code is "⌘"

& #x2318 without the space between the & and the #

Driving Torque?

Q. Is torque a function of speed?
Q. How do you calculate the torque of a ball screw assembly?

A.

Q: Matlab - How do you get numbers to format with zeros?

i.e. I have a bunch of file names that look like 0001, 0002 .... 0237 and so on. To create strings in order to load the files, I have to do something like

Filenumber = 1:237;

for x = Filenumber

Name = num2str(x)

eval('load(' Name ')')

end

but that doesn't work because I need the Filenumber to be '0001' not just '1'. :(

A. Use num2str(20,'%04i')

Q. How do you make Spotlight search for system files by default?

A. The published solution below will require you to use Command+F in finder to activate, but its nice because now you have the choice. Normal spotlight will act.. normally. Command+f will include all system files.

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20080229204517495&query=finder%2Bsearch

Q. What does ~/ mean when describing folders on a mac?

A. The tilda refers to the users home directory.

i.e. ~'/Library' = 'jlross/Library' for me

Challenge!

This is a challenge to any and all computer hackers, wizards, geeks
and guru's out there. Below is a link to a LATEX file that was
corrupted by Time Machine. I have an entire hard drive full of files
just like this. If you can decrypt the mess that this file is, I am
offering a $100 reward (assuming the decryption allows me to decrypt
other files on my computer as well) Hey, its not much money, but i'm
a grad student so what can you expect?

Good luck!

Tex File