Wednesday, December 29, 2010

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. ????

Thursday, September 30, 2010

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

Sunday, March 21, 2010

Sunday, March 14, 2010

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.

Thursday, February 18, 2010

 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 #

Monday, September 28, 2009

Driving Torque?

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

A.

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

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')