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Gema Youtube Ungehen (how to unlock youtube videos in Germany)

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If you live in Germany and, sometimes, visit youtube, probably you have seen this ugly message: "Dieses Video ist in Deutschland leider nicht verfügbar, da es möglicherweise Musik enthält, für die die erforderlichen Musikrechte von der GEMA nicht eingerämt wurden" How to fix this problem without living Germany? Using a proxy! If you are using Firefox and Chrome there is a simple add-on you can install that will do all the job for you! Its name is proxmate and works on Grooveshark and Hulu too! Enjoy! PS Thanks My Geek Friend ;) BLOG HOME PAGE

Subscript and Superscript in OpenOffice and Microsoft Office

Today I found here how to make subscript and superscript text in OpenOffice and Microsoft Office. Here we go.. Select the text you want to put in subscript or superscript and then In OpenOffice … CTRL+SHIFT+B for  subscript CTRL+SHIFT+P for superscript In Microsoft Office… CTRL+= for subscript CTRL+SHIFT+= for superscript GO TO THE HOME PAGE

Library.nu alternatives

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Updated on May 7th, 2020    Are you looking for some good alternatives to the lost gigapedia, library.nu , legalreads.com , coinread.com,  bookos.org or libgen.info ? Well, here is a list that I update quite often and whenever you (yes, you !) give me new entries (also anonymously in the comments below). PLEASE do not ask me to download something for you! IMPORTANT Currently, many of you reach this page searching words like " en.bookfi.org alternatives", "library.nu alternatives" or "ebookoid", well I am not sure this will be the case in the near future... :( Due to the new guidelines against piracy , in the future, this post MAY NOT be listed among the search results you'll get from Google and/or  Bing. For this reason, I suggest you to save this page as bookmark in your browser, if you want to be always able to reach it :) Let's start with some 100% free and legal alternatives to Library.nu http://www.theassayer.org/  a *BIG* li

Two-column equation in LaTeX RevTex

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If you are writing a scientific paper using  the RevTex 4 LaTeX class (Phys. Rev. Lett., Phys. Review B, etc ),  occasionally you may have the need to make an equation to span over two columns instead than only one.  Well, ... how to do this? You can do that very easily using the environment widetext \begin{widetext}   your equation \end{widetext} This local modification of the layout from two-columns to one-column affect does not affect the preprint because this already uses the single column format. Source: http://www.physics.csbsju.edu/tk/370/papers/Journal_Style_Manuals/auguide4-1.pdf Did you like this post? Why you don't make a small donation?

Bill Gates' words

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I am not a big fun of Microsoft but actually I appreciate these words by Bill Gates From 9gag.com GO TO THE HOME PAGE  

Quote by Margaret Mead

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"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has" Margaret Mead (1901-1978), American anthropologist.

Get Hired

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Magic words to update MacPorts

I sistematically forget the command to type in the terminal to update MacPorts... So I decided to make this small reminder...  Type in the terminal window the following line   sudo port -d selfupdate That's it! This command will start the update in a verbose mode. GO TO THE HOME PAGE