Category Archives: Planet

Posts that will be aggregated on the WPLUG Planet

My first Arduino

Posted on February 8, 2011 by Eduardo Gonzalez

Yesterday my wife decided to buy yet another sewing pattern book and I decided to tag along.  As a Kindle user, there’s usually very little for me to do at a bookstore.  I usually just look around the IT section … Continue reading →

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Announcing Better Mail

Posted on December 14, 2010 by Eduardo Gonzalez

Better Mail for Android on AppBrain About a year ago I bought the first Android phone available in Japan for the sole reason of making apps. Unfortunately I’ve had very few itches that needed scratching. About a month ago that … Continue reading →

Posted in Android, Japan, Linux, Uncategorized | 2 Comments

How To Get etags Working in Emacs

Posted on December 9, 2010 by Eduardo Gonzalez

You’ve been using Emacs for how long and you haven’t figured this out yet? Yup.  Up until now I’ve never really needed to actually get etags working in Emacs.  I remember trying to figure it out long ago as a … Continue reading →

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An Idea

Posted on February 23, 2008 by Eddie Gonzalez

Lately I’ve been dreaming up of a window manager that could help me stay focused on a single thing by keeping me from multi-tasking. In the spirit of programs like writeroom and pyroom. It would always display windows in full … Continue reading →

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Valentine's Day

Posted on February 16, 2008 by Eddie Gonzalez

I got Valentine’s day Chocolate from my Girlfriend!  I’m so happy.   It’s a box from Kobe Morozoff.  The company that brought Valentine’s Day to Japan. I need to work double hard now to work off the calories.  f^_^;

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LaTex

Posted on February 10, 2008 by Eddie Gonzalez

It’s amazing how far a little LaTeX can take you. Even if you’re just writing an MLA style paper. Here’s some packages to get you started: texlive-latex-base texlive-latex-extra texlive-latex-recommended texlive-fonts-recommended After installing those packages you can learn how to make … Continue reading →

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Integrating Qt3 programs in Ubuntu

Posted on February 1, 2008 by Eddie Gonzalez

If you’re like me and have discovered a couple of kick-ass Qt applications and are wondering how to make Qt programs look more like the default Ubuntu Human theme, I present you with a quick cheat sheet. There’s luckily one … Continue reading →

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Opera Mini 4

Posted on January 20, 2008 by Eddie Gonzalez

I Just installed Opera Mini on my Treo 650. It’s pretty amazing. Not exactly a safari but good enough, and much faster than the browser the Treo comes with. It’s pretty amazing that this Java app can out-perform the C-based … Continue reading →

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Quote

Posted on January 4, 2008 by Eddie Gonzalez

I think Mark really hit the nail on the head with this sentence he used on a recent blog post on Inkscape changing to Launchpad for bug tracking. “We don’t have money on our side, but we do have the … Continue reading →

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Workrave

Posted on December 30, 2007 by Eddie Gonzalez

I learned about this program from Sacha Chua’s blog. Workrave is a cool time-to-take-a-break-reminder program that doesn’t just lock your screen (like the default typing break program in Ubuntu). It has micro-breaks which are great to remind me to get … Continue reading →

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