How To Open .pptx Files on Mac

March 22, 2010 · 0 comments

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  • Do not unzip the file if it gets downloaded as a .pptx.zip file (unless it is supposed to be a .zip file).
  • Rename the file to remove the .zip extension and keep the .pptx extension.

.pptx files are viewable with:

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Best WordPress Themes – Sadish Bala

February 18, 2010 · 2 comments

in Academic,Best WordPress Themes

Sadish Bala’s WordPress themes have a formula that works – professional and clean layout, good typography, and awe-inspiring header images of nature and man-made wonders.

Paalam is a free theme used on:

  • The Spittoon, biotechnology start-up 23andMe’s corporate blog.

He has many themes with a similar look-and-feel.  However, navigating his web of a dozen sites each with a partly overlapping subset of his themes feels like getting stuck inside a zoo.

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Best WordPress Themes – Thesis

February 18, 2010

Over a year ago, I searched the Web looking for a WordPress theme, either free or premium, that would emulate the professional appearance of major news media Web sites such The New York Times, Business Week, and Time magazine.  I found the Thesis WordPress theme which has a similar appearance to The New York Times.  [...]

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How to Install WordPress on Mac OS X (Leopard)

July 8, 2009

How to start and stop the Apache HTTP Server Go to: System Preferences -> Sharing To start the server, select Web Sharing. To stop the server, unselect it. Install MySQL Download MySQL for Mac OS X. For my computer, I used the package format for Mac OS X 10.5 (x86). Verify package integrity using MD5 [...]

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How to Automate FTP with a Shell Script

July 4, 2009

Here is an example shell script: ftp -in <ftp-server> << EOF > ~/log.txt 2>&1 user <username> <password> cd <directory> get <file> bye Another way to send the username and password is: ftp -in <ftp-server> << EOF > ~/log.txt 2>&1 quote USER <username> quote PASS <password> cd <directory> get <file> bye The ftp -i option turns [...]

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Best WordPress Themes – Neoclassical

June 12, 2009

The Neoclassical WordPress theme is, surprisingly, one of the only available standard 3-column WordPress themes with tasteful typography and layout. If you are looking for a free version of the Thesis WordPress theme, the Neoclassical theme by the same designer appears to be a precursor of Thesis and a fair approximation of its 3-column layout [...]

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