Big Things

• A hint from macosxhints for taming the dot mac sync services
• Find out what your user agent is for dealing with nasty MSIE-only sites.
• Combining PDFs using Automator (and getting good permissions)
• Sampling from a dataset in MS Excel.
• Combining calendars in iCal
• Putting TeX on the MS Winders machines at school: installing MikTeX and its friends.
• The somewhat tricky task of getting ultra-tex-mode to work with noweb-modewithin ESS for typesetting for Sweave in emacs. (holy moly, does anyone even understand such a phrase?)
• Trying to get the quartz device working from ESS in R. (now ain't that a load of gibberish!)
• Accessing your iTunes music when it is stored on another network (i.e. across networks). This works via ssh, so it works only for people who can log into the computer doing the sharing, and hence is not a method for pirating.
• Quick method for complicated graphics in Stata --- go to UCLA's site and choose your graph!
• Fixing white noise and 60Hz hum when recording albums (LPs) using a Griffin iMic.
• Getting Started with Emacs

Nasty Things

Here are some nasty things which need some notes (and so that I don't forever forget the fix).

• If applications crash when trying to print, it could be because the installable options for the printer do not match the type of printing which has been requested.
• If M$ Word is having trouble printing, be sure that the Format on page setup is for the printer you want, and not set to Any Printer.
• Adding custom math environments to ultra-tex.
• Backing up a MacOS laptop
• Changing help.start() to use the proper browser for the Mac OS X version of R.

Very Little Things

Things which probably are of no interest to anyone else... (not even me, any more, since these are from old jobs):

• If you are getting double punctuation and whitespace in TextEdit and other Cocoa applications in Panther, then you probably have an old version (1.3 or earlier) of CocoAspell sitting around. Go get a newer version and install it.
• Setting up and using fiesty docushare printers. The durn thing just sits like a lump!
• Getting the printer at Bellarmine to work properly in the Printer Setup Utility
• Recovering from a hang on compare in Retrospect.
• Two-sided printing from a Xerox Docucentre 440.
• Putting Mathematica 3.0 EPS files into LaTeX documents.
• Unpacking all messages in Claris Emailer(!).
• Possible patch for Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar) modem scripts