interface cobalt http://blog.erikisaksson.com Personal weblog of Erik Isaksson: IT, business, life, misc. thoughts Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:54:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 en-US Cheesecake http://blog.erikisaksson.com/2009/03/31/cheesecake/ http://blog.erikisaksson.com/2009/03/31/cheesecake/#comments Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:54:21 +0000 Erik http://blog.erikisaksson.com/2009/03/31/cheesecake/ Cheesecake with espresso

Good news! I’ve finally managed to find some decent cheesecake in Stockholm (at Tasty House in Kista Galleria).

]]> http://blog.erikisaksson.com/2009/03/31/cheesecake/feed/ Software http://blog.erikisaksson.com/2009/02/28/software/ http://blog.erikisaksson.com/2009/02/28/software/#comments Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:12:37 +0000 Erik http://blog.erikisaksson.com/2009/02/28/software/ Some miscellaneous apps that I like to use:
  • VirtualBox: Virtualization software. With the “Seamless windows” feature, you can have apps from different operating systems run side-by-side on your desktop.
  • Sylpheed: Email client. All the features that you actually need, without getting in your way.
  • TrueCrypt: Disk encryption. Use this software to keep others from accessing your data in case you lose your external hard drives or your laptop.
  • Livestation: P2PTV. If you’re in Europe, you can use it to watch a few european news channels on your computer.
  • PDF-XChange Viewer: Adobe Reader/Acrobat alternative. Works great for viewing and annotating PDFs; it also has other good features for working with PDFs (e.g., cropping, inserting and extracting pages) that can be enabled for a low price.
]]> http://blog.erikisaksson.com/2009/02/28/software/feed/ Emacs http://blog.erikisaksson.com/2009/01/31/emacs/ http://blog.erikisaksson.com/2009/01/31/emacs/#comments Sat, 31 Jan 2009 20:40:19 +0000 Erik http://blog.erikisaksson.com/2009/01/31/emacs/ My philosophy has always been to use the right tool for the right job, but I hadn’t realized until now how often Emacs actually is the right tool for me. Sometimes, I’ve been looking for software for certain uses, without ever finding any that was quite good enough, and now I’m noticing more and more that Emacs has had precisely what I needed all along.

Recently, I particularly needed to do LaTeX editing, for which I’ve used a number of editors, but none of them have worked as efficiently for me as Emacs does now. Also, the outline mode, while very basic, does work rather well, and for more advanced uses, there is org mode (if you don’t know much about it, I recommend that you watch the Google Tech Talk).

And yes, I still think that using the right tool for the right job is the right way, and sometimes the right tool happens to be vi…

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