Category Archives: IT

Time lapse experiment #1 – a clear winter day

Posted on 12 July 2010 by grischa

I found a program that makes time lapse easy: Gawker Here is the first presentable result. The view from my living room window and captures almost a whole day from 6am to 9pm in just over a minute. EDIT: youtube … Continue reading →

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Right-click to play DVD folder on a Mac

Posted on 22 January 2010 by grischa

Have you ever just wanted to double-click or right-click a DVD folder in Finder to play it back in DVD Player? Here is the solution:

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Why Excel is used by scientists…

Posted on 3 October 2008 by grischa

Yesterday I finally found out why some fellow scientists use Excel to analyse their data. There are many much better tools for the job, such as the free, open-source and multi-platform statistics package R or well known packages like Matlab or … Continue reading →

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EPR Analysis Software

Posted on 29 September 2008 by grischa

My first science post! I wrote some software some time ago to analyse EPR power saturation spectra. The usefulness of my software has been publicly acknowledged recently, so I felt that I should also release it publicly.

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