Equations in Gmail with the “TeX for Gmail” Chrome extension

Science via email One thing scientists and engineers have to do daily is discuss collaborative work via email exchanges. This often includes the need to share and discuss mathematical equations and to represent variables with subscripts and superscripts or special characters; something that is tricky when you are emailing in plain text. Source: WikiImages/Pixabay Of course it is possible to work around this problem! Email was invented by scientists, and for decades they have been communicating in this manner, using various conventions to convey the correct information using plaintext....

November 25, 2015 · Simon

Firefox search bar – setting the region for Google searches

The problem If you are visiting/living abroad but still want the Firefox search bar to default to your home version of Google, it is possible to fix it! In the following solution I assume that you are from the UK and want to use the UK/GB version of Google Search: The solution Access the Firefox settings: type “about:config” in the address bar, then click “I’ll be careful, I promise”. For each setting you want to modify, use the search bar to find it more quickly....

April 13, 2015 · Simon