Movie Collection Database Software

I just spent WAY too much time finding the perfect database software to create a nice “my movies”-website. The software should contain the following features: I want to be able to efficiently enter new movie titles and retrieve corresponding information from imdb.com. It needs to fetch large dvd covers or posters from a site like [...]

Illustrator Clipping Masks

Extremely useful. Innumerable applications. Start with any object; it can be a placed image, text, a line, a shape, anything… For simplicity, I chose a half-circle.

Advanced Formulae in Latex

Remember when you couln’t think of the correct commands to write a certain formula in latex because it’s been a year since you did it the last time? This might help you find the light. Vectors Using 1\newcommand{\ve}[1]{\mbox{\bf #1}} in your preamble, you can easily write vectors as follows: 123\begin{equation}     \mathscr{L}(\ve v_i) = [...]

Latex Fonts in Illustrator

I recently wanted do insert a formula into a Adobe Illustrator figure. Since I didn’t find a way to do so directly in Illustrator and copying a formula from MS Word didn’t work properly, I wanted to copy the formula from a latex generated pdf (or ps) file. This, however, didn’t work either, as some [...]