brianmed - Slashdot User

Submission + - Do Slashdotters use Markdown and Pandoc?

Submitted by BartlebyScrivener on Sunday October 20, 2013 @09:16AM

BartlebyScrivener writes: I am a author, screenwriter, law prof, and a hobbyist programmer. I love MacVim and write almost everything in it: Exams, novels, even screenplays now that Fountain is available. I use LaTeX and WordPress and so on, but several years ago I discovered Markdown and the wonderful Pandoc. I searched Slashdot expecting to find lively discussions of both Markdown and Pandoc, but found nothing. Do Slashdotters look down their noses at these tools and do their work in HTML and LaTeX? I can't imagine computer geeks using Word instead of their favorite text editors. If not Markdown and Pandoc, what tools do Slashdotters use when they create documents that probably need to be distributed in more than one format: HTML, PDF, EPUB or perhaps even docx?

Comment InfoServant (Score 1) 50

by brianmed on Sunday June 30, 2013 @02:26AM (#44145931) Attached to: Thoughts From Readers on Replacing Google Reader

Would you consider InfoServant? It's geared for Mobile and supports:

RSS/Atom Reader
Competitive Pricing: $1.50/month
Simple Interface
Optimized for Mobile

http://infosevant.com

Who Unfriended You, and Why 122

Posted by timothy on Saturday January 29, 2011 @10:03AM from the look-to-your-left-look-to-your-right dept.

Barence writes "Given that social-networking sites like to put across a happy-clappy image of friendship and joy, it's not surprising that they're less keen to tell you when someone doesn't want to be as friendly with you any more. PC Pro reveals how to find out who really hates you on social networks. It's possible to track who's quietly dropped you from their Facebook friends list, for example, by installing Firefox's Greasemonkey add-in and running a special script. Meanwhile, there are sites that will reveal the exact tweet that turned people off your Twitter account."

Submission + - Nanowires boost laptop battery life to 20 hours

Submitted by brianmed on Wednesday December 19, 2007 @12:16AM

brianmed writes: Stanford researchers have found a way to use silicon nanowires to reinvent the rechargeable lithium-ion batteries that power laptops, cell phones, MP3 players and other portable devices. The new version, developed through research led by Yi Cui, assistant professor of materials science and engineering, produces up to 10 times the amount of electricity of existing lithium-ion batteries.

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