Category: Essay
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Open Online Office Docs with Desktop Apps
This is a simple post that allows you to quickly open office documents including Word, Excel and Powerpoint that are currently opened with broswer using Desktop apps. It does not not involve any programming and fairly straightforward to do across Winindow and macOS. The reason to switch to Desktop apps could be that some functions…
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Farewell to Skype
In May 2025, Microsoft is going to discontinue Skype which is an instant messaging app I use internally. Skype users will transfer to Microsoft’s new Teams app. To my surprise, it even has a font awesome icon. Currently, Skype takes 627.7 MB. Here are some more screenshots taken from a Mac. I’ve talked about Remote…
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Who Touched My Mac’s Cam?
Recently I found out that my Mac’s facetime cam was on occasionaly. That is quite confusing to me and I was trying to find out a reason to do so. Although I was not that cautious like Mark Zuckerberg who used a tape to block the laptop’s camera1, I don’t know if there are some…
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Solution to MathJax-LaTeX Math Symbols Display Issues in WordPress
In this post, I will show one trick to MathJax-LaTeX plugin on WordPress so that the issue of “Undefined control sequence” could be resolved while displaying equations. Introduction As with many bloggers who writes articles with math equations, there is no better way to use . It is so easy to follow the syntax and…
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Install Microsoft Visio on macOS M series Chips via Parallels Desktop
I’m trying to incorporate Microsoft Visio in my workflow as I underestimated its power. One problem for me is that I use a Macintosh which is not able to use the app natively, even through there’s a web based app, it is still far from acceptable in terms of user experience. Thus I decide that…