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Alarm Clock(s) with Snooze Buttons
Never miss another appointment! How cool! I'm sitting at my desk working, knowing that I have a call in 45 minutes. I can...
18 years ago
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User made videos
I wanted to thank everyone for posting their videos as requested in my prior post [click here]. Here are some of my favorite...
18 years ago
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readtext
Bob's pick this week is readtext by Peder Axensten. Jiro recently highlighted textscantool which can make it...
18 years ago
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Post your MATLAB Videos
It is no secret that I like teaching MATLAB through videos. I use Camtasia to make and edit my videos, I am very happy...
18 years ago
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Reading Formatted Text
Jiro's pick this week is TEXTSCANTOOL by our very own Stuart McGarrity. Contents My Data File Header...
18 years ago
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MATLAB Puzzler: Finding the two closest points
Here is a new MATLAB Puzzler. Given two vectors representing the X and Y coordinates of some points, find the two closest...
18 years ago
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Dual interactive (and useful!) cursors
I love the power and extensibility of MATLAB. Want to create a line you can drag across your plot? It’s not so hard to...
18 years ago
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Detecting Circles in an Image
A customer recently provided me with an image of cells that were roughly circular, but not very well defined, and often...
18 years ago
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Inserting Rows
Jiro's pick this week is INSERTROWS by Jos van der Geest. This function does exactly what the name says: it...
18 years ago
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Accessing data from one widget to another in GUIDE
Last time, I showed how to add the newly documented UITABLE to a GUI. [click here] There were a few questions [click here]...
18 years ago
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Finding Local Extrema
Many times, I've wanted a quick way to find the local minima or maxima in my data. Carlos Adrian Vargas Aguilera's...
18 years ago
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MATLAB Basics: Adding a table to a GUI
MATLAB GUI developers often want to have a mini-spreadsheet in their GUI. This can be done with a new widget added to the...
18 years ago
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Icon Editor
Bob's pick this week is IconEditor v1.4 by Elmar Tarajan. This tool could improve your MATLAB workflow more than you...
18 years ago
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MATLAB Contest started
The new MATLAB contest is up and running. Here is the challenge. Given a board with numbered pins, your job is to connect...
18 years ago
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MATLAB Basics: Using dbstop if error
When MATLAB throws an error, if you are in a function, you will end up at the base workspace and lose access to the...
18 years ago
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Files Under Folders (FUF)
Bob's pick this week is Files Under Folders (FUF) by Francesco di Pierro. Have you ever misplaced a file?...
18 years ago
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MATLAB Basics: Array of structures vs Structures of arrays
This short video covers the difference between a “structure of arrays” and an “array of…
18 years ago
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Renaming Variables
NoteThe file submission referenced in this post is no longer available on File Exchange. Jiro’s pick this week is RENVAR by...
18 years ago
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Advanced MATLAB: Handles and other inputs to GUIDE callbacks
There are three inputs to every automatically generated callback from GUIDE: function edit1_Callback(hObject, eventdata,...
18 years ago
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Saving a MATLAB graphic or Simulink model to Word
You may have noticed some recent changes in the format of this blog. Here’s what to expect on a regular basis – two...
18 years ago
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Widgetpalooza: 12 widgets coded up in a GUI
This short video starts with two minutes of trying every widget on the example GUI. Then there is five and a half minutes of...
18 years ago
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HTML calendar generator
You may have noticed some recent changes in the format of this blog. Here’s what to expect on a regular basis – two...
18 years ago
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Doug’s Easter Egg, limited time only
It took me a lot of work, but I managed to sneak an easter egg into MATLAB 2008a. It helps to know people who approve the...
18 years ago
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Puzzler: Coin game
This is a simplified version of the first problem I ever attempted to solve in MATLAB. For my original problem, I was...
18 years ago
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Wrap up on Puzzler: Removing columns and rows from binary matrices
The first puzzler was a big success with 33 comments added as I write this today. I wanted to go over some highlights from...
18 years ago
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TIMEIT Benchmarking Function
You may have noticed some recent changes in the format of this blog. Here’s what to expect on a regular basis – two...
18 years ago
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MATLAB Puzzler: Removing columns and rows from binary matrices
I am trying something new this week: the MATLAB Puzzler. Rather than just work one of the Practical Examples directly, I am...
18 years ago
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Drawing a Circle
You may have noticed some recent changes in the format of this blog. Here’s what to expect on a regular basis – two...
18 years ago
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Practical Example: Placing a sampling grid in a polygon part two
This is the second video in this series, it shows you how to run a very simplistic optimization. For a simple problem like...
18 years ago
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Fitting a Circle, easily.
You may have noticed some recent changes in the format of this blog. Here’s what to expect on a regular basis – two...
18 years ago
