Category Archives: Tech Notes

Tech Notes and How-to Guides

Setup QUT Student, Staff Email on Android Devices

Posted on January 7, 2012 by Nimal

Setting up the Outlook Exchange email accounts from QUT on your Android devices can be tricky. This is how you setup you student or staff email to sync. Continue reading →

Back to Gmail: Migrating emails from Google Apps mail to Gmail

Posted on July 9, 2011 by Nimal

This guide will help you migrate from your Google Apps email account to a Gmail account automatically using the (free) ‘imapsync’ software. Continue reading →

Posted in Tech Notes | Tagged Email, Gmail, Google, How-to | 6 Comments

LaTeX on Windows with MiKTeX and Notepad++

Posted on August 29, 2010 by Nimal

Notepad++ is a versatile text editor and source code editor for Windows. I use it as my default text editor on Windows. For convenience of compiling .tex files while editing we can simply add a run command to Notepad++. This … Continue reading →

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Parse RSS feeds with PHP

Posted on November 16, 2009 by Nimal

RSS feeds are very common today, and at times we want to write a simple script to grab some information from a feed. Continue reading →

Posted in Tech Notes | Tagged DOM, Feeds, PHP, RSS | 2 Comments

Text to Image in PHP with GD

Posted on September 14, 2009 by Nimal

This is simple script to demonstrate the capabilities of PHP with the GD library, which provides a lot of image functions that can be useful in many applications. Continue reading →