I just wanted to pass along a small tip that you might find useful. If you’ve become as big of a fan of docked figures as I have, you might be looking for a way to have figures docked by… read more >>

How many times have you written code that looks like this, just to find the position of a graphics object in something other than its current units?
hAxes = axes;
currentUnits =… read more >>

Have you ever sat around asking yourself if it would be possible to draw flags of the world's nations just using the patch command? And then realized that this means you could easily embed flags in... read more >>

In my old job, I occasionally needed to analyze data that I only had access to in printouts. I hoped that somebody had developed an equivalent to OCR (Optical Character Recgonition) for data, but… read more >>

I've spent a surprising amount of time calculating the BPM (Beats per Minute, or tempo) of songs. I would always use a stopwatch, timing 32 beats to calculate the BPM. Joerg Bitzer has made this a... read more >>

Figure windows are the eyes that you look at your data with. However, if you are iterating on a graph, every time you type a command, MATLAB's desktop comes to the top and your figured gets hidden. ... read more >>

Doug and I are taking a slight departure from our usual format this week, with a couple of MATLAB programming tips. Doug posted a link to his great new advanced GUIDE tutorial, and I’d like to… read more >>

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Duane Hanselman looks too young in his MATLAB Central picture to be an accomplished author, but he is. This… read more >>

A lot of us MATLAB users hate to admit it, but sometimes circumstances arise and for reasons beyond our control, we need to use Excel. When that happens it is nice to be able to easily bring your… read more >>

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Our loyal readers have probably figured out by now that I'm the goofy one who spends all day looking for fun... read more >>