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Bullets

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A rarely seen combination of colors, which I find refreshing and relaxing at the same time; it combines very well with a gray grid.

Roses and Strawberries

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This ROESY requires a little of baseline correction.

Explosion

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This is what happens when the phase of a ROESY is not correct.

Stars or Gold?

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...it's only a COSY.

NM-art

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This picture is dedicated to Antonio Triolo (who conied the term NM-art) and Antonio Guidi (who believes this art should be exploited to make money). What you see is a fragment of a TOCSY, very out-of-phase.

Writing an Help Book

I don't consider myself an expert in software documentation. I have written hundreds of manual pages for the programs that I have written in the last 20 years, but I did it reluctantly, just because nobody else was going to do it. Having dedicated the last two months of my life to write another manual (which is not finished yet), I like to share with you my thoughts and my personal rules. The source of inspiration, this time, has been the Apple Help Programming Guide . Sounds obvious? They certainly have more experience than myself, so why not exploiting it? First doubt: many third party applications deliver their documentation in other forms, for example as PDF files. Second exception: Apple itself, when a program is more professional, like in the case of XCode, avoids its own Help Viewer. Third doubt: it's normally good to follow Apple guidelines, because users already know how the interface works, but is this theory still valid in this particular case? Do they read the manua...