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Mash-up with text message and password obscuring

One of the purposes of MATLAB Central is to encourage collaboration and code sharing in the MATLAB community. I was overjoyed when I was alerted to this new file on the Exchange. Basically, Robert was inspired by two recent Blog posts that obscure passwords in a GUI and that allow you to send [...]

MATLAB can “txt msg u :)”

People have used different methods over the years to have MATLAB alert them when MATLAB is done with a long set of calculations from playing a sound file, to sending an e-mail, or now sending a text to your cell phone. This is a nice little mash-up that uses SENDMAIL to send mail to your Google [...]

Masking typed passwords with asterisks

Sometimes really good files fly under my radar here at the File Exchange. Thankfully, my buddy Brett noticed this little gem. Here is what he had to say about it: A customer recently mentioned that he wanted to provide username and password information to a function for reading and writing URLs in a password-protected [...]

TeX interpreter in x tick and y tick labels

Writing a file that solves a problem that gets called into our tech support team is a very good way of becoming Pick Of The Week. This week a MATLAB user wanted to know how to use the TeX interpreter on x and y ticks. This is not supported, but if you download [...]

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