A quick tip for command line users: if you want to convert .png files to .pdf: convert *.png filename.pdf Simple! If you want to keep control of page sequence or specific files to convert: convert page1.png page2.png page3.png filename.pdf Needless to say, but I’ll say it anyways, the .pdf won’t be in vector graphics,...
Read more →For those who are vim fans, a quick tip on how to run a diff/merge task: Open the files with: vimdiff file1 file2 file3 –> Vertical split is default vimdiff -o file1 file2 file3 –> If you’d like horizontal split of files To jump between files: Ctrl-W w To jump places where differences...
Read more →Here is a simple and quick way for you to encrypt files in Linux: gpg –output doc.gpg –encrypt –recipient EmailofRecipient@blah.com original_file.doc Further explained: –output (or -o) is the name of the encrypted file –recipient (or -r) is the person who will be decrypting the file. If the file is for yourself only, use the...
Read more →Gwibber, an open source microblogging app for Gnome has now reached version 2.0! Although at 2.0, the developers are not considering this a stable release yet and not making it available on the stable distribution channels. What I could notice first from the upgrade was the UI from: to Which means: it is now...
Read more →If you’re trying to recover deleted files or files in a corrupted partition, you might want to give Magic Rescue a try. With this command-line tool you will basically be looking for specific file types (searching by their extension). So, for a massive file recovery task, it will not be a good approach. The...
Read more →If you want to run a WebKit web browser with no strings attached (unlike Safari and Google Chrome), Arora is surely worth a try. First plus is that it runs on Linux, Windows and MacOS X. It is fast, has private browsing and looks like it has some plug-in support. Another good news is...
Read more →Not long ago I was working with some .po files and needed a nice and simple diff program to merge 2 files. First I tried the multi-purposed text editor vim. Using vim as a diff and merge tool: with Andrej’s article I found some nice tips & tricks and the Vim manual for diff...
Read more →Gnash, the freedom alternative to Adobe Flash Player now supports displaying YouTube movies! The to-do list for Gnash is still pretty large until we’re all freely able to browse the web without the Adobe plug-in. But, at least this is some major good news I found out today. Now let’s hope html5 gives us...
Read more →Although it has been a round for quite some time, I’m not a coder so my experience with text editors and IDEs is very limited. To give you an example, I’ve been using on the command line the good-ol’ simple nano. But, since I’m starting to need a bit more powerful features, my search...
Read more →For those who like ebooks, Calibre is a great program that was created to manage pretty much any aspect of your reading files. The list of features is pretty extensive: convert files from and to epub, mobi, LRF and supports input of several other formats including PDF, html, odt, rtf amongst others; syncs to...
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