How to Extract Data From Websites
Visual Web Ripper is a data extraction tool for web scraping, web harvesting and data extraction from the Internet.
September 4, 2010 Comments Off
How to Split and Merge PDF Documents
pdfsam is an open source tool (GPL license) designed to handle pdf files. It’s released in 2 versions, basic and enhanced.
pdfsam basic:
A simple tool designed to split and merge pdf files. With it’s simple and intuitive interface you can:
- split your pdf documents (into chapters, single pages, etc.).
- merge many pdf documents or subsections of them.
- extract sections of your document into a single pdf document.
- mix alternate pages taken from two pdf documents in straight or reverse order into a single document.
- rotate pages of the selected pdf documents.
- visually reorder pages of a selected pdf document.
- visually compose a document dragging pages from selected pdf documents.
- save and load your environment to automatize your recurrent jobs.
- manage pdfsam settings and set an environment to load at start up.
July 5, 2010 Comments Off
How To Completely Erase Sensitive Data From Your Computer
Most people have some data that they would rather not share with others – passwords, personal information, classified documents from work, financial records, self-written poems, the list continues.
Perhaps you have saved some of this information on your computer where it is conveniently at your reach, but when the time comes to remove the data from your hard disk, things get a bit more complicated and maintaining your privacy is not as simple as it may have seemed at first.
Eraser is an advanced security tool for Windows which allows you to completely remove sensitive data from your hard drive by overwriting it several times with carefully selected patterns. Eraser is currently supported under Windows XP (with Service Pack 3), Windows Server 2003 (with Service Pack 2), Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.
July 5, 2010 Comments Off
Try the New XBMC Media Center
XBMC is an award-winning free and open source (GPL) software media player and entertainment hub for digital media. XBMC is available for Linux, OSX, Windows, and the original Xbox. Created in 2003 by a group of like minded programmers, XBMC is a non-profit project run and developed by volunteers located around the world. More than 50 software developers have contributed to XBMC, and 100-plus translators have worked to expand its reach, making it available in more than 30 languages.
Currently XBMC can be used to play almost all popular audio and video formats around. It was designed for network playback, so you can stream your multimedia from anywhere in the house or directly from the internet using practically any protocol available. Use your media as-is: XBMC can play CDs and DVDs directly from the disk or image file, almost all popular archive formats from your hard drive, and even files inside ZIP and RAR archives. It will even scan all of your media and automatically create a personalized library complete with box covers, descriptions, and fanart. There are playlist and slideshow functions, a weather forecast feature and many audio visualizations. Once installed, your computer will become a fully functional multimedia jukebox.
July 5, 2010 Comments Off
Remote Access Your Home Computer From Anywhere Online
Few weeks ago, I was scheduled to present a topic for my class as my final project. I worked on the presentation for couple of days, and when the time came to present, I found out that I forgot my presentation at home. 2 hours left for the presentation, I had to drive 45 minutes to my house and copy the presentation on my flash drive.
After that, I started looking on ways to access my home computer from my school. I found many methods, but I wasn’t really happy. Until I found, LogMein
LogMeIn lets you access and back up your home or work computer from anywhere with an Internet connection. Even access your desktop from your iPhone, iPad, or the dash of your Ford truck. It’s fast, easy and secure.
No server setup, no installation required except on your home computer. After you install the software on your personal computer, you choose a username and password and that’s all what it takes.
At school or work, just visit LogMeIn website, and enter your username and password to access your pc.
June 20, 2010 Comments Off
Related Posts With Thumbnail For WordPress
Wp-Thumbie is a new wordpress plugin that shows related posts with thumbnails after your content. This is one of the most recommended wordpress plugins that every blogger has to have. If visitors like your blog, then they are more likely to click on the related posts to read more.
Wp-Thumbie comes is packed with awesome features, which allows you to take control of what/how to show the related posts. For example, you can exclude posts from categories, set thumbnail image size and much much more.
Features
- Display Related Posts with thumbnail image automatically in content / feed, no need to edit template files
- Doesn’t use any custom field to generate thumbnail images
- You can manually add code to your template where you want the Wp-thumbie to be displayed
- Exclude posts from categories
- Exclude display of thumbnail related posts on Pages
- Exclude pages in thumbnail related Posts list
- Related posts based on content and post title
- Set Thumbnail image size
- Turn on/off Post excerpt
- set length of Post excerpt
- Different Styling for displaying thumbnail related posts
- Display Thumbnail related posts in RSS Feeds (Styling issue)
I hope you find this plugin useful.
June 20, 2010 Comments Off