publishing mp3 packer
A while ago I built mp3-packer to compress my whole music library to fit onto a small memory card. Today I pushed it to github.
unwrap multi page PDF into original JPEG files
A lot of my documents are scanned, and I used to save them as JPEG files and then combine them into a single PDF for better handling.
The downside is that I cannot do anything with the original JPEG images any more, and I did not keep those. Luckily, there is a nice tool called pdfimages.
convert Adium logfile into pidgin format
This is another weekend project.
In case you have some chat logs from the Mac OS X chat client Adium that you want to convert into format of the multi platform Pidgin client, this tool might be handy for you.
The code and more information can be found at github.
more …view multiple images as a multipage document
A lot of my scanned images are plain JPEG files. When I have a multiple page document, it will become multiple images.
One could join them into a single PDF file, but I'd rather have the original files since images in PDF usually look blurrier. With text, it makes it harder to read.
Browsing through multiple images is not a problem with programs like Gwenview or Eye of Gnome. The only thing is that they display them fitting to the window. If you zoom, they will center. This might be natural for pictures, but not for a document.
more …Export your files before it is too late
When I had my Mac, I would use programs like Keynote, Pages and third party software like Mindnode. Now I use Linux and do not have regular access to those programs any more. Therefore, I need to convert them into PDF or the likes.
Those files are all over my hard drive. Some of them already have a PDF exported, some do not. In order to find those, that still need a PDF exported, I wrote a little Python script you can find at GitHub.
more …git-changelog revisited
A while ago, I mentioned the git-changelog script. Today, I created a small project site for it and made it more robust against unsigned tags or lightweight tags.
more …Uni Bonn Computer Setup
This is something regarding students at the University of Bonn using Linux.
The unibn setup script will help you configure the VPN client on a Ubuntu or Fedora installation. It will also install emacs, LaTeX and gnuplot and at your option also set the ROOT statistics package up for you.
more …include() vs. functions
A couple days ago, I had an intriguing conversation with somebody who disclosed some secrets about PHP. He told me that he does not use functions but rather include files, since a function file would have to be included and since something has to be included anyway, there was no need for the function after all.
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