Monday, January 29, 2007

pdftk - the pdf toolkit

"If PDF is electronic paper, then pdftk is an electronic staple-remover, hole-punch, binder, secret-decoder-ring, and X-Ray-glasses. Pdftk is a simple tool for doing everyday things with PDF documents. Keep one in the top drawer of your desktop and use it to:

  • Merge PDF Documents

  • Split PDF Pages into a New Document

  • Rotate PDF Pages or Documents

  • Decrypt Input as Necessary (Password Required)

  • Encrypt Output as Desired

  • Fill PDF Forms with FDF Data or XFDF Data and/or Flatten Forms

  • Apply a Background Watermark or a Foreground Stamp

  • Report on PDF Metrics such as Metadata, Bookmarks, and Page Labels

  • Update PDF Metadata

  • Attach Files to PDF Pages or the PDF Document

  • Unpack PDF Attachments

  • Burst a PDF Document into Single Pages

  • Uncompress and Re-Compress Page Streams

  • Repair Corrupted PDF (Where Possible)

Pdftk allows you to manipulate PDF easily and freely. It does not require Acrobat, and it runs on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD and Solaris."

Friday, January 26, 2007

Optimizing Microsoft Office Access Applications Linked to SQL Server

Optimizing Microsoft Office Access Applications Linked to SQL Server

"One way to create applications that use Microsoft Office Access for creating user interfaces and that use Microsoft SQL Server for data storage is to link Office Access tables to SQL Server tables. This is the type of application created by using the SQL Server Migration Assistant for Office Access. This white paper presents techniques for improving performance and updatability in Office Access applications that use tables linked to SQL Server."

Friday, January 19, 2007

CamStudio - Free Screen Recording Software

CamStudio - Free Screen Recording Software
CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files and using its built-in SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos (SWFs)
CamStudio on SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/camstudio/

Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Monday, January 08, 2007

Web2FTP

Web2FTP

A web-based FTP client . . .
"What is web2ftp ?
With web2ftp.com, you can access any FTP account through a Web interface - no matter whether there is a firewall or not. You can use webftp for the complete administration of your homepage, downloading files or just making small changes. "

Stock Photos

Fotolia: http://www.fotolia.com/

iStockphoto: http://www.istockphoto.com/index.php

Photos.com: http://www.photos.com/en/

Comstock: http://www.comstockcomplete.com/en/