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Free: PDF Password Remover 1.0.4

PDF Password Remover 1.0.4 is being given away for free until 24 Feb 2010, it normally costs $19.95. It’s a password removal tool for protected PDFs.

Website: www.anypdftools.com/pdf-password-remover.html

       

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StackOverflow Careers (Beta)

If you are a programmer or an ISV (Independent Software Vendor) then you have probably heard about Joel Spolsky and his company and his book and his blog and his projects. If not, then he is one of the guys you should follow… especially if you are into creating successful startups, products and hiring bright minds to your IT startups.

He has now launched a new project called StackOverflow Careers (Beta) for programmers to submit their CVs. Basically it will be a repository of CVs of programmers. The idea is to reverse the hiring process where instead of employees searching and submitting their CVs for various companies and job openings, it will be employers who will come to StackOverflow Careers database and look for talented programmers.

It’s similar to JobStreet’s PitchYourTalent.com but it’s only for software developers.

Website: careers.stackoverflow.com

       

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Laws related to Software Development

Here is some laws to take into consideration when developing a software:

Hofstadter’s law
It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take Hofstadter’s Law into account.

Brooks’s law
Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.

Lister’s law
People under time pressure don’t think faster.

The ninety-ninety rule
The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time. The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time.

Worse is better (New Jersey style)
Describes how a seemingly “inferior” product can be better from a user perspective. A limited but easy-to-use software may be more popular among users than a “better”, more comprehensive one.

Wirth’s law
Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster.

Source: pingdom blog

       

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Software: Cut mp3 (freeware)

Need to cut MP3’s? Use this simple free software called Split MP3:

Website: www.prvsoft.com/split-mp3-download.html

via techblisonline

       

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FastCopy - transfer large files fast

Since getting hdd media player with 650GB of disk space I have been doing some large data transfers. But Windows operating system does a terrible job in transferring large files especially to external hard disks. It hangs, it prematurely terminates the transfers, files get corrupted… you name it.

One way to do large file transfers is using MSDOS’ xcopy command, but it can get troublesome using MS Command Prompt especially when you do not know the commands.

Luckily there is a better way. FastCopy (freeware) (see screenshot) does the same what xcopy does, and even faster. Since it doesn’t use the cache of OS at all, other processes (applications) won’t be affected (i.e become heavy or hang) by the transfer.

It can also verify the copied files making sure that you do not have the corrupted files.

Since finding it I have been using it extensively and so far it’s doing a great job. Highly recommend it.

Website: www.ipmsg.org/tools/fastcopy.html.en
Download: FastCopy v1.98 (placed it in my shared folder)

       

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2007 Microsoft Office Add-in: Save as PDF

If you are using Microsoft Office 2007, you can add this free add-on from Microsoft for saving files as PDF (see screenshot). Once installed it will allow you to save files as PDF in all eight 2007 Microsoft Office programs:

• Microsoft Office Access 2007
• Microsoft Office Excel 2007
• Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007
• Microsoft Office OneNote 2007
• Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007
• Microsoft Office Publisher 2007
• Microsoft Office Visio 2007
• Microsoft Office Word 2007

If you want to convert other files, see the post below.

       

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Converting MP3’s to iPod Audiobook

If you own iPod or if you plan to get one soon, then make sure to bookmark the following softwares (for Windows). Especially if you like to listen to audio lectures like me.

Usually audio lectures would have tons of MP3 files, and not all of them follow the naming and tagging convention (especially the free ones). This makes it difficult to listen to the files in continuity. So, one way to overcome this problem would be to combine them into one audiobook file, and to add ‘chapters’ where necessary. The other way is to name them and tag them yourself manually (flexible renamer and mp3tag are good tools for this).

Converting MP3 files into iPod Audiobook can be done with this free software: MP3 to iPod Audio Book Converter (I guess author didn’t want to spend time on finding a name for his software… ;)

Adding chapters to your Audiobook can be done with this software: Chapter Master. Unfortunately this one is not free. (If you know of any free software for chapter management, please let me know.)

MP3 to iPod Audio Book Converter: www.freeipodsoftware.com
Chapter Master: www.rightword.com.au/products/chaptermaster/default.asp

       

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Solution: How to uninstall Adobe Acrobat completely

Ever since I uninstalled Adobe Acrobat 8 from my PC, every time I wanted to right click on any file or folder, I have been getting this pop-up window below (see screenshot).

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The reason for this problem was because when you uninstall Adobe Acrobat, it doesn’t fully uninstalls itself; usually there will be some registry entries, broken files, empty folders… etc left on your PC. In order to solve the problem, you have to remove these files and registry entries manually as recommended by Adobe themselves here. But that’s a long, hassle way to do it. I needed a “one-click” solution if possible ;)
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Solution

Windows Installer CleanUp Utility did the trick for me. After I installed this tool, I was able to see the Adobe Acrobat in the list and successfully removed it with one click.

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Windows Installer CleanUp is a utility to remove installation information for programs Read more »

       

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AdesClrPicker v2.2.1 released

AdesClrPicker v2.2.1 is released. For those who do not know, it’s my software - which is freeware - for picking color codes from anywhere on your screen.
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This version fixes few bugs, one of which was the shutdown problem. When the color picker was active, if the user wanted to shut down the PC, he/she couldn’t do it until he/she manually closes the color picker first. This was due to the floating menu being on top of all the windows and resistant to any command.
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Now, this bug has been fixed, when the user issues a shut-down command, it will comply. Few other minor issues have been fixed as well. To download the latest version click here.

URL: www.adesclrpicker.com

       

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Portable FastStone Capture

I’m a big fan of FastStone screen capture application (see left). All the screenshots on this blog are captured and annotated by this application. It’s small, fast and very useful tool for bloggers.

There is now a portable version of this program, which is generated from the freeware version v5.3.

All the newer versions are now shareware. Current version is 6.3 and costs $19.95. New version of course has many additional features.

But, for blogging purposes, freeware version is more than enough. And with this little portable version (1.3MB), you can put it on your thumb drive and be ready to blog anywhere, even in places like public libraries where you can’t install any softwares.

In fact, I am in such place at the moment, in the University Lab ;) thus the idea for portable app!

Enjoy!

Download Portable Version: click here (free)

Download Normal Version: click here (free)

Author Website: http://www.faststone.org/

       

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