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Command-line script to edit PDF file meta-data
I’ve just written a little wrapper around pdftk to simplify the modification of PDF file meta-data. It extracts the existing meta-data, opens it in your favourite editor, writes it back to the original PDF and finally removes the temporary files it generated. #! /bin/sh if [ ! -f "$1" ] then echo “Usage: $0″ exit [...]
Zeitgeist 0.5.1 released!
On behalf of the Zeitgeist Project team, I am pleased to announce the immediate availability of Zeitgeist 0.5.1. What is Zeitgeist? Zeitgeist is an event-logging framework for desktop and mobile devices. Applications can push events into the log, and anyone can query the log via the rich query API. The logged events are semantically categorized [...]
Book Review: The Heart Mender
Some time ago I found out about Book Sneeze, a service by Thomas Nelson offering free books in exchange for reviewing them on your blog (the reviews aren’t required to be positive). I decided to give it a try, and a couple days after signing up my account got approved. The website shows a changing selection of [...]
Experiments with image recognition
It’s summer, which means: I’ve got time for some crazy experiments! As you may know, two years ago I played around with voice recognition. My original idea for this summer was to do some robotics stuff, but unfortunately I’ve had problems getting the serial connection to work. But don’t worry, because I’ve found something else to do. [...]
Yet another GUADEC post
I haven’t blogged for quite a few weeks, so I guess it’s time I revive my blog, and what better way to do this than writing about how awesome GUADEC was? :) Saturday 25 I went to the Barcelona airport to take a plane at twelve. The plane started almost two hours later because part [...]
