Archive for February, 2009
Acronis 10 Personal for FREE
Acronis is giving away for download copies of Acronis True Image 10 Personal Edition because a new version is out. That means you get whole disk image backups from a friendly interface. You may use free utility to clone your hard drive but it may not have many features as compared to paid hard drive [...]
Combining pdf files in Linux/Unix
Just to show a few examples how to combine pdf files. Let us assume we have three pdf files and now we need to combine them:
gs -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOUTPUTFILE=finalcombinedpdf.pdf -dBATCH 1.pdf 2.pdf 3.pdf
joinpdf myfinalFile.pdf file1.pdf file2.pdf file3.pdf
pdfmeld file1.pdf, file2.pdf, file3.pdf resultcombinedfile.pdf
Some of the other tools available for merging PDF files include pfdtk, Multivalent, and pdcat.
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Sony VAIO SR19XN Laptop
After a few weeks spending to see which laptop is suitable for my wife needs (something under 2 kg, 13.3″ display, battery more than 3 hours and nice design) we decided to buy a Sony VAIO SR19XN, with has a good configuration. It is a 1.9kg laptop that offers five to six hours of battery [...]
