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gscan2pdf 1.0.0 released and PPA installation instructions included

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Only two clicks are required to scan several pages and then save all or a selection as a PDF or DjVu file, including metadata if required.gscan2pdf can control regular or sheet-fed (ADF) scanners with SANE via scanimage or scanadf, and can scan multiple pages at once. It presents a thumbnail view of scanned pages, and permits simple operations such as cropping, rotating and deleting pages.OCR can be used to recognise text in the scans, and the output embedded in the PDF or DjVu.

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Recoll Finds Text Virtually Anywhere on a Linux Computer

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Linux: Recoll is a free, open source, desktop search tool that can find nearly any type of text on your system and incorporates boolean searches (including wildcards) file stemming, and file-type filters. It also includes auto-completion of search topics, so if you search for “lifeh” you’d get Lifehacker, Lifehouse, etc. More »

 

 

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Touchpad-Indicator for Ubuntu Lets You Quickly Enable or Disable a Laptop Touchpad [Linux Downloads]

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Ubuntu: If you’re running Ubuntu on a laptop, and you want to disable the touchpad when you have it connected to an external keyboard or mouse, Touchpad-Indicator is a menubar applet that can help. More »




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Ubuntu 11.10 Beta 2 (Oneiric Ocelot) Released

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The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce Ubuntu 11.10 Beta 2.Codenamed “Oneiric Ocelot”, 11.10 continues Ubuntu’s proud tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution. The team has been hard at work through this cycle fixing bugs and introducing a couple of new features as we polish up for the release.
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Ubuntu Supplemental Packages

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1. Update Ubuntu (Repository cache)

After installing Ubuntu 11.10, first of all, update the package information (you are always recommended to update your computer as frequently as possible but surely before installing any new programs so that you will get the latest one available in the repository). You can update your system either from command line

Open a terminal (Ctrl + Alt + t) and execute the following commands -

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VIM Cheat Sheet

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Thanks to http://bullium.com/support/vim.html and http://www.ssel.montana.edu/HowTo/

How to Exit

:q[uit] Quit Vim. This fails when changes have been made.
:q[uit]! Quit without writing.
:cq[uit] Quit always, without writing.
:wq Write the current file and exit.
:wq! Write the current file and exit always.
:wq {file} Write to {file}. Exit if not editing the last
:wq! {file} Write to {file} and exit always.
:[range]wq[!] [file] Same as above, but only write the lines in [range].
ZZ Write current file, if modified, and exit.
ZQ Quit current file and exit (same as “:q!”).

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