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powerpoint slides to jpeg

Looking for some way to convert power point slides to JPG, I've found this site: http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/browse It has tons of good linux command line tips. And here is the tip about the pdf to jpg which brought me there: http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/719/convert-pdf-to-jpg And to convert the powerpoint to pdf before, one can issue the unoconv command: unoconv -f pdf slides.ppt

Books

Tonight I was home alone with my kid. Fortunately for us (the kid and me) our PC is connected to the TV set. So, he watched his favorites DVDs, while I had Google Reader in play mode with slide show enabled and side by side windows. After playing the DVDs a dozen times, Google Reader showed this e-book post . PostgreSQL is my database of choice, so this book will be very appreciated. The PostgreSQL e-book is at: http://www.commandprompt.com/ppbook/

Mac OS X in Linux via VirtualBox (as guest OS)

That is some thing I want to do for quite some time: Install Mac OS X Snow Leopard as a guest OS in a VirtualBox Linux host http://martinml.com/en/how-to-install-mac-os-x-snow-leopard-in-virtualbox/ http://blog.nguyenvq.com/2010/12/04/mac-os-x-in-linux-via-virtualbox-as-guest-os/ http://myhack.sojugarden.com/guide/

JavaScript Pie charts

Considering the " Warning against using pie charts ", I'm needing to produce a couple of jquery/json ajax enabled piecharts within a simple webapp I'm designing. There are some sort of ready to use examples: Using various javascript libraries to create pie chart JavaScript charts | Pie charts

Flash Calendar V2.0 to iCal

The organization where I work uses a Flash Calendar to show holidays, special day activities and other public calendar. The Flash Calendar loads its events from a XML file which, in our case, is keeped really up to date. So I was willing to view those events on my Google Calendar screen, to better plan my meatings and so on. After that, I had written a small wrapper to parse the XML and echo iCal output. It still not fully compatible with Flash Calendar XML, but for the uses of my organization is enougth. I did put it on github. https://github.com/filipi/swfcalendar2iCalWrapper

Tron CSS theme

After two posts about the last Tron Legacy movie ( Web Fonts, emacs, Tron Legacy and Interface design ), and trying to make a Tron theme for my web apps. I decided to google for a Tron CSS theme... Wasn't a surprise Google came with Sassy Tron Theme , which includes the movie's touch keyboard entirely written with CSS.