Category: WebDev & Code
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Backup! (Bye bye TimeMachine, hello Carbon Copy Cloner)
Executive summary: Stop reading, backup your computer. Done that? Let’s continue. [1] Second Executive summary: TimeMachine on my mac failed, I now use Carbon Copy Cloner. Yes, that cost me £26. Yes, it’s basically rsync (free opensource software I already use) but it’s easier to configure and has other useful features that I decided are…
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Gandi said thanks 🙂
What a lovely surprise! A T-shirt arrived in the post from the folks at Gandi.net Gandi are the company that provide all my domain names and server hosting for work and play, including the hardware behind this blog. I’ve been using them since 2009 and they’ve always super. If you need domain names or hosting, I…
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Extracting images from PDF (free, using command line)
This is a day when I love computers. I have a multipage PDF and I need to extract the images from it. Option 1: Open the PDF on screen, capture each section, save each file. No thanks, that’ll take far too long and lose quality (which already isn’t too great) Option 2: Open the PDF using…