PyPDF is a handy and valuable Python library for merging and splitting PDF files in Linux. It’s pure Python library built as a PDF toolkit. It is capable of: extracting document information (title, author, …), splitting documents page by page, merging documents page by page, cropping pages, merging multiple pages into a single page, encrypting [...]
Adobe AIR is a cross-operating system runtime that lets developers combine HTML, Ajax, Adobe Flash, and Adobe Flex technologies to deploy rich Internet applications (RIAs) on the desktop. The most recent version is Adobe Air 2 with more features than ever for the users as well as developers. AIR 2 builds on the success of [...]
The management of energy consumption in laptops and other mobile devices is increasingly important in order to extend the battery lifetime or to increase the number of applications that can use the system’s resources. It is also used in quiet computing settings and to decrease energy and cooling costs for lightly loaded machines. Even though [...]
There are some applications which need to send notifications to users. Ubuntu 9.04 has new on-screen-display notification agent called Notify OSD which implmeents freedesktop.org Desktop Notifications Specification with semi-transparent click-through bubbles. This post is not about Notify OSD, but about how you can use libnotify to send notifications in you shell scripts, C programs and [...]
