Monday, September 29, 2008

Re: Tools to be considered

Tools to be considered

1. 7-zip
2. WinGrep
3. http://www.fiddlertool.com/fiddler/
4. http://www.ccleaner.com/
5. http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.asp
6. Firebug
Essential FireFox add-on for debugging JavaScript, and more. The ultimate developer toolbar!

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

handy tools and websites

1. convert pdf to ... online
http://www.zamzar.com/


2. Another pdf reader
Sumatrapdf reader.
http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/download.html.



3. HTML tidy
http://www.paehl.com/open_source/?HTML_Tidy_for_Windows
To make html file tidy, just what the name imply.

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

LaTeX -- pdfcrop

TeX/LateX and related tips
1. Using pdfcrop to crop pdf so that some figures of pdf format can be
included with appropriate margins

Usage:
pdfcrop --margins 10 input.pdf output.pdf
pdfcrop --margins '5 10 5 20' --clip input.pdf output.pd

--TeX file--
\includegraphics{a.pdf}

Some vim tips

1, MAP, eg.

map <F9> :w <ENTER> :!latex % <ENTER>

2. ^ and $

^ the beginning of line
--------------------------------------------
for example:
replace the begin of line to something: % s/./something/
or % s/^/something/
--------------------------------------------
$ the end of line