Month: January 2012
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book: The Information Diet: A Case for Conscious Consumption
The Information Diet: According to Google’s Chairman Eric Schmidt, we create more information every two days than we did throughout human history up to 2003. How can you cope with information overload? This insightful book makes a compelling case that information overload doesn’t actually exist—the real problem is information overconsumption. By showing you what to…
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FormulatePro helps you open and write on PDF documents
formulatepro – Overlay text and graphics on PDF documents. Great for filling out forms. – Google Project Hosting
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book: Breaking the Page
Breaking the Page: Preview Edition: A fresh, elemental look at how screen-based publications work, the kinds of material they can and should contain, and how to assemble all this new stuff in a package that’s entertaining and compelling.
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book: PDF Explained
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920021483.do https://library.oreilly.com/book/0636920021483/pdf-explained/toc An introduction to the PDF file format, threaded through with practical examples – deconstructing, creating and processing PDF files. After exploring how PDF is produced, and how it can be edited with tools from text editors to Ghostscript to PDFTK, readers will learn to deal with problems with PDF files and common error…
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Google Fusion Tables – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Google Fusion Tables – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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installing pdftohtml from sources – successfully using 0.40a
pdftohtml-0.40a.tar.gz (an experimental version from 2006-11-06 on SourceForge.net) as opposed to 0.39 I got this recompiled out of the box on Linux and Mac OS X Lion True, this is not brand-new information, but I think still worth mentioning.
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book: Data Analysis with Open Source Tools: A hands-on guide for programmers and data scientists
Data Analysis with Open Source Tools – O’Reilly Media
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The Pragmatic Bookshelf: Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great
http://pragprog.com/book/dlret/agile-retrospectives