2008-12-09
Amazon S3 Storage and Firefox S3 Organizer Addon
"As part of Amazon's AWS service they provide online storage at very low rates via the Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3). S3 combined with the S3 Amazon Firefox Add-on provide an extremely easy to use means to upload files via the Firefox web browser. Just open the add-on that resides in the lower right portion of Firefox, select (double-click) a destination folder or "bucket" as Amazon calls them and then use windows explorer to browse to the file or files you want to transfer, select them, and then drag and drop into the add-on user interface."http://hothardware.com/News/Amazon-S3-Storage-and-Firefox-S3-Organizer-Addon/
fold: Wrap Text File / Line / Words To Fit in Specified Width
"fold is really nifty command line utility to make a text file word wrap. This is useful for large number of text files processing. There is no need to write a perl / python code or use a word processor."http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-unix-word-wrap-command.html
"For example, following command will wrap input.txt at 60 width columns:
$ fold -sw 60 input.txt > output.txtFlipTitle.com Allows You To ɹǝʌo ʇxǝʇ dılɟ
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http://fliptitle.com/
50+ Useful Firefox Extensions for College Students
"Firefox has recently released a campus edition of its popular open source software that school and lab administrators can install on their computers. While this new version has increased functionality there’s no reason students can’t create their own version of Firefox that’s loaded with tons of tools to make it easier to do everything from finding research materials to checking the score of the latest college basketball game. Here are numerous extensions from Firefox that can help make it an indispensable tool for any college student, young or old."http://www.collegedegrees.com/blog/2008/05/21/50-useful-firefox-extensions-for-college-students/
Free Online Screen Recorder
" ... Make screencasts / tutorials / demos / high-scores ... Record your screen in one click ... No download. Compatible with Windows, Mac OS X, Linux. ..."http://www.screentoaster.com/
Example
http://www.screentoaster.com/watch/3
Linux : Tips and tricks for working on the command line
"Anyone that has been reading these tips for any length of time knows that I am a command-line guy. It’s faster, more efficient, and more powerful. Sure, a nice GUI is great to look at, but to really get things done, give me the CLI any day. ..."
http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/opensource/?p=296&tag=nl.e011
"Renaming files is one thing that a good GUI file manager appears to have over the CLI. Usually clicking on a file name will give you the opportunity to edit the name in order to rename it, which is great for files with long names. This can be done easily in a shell too, either by using tab expansion or with this little trick:
http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/opensource/?p=296&tag=nl.e011
"Renaming files is one thing that a good GUI file manager appears to have over the CLI. Usually clicking on a file name will give you the opportunity to edit the name in order to rename it, which is great for files with long names. This can be done easily in a shell too, either by using tab expansion or with this little trick:
$ mv thisisareallylongfilename{,.txt}This will move the file “thisisareallylongfilename” to “thisisareallylongfilename.txt” without having to type it twice."
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