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Web Page to Image Conversion

March 21st, 2008 by drpratten · 3 Comments

Got a project that needs a bunch of images of web pages or web page thumbnails? Trying to batch convert html to jpeg or png?
I have just such a project underway and my preference was to be able to use a command similar to wget on a linux VPS (it might be called imagewget) [...]

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Research Using Google Notebook

March 21st, 2008 by drpratten · No Comments

I don’t know about you, but I am often checking out new ideas on the web and trying to write a report or essay that that makes sense to someone else. Until I discovered Google Notebook I kept notes in Word or a text editor. That works OK, but recording the URL, a quote [...]

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Open Source Social Networking – Finally!

March 20th, 2008 by drpratten · 1 Comment

The lads and lasses over at less everything have been busy! They have released an open source social networking system based on Ruby on Rails. Ray Cheung spotted this and wrote a great post over at webappers.com. LOVDbyLess is aiming to be the Wordpress of social networks – and why not? Why should Facebook [...]

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Tags: Social Networking