UPDATE: Changes the BBC have made to their streaming service means the below no longer works. Bit of a shame… Following on from my earlier…
This snippet of code is useful when you have many similar pdfs and need a file that takes a single page from each pdf. The…
If you need to insert a SmartSheet generated Gantt chart in to PowerPoint, the following procedure is useful: Output the Gantt to a PDF at…
UPDATED Modified (23/02/2014) the script to work with the new DR css design. The Dynamic Range Database is a collection of albums and their associated…
As I keep forgetting how to do this: gem install –user-install gem_name Taken from http://www.binarytides.com/quick-tip-installing-ruby-gems-in-the-users-home-directory/
Tesseract is a cracking piece of code to do OCR. Using the below sources for inspiration the following script can be used to take a…
I use gmail as a mail dump: ‘current’ and important mail is kept on my fastmail.fm account for access from everywhere ‘old’ mail (>~12 months)…
From time to time it is useful to get rid of duplicate files caused by crap website backups or rubbish personal backups. fdupes is a…
So I use my laptop as an alarm clock: on waking from its sleep at a predetermined time it runs an applescript (to open Safari…
To solve issues with broken pipes etc when connecting to remote boxes. Very useful, especially when installing things or running long commands. From http://serverfault.com/questions/19634/how-to-reconnect-to-a-disconnected-ssh-session: GNU Screen allows…