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5 Tools to Extract Images From PDF Files. If you have a PDF file full of images, you may want to have those images converted to JPG files or PNG files.

5 Tools to Extract Images From PDF Files

This would, for example, make it easier to get those images printed, or altered by an image editing program. If you Google this issue, you will find many options, quite a lot of which are paid. We have previously seen some tools which can convert a PDF to JPG and a Windows tool to extract PDF images as well. However, I have managed to find four free online options and one free software option. You’re welcome! ExtractPDF ExtractPDF is a very zippy option which takes your PDF file and breaks it up into its individual sections — the images, the text, the fonts, and the metadata. Konwerter The design of the Konwerter site could use a serious updating, but don’t let that stop you.

5 Ways to Strip the Formatting When You Copy & Paste Text. Copying and pasting are probably some of the most common functions you perform on your computer.

5 Ways to Strip the Formatting When You Copy & Paste Text

We’ve shown how a clipboard manager improves these functions, but copy-pasting brings another common annoyance: special formatting. You’ve surely experienced this: you’ll copy some text (perhaps a heading from a website) and want to paste it into a Word document, but it keeps its color, size, and other features when you do. We’re going to take a look at ways to alleviate this issue. They range from bare-bones to automated; go for whichever works for you! Let Notepad Intervene Windows Notepad and its alternatives are about as basic as a computer program can get. Our simplest solution is to paste any text that you want to strip of formatting into Notepad first, then copy it again. Use Office’s Special Paste A lot of pasting occurs into Microsoft Office products, and if you’re typing a paper, coming up with a slideshow, or preparing a graphic in Publisher, the extras are probably unwanted.

Facebook. CloudConvert - convert anything to anything. 27 People Share The One Cool Internet Or Computer Trick They Know. 1.

27 People Share The One Cool Internet Or Computer Trick They Know

A shortcut to any website. Whatever you type into the URL bar can be surrounded by www. & .com by pressing control + enter. 2. An easy way to browse photos on a subreddit hands-free. When viewing picture based subreddits, add a “p” into the url like so: redditp.com/r/subreddit to get a picture slideshow of the posts on that subreddit. 3. Type -inurl:(htm|html|php) intitle:”index of” +”last modified” +”parent directory” +description +size +(wma|mp3) “weezer” into a google search bar.And for other searches, replace “weezer” with whatever you’re looking for. 4. Hold S and right click an image to do reverse image search in Chrome. 5. The Wadsworth constant, which was proposed by /u/wadsworth, states that the first 30% of any YouTube instructional video is skippable.

iTools - use the best tools. How To run Multiple Versions of the Same Program on your PC. I was asked in the comments of a previous post how I managed to run multiple versions of Skype at the same time and while answering him, I thought it was worth turning my answer into a post.

How To run Multiple Versions of the Same Program on your PC

It isn’t just Skype that this can be used for. You can also use this method to run multiple versions of your favourite instant messaging program (if you have more than one ID) or multiple versions of your internet browser if you have more than one email account with the same provider. For instance, using this tip you can access multiple gmail accounts at the same time. With the Windows operating system, everything runs under a user account which you log into when you boot up the computer. Say for the purposes of this discussion, my main default user account on my PC is MARK_1.

Digitalhead Daily » [TIPS] RunAsDate lets you indefinitely extend software trial periods. If you get a trial version of a program, it will generally give to a certain amount of time to try the software and evaluate it before buying.

Digitalhead Daily » [TIPS] RunAsDate lets you indefinitely extend software trial periods

What if the software’s 3-day trial period just isn’t enough for you to be satisfied? There are a few programs out there that will let you run programs as a set date to get more out of a trial period, but RunAsDate from NirSoft seems to be the most simple out of the bunch. This utility is simple to use. Just install your trial software normally. Run it once to get settings and profiles set. To simplify the process later on, tell it to create a desktop shortcut. This could be a downside if the program actually uses the date and time for whatever purpose, but if you want everything to work properly, you might want to consider either buying the software or looking for an open source alternative.

Now for the caveats. I do not condone piracy because writing software code is a job too, and the developers should get paid for their hard work.