How to Remove Password from PDF Document

There are several freeware available which can be used to remove password set in a PDF document. The trick I am going to describe here uses Google Chrome to re-create the unprotected PDF document. As I have mentioned in my one of earlier posts that newer versions of Google chrome is capable of converting HTML to PDF. One thing is important that you must know the password to open the PDF.

To remove the password follow below steps :

• Open the PDF file in Google chrome. You can simply drag and drop the file inside chrome to open it.
• If your PDF document is password protected it will ask for the password to open it.
• Enter the correct password and open the document.
• Now go to print. This can be selected from shortcut menu or from top toolbar button.
• Inside the Print window select "Destination" as "Save as PDF" and click Save button.
• You will be asked to save the file, save it to any location you want.
• Saved file will be password free.
  

Contribute to Citizen Sparrow - www.citizensparrow.in

Sparrows are one of very common birds found almost everywhere in the world. In very recent years there is a sharp decline in the population of Sparrows. Reason behind this population decline is still not very clear, and if it keeps on going the same way there shall come a day when the sparrow sings no more.

Citizen Sparrow is an initiative from bird enthusiasts where each of us can contribute to help finding out the reason of the sharp decline. You just need to register at Citizen Sparrow and provide the information about any sight of the bird. You will be asked few easy to answer questions and exact location of the sight. Please contribute to this noble effort by joining Citizen Sparrow official website at www.citizensparrow.in and Facebook page.

PNG to JPG Batch Converter Freeware

PNG to JPG is an open source utility software which can be used to convert PNG files to JPG files in batch. It allows you to select one of more PNG files from different folders and on click of a button all converted images can be saved to new folder selected by the user. PNG to JPG converter comes as an standalone executable. You just need to download the .zip file and extract it to some location to run.

Features of PNG to JPG Batch Converter

• Can convert PNG to JPG in batch
• Facility to set Jpg quality
• Standalone executable
• Works on Windows XP or above systems with .Net Framework 2.0 installed.

Download PNG to JPG Batch Converter from Google Code

Large Log File Viewer Utility for Windows 7, Vista and XP

SnakeTail is an open source utility for windows which can be used to monitor growing log files with and ease. Apart from monitoring log files you can also monitor Windows Event Logs (Without needing administrator rights) and even can search like a normal text file. SnakeTail also comes with facility find text with regular expression and higlight them. It also includes keyboard based navigation so that you can easily scan files here and there.

Features of Snake Tail

• Monitor “large” text log files
• Monitor Windows Event Logs (Without needing administrator rights)
• Multiple Window Modes supported (MDI, Tabbed, Floating)
• Save and load entire window session. Can load session file at startup when given as command line parameter.
• Sentence highlight with colors based on keyword match (Includes regex support)
• Quickly jump between highlighted sentences using keyboard shortcuts
• Tails circular logs where the log file is periodically truncated/renamed.
• Tails log directory where the latest log file is displayed (Includes regex support)
• Search in the entire text log file
• Tail new log files with a simple drag drop from Windows Explorer
• Filtering of Windows Event Logs using regular expressions
• Display simple process statistics in window title bar (RAM + CPU usage + TRX/Sec)
• Stop and start Windows service by right clicking in the tail window
• Change tail window background color
• Change tail window text color
• Change tail window icon

Download Snake tail – Utility to monitor log files on Windows

Using CURL with list of urls

Unix command CURL  is used to transfer from to and from any remote server. A basic Curl command to download a file is :

curl http://www.thetechhub.com

In case you to download multiple files with Curl, the syntax is :

xargs curl -I < urllist.txt

where content of urllist.txt is something like below :

http://www.thetechhub.com/file2.txt
http://www.thetechhub.com/file3.txt 
http://www.thetechhub.com/file4.txt

Desktop Application Fun - Shimeji

Shimeji is a fun desktop application for windows which animates mascots around your screen. A set of configurable predefined animations can bring your boring desktop to life. This must be a real fun application for you and your kids ..if any . This desktop mascot has been downloaded by more than 500,000 users worldwide.

There are two different versions of the application Calm and Mischievous and it only differs by its configuration files. Calm one just walks around here and there and Mischievous version can cling into the browser window and jump here and there. The later one is more interesting to use.

Shimeji  has bee developed using java and requires java to to run. To run the application simply download it from below mentioned link and extract to some folder e.g “Shimeji”. Here you can find “Shimeji-ee.exe”, just click it to run. It somehow this doesn’t woks use Shimeji-ee.bat.

Original created of Shimeji  is Yuki Yamada of Group Finity and the application was in Japanese. The current version has been translated to English and improved by some unknown(couldn't find his name) and is available at Google Code repository for download.

Download Shimeji from Google Code.

GUI Based Grep Tool For Windows

If you are aware of Grep command on Linux, this tool (grepWin) will certainly be handy for you. grepWin is an open source find and replace utility which can alternatively use the power of regular expressions to do perform lightening fast search. Apart from doing search you can replace text in multiple files at once.

This utility can also be user from command line. For a list of all command line parameters check the documentation page. grepWin tool can also be integrated to perform search within Visual Studio IDE by configuring it as external tool. More details about Visual Studio configuration is available here.

Download Grep Tool with GUI for windows