14 Application Cheat Sheets & Posters for Popular Programs

14 Application Cheat Sheets & Posters for Popular Programs 

14 Application Cheat Sheets & Posters for Popular Programs

Sep. 14th, 2009 By Varun Kashyap

It is a known fact that if you want to commit something to memory, continuous revision is the key. You read something every time you are at your desk and within days it becomes second nature.

To be able to revise quickly and often, it helps if the information is terse and to the point highlighting only the important aspects. Something like an application cheat sheet or a poster that you can print and pin to a board or keep on your desk.

Here are some application cheat sheets for commonly used software that will hopefully make you more productive.

14 Application Cheat Sheets & Posters for Popular Programs

Nerdlets: Christianity/Culture/Computing

Nerdlets: Christianity/Culture/Computing 

Get Real Text out of your Scanned Documents

OCR is the technology used to turn an image of text into plain (editable, search-able) text. If you’re like me (i.e., a nerd) you probably have a pile of scanned journal articles and books and such meticulously sorted on your hard drive (PDFs for example). You can read them and print them, but you can’t search them or edit them. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could?

Well, there are a number of free options on the web, but they all have their problems. Google has some of the best OCR technology out there–they recently acquired CAPTCHA to make it even better–and they have apparently been rolling this out into Google Docs. The Google Docs version is not as wonderful as you might like, but it works on high-res documents. Read about how to turn your images into text here.

Update: I was not able to get this to work with PDFs, surprisingly. The web-app only accepts PNG, JPEG, or GIF images right now. That is unfortunate, and I assume will be “corrected” in the future. Has anyone tried this on an image yet?

Nerdlets: Christianity/Culture/Computing

Sorry -- Been Away !

 

Sorry -- had numerous work related issues which were so unforeseen that I had to drop everything to get done.

None related to open access -- but I am back.... So....

Thanks for understanding.....Stephen

Ujiko : Aide

Ujiko : Aide 

Expertise Points & Multiple Levels
The brand new version of UJIKO evolves with your expertise: The more you use it, the more functions it is able to offer .

Basic principle: each time you visit a new site, you are gaining one point of expertise. With every 10 points, you move to the next level. Your search engine is mutating, new buttons appear giving you access to advanced features (search video, images, news, encylopedia, advanced filters, animated skins, web archive, traffic details...)

Animated transitions between each level are displayed to show you the new tools, which you have just acquired.

1 new site visited = +1 point of expertise
10 points = +1 level

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The Mad Men Animated GIF You’ve All Been Waiting For -- Vulture

 

The Mad Men Animated GIF You’ve All Been Waiting For -- Vulture

Welcome to USAspending.gov

Welcome to USAspending.gov 

Welcome to USAspending.gov Where Americans Can See Where Their Money Goes Have you ever wanted to find more information on government spending? Have you ever wondered where Federal contracting dollars and grant awards go? Or perhaps you would just like to know, as a citizen, what the Government is really doing with your money.

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