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Add watermarks with transparent background in Nitro PDF

Adding a watermark to a PDF file is easy in Nitro PDF, but if you want the watermark to have a transparent background, things get a little more complicated.
I wanted to add our logo to a brochure so that visitors of our scales and balances shop would have a way of telling from where they [...]

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Content-aware resizing of pictures (seam carving)

Ever been in a situation where you had a picture with exactly the content (“message, meaning, …”) you wanted, but not with the right dimensions? Seam carving could have saved the day.

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Expression web span lang tags

Does Expression Web (version 1 or 2) add tags (“lang spans”) to everything you type in design view? It nearly drove me crazy with this behavior and the many language-related options in different menus, but after I figured out what was going on I actually came to appreciate this feature (when working on multilingual sites).

Delete line numbers from program code listings

Many of the books available on O’Reilly’s Safari Books Online come in HTML format, which I like because it makes it easy to copy code straight out of the book (no need to search for the “companion files”). However, program listings in books often use line numbers, which prevent the code from running if it’s [...]

Photo and video recovery software

A while ago, a corrupted XD card gave me an opportunity to try a bunch of picture (and video) recovery programs. When reading the following reviews, please keep in mind that 1. files can “disappear” for different reasons, so what didn’t work for me might work for you and 2. the more programs I used [...]

Amazon-Gutscheincodes und der Wert der sofortigen Verfügbarkeit

10€ hätte mein kürzlich zu Mac 0S.X konvertierter Bruder gespart, wenn er über Amazon bestellt hätte statt am Freitag zum nächsten Apple-Händler zu rennen, um sich OS X 10.5 (“Leopard”) zu kaufen. Die Möglichkeit, bereits am Wochenende mit dem neuen Betriebssystem zu arbeiten, war ihm allerdings mehr wert und den Kommentaren im Heise-Forum zufolge war [...]

Wii’d like to learn

After reading that moderate physical activity makes it easier to memorize stuff, I attached a wireless trackball to my home training machine and used it to control Rosetta Stone language learning software running on my Mac Mini attached to a flat screen TV. I was sure I had mcguyvered the perfect learning and exercise machine.
That [...]

Weblin explained in one sentence

Imagine taking the avatars from a virtual world like Second Life and setting them free on the World Wide Web. That’s my explanation of Weblin (formerly known as Zweitgeist).
So instead of logging in to a virtual world and flying your avatar to a virtual showroom of your favourite car manufacturer where he could inform [...]

vtiger CRM 5.0.3 release announced for April

vtiger announced today that the newest version of its popular open source CRM software is going to be released at the beginning of April.
I had installed their software some months ago and found it to be very powerful and promising, but still a bit too buggy for my taste. I’ll certainly have a look at [...]

Netobjects Fusion 7.5 kostenlos (upgradefähige Vollversion)

This post is available in German only as is the web site and software mentioned here.
Während meiner Recherchen zu dem unten genannten Site-Style-Problem habe ich ein interessantes Gratis-Angebot von nof-club.de gefunden: Unter diesem Link lässt sich die Vollversion von NOF 7.5 gratis herunterladen sowie die Registrierung zur Erteilung einer Seriennummer vornehmen. Beides funktionierte bei [...]