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Using images in potential software book [closed]
I want to write a book on some new software, and I want to include images in this book (screenshots of the software). Do I need copyright permission from the developer, or can I just use the images?
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Keyword Search on Contents of All Books in Kindle Library
I have a growing collection of reference books in Kindle reader. I often find that I would like to search for keywords in all of these reference books simultaneously. I rarely know which book has ...
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Software for indexing a book & article collection [closed]
I actually don't know even if there's such a thing (googling didn't reveal much). In short, I'm looking for something that can put some sense & order into a chaotic (nah, it would take a day's ...
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How can I read a PDF document and use a dictionary at the same time?
Could anybody point we to a way how could I read a PDF from Chrome and use a dictionary (e.g. English dictionary extensions from Google)?
I wish to double click a word and choose "translate" (or ...
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Why do chm files that I have downloaded sometimes say that the address is not valid?
Why sometimes, I can't view the content of the chm files which I downloaded? It gives me something like this when I open it.
The address is not valid
Most likely causes: There might be a
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Which Linux book for aspiring sysadmin?
I have a co-worker who insists that he will never buy a book unless it is considered "THE" book. So, in this vein, I thought I'd ask what the ultimate Linux book is.
I wouldn't quite call myself a ...
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How to rearrange page in LaTeX or PDF?
I want to print document in double side two-up A4 paper,
Page folding:
/ 1,2
/ / 3,4
< <
|\ \ 6,5
| \ 8,7
|
| / 9,10
|/ / 11,12
< <
|\ \ 14,13
| \ 16,15
|
| / 17,18
|/ / 19,20
< ...
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Good books for learning Excel VBA [closed]
I want to learn how to use VBA. I spend around 2~3 hours making a report every week using Excel 2007 and I think I could benefit from knowing VBA well.
I already know programming and as such know a ...
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Books for understanding how computers work [closed]
I have been listening to a Podcast called "Security Now" and one of the shows presenters, "Steve Gibson" has been covering the basics of of how computers work. Topics include the basics from logic ...
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Open Source Software to Catalogue Books?
I have a library with about 300 programming books, which I would like to organize into a digital catalogue.
It should be accessible from Mac, Linux and Windows machines. A web app could work.
Any ...
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Best tool for writing a Programming Book?
Well, this is not directly programming related! But a friend of mine wants to write a book about programming. Now he asked me if I knew a good software for this, because Word crashes 10 times a day on ...
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System z primer?
I've worked a lot with more mid-range systems from IBM iSeries and pSeries. I'm having problems finding decent non-market-speak information on IBM System z/Mainframe. Yeah, I "get it" about ...
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Excel for programmers [closed]
Recently as part of my job I have had to edit and create a lot of excel spreadsheets. I am familiar with some Excel formulas but while editing the spreadsheets I don't feel that I'm using the full ...
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Extracting text from a .PDF scanned book
I have a scanned a book in PDF format, but the quality is rather poor:
(The language is Romanian and it's a medical physiology book, in case you were wondering)
I want to extract text from the ...
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Good reference book for OSX (non-obvious tips/tricks) [closed]
What are some good reference books for learning the subtleties of OSX? I found it fairly easy to pick up, but some things are kinda weird (like switching the default web browser, I had to get my ...
