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Windows 7: How to modify what program opens a batch file?
I remember in Windows XP where you could edit file associations to not only change what program would open certain files, but edit individual items in a file's right-click context menu. You could ...
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Command-line tool to split video at timepoints?
I have an hour-long video that I want to split into individual clips at arbitrary timepoints. I could do this by hand in iMovie, or even borrow a machine with Final Cut, but there are upwards of ...
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How do I crop or black out personal information from a large number of short video clips
I have a large number (1000+) of very short (<20s) .avi that show captured medical imaging data.
These images need to be published for public distribution.
I need to crop/blur/black out the ...
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How to edit specific part of large text file efficiently? [closed]
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Is there a text editor for very big files?
How to edit specific part of large text file efficiently? The text file is has only ASCII characters and is about 500 MB. I ...
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How to copy remote machines text to local machines clipboard through SSH?
I work on a remote machine through ssh. I have a very large text file there (approx. 500 lines) which I usually need to modify, then copy the contents of that file and paste it in my local browser. ...
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In Notepad ++, how do I make it split long lines in several rows?
I usually use Notepad ++ for coding, but recently I started doing some writing in it as well. Writing usually implies long paragraphs with no line breaks, and those are displayed in one row, which is ...
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Flatbed Document Scanner
I have a flatbed scanner hooked up to my older WinXP machine. When I hit the scan button it brings up the prompt asking to what program I want to run. Is there a registry edit, program that will allow ...
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In Emacs, how to reformat an edited paragraph so the line breaks are properly reinserted?
In Emacs, I have a paragraph of text, which is already properly wrapped at, say 79th column on each row, then you edit it, adding some text on some of the rows, how to reformat the edited paragraph so ...
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Which is best program for image editing a portion of a page without having to cut and paste?
I do layouts of photos 8 to a page - each in separate photo border box and received in .pdf format. I would like to be able to do separate editing to each one (for contrast...lighten, darken, etc..) ...
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How to type a Unicode character by its number in Emacs?
How to type a Unicode character by its number, e.g. 0x2E3B for Unicode character U+2E3B (THREE-EM DASH) in Emacs?
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When trying to edit OS X app (Unix Executable File)
I want to know how to edit the binary file in a Mac app. The file found in foo.app/Contents/MacOS/foo...
Whenever I try editing it with TextMate, it saves fine. But then I try opening the app, it ...
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How to efficiently type in a pair of XML tags in Emacs?
How to efficiently type in a pair of XML tags such as <tag></tag> in Emacs?
I am hoping some sort of auto-complete behavior.
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How to comment a block of code in Emacs?
In Emacs, how to comment a block of text, i.e. how to indent a block of text rightward by n whitespace characters and put a chosen character sequence, say ##, at the beginning of each line?
Original
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What program can I use to paste a new face over another person? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
What is a good and free image editor? (Alternative to Photoshop)
I'm trying to paste the picture of a face over another person's face with a free program (i.e. not ...
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Modifiying a file in editor automatically
I'm trying to change a ppt to beamer. Here's the strategy I'm following:
Copy all bullets from the ppt (open office)
Paste it in an editor (gedit?)
Hit save. (Here, it should call the sed script ...
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Is there any free way to write on a PDF form? [closed]
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Free PDF Editor for Windows
I have been sent a form as a scanned PDF (it has no fields). There are several online tools that can be used to fill it in such as ...
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Cropping tables of text as images in Office for Mac
I've got an MS Word doc on my Mac with a table of text I need to save as a picture, crop and then upload to Blogspot. I am able to do this easily using Picture Manager on Windows.
The problem is ...
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Fixing line wrap using OS X terminal window
I'm new to Mac OSX but I've used BSD "boxes" to successfully run an old newsreader called TRN on. We did manage to get it to compile and it runs pretty well normally. The latest problem I have is with ...
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Remote sudo edit in Vim
How can I edit a remote file with sudo?
I have ssh/scp access to remote server, and passwordless sudo on it.
I want to edit /etc/some/file as remote root, so I ran:
$ Vi ...
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How can I edit the markup of a note in Evernote directly (Windows)?
I am looking to be able to remove, and update notes within the Windows Evernote client.
The editor is moderately powerful, but I would like to edit the markup directly.
I'm not even sure if Evernote ...
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How to color highlight text in a black/white document easily
I am editing a 96 chapter book. The text is in normal black letters on a white background. What I want to be able to do is:
I want to have any changes or additions automatically shown in another ...
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Audio editor that supports editing cue-sheets with preview?
I have a flac file (which can be converted to wav, if required) and its original cue sheet, is there any audio editor (freeware would be better) that allows me to adjust the start/stop position of the ...
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is it possible to comment (and edit) a copy of a comment-disabled pdf?
I would like to know if it is possible to freely add comments to (and edit in general) a comment-disabled pdf saved with "save a copy" feature.
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SQL Server 2008 Management Studio - Edit Rows with Where clause
There is an option to edit rows in a grid - first 200 by default.
In Tools -> Options -> Sql Server Object Explorer, you can set the value for "Edit Top N rows".
I have a table with 200000 ...
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How to add elements over video
I was watching this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCSBoOcGFFE
And I'm wondering what kind of software you would need in order to take the original and add in the over-layed objects (e.g. the ...
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Most efficient way of having an object move across a video?
I have a still image that I would like to utilize to move across a .wmv file I have. What is the easiest and most proficient way I can accomplish this without having to go frame by frame? I wasn't ...
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In which program I can generate signal with 3 harmonics 1000Hz frequency?
Generate signal with main harmonic - 1000Hz frequency and two other harmonics (second and third) with the same frequency.
I found Audacity but I don't know how to do such there. Help me please.
P.S. I ...
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Filter Entries in a Large Text File Based on Whitelist
Good day. I could really use your help on this one. I have a stats text file in the following format.
ID=1000000
Name=Name1
Field1=Value1
...(Fields 2 to 25)
Field26=Value26
ID=1000001
...
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What type of video editing software and resources would be recommended for a beginner?
Ultimately this is the style that I would like to learn how to do:
http://www.picturelab.tv/
I have very little experience outside of basic video editing with free programs (e.g., Windows Movie ...
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Edit a shape with Visio 2010?
In previous Visio version I was able to "open" shapes which opened up a new drawing containing only the shape. In this mode you could edit/change/modify (e.g. remove certain parts) shapes that come ...
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Any application to create images that contain text (like buttons)?
I am developing a blog and I want to put in title images like this:
Can anyone suggest good desktop application that does this? It shouldn't be difficult to use.
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AWK CSV stream editing, merge third columns for identical first columns when second column >= 0
I'm on Windows and have only heard of linuxes awk etc so I can only imagine that this is possible without actual scripting:
I have data like
..
162 42 A single serving
162 62 of ...
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How to edit the photoshop patterns?
I wonder if there is a possibility to edit the source image of the patterns from the preset manager in photoshop. On right click on a pattern the only options are Delete Pattern and Rename Pattern.
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How to edit contents table of a pdf file?
Under linux, how do i edit the "contents" of a pdf file. I tried pdfedit but I cant find where the content table list is stored...
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Removing a line from a PDF document
I have a series of simple PDF documents that have a heading in them that I need to remove. The documents contain actual text, they're not silly Photo-based PDFs. I don't know what they were produced ...
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Editing PDF to remove section?
Someone sent me a PDF from which I need to cut a section.
Opening the document in LibreOffice didn't do, as it just shows the page as a big picture without a way to select a section of it.
When ...
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Is it possible to edit a PDF file directly?
I have a PDF file that is produced as part of a help file compilation. There is always late breaking stuff which goes into a text file (e.g. "What's new in this version" type of stuff) and while Help ...
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Excel: how to undo in current file only?
Microsoft Excel's undo / redo feature behaves unlike any other program I know. The undo stack seems to be global across all open files, so that undoing sometimes switches to another file and undoes ...
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Windows 7 edit the boot menu (Remember selection from boot to boot)
I've installed a computer with Windows XP and Windows 7 each in a different hard disk.
Boot menu works great, but... is it possible to make boot menu remember the selection from boot to boot?
I ...
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how to easly edit control file in deb package
Is there a way to easly edit control file in deb package. Doesnt matter on which system (linux, mac os etc.) Maybe someone knows a good script to make it automated?
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Does any operational systems differentiate between “edit” and “open”?
Using the java.awt.Desktop class in an application, I noticed that you can call various actions on files. It's possible to both call an edit - and open action on, say html files, which in theory then ...
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OpenOfficeOrg Calc: enter data into all selected cells?
I want to enter the same data (e.g. "superuser") into multiple cells in OpenOffice.Org Calc (version 3.3.0). In order to do so, I select all the cells I want the data to be entered in. However, only ...
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How can I indent multiple lines, and indent “backwards”, in gvim?
I'm just learning vim (via gvim, I used to be a Notepad++ user) and haven't yet found how to do 2 things:
How can I indent a set of rows x spaces/tabs right? In Notepad++, for example, I just ...
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Use vim to edit ANY text on Linux
I come from the Mac world, where I use http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/products/quickcursor to edit text from anywhere in Vim.
Is there anything like that on Linux ? I'm already using "It's All Text" ...
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Manipulating audio in AVI files
I'm looking to perform basic sound editing operations (applying low/high pass filters, eq, etc - to get rid of some annoying background buzz) to the audio in an AVI. Anyone familiar with any free or ...
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Vim: How to join multiples lines based on a pattern?
I want to join multiple lines in a file based on a pattern that both lines share.
This is my example:
{101}{}{Apples}
{102}{}{Eggs}
{103}{}{Beans}
{104}...
...
{1101}{}{This is a fruit.}
...
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Anyone know of a “live” markup/comments/revision FireFox/Chrome extension?
When I'm asked to do revisions on a Website, I usually have the non-technical editor print out pages in question with comments/revisions written in ink, but this obviously has it's drawbacks.
I was ...
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vim: how can i yank multiple lines into a register?
i want to yank multiple lines in a single register in vim, to easily paste different text templates in a document.
for example, "iyy yanks only the the current line, if i try to select multiple lines ...
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Add constant value to numeric XML attribute
Background
Add a constant value to numbers matched with a regular expression, using vim (gvim).
Problem
The following regular expression will match width="32":
/width="\([0-9]\{2\}\)"
Question
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i created a pdf from word with an add on and now need to edit this pdf?
i need to be able to edit the pdf found here:
link text
is there a free app i can download to edit this pdf or save as word and use a word file instead?
