Jun 30, 2009 Miscallenous
Mac users will be aware of two-finger scrolling for laptop touchpads. Here’s one for Windows laptops.
Two-Finger-Scroll is a project that lets Windows users to easily scroll a page up or down using two fingers simultaneously on their Synaptics TouchPads.
Currently supported gestures are are -
Two finger scrolling - scroll vertically by sliding two fingers anywhere on the TouchPad.
Two finger tapping - tap with two fingers to simulate a selected mouse button.
Note - I was unable to test this program as I didn’t have a laptop at the time of writing this.
Hope you find this useful.
Jun 24, 2009 Miscallenous
I had previously written about copying text from images. That method required a bit of work. Here’s a website that does the same, but with lot less effort.
Free OCR provides a really easy way to get text from an image. Just upload your image and the website extracts the text portions from the image. The extracted text can be copied. It did a decent job when I tested it; about 80-85% of the text was correctly extracted.
Free OCR has a few limitations though-
It only accepts PDF, JPG, GIF, TIFF and BMP files. You cannot use it for files greater than 2 MB in size. Images cannot be wider or higher than 5000 pixels. A limit of 10 images per hour also applies.
Off course, as the name suggests, its free!
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