Problem: You need to scan something with print on both sides of the page but your scanner only scans one side of a page. Something like a bank statement is what I’m after.
Solution: Automator to the rescue! Automator is included with your Mac and you likely have never used it. It’s really cool! I set up what you see here and with Image Capture I scan the odd pages and then the even pages, saving them to separate files. Running through this Automator workflow, I’m prompted to first pick the odd pages, then the even pages. Automator then interleaves the pages together and pops up my combined PDF in Preview. I can then save it off.
Ta-da!
Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch to leave Adobe, Going to Apple
Wait. Are we talking about the same guy? The chief defender of Flash?
“Some have been surprised at the lack of inclusion of Flash Player on a recent magical device.” Surely, this can’t be the same guy going to Apple.
Times change.
The University of Oxford on Monday announced it had temporarily blocked Google Docs on its campus. The Oxford University Computer Services department revealed that the service was being frequently used for illegal activities which threaten the security of the school’s systems and data.
How To Tell HTML from HTML5
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Senate votes to let the NSA keep spying on you without a warrant until 2017 | The Verge
Whistleblowers like former NSA codebreaker William Binney have long since revealed that surveillance programs catch hundreds of thousands of American citizens in their dragnet. But attempts to criticize the law have been blocked by the fact that no one — including the Senate’s intelligence committee — is allowed to know much of anything about how it actually works. That means this vote represented the last chance for Congress to enact meaningful review of surveillance activities for the next five years.
It’s gotten to the point
Where I have wanted to just “like” an email instead of sending a response.
Social Media…what have you done to me?
It costs just $1.36 to charge an iPad for a year
That coffee you’re drinking while gazing at your iPad? It cost more than all the electricity needed to run those games, emails, videos and news stories for a year.
The annual cost to charge an iPad is just $1.36, according to the Electric Power Research Institute, a non-profit research and development group funded by electric utilities.
By comparison, a 60-watt compact fluorescent bulb costs $1.61, a desktop PC adds up to $28.21 and a refrigerator runs you $65.72.
» via Yahoo! News
Seagate to buy LaCie for $186m as hard drive industry continues shrinking
The hard drive industry continues to contract: today Seagate announced that it will acquire boutique hard drive vendor LaCie at a total valuation of $186m.
The Right to Record - NYTimes.com
via NYTimes.com
The Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department took an important stand last week, declaring that citizens have a First Amendment right to videotape the actions of police officers in public places and that seizure or destruction of such recordings violates constitutional rights.
The Justice Department made the statement in a federal lawsuit brought against the Baltimore Police Department by Christopher Sharp, who used his cellphone to take video of the police arresting and beating a friend at Pimlico on the day of the 2010 Preakness. The officers took Mr. Sharp’s cellphone while he was recording and wiped the phone clean of all videos before returning it to him.
The Courts of Appeals for the First and Seventh Circuits have wisely found that the Constitution protects the right to videotape police officers while they perform official duties. The video taken by another witness of the beating at Pimlico shows that the right to record is crucial to holding police accountable for their actions.
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It is essential that the Justice Department and federal courts make clear that police departments will be held liable for violating this constitutionally protected right.
Intel outside.
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