Scanimage is a command-line interface to control image acquisition devices such as flatbed scanners or cameras. The device is controlled via command-line options. After command-line processing, scanimage normally proceeds to acquire an image. The image data is written to standard output in one of the PNM (portable aNyMaP) formats (PBM for black-and-white images, PGM for grayscale images, and PPM for[…]
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Free and opensource stock market trading tools
Here is a list of free trading and investment resources. Some are open source, but not all and, mostly, they are all online. The purpose of this list is to give ordinary users who are interested in the stock market and shares the opportunity to complete accurate research and feasible trading analysis. We put here the incredible resource made available[…]
Read moreKeyword Researcher. A free software application to discover Long Tail Keywords
SEO, aka Search Engine Optimization, is the set of strategies and practices aimed at increasing the visibility of a website by improving its position in the search engine rankings, in non-paid results pure and organic results. These practices are manifold and concern different aspects of a website: optimization of the site structure, HTML code, textual content, management of incoming links[…]
Read moreEmail is unsafe and cannot be made safe. So stop using encrypted email
The tools we have today to encrypt email are badly flawed. Even if those flaws were fixed, email would remain unsafe. Its problems cannot plausibly be mitigated. Avoid encrypted email. Technologists hate this argument. Few of them specialize in cryptography or privacy, but all of them are interested in it, and many of them tinker with encrypted email tools. Most[…]
Read moreAuto-CPUfreq. A battery optimization tool for Linux laptops
Using this auto-cpufreq tool on all the Intel Linux laptops we have, it seems to us to be a program worthy of note and of attention. It does what it promises and it is easy to make working as a service. It serves to adjust aspects of the CPU (Intel only for the moment… sigh!) dynamically, depending on the load,[…]
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