Software For Chatting On Facebook

Do you still have problems with the chat on facebook? fTalk, Facebook Talk, is a new program that allows you to chat on Facebook right from your desktop, messenger style.

Why fTalk?

• Faster and more accessible than Facebook chat
• No need to open Facebook
• Get notified when friends come online
• Update your status right from the app
• Free and easy to use
• Cool emoticons

Once connected you will see the list of your friends, and when one of them "will" receive an online notification.The application also includes many emoticons included!

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Keyboard Shortcuts for Microsoft Word

Microsoft Word has got a large number of keyboard shortcuts. If we are familiar with these shortcuts it is much easier to use the MS word, and can use less times the mouse.

Below lists the major shortcuts keys in MS word.

 Action for Shortcut 

Shortcut Keys	Description
Ctrl + 0	Adds or removes 6pts of spacing before a paragraph.
Ctrl + A	Select all contents of the page.
Ctrl + B	Bold highlighted selection.
Ctrl + C	Copy selected text.
Ctrl + E	Aligns the line or selected text to the center of the screen.
Ctrl + F	Open find box.
Ctrl + I	Italic highlighted selection.
Ctrl + J	Aligns the selected text or line to justify the screen.
Ctrl + K	Insert link.
Ctrl + L	Aligns the line or selected text to the left of the screen.
Ctrl + M	Indent the paragraph.
Ctrl + P	Open the print window.
Ctrl + R	Aligns the line or selected text to the right of the screen.
Ctrl + T	Create a hanging indent.
Ctrl + U	Underline highlighted selection.
Ctrl + V	Paste.
Ctrl + X	Cut selected text.
Ctrl + Y	Redo the last action performed.
Ctrl + Z	Undo last action.
Ctrl + Shift + L	Quickly create a bullet point.
Ctrl + Shift + F	Change the font.
Ctrl + Shift + >	Increase selected font +1pts up to 12pt and then increases font +2pts.
Ctrl + ]	Increase selected font +1pts.
Ctrl + Shift + <	Decrease selected font -1pts if 12pt or lower, if above 12 decreases font by +2pt.
Ctrl + [	Decrease selected font -1pts.
Ctrl + / + c	Insert a cent sign (¢).
Ctrl + ' + <char>	Insert a character with an accent (grave) mark, where <char> is the character you want. For example, if you wanted an accented è you would use Ctrl + ' + e as your shortcut key. To reverse the accent mark use the opposite accent mark, often on the tilde key.
Ctrl + Shift + *	View or hide non printing characters.
Ctrl + <left arrow>	Moves one word to the left.
Ctrl + <right arrow>	Moves one word to the right.
Ctrl + <up arrow>	Moves to the beginning of the line or paragraph.
Ctrl + <down arrow>	Moves to the end of the paragraph.
Ctrl + Del	Deletes word to right of cursor.
Ctrl + Backspace	Deletes word to left of cursor.
Ctrl + End	Moves the cursor to the end of the document.
Ctrl + Home	Moves the cursor to the beginning of the document.
Ctrl + Spacebar	Reset highlighted text to the default font.
Ctrl + 1	Single-space lines.
Ctrl + 2	Double-space lines.
Ctrl + 5	1.5-line spacing.
Ctrl + Alt + 1	Changes text to heading 1.
Ctrl + Alt + 2	Changes text to heading 2.
Ctrl + Alt + 3	Changes text to heading 3.
Alt + Ctrl + F2	Open new document.
Ctrl + F1	Open the Task Pane.
Ctrl + F2	Display the print preview.
Ctrl + Shift + >	Increases the highlighted text size by one.
Ctrl + Shift + <	Decreases the highlighted text size by one.
Ctrl + Shift + F6	Opens to another open Microsoft Word document.
Ctrl + Shift + F12	Prints the document.
F1	Open Help.
F4	Repeat the last action performed (Word 2000+)
F5	Open the find, replace, and go to window in Microsoft Word.
F7	Spellcheck and grammar check selected text or document.
F12	Save as.
Shift + F3	Change the text in Microsoft Word from uppercaseto lowercase or a capital letter at the beginning of every word.
Shift + F7	Runs a Thesaurus check on the word highlighted.
Shift + F12	Save.
Shift + Enter	Create a soft break instead of a new paragraph.
Shift + Insert	Paste.
Shift + Alt + D	Insert the current date.
Shift + Alt + T	Insert the current time.

In addition to the above shortcut keys users can also use their mouse as a method of quickly do something commonly performed. Below some are examples of mouse shortcuts.

Mouse shortcuts	Description
Click, hold, and drag	Selects text from where you click and hold to the point you drag and let go.
Double-click	If double-click a word, selects the complete word.
Double-click	Double-clicking on the left, center, or right of a blank line will make the alignment of the text left, center, or right aligned.
Double-click	Double-clicking anywhere after text on a line will set a tab stop.
Triple-click	Selects the line or paragraph of the text the mouse triple-clicked.
Ctrl + Mouse wheel	Zooms in and out of document.

 Shortcut for Action 

Action	Keybord shortcut
Application window-maximize	Alt-F10
Application window-previous	Alt-Shift-F6
Application window-restore	Alt-F5
AutoFormat	Ctrl-Alt-K
AutoText-create	Alt-F3
AutoText-insert entry	Ctrl-Alt-V
AutoText-insert	entry F3
Bold	Ctrl-B
Bookmarks	Ctrl-Shift-F5
Break-column	Ctrl-Shift-Enter
Break-page	Ctrl-Enter
Browse a document	Ctrl-Alt-Home
Browse next/previous item	Ctrl-PgDn/PgUp
Capatilize word	shift+f3
Case-All Caps	Ctrl-Shift-A
Close	Ctrl-F4
Close	Ctrl-W
Copy	Ctrl + C
Copy formatting	Ctrl-Shift-C
Create a nonbreaking hyphen	CTRL+HYPHEN
Create a nonbreaking space	CTRL+SHIFT+SPACEBAR
Customize a menu	Ctrl-Alt =
Customize a shortcut	Ctrl-Alt-Num +
Cut	Ctrl-X
Date Field	Alt-Shift-D
Decrease font size	CTRL+SHIFT+<
Dialog box next tabbed section	Ctrl-Tab
Dialog box previous tabbed section	Ctrl-Shift-Tab
Document window-move	Ctrl-F7
Document window-restore	Ctrl-F5
Document window-size	Ctrl-F8
Drawing-constrain shape to symmetrical	Shift-drag
Drawing-draw from center	Ctrl-drag
Ellipsis	Ctrl-Alt-
Em Dash	Ctrl-Alt-Num -
Endnote	Ctrl-Alt-E
Exit application	Alt-F4
Fields-display code	Shift-F9
Fields-display codes (toggle)	Alt-F9
Fields-double-click in field	Alt-Shift-F9
Fields-insert blank field	Ctrl-F9
Fields-lock a field	Ctrl-3
Fields-lock a field	Ctrl-F11
Fields-next	field F11
Fields-previous field	Shift-F11
Fields-unlink a field	Ctrl-6
Fields-unlink a field	Ctrl-Shift-F9
Fields-unlock a field	Ctrl-4
Fields-unlock a field	Ctrl-Shift-F11
Fields-update	Alt-Shift-U
Fields-update link in source	Ctrl-Shift-F7
Fields-update selected	field F9
Find	Find Ctrl + F
Font	Ctrl-D
Font	Ctrl-Shift-F
Font grow/shrink 1 pt	Ctrl- ] or [
Font next/previous size	Ctrl-Shift- >or <
Font Size Ctrl-Shift-P	Font Size Ctrl-Shift-P
Footnote	Ctrl-Alt-F
Create a new blank document	Ctrl + N
Go Back	Ctrl-Alt-Z
Go Back	Shift-F5
GoTo	Ctrl-G
GoTo Next/Previous Paragraph	Ctrl-Up/Down
GoTo Next/Previous Word	Ctrl-Left/Right
Graphic-crop	Shift-drag
Graphic-original proportions	Ctrl-click
Hanging indent-decrease	Ctrl-Shift-T
Hanging Indent-increase	Ctrl-T
Hard hyphen -	Ctrl-Shift -
Hard space	Hard space
Header/Footer-link to previous	Alt-Shift-R
Heading Level 1	Ctrl-Alt-1
Heading Level 2	Ctrl-Alt-2
Heading Level 3	Ctrl-Alt-3
Help	F1
Help-Whats This?	Shift-F1
Hidden text	Ctrl-Shift-H
Hyperlink	Ctrl-K
CTRL+SHIFT+>	Increase font size
Indent-decrease	Ctrl-Shift-M
Indent-increase	Ctrl-M
Ctrl-Alt-M	Insert Comment
Insert ListNum	field Ctrl-Alt-L
Italics	Ctrl-I
Justify-Center	Ctrl-E
Justify-Full	Ctrl-J
Justify-Left	Ctrl-L
Justify-Right	Ctrl-R
Line-spacing	Ctrl-1
Line-spacing 1.5	Ctrl-5
Line-spacing 2	Ctrl-2
List Bullet Style	Ctrl-Shift-L
Macros-edit	Alt-F8
Macros-view VBA code	Alt-F11
Mark-Index entry	Alt-Shift-X
Mark-TOA citation	Alt-Shift-I
Mark-TOC entry	entry Alt-Shift-O
Maximize window	Ctrl-F10
Menu Bar	F10
Merge-data edit	Alt-Shift-E
Merge-field insert	Alt-Shift-F
Merge-preview	Alt-Shift-K
Merge-to document	Alt-Shift-N
Merge-to printer	Alt-Shift-M
Microsoft Script Editor	Alt-Shift-F11
Microsoft System Info	Ctrl-Alt-F1
Move between master/subdocument	Ctrl-\
Newline within paragraph	Shift-Enter
Next window	Ctrl-F6
Nonprinting characters	Ctrl-Shift-8
Normal Style Ctrl-Shift-N	Ctrl-Shift-N
Open a document	Ctrl-O
Open	Ctrl + O Opens a saved document
Outlining-collapse	Alt-Shift-Num -
Outlining-expand	Alt-Shift =
Outlining-expand	Alt-Shift-Num +
Outlining-move	Alt-Shift-Up/Down
Outlining-promote/demote	Alt-Shift-Left/Right
Outlining-Show 1st line	Alt-Shift-L
Outlining-Show All Headings	Alt-Shift-A
Outlining-Show Heading 1	Alt-Shift-1
Outlining-Show Heading 2	Alt-Shift-2
Outlining-Show Heading 3	Alt-Shift-3
Outlining-Show Heading 4	Alt-Shift-4
Outlining-Show Heading 5	Alt-Shift-5
Outlining-Show Heading 6	Alt-Shift-6
Outlining-Show Heading 7	Alt-Shift-7
Outlining-Show Heading 8	Alt-Shift-8
Outlining-Show Heading 9	Alt-Shift-9
Page number field	Alt-Shift-P
Pane-Close	Alt-Shift-C
Paragraph Space Above (add/delete 12 pt.)Ctrl-0	Ctrl-0 (zero)
Paste	Ctrl-V
Print	Ctrl-P
Print Preview	Ctrl-Alt-I
Redo the last action	CTRL+Y
Remove Character formats	Ctrl-Shift-Z
Remove menu item	Ctrl-Alt -
Remove Paragraph formats	Ctrl-Q
Remove paragraph or character formatting	CTRL+SPACEBAR
Repeat the last command	Ctrl-Y
Repeat Find	Ctrl-Alt-Y
Repeat Find Shift-F4	Repeat Find Shift-F4
Replace	Ctrl-H
Revision Marks on/off	Ctrl-Shift-E
Save As	F12
Save	Ctrl-S
Select All	Ctrl-A
Selection extended	F8
Selection reduced	Shift-F8
Shortcut Menu	Shift-F10
Small Caps	Ctrl-Shift-K
Soft hyphen -	Ctrl -
Spelling and Grammar check	F7
Spell-It-display next misspelling	Alt-F7
Spike-cut to	Ctrl-F3
Spike-paste	Ctrl-Shift-F3
Split a window	Ctrl-Alt-S
Style box	Ctrl-Shift-S
Subscript	Ctrl =
Symbol Font	Ctrl-Shift-Q
Table-remove border lines	Ctrl-Alt-U
Table-to column	bottom Alt-PgDn
Table-to column top	Alt-PgUp
Table-to row beginning	Alt-Home
Table-to row end	Alt-End
Thesaurus	Shift-F7
Time Field	Alt-Shift-T
To bottom/top of screen	Ctrl-Alt-PgDn/PgUp
Type (c)	Ctrl-Alt-C
Type (r)	Ctrl-Alt-R
Type (tm)	Ctrl-Alt-T
underline	CTRL+U
Underline-double	Ctrl-Shift-D
Underline-word	Ctrl-Shift-W
Undo	Ctrl-Z
View-Normal	Ctrl-Alt-N
View-Outline	Ctrl-Alt-O
View-Page	Ctrl-Alt-P
Window pane-next	F6
Window pane-previous	Shift-F6

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Extract text from pdfs and images with GIMAGEREADER

gImageReader is a graphical GTK frontend to tesseract-ocr, a free software optical character recognition (OCR) engine.

Tesseract is a raw OCR engine, with no document layout analysis, no output formatting and no graphical user interface (GUI).

gImageReader processes an image or PDF file from which it creates text. It supports selecting columns and parts of the document, it can open multipage PDF files or images, supports all formats, can transmit a selected area to Tesseract for recognition and spell check the output.

Optional: Install Tesseract OCR 3.0 SVN in Ubuntu Lucid and MAverick

Tesseract OCR 3.0 is still in development but in my tests it worked much better then the current stable version. Further more, the PPA below comes with a lot of extra Tessaract language files so I suggest installing the latest Tesseract OCR 3.0 SVN. This is however is optional!

Warning: you must add the PPA, install the latest Tesseract and then disable the PPA as it contains a lot of bleeding edge packages!

Add the PPA and install Tesseract OCR 3.0 SVN:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:alex-p/notesalexp
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install tesseract-ocr tesseract-ocr-eng

You can install some extra languages from this PPA, such as Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, Finnish, Indonesian, Hungarian, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Romanian, Spanish and so on. Simply search for "tesseract-ocr" in Synaptic and you should easily find all these packages - install the ones you'll need later on.

Now you must disable the PPA: press ALT + F2 and enter:

gksu software-properties-gtk

Then, on the "Other Software" tab look for the line(s) that says "http://ppa.launchpad.net/alex-p/notesalexp" and either disable it or delete it.

gImageReader

gImageReader is available for Linux and Windows and can be downloaded from HERE(.deb, .rpm and .exe files are available).

To use gImageReader, select the PDF or image you want to extract the text from and click "Recognize all" for the whole page or use your mouse to draw a selection and then click "Recognize selection" to extract only a part of the document.

If you've installed the Tesseract Ocr language for the PDF or image you're trying to open, gImageReader will automatically detect the language.

Thanks to LFFL for the gImageReader tip!

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How To Add A Folder Shortcut To The Taskbar In Windows 7

Windows 7 allows pinning program shortcuts to the taskbar, but what if you want to pin a folder shortcut. Here is the simple solution i want to share with you.

You can outsmart Windows by creating an executable file that actually takes you to the target folder. The process is very simple. First, create a text file and gigve it the name of the shortcut you want on the taskbar, followed by the extension ‘.exe’. You will see the icon change from a text file to that of an executable. If this doesn’t happen, use the command line interface of DOS to do it. Right -click on this file and select the option ‘Pin to Taskbar’. Now, navigate to the target folder, hold the [Shift] key down, right-click and select ‘Copy as path’ from thecontextmenu.

Now, come back to the desktop, right-click on the dummy icon, which is already pinned to the taskbar. From the content menu, scroll to the file name and right-click again. From this content menu, select ‘Properties’. Her, under the shortcut tab, erase the path from the ‘Target’ field and paste the path saved in the clipboard. The pinned shortcut in now ready to use and will take you directly into the target folder. You can delete the dummy executable file from the desktop.

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