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IrfanView mentions (3)

• Presenting two slides from a presentation at once on two different monitors

  It doesn't sound like you need animations or other effects here, just still images. If that's so, you could: Export the slides to high resolution images (at least high enough to match the highest resolution your projectors are capable of). Use a PC to drive each projector; the cheapest, oldest PC in the place will be more than adequate. Run a program that can fill the screen with an image (and if needed, switch... Source: about 1 year ago

• Is there a way to convert "photographed text" in to just "text" in a .pdf file?

  Scantailor (https://scantailor.org) is the tool for self-scanned books that exist in images (png, jpg, etc). However, I usually use Irfanview with PDF plugin (https://irfanview.com - download both Irfanview and the Plugins from this home page) I have elsewhere in r/PDF shown how you can do batch splitting of two-page scans, clean up muddy pages (yellowed or browned) . In the Reddit search box, search for... Source: over 1 year ago

• University is rough sometimes...

  From there, open your favorite image editor (I use & recommend irfanView BTW 😁) & paste it there. Then save it (I HIGHLY recommend saving it as a JPEG file). Source: over 2 years ago

AP News mentions (114)

• Show HN: A phone number to text with questions about current events

  Hi HN! For my senior thesis in CS, I built an SMS-based application to make journalism more accessible. It works like this: 1) You text the topics you're interested in to my phone number. Every day, you'll receive a text with 5 headlines from The Associated Press (https://apnews.com/) related to those topics. 2) If you have questions about any of the current events the headlines describe, you just text them back.... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago

• US Air Force DevOps Engineer Sets Himself on Fire in Protest War in Gaza

  Observe how news media treat story like this. https://time.com - first page, main story, no photos https://www.reuters.com - no mention https://apnews.com - first page, 2nd block in list, no photos https://www.nytimes.com - second page, tiny block in list, no photos https://www.washingtonpost.com - second page, tiny block, no photos https://www.theguardian.com/world - no mention https://www.aljazeera.com - first... - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Why are social media platforms still allowing this bs on their sites?

  If someone links to an article on the Associated Press's site (apnews.com) I'm fine with that. Source: 7 months ago

• ESPN redirecting to systemmeasures.life on Chrome

  Same thing on apnews.com. I am afraid it is widespread. Source: 8 months ago

• DAILY GEOPOLITICAL INSIGHTS: The Geopolitical News Roundup & Analysis for Monday, 18th September 2023

  IRAN-US PRISONER SWAPAP has reported that Iran and the US are poised to exchange prisoners after a figure of $6 Billion has been “unfrozen” and forwarded to Qatar who are acting as an “honest broker” to facilitate the asset swaps with the receipt of the funds confirmed by Nasser Kanaani a spokesman for the Iran Foreign Ministry before he went on to confirm the swap would take place later today. At this stage... Source: 10 months ago