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Freeware: PDF Converter + Merger

…once you get into college/uni, PDF files are you best buddy!
be it lecture notes, reports, assignments or coursework, you’ll be asked to send it in in pdf format – that is if you have to submit it electronically of course! haha

******************* PDF Converter ****************************

Before this, as I was using the old Microsoft Office, I used freeware to convert from mword to pdf file. My favourite?

DOPDF

how to use it? well, when you want to convert any files; doesn’t matter from Paint or Microsoft Word, it works in everything! I do use it a lot especially when I want my codes to retain its colour (copy paste from Notepad++ if you’re writing C in it, the various colours for comments, loops etc are lost) so the way out is, make a pdf of it, then copy paste from the pdf into Microsoft Word
Kudos to Arif for letting me know about pdf retain the colours when copy paste into Microsoft Word. I nearly bang my head when I had to write my report, and when I need to include the codes that I was using, it looks ugly being all black haha
Pdf format is awesomesause!

OPENOFFICE

I wasn’t a fan of Microsoft Office back then; so I was using OpenOffice for a year or two
I really like it, and the best thing about it back then was.. there is an option to save as pdf file
As everyone has Microsoft Office 2007, I don’t think anyone would go for OpenOffice because of that, right? Microsoft Office.. well Microsoft Word 2007 has that option now w00t!
AWESOME! it’s FREE! It’s similar to Microsoft Office

MICROSOFT WORD 2007

The option to save as a pdf file is not included when you first install it
I never know about it before until my dad mentioned about it. So I googled a bit since it got me curious and bam! found it!
By the way, I highlighted the wrong option haha – that is if I wanted to use Acrobat Writer
The one installed would be the PDF or XPS

I personally find that it’s better if you have a few of those that I mentioned (or something else) because in my case, sometimes MWord pdf screw up the formatting that I used for my file such as, lines disappear etc
Things like that do happen Well.. I need doPDF and MWord since I’m working of various programs/softwares haha

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Anyway, isn’t it annoying to have several pdf files when it could be combined into one?
Here goes something AWESOME again

I was googling for it since my lecture notes come in week; meaning I have a set of lecture note every week. Wouldn’t it be nice to have all in one? By that, I don’t need to open each files when I move on into the next set of lecture notes, right?

MERGEPDF.NET

If you have super speed internet, then this would be an option for you
you simply upload the files, it will merge it; and then you’ll need to download the merged file

PDFSAM

It looks nice, clean interface and it also provides a tutorial on how to use it haha
pretty handy, I’m loving it!

PDF-REDIRECT

It got pretty nice reviews/feedbacks from people that used it
I wanted to use this, but PDFSam interface is more to my liking hehe
but anyway, it’s an alternative to use

If you’re using something else, feel free to share
There are always pros and cons with these freeware; some got extra functions some don’t
but nevertheless, it does what it says

Gotcha!

…while waiting for the Friday prayer to end, I was secretly snapping photos lol
These are all taken using 70-300mm
and it’s the Blue Mosque

Dead End

Istanbul Snapshots!

None of these photos are edited
just a quick sneak peak I suppose hehe

It’s from my facebook album: Istanbul 2009

Proper photos of inside the Blue Mosque, Hagia Sophia and Topkapi coming up in the next posts
I haven’t got the time to post process those

HAGIA SOPHIA

BLUE MOSQUE

TOPKAPI

GRAND BAZAAR

..somewhere near it lol

TAKSIM

Blue Mosque

When I was in Istanbul, my family and I went there twice
It really is a nice huge mosque
I did went inside, it’s BEAUTIFUL!

My dad and bro went there for Friday prayer
How lucky is that! w00t!

I wish I could go there again
The days when I were there, the weather didn’t turn out that good
Pretty much I didn’t get much decent shots of the mosque
What a shame!

Anyway, as I’m not feeling that great, here goes more black and white photos
Seriously, these photos look better in black and white
Why? Because I say so haha
– and obviously because I’m rather gloomy myself; been in a really foul mood
if growing up is this hard, how I wish I could stay as a kid forever

Other photos can be seen in my facebook album as usual

Out

IstanGULL?

…the weather in London is getting worse
Is it just me or London seems to snow a lot this time? As I recall, when I was first here, it only snowed heavily ONCE! then the next years, it snowed more than than and now… well, I lost count haha

Obviously it’s fun when it snowing but after a while, it starts to annoy me
…and it’s freezing cold! grrrrr~

Anyway, I only went out today to pick up the heater that I ordered a few days ago haha
I’d NEVER go out ever again until the frost is over! lol – yeah right haha
It’s way too slippery! urghhh no fun, there not much snow, only frost

The weather forecast predicted that tomorrow is going to be a sunny day w00t! but might snow again on Saturday bleehhhh~

Aaaaanyway, I post processed more Istanbul photos
and this time.. not yet Blue Mosque just seagulls hehe

Someone was feeding them with bread, thus I was able to snap some photos of seagulls in action haha

p/s: I’m not in the best mood lately, so I tend not to communicate with anyone much including replying comments, bloghopping as everything I read pissed me off. Nothing personal, really. I’m just in a rather foul mood as it seems like my final year project doesn’t improve much. I fixed one of my biggest mistake in my code yesterday after struggling for 4 days, but it turns out that the changes that I did effect others which I’m still trying to figure out which part was affected… and, I still haven’t manage to set the simulation automatically, what Unix code do I need? .ini? urghhh!!! and.. there’s database stuffs to read up – and I had some problem with installing labSQL. Stress? I feel like beating someone up! lol

And.. I need to sleep at the right time now haha. I tend to think 5am is way too early to go to bed. Something is terribly wrong with my brain it seems! no wonder I feel as if I’ve gotten crazy!

I’m ranting, aren’t I? hehe
Enjoy those photos and hopefully I’ll be back in shape soon

ISTANBUL? woooohoo~

I finally get around and post processed more photos from my Istanbul trip
There are still a lot more to go *puke* hehe

Anyway, hopefully I could finish with it before uni starts again next week
I still have photos of a football match that I haven’t gone through haha – West Ham vs Chelsea which was on the 20th Dec 2009; it came out as a draw 1-1
…and might have new photos of Chelmsford, Mid Essex
a nice place with frost all over the place hehe pretty sceneries. I’m not sure how my photos came out as, as I haven’t transfer those photos into my laptop yet lol

Enjoy Istanbul photos for now!

I like the last photo haha
The masjid is called Mihrimah Sultan Camii

Blue mosque aka Sultanahmed coming up… next post?

Hello ISTANBUL!

…since I don’t want to say Hello 2010, I opted for this title instead
new year means less time before lots of deadlines no good

Anyway, I was in Istanbul during the first week of my sem break; for 5 days and totally enjoyed every second of it!
I finally went through some of the photos; well.. only photos during the 1st and 2nd day that my family and I were there haha
3 more folders to go through!

Istanbul? Apart from it’s hard to communicate with people, it’s a nice place and the temperature is just nice it gets cold at night but it’s way better than London lol
totally a great escape from London winter!

Enjoy some photos more to come!
Not my best shots; but.. oh well~

Now.. back doing my final year project!
I just realized that I did some mistakes within my script generator (yes my program generate script before doing simulation..)
I’m hoping that I don’t need to redo much
…pshhh it seems like I wasted worth 2 days code for nothing I had to redo it *shot self* and it more likely going to take longer as I’ve forgotten what the code that I wrote for do damn me and my short term memory!
I wish I’m still in Istanbul at this moment…