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Category: Utilities

Posted on May 22, 2025May 22, 2025

PDF OCR

This website does a great job of converting a PDF to an OCR PDF so you can search for text.

https://www.ilovepdf.com

Posted on May 14, 2025May 14, 2025

Docker Ask Gordon

From the command line, sample

docker ai can I containerize this application?

Docker has an Docker MCP Toolkit

https://www.docker.com/blog/announcing-docker-mcp-catalog-and-toolkit-beta/

Posted on May 8, 2025

Cursor Generate Cursor Rules

Automated and improved rules

You can now generate rules directly from a conversation using the /Generate Cursor Rules command. This is useful when you want to capture the existing context of a conversation to reuse later.

Refer: https://www.cursor.com/changelog

Posted on February 26, 2025

dBeaver Script Cleanup

Click on Projects and Choose "Scripts" folder and delete all of the old scripts.

Posted on February 2, 2025

dBeaver-CE Exports

Remember when you export dBeaver settings some of the files are hidden, which means they start with a period.

Posted on February 1, 2025

New AI Tools

AI Search Enging
https://www.perplexity.ai/search

AI IDE Editor built on Visual Studio Code
https://www.cursor.com/

Posted on January 16, 2025

Macbook Closing Windows with Mission Control

You can cmd+tab, and then while still holding command press Q over any app you want to quit, and then tab onto the next

Posted on December 26, 2024December 26, 2024

Refresh local applications in Ubuntu 22.04

When using menu libre you want it to pickup the new application settings, right away.

#!/bin/bash

# Show a notification that the app is launching
notify-send "Refreshing ~/.local/share/applications/"

update-desktop-database ~/.local/share/applications/
Posted on December 11, 2024

Edmonds Library WiFi Hotspot

Search for

Wi-Fi Hotspot To Go

Refer:

Wi-Fi Hotspot to Go

Raw:

https://sno-isle.bibliocommons.com/v2/search?query=Wi-Fi%20Hotspot%20To%20Go&searchType=smart

Posted on November 26, 2024November 26, 2024

Search Monkey Text Search Tool for Ubuntu 22.04

GUI Text Search Tool

sudo apt install searchmonkey

If the application icon is missing, try the following:

sudo nano /usr/share/applications/searchmonkey.desktop

Use the following image, verify it exists.

/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/searchmonkey.png

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