There are many pdf that are just packages of JPG-ed pages. And I want to use zip instead of the pdf package format.
So , which software can extract original pictures out ? I mean not just "print" to jpg or png, but extract CCITTs to tif, extract JPEG2000 to jpx, extract jpg to the same jpg, ...

Here's another fun tech web comic. Now have some fun!

One of the fun fringe benefits of working on the technology team at MSNBC.com is the occasional opportunity to submit an article for consideration on the editorial side, which is how this one happened: Long Road to Recovery Ahead for Bears Fans.
Good times. Takes me back to the old days.

http://www.bugbash.net/

I've written before about why i think the purely automated collective voting systems like digg are inherently flawed in the sense that they are inevitably abused and in the sense that voting patterns become less about voting for relevant links and more about voting for catchy headlines [see some posts of mine here].

Today emily chang writes about a new web service like digg which has a critical differences -- votes are used simply to determine when a threshold is reached for a human editor (domain expert) should actually review the item and post about it.

It doesn't address all of my concerns (the voting is still susceptible to information cascased, etc.) but the use of domain expert editors is a great step forward..

Utilises "collective intelligence"
Anyone can recommend a Dfinitive site, and once a site has been given 100 recommendations it is then reviewed by a human editor.

Edited by humans to ensure quality
Some bookmarking sites are open to spamming and the categorisation can be confusing, so we use human editors to ensure quality and to help organise the sites

Endorsed by Experts in each category
Experts from each field are used as the final double check to ensure that only the very best site actually get listed in Dfinitive

http://dfinitive.com/

Google AdSense is designed to help you make money from your blog.

Google AdSense is probably one of the most popular revenue generators in the Web. We hear the stories about bloggers-genies, who manage to turn their blogs into cash machines overnight. However, it’s not that simple to find the actual tips, which stick to Google policies, might increase your revenues and don’t try to trick out the readers of your weblog.
We’ve spent several hours, trying to find out, what might increase your Google AdSense income and which tools you can use to observe and track your revenues...

http://www.smashingm...acts-faqs-and-tools/

Here is an interesting blog post warning programmers not to use Adobe's new Apollo Software Platform

Why would someone want to lock themselves into a proprietary, closed platform - like Apollo?
Unfortunately none of the (so-called) analyst, experts out there plugging Adobe - has brought this up yet. I’m not sure why they think that desktop based apps - connected to the Internet - are so new or different - or why locking yourself into an Adobe platform is smart, but both Scoble, Wilson and Arrington seem to love it.

http://blog.broadban...ther-closed-platform

Here are some great templates to help you speed up document creation. Take the one in the image, for example. I'm not sure exactly what, but there's something about that one that I really like

WordFusion is a powerful Forms and Document Automation solution. It can be used to deploy electronic forms solutions to gather information efficiently and automate the production of documents or reports.  WordFusion forms can be integrated with Access databases, Excel spreadsheets and most other data sources to make the most of your organization's information.

http://wordfusion.com.au/