Poor man's pdf diff tool

Recently a client shared updated requirement document, unfortunately the document was in PDF and I don’t want to go through 60+ pages of document for changes.

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Import Delicious bookmarks to Evernote including tags

It is unfortunate to know that Yahoo is going to shutdown/transfer the awesome Delicious bookmarking service.

Evernote does not support direct import of bookmarks from delicious as it does with Google notebook.  I wrote this script to move my delicious bookmarks to evernote for my use.

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Batch renaming of files (Mac OSX / *nix)

How to batch/bulk rename files with automatic sequence number? Try the following shell script from your terminal (OSX/*nix)

  1. Create a new directory
  2. Run the following command (you can replace newdir with the your directory name and some_prefix with your prefix the same applicable for extension as well. My eg., rename only the png files of the directory (there were no other extensions available).

i=0; for x in *.png; do cp \"$x\" "newdir/some_prefix_$i.png"; i=$(($i+1)); done

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