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OS X Screencast to animated GIF

This gist shows how to create a GIF screencast using only free OS X tools: QuickTime, ffmpeg, and gifsicle.

Instructions

To capture the video (filesize: 19MB), using the free "QuickTime Player" application:

This is my default career advice for people starting out in geo/GIS, especially remote sensing, adapted from a response to a letter in 2013.

I'm currently about to start a Geography degree at the University of [Redacted] at [Redacted] with a focus in GIS, and I've been finding that I have an interest in working with imagery. Obviously I should take Remote Sensing and other similar classes, but I'm the type of person who likes to self learn as well. So my question is this: What recommendations would you give to a student who is interested in working with imagery? Are there any self study paths that you could recommend?

I learned on my own and on the job, and there are a lot of important topics in GIS that I don’t know anything about, so I can’t give comprehensive advice. I haven’t arrived anywhere; I’m just ten minutes ahead in the convoy we’re both in. Take these recommendations critically.

Find interesting people. You’ll learn a lot more from a great professor (or mentor, or friend, or conference) o

iTerm2 – Useful Shortcuts (Mac OS X)

with a hat tip to Sublime Text 2 Shortcuts

The Awesome

⌘;	autocomplete
⌘⌥B	instant replay
⌘⌥E	search across all tabs

IE 7/8/9/10/11 Virtual machines from Microsoft

Linux installation notes (tested under Ubuntu 14.04LTS/12.04LTS), assuming VirtualBox is already installed on host.

Available images
Install notes
Activating images
Rearming images
Further notes

Operational PGP

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	function importNode(node, allChildren, doc) {
	var a, i, il;
	doc = doc \|\| document;
	try {
	return doc.importNode(node, allChildren);
	} catch (e) {
	switch (node.nodeType) {
	case document.ELEMENT_NODE:
	var newNode = doc.createElementNS(node.namespaceURI, node.nodeName);
	if (node.attributes && node.attributes.length > 0) {

	.video-container{
	width: 100%;
	position: relative;
	padding: 56.3% 0 0 0; //56.3% = 16:9 ratio
	}
	.video-container > .video{
	position: absolute;
	top: 0;
	}

	#!/bin/bash
	# Performs a "safe" merge, confirming the commits to be merged, the merge
	# strategy, any conflicts, etc.
	# Useage:
	# $ git safemerge master
	# Commits:
	# * bc911ef Fix bug in widget
	# * e80f8d1 Clean things up
	#
	# Changes:

	<html>
	<head>
	<title>Wordnik demo from JavaScript</title>
	<script src="http://static.smallpicture.com/bootstrap/js/jquery-1.9.1.min.js"></script>
	<script>
	var baseUrl = "http://api.wordnik.com/v4/word.json/";
	var apiKey = "a2a73e7b926c924fad7001ca3111acd55af2ffabf50eb4ae5"; //demo key from developer.wordnik.com
	function getSynonyms (theWord, callback) {
	var url = baseUrl + theWord + "/relatedWords?useCanonical=true&relationshipTypes=synonym&limitPerRelationshipType=100&api_key=" + apiKey;
	var jxhr = $.ajax ({

	import ui

	# Mapping based on http://www.upsidedowntext.com/unicode
	CHARMAP = {'!': '\xc2\xa1', '"': ',,',
	"'": ',', '&': '\xe2\x85\x8b',
	')': '(', '(': ')', ',': "'",
	'.': '\xcb\x99',
	'1': '\xc6\x96',
	'0': '0', '3': '\xc6\x90',
	'2': '\xe1\x84\x85',