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October 15

Recovering a deleted iPad note

My iPad 2 runs iOS 5.1.1. I think deleted a note in Notes on accident and I would like to recover it. If I did delete a note then it was made AFTER my last sync. How can I recover it? Jailbreaking is acceptable. --Melab±1 ☎ 01:25, 15 October 2012 (UTC)

I found this tutorial and comment board here that seems to be having success.Marketdiamond (talk) 03:25, 15 October 2012 (UTC)

Unfortunately, the method that I need to use only works for the original iPad. --Melab±1 ☎ 03:58, 15 October 2012 (UTC)

I think that you will only get it back if you synced the the iPad somewhere, such as another iTunes or the iCloud. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 20:53, 17 October 2012 (UTC)

Google search PDF URL decoder

This is more a Google search question than a Wikipedia question. That's why I am asking here.

• Shorter version: How to copy the PDF file URL from Google search page?
• Longer version: Go to [1] search result page (actually I did not search with this weird query, but I want you to get the result at the top of the page which I am trying to show you). The first result is "The human cranium from Bodo". I have downloaded the file and found and want to use it as a reference. But, how to quickly copy the URL? The process I follow is–
• Right click and copy link
• Paste in text editor, take only the portion between http and pdf and delete everything else, replace %2F with / %3A with : etc...

But, any easier way to copy the actual URL of a PDF file from search result? --Tito Dutta (talk) 07:07, 15 October 2012 (UTC)

Try this online tool; basically it seems to automate the steps you take under 'longer version':http://industrystandardsoftware.com/online_tools/converters/convert-serp-link-to-direct-location-for-copying-and-pasting.htm. Alternatively, if you use with Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome you should be able to find a Greasemonkey to do the work for you. - Cucumber Mike (talk) 07:58, 15 October 2012 (UTC)

Hello, using IndustryStandardSoftware, I could not extract the PDF link given in the example above (see first line of "longer version"). I have installed this userscript, still have not found out how and where it is working! Thank you!--Tito Dutta (talk) 08:17, 15 October 2012 (UTC)

What happens when you use the tool? From your link, I get the first result as https://www.google.co.in/url?url=http://faculty.ksu.edu.sa/archaeology/Publications/Palaeolithic/The%2520human%2520cranium%2520from%2520Bodo,%2520Ethiopia.pdf&rct=j&sa=U&ei=2817UI38MYnNhAedjYHIDA&ved=0CBQQFjAA&q=Bodo%2Bfossil+filetype:pdf+%22++The+human+cranium+from+Bodo,+Ethiopia:+evidence+for+speciation%22&usg=AFQjCNFSY5PqFSoMi0JIjyYnJ67Bb-qW7Q. Pasting this into the tool gives mehttp://faculty.ksu.edu.sa/archaeology/Publications/Palaeolithic/The%20human%20cranium%20from%20Bodo,%20Ethiopia.pdf. Is that not what you needed? Apologies if I've read the question wrong. - Cucumber Mike (talk) 08:53, 15 October 2012 (UTC)

(If someone could provide better formatting for the link above so it doesn't spill over the edge of the page I'd be very grateful.) -Cucumber Mike (talk) 08:55, 15 October 2012 (UTC)

In Firefox, I:

1. download the pdf
2. go to the download's entry in Firefox's Downloads window
3. right click -> copy_download_link

And you get the real PDF URL, not the Google redirector link. -- Finlay McWalterჷTalk12:51, 15 October 2012 (UTC)

The OptimizeGoogle and CustomizeGoogle extensions used to be good for this. ¦ Reisio (talk) 16:42, 15 October 2012 (UTC)

Also: http://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22The+human+cranium+from+Bodo%22+pdf ¦ Reisio (talk) 18:28, 15 October 2012 (UTC)

Replacement for Console in Windows

I like to have a Unix-like environment ready for myself for numerous reasons, notably that it provides many programs I need like SFTP, SSH, etc. In Windows, I settled on Cygwin. However, Cygwin (obnoxiously) doesn't provide tabbed support. Consoleprovides such tabbed support for Cygwin.

However, Console has two very obnoxious feature omissions:

• Lack of support for UTF-8, which leaves much of my Wikimedia bot's output as mojibake.
• Lack of Ctrl-C tunneling. If I try to ctrl-c abort out of my PHP script, nothing happens! I have to actually open a task manager and shut it down from there.

Is there a Console equivalent that has support for these two things, and also allows a tabbed console window? Magog the Ogre(t • c) 20:52, 15 October 2012 (UTC)

rxvt for Cygwin is certainly a better unix console on Windows than the NT console, but I don't think it currently supports unicode; its brother Rxvt-unicode does, if you can get that to work on Cygwin. -- Finlay McWalterჷTalk 20:58, 15 October 2012 (UTC)

You can indeed. I also suggest using screen for an equivalent to "tabs", although there are a number of even more GUI'd terminal emulators available for Cygwin. ¦ Reisio (talk) 21:12, 15 October 2012 (UTC)

mintty doesn't do tabs but it does support Ctrl+Tab and Ctrl+Shift+Tab for switching between currently open mintty windows. It supports UTF-8 and ^C. -- BenRG (talk) 17:18, 16 October 2012 (UTC)

Good Books for Learning JavaServer Faces

Any suggestions? I've done a bit of Java programming but was only introduced to JSF last week so am brand spanking new to it. Thanks.78.146.75.224 (talk) 21:19, 15 October 2012 (UTC)

Perhaps it's also worth mentioning that Java is the only computing language with which I have any familiarity, which specifically means that I don't know any HTML, XHTML or CSS. Is it worth exploring one of these languages first to facilitate my learning of JSF?78.146.75.224 (talk) 22:21, 15 October 2012 (UTC)