Wordmobi – WordPress on your symbian mobile phone
Posted: December 3, 2008 Filed under: Random | Tags: applications, blogging, e71, editor, mobile, wordmobi, WordPress 2 Comments »Finally, a free mobile app for WordPress that works on my E71. This post is written with Wordmobi a great and full featured WordPress client and editor.
It even snaps pics and includes them directly into your posts.
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Using Google for OCR
Posted: November 1, 2008 Filed under: Random | Tags: gmail, google, ocr, pdf to text 1 Comment »Amit Agarwal has posted a tip on his blog about using Google to convert PDF to text. For some reason, he suggest putting all your PDFs documents on the web:
Create a folder in your website (say abc.com/pdf) and upload all the PDF images to that folder. Now create a public web page that links to all the PDF files. Wait for the Google bots to spider your stuff.
Once done, type the query “site:abc.com/pdf filetype:pdf” to see the PDF documents as HTML.
Why would you want your documents to be accessible by anyone? Why wait for Google to index your page?
There’s a much easier way I’ve been using, and one of the commentators on Agawal’s blog points it out:
You can upload the Scanned PDFs to Gmail and sent it you only. Then Open your Inbox and the mail sent from you, you have an option to View as HTML. That will solve the Hosting problem.
Business Books for the Poor
Posted: October 19, 2008 Filed under: Random | Tags: audible, bookmooch, books, business, learning 2 Comments »Read, Read, Read. That’s probably the best piece of advice I ever got. Recently it’s all about business books and unfortunately, these are quite expensive around here.
So, how did my business bookshelf grew from a handful to more than 30 books in less than a year? One word – BookMooch.
It’s an amazing book swapping site where you list books you want to give, get points for mailing them to others and use those points to get books you want. I’ve mailed and received books from almost 20 countries around the world, Including Tahiti.
As a rough estimate, books from BookMooch actually cost me (for the postage on books I send) around 5-5.5$ per book. In comparison, a new paperback will go for 21-25$ here in Israel.
I also listen to audio books while commuting or exercising, and while I agree with the criticism of DRM practices, from time to time I also take advantage of various audible promotions to buy some audio books for really low prices.
Now, if only I could find some time to actually read all those books!

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