On/Off » gmail http://blog.yoavfarhi.com Yoav Farhi's blog Mon, 23 Aug 2010 13:46:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1-alpha Great apps for Symbian s60v3 smartphones http://blog.yoavfarhi.com/2008/12/21/great-apps-for-symbian-s60v3-smartphones/ http://blog.yoavfarhi.com/2008/12/21/great-apps-for-symbian-s60v3-smartphones/#comments Sun, 21 Dec 2008 13:33:14 +0000 Yoav http://blog.yoavfarhi.com/?p=208 Continue reading →]]> Keeping track of all the apps I’ve got installed on my phone is not an easy task. Here’s a quick list of the most important ones:

  • amAze GPS – Worldwide GPS Turn By Turn  navigation
  • Fring – IM and VOIP with skype/gtalk etc…
  • Gmail – Useful when I need to make a search for an old email message.
  • Gravity – The best symbian twitter client.
  • Mecanto – Streams all your music collection.
  • Mobbler – Couldn’t live without it. Scrobble and streams music to and from last.fm. Good review @ symbian-guru.
  • Nokia Location Tagger – Tags the camera phone pictures with location data.
  • Nokia Messaging – Push mail from my Gmail account.
  • Nokia Sports Tracker – Great combination of mobile app and web service. Uses the GPS to track speed, distance and course while running/walking etc.
  • Opera Mini – While the phone native web browser is quite good, Opera Mini is useful for a quick Wikipedia search from time to time
  • Qik – A great video stream that’s really easy to install and run.
  • Skyfire – Another web browser, but the only that can display flash/silverlight/whatever on a symbian phone. Hopefully will get faster and more stable with future releases.
  • Telmap Nav – Another TBT navigation app. I’m currently beta testing the new version. Really cool stuff.
  • WirelessIRC – A prefect IRC client.
  • Wordmobi – Awesome WordPress blog editor.

(Updated: August 2009.)

]]> http://blog.yoavfarhi.com/2008/12/21/great-apps-for-symbian-s60v3-smartphones/feed/ 4 Using Google for OCR http://blog.yoavfarhi.com/2008/11/01/using-google-for-ocr/ http://blog.yoavfarhi.com/2008/11/01/using-google-for-ocr/#comments Sat, 01 Nov 2008 02:52:10 +0000 Yoav http://blog.yoavfarhi.com/?p=145 Continue reading →]]> 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.

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