Here’s how to set up Google Tasks as a desktop app:
- Get Prism (pc) or Fluid (mac)
- Set up a new app using the following URL: https://mail.google.com/tasks/canvas
- Get a fancy icon
If you’re using Android, download gTasks from the market.
Quebec Hike
I’m in Quebec right now, working and having a great time with my friends at Automattic. We went for a short hike today – here are some pictures from the trail:
Wall painting at the kindergarten
Spent the day at the kindergarten where my family is sponsoring after hours activities for kids from a rough neighborhood . We’ve repainted most of the outdoor equipment and helped Liron Ben-Arzi draw a huge wall painting:
Mika is sick OK!
Mika is sick.
The Vet thinks she has Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia, a condition where the body attacks its own red blood cells. She has trouble breathing and lost her (famous) appetite.
She’s on Prednisone, antibiotics and acid regulators.
Mika is with us for almost two years now. We’ve picked her up from a shelter where she stayed after being abandoned on the streets.
Update: She’s much better now :).
This blog is now running the latest trun…
This blog is now running the latest trunk using SVN
$ svn co http://core.svn.wordpress.org/trunk
Getting Automattic!
For the past few weeks I’ve had the chance to get to know a wonderful company and an amazing team, which I’m really excited to join. So, with a blink to my previous job (thanks Blink), I’m truly happy to write that today is my first official day as an Automattician!
Add pictures to your contacts in Gmail and Outlook
A few tools to add pictures to your contacts in Gmail and Outlook
- From Gravatar to Gmail: Arikfr’s Gravatars to Google Contacts Importer
- From Facebook to Gmail: GoogleFacebookSync
- From Facebook to Outlook: OutSync
Great apps for Symbian s60v3 smartphones
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.)
Wordmobi – WordPress on your symbian mobile phone
Using Google for OCR
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.
