Sunday, February 22, 2009

Your Java phone a cheap alternate of expensive ebook reader

eBook reader is great convenience. It gives you flexibility to carry your books everywhere and read whenever you want to read it. And believe me you java phone is good enough for this you need not spend fortune for ebook reader. I bet you have not tapped the full potential of your java phone. And it is quite possible that the phone you have in your pocket right now is java enabled.

The site BooksInMyPhone has huge collection of books. The books are those which are now available in public domain. There is something for everyone. The site formats and package books so that you can read them on a java enabled phone. And the book reader program is integrated within each downloadable book.

Features of the BooksInMyPhone book reader program include:

  • Adjustable font size settings - make the letters bigger or smaller according to your personal preference.
  • Night-vision mode - makes it easy to read in a dark room.
  • Chapter navigation navigate the book by chapter.
  • Pause & Auto-resume function - automatically pauses and resumes to accommodate incoming calls.
  • Auto-bookmark - you never have to remember where you're up to in the book.

The BooksInMyPhone team manually review and format each of our books so that they will present well on a mobile/cell phone screen and deliver a high quality reading experience.

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Manage your iPod music from Winamp

You are die hard friend of Winamp, hate DRM and find it difficult to load music to your iPod through iTunes. The Winamp iPod plugin ml_ipod allows you to manage your iPod from the Winamp media library. And the beauty of this plugin is that it supports all iPods from the classic first generation iPods, to the iPod mini, photo, nano, shuffle and everything in between.

Important note: A new style of iPod support called pmp_ipod is built into Winamp version 5.2 and above (and was developed by the former lead developer of ml_ipod). ml_ipod is therefore offered as an alternative for those who find the inbuilt iPod support lacking in features. Please check the comparison here.

The latest version of ml_ipod has some good features listed below. And the complete list of features is available at the ml_ipod site.

  1. Support for iTouch with FW 2.x without patching the device.
  2. iPhone/iTouch shows "sync in progress", no need to run AfterSync or reboot after transfer.
  3. Automatically launch 'aftereject.cmd' after any device eject.

You can download the plugin from here.

Thursday, February 12, 2009

Lookout the light weight Outlook search engine (add in)

We have discussed about some outlook plugins which we use to search mails in Outlook. The fantastic Xobni (I use it in my Office) and Google Desktop as well. However, Lookout is blazing fast and index mails, attachments, news feed, appointments extra from your multiple PSTs. I indexed my PSTs whose size is in GIGs, Lookout indexed it pretty fast and after indexing searching your mails, attachments is amazing.

Installing Lookout for Outlook 2003 is like a breeze and using some tweaks it can be installed for Outlook 2007 as well.Original author of Lookout, Mike Belshe, had just posted instructions for getting Lookout to work on Outlook 2007
I use to follow clean inbox policy and use to move mails based on their content to different folders. But believe me sometime it is very difficult to find mails and this is where Outlook search plugins helps. I am pretty satisfied with the performance of Lookout and suggest you to give it a try.

Sorry for the delay folks

Jan 18th was worst day of my life when my wife was hospitalized under extreme condition. Thanks god her life was saved on time. She remained in ICU till Jan 24th and finally discharged on Jan 27th, two days before our anniversary. She is recuperating and emotionally devastated. I will like thank all my friends and doctors for their help and support. And I also thank to all my readers who remained with me in such a tough time.

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Saturday, February 7, 2009

Create PDF Files Online from your browser

Its been years that Portable Document Format (PDF) files have been with computer industry. It is considered as the standard format for creating and viewing information on all platforms regardless which Operating System you are using like PCs, UNIX/Linux or Macs machine. For whole those years, Adobe has offered a free program that lets us read PDF files, but there isn't many free program that let us convert our document to this simple and portable format without any hassles.

I have came across a website Freepdfconvert which provides the same without any difficulty. Only we have to upload the data and whoosh... the file is converted into the PDF in a minute and then you are prompted for your confirmation for the uploaded file deletion. The website supports a whooping 67 file formats and has an ability to print the webpages of your like just by providing the link of the source webpages. You can download the converted file at the same time. Also, the converted file is zipped and emailed to you as well. For general user there is a gap of 30 minutes to go for next conversion. And at this point, I prefer to have a dedicated software for this installed in my system. The good feature I liked is exporting date from PDF to MS Excel.

FreePDFConvert.com offers free service which allows visitors of your websites to save useful content to PDF file by single mouse click and bloggers would surely appreciate it.