scanR – PDFs From Your Phone Camera

scanR – Turn Your Camera Phone Into A Mobile Scanner

This looks like an interesting application:

Scan documents or whiteboards, anywhere, anytime, using only your camera phone.

scanR is simple to use:
 • Take a picture of a document or whiteboard with your     1 megapixel or better camera phone.
 • Send the picture to scanR
 • Receive the scanned image in email or fax.

I tried it out twice with my Motorola e815 (1.3 Megapixels) and both times it said the picture was too dark and too blury to convert to text.

technorati tags: scanr cameraphone

Second OPML Post?

I think the top level nodes are the post titles and the subnodes are the content of the post. Let’s see.

Second Paragraph? Or do I have to put my own

tag?

Third Paragraph

First OPML Post

I’m playing around with the OPML editor’s wordpress extension tonight. Yea, it’s late. Yea, I’m a nerd. But hey, it’s freakin January 1st. It’s not like there are people out partying. ;->

Torrents for all NerdTV episodes.

I just discovered Robert Cringely’s new TV series on PBS called NerdTV.   He describes it as a “Charlie Rose for nerds”.   You can read about it here. One thing that is very cool is that the shows are available on bittorrent. Here are links to the .torrent files for all of the episodes.

1. NerdTV Episode #1 Andy Hertzfeld – The first Macintosh programmer…ever
2. NerdTV Episode #2 Max Levchin – Co-founder of PayPal
3. NerdTV Episode #3 Bill Joy – Co-founder of Sun Microsystems
4. NerdTV Episode #4 Brewster Kahle – Internet Archive Founder
5. NerdTV Episode #5 Tim O’Reilly – Book Publisher and Open Source Pioneer
6. NerdTV Episode #6 Dave Winer – Father of RSS, Weblogs, and Frontier
7. NerdTV Episode #7 Dan Drake – Co-founder of Autodesk
8. NerdTV Episode #8 Avram Miller – Co-founder of Intel Capital
9. NerdTV Episode #9 Anina – High Fashion Meets High Tech
10. NerdTV Episode #10 Dan Bricklin – Inventor of the Spreadsheet
11. NerdTV Episode #11 Doug Engelbart – Inventor of Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) and the mouse.

claiming my it request queue

this is for odeo:

<a href=”http://odeo.com/claim/feed/6b1b5d4bd27088ef”>My Odeo Channel</a> (odeo/6b1b5d4bd27088ef)

Flickr

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

Update on that Bluetooth Post

That software doesnt work for me.  I think it is because nobody has figured out how to turn on OPP Bluetooth on a Motorola e815 yet.   OPP stands for Object Push Profile and allows another bluetooth device to push a file to the other.   The e815 supports OBEX which allows you to browse it’s storage disc like a file system, but this script doesnt use OBEX.   On top of that, the Bluetooth File Exchange utility on the Mac does not have an Applescript dictionary so it is more difficult to control from script.   I guess I could use the UI Scripting mechanism to get around the lack of support, but it seems too hard.   I’ll just keep manually dragging the files over to my phone from iTunes.

technorati tags: e815

How-To: Automatically Transfer A Podcast to Your Bluetooth Phone

If you have a bluetooth enabled cell phone that can play mp3 files and has a fairly substantial internal memory, you can have the latest episode of your favorite podcast automatically sent to your phone just by opening an application.

EverythingDigital.org: How-To: Automatically Transfer A Podcast to Your Bluetooth Phone

Hope this works!!

links for 2005-12-14

• Mac Rumors: Dharma: Cocoa (Yellow Box) on Windows… Again?
  Safari for Windows XP
  (tags: safari)

Somebody at SuperHappyDevHouse likes me

Make sure you read the first comment. 

SuperHappyDevHouse 6 on Flickr – Photo Sharing!