A really discerning update – we am attending a TED Conference during Infosys campus in Mysore as well as thus this blog will stay a small immobile during a total week. we will however post updates on my Twitter as well as Flickr pages.
Thanks most as well as I’ll see you again on Monday.
Attending TED India
Originally published during Digital Inspiration by Amit Agarwal.
Good news for Nokia users who carry an N-Series or E-Series mobile phone. You can now download a Google Mobile app for your Nokia phone as well as poke Google regulating elementary voice commands as demonstrated in a following video.
Speak your queries instead of typing them
Google Voice Search app is place aware so we don’t have to mention a name of your city or post when regulating place specific queries like “nearest pizza grill or “medicine shops”.
The Google voice poke app is integrated with Google Suggest but in further to unchanging poke queries, a voice app can additionally auto-suggest websites so we strech your favorites sites some-more fast as we no longer have to sort a full address of a domain.
In further to Nokia S60 phones, Google Mobile App with Voice Search is accessible for BlackBerry, iPhone as well as Android formed mobile devices.
The Google Voice Search duplicate for Nokia is accessible for English as well as a Chinese Language. More details upon a Google India blog as well as Google China blog.
Google Voice Search for your Nokia Phone
Originally published during Digital Inspiration by Amit Agarwal.
ePub is now a customary e-book record format which is upheld by almost* every e-book celebration of a mass device embody Sony Reader, BeBook, IREX Reader, iPhone as well as a upcoming Nook from Barnes & Noble’s.
Other than hardware devices, we can also review .epub books upon your desktop or mobile phone using free e-reader module similar to Stanza, Mobipocket, FBReader (for Linux), Aldiko (for Android) or Adobe Digital Editions.
[*] Amazon Kindle uses a proprietary format (AZW) as well as cannot review ePub files without delay yet we can make make make use of of of a free Stanza desktop duplicate to modify an ePub ebook in to AZW (or even PDF), a format which your Kindle can understand.
O’Reilly, Shortcovers, Sony Store have been a little popular book publishers which provide ebooks in ePub format though if we have been seeking to download classical titles to review offline, a best place is Google Books (select a “public domain only” option).
Google Books has more than a million open domain (out of copyright) books in a EPUB format which have been completely free as well as they aren’t protected by DRM so we can review these ebook titles upon any device / computer without restrictions.
Project Gutenberg as well as FeedBooks have been a little alternative useful sites which offers many of their titles in a EPUF format.
Firefox users can download EPUBReader, a free appendage which lets we review a essence of any ePub book right inside their favorite browser without requiring any special software.
ePub is fundamentally a zip record which contains a collection of content files as well as images. This appendage will simply uncompress which zip record as well as arrangement a essence inside your browser.
In unchanging course, if we click upon a couple which points to an ePub file, Firefox will prompt we to to save which record onto a hard-drive though with this appendage installed, a ebook will without delay open inside your Firefox add-on similar to any alternative web page.
Additionally, we can open any ePub record that’s upon your desktop using a File -> Open File menu in Firefox. All a ebook have been automatically stored in your Firefox profile under a apart sub-directory. Thanks Paul Biba.
If we wish to publish your own books or blog in ePUB format, a easiest choice is which we harmonise a content in Word (or Google Docs), save it as an RTF record as well as afterwards we make make make use of of of Amazon’s Stanza module to modify which document in to an ePUB ebook.
Before publishing, we should also make make make use of of of a EpubCheck tool from Adobe to make certain which a markup in your ePUB record is valid after conversion.
Alternatively, we may make make make use of of of a free Calibre module to modify probably any document format in to ePUB in a batch. Calibre is available for Linux, Windows as well as Mac OS X. And for modifying ePUB files, we should try Sigil - a WYSIWYG editor which also runs upon Windows, Linux as well as Mac as well as support the.
While we can download ePUB books without delay from a Google Books website, Sony offers an glorious desktop duplicate (for Mac as well as PC) which is good integrated with Google Books as well as we don’t have to own a Sony Reader for using which application.
You can afterwards poke open domain titles upon Google Books without delay from a desktop as well as save them to your internal library in ePUB format.
Related: BlackBerry as an Ebook Reader
The ePUB Format for E-Books – Everything You Wanted to Know
Originally published during Digital Inspiration by Amit Agarwal.