I found that I cannot really read PDFs on my iPhone when I just put them on, thought AirSharing did turn out to be a really useful tool to put files on the iPhone/iPod Touch, that the iPhone/iPod Touch can read. Unfortunately, it’s not free anymore ($6.99). Still, I have to magnify them, move them around; it’s quite a slow process to even read a page. So, I was very pleased when I found Stanza. Stanza is an ebook reader that now you can read PDF files with on your iPhone/iPod Touch (as well as a a vast amount of downloadable titles). Here’s how you can do it (if you’re on a Mac):

1. Download and install Stanza for your iPhone/iPod Touch
2. Download and install Stanza for your Mac
3. Open a PDF with Stanza on your Mac
4. Check /Tools/Enable Sharing on your file that you just opened
5. Open Stanza on your iPhone/iPod Touch
6. Go to Shared Books then find your file to download. Now, this file will be named “Unknown”, which you can rename on the iPhone, once you actually downloaded it:

1. Tap the screen
2. Click the little “i” icon in the upper right corner
3. Type over “unknown” for title and author

This is great for studying on the iPhone/iPod Touch. I started looking for a way to read PDFs so I can read the FileMaker Training Series on my iPhone. Now I have no excuse anymore.

This is exactly how I envisioned my application over a year ago, when I started working on it with some developer friends, except one or two EXTRA features, which I am not going to elaborate on.

Evernote, however is an excellent application for collecting notes from the web or your head and then syncing them automatically to different platforms, such as your iPhone. I have already made a nice FileMaker-related section on my Mac desktop app from different sources. The information can be tagged and is searchable, as well as you can email notes as PDFs automtically. Two thumbs up, Evernote!

One of my friends just showed me he figured out a way of stying logged in on Google Talk on the iPhone. True, it does not give you notifications, since it’s a web-based solutions, but it beats the native apps, that re-log you every time you open them up after having to close them. So, here’s how you can stay online and receive messages: Log into GoogleTalk  whether through Safari or the saved shortcut on your home screen. Then close the Safari window. Your friends will still see yuo online and are able to send you messages. When you open the Safari window, again, you will receive the message. It does not work if you go back through the home screen shortcut, since it logs you out to log you back in.

Enjoy!

As we all know, I am a Mac fan. However, if I see something cool for Windows, I am the first one to applaud. I was browsing one of my former coworker, Sean Ellis’ Blog, and since he worked on marketing the startup Xobni, I decided to check the company out. They created a plug-in for MS Outlook that can easy search and analyze your mail and social aspects of it. E.g. you could easily see when during a day that contact of yours emails you most often, who he is connected to and even extracts their phone number from the email for your convenience.

There’s a new search engine on the horizon: cuil; created by former Google employees. read more…

About page does not redirect, but this went live today, so I’ll forgive them this much.

Looks really interesting. I am happy to check out something new, since I was overwhelmed with the Google results anyway,a nd they are definitely grew into an evil empire.

“having a conversation shouldn’t be a crime.”

announces Jawbone on their website. If you got a ticket for driving while talking on a phone, Jawbone will give you $20 off their new headset. I think this is a great way to advertise a product and help the millions who still drive around while yapping on the phone, holding the phone between their head and shoulder or in their hands.

A team of professors and students from the University of California, Berkeley have found a way to let a single human supervise a team of robot planes: form an iPhone:

I know I haven’t been around lately, and I apologize to all who actually came here and found the same old stuff.

I have just come across something that I have to share with you: 280 Slides. It is a competitor to Google Docs (which now contains Presentations) and definitely to Microsoft Office and Keynote (part of Apple iWork). The team is made up of two former Apple employees: one form the iPhone team, one from the iTunes team. It is a Y Combinator-backed startup.

You can not jsut create stunning presentations, but download them in Power Point format, save and share them with people on the weband even link TouTube and Flickr media files. The feature set seems pretty basic now but give them some time…

We purchased a Kindle from Amazon for our CEO for Christmas. It just arrived yesterday. Amazon stated “it will arrive after Christmas”, but it did not disclose how many days after.

First impression was good. It comes in a great box, nicely designed, easy to open.

Pros:
It is fully charged, which is rare in electronics.
Memory is expendable with memory card (SD).
It seems easy to handle; large buttons are conveniently located.
The Amazon store loads fast (it has EVDO wireless, basically it hops oto the Sprint network).
It transfers subscribed RSS feeds from the web very fast. You can subscribe to them either from the
The case it comes with is nice, and closed the whole thing feels like a small paperback.

Cons:
I would not say its unbelievable intuitive: I manged to get lost, when I subscribed to n RSS feed from the NY Times.
It’s a bit slow to respond, especially when typing.
The experimental features don’t work that well. I tried accessing websites, that are outside of the realm of the suggested ones: not one I reached.
Searched for several books, even Winnie The Pooh, and go no results.
Wrote a long article about NY Waterway on the ferry, which I lost. Since the Kindle doesn’t have scrolling ability and web pages get cleared upon exiting (aka. going backward and forward on the Kindle), my article got lost in navigation.

All-in-all it seems like an excellent book reader, but don’t expect too much more from it.

I stumbled upon this by reading a blog. You can upload a photo (I took the example below earlier with Photo Booth on my Mac), then convert it to a vector file. The vector file you can download in EPS or SVG and  you can manipulate in Adobe Illustrator.

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