Inspiration Blog 2011: 2011-04-03

Saturday, April 9, 2011

“Create a Book from Blog Content instantly with BookFabrik Web App” plus 2 more | Blogsolute

Create a Book from Blog Content instantly with BookFabrik Web App
Organize Taskbar Icons by Grouping Pinned Applications on Windows 7
Navigate to Local Places and Remote Locations not Shown On Ovi Maps

Create a Book from Blog Content instantly with BookFabrik Web App

Posted: 09 Apr 2011 07:30 AM PDT

Blog can be used as a personal diary or some write about specific niche like Travel or Cooking Recipe or Random stories. This digital format publishing on Web can be converted into real book with desired cover design and graphics.

BookFabrik is cool online service which accesses blog content (whether it is Blogger / WordPress / Tumblr or Typepad based) and converts it into a book in no time.

Book so created is previewed and can be edited and modified as per need and can be downloaded in form of eBook that is in PDF format for free. Yes, Real Book can be ordered from the site for a price of 7.95 Euros.

How to transform Blog into Book

Select your Blogging platform and BookFabrik will ask for permission to access content. Your password is verified directly on your blogging site and they don’t see or store this information so no worries.

BookFabrik

After logging, content is fetched and Proof Book is shown. Layout and Cover design can be edited as per your taste at this stage.

Personally, I liked this idea of transforming Blog into book. If you are not converting it into real book of paper pages. It is good idea to make ebook which can be read on any mobile device without data connectivity.

Visit BookFabrik

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Organize Taskbar Icons by Grouping Pinned Applications on Windows 7

Posted: 09 Apr 2011 06:36 AM PDT

Pinning Application icons to Windows 7 taskbar is a cool thing as it allows fast access to most used Programs. Bins is a program to group Pinned items on Windows 7 taskbar. Simply, Merge multiple icons into one and create a group.

I am big fan of Fences which lets you organize Desktop icons in better manner and Bins comes from the same creator. As you can see in the screenshot, you can arrange similar type of application icons into one group. For example: Microsoft Office applications i.e. Word, Excel, PowerPoint can be grouped into one.

Bins

Bins can show upto four icons into one group. You can accumulate more than four icons into one but number of icons displayed will be four. The settings offered by the program, accessible under the settings icon located in the system tray, allowing you to enable or disable various additional features related to Peek and other extra items.

To Create a group, Drag an icon over other. To remove an item from Group, drag back those icons to taskbar. After installation, it will ask you for system restart but you can restart just Explorer process to start Bins.

In my case, 4 icons didn’t show up may be because of small height of taskbar and Third Party Theme.

Although, The program is in private beta and requires invitation to download but who likes to wait? I share the direct link to download from my dropbox.

Visit Official Bins site

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Navigate to Local Places and Remote Locations not Shown On Ovi Maps

Posted: 09 Apr 2011 02:17 AM PDT

Ovi Maps is an useful and interactive application present in GPS enabled Nokia handsets. It provides free maps and voice navigation for unknown places you want to be but often fails to locate remote and rural places.

It is often noticed that in rural places or places near your locality Ovi maps fail to work. It does not detect present location properly or even do not show places where we want to navigate.

In situations like these Google Maps serves a better job to show up places of your locality in much detail than Ovi Maps. But still Ovi Maps scores more over Google Maps. This is solely due to the interactive navigation with voice guidance. In Google Maps navigation is textual i.e it will just give you written instructions to reach your destination. Well it is not always possible to get all the good things at one place. The Latest version of Google Maps does provide voice search but in beta stage.

If you want to have the usefulness of Google Maps and interactive voice navigation on Ovi Maps, then there is a small trick that will help you. Here we will combine the usefulness of both the application.

Steps to get Location Coordinates on Ovi Maps

Ensure that you have active internet connection on your handset.
First you need to update Ovi Maps on your handset also download the Google Maps and install it.
Open Google Maps and search the location you want to navigate to. If you do not get any marked location on map, select the nearest location or manually select it on map.

Add Star/ Favorite to the place in Google Maps. You can save it with a name.

Now open Ovi Maps and then go to Favorite.

In Favorite select Places, then you will find the place you selected as Favorite in Google Maps, select it.

Upon selecting the location you will have options to drive/ walk to that location. Just select the appropriate option for you.

Once you have selected the navigation option you are ready to go with Ovi Navigation.

This is a simple technique and works well. You may not see any other locations through the way but the voice navigation will guide you to the selected destination.

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