Google has recently released official Google Doc App for Android phones providing a easy way to access, edit and share content on the move. The “killer feature” which I liked the most is its inbuilt OCR (Optical character recognition) software which makes every android phone a great data capture device.  The OCR functionality is not top class at the moment, but it will improve with time. Currently it can properly recognize unformatted text, but have issues with recognizing handwriting and certain fonts.

Following are other important features which would convince you to download and install this “must have” app on your Android phone:

• Easily share documents with the contacts on your phone from within the App itself
• Open documents directly from your Gmail account
• Capture any photo and convert it into text using built in OCR functionality
• Use stored photo on the phone for converting into text
• Add widget to your home screen to quickly access your “Starred documents”, Capture Photo and Creating a new Document
• Currently available only in English and works on Android 2.1+ phones

Link: Official Google Doc App for Android Phones

Simply install “Super Google Reader” extension for Chrome and it will add a new menu “Super Settings” in your Google Reader. Just choose the “Readable” option for all the partial feeds and the extension will auto fetch full contents of the article and display it there in real time. Really neat..!!

You can also use the “pre-fetch” option to let it process the full feed in the background to reduce the time Google Reader takes to display the full article.

Link: Super Google Reader extension for Chrome Browser

Steps

1. Open Registry Editor using regedit from Start Menu
2. go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\USB
3. Search for ZuneDriver
4. You will need to modify 3 entries
   Change ShowInShell from 0 to 1
   Change PortableDeviceNameSpaceExcludeFromShell from 1 to 0
   Change EnableLegacySupport from 0 to 1

And it’s done. No restart required. Plug your Windows Phone 7 and it would be recognized as a USB Drive. Close your Zune Desktop App to modify the files.

There’s only one little shortcoming. The files you transfer can not be used by the Device itself. You can only use it from backup and transfer files.

Source – WP Central

WordPress by default inserts “Category Base” into the category permalinks.

http://wordpressblog.com/topics/tech-tips/

WP No Category Base lets you remove the mandatory “Category Base” from the category permalinks to make it look something like this

http://wordpressblog.com/tech-tips/

Using this feature has the following advantages

1. Shorter category permalinks
2. More SEO friendly
3. The plug-in adds very little overhead and consumes hardly any system resources

Download Link: WP No Category Base

Open you wp-config.php file and paste the following line of code:

define('EMPTY_TRASH_DAYS', 5 );  
//where 5 is the number of days when to empty trash

Benefits of Jailbreaking

1. Multitasking – Run more than one app at a time
2. VOIP over 3G – Free cheap calls using Skype
3. Tethering – use your iPad as a Internet modem

How to Jailbreak an Ipad

1. You will need an iPad running version 3.1.2, 3.1.3 or 3.2 and iTunes version 9.
2. Download the software Spirit (available for Windows, Mac and Linux)
3. Follow the instructions. Jailbreaking the iPad is a simple process and will not take more than 30 seconds.
4. If anything goes wrong, there is a restore button to safely revert back to the last known good state.
5. Once done you will be asked to run the Cydia. It is a directory of powerful applications. This one is still in beta for iPad, so be careful.
6. Finally, the same steps can be used for Jailbreaking the iPhone or the iPod Touch. Have Fun..!!