(PS: For my fellow Indonesians: Perlu post ini dalam Bahasa Indonesia? Aku bisa buatkan kalau ada yg mau. Tolong tinggalkan comment ya)
I love ebooks. I have been reading them in all kinds of devices for years (including tiny Blackberry, more post on how to do that in the future). And my favorite reader in Kindle (and Kindle's app for Android). Of course Kinde "should" only work in the USA. Kindle Android App should only work on Android in the USA. Luckily for us the 6 billion other people, there is a back door.
Android can install app from other sources than "Google Play". And the site www.androiddrawer.com has kindly enough kept an installation file for Kindle Android App for anyone to install regardless what country they're from.
Here is my Kindle App link, shortened for easy typing in mobile browser: bit.ly/kindledw. Just go there in your Android's mobile browser and install, or follow the step-by-step instruction below.
NOTE: AndroidDrawer maintains many versions of Kindle Android App. I use version 4.0.2.54 because this version allows me access to my non-amazon-purchased .mobi files that I upload myself. I believe the later versions remove this (material for future post?).
STEP 1: Enable your Android to install from outside of "Google Play"
- Follow this article from CNET for instruction on how to do that.
STEP 2: Open the Kindle App page of AndroidDrawer
- Use your mobile browser in your Android
- Type in (or click) my shortcut link to get there: bit.ly/kindledw
STEP 3: Download and Install a version of Kindle App that fits your need:
- Click the "Download This Version" link
- When the download completes, open in and OK to install it on your Android.
- You're done.
Wednesday, May 7, 2014
How To Enable ‘Delete Confirmation Dialog’ In Windows 8
This one is sourced from How To Enable ‘Delete Confirmation Dialog’ In Windows 8 by Usman Javaid.
There is one thing that has been bothering me ever since I was forced to move to Windows 8 (because I bought a new computer), and that is by default, there is no DELETE CONFIRMATION when I delete, sometimes accidentally, anything on Window Explorer. I am a fan of keyboard shortcut and "SHIFT-DELETE" which permanently delete files, and today, I accidentally delete 2 GB worth of files with a "single" keystroke. So I finally got around to finding out how to turn "Delete Confirmation Dialog" back on. I found this article by Usman, and "copy" it here for my own archiving.
What bothers you most when moving to Windows 8? Let me know!
Here is the steps to turn on "Delete Confirmation Dialog":
STEP 1: Open Property Tab of Recycling Bin.
- Locate your recycling bin, it is on the top left of your desktop.
- Right click it to display the menu.
- Select "Properties"
STEP 2: Activate "Display Delete Confirmation Dialog"
- Check the box next to "Display Delete Confirmation Dialog"
- Click OK button to save this change.
- And you're done!
Now you can see this dialog every time you delete:
There is one thing that has been bothering me ever since I was forced to move to Windows 8 (because I bought a new computer), and that is by default, there is no DELETE CONFIRMATION when I delete, sometimes accidentally, anything on Window Explorer. I am a fan of keyboard shortcut and "SHIFT-DELETE" which permanently delete files, and today, I accidentally delete 2 GB worth of files with a "single" keystroke. So I finally got around to finding out how to turn "Delete Confirmation Dialog" back on. I found this article by Usman, and "copy" it here for my own archiving.
What bothers you most when moving to Windows 8? Let me know!
Here is the steps to turn on "Delete Confirmation Dialog":
STEP 1: Open Property Tab of Recycling Bin.
- Locate your recycling bin, it is on the top left of your desktop.
- Right click it to display the menu.
- Select "Properties"
STEP 2: Activate "Display Delete Confirmation Dialog"
- Check the box next to "Display Delete Confirmation Dialog"
- Click OK button to save this change.
- And you're done!
Now you can see this dialog every time you delete:
Friday, May 2, 2014
Sharing Subfolder in Dropbox
This is taken mostly from Sharing subfolders of shared folder – dropbox by Sebastian Suchanowski.
I need to share my business card scanning subfolder to my assistant (who is to properly type them out and create a contact (VCF) file for me to import to my Outlook and sync-ed to my Gmail, Blackberry and Android(s). (a subject of another post). But for some reason or another, I want to share a subfolder of my scanning directory, not all.
Dropbox (unlike Box.com) still cannot handle this as as of May 2014, so the workaround is to create a new folder in the root of your dropbox account, and create a symbolic (junction) link that act as a subfolder from wherever you want it to be in your directory tree. With a symbolic link, Windows explorer will act as if the link is a sub-folder, but dropbox only see a small ".lnk" file. Dropbox actually synchronize/share the new folder.
For this post, I assume you have used dropbox Sync to sync your dropbox account to your local drive at:
C:/Users/Me/dropbox
and you want this subfolder to be shared to another person
I also assume you know how to invoke "cmd.exe" and get the window command.exe dos shell.
STEP 1 - CREATE THE SHARED FOLDER IN DROPBOX
a. Create a folder in the root directory of your dropbox account.
mkdir C:/Users/Me/dropbox/NewShare
b. Share it with whoever you want.
STEP 2 - CREATE THE LINK IN YOUR DIRECTORY STRUCTURE
a. Create the symbolic (junction) link using the "mklink" command.
cd C:/Users/Me/dropbox/MyCurrentFolder/
mklink /J WantToShareSubfolder C:/Users/Me/dropbox/NewShare
I need to share my business card scanning subfolder to my assistant (who is to properly type them out and create a contact (VCF) file for me to import to my Outlook and sync-ed to my Gmail, Blackberry and Android(s). (a subject of another post). But for some reason or another, I want to share a subfolder of my scanning directory, not all.
Dropbox (unlike Box.com) still cannot handle this as as of May 2014, so the workaround is to create a new folder in the root of your dropbox account, and create a symbolic (junction) link that act as a subfolder from wherever you want it to be in your directory tree. With a symbolic link, Windows explorer will act as if the link is a sub-folder, but dropbox only see a small ".lnk" file. Dropbox actually synchronize/share the new folder.
For this post, I assume you have used dropbox Sync to sync your dropbox account to your local drive at:
C:/Users/Me/dropbox
and you want this subfolder to be shared to another person
C:/Users/Me/dropbox/MyCurrentFolder/WantToShareSubfolder
I also assume you know how to invoke "cmd.exe" and get the window command.exe dos shell.
STEP 1 - CREATE THE SHARED FOLDER IN DROPBOX
a. Create a folder in the root directory of your dropbox account.
mkdir C:/Users/Me/dropbox/NewShare
STEP 2 - CREATE THE LINK IN YOUR DIRECTORY STRUCTURE
a. Create the symbolic (junction) link using the "mklink" command.
cd C:/Users/Me/dropbox/MyCurrentFolder/
mklink /J WantToShareSubfolder C:/Users/Me/dropbox/NewShare
That's it.
Sunday, December 8, 2013
BBM 6.0 and 7.0 OTA list for OS 5, OS 6, and OS 7.
This post is dedicated to those who have to upgrade or downgrade his or her (or his or her mom's, girlfriend's, wife's, or that cute girl in the office). YOU ROCK! Really!
Also check out my post on how to move from Blackberry to Android BBM, (and back... as it is in my case).
BBM 6.0 OTA LIST: (from ota.santo.asia)
for OS 5 - BBM 6.1.0.71
for OS 6 - BBM 6.1.0.71
for OS 7 - BBM 6.1.0.71
for OS 7.1 - BBM 6.1.0.49
BBM 7.0 OTA LIST (from sb-sahil.blogspot.com)
for OS 5 - BBM 7.0.1.23
for OS 6 - BBM 7.0.1.126
for OS 7 - BBM 7.0.1.126
for OS 7.1 - BBM 7.0.1.126
Also check out my post on how to move from Blackberry to Android BBM, (and back... as it is in my case).
BBM 6.0 OTA LIST: (from ota.santo.asia)
for OS 5 - BBM 6.1.0.71
for OS 6 - BBM 6.1.0.71
for OS 7 - BBM 6.1.0.71
for OS 7.1 - BBM 6.1.0.49
BBM 7.0 OTA LIST (from sb-sahil.blogspot.com)
for OS 5 - BBM 7.0.1.23
for OS 6 - BBM 7.0.1.126
for OS 7 - BBM 7.0.1.126
for OS 7.1 - BBM 7.0.1.126
How to migrate / move your Blackberry Messenger 6.0 or 5.0 to BBM for Android without reinviting all your friends and groups.
I'm sure you BBM die-hard users have seen it tons of time recently. Your friends asked you to re-add them on a new BB PIN as they moved from their Blackberry to a BBM App in iPhone and Android. Its annoying, it clutters up the BBM contact list with old, now dead, PINs, and, for those of you with a "Geeky" reputation to protect (like me), its just not cool.
I'm sure you've also seen half of your friends who smoothly migrate their old BBM to the BBM app, without any need for those "re-add" requests. And you'd probably know how its done. If your COntact List and Blackberry Groups have been saved to your Blackberry ID by your BBM (7.0 or above), You simply login to your Blackberry ID in your new BBM App, and your BBM contacts and groups are recoverd correctly.
Now, if you, like me, are one of those unlucky fellow to have an old BB with an old BBM 5.0 or 6.0... This path is not so smooth. and filled with tons of pitfalls, and dead ends. That is why I am writing this blog entry.
Now, I have a:
- Blackberry 9700 (from Orange, but used in Telkomsel's network)
- BB OS 5.0 (App version 5.0.0.446 (726)
- Blackberry Messenger 5.0
- 4000+ Phone book contacts
- 240 groups contacts
- 10 bbm groups
The last 3 may be the reason why it takes a lot of waiting for me to complete the tasks.
A. The steps are quite simple, but TIME CONSUMING, and PRONE TO FATAL ERROR. So proceed with caution!
1. Backup your Blackberry using Blackberry Desktop Manager!
2. Upgrade your BBM to BBM 7.0 using a site that archive old BBM apk.
3. Create your Blackberry ID in BBM 7.0
4. Wait a few hours, to make sure your BBM contact lists AND GROUPS are all there, then turn off your Blackberry for the last time.
5. Load BBM for Android (or IPhone) in your other device
6. Login to the BBM for Android with your Blackberry ID
7. Lastly, wait a few more hours to make sure all is synchronized.
Yes, there are a lot of waitings.
for detail of Step A1-A7
B. Now, if somewhere along the line you screwed up (as I did). I will also show you how to recover by:
1a. Factory Reset using BBSAK to unstuck you from any "hang" condition
1b. Or, in less dire scenario. simply delete the current BBM app from your Blackberry
2. Reload OS 5.0 with BBM 5.0 into your hardware
3. Recover your data from the backup made in step A1 above
4. Optionaly (maybe) upgrade your BBM to BBM 6.0
5. Follow step A2-A7 as listed above.
for detail of Step B1-B5
I hope this will be useful to people. I welcome comments and corrections. As I certainly have not tried every possible scenario.
Regards
Donald
I'm sure you've also seen half of your friends who smoothly migrate their old BBM to the BBM app, without any need for those "re-add" requests. And you'd probably know how its done. If your COntact List and Blackberry Groups have been saved to your Blackberry ID by your BBM (7.0 or above), You simply login to your Blackberry ID in your new BBM App, and your BBM contacts and groups are recoverd correctly.
Now, if you, like me, are one of those unlucky fellow to have an old BB with an old BBM 5.0 or 6.0... This path is not so smooth. and filled with tons of pitfalls, and dead ends. That is why I am writing this blog entry.
Now, I have a:
- Blackberry 9700 (from Orange, but used in Telkomsel's network)
- BB OS 5.0 (App version 5.0.0.446 (726)
- Blackberry Messenger 5.0
- 4000+ Phone book contacts
- 240 groups contacts
- 10 bbm groups
The last 3 may be the reason why it takes a lot of waiting for me to complete the tasks.
A. The steps are quite simple, but TIME CONSUMING, and PRONE TO FATAL ERROR. So proceed with caution!
1. Backup your Blackberry using Blackberry Desktop Manager!
2. Upgrade your BBM to BBM 7.0 using a site that archive old BBM apk.
3. Create your Blackberry ID in BBM 7.0
4. Wait a few hours, to make sure your BBM contact lists AND GROUPS are all there, then turn off your Blackberry for the last time.
5. Load BBM for Android (or IPhone) in your other device
6. Login to the BBM for Android with your Blackberry ID
7. Lastly, wait a few more hours to make sure all is synchronized.
Yes, there are a lot of waitings.
B. Now, if somewhere along the line you screwed up (as I did). I will also show you how to recover by:
1a. Factory Reset using BBSAK to unstuck you from any "hang" condition
1b. Or, in less dire scenario. simply delete the current BBM app from your Blackberry
2. Reload OS 5.0 with BBM 5.0 into your hardware
3. Recover your data from the backup made in step A1 above
4. Optionaly (maybe) upgrade your BBM to BBM 6.0
5. Follow step A2-A7 as listed above.
I hope this will be useful to people. I welcome comments and corrections. As I certainly have not tried every possible scenario.
Regards
Donald
Thursday, February 28, 2013
How to hack Scansnap Organizer to use any PDF documents
To avoid clutter, I scan everything: bank statements, business cards, brochures, receipts, anything. Then I OCR them (convert the image into text), store them in the cloud, share them in all my computing devices, and, in my laptop, heavily index them so I can find anything I ever touch, or so the idea. (hmm... what was the phone number of that car rental company I got a brochure last trip to bali... just run search! done)
Thus, one of my pride and joy, (and nearly single most expensive device acquisition outside of a laptop or a smart phone) is my Fujitsu Scansnap S1500. This work horse scanner can scan double-sided up to 50 page per minute. And for someone who scan just about everything, this is a must. And at $500, the Scansnap is a necessary evil. (Don't try it unless you can afford to fall in love with it, its dangerously convenient).
Sadly, the ABBYY Finereader that comes with it (that OCR docs better than Adobe PDF Pro) only works for documents I scan on the Scansnap. Same with the Scansnap Organizer and Viewer (that can rearrange PDF documents since my Adobe PDF Pro stops working).
And since I convince a lot of people to send documents to me already in PDF from various scanners, camera, etc. This is annoying. So here is the hack that I found on the web (see http://www.jsilence.org/blog/2011/01/25/edit-pdf-metadata/ ) to allow me to trick MOST pdf documents to be usable.
The trick is to add/edit the "CREATOR" tag of the PDF document to say "ScanSnap Manager #S1500M".
Step 1. Get and install a free software called PDFTk.
The software installation should install the software in
C:\Program Files (x86)\PDF Labs\PDFtk Server\bin
Step 2. Create a directory in Window. Mine is called FixPDF.
Step 3. In the above directory, Create a text file: scansnap_meta.txt containing:
InfoBegin
InfoKey: Creator
InfoValue: ScanSnap Manager #S1500M
This file contains the meta data of the PDF, and will be used by PDFtk to inject into the pdf file to be fixed.
Step 4. Then create also a script text file: FixPDF.bat containing:
for %%a in (*.pdf) do (
"C:\Program Files (x86)\PDF Labs\PDFtk Server\bin\pdftk.exe" "%%a" update_info scansnap_meta.txt output "..\%%a"
)
This script will run the PDFtk software on all '*.pdf ' files in the directory and replace the original copy as the output.
Step 5. Put all PDF files to fix in the directory.
Step 6. Run the FixPDF.bat script.
Done.
Thus, one of my pride and joy, (and nearly single most expensive device acquisition outside of a laptop or a smart phone) is my Fujitsu Scansnap S1500. This work horse scanner can scan double-sided up to 50 page per minute. And for someone who scan just about everything, this is a must. And at $500, the Scansnap is a necessary evil. (Don't try it unless you can afford to fall in love with it, its dangerously convenient).
Sadly, the ABBYY Finereader that comes with it (that OCR docs better than Adobe PDF Pro) only works for documents I scan on the Scansnap. Same with the Scansnap Organizer and Viewer (that can rearrange PDF documents since my Adobe PDF Pro stops working).
And since I convince a lot of people to send documents to me already in PDF from various scanners, camera, etc. This is annoying. So here is the hack that I found on the web (see http://www.jsilence.org/blog/2011/01/25/edit-pdf-metadata/ ) to allow me to trick MOST pdf documents to be usable.
The trick is to add/edit the "CREATOR" tag of the PDF document to say "ScanSnap Manager #S1500M".
Step 1. Get and install a free software called PDFTk.
The software installation should install the software in
C:\Program Files (x86)\PDF Labs\PDFtk Server\bin
Step 2. Create a directory in Window. Mine is called FixPDF.
Step 3. In the above directory, Create a text file: scansnap_meta.txt containing:
InfoBegin
InfoKey: Creator
InfoValue: ScanSnap Manager #S1500M
This file contains the meta data of the PDF, and will be used by PDFtk to inject into the pdf file to be fixed.
Step 4. Then create also a script text file: FixPDF.bat containing:
for %%a in (*.pdf) do (
"C:\Program Files (x86)\PDF Labs\PDFtk Server\bin\pdftk.exe" "%%a" update_info scansnap_meta.txt output "..\%%a"
)
This script will run the PDFtk software on all '*.pdf ' files in the directory and replace the original copy as the output.
Step 5. Put all PDF files to fix in the directory.
Step 6. Run the FixPDF.bat script.
Done.
Personal Computing - 2013 edition - Jakarta in the Cloud
Back to bloggin after all this time...
Well, i'm here to update the world how I configure my computer to face 2013 and onward.
Same setting, but now more cloud integrated.Now, Jakarta is much more Internet enabled, and it is finally possible to shift massive quantity of my personal data in the cloud to survive crashes, obsolescence, and just plain simple I forgot my computer at home, issue.
First, my personal computers revolves around a Dell Studio 14 (old) laptop, a Blackberry Onyx, and a Samsung Galaxy Tab, (and various mp3 players, TV and DVD Recorder with DivX player, my wife's iPad and my daughters' kindle, android, netbook, laptop, etc etc.)
A 3Mbps cable modem (12Mbps this month only, due to a promo by Firstmedia) connects my house to the world, sadly with only 100Kbps upload capability.This connection is shared via 300m+ of UTP cables and no less than 4 wifi access points accross my house and my inlaw's. I must have the most networking hardware in my entire apartment complex.
In my offices I have 5Mbps leased lines but shared among heavy gaming and torrent users. Needless to say, I get better bandwidth personally at home.
Now, as 2013 rolls around. I want to upgrade my systems and those of my family to allow us to share more data in the cloud (like 400MB of just about every documents that my family comes accross, bills, bank statements, passport, house deeds, brochure for car rentals, etc.), watch movie (Samsung Allshare?), and backup the ever-crashing kid's computers.
Anyways, in various other posts I will be discussing various aspect of my computing platform.
Anyone interested? Care to share yours?
Well, i'm here to update the world how I configure my computer to face 2013 and onward.
Same setting, but now more cloud integrated.Now, Jakarta is much more Internet enabled, and it is finally possible to shift massive quantity of my personal data in the cloud to survive crashes, obsolescence, and just plain simple I forgot my computer at home, issue.
First, my personal computers revolves around a Dell Studio 14 (old) laptop, a Blackberry Onyx, and a Samsung Galaxy Tab, (and various mp3 players, TV and DVD Recorder with DivX player, my wife's iPad and my daughters' kindle, android, netbook, laptop, etc etc.)
A 3Mbps cable modem (12Mbps this month only, due to a promo by Firstmedia) connects my house to the world, sadly with only 100Kbps upload capability.This connection is shared via 300m+ of UTP cables and no less than 4 wifi access points accross my house and my inlaw's. I must have the most networking hardware in my entire apartment complex.
In my offices I have 5Mbps leased lines but shared among heavy gaming and torrent users. Needless to say, I get better bandwidth personally at home.
Now, as 2013 rolls around. I want to upgrade my systems and those of my family to allow us to share more data in the cloud (like 400MB of just about every documents that my family comes accross, bills, bank statements, passport, house deeds, brochure for car rentals, etc.), watch movie (Samsung Allshare?), and backup the ever-crashing kid's computers.
Anyways, in various other posts I will be discussing various aspect of my computing platform.
Anyone interested? Care to share yours?
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