For sale … printers, modem, pda, scanner
I have decided to sold older HW components:
- MAG Innovision 17″ 796PF2 (pure flat CRT Monitor) – absolutely ok
- HP LaserJet 4Plus (with LAN connectivity) – bottom feeder not working, but front one works, we used it until now
- PDA Palm V – absolutely ok, for sale with complete with all accessories
- Modem Zyxel Omni 56K COM - absolutely ok, for sale with complete with all accessories
- ACER AcerScan Prisa 620ST – absolutely ok (it’s Flatbed scanner therefore you can scan foto-negatives as well)
- Epson Stylus C62 Ink Jet Printer - absolutely ok
In case that you are interested and moving/living near to Bratislava, contact me.
Kindle: How to convert .pdf to Kindle format
I have Amazon Kindle 3. It’s excellent e-book device.
As any device, Kindle has some lacks. For example support of .pdf file format (font size change, annotation, Text-to-Speech, etc.). Isn’t it annoying? What we can do?
Kindle support these file formats:
- Documents: Kindle (.AZW, .AZW1). Text (.TXT), Unprotected Mobipocket (.MOBI, .PRC)
- Audible: Audible (.AA, .AAX)
- Music: MP3 (.MP3)
You can upload your content by USB or email it by Kindle’s Personal Document Service where following file types are allowed: Microsoft Word, structured HTML, RTF, images (jpeg, gif, png, bmp), PDF.
How to convert .pdf to Kindle format
- Use Kindle’s Personal Document Service and type “Convert” in the subject of the e-mail when you submit your personal document to your @kindle.com address (paid service).
- Use GUI freeware
Here is basicly 2 alternatives: Calibre and Mobipocket. I have tried both of them, for most of text-based .pdf these SW are pretty good alternatives. - PDF -> PDF2LRF -> PNG2PDF -> MobiPocket Creator -> Kindle
This is definitelly the most difficult way, I tried it for .pdf with embedded pictures, unfortunatelly with not such a good results. Here is a step-by-step guideline wich I used:- use pdflrfwin.exe for conversion .pdf file to .zip file
- use png2pdf.cmd to convert .zip to pdf file (png2pdf.cmd )
I used ImageMagic libraries - convert .pdf to Kindle format by Mobipocket
Summary: I use Mobipocket for .pdf conversion and in case that I have .pdf with embedded pictures I read it as a pdf.
Used resources
Software
- Calibre (summary, sourceforge download)
Calibre is a free and open source e-book management tool that allows one to organise, save and manage e-books, in and between a variety of formats. - Mobipocket Creator 4.2 Publisher Edition
Windows GUI application allowing publishers to create their ebooks with an easy-to-use content authoring tool, and target customers who read on their PDA, smartphone or PC. This software also includes Adobe PDF, Microsoft Word & Text File Import wizards. - PDFRead
PDFRead is a tool for converting non-DRMed PDF and DJVU documents for reading on eBook devices. It does this by creating an image out of each page, enhancing the image and then collating the images in a device-specific format.
Articles
- Article: Reading PDFs on Kindle and Converting documents for free
- Article: Transferring, Downloading, and Sending Files to Kindle (Amazon)
- HowTo: Converting your PDF files to Kindle using PDF2LRF and helpful discussion especially from user guineapiguser
- HowTo: Convert pdf by Mobipocket Creator
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Pohoda festival 2010
I attend Pohoda festival (unfortunatelly only Saturday), no such many comments, here you enjoy:
- Mnaga a Zdorp (CZ)
Legendary czech band, but still pretty good. We start there.
) - Dubioza kolektiv (BiH)
Only one think we known before … it’s a Balkan band. That was amazing surprise! Just feel that energy!!! … from 15:00min all people danced as crazy. - Jose Gonzales (SWE)
Absolut mellow music. - Bohdan Warchal (SK)
The famous and popular SK classical orchestra and their four seasons from A. Vivaldi. - Para (SK)
Simple music, simple text, ….
What we missed:
- Bez ladu a skladu (SK)
Excellent even from record. - Chor vazskych muzikantov (SK)
Oficiálne vydané – Visual Studio Scrum 1.0 pre TFS 2010
Microsoft vydal oficiálnu verziu šablóny Visual Studio Scrum 1.0 pre Team Foundation Server 2010. Ide o aplikáciu SW metodiky Scrum do prostredia TFS, pričom rozdiel oproti MSF for Agile Software Development v5.0 je v tom, že daná šablóna sa presne drží pôvodnej metodiky Scrum bez úprav.
V prípade, ak si ich chcete porovnať prikladám linky na ich popis v MSDN:
Pri tejto príležitosti nezabudnime na 3 oficiálnu metodiku z dielne Microsoft pre TFS – MSF for CMMI Process Improvement v5.0.
Ďalšie zdroje k téme:
- A Scrum Process Template for TFS (bharry’s WebLog)
- Announcing Microsoft Visual Studio Scrum 1.0 (Aaron Bjork)
Nástroje a pomôcky k MS Team Foundation System – 1
Nakoľko sa zavádzame používania TFS pre SW vývoj stalo jednou z mojich náplní, použijem svoj blog na odkomunikovávanie nájdených nástrojov, trikov a zlepšení pre prácu s TFS.
- Kolega ma dnes upozornil na výborný nástroj pre prácu s Work Items (WI) uložených v Team Foundation Server cez rozhranie MS Outlook 2007. Ide o Team System Outlook 2007 Addin od SRL Group. Umožňuje zadávať a prezerať si WI priamo z prostredia MS Outlook 2007. Šikovná vecička hlavne pre netechnických používateľov.
- Chcete si nastaviť posielanie notifikácií o zmenách v TFS? Stačí si nainštalovať TFS PowerTools 2008 a tento návod.
- Hľadáte nástroj na rozumnejšiu správu prístupových práv v TFS ? Skúste TFS Permission Manager.
- A na záver zopár ďalších pomôcok pre TFS.
