.pdf to word convertor

have you ever run into a .pdf file that has a bunch of text in it, but you couldnt edit the text because its a pdf file? heres a quick fix. download .pdf to .doc convertor for free and follow the instructions to convert!!! I'll add more later, sorry i havent been updating frequently.

On the road post: Google mobile maps

Today I'm posting from the car, so I thoght it would be good to describe something that helps on the go... Google maps mobile. After downloading and installing google maps mobile, you will see a GPS-like map. If you go into Options and change the map type to sattelite, you will see a google earth type view of the world. This would all be useless if it were not for the new MyLocation feature. if your phone has GPS... Then you will ee your exact location when you press "0" on you keypad. if your phone does not have GPS built in (dont worry, most phones dont), you will still be able to see your-location, although less accurately. This is achieved by triangulating your location based on the cell phone towers around you. google has a nice video explaining the specifics. I will post that later, when I get to a real computer.

Free face recognition software from..... you guessed it Google!!

Another cool trick I came across recently is a way to make google return only image results that have faces in them. The trick here is in adding a little parameter to the end of your google image search result. For example:
if you search "ocean" in google, you will see this
but, if after searching, you go to the address bar and add " &imgtype=face ", then press "enter" on your keyboard, you will instead see this

you can see that the first query returns a bunch of pictures of an ocean ( as in with water)

the second query, however, returns a bunch of faces of people named ocean.

Ill work on getting a video of exactly how to do this in a bit.

keeping up with the new gmail

I found the video below on youtube and realized how far gmail has gone since I last talked about it. I didnt make the video, but if you have any questions about it you can ask me, just post a comment with your email and your question and I'll do my best to answer it promptly.





Another feature i didnt go into to much detail about was the spam filter that gmail has. So here is a video from google itself describing how the filter works.