Few days after Google announce that no further development on Google Notebook, Zoho step up with the new Zoho Notebook plugin with lots more features. After installed the Zoho Notebook icon will appear at the right bottom of the status bar. I have hands on with it couple of time, and this is steps by steps how to use it. Make sure you have installed the plugin prior that.
Capture text
- Close any Zoho Notebook opened on your web browser.
- Hightlight the desired text , right click, anywhere on the browser, choose ‘Add to Zoho Notebook‘.
Snap images of the whole pages
- Open the Zoho Notebook in any of your browser.
- Right click anywhere on your web browser, select ‘Snap Page to Zoho Notebook‘.
- The whole page will be snapped as long as the end image size is less than 9MB, otherwise, you’ll got this error message.
Snap a region of images to Zoho Notebook
- Open Zoho Notebook in any of your web browser.
- Right click anywhere on your web browser, select ‘Snap Page to Zoho Notebook‘
- 1 transparent square box will appear (the image beside) which can be re-sized or moved . To start snapping, move this transparent box to any image you want to snap, and double click.
- 1 windows popped out asking the name of what this image will be saved. Click OK, and the image will be saved to Zoho Notebook.
Import Google Notebook to Zoho Notebook
To import data from Google Notebook to Zoho Notebook, follow these steps taken from the zoho blog.
- Install our new Zoho Notebook Plugin (the one I mentioned above) and restart your browser
- Login to Zoho and Google Notebook
- Go to this URL – chrome://zoho-notebook/content/g2z.html – and click on Start
Since it still in beta status, there are few bugs that might appear intermittently. This is what I discover..
- Importing failed intermittently. On my case, I tried 3 times before its finally working.
- When using Snap Region feature, the transparent square can only be resized vertically or horizontally. Again it happens intermittently.
Beside that, for better user experience and convenient, capturing text or images should be work without needing to open/close Zoho Notebook in any browser. The Firefox plugin alone should be enough to handle this.
Anyway, it looks like Google Notebook’s browser extension still working.
The top news headlines on the past few days is obviously the plan to close 2 Intel plants, PG6 and PG7 in Penang. Although there are no layoff as reported, but it is come as a surprise to many especially on the eve of Chinese New Years.
The move comes few days after Intel reported its 4Q earning, with net come drop significantly to only $234 millions, down 88 percent against Q3 and down 90 percent against Q4 2007.
In addition to these 2 plants in Penang, one plant in Cavite, Philippines will be closed as well. Intel will also halt production at Fab 20, fabrication facility in Hillsboro, Ore for older 200mm wafer fabrication and wafer production operations at the D2 facility in Santa Clara, Calif.
With this planned closure, Intel who is very synonym with Penang Free Trade Zone (FTZ), has switched to Kulim’s plants as the major manufacturing hub on this region. Kulim which is located 38.7 km away from Bayan Lepas, Penang has seen further investment from Intel on recent years.
It is blow to Penang state goverment which has been working hard to retain current investment and at the same time attract more FDI investment to this small island. Looks like Intel employees are the first major casualty of global economy crisis in Malaysia.
Time for another souvenir from Flavert Media Lab. After KLCC shopping shopping mall guide, now big name in Malaysia’s entertainment industry, Tanjung Golden Village (TGV) has destined to be their latest ‘experiment’.
TGV is the main subject on Flavert Media Lab latest attempt of creating useful mobile content application based on what most people use regularly and frequently.
Everyone loves movie, right? But do you like standing in the long queue to buy ticket, if you happen to see your favorite star movie just been released, without you even noticed it earlier .This is where this application become very handy.
It let users check movies availability, showing time, synopsis and booking the ticket on all TGV cinemas across Malaysia right on mobile phone. No more queue right? It require internet connectivity via WIFI or the mobile’s telco service which require additional charges to function properly.
Among the features taken from official announcement are.
- View ‘Now Showing Movies’ that categorized by language.
- View the TGV Cinema branches and see what are the movie that are shown in that cinema by date ( today, till the second-next day )
- View synopsis of the movie
- One-click-call-booking including all the branches of TGV in Malaysia ( Also covers Tebrau, Seberang Perai, Seremban & Ipoh )
- All general info about movie included ( Genre, Language, Showtime, Cast , Director, Runtime )
- Another nifty thing: Bytes Loaded Counter ( to keep track of your usage )
Phone compatibility, model and everything you need to run this application is available on this page. Keep in mind that this application is prototype model. DOWNLOAD LINK.
Well done Flavert!
This is pretty neat idea. Whatever Youtube or Google Video link sent to your chat windows, the preview of the videos appears right in that windows as well.
Clicking on the play button, another windows popped out and plays video preview.
via
