Quite often, you would have seen the annoying message "pages 3-4 are not part of this book preview" while browsing books on google books. I have a simple workaround to keep reading a google book continuously even though it is available only for a limited preview.
The solution is to open the book in Browser 1 like IE and start reading. After a few minutes, open the same book in another browser like Firefox or Opera. Each will be treated as a different session/user. So if page 3-4 is unavailable in browser 1, it is likely to be available in browser 2. So just keep switching between the two browsers and you will end up reading the whole book.
Thursday, January 28, 2010
1.5 Million books in your pocket
One of the great things about an iPhone or Android phone is being able to play Pacman while stuck in line at the post office. Sometimes though, we yearn for something more than just playing games or watching videos.
What if you could also access literature's greatest works, such as Emma and The Jungle Book, right from your phone? Or, some of the more obscure gems such as Mark Twain's hilarious travelogue, Roughing It? Today we are excited to announce the launch of a mobile version of Google Book Search, opening up over 1.5 million mobile public domain books in the US (and over half a million outside the US) for you to browse while buying your postage.
While these books were already available on Google Book Search, these new mobile editions are optimized to be read on a small screen. To try it out and start reading, open up your web browser in your iphone or Android phone and go to http://books.google.com/m
There's an interesting backstory about the work involved to prepare so many books for mobile devices. If you use Google Book Search, you'll notice that our previews are composed of page images made by digitizing physical copies of books. These page images work well when viewed from a computer, but prove unwieldy when viewed on a phone's small screen.
Our solution to make these books accessible is to extract the text from the page images so it can flow on your mobile browser just like any other web page. This extraction process is known as Optical Character Recognition (or OCR for short).The extraction of text from page images is a difficult engineering task. Smudges on the physical books' pages, fancy fonts, old fonts, torn pages, etc. can all lead to errors in the extracted text.
Imperfect OCR is only the first challenge in the ultimate goal of moving from collections of page images to extracted-text based books. Our computer algorithms also have to automatically determine the structure of the book (what are the headers and footers, where images are placed, whether text is verse or prose, and so forth). Getting this right allows us to render the book in a way that follows the format of the original book.
The technical challenges are daunting, but we'll continue to make enhancements to our OCR and book structure extraction technologies. With this launch, we believe that we've taken an important step toward more universal access to books.
To try it out, point your mobile browser to http://books.google.com/m and begin reading. Oh, and if you do bump into some rough patches where the text seems, well, weird, you can just tap on the text to see the original page image for that section of text.
What if you could also access literature's greatest works, such as Emma and The Jungle Book, right from your phone? Or, some of the more obscure gems such as Mark Twain's hilarious travelogue, Roughing It? Today we are excited to announce the launch of a mobile version of Google Book Search, opening up over 1.5 million mobile public domain books in the US (and over half a million outside the US) for you to browse while buying your postage.
While these books were already available on Google Book Search, these new mobile editions are optimized to be read on a small screen. To try it out and start reading, open up your web browser in your iphone or Android phone and go to http://books.google.com/m
There's an interesting backstory about the work involved to prepare so many books for mobile devices. If you use Google Book Search, you'll notice that our previews are composed of page images made by digitizing physical copies of books. These page images work well when viewed from a computer, but prove unwieldy when viewed on a phone's small screen.
Our solution to make these books accessible is to extract the text from the page images so it can flow on your mobile browser just like any other web page. This extraction process is known as Optical Character Recognition (or OCR for short).The extraction of text from page images is a difficult engineering task. Smudges on the physical books' pages, fancy fonts, old fonts, torn pages, etc. can all lead to errors in the extracted text.
Imperfect OCR is only the first challenge in the ultimate goal of moving from collections of page images to extracted-text based books. Our computer algorithms also have to automatically determine the structure of the book (what are the headers and footers, where images are placed, whether text is verse or prose, and so forth). Getting this right allows us to render the book in a way that follows the format of the original book.
The technical challenges are daunting, but we'll continue to make enhancements to our OCR and book structure extraction technologies. With this launch, we believe that we've taken an important step toward more universal access to books.
To try it out, point your mobile browser to http://books.google.com/m and begin reading. Oh, and if you do bump into some rough patches where the text seems, well, weird, you can just tap on the text to see the original page image for that section of text.
5 Tools to Download any Book from Google and save it as PDF
Google Book Search is a tool from Google that searches the full text of books that Google scans, converts to text using optical character recognition, and stores in its digital database. Many popular books are available with Google Book. The books available can be read online only and cannot be downloaded for later use. You can download certain books as pdf that allows public-domain works and are free from copyright protection. Only few books are available with full preview based on agreements with publishers.
Following are different tools using which you can download any Google book and save it as PDF file or print it.
1) Google Books Downloader
Google Book Downloader is a tool that allows you to save book as PDF from google to your computer. Before using this tool make sure you have properly installed Microsoft .net Framework 3.5 SP1(Install)
How to use Google Books Downloader?
1.Download Google Books Downloader. Extract or unzip the file. Double click mdgb.exe to run the application.
2.Paste the URL of the book you want to download.
3.Press “Check” button. Book will be checked and all available pages will be retrieved.
4.Press “Download entire book” button to download all the pages in one go.
5.Press “Save entire book as…” button. All downloaded pages will be saved in PDF format.
2) Leechvideo
Visit leechvideo and input URL of the book you searched from Google. Input the URL for the book you want to download and press the ‘Grab’ button. The page retrieval process in the form of image files will start as soon as you press the ‘Grab’ button. Click right mouse button on the links and save it manually one by one. You can use Orbit for batch downloading
3) Greasemonkey script
This is the most powerful and stable way to download Google Book. You can easily download any book from books.google.com using Greasemonkey script. Just follow the simple steps below.
1.This hack only works with firefox browser. Make sure you install firefox browser.
2.Now install Greasemonkey Script and then install Google book downloader userscript.
3.Install Flashgot to firefox browser and restart your firefox browser.
4.Search any book on books.google.com and you’ll notice a download button at the sidebar as shown in screenshot.
5.Click the download button to download the images of each. Select the pages you wish to download and then right click and select FlashGot Selection to download the selected pages.
4) Laneware.net
Visit laneware. The tool works only on IE browser. Input the URL of the book you wish to download and you will get the links of the pages retrieved. I tried the tool but did not found much success. You can use its ‘FAQ and Help’ section for troubleshooting tips.
5) ClickBook
If you are looking for advance tool that can download google book and can print them for you as well then ClickBook is the best solution for you. The tool does not come free and is available for $49.95. Works only with Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista. Visit ClickBook for more details.
6) Download book without using any Tool
1. Open computer with admin privileges and launch your Internet Explorer (Not Firefox). Now visit to the page in books.google.com that you want to download.
2. Navigate to “C:\Documents and Settings\%admin_name%\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\” of your computer machine and delete all of the content of the folder.
3. Browse the pages of the books that you want to download.
4. Open “Temporary Internet Files” folder. Copy all PNG files. These files are nothing but the pages of the scanned book
5. You can print the png files and arrange them in order for reading.
Please share other methods that can be used to extract the books from Google book search service.
Following are different tools using which you can download any Google book and save it as PDF file or print it.
1) Google Books Downloader
Google Book Downloader is a tool that allows you to save book as PDF from google to your computer. Before using this tool make sure you have properly installed Microsoft .net Framework 3.5 SP1(Install)
How to use Google Books Downloader?
1.Download Google Books Downloader. Extract or unzip the file. Double click mdgb.exe to run the application.
2.Paste the URL of the book you want to download.
3.Press “Check” button. Book will be checked and all available pages will be retrieved.
4.Press “Download entire book” button to download all the pages in one go.
5.Press “Save entire book as…” button. All downloaded pages will be saved in PDF format.
2) Leechvideo
Visit leechvideo and input URL of the book you searched from Google. Input the URL for the book you want to download and press the ‘Grab’ button. The page retrieval process in the form of image files will start as soon as you press the ‘Grab’ button. Click right mouse button on the links and save it manually one by one. You can use Orbit for batch downloading
3) Greasemonkey script
This is the most powerful and stable way to download Google Book. You can easily download any book from books.google.com using Greasemonkey script. Just follow the simple steps below.
1.This hack only works with firefox browser. Make sure you install firefox browser.
2.Now install Greasemonkey Script and then install Google book downloader userscript.
3.Install Flashgot to firefox browser and restart your firefox browser.
4.Search any book on books.google.com and you’ll notice a download button at the sidebar as shown in screenshot.
5.Click the download button to download the images of each. Select the pages you wish to download and then right click and select FlashGot Selection to download the selected pages.
4) Laneware.net
Visit laneware. The tool works only on IE browser. Input the URL of the book you wish to download and you will get the links of the pages retrieved. I tried the tool but did not found much success. You can use its ‘FAQ and Help’ section for troubleshooting tips.
5) ClickBook
If you are looking for advance tool that can download google book and can print them for you as well then ClickBook is the best solution for you. The tool does not come free and is available for $49.95. Works only with Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista. Visit ClickBook for more details.
6) Download book without using any Tool
1. Open computer with admin privileges and launch your Internet Explorer (Not Firefox). Now visit to the page in books.google.com that you want to download.
2. Navigate to “C:\Documents and Settings\%admin_name%\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\” of your computer machine and delete all of the content of the folder.
3. Browse the pages of the books that you want to download.
4. Open “Temporary Internet Files” folder. Copy all PNG files. These files are nothing but the pages of the scanned book
5. You can print the png files and arrange them in order for reading.
Please share other methods that can be used to extract the books from Google book search service.
Monday, January 11, 2010
A Primer on fixed wireless broadband
Fixed wireless technology - in either point-to-point or point-to-multipoint applications - can support a variety of services, including voice data and video, as well as deployments at indoor and outdoor locations.
Those deployments can support a wide array of applications, including some quick wins we explored previously in areas such as government, transportation/traffic management, education and more.
Lets gain the know-how to successfully deploy fixed wireless broadband technology.
First glance at Fixed Wireless
At the most basic level, fixed wireless broadband is a type of high-speed network that uses radio signals rather than physical cables to deliver broadband service. Operators use fixed wireless to serve both residential and business customers, depending on their requirements. Fixed wireless is often used in areas where wireline coverage is either difficult or uneconomical to deploy.
The network equipment required to deploy fixed wireless is fairly straightforward as well: fixed ground stations or transmission towers that serve as the core of the network and transceivers installed at customer sites to communicate with the core network. Such links have traditionally required line-of-sight access – ie, no obstructions between them – to work most effectively, but technology improvements mean that today’s fixed networks can support no-line-of-sight as well. Today’s fixed wireless networks support high-bandwidth, low-latency transmission, meaning that the networks cannot only support “bursty” Internet access but more real-time data applications as well, including online gaming or voice over IP service.
In sum, fixed wireless broadband systems typically offer a number of advantages over wireline deployments, including simple network design and infrastructure, enabling rapid deployment (and tear-down, if necessary) and limited infrastructure, which makes it easier to deploy in hard-to-reach areas, such as urban environments or remote areas with inhospitable terrain.
Those deployments can support a wide array of applications, including some quick wins we explored previously in areas such as government, transportation/traffic management, education and more.
Lets gain the know-how to successfully deploy fixed wireless broadband technology.
First glance at Fixed Wireless
At the most basic level, fixed wireless broadband is a type of high-speed network that uses radio signals rather than physical cables to deliver broadband service. Operators use fixed wireless to serve both residential and business customers, depending on their requirements. Fixed wireless is often used in areas where wireline coverage is either difficult or uneconomical to deploy.
The network equipment required to deploy fixed wireless is fairly straightforward as well: fixed ground stations or transmission towers that serve as the core of the network and transceivers installed at customer sites to communicate with the core network. Such links have traditionally required line-of-sight access – ie, no obstructions between them – to work most effectively, but technology improvements mean that today’s fixed networks can support no-line-of-sight as well. Today’s fixed wireless networks support high-bandwidth, low-latency transmission, meaning that the networks cannot only support “bursty” Internet access but more real-time data applications as well, including online gaming or voice over IP service.
In sum, fixed wireless broadband systems typically offer a number of advantages over wireline deployments, including simple network design and infrastructure, enabling rapid deployment (and tear-down, if necessary) and limited infrastructure, which makes it easier to deploy in hard-to-reach areas, such as urban environments or remote areas with inhospitable terrain.
Proxim's Wireless Backhaul Eliminates Leased Line Costs for the City of Bee Cave, Texas
I was amazed to read this article about how a Wireless Backhaul leads to massive savings as compared to the conventional wired network. But I have my own doubts about the reliability of the Wireless network. Can someone clear the air over whether Wireless has a reasonable uptime?
City Saves Over $7,800 per Year by Connecting All Municipal Buildings With Wireless Backhaul
SILICON VALLEY, CA--(April 21, 2009) - Proxim Wireless Corporation (NASDAQ: PRXM), a leading provider of end-to-end broadband wireless systems that deliver the quadruple play, today announced that the city of Bee Cave, Texas has connected the city's municipal buildings with Proxim's point-to-point wireless backhaul technology. Using Proxim's GigaLink® radios, the city not only increased the overall system bandwidth by 400x from 3 Mbps to 1.25 Gbps, but it also saved over $7,800 per year in leased line costs.
"When we first made the decision to evaluate wireless backhaul technologies for connecting our municipal buildings, our primary concern was the ability to increase our bandwidth to enable future services," said Richard Reynolds, CTO for the city of Bee Cave. "Proxim exceeded our expectations by providing over 400x the bandwidth of our previous wired system -- and all for a fraction of the cost."
With the large increase in bandwidth that the Proxim system provides, the city designed and implemented a Voice-Over-IP (VoIP) system for all municipal buildings. The city of Bee Cave was the first organization, public or private, to successfully integrate an open source VoIP solution with Microsoft Exchange 2007 and Unified Messaging in the Austin Metropolitan area. Utilizing open source solutions helped Bee Cave reduce costs in hardware, software, and licensing while expanding available services. Not only does the VoIP system reduce costs, but the system's services were extended to field personnel via hand-held mobile devices, allowing employees to respond to citizen requests from anywhere, providing better service for citizens.
In addition, the system still has plenty of capacity to enable Bee Cave to offer additional services over time. The city is currently considering the future expansion of the network to offer outdoor Wi-Fi® connectivity to both the city's 50 acre park as well as "The Backyard," the city's popular outdoor music venue which attracts many musicians from the thriving music scene of nearby Austin, Texas.
"With our end-to-end wireless portfolio, we can provide everything from wireless backhaul to WiMAX and point-to-multipoint solutions, as well as Wi-Fi/WLAN and wireless network management," said Robb Henshaw, Director of Marketing for Proxim Wireless. "So as customers expand their networks to offer new services, we can provide the wireless components every step of the way."
The city of Bee Cave worked with CDW Government, Inc. (CDW-G), a leading provider of technology solutions for federal, state and local government agencies, to identify the best wireless solution for their needs and assist in the integration and deployment.
"The city of Bee Cave is a leader by example -- showing how cities, regardless of size, can deploy technology to improve citizen service -- and achieve a greater bang for their taxpayer dollars," said Jim Grass, CDW-G vice president of state and local government sales. "Working with CDW-G, the city was able to identify and implement the right solution for its needs. Not only does the state-of-the-art Proxim Wireless solution support and connect this growing city, but more importantly, it also will allow the city to realize a significant and tangible ROI for years to come."
City Saves Over $7,800 per Year by Connecting All Municipal Buildings With Wireless Backhaul
SILICON VALLEY, CA--(April 21, 2009) - Proxim Wireless Corporation (NASDAQ: PRXM), a leading provider of end-to-end broadband wireless systems that deliver the quadruple play, today announced that the city of Bee Cave, Texas has connected the city's municipal buildings with Proxim's point-to-point wireless backhaul technology. Using Proxim's GigaLink® radios, the city not only increased the overall system bandwidth by 400x from 3 Mbps to 1.25 Gbps, but it also saved over $7,800 per year in leased line costs.
"When we first made the decision to evaluate wireless backhaul technologies for connecting our municipal buildings, our primary concern was the ability to increase our bandwidth to enable future services," said Richard Reynolds, CTO for the city of Bee Cave. "Proxim exceeded our expectations by providing over 400x the bandwidth of our previous wired system -- and all for a fraction of the cost."
With the large increase in bandwidth that the Proxim system provides, the city designed and implemented a Voice-Over-IP (VoIP) system for all municipal buildings. The city of Bee Cave was the first organization, public or private, to successfully integrate an open source VoIP solution with Microsoft Exchange 2007 and Unified Messaging in the Austin Metropolitan area. Utilizing open source solutions helped Bee Cave reduce costs in hardware, software, and licensing while expanding available services. Not only does the VoIP system reduce costs, but the system's services were extended to field personnel via hand-held mobile devices, allowing employees to respond to citizen requests from anywhere, providing better service for citizens.
In addition, the system still has plenty of capacity to enable Bee Cave to offer additional services over time. The city is currently considering the future expansion of the network to offer outdoor Wi-Fi® connectivity to both the city's 50 acre park as well as "The Backyard," the city's popular outdoor music venue which attracts many musicians from the thriving music scene of nearby Austin, Texas.
"With our end-to-end wireless portfolio, we can provide everything from wireless backhaul to WiMAX and point-to-multipoint solutions, as well as Wi-Fi/WLAN and wireless network management," said Robb Henshaw, Director of Marketing for Proxim Wireless. "So as customers expand their networks to offer new services, we can provide the wireless components every step of the way."
The city of Bee Cave worked with CDW Government, Inc. (CDW-G), a leading provider of technology solutions for federal, state and local government agencies, to identify the best wireless solution for their needs and assist in the integration and deployment.
"The city of Bee Cave is a leader by example -- showing how cities, regardless of size, can deploy technology to improve citizen service -- and achieve a greater bang for their taxpayer dollars," said Jim Grass, CDW-G vice president of state and local government sales. "Working with CDW-G, the city was able to identify and implement the right solution for its needs. Not only does the state-of-the-art Proxim Wireless solution support and connect this growing city, but more importantly, it also will allow the city to realize a significant and tangible ROI for years to come."
Sunday, January 10, 2010
PHP: a Beginner's Guide
Vikram Vaswani, "PHP: a Beginner's Guide"
2008 | ISBN-10: 0071549013 | 478 Pages | PDF | 5 MB
2008 | ISBN-10: 0071549013 | 478 Pages | PDF | 5 MB
Learn how to build dynamic, data-driven Web applications using PHP. Covering the latest release of this cross-platform, open-source scripting language, PHP: A Beginner's Guide teaches you how to write basic PHP programs and enhance them with more advanced features such as MySQL and SQLite database integration, XML input, and third-party extensions. This fast-paced tutorial provides one-stop coverage of software installation, language syntax and data structures, flow control routines, built-in functions, and best practices.
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Schaum's Outline of Digital Principles
Schaum's Outline of Digital Principles
Publisher: McGraw-Hill | ISBN: 0070650500 | edition 1994 | PDF | 362 pages | 15,52 mb
Publisher: McGraw-Hill | ISBN: 0070650500 | edition 1994 | PDF | 362 pages | 15,52 mb
If you want top grades and thorough understanding of digital principles, this powerful study tool is the best tutor you can have! It takes you step-by-step through the subject and gives you accompanying related problems with fully worked solutions. You also get additional problems to solve on your own, working at your own speed. (Answers at the back show you how you're doing.) Famous for their clarity, wealth of illustrations and examples--and lack of dreary minutiae--Schaum's Outlines have sold more than 30 million copies worldwide. This guide will show you why!
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Schaum's Outline of Digital Principles
Schaum's Outline of Digital Principles
Publisher: McGraw-Hill | ISBN: 0070650500 | edition 1994 | PDF | 362 pages | 15,52 mb
Publisher: McGraw-Hill | ISBN: 0070650500 | edition 1994 | PDF | 362 pages | 15,52 mb
If you want top grades and thorough understanding of digital principles, this powerful study tool is the best tutor you can have! It takes you step-by-step through the subject and gives you accompanying related problems with fully worked solutions. You also get additional problems to solve on your own, working at your own speed. (Answers at the back show you how you're doing.) Famous for their clarity, wealth of illustrations and examples--and lack of dreary minutiae--Schaum's Outlines have sold more than 30 million copies worldwide. This guide will show you why!
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Principles of Data Mining (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning)
Principles of Data Mining (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning)
Publisher: The MIT Press | ISBN: 026208290X | edition 2001 | PDF | 578 pages | 30,64 mb
Publisher: The MIT Press | ISBN: 026208290X | edition 2001 | PDF | 578 pages | 30,64 mb
The growing interest in data mining is motivated by a common problem across disciplines: how does one store, access, model, and ultimately describe and understand very large data sets? Historically, different aspects of data mining have been addressed independently by different disciplines. This is the first truly interdisciplinary text on data mining, blending the contributions of information science, computer science, and statistics. The book consists of three sections. The first, foundations, provides a tutorial overview of the principles underlying data mining algorithms and their application. The presentation emphasizes intuition rather than rigor. The second section, data mining algorithms, shows how algorithms are constructed to solve specific problems in a principled manner. The algorithms covered include trees and rules for classification and regression, association rules, belief networks, classical statistical models, nonlinear models such as neural networks, and local "memory-based" models. The third section shows how all of the preceding analysis fits together when applied to real-world data mining problems. Topics include the role of metadata, how to handle missing data, and data preprocessing.
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Data Warehousing: Architecture and Implementation
Data Warehousing: Architecture and Implementation Prentice Hall PTR | January 9, 1999 | ISBN-10: 0130809020 | 360 pages | PDF | 2.7 mb
This book is intended for Information Technology (IT) professionals who have been hearing about or have been tasked to evaluate, learn or implement data warehousing technologies. Far from being just a passing fad, data warehousing technology has grown much in scale and reputation in the past few years, as evidenced by the increasing number of products, vendors, organizations, and yes, even books, devoted to the subject. Enterprises that have successfully implemented data warehouses find it strategic and often wonder how they ever managed to survive without it in the past. As early as 1995, a Gartner Group survey of Fortune 500 IT managers found that 90 percent of all organizations had planned to implement data warehouses by 1998. Virtually all Top-100 US banks will actively use a data warehouse-based profitability application by 1998. Nearly 30 percent of companies that actively pursue this technology have created a permanent or semipermanent unit to plan, create, maintain, promote, and support the data warehouse. If you are an IT professional who has been tasked with planning, managing, designing, implementing, supporting, or maintaining your organization's data warehouse, then this book is intended for you. The first section introduces the Enterprise Architecture and Data Warehouse concepts, the basis of the reasons for writing this book. The second section of this book focuses on three of the key People in any data warehousing initiative: the Project Sponsor, the CIO, and the Project Manager. This section is devoted to addressing the primary concerns of these individuals.
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