Let’s say you are working in Google Docs or writing an email inside Gmail and need to add a screenshot image into your current message /document. How do you do this?
You will first capture the screenshot using the good old Print-Screen key (or via some screen capture utility), then you’ll save that screenshot to a file and will finally upload that image file from the desktop into your email message /document. Right?
If that’s your workflow, iClippy can help you simplify it. iClippy is a screen capture tool that also comes with some free online storage so the moment you capture an image on your desktop, it will also become available on the Internet.
Online Clipboard for Gmail and Google Docs
Jing, Skitch and a dozen other tools offer similar functionality but what’s unique about iClippy is that it lets you copy-paste screenshot images into web applications (like email or online word processors) with one click without having to save the pictures to the local computer first. Here’s how:
When you capture screenshots with iClippy, it collects them in your desktop sidebar and simultaneously uploads them onto the web. If you like to add one of these captured screenshots into another application, just click on the screenshot thumbnail in the sidebar and it will automatically be added to your clipboard. Now open any another application where you want to use that screenshot and hit Ctrl+V to paste it.
OCR with Screen Capture
You may use iClippy to directly paste screenshot images in Google Docs, Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Skype, or even the online blogging editors of Blogger and WordPress.
When you perform a screen capture with iClippy, it will add both the image and the web URL to the clipboard. This is useful because if you do a paste in an IM window or the Twitter message box, only the URL of the screenshot image will appear but if you do the same operation in a rich text editor (like that of Gmail), the actual screenshot image will be added and not the URL.
iClippy also includes OCR functions so it can help you extract text from screenshot images of error dialogs, etc. I could not get this to work on Windows 7 as the program would crash each time I hit the OCR button. Otherwise, it looks like a useful program for people who have frequently include screenshots in the emails.
This image may not make sense to the human eye but if you were to show it to a barcode scanning machine, it would immediately recognize the text hidden in that image as "Google".
How to create a 2d Barcode Image
If you are excited about Google’s barcode logo and would like to generate a similar Barcode image for your own name or brand, go to morovia.com, choose "Code 128" as the Barcode format and uncheck the setting that says "Show human readable text".
For instance, here’s a barcode representation of "digital inspiration".
How to decode a Barcode Image
Now the reverse case. Say you come across a barcode image on the Internet and would like to read the text that’s hidden inside that graphic. You can either get a barcode scanning machine, or a more easy option would be that you upload the image to ZXing.org and it will try to decode that image for you online.
You can either upload the barcode image from the desktop or simply pass on the web address of the image and ZXing will decode it for you as in this example.
What you see here is the default search results page of Google with the Universal Search feature turned on. The search results are a mix of regular web pages, news stories, image thumbnails, video clips and even blog posts (also see the extreme edition).
The Universal Search feature is activated automatically depending upon your search query and Google doesn’t provide any option to disable Universal search.
Disable Universal Search in Google
There’s however a workaround that will not only help you turn off the Universal Search feature but your search queries will also not get recorded into your Web history even if you are logged into your Google Account.
The trick is that instead of using google.com, you should perform the search on google.com/custom – this is the good old vanilla edition of Google search that doesn’t have a menu bar at the top, the Google Ads are displayed only in the right sidebar and you get only regular web pages in search results.
For example, here’s the regular edition of Google for our original “harry potter” query and here’s the vanilla edition – all the search parameters stay the same except that the word “search” in the URL is replaced with “custom”.
You can add the Google Vanilla addition as a search provider in Firefox or IE using the link above or, if you like to change the address bar search engine in Firefox to Google Vanilla, just open about:config and set the value of keyword.url to google.com/custom?q= as shown in the screeenshot:
This setting will help you search Google without Universal Search results from the address bar while you can use regular Google search from the search box of Firefox.
If you are not a geek, let me explain the logic of this very simple program.
The program will first auto-eject the CD-ROM drive of your computer and then it will close that open tray. This open-close loop will run forever unless you terminate the program manually.
while [1 = 1] do #eject cdrom eject #pull cdrom tray back in eject -t done
Now the interesting part -- using just these four lines of code, a geek turned his old Linux* computer into a baby rocker.
He attached a string between the tray of the CD-ROM drive and the baby seat and as the tray would open and close repeatedly, the smooth movements were enough to put his baby to sleep. Awesome.
[*] you are not on on Linux, you can build a similar Baby rocker program for Windows using Autohotkey software.
If you are not a geek, let me explain the logic of this very simple program.
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