Posts Tagged ‘ API ’

Google Docs OCR

My dilemma awhile ago was that 3 pages were given to me in JPEG format. I needed to post them online as text. I tried a few of the online OCR’s but didn’t really got them working. Then I found A prototype of the DocList API. The demo can be used as an online service for [ READ MORE ]

OpenSocial API and Facebook API Should Be Friends

Because Facebook decided to isolate itself from Google’s OpenSocial, if you’re a social app developer, you’d need to learn both Facebook API and OpenSocial API to penetrate all popular social networks. It’s hard enough to perfect a social app; and more pain comes when converting it to support on a different API. From what I’ve noticed [ READ MORE ]

Twitter Can’t Tweet

Kind of pissed of right now. I spent midnight till dawn trying to find a good mobile app for my Symbian phone that supports YM, Facebook and Twitter (the 3 social realms that I live in). I stumbled upon fring. It was perfect after seeing the screenshots. I downloaded it and tried YM. It worked [ READ MORE ]

Had a Google Week

The last few days  were just Google, Google, Google. Tonight I just had to drop dead on my bed to reward myself a good night sleep. But here I am, waking in the middle of the night blogging about the whole week. Brain’s too active during the night. My Google Week started a couple of weeks [ READ MORE ]

Cleaning Off the Rust

If you’re an IT guy, we all know we can’t just sit around the whole day playing Restaurant City on Facebook without doing anything new aside from your usual job.  We’ll definitely rot and be pushed out of IT in no time. Especially now that I have condemned myself of being an academe person (learning [ READ MORE ]