Adsense Payment Exchange Rate shows 1 USD = 1 INR
This seems to be a bug in Google's Adsense Payment system. The Payment details in my account is showing an Exchange Rate conversion of 1:1 between US dollar and Indian Rupee (See screenshot below).
This off course, is not true. The Rupee hasn't gone down below 49.50 since the last week or so. The payment number is also missing. Hope Google fixes this soon.
Has anybody got this sort of problem?
Update - Google has fixed this issue.
This off course, is not true. The Rupee hasn't gone down below 49.50 since the last week or so. The payment number is also missing. Hope Google fixes this soon.Has anybody got this sort of problem?
Update - Google has fixed this issue.
Search People inside Web Videos
We already know to search for a face inside images; and here's a site that finds people inside videos hosted on video sharing sites. Its called VideoSurf.
Just enter a person's name and hit enter. VideoSurf will display a list of videos having clips of that person inside those.
Currently in beta, VideoSurf looks for videos from 59 different websites. Check it out!
[ Visit VideoSurf ]
Just enter a person's name and hit enter. VideoSurf will display a list of videos having clips of that person inside those.Currently in beta, VideoSurf looks for videos from 59 different websites. Check it out!
[ Visit VideoSurf ]
Quick Typing Tip - Jump over Words in Windows
This is a very common tip among computer typists who work in Windows - Jumping over words! What some people do to move the cursor to the first or last character of a word is to hit and hold the left or right arrow keys.
A smarter approach is to jump over whole words. To do it, just press and hold Ctrl and use the left or right arrows keys. The cursor will move to the beginning or end of a word depending on the arrow key you pressed, saving you some time.
Was kinda surprised to know that a few of my colleagues didn't knew this. If you know about any similar tip, let us know with your comments. Enjoy!
A smarter approach is to jump over whole words. To do it, just press and hold Ctrl and use the left or right arrows keys. The cursor will move to the beginning or end of a word depending on the arrow key you pressed, saving you some time.
Was kinda surprised to know that a few of my colleagues didn't knew this. If you know about any similar tip, let us know with your comments. Enjoy!
Disable Adobe Updater from AutoUpdating
Adobe Updater is a small software that is installed with other Adobe products. If you wanna throw out that crappy automatic updater, here's one easy way -
For Windows
1. Look for the following folder in your root directory
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Updater5
2. Run AdobeUpdater.exe.
3. Click Preferences in the Adobe Updater window.
4. In the new window, uncheck Automatically check for Adobe Updates and click Ok.
That's all! Enjoy.
For Windows
1. Look for the following folder in your root directory
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Updater5
2. Run AdobeUpdater.exe.
3. Click Preferences in the Adobe Updater window.
4. In the new window, uncheck Automatically check for Adobe Updates and click Ok.
That's all! Enjoy.
Extract Text from Scanned Images of Documents - OCR in Windows
The output of scanned documents are usually images. A big drawback about this - You cannot copy or search text in the scanner generated image file. This is where OCR tools are used. OCR or Optical Character Recognition is a technique used to translate images of text into editable text.
Here's how we can rip text from an image using OCR utilities in Windows. There are free and commercial tools to do this. Lets look at both of them.
The Free Option
1. Create a folder named OCR in your D directory. Off course you can choose to create it any where you want. I'm just using D:\OCR for this demo.
2. Copy the image file (that contains some characters) to the D:\OCR folder. The image can be of any format i.e PNG, TIF, JPG, PNM etcetera. For the sake of brevity, let's call the image Demo.png.
3. Download Gocr.exe Windows binary [The source files of GOCR are available at sourceforge. We would only need the Windows binary though]. GOCR or JOCR is a Free and Open Source OCR engine which creates a text file from an image file.
Copy the downloaded gocr045.exe file to D:\OCR.
As GOCR only accepts image files of .pnm format, we need to convert our Demo.png to Demo.pnm.
4. Convert the image to PNM format. You can skip this step if your image file is in pnm format.
We'll use ImageMagick to convert image files to pnm format.
Download ImageMagick for Windows. Install it.
a. Start Windows Command Prompt [Start >> Run. Type CMD and press enter].
Navigate to D:\OCR from the Command prompt and type -
convert demo.png demo.pnm
This converts Demo.png image file to Demo.pnm.
ImageMagick can convert files from JPG, PNG, TIF et cetera formats to PNM. It supports conversion from over a hundred formats.
b. Place the Demo.pnm file to D:\OCR.
5. Open up the Windows Command Prompt [Start >> Run. Type CMD and press enter].
Navigate to D:\OCR.
Type gocr045 -i Demo.pnm -o Demo.txt
This will create a text file Demo.txt with most of the text from Demo.pnm image file.
The Commercial Option
There are a few options here, but I have read ABBYY FineReader is a good one. You can download and try it free for 30 days.
[Download APPYY Fine Reader]
Here's how we can rip text from an image using OCR utilities in Windows. There are free and commercial tools to do this. Lets look at both of them.
The Free Option
1. Create a folder named OCR in your D directory. Off course you can choose to create it any where you want. I'm just using D:\OCR for this demo.
2. Copy the image file (that contains some characters) to the D:\OCR folder. The image can be of any format i.e PNG, TIF, JPG, PNM etcetera. For the sake of brevity, let's call the image Demo.png.
3. Download Gocr.exe Windows binary [The source files of GOCR are available at sourceforge. We would only need the Windows binary though]. GOCR or JOCR is a Free and Open Source OCR engine which creates a text file from an image file.
Copy the downloaded gocr045.exe file to D:\OCR.
As GOCR only accepts image files of .pnm format, we need to convert our Demo.png to Demo.pnm.
4. Convert the image to PNM format. You can skip this step if your image file is in pnm format.
We'll use ImageMagick to convert image files to pnm format.
Download ImageMagick for Windows. Install it.
a. Start Windows Command Prompt [Start >> Run. Type CMD and press enter].
Navigate to D:\OCR from the Command prompt and type -
convert demo.png demo.pnm
This converts Demo.png image file to Demo.pnm.ImageMagick can convert files from JPG, PNG, TIF et cetera formats to PNM. It supports conversion from over a hundred formats.
b. Place the Demo.pnm file to D:\OCR.
5. Open up the Windows Command Prompt [Start >> Run. Type CMD and press enter].
Navigate to D:\OCR.
Type gocr045 -i Demo.pnm -o Demo.txt
This will create a text file Demo.txt with most of the text from Demo.pnm image file.The Commercial Option
There are a few options here, but I have read ABBYY FineReader is a good one. You can download and try it free for 30 days.
[Download APPYY Fine Reader]
Convert Rows to Columns and vice-versa in MS Excel
If you do a lot of stuff with Excel, this tip will be really handy. Here's a really easy way to convert rows to columns in an Excel spreadsheet.
1. Select all the rows and Copy them.
2. Open a new worksheet and click Edit >> Paste Special from the menu. This open the 'Paste Special' box.
3. In the 'Paste Special' box, tick the Transpose check box. Click ok.
That's it! All row data is now converted to columns. This also works for converting Column data to Rows.
1. Select all the rows and Copy them.
2. Open a new worksheet and click Edit >> Paste Special from the menu. This open the 'Paste Special' box.
3. In the 'Paste Special' box, tick the Transpose check box. Click ok.
That's it! All row data is now converted to columns. This also works for converting Column data to Rows.
