Adobe PDF on mobile?
Some people would choose this mobile application as a necessity to their symbian phone especially those who are always on the go. They need to access their email and download attachments such as pdf file on their phone. There are some that reading their pdf eBook on their symbian phone. Note that I emphasized the symbian phone here. PDF files is still the best format for me but not on symbian phone. I guess, if I already have a PPC this application should be also my necessity.
Screenshots above gives you the idea of how would it look like on a symbian phone, mine is 6630 at the moment. The first screenshot from left is the zoom feature – to fit screen. It fits alright but I supposed you cannot read at that view, it is best for analyzing the image content of the pdf file. The next one is the view option, normal screen. You cannot read it either but much larger that the first image. The third and fourth image is the best view that you can read the content, I’ve used 90% there.
See the difference? The 3rd and 4th image using 90% view option, scrolling from downward and upward is normal to mobile eBook reading but scrolling from left to right on every line is another thing. The good thing with pdf format is the format itself, the quality never change whether you read it on computer or on handheld devices. Nobody can question that. But we are talking about mobile eBook application for PDF files. I seldom use this application, because I didn’t made any email configuration on my phone.
I’ve read that movie!
Weekend is always the best time for a movie. What if the movie you want to see is no longer in the moviehouse, what are you going to do? Since you are in a mall, have you tried buying for a DVD or VCD instead and watch at the comfort of your room? I always want to watch great movies in a wide screen and always had in this situation.
There’s a lot of VCD/DVD available whatever genre that suits you. I always had this reminder on my mind, don’t pick a movie that is not based on books (or comics). Because there’s a 50-50 chance that I’ll end up wasting my money and time of buying the DVD.
Great movies comes from great books, that’s my rule of thumb. There’s a lot of movie based books that I’ve read first before watching the movie or the other way around. And always a big chance of loving the book version than the movie. I could say that for the sake of cinematography, the story always suffer. I’ve seen “Silence Of The Lambs” for many times until I’ve read the eBook, the ending is different from one another. Another example is “Harry Potter and the Goblet Of Fire”, the movie lacks cinematography and didn’t emphasized the details that could be important to the future movie series.
Anyway, if you’re thinking of looking around for a book based movies, here are some links that I came across that might help you.
From Books To Movies
Based On The Book
Books To Movies
Movies Based On A Book
Movies Based On Books
Listal’s Book Based
Comics is another old passion:
Modern Comic Book Based Movies
TGIF!
Reading txt file on Notes of your symbian phone?
Someone asked me what mobile ebook application can he used for txt format. According to him he’s lucky enough finding and downloading an eBook on his phone but got confused on how to read the file on his phone. He said, he read the file using “notes” on his phone.
Notes is the default viewer for txt files, I salute him for his eagerness to read that eBook. Imagine, if you use “notes”, special characters can’t be read and you have to search for last page you’ve read if you’ve stop. Big deal indeed especially if the file is an eBook.
I suggested him to use HandyBook by epocware, it supports palm doc (pdb) and txt format files. Upon installation, the application will asked you what language you will be using between Greek, Spanish, Slovenian, French, Polish, Swedish, Hungarian, Norwegian, Czech, Finnish, Portuguese, Dutch, Russian, Italian, German or English.
In Handybook application, you can choose the font size from small to large. There’s no need to make a folder for txt files because it will detect all your txt and pdb files on your phone. In fact, this is another alternative if you don’t want to convert your txt files that are previously SMS. And just for the record, txt files is the smallest in size of all eBook formats. Although you cannot change the font color and background color, its nice to have this application to read your txt files easily.
Related Topic:
Look Ma, My SMS is now an eBook!
.RGO?!
I could say that the best format for mobile phones is definitely repligo, no contest to that. Repligo viewers for different devices are totally free to download with no expiration unlike other eBook readers. Repligo file has extension name of rgo, some got confused when they encountered this kind of file type.
The new generation of bookworms will definitely agree with me, rgo indeed is the “almost” perfect format for handheld devices. Almost perfect because with the repligo viewer, its impossible to change the font color (unless the unconverted original file has colored font), font style, background color and the application is compatible to limited handheld devices.
Repligo files are converted from Adobe Acrobat (pdf), Microsoft Word (doc), Rich Text Format (rtf), powerpoint, web page (html) etc. This is the reason why the application cannot change its font color, font style and background color… because it depends on the original format. Whatever the original format it was, when converted into repligo format the quality is still the same and optimized for small screen viewing. Isn’t that great?
If its an eBook, book cover image is sometimes at the first page if you download it somewhere.
How to use it? Install repligo viewer on your MMC or memory card, then restart your handheld device or mobile phone. Open FExplorer, create a folder on your MMC or drive E:\ and name it as “Documents”. Save your rgo files to this folder. The default folder of repligo is folder Documents, you can change it to settings if you want. I prefer to use this folder to organize different formats of eBooks on my mobile phone.
Mobile Settings:
- Flowed - For font size settings
- Zoom – For image viewing
- Go to page – For instant page turning. You can also see the current page and how many pages it have
- Rotation – For landscape or default viewing
- Find – Search a keyword just in case you lose your page. e.g. chapter 12
- Send- You can send your file via bluetooth
When you exit the application, don’t worry. You don’t have to scroll down to the last page where you left off like other ebook application. And when you open the application, it will automatically direct you to the last page you’ve stopped. I became loyal to this mobile ebook application especially when I discovered a forum wherein you can download as many files as you want provided that you’re a member of that forum. Its a sad thing though because the site was gone already…
You can download a free repligo viewer, please do check the compatible handheld devices.
Women’s Murder Club
WOMEN’S MURDER CLUB SNEAK PREVIEW
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This is my favorite detective series by James Patterson, basically its about woman power. The lead character is Lt. Lindsay Boxer, a homicide detective developed a strong friendship with an assistant district attorney, a journalist and a medical examiner. Even though they’re busy on their fields, they always made it a point to see each other on their Saturday Club. Friendship that started from comparing notes to help one another to solve a case…
The Women’s Murder Club Series:
- 1st To Die
- 2nd Chance
- 3rd Degree
- 4th Of July
- 5th Horseman
- 6th Target
- 7th Heaven (to be released on 2008)
I was just looking for an update for the latest book of this series and came to see that the TV series will have its premier on October 12, 2007. I got excited watching the sneak preview until I’ve found out that its not available here in the Philippines. So I guess I’ll visit youtube frequently and hoping to watch the premier episode. I don’t have any idea of the actresses who portrayed the roles, I just hope that they portrayed them accordingly.
UPDATE: This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.
