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MobileCrunch profiles this interesting company ScanR, a new free service that allows you to take a camera phone picture (or any digital picture) and turn it into a searchable PDF file. . Most of the senior management helped develop Bamboo.com, the company that created the ipix 360 degree imaging technology popular with real-estate and vacation rental sites.
ScanR supports 3 applications, scanning, copying and faxing of documents via your mobile device. Using ScanR is simple. Just take a photo of the document and send it to doc@scanr.com or wb@scanr.com. The quality of the images and services is impressive.

scanR is a powerful service that automatically:

• cleans photos of whiteboards and documents
• tags documents with extracted keywords
• delivers the results as PDF files or faxes

As it is in Beta, Windows Live Academic currently index content only related to computer science, physics, electrical engineering, and related subject areas. It has more than 6 million records from approximately 4300 journals and 2000 conferences for the three subjects.

Welcome to Windows Live Academic
Academic search enables you to search for peer reviewed journal articles contained in journal publisher portals and on the web in locations like citeseer.

Academic search works with libraries and institutions to search and provide access to subscription content for their members. Access restricted resources include subscription services or premium peer-reviewed journals. You may be able to access restricted content through your library or institution.

We have built several features designed to help you rapidly find the content you are searching for including abstract previews via our preview pane, sort and group by capability, and citation export. We invite you to try us out - and share your feedback with us.

Orangoo spell check, This little AJAX application lets you spell correct from any system or computer that has Internet access.

• Spell check in 28 languages: Bahasa Indonesia, ÄŒeÅ¡tina, Dansk, Deutsch, ελληνικά, English, Español, Eesti keel, Français, עִבְרִית, हिंदी, Hrvatski, Italiano, LatvieÅ¡u, Lietuvių, kalba, Magyar, Nederlands, Norsk, Polski, Português, Română, Slovenščina, Slovenčina, Suomi, Svenska, Türkçe and РУССКИЙ!
• It partially uses the Google spell checker and Aspell. Probably the best spell checkers around!
• The code is free, you can use it in your own web applications.
• Your privacy is taken importantly - no text is logged.

Mapable is a platform that has many applications. As a service provider Mapable will be introducing various services and also has a plan to open up the platform to the developers so anyone can create their own Mapable services using mapable API and tapping into the existing userbase. The first service is Mapable Chat.

Our goal is to take take common social activities on the Internet and put them on a geographic map. This applies to chat, polling, surveys, dating, learning and many more. For example, Mapable Chat is a browser-based chat application where you can see where all the chat participants are.

The Homepage is classic Web 2.0 like, and the interesting thing about the chat I found is the use of Google Maps API in the chat area to show user’s location.

Yahoo! Widget Engine includes these Widgets, and more:

• Picture Frame • Yahoo! Weather Widget • Yahoo! Notepad Widget • Day Planner • Yahoo! Search Widget • Yahoo! Maps Widget • Yahoo! Stock Ticker • Yahoo! Mail Checker • Yahoo! Contacts Widget and more..

System Requirements:

• Windows XP with Service Pack 1 installed or Windows 2000 with Service Pack 3 installed, or newer, or Mac OS X 10.3 or newer.
• A connection to the Internet.
• 512 megabytes of RAM is recommended.

zephyr is an ajax based framework for php5 developers. you can easily develop business applications using this robust framework. this is extremely easy to learn and very simple to implement. you can deliver a full fledged ajax application with strong business layer in backend within some minutes. installation and deployment of packages that you develop for zephyr is hassle free. moreover you will get all the features of most popular templating engine “smarty” and powerfull data access layer “adoDB”. lets go through the documentation process to discover how easy is to develop an ajax application using zephyr framework.

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Resize and send your digital photo images online in 3 easy steps!

DoSize is an Web 2.0 application for resizing and sending service.

We are a group of people who share a desire to make it easier for “common” people to share their personal digital photos. We discovered that many people, although Flickr exists, use e-mail to share quickly a couple of pictures with friends and family… but they just don’t know how to resize them to fit them in an email.

So, we started Dosize.com because we felt forced to.

This shouldn’t surprise you but, as part of Do Ideas family, we’re a company that’s trying to make life easier to many people around the globe. That’s what we: we make ideas work!

Though this is like one of those applications that are built into every email program or internet based emailer as standard, like flickr. ;)

Ajax Design Patterns, a new O’Reilly book, based on Michael Mahemoff’s Ajax Patterns wiki is set to be released on June 1.

Book Description
Those of you familiar with Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) know how useful the technology is for creating interactive web applications with XML-based web services and JavaScript in the browser to process the web server response. Responsive web applications with client-like functionality are the new wave of the Internet. Though Ajax is new, the enabling technologies that allow JavaScript and similar languages to transfer and manipulate XML data from server to web browser have been around for a while. Ajax Design Patterns provides best practices for web developers by investigating how others have successfully dealt with conflicting design principles. You will find sections on foundational technology patterns, programming patterns, functionality and usability patterns, and diagnosis/testing of Ajax applications. Ajax is all about usability, so the patterns in this book focus on delivering usability in the face of constraints, such as user capabilities and expectations, bandwidth limits, the stateless nature of HTTP, and the complexity of Javascript. These patterns also are a concise way to represent the Human-Computer Interaction knowledge embodied in the many Ajax applications on the market.

also see Professional AJAX on WROX