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		<title>Convert scanned PDF to text (OCR)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is a easy and cheap way to convert scanned PDF documents to text using OCR. Don&#8217;t buy expensive tools to do this. I&#8217;m an avid Evernote user and use it to ocr scanned pdf documents. Just create a new note and drag&#38;drop the PDF document to the note. Copy paste the content to word [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.toadi.org/blog/?p=137</link>
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		<title>Location bases services: Gowalla</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I saw some of my friends using gowalla one of the location based services. They have a nice iphone app that lets you create locations where you can checkin. Gowalla is also known as Alamofire who creates game-like experiences on the social web. First I thought it was nice to find locations nearby. Especially restaurants, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.toadi.org/blog/?p=135</link>
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		<title>Penny auctions reached Belgium</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The pure evil penny auctions came to Belgium. It&#8217;s called Flipz . They are as evil as Swoopoo and everybody should stay far away from this gambling site and read Penny Auctions: They&#8217;re Gambling. If you read the article by Jeff Atwood you will notice it is gambling. Even when the Flipz contract states: Art [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.toadi.org/blog/?p=131</link>
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		<title>Self employed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At PearlDoc I was a staff member that co-owned 1/3rd of the company. Last week I closed this chapter of my life by selling my last shares. This year I started a new venture in consulting Altage – Consult. But my passion for creating software solutions keeps me looking for new opportunities.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.toadi.org/blog/?p=128</link>
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		<title>Non user replaceable laptop battery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’m a happy apple macbook user and I didn’t mind to pay the apple tax to have a nice designed laptop and a decent OS. By all means I&#8217;m not an apple zealot thinking that every product from apple is the best and the greatest. I think the shiny display sucks and off course you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.toadi.org/blog/?p=126</link>
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		<title>Iphone SDK</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I enrolled into the iphone developer program. I have registered my company to publish iphone applications so I paid 99$. Well I registered and they told me to wait until they did some checks. It could take some days but at least I did not have to pay upfront J I&#8217;m actually very interested [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.toadi.org/blog/?p=123</link>
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		<title>Yet another opinion about mac and osx</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t really understand all these negative comments on the new aluminum macbooks. Especially the normal macbooks. Yes they don&#8217;t have firewire: buy the pro version. Yes they have shiny screens which I don&#8217;t like either. But overall it is a nice experience working with the macbook, it&#8217;s trackback and the OS. I come from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.toadi.org/blog/?p=119</link>
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		<title>Apple: Macosx and iphone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m converted I bought a expensive macbook and iphone. So I switchted again. I will post my experiences on this blog. My wife will switch to a macbook too. I need to import a 8 GB pst file and 50+ mail rules. I will write a howto post if I pull this of.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.toadi.org/blog/?p=117</link>
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		<title>Creating value in the current economic downturn</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m&#8217; actually happy we are in a economic downturn. For years now accountants are running companies. In MBA courses there is a big chunk of reading and interpreting the numbers. Change a few modifiers and get a instant result. They forget the most important part of doing business: the customer. They trim quality, customer service [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.toadi.org/blog/?p=114</link>
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		<title>Psychological behaviour in economics and Texas Hold em</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Once a month I play a game of No limit Texas Hold em with some friends. In my first game ever I lost because I was &#8220;pot committed&#8220;. I only learned this term after reading some poker books. It means that I invested a lot in the pot and I wanted the follow through not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.toadi.org/blog/?p=110</link>
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