A JVM Lover

After my recent post ( http://electrokavalam.blogspot.in/2013/05/converting-samsung-s-note-snb-file-to.html ) about the difficulty in converting a Samsung S-Note .snb file to video I got some encouraging comments which made me realize that the problem is indeed relevant to some people at least. I am happy to announce the prototype solution that I have put together. This solution can convert the snb to a flash movie that can be easily viewed using a web browser with flash player installed. So, here are the steps: Step 1: Get the "drawingdata_1" file The (x,y,time) coordinates of the pen are available in text format within the .snb archive. Rename .snb to .zip and extract the archive. Navigate to <extracted-folder>\snote\media directory. You will find "drawingdata_1" file there. This is a simple text file (in XML format) that we are interested in. Step 2: Create flash movie using snb2swf From a command prompt run snb2swf.exe (which may be downloade...

I had an existing installation of python2.3 But I wanted to work with the Python Graph library NetworkX  which however works only with Python2.6 and above. Unfortunately, I didn't have sudo privileges and hence could install python only within my local directory. The following stack overflow link turned out to be of great help in installing a newer python version and further to install NetworkX within it. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/622744/unable-to-install-python-without-sudo-access