Installing and Testing out your own crowd-sourced App with PyBossa

Testing PyBossa with a Virtual Machine : http://docs.pybossa.com/en/latest/vagrant_pybossa.html

Install Virtualbox and Vagrant first.
#clone pybossa source in your local drive $ git clone --recursive git://github.com/PyBossa/pybossa.git #Start VM $ cd pybossa $ vagrant up

Problem : The 'vagrant up' fails on WinXP while installing 'hashicorp/precise32' dependency.

Following error message is seen : 

"The box failed to unpackage properly. Please verify that the box file you're trying to add is not corrupted and try again. The output from attempting to unpackage (if any)"
Cause :  This is caused by missing or failure in running bsdtar.exe.
For More Details see : https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant/issues/3869.
Solution:
1) Install Mingw with bsdtar.exe
2) "However, installing MinGW for the bsdtar.exe, brought up another issue.
bsdtar.exe wouldn't run because it needed 'msys-lzma-1.dll' but 'msys-lzma-5.dll' was available.
Just copied and renamed to expected filename and it worked!!"

Now precise32 installs and 'vagrant up' succeeds.

Next step
#Connect to VM $ vagrant ssh #Start Pybossa $ cd /vagrant $ source vagrant_start.sh</i>

Problem : Running the 'source vagrant_start.sh' script fails
Cause : bash requires usage of ./scriptname to execute script in current directory.
Solution : Just changing the docs line 'source vagrant_start.sh' to 'source ./vagrant_start.sh' fixes the problem.

Problem : 'source ./vagrant_start.sh' still fails
Cause : It gives errors for trailing ^M characters in the script, DOS line-feed chars.
Solution : Editing the file and removing trailing ^M characters solves the problem.

Use your web browser to browse Pybossa welcome page with this URL 'http://localhost:5000'

test discourse

1) Configure Discourse Server Settings as described here: http://eviltrout.com/2014/01/22/embedding-discourse.html

2) The Discourse comments should appear here ===>

Test Google Transliterate Widget

Type in Indian languages (Press Ctrl+g to toggle between English and Hindi)

Type in

Body

Test Amara Widget

Amara Test Video for Easy Access to Amara Subtitling and Interactive Transcript on your blog or website

Usage:

1) Click on "amara" button on video toolbar to view the different language subtitles for the video
2) Click on "Transcript" button to view the interactive transcript for whole video.
    Also shows "Search Toolbar" box to highlight any word/phrase in the text.
    Skip to any point in the video timeline by simply clicking on any word in the interactive transcript.
    Can be used to extract quotable quotes very easily for sharing on social media (with time position).
3) Click on "CC" button to toggle subtitles.
4) Click on "English" button to get menu to
 a) "Improve these subtitles" i.e. add new or update existing subtitles (need to login).
 b) "Embed Code" to embed the amara widget in any other page.
 c) "Download Subtitles"
 d) Switch languages.

Rajiv Malhotra Test Video

Super way to create running notes on any ebook using Kindle

Super way to create running notes on any ebook using Kindle

Advantages:
a) Use any spare time anywhere to read and create my own notes on any kindle ebook.

b) Well worth the price of a kindle ebook.
c) Many times it's difficult to remember detailed stuff that you read quite some time back.

d) With this method you end up spending at most 2 times effort but you can keep building on it incrementally.
e) However, since it's mostly automated it reduces typing effort.
f) The draft and final notes are best kept in a wiki.

g) Periodically update onto blog.

Note: I've written to the author of bookcision bookmarklet to add copy of user notes in addition to highlighted text. He just replied back that the feature is being added in next version of the tool. Till then it's possible to extract "Notes" by copy-pasting from kindle web-page.

Buying eBooks on Amazon.com:
Note: As of 13-Feb-2013
a) You will be Re-directed from India amazon..in to US site amazon.com for buying kindle ebooks.
b) You need to use international credit-card to buy the same.
c) You can pay in Rupees for the same.
d) You may need to change the country of residence.
e) Of course you can always get "sample ebooks" or "free ebooks" on your Smartphone/PC/CloudReader.
f) Just click Deliver to each of the specific devices.

Howto Annotate your Kindle ebook for running Notes:
a) Install Kindle-for-PC, Kindle-Android-App, Kindle-Cloud-Reader (best for quickly editing notes).
b) Add bookcision bookmarklet to firefox/chrome browser : http://www.norbauer.com/bookcision
c) Highlight the Chapter/Topic in addition to text which you want to annotate.
    You can also add a note-to-self to the highlighted text.
d) Highlights get stored on your kindle account : https://kindle.amazon.com/your_highlights
e) Click bookcision bookmarklet to copy highlights to clipboard. This will copy only highlighted text
f) To copy notes part of your highlights page "View Source(Ctrl-U)" and manually copy contents 'noteContent' tag to your wiki.
g) Copy the notes to your Tiddlywiki and edit for formatting.

Sample:

http://learning-notes.tiddlyspot.com/#[[Mastering%20Redmine%20Book%20Notes]]

Install:
a) Kindle Cloud Reader : https://read.amazon.com
b) Kindle App for Android :  https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.amazon.kindle
c) Kindle For PC : http://download.cnet.com/Kindle-for-PC/3000-20412_4-75185974.html

See Also:
a) Howto Install Kindle for PC : http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/9192/read-kindle-books-on-your-computer-with-kindle-for-pc