From the monthly archives:
October 2006
Suggest new features for GMail
GMail a.k.a Google Mail is still in Beta even after 2.5 years in service. However the application is evolving continuously based on user feedback.
This is a snapshot of some of the suggestions that have already been implemented based on user feedback
You can suggest more features to the GMail team via this link. I voted on 2 features:
Automatically apply new filters to old conversations Control whether people I send mail to are added to ContactsIf you have any other new feature to recommend which is not in the default list, you can always use the suggestion box !
I would like to see these 2 new features in GMail:
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The longest URL on web !
StumbleUpon is a nice way to find new sites and today I stumbled upon PCNames.com. Its a domain search engine which uses Ajax to display the domain status (i.e taken, available etc). So in a sense its one of the "web 2.0" domain search engine.
I started typing in random words like Googled,Googler etc. Then I started adding o's to the Google ! And I found that every other domain was taken !
The largest string that I could enter in PCNames search was this:
This had 26 o's and the domain was taken !
I didn't want to stop at 26, so I opened the browser and to my wonder I was able to add 33 more o's.
So
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LinkedIn - Is it really useful ?
Recently I started using LinkedIn and sent out invites to a bunch of guys I know.
For those who are new to LinkedIn, this is the Wikipedia definition:
LinkedIn is a business oriented social networking site, mainly used for professional networking. As of September 2006, it had more than 7 million registered users, representing 130 industries.
You can add new connections by inviting people you know and you
can also maintain your professional profile within LinkedIn. However after using it for a few days, I don't seem to see any value add in the application.
Even Scoble doesn't seem to like
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Add Reader into GMail with GreaseMonkey
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New look and feel !
Since I wrote this post , I have been constantly searching for a good 3 column wordpress theme. I found a few good themes, however when I compared them with the K2 theme, something was always missing !
Today I have finally upgraded to a new theme called Freshy. Thanks to Thilak for finding out the theme :)
The theme has a nice look and feel and the sidebar has a flexible configuration. I can either have "splitted" 2 column or a normal 1 column configuration in the sidebar. However the theme doesn't support widgets and I had to manually edit the sidebar.PHP !
The porting is still not completely over, I have added quite a
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Damn Yahoo !
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Google Docs & Spreadsheets
Writely , the online word program from Google is now integrated with Google spreadsheets and is now known as Google Docs & Spreadsheets .
I guess this is the first product from Google making use of "&" for combining 2 products and in a way combining word and spreadsheet does make sense. (However as of now there is no easy of dropping spreadsheets into the word document)
As in every other product from Google, the highlight of Google D&S is the clean user interface. The document can be saved into multiple formats(HTML,RTF,PDF) and the collaboration feature makes it easier for multiple users to work
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MediaMonkey - AutoTag MP3
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Eclipse.org - “New” look
Eclipse.org, the official site of Eclipse had a "look and feel" upgrade yesterday. Unlike the Eclipse platform, the site was not so usable, it was always a pain
searching for information in the website. I still have to explore the new interface and see whether they have improved on these aspects.
From what I observed after 5 minutes of browsing Eclipse.org is that its only the home page had an upgrade, the home pages of different projects like WTP,DTP etc still haven't changed :(.
I strongly believe that Eclipse should seriously bring in some uniformity in the website. They should seriously start a project just for this ! ( I remember
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Ping Google
When it comes to searching content in Blogs, the default search engine many people prefer is Technorati.
The Technorati engine is totally dedicated for searching within blogs. Bloggers/Publishers can ping the Technorati service to notify Technorati of new content in your blog.
In many of the publishing software including Wordpress, this can be be done automatically/programmatically.
Google has become a synonym for Search, however when it comes to blog search Google is way behind.
It doesn't mean that Google Blog search is bad, its only that the indexing of new content in blogs take lot of time and the content you get is generally not "fresh" i.e. until now !
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