Today I have observed that google chrome fails to show some pages in the orkut, its not showing me the details of the users who has subscribed to my communities to approve or reject. Below is the screenshot. Strange that google has not fixed their own websites to make them compatible with chrome.
Looks like its all set to release firefox 3.5 on June 30th. I guess they are just going to remove RC label from the last release candidate. So get ready to update your firefox.
Now google launched a new transliteration bookmarklet which allows users to type in any language. If you have added this bookmarklet to your browser, then you can directly type in telugu, hindi, arabic etc languages directly in the web pages text fields, no need to use any customizaed editors or websites.
If you want to try, go and find how to use this bookmarklet
http://t13n.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/blet/docs/help_te.html#StoreFF
Google voice is still beta and access by invitation. You can request for an invitation by going to https://services.google.com/fb/forms/googlevoiceinvite/
Not sure if you know this summer Mozilla foundation invited people to submit concept ideas to redesign the browser tabs. Now the last date of these submissions is done, there are total 120 concepts were submitted and you and me can go and check also we can vote for the concept we like. So go ahead and choose want you want in your future firefox. Then what are you waiting for, go and vote.
The thing I love about Google chrome is, its capability to have a separate process for each tab we open. Simply saying we are starting a new process every time we open a new tab, but still able to manage them all as part of a single window. I heard even IE 8 has the same feature, I tried IE8, but rolled back to IE7 as lots of sites does not support IE 8 yet. Now the news is that even firefox is taking the same path and planning to create a new process for every new tab user opens in a window. This feature is not going to be there in the 3.5 which is due to release in few days(RC2 just got released).
[via Mozilla Links]
As a regular user of pidgin and digsby for connecting to yahoo, gtalk and jabber. I am not very impressed with this IM client, but considering its small size and small memory foot print (it takes less than 10 MB, where as pidgin is taking 23 MB. Sorry I digsby you are not in this race), its not that bad either. You can download and try the latest version from FileHippo.
At last Google gave a big boost to Gmail contact list by allowing users to group contacts and easily view and edit contact details. Considering the old contact management process, this is a big boost below is a sample screenshot.
Below is the java code written to remove duplicate items from an array
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.HashSet;
import java.util.List;
public class Simple {
public static void main(String args[]){
String arrayAsStr="IndianHippy,IndianHippy1,IndianHippy2,IndianHippy1,IndianHippy2,IndianHippy3,IndianHippy";
String str[]=arrayAsStr.split(",");
Arrays.sort(str);
HashSet hs=new HashSet();
for(int i=0;i<str.length;i++)
{
hs.add(str[i]);
}
String arraystr1[]=(String[])hs.toArray(new String[hs.size()]);
String updatedArrayAsStr="";
for(int i=0;i<arraystr1.length;i++)
{
if(updatedArrayAsStr.equals(""))
updatedArrayAsStr=arraystr1[i];
else
updatedArrayAsStr=updatedArrayAsStr+","+arraystr1[i];
}
System.out.println(updatedArrayAsStr);
}
}
This new firefox add-on, which brings Google Indic Transliteration to firefox as toolbar. With this add-on, users can type in different indic languages directly on the toolbar with out any need for going to any website. Also users can use the typed indic text to searching google and use it for any other purpose. Now this add-on is added to mozilla add-on sand box and waiting for reviews. You can download try this add-on the below given add-on collection page.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/collection/indianhippy_s
or download from this website http://indianhippy.com/downloads/IndicGoogleTransliteration.xpi.
Your comments and feedback is most welcome :)
I’m seriously into filters and labels. All the email I get related to Flash goes under my 'flash' label, everything about paragliding goes under flying, and they all skip my inbox because that's how I like to stay organized. But when new email arrives I have to switch to the 'flash' label first, then click on paragliding, etc. I wanted a way to see it all at once. So when I heard about Gmail Labs, I started implementing a Labs feature in my 20% time that would help me (and you!) spend less time monitoring important messages that may end up getting filtered away. Starting today, you can try Multiple Inboxes, a Labs experiment which makes it possible to have more than one "inbox" in your default Gmail view.An image is worth a thousand words, so here's what my inbox looks like:
In addition to a quick view of my important labels, I also like to keep all my starred and draft messages in separate panels. After you turn on Multiple Inboxes from the Labs tab under Settings, you can configure what you want to see, as well as set the number of messages displayed and the positioning of your panels from the Multiple Inboxes section under Settings. However you choose to use it, let us know how we can improve the Multiple Inboxes experiment -- all feedback is welcome.
RSSOwl is the best desktop based RSS, ATOM, RDF aggregator I have used, I think its better than thunderbird though its on high side of consuming system resources(Uses around 50- 70 MB of your main memory). Its fast and easy to use with very usful built in browser. You can download this from http://http//www.rssowl.org/
The simple way to do this is to go to google gadget page and follow the steps. It has complete UI based gadget configuration, you just need to place the generated code in your webpage. You can see the source code of IndianHippy fun page for any clarifications.
There are many add-ons available for firefox and thunderbird, but most them are never updated according to the new versions of product releases. If you try to install them you will see version compatibility error. There is a simple way to resolve this compatibility issue. Download the add-on by clicking “save as” in browser context menu, the downloaded file is with xpi file. Open the xpi file using winzip and find install.rdf file(no need to extract the zip file) and open it in any text editor. Search for “{ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}” which is firefox id and for thunderbird “{3550f703-e582-4d05-9a08-453d09bdfdc6}” . RDF file is xml file under the id you should see\r\n\r\n<em:minVersion>1.5<//em:minVersion>\r\n<em:maxVersion>2.0.0.*</em:maxVersion>\r\n\r\nChange the maxVersion value to the version you are using. If you are using firefox 3 beta then the maxVersion should be 3.0b3 (remember from firefox three versioning has changed now on its going to x.0 only instead of x.0.0).
What is a profile? Its the place(folder) where firefox stores bookmarks, extensions,history etc. details. On windows OS the default location of profile folder is C:\Documents and Settings\xxxx\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\k450b1oj.default.How to create a new profiles and managing them? Execute the command \\"firefox -P\\" which will show a dialog box to create and manage profiles. After creating profiles we can create icons of these firefox by making target as \\"firefox -P -no-remote\\
Yes, there is no direct option to uninstall windows desktop search, which is competitors for Google desktop search. I installed WDS with curiosity to know if there are any improvements over google’s desktop search, but to my disappointment its not that good. So I tried to uninstall to save some space and indexing cycles, but to my surprise there is no direct way to uninstall it, its not existing in controlpanel-> add or remove programs. I googled and found the below given command and it worked on my XP(SP2). Execute the below given command in a command prompt
Sun introduced the StringBuilder class in J2SE 5.0, which is almost the same as StringBuffer, except it\\''s not thread-safe. Thread safety is usually not necessary with StringBuffer, since it is seldom shared between threads. When Strings are added using the + operator, the compiler in J2SE 5.0 and Java SE 6 will automatically use StringBuilder. If StringBuffer is hard-coded, this optimization will not occur.
Historically, the Internet has been all about connectivity between computers and among people. The World Wide Web opened enormous opportunities and motivations for the injection of content into the Internet, and search engines, such as Google's, provided a way for people to find the right content for their interests. Of course, the Internet continues to develop: new devices will find their way onto the net and new ways to access it will evolve.In the next decade, around 70% of the human population will have fixed or mobile access to the Internet at increasingly high speeds, up to gigabits per second. We can reliably expect that mobile devices will become a major component of the Internet, as will appliances and sensors of all kinds. Many of the things on the Internet, whether mobile or fixed, will know where they are, both geographically and logically. As you enter a hotel room, your mobile will be told its precise location including room number. When you turn your laptop on, it will learn this information as well--either from the mobile or from the room itself. It will be normal for devices, when activated, to discover what other devices are in the neighborhood, so your mobile will discover that it has a high resolution display available in what was once called a television set. If you wish, your mobile will remember where you have been and will keep track of RFID-labeled objects such as your briefcase, car keys and glasses. 'Where are my glasses' you will ask. 'You were last within RFID reach of them while in the living room, your mobile or laptop will say.The Internet will transform the video medium as well. From its largely programmed, scheduled and streamed delivery today, video will become an interactive medium in which the choice of content and advertising will be under consumer control. Product placement will become an opportunity for viewers to click on items of interest in the field of view to learn more about them including but not limited to commercial information. Hyperlinks will associate the racing scene in Star Wars I with the chariot race in Ben Hur. Conventional videoconferencing will be augmented by remotely controlled robots with an ability to move around, focus cameras and microphones, and perhaps even directly interact with the local environment under user control.The Internet will also become more closely integrated with other parts of our daily lives, and it will change them accordingly. Power distribution grids, for example, will become a part of the Internet\\''s information universe. We will be able to track and manage electrical power demand and our automobiles will participate in the generation as well as the consumption of electricity. By sharing information through the Internet about energy-consuming and energy-producing devices and systems, we will be able to make them more efficient.A box of washing machine soap will become part of a service as Internet-enabled washing machines are managed by Web-based services that can configure and activate your washing machine. Scientific measurements and experimental results will be blogged and automatically entered into common data archives to facilitate the distribution, sharing and reproduction of experimental results. One might even imagine that scientific instruments could generate their own data blogs.These are but a few examples of the way in which the Internet will continue to surround and serve us in the future. The flexibility we have seen in the Internet is a consequence of one simple observation: the Internet is essentially a software artifact. As we have learned in the past several decades, software is an endless frontier. There is no limit to what can be programmed. If we can imagine it, there's a good chance it can be programmed. The Internet of the future will be suffused with software, information, data archives, and populated with devices, appliances, and people who are interacting with and through this rich fabric.And Google will be there, helping to make sense of it all, helping to organize and make everything accessible and useful.
