Adding a gadget by URL in Google Wave

It's a real simple and real easy thing to add a gadget by URL in google wave... however, i'm writing this post because i've come across some people who asked me how to do it??

Google Wave, because of it's rather new concept, architecture and working, a lot of users are confused how to use it?? An IM plus an email platform plus media sharing platform plus social networking and more.. it's just enough to make a non geek freak out!!

So here's what you've to do to add a gadget (it's just a series of clicks):

You can create an entire new wave (it's like a new message taken as a whole) yourself or reply to a wavelet  (it is a part of a wave similar to a part of the chat lines while chating with your friends online) another waver. The following shows a wavelet. You can click on the blue rounded-corner rectangle below to reply to a wavelet.

When u do that, you are in 'edit mode', then you'll be able to see the toolbar (blue wavy line in below pic),

then click the 'Add gagdet by URL' tool from the toolbar (encircled in red in above pic). U'll be able to see a pop-up, as below,

Now, add the gadget URL there, it's that simple

Googling for 'Google wave gadgets" will return a lot of useful URL gadgets, or you can try out Google Wave Gadget.

Online Tutor

Everyone very well know that mathermatics is one great subject yet hard to tackle properly if we are not clear with the concept behind. We all had, at some point of our life, been to high school, and we know how tough it could get. Specially while we are deal with algebra, almost every student finds it hard to handle mathermatics properly.

The truth, however is, Mathematics is fun!! It has almost every other subject of study under it's shadow, say physics, chemistry or statistics etc. And so that you can enjoy palying around with mathermatics, I suggest you this site, TutoVista.com which i came across recently. It's a leading online tutorial website offering every subjects for a mere monthly fee. From the algebra help, algebra 2 help and algebra word problems sections, you can get help on any algebra problems you faced. As a whole, for any math problems or math word problems, you can get all the math answers online through TutorVista.

 The interesting part is that, every help is available online, so that you don't have to waste your time traveling across your city to get to a tutor. More interestingly, you do have a chance to test the service before making the payments through their demo classes as well.

Gold: the best way to preserve your assets

I was wondering about some way to preserve the assets one has. If someone, a millionare, an individual or a company, wants to preserve it's asset, what do they do?? In this world where there is no certainty of a stable economy, a market crash or raising tensions between countries, is there any surety that the asset can be preserve to the best of it's value??

What, do you think, is the best thing to do then??

The Answer is Gold. Sites dealing with Gold Coins or Aurum advisors could be some place where you can find information on how to protect your assets, preserving in the form of the Gold Metal in uncertain world. The Aurum Advisors online resource for gold coin and gold bullion acquisition at http://www.goldcoinsgain.com makes it a know-it-all topic for assets aquisitors to preserve their assets in the form of Gold Coins. Gold, is the ultimate form of preserving one's asset, the best metal for any individual, family, or institution to preserve their assets. A handful of selected team and expert Gold Coins or Aurum Advisors, which are among the finest precious metal asset managers can be seen at the site. Assuring gold being a valuable part of any investor's investment strategy, Gold Coins Gain guarantee the Gold under your own protection. All the gold coins you receive are guaranteed and authorized by a third party grading service that makes it sure that it is worth it!

The Gold metal, being the most stable metal in terms of its value, is prefered by most. This makes gold the best... and now I understand what to do if I've some extra assets!!

html xhtml and css @web articles

As a web developer, you need to understand basic knowledges on html, xhtml and css to begin creating a page of your own. Web-articles.info carries a whole lot of articles on html, xhtml and css which are among the best articles for someone learning this scripting languages.

The site carries numerous articles where some of them explains basic steps on many frequently use methods or "how to do it" in plain simple way. Whether you are a beginner or an expert looking for some understanding of how a certain thing is achieved using html, xhtml or css, html xhtml and css @web articles has a lot to tell you. Going through the articles, you will be able to combine the worlds of html, xhtml and css. Topics on "how to use html flexibly", "Anatomy of an XHTML Document", working with Cascading Style Sheets and so on are described in details.

Articles are added regularly and there is a growing numbers of tutorials in the category as well as other categories available on the main home page of the website. The interesting part is that, if you need a daily fresh updated content for your website in any category available, web articles offers free fresh content for your website.

Of all the articles at web articles, the "anatomy of an xhtml document"by albert lichtblau is one cool article. As the articles quotes

The transition from HTML to XHTML will come with a fair number of bumps. While later chapters introduce tools to help you get past those bumps – and figure out where they come from – this chapter examines what's going to change and demonstrates a few strategies for handling those changes. Along the way, we visit the ghosts of browsers past and explore problems that exist in current browsers. In turn, you discover how prepared and unprepared various tools are for XHTML.

Visual Design and Usability

Visual Design and Usability are two factors web developers and web designers need to focus with. The two factors are the two ends of a scale, the more you try to add usability, the visual design can be compromised; the more attractive the website is, the less user friendly it may become. www.articlecity.info has a good article on web visual design and Usability.

Some usability gurus have traditionally expounded that developing a web site should be focussed on the usability, not the outlook. However, as opposing these views, User experience designers and Information architects have argue that, since human have the tendency of an extremely short "attention span", an attractive Visual design is essential to lure users making them stay on the site for a longer time.

Patrick K's article on Visual Design and Usability describes the how the two views exist together depsite being the different ends of the scale. A site with a minimalistic visual design is the major design scenario prevailing in the UX design world these days. A website loaded with graphics and animation may be attractive although losing usability functions or taking up more time in loading while a minimalistic website may look dull, however providing the necessary details or information the website is meant for.

For a better improvement in the fusion between usability and visual design, developers/designer has now been using Prototyping tools to create wireframe models of website outlays. This helps in determining the looks of the website in a proper way even before its development.