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Showing posts with label Google. Show all posts

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.

The Missing Gmail Labs Feature


Google has done a lot to improve its emailing features and User interaction through the Labs module. However, I strongly felt that the gmail labs lack one 'mundane' feature which everyone needs and would be happy to include with; and that is - an urgency rating system.

If you are one person who uses the email service frequently to communicate, you perhaps must have come to notice that the rating system is extremely essential.

What Google can add to its labs feature is a 5 options rating module, say something like the one shown on the right. The module is suppose to rate the urgency of the email.

What one usually does is read the email he or she receives first, and so the last email you sent, even though it is urgent, could be read last. It's kind of a FIFO arrangement. You can mention in the subject line, the degree of urgency but there is a better way to do that.


You can simply send a 'Someone's Dying' rated email. The subject line will appear in the corresponding color and one will identify it as soon as he sees the subject, (everyone reads the subject to the mails they received..don't they?).
Someone's Dying:
This is an email of the greatest priority. You rate this when there is and extreme need for the recipient to read the mail as soon as possible.

Finish your Coffee:
This are normal emails. The recipient reads it as when he feels like reading.
Most emails should fall in this category.

I'm Feeling Lucky:
It is a Google style rate. The recipient reads it as he wants. You can rate this when you think the email is really interesting.

Actions Required:
You give this rating when the recipient needs to perform some Actions; as the likes in which site administrators sent to its users to inform the change in its privacy policy and the users need to accept it before continuing using.

No Reply:
This is an email sent when you don't need a reply but want to inform the recipient.



Embarrasing Google Street View images













Google was forced to remove hundreds of pictures from its street view mapping service within hours of its launch facing complaints from people who said that the system breached their privacy.

The street view gives 360-degree views of 25 cities and towns allowing users to take virtual tours from their computers or mobile phones. The initial laumch hit hundreds of thousands of visitors when it began on thursday; but google faced a deluge of complaints from homeowners and members of the public shown by its cameras, who demanded that photographs be taken down.

Blogger (including me!!) and internet sites posted embarrasing scenes captured by the service. Among the pictures removed were a man vomiting on a pavement, one leaving a sex shop and another entering a sex shop; another guy being arrested. These images were blacked out later with the message: "This image is no longer available". However, street view users were able to travel a few meters down the road and turn the camera back to see the same people from a different angle.

Google spent more than a year coveing 22,000 miles to collect images with car-mounted cameras (one such car can be seen in the photo a the top of this article). Some people complained that viewers could zoom into the open windows of their homes which is a sole matter of privacy intrusion.

The company promised to remove any pictures to which individuals objected. "We put tools in place to allow people to remove images quickly".

For more funny Street view images, goto www.telegraph.co.uk.

Portable Google Chrome 2.0.169.0 Beta

Chromium is the open-source project behind Google Chrome. Google Chrome is a browser with intuitive and innovative User interface design with sophisticated technology that makes the web faster, safer (although IE is above in security list for now), and easier. The One Box for Everything ideology makes it possible for your
to type in the address bar and get suggestions for both search and web pages; will give you thumbnails of your top sites; Access your favorite pages instantly with lightning speed from any new tab.


A portable application can be run from a removable drive (USB flash drive, iPod, portable hard drive, etc) on any Windows computer without installation. You will carry the program with settings on removable drive and don't modify settings on
host computer.

Extract (with a PortableApps folder at the device's root) and run ChromePortable or ChromiumPortable. If you want to add parameters, start in incognito mode, delete cache or allow multiple instances: edit Chrom*Portable.ini.
Extract Plugins (with a PortableApps folder at the device's root): Flash 10.0.22.87 & Gears 0.5.8.0.
Settings of installed Chrome should be preserved.


Internet browser (more infos) without installation.

Download Portable Google Chrome Beta on RapidShare
(7.9 MB) (md5:bdd46b84b00941e8048c90a695afb137)
Download Portable Chromium on RapidShare
(8.0 MB) (md5: a6a886a36edbac16feba44d81bad2319)
Download Portable Chrome Final on RapidShare (7.5 MB) (md5: 056dc3ae922f50f6b6042d02745bc943)
Download Plugins on Zone-DL (2.5 MB) (md5: d8dff930fcabd2536eb536228d35e9e2)

And if you want the PC version of Google Chrome, Download : Google Chrome 2.0.169.0

Results in Acid3 Test :
Chrome Beta & Chromium: 100 %
Chrome Final: 79 %

My Name in Google Results

  1. Today, I happened to look up googling my own name and see what the result is like. I find some sites which is quite irrelevant with me, or rather some sites which I've no or little connection or actually have forgotten for long. Truth be told, I'd been inactive with spock but the spock page still shows up the second in my result list. The first of course is this blog only, the 3rd (LinkedIn), i just opened my account 2 days back there, and much of the rest sites below are developed by me (excepting Flickr, Facebook and MIT of course!). One disappointed is that Google doesn't show my own Facebook page, instead showing my friends page.
  2. pTAM

    my works · RSS Syndicate; Top Return to top. © 2008 pTAM. Grid Focus by 5thirtyone.com. Converted by Blogger Buster. Hacks by Pritam Pebam.
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    Pritam Pebam. jawahar navoday vidyalaya classmate. Aditya-sawardekar · Aditya Sawardekar. new fren. Nandakumar Nameirakpam. friend from orkut ...
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    1. How to Install Adobe Flash Plugin for Google Chrome

      google-chrome-ballThe Adobe Flash player plugin is widely used all over the Internet, so it’s almost crucial that you install the Google Chrome Flash plugin if you wish to maximize your browser experience. If you’ve been prompted to install the Flash plugin but nothing happens, then you’ll need to manually install it yourself by downloading the Flash plugin from Adobe and playing a few tricks to install it into Google Chrome. No need to fear however because the installation procedure is pretty straightforward and you’ll have a Chrome Flash plugin enabled browser in no time.


      1. Download the Flash player xpi for Windows.
      2. Add a .zip extension to the file. It should now be: flashplayer-win.xpi.zip
    2. Extract the contents and copy two files “flashplayer.xpt” and “NPSWF32.dll” (indicated in the screenshot below) over to C:\Documents and Settings\user\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\Application\Plugins in XP orC:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\Plugins in Vista (thank you Derek), making sure to change ‘user’ to your Windows login name. You can avoid having to unhide hidden files in Windows Explorer simply by copying and pasting the directory path provided above into the path bar. flash-xpi_extract

    3. Restart Google Chrome, then see if you can watch a YouTube video to see if it worked. Or just come back to this page.


    4. Sergey Brin's Blogging


      Perhaps you all know Sergey Brin, the Google Co-founder. I just came to know that he's started his own blog at http://too.blogspot.com/

      "Welcome to my personal blog. While Google is a play on googol, too is a play on the much smaller number - two. It also means "in addition", as this blog reflects my life outside of work." - Sergey Brin
      The above is what the first post read. The post was dated 18th September and by that, I could just comment, despite of all the bloggers' stuffs and services Google is providing, he is a REAL LATE BLOGGER!!! I don't think he owns any other blogs as per Matt Cutts's remark. 

      Keeping in track of his blog, Sergey has the Google Analytics  installed on his blog; perhaps knowing that a lot of people will be giving him free suggestions on Search Engine optimization or on DIY - tweaking blog template.. which would sound rather funny if for the Google creator!!

      In one of the short 2 or 3 posts at current, Sergey mentioned about the likely development of Parkinson’s Disease on him and which might affect him when he’s older.