Apr 9, 2010

Gmail enables message sneak peak in its labs features. To enable this go to  , and enable Message Sneak Peak. See the screenshot.

You can see the message preview by right clicking on any message. See the screenshot for the same. 

Note: This preview will not work in your spam folder.

I was waiting for something like this. This will definitely save a lot of time.

This is why I use Google Apps

Feb 11, 2010

Notable Firefox 3.6 features include:

• Available in more than 70 languages – get your local version.
• Support for a new type of theme called Personas, which allow users to change Firefox’s appearance with a single click.
• Protection from out-of-date plugins to keep users safer as they browse.
• Open, native video can now be displayed full screen and supports poster frames.
• Improved JavaScript performance, overall browser responsiveness, and startup time.
• The ability for web developers to indicate that scripts should run asynchronously to speed up page load times.
• Continued support for downloadable web fonts using the new WOFF font format.
• Support for new CSS attributes such as gradients, background sizing, and pointer events.
• Support for new DOM and HTML5 specifications including the Drag & Drop API and the File API, which allow for more interactive web pages.
• Changes to how third-party software can integrate with Firefox in order to prevent crashes.

Developers can find out about all the changes and new features at the Mozilla Developer Center.

Aug 28, 2009

Awesome, This will be my next laptop upgrade.

 

The gScreen Spacebook series.
Spacebook planned Specs:
- 2 LED backlit display screens
- Windows VISTA/ WIN XP PRO (optional)
- Intel Core 2 Duo P8400 2.26-GHz
- 4 GB of RAM (2GB DDR2 SO-DIMM x 2)
- 320GB 7200-rpm HD
- NVIDIA® GeForce® 9800M GT with 512MB dedicated memory (or)
- NVIDIA® Quadro FX 1700M Graphics with 512MB dedicated memory
- 9-cell battery
- IEEE 1394 1 Graphics Card Output (15-pin, D-Sub) X 1, HDMI X 1 Mic-in X 1, Line-in x 1, Headphone X 1 PCI Express Card X 1 AC Power Adaptor Output: 19V DC, 90W Input: 100~240V AC, 50/60Hz universal Battery Pack Li-ion 9 cells.

The gScreen Spacebook is the first dual screen laptop with two 15.4-inch identical screens and a full-size keyboard, built into one laptop unit.

Some pics

 

Dual screen laptops are meant for pros actually,  designers, filmmakers, photographers and really anyone who can’t live without a dual screen for everyday productivity. An extra monitor will cause the total weight of the laptop to increase radically.

The estimated price is around 3000$. Cool deal isn’t it.  Well let’s wait till Christmas to have our hands on it…

Found at http://gizmodo.com/5346996/gscreens-dual+screen-spacebook-coming-soonish

Jul 19, 2009

I’m very very lazy person, or else i can say i cant find time to blog in midst of my busy schedule. I seriously wanna blog, atleast a post on my every blog. As I was working on something I like to call “Making Things Happen (MTH)”; blogging also falls in that category. So i was in search of tools that will increase my productivity drastically. And as recommended by TheAnand, i just thought of trying Windows Live Writer; and as it loaded i know this is good. Although this is simple to use, I just thought of making out a tutorial out of this. So here is it. My so called first tutorial.

 

1) This is just asking for configuring your Live Writer

 

2) Next it asks for the blog service you are using. Actually I use WordPress only, since its “Content Management Simplified…”. I haven’t tried any others. Just choose the service you wish to use.

3) Next entering your blog url and your login credentials.

 

4) In the previous window also have the option to set proxy if you are running behind a  proxy. To set it click on Set Proxy on the left side of the window. Then enter your proxy server details.

5) Usually if you are using default installation of WordPress the following may show up. It says XMP-RPC is disabled now.

6) To enable it, login to tour WordPress dashboard and go to Settings –> Writing and in Remote publishing enable XML-RPC.

7) Now Windows Live Writer will configure your blog; It won’t take much time, but in the meanwhile if you are interested you can post a tweet or grab a cup of coffee.

  

 

 

Now your blog has been set up.

9) Blogging from this is very very simple. You can just type the stuff, there are various options like almost all WYSIWYG editor features. Saving draft locally and on your blog, opening it, starting new page or post etc.

The most attractive thing here is you are able to work on your wordpress theme itself. It downloads the theme are gives you a feel of working on your blog rather than any text editor.

Other options such as Insert

There are various image option such as   layout, margin, link to  etc in Picture tab; Size, rotate, contrast, watermark etc in Advance tab and Back & white, Sepia, Gaussian Blur etc in Effects tab  are available. I just love these features…

      

 

And
you can add Category, Tags, Date, Slug, Password, Excerpt and Trackbacks too by clicking the arrow i mentioned in the picture.

You can also see the HTML version of the post/page, see in visual editor page and also the preview of it in your actual theme. Cool na…

And finally after you have done editing the post, just click Publish. It’ll post it to your wordpress or blog service.

That’s it, Keep blogging. Subscribe to my feeds…

FYI : All the screenshots here are taken using Snipping Tool in Windows Vista, Its a nice tool; you can except a post on that too…

also

You can find Windows Live writer vs Marsedit here…