Feb 10, 2010

The original post is by ceetee…

You probably don’t have Google Buzz in your Gmail yet. So here’s how you can use it on your PC without having to beg for invites.

Fire up Firefox.
Install the “User Agent Switcher” add-on and restart Firefox.
Go to Tools > Default User Agent > iPhone 3.0.
Visit http://google.com/buzz and start buzzing!
Firefox will ask you if you want to share your location with the website. Say yes!
When you’re done buzzing, switch back the user agent to default.

Google Buzz isn’t available in Gmail for everyone yet, but mobile web access to it is open. At least for those using the iPhone. You can login, post updates, follow people, comment on others’ updates, get updates from nearby and all of that. So you get Firefox, make it pretend that it’s an iPhone using the UA Switcher add-on, and use the mobile version of Buzz through it. Voila. An added advantage is that Firefox also supports geo-location – the same HTML5 API that’s used on the iPhone – so you actually get location-aware information.

Jul 27, 2009

If you haven’t read about my DELL studio 15, read it here…

After installing Ubuntu, i felt it very annoying to work with the touch pad, so i decied to enable my DELL bluetooth traveller mouse with it. Its really handy to work with that. I tried to default method to add BT devices but it failed. At the bottom of the mouse they specify the pin as ‘0000’, but its of no use. After googling i found out the way how to do it. Well i cant explain the stuff since i’m a newbie with this. I commands i typed in the Terminal as given in bold italics red…

root@niju-dell:~# hcitool scan
Scanning …
    00:07:61:EF:4B:49    Dell BT Travel Mouse
root@niju-dell:~# hcitool cc 00:07:61:EF:4B:49
root@niju-dell:~# hcitool auth 00:07:61:EF:4B:49
Not connected.
root@niju-dell:~# hcitool info 00:07:61:EF:4B:49
Requesting information …
    BD Address:  00:07:61:EF:4B:49
    Device Name: Dell BT Travel Mouse
    LMP Version: 2.0 (0×3) LMP Subversion: 0×229
    Manufacturer: Broadcom Corporation (15)
    Features: 0xbc 0×02 0×04 0×38 0×08 0×00 0×00 0×00
        <encryption> <slot offset> <timing accuracy> <role switch>
        <sniff mode> <RSSI> <power control> <enhanced iscan>
        <interlaced iscan> <interlaced pscan> <AFH cap. slave>
root@niju-dell:~# hidd –connect 00:07:61:EF:4B:49
The program ‘hidd’ is currently not installed.  You can install it by typing:
apt-get install bluez-compat
bash: hidd: command not found
root@niju-dell:~# apt-get install bluez-compat
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information… Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  bluez-compat
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 170 not upgraded.
Need to get 53.2kB of archives.
After this operation, 193kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates/universe bluez-compat 4.32-0ubuntu4.1 [53.2kB]
Fetched 53.2kB in 2s (24.6kB/s)     
Selecting previously deselected package bluez-compat.
(Reading database … 124034 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking bluez-compat (from …/bluez-compat_4.32-0ubuntu4.1_i386.deb) …
Processing triggers for man-db …
Setting up bluez-compat (4.32-0ubuntu4.1) …
root@niju-dell:~# hidd –connect 00:07:61:EF:4B:49
root@niju-dell:~#

Done…

I found an interesting blog post by Neena Nair on Ubuntu

Jul 22, 2009

Facebook Mobile Texts lets you use Facebook by text messaging on your phone.

You can text Facebook to update your status, message your friends, or send a poke on the go.
You can also choose to receive texts with messages, pokes, and wall posts from your friends right
when they happen. (Standard text message rates apply.)

What do you want to do?	Message to be sent
Update status	is at john’s party
Message	msg john smith whats up?
Get profile info	search john smith
Get cell phone	cell john smith
Wall post	wall john smith happy bday
Poke	poke john smith
Add a friend	add john smith
Write a note	note this is a mobile note

 

Send text messages to:

9232232665 (92FACEBOOK)

 

 

How to set this up? wait here it comes…

 

1) Go to Account Settings in Setting tab after logging in.

2) Then click on mobile

3) Click on add phone option, Facebook supports Tata Indicom before, you can go for Oher Indian Carriers. It worked for me…

4)   Now send f to 9232232665 (Note: f represents facebook )

5) Then you’ll receive facebook mobile confirmation code

6) You are almost done, Now you can set your options, when you want to receive the updates and for what all events you would like to receive etc

  

Finally just Save Preference, You are done…

Also you can see a demo of the options available at http://www.facebook.com/mobile/?texts

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…