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Firefox 2.0.0.4 released

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Mozilla on Wednesday(30th may 2007) released the new update(version 2.0.0.4) for firefox.
the new updates are listed below.
  • Security update(known issues fixed)
  • Firefox will support windows vista more effectievely
  • Two new languages added

i just updated to the new version,that is when i thought of writing this blog post.for all diehard firefox fans here is a few firfox themed wallpapers for your desktop.


Google analytics changes it's layout



google announced a complete redisign with google analytics last week at it's Emetrics summit in San francisco,It is being heard from google staff they will be adding new features to google analytics in coming weeks
The old look

The old look had just 4 tabs as you can see in the picture above they are

  • Visit's and pageviews
  • Visits new and returning
  • Geo map Over lay and
  • Visit's by source
Now take a look at the new interface
The new layout has two new tabs on it's home page
  • A new visit's tracking graph on the top and
  • A new site usage tab
So what is new in the new google analytics beta?
  • Redesign of report interface
  • Easier for business and website owners to share data
  • Report's can now be emailed
  • Report's can be made into a pdf file
  • Dashboard can be customised
Existing user's will be automatically upgraded to the new interface by google as google says on this email i received yesterday
We are happy to announce the release of a new version of the
Google Analytics reporting interface. Since you are an existing
user, you will automatically be upgraded - there is no action
required on your part.
Existing user's will recieve an email from the google analytics group.
if you still wanna use the old interface then click on the previous interface button below the view report's button as in the picture below.
My opinion:
I really hate that new design,hmm i guess it was made for newbies to make them comfortable with google analytics.but the features as always is mindblowing ;)

Add image header to blog"New feature from blogger"


My blog image header

Blogger just added a new feature to it's template page and that is add header image option,i was about to write a trick on how to put a header image on blogger,and today as i was getting ready to write that,i simply checked my layout page and was surprised to see that google added the feature already,i am sure it wasn't there yesterday!,so here are a few tips on how to put your own header image on blog.

  • Go to template page>edit html
  • Click on expand widgets
  • From the html code find code like this

    #header {
    margin: 0;
    padding: 25px 60px 160px 160px;
    color: $pagetitlecolor;
    background: url(http://imageserver.com/bgnv2.jpg)
    no-repeat bottom left;
    }
  • Now from the above code copy the image url i.e(http://imageserver.com/bgnv2.jpg in this case copy and paste to address bar and save the image)
  • now open the image with photoshop or paint make your own header without changing the resolution of the image
  • Now save the image
  • Go to template layout click on header edit button seen in picture
  • Now from the window that opens upload the header you made from computer
  • if you have already made a text in your header image then tick "instead of title and description" and if else you just have made the background then tick "behind title and description"
  • Save and publish
I am designing image headers,anyone interested in a free image header please comment.

Emoticons for blogger


Make your blog post's look a bit more friendly by using emoticons , This is how you can add emoticons to posts.

first of all you need the following

  • Mozilla firefox browser (if you don't have it yet you can get it from here)
  • after installing you have to install the Greasemonkey addon.

  • After that you have to install this script by clicking here .
  • Now login to your blogger account to see Emoticons in your create blog post's page.

Newsreel and Video Bar:Two new template widgets for blogger from google

Blogger has added two new widgets for blogger beta template and they are Newsreel and Video bar,Newsreel brings current news headlines from google news to your blog and Video bar displays clips from youtube and Google video for your blog visitors and they don't have to leave your page to watch these videos.
To use these new widgets, click your blog's Layout link on your Dashboard, then click "Add a Page Element." You'll find the new widgets right at the top. The Newsree widgetl will change from a list of summaries to a scrolling ticker depending on whether it's in the sidebar or the main column.
I am hoping for more from google,go google go!!

Adding Google talk to blogger beta


Now you can add gtalk to your blogger beta blog just copy the following code and follow these steps

  • Go to template tab in your blogger beta blog
  • click on "Add a page element"
  • click on "add to blog" button of "Html/javascript" tab
  • Paste the code and click on save changes



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Embedding videos that have been "Embed disabled" from Youtube or anyother service

what are you gonna do when you see a video on youtube that has been embed disabled,which you desperately want to embed on your blog/website?,well don't worry next time,i have a solution.

check this video here i posted via my account.You can notice that i have disabled the embed option of the video,you can see that i have still embedded the same video below,wanna know how?,Just follow the steps i have described below the video

  • Get Download link of the video
copy the url of the youtube video go to keepvid website,past url as shown in picture below and then click on download button and you will be shown the download link,copy the link location as 2nd picture and save the url so that you can use it later for this trick.




  • Now copy this code and paste this code to where you want to publish it

  • After you copy the code,replace"Your_Flv_video_url" in the code with the url you copied from Keepvid website
  • you can adjust height by replacing height="430" and if you want to adjust the width just change "375" in width="375" to your desired value
and here is your result


Making the size of player small will increase video quality
video embed code Courtesy:Labnol

Sony ericsson bringing out 5 megapixel camera(k850i)


Rumors are that sony ericsson is bringing out a successor to the hugely succesful sony ericssoon k790i which featured sony cybershot engine with a 3.2 megapixel camera,now the new one allegedly named k850i will be a featuring sony cybershot engine with a 5 megapixel camera,i am happy to bring out these leaked pictures,which i got via mail,the phone is hoped to be released this spring. Now here are some quick info on the phone

  • Candybar style
  • Black color
  • GPRS and GSM
  • Bluetooth version 2.0
  • Infrared
  • 262 k colours
  • 5 Mega pixel camera
  • SMS,MMS,e-mail,wap,internet browsing
  • Mp3,AAC support
  • Flash
Since the phone hasn't been released yet,we have limited info,but rumors are that it will be featuring more enhanced settings

Orkut add's video feature to user profile's

Orkut has just added a new feature to user profiles,and that is the videos option,where user's can put thier favourite videos for their friends to see.hi5 already had this feature but hi5 allowed videos on profiles directly and it made the site very slow.now let us see how to upload video to your orkut profile,follow steps below:

  • login to orkut and from home page select videos from the list like in the first pic
  • Now go to youtube find your favourite video copy it's url as in pic below
  • Now come back to the orkut video page
  • paste the video url
  • Click add
  • And there it show's up below
orkut support's only youtube and google video,maybe because both are owned by google.

Adsense on your desktop

Wanna see your adsense status on your desktop?
Every adsense owner will be curious about how much he is earning per day,per hour,every time you think of seeing the earning status you go to the adsense login page to know your current adsense stat's,now you dont have to reload the page again and again to view your status.With Adsense status you can get the current stat's on your desktop(as in pic above).It brings you features like

  • Page Impression's
  • Clicks
  • Page CTR
  • Page eCPM
  • Earning's
This is a must download for adsense user's.
Download.

Tracking lost phones made easy


This a cool trick i read on a book.so here is what you have to do,follow these steps.

  • Take your mobile Phone
  • Type in *#06#
  • and it will show some numbers like 'IMEI ********-******-*-**'
  • write it down somewhere you wont forget
Now in case you lost your phone,call up your service provider and give them this number they will be able to track it down,it might be time consuming since service providers have lot's of complaints to deal with.
Another option is to try the service from Micro technologies india,it has a Lost mobile tracking system(LMTS) that alerts you when somebody tries to change the sim card on your phone and also gives the location of your phone.it is based on sms technology and you get alerts whereever you are in the world.LMTS only works with GSM.fore more info go to www.microlmts.net.

Deleted that important file again?Dont panic we have a solution!



Deleted that important file again?,well dont worry we have a solution and that is this cool software from get data the 'recover my files'.it allows you to recover compressed encrypted files,photos ,videos,Deleted emails,word documents ,excel documents etc and many more.
Advantages

  • Files that have been deleted from Recycle bin
  • Files from formatted drives
  • Files lost due to power failure and virus attacks
  • Easy to Use
  • Very effective/High performance
  • Simple easy to learn design
  • Recovers more than 200 file types
  • Recover jpg pics form digital camera's
  • works with USB devices memory cards etc
Program's opening screen has four opening screens as you can see in the above pic.they are
  • Fast File Search
  • Complete File search
  • Fast Format recover
  • Complete Format recover
When a file is deleted from a Windows Operating System the contents of the file is rarely destroyed. If the Windows reference information remains intact, Recover My Files reconstructs the link to the deleted file to enable data recovery. Even if the reference information itself has been destroyed, our data recovery software scans the storage media at a low level to locate "Lost Files" by their internal file structure. This allows Recover My Files to locate and recover files.I recovered almost all files that i lost when i formatted the last time .Only disadvantage with this is that it is a bit too expensive.You can download it from below linkDownload(Trial Version)
License: Shareware
Price:$69
Rating:*****/5

Best Social Bookmark sites'Add to'Links for blogger beta


Social bookmarking sites are a popular way to store, classify, share and search links through the practice of folksonomy techniques on the Internet or Intranet.Social Bookmarking is the best way to popularise your blog or website.

Other than web page bookmarks, services specialized to a specific subject or format - feeds, books, videos, music, shopping items, map locations, wineries, etc. - can be found. Social bookmarking is also part of Social News Sites like Reddit.so here are some codes so that you can add social bookmarks to your post
Indianpad



http://www.indianpad.com/submit.php?url=+ data:post.url +


Deli.cio.us


http://del.icio.us/post?v=4&noui&jump=close
&url=+ data:post.url +



Digg it


http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&url= + data:post.url +&title=+ data:post.title +



Add to Google


http://www.google.com/bookmarks/mark?op=edit&output=popup&bkmk=
+ data:post.url +&title=+ data:post.title +



Add to reddit

http://reddit.com/submit?url=
+ data:post.url +&title=+ data:post.title +


Add to technorati favourites

http://technorati.com/faves?add=+ data:post.url +



post the above codes between'<span class="post-labels">' and '</span>' in blogger beta template

For old Blogger replace '+ data:post.url' + with '<$BlogItemPermalinkURL$>' and '+ data:post.title +'with '<$BlogItemTitle$>'
Please comment on more sites so that i can add here.

Rahul Dravid's 34th birthday (11/1/2007)

First of all let me give a warm b'day wish to the indian skipper Rahul Dravid.As i am a die-hard fan of Rahul,I coudnt resist writing a post on RD.

Rahul Sharad Dravid was born on 11th January 1973 to Mr Sharad Dravid and Pushpa Dravid,He completed his school education at St.Joseph's Bangalore.He startes swinging his bat at the age of 10 for his school cricket team which had a good cricket team.His good performance in junior tournaments awarded him selection to state U-15,U-17 and U-19 teams.He attended a a summer coaching camp at KSCA's,where former cricketer turned coach Keki Tarapore noticed his talents.In 1991 Rahul made his ranji trophy debut against Maharashtra.A double century in Ranji final's against Tamil nadu placed him on the head lines in 1996,for which he got selection to the indian test team in the tour of England.Gave a flying start to his career scoring 95 in first test along side Sourav ganguly at the lord's.Makes first maiden test Century against South Africa scoring 148 in 1997,while his maiden ODi century came against pakistan at chennai where he scored 107runs.In 1998 he gets selected to the world cup and emerges as the top scorer with 461 runs which included 3 50's and two hundred's.Highest test score 270 came against pakistan in 2003-2004.Dravid mean while played for Kent in the English county.Rahul with his strong determination,concentration and patience became the backbone of indian cricket.He came to india's rescue when other's crumbled,thus he led india to some historic wins(Like the one against pakistan in WC 2003).currently he stands 7th in test rankings.
Seen at launch of his biography along side Sachin tendulkar


Personal Life
---------------
Rahul Dravid married Vijeta Pendharkar on 4th may 2003,who is a surgeon in nagpur.He had a baby boy on 11th october 2003.



Achievements

  • Rahul Dravid led India to a historic Test series win, against the West Indies in their home soil in 2006. Since 1971, India had never won a Test series in the West Indies.
  • Under Dravid's captaincy the Indian team tied the previous record with 8 consecutive One-Day International wins for the Indian team
  • Leads India to snatch their first ever test victory on South African Soil.
Outstanding records
  • Best career average among players who have played 100 or more Tests.
  • Best away average among players who have played 50 or more away Tests.
  • 1st Indian to score 5 double hundreds, each bigger than the previous.
  • Involved in the highest partnership in the history of ODI cricket with a 331 run partnership along with Sachin at Hyderabad against the kiwi's
  • Has the record of not being dismissed on duck for 120 consecutive ODI matches
Awards
  • Ceat Cricketer of the 1999 World Cup
  • Wisden Cricketer of the Year 2000
  • Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy 2004
  • Padma Shri 2004
  • ICC Player of The Year 2004
  • ICC Test Player of The Year 2004

He is a gentleman of the game in every sense of the word.Hats off to you Rahul.





Adding an icon to your blog/Website


For who those don't know what icon for a blog is then take a look at the pic above,You can see the icon of google in the adress bar(The one which has been highlighted with a red circle).This is the kind of icon we are going to put to your blog.Just follow the steps listed below

  • Make an picture/icon for your blog(Better make one that depicts you blog content or blog name)using MSpaint or any other software and save it to your computer.
  • Save it as *.jpg
  • Now upload the pic to your server or some image hosting servers like imageshack.us
  • Now copy this code <link href='http://www.yoursite.com/jpg' rel='icon' type='image/jpg'/>
  • Now in the above red highlighted code replace the green part with url of the picture(e.g http://www.yourserver.com/filename.jpg)
  • Now open edit template and paste the code just above the line< /head>

  • Save the template and Publish(for old blogger users)
  • Reload blog to see the change
Take a look at my blog's template to see the icon that i used for my blog.here is the picture i used


Getting Gmail to work on your Sony Ericsson Mobile


Finally after a week of experimenting i found how to get gmail on sony ericsson.I searched in google,but couldnt find an appropriate answer for my question.On your phone, explore to Messaging->Email->Settings->Account settings and select "New account"

1.Install these settings on mobile

  • Install two server certificates One and Two
  • After your mobile recognised and saved these certificates Enter following settings
  • Connect using:a working GPRS account
  • Email Adress:myemailadress@gmail.com
  • Connection Type:POP3(Not IMAP4)
  • Incoming server: pop.gmail.com
  • Incoming username: myemailadress@gmail.com
  • Incoming password: Your password
  • Outgoing server: smtp.gmail.com
  • Encryption: Incoming: SSL, Outgoing: TLS
  • Incoming SSL domain set to pop.gmail.com
  • Outgoing TLS domain set to smtp.gmail.com
  • Set incoming port:995
  • Set Outgoing port:465 or 587(587 preffered)
2.Now do this on your PC
  • Login to gmail
  • Click setting on top right
  • Select 'Forwarding and POP'tab
  • Change "POP Download" to "Enable POP for all mail".
That is it,Now you can use gmail on your sony ericsson mobile.

Easter Egg's In windows





Here are some programs that have been hidden in windows and tips on how to open it
iExpress

  • Click Start
  • Click run
  • Type 'iexpress' and press enter
  • Program for converting files to Executable ones
Dr Watson
  • Click Start
  • Click run
  • Type 'drwtsn32' and press enter
  • Program to repair windows problems
Private Charachter Editing
  • Click Start
  • Click run
  • Type 'EUDCEDIT' and press enter
  • Program to design icons and charachters
Windows Media Player 2
  • Click Start
  • Click run
  • Type 'Mplayer2' and press enter
  • Windows Media Player 2.0
Windows Media Player 5.1
  • Click Start
  • Click run
  • Type 'Mplay32' and press enter
Microsoft telnet Client
  • Click Start
  • Click run
  • Type 'telnet' and press enter

Live Cricket Updates on firefox



Good news for all those die-hard cricket fans who don't want to miss an important match,Now get the scores on your FireFox browser with the Cricketfox plugin.Cricket fox brings you live cricket updates from international and English county cricket matches.Scores are updated with the help of cricinfo website.So from now on you wont be missing the action,when you are on your Pc or Laptop.

Features
----------

  • Updated scores from cricinfo cricket feed
  • Batting team score displayed
  • Double click on score takes you to more detailed info from cricinfo
  • Rotate scores between your favourite teams
Requirements
----------------
  • at least FireFox 1.5 - 3.0a1
Cricketfox is a freeware and is available for all windows versions.the file is 107Kb in size.
Download

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