Monday, July 12, 2010

On Gmail Use RICH Text Signatures i.e. Customize Your Signatures

Hello Friends I have tried numerous of times to edit my signature in Gmail but except plain text there was nothing more. No color editing, no text editing, no change of font etc. so, Gmail users have been waiting for long for most widely requested features and tired of waiting some of have used canned responses from Gmail Labs. Others have simply lived with frustration of not being able to change the colors or font size of your signature, or insert images and links.

But now we can use RICH Text Signatures in Gmail and customize our signatures as per our convenience. All of us will be happy to know that GOOGLE has launched the ability to write your own rich text signatures right in Gmail.


 So, what are you guys waiting for open your GOOGLE account and visit the Settings page you will find a rich text editor in the signature section where you can customize your signature by adding pretty formatting, links, and images or decide to leave things nice and simple.


Gmail also supports a unique signature for each email address associated with your account. So, if you send mail using a custom "From:" address, you can use a different signature for different addresses. From the Settings page, you can edit the signature for each account by changing the email address that appears in the drop down menu.


Please note that “currently, only the latest desktop version of Gmail supports rich text signatures and multiple signatures. The older version and HTML version of Gmail, along with the mobile versions, use a plain text version of your primary account’s signature,” as Mark Knichel explained.

Sunday, July 11, 2010

» Firefox 4.0 Beta 1: What's In It for the Regular Windows User

 Fire Fox Fans, the wait is over because the beta version of Fire Fox 4.0 has been released by Mozilla Foundation. The application is available for download for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux-powered machines. It support English Language for the time being but will but will extend to more than 70 languages in future.

If you had a long wait to get on Firefox 4.0 Beta 1, then click here to download the browser. Be warned that the regular Beta warnings apply: the browser may crash, it may not function properly, it may “eat your data and burn your house down” as Mozilla Evangelist Christopher Blizzard jokingly said once.

the new browser has to offer to the regular Windows user. If you do, here’s the lowdown:

- The tabs’ default position has been changed; tabs are now at the top. As Firefox Director Mike Beltzner explained, this change has been implemented “to make it easier to focus on the web content and easier to control the tools in your Web browser”. This change is not visible in the Mac OS X or Linux version.
- The Menu bar has been replaced with the Firefox button. This change is visible in Vista and Windows 7.
- The user can search for and switch to open tabs from the Awesome Bar.
- There is just one button for Stop and Reload.
- A bookmarks Button now replaces the Bookmarks Toolbar.
- Crash Protection: Even if the Adobe Flash, Apple QuickTime or Microsoft Silverlight plugin crashes, the 

Firefox browser will not crash. The browser will not be affected even when if one of those plugins crashes or freezes.
- For now the Add-ons Manager doesn’t look that great, but Mozilla said it will change its User Interface in the final version of Firefox 4.0.

The Mozilla Foundation Has lot for developers as well so Developers can visit the following Link to check what's for then in MOZILLA STORE...Firefox 4.1 Beta 1: What's In It for the Developer



Test Pilot Integration

- Improved responsiveness at start-up and during page loads.

Again, if you would like to get Firefox 4.0 Beta 1, click here to download the browser.

Friday, July 9, 2010

facebook banned...........!!

This time i am not writing about any new gadget but rather than an I am raising a voice against actions practiced in almost all offices which clearly violates our lot of  social rights...

Okay cool down guys i am not discussing serious politics here,but you got to listen to this little story.I am normal tech savy guy of present  3G world who likes to keep posting my little details for my friends and also checking their activities in face book and twitter.Add to this i also like to follow various other  techie and some of my fav actors,authors  tweets and their updates.So despite  having very hectic schedule i do take little time in my office hours for such activities....
Now from quite some time,my office has been following strict IT policy and blocking various websites.Now i sit next to IT manager.Checking facebook and tweets is just like taking a sip of coffee for me.But credit to eagle eyes of my IT manager who must have noticed this,i found to my surprise a couple of days back both sites were banned....................

This obviously was not meant to stop me from my freedom...freedom of expression that i feel while doing same in my social website..I restored to using proxy servers to check my stuff.I even tell how to bypass the firewall some of my colleagues thereby becomes a favorites of not so technical people in my office,

Now another question came up in my mind,why blocking of websites is a common practice in corporates these days.The following can be the reasons that i can figure out

a.)It results in lapse of concentration.
b)We waste our time resulting in decreasing in productivity.
c)Leakage of official information

The third one is an absurd excuse and for the first two are we not the grown ups to not to do things that affect our performances.May be i am more disturbed in not allowing to do what i feel like to do.It's a sort of practice corporates like to follow ,may be they want us into Machines away from social hullabulla.

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Did you know about Google's Sunrise & Sunset Calculator


Here is another feature of GOOGLE which most of us are not aware of that is to find the Sunrise and Sunset Timings of almost any city of the world.


Google can be used to find out sunrise and sunset time quickly using the search code as "sunrise & sunset " respectively for almost every city in the world.

As for example, search for sunrise Delhi will show the approximate time when sun will appear next in Delhi, the Indian Capital and sunset paris will give the approximate time when sun disappears next. The timings show is local time zone.

Apart from Google, one can also find informations about the sunrise and sunset times of various cities using Wolfram Alpha.