August 2007

I know many mail service provide same feature, even I was using same on Yahoo 2-3 years ago. But as we all know how much I love gmail. I always wished that if my personal mails can be like gmail.

Problem of Spam in privately owned domains

The worst about personal mail is that you get lots of spam, why ? As you have to send letter to your site member, you have to show email address to many unknown people so that they can contact you back. All results in your email address exposed to lots of spammers.

On one of my such site, I had 5 email accounts to deal with my site visitors as well as to have business related emails too. But as time passed, I used to get around 600-700 spam mails daily on all mails together, I had to check mails daily in order to sort out mail of my use. I created lots of filter in my mail client software, it was able to sort out spam mails but still things were not working. I was loosing many important mails and even because of those spam mails, my one site got messed up as its all work was based on email.
Then I finally decided to use gmail to work upon all mails and to fight spam for me.. as well the interface we all love.

How to use Gmail to retrive other POP mails

As its your private domain mail so obviously it should have POP facility ie. you can download mail to your computer using email client like outlook express or evolution.
We are actually going to fetch email from your domain’s mail server to gmail account. For that you need following information:

1.Your Username (usually username@yourdomain.com)
2. Password
3. Mail server address (usually mail.yourdomain.com)
4. Pop Port (usually 110)

Now in your gmail.. Goto ..
Settings –> Accounts –> Add another mail account

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Last month, google asked to submit videos for their ambitious Gmail.

They said that they received 1100 clips & I know .. how creative those were, I had seen most of them as I found this project so nice. Here is the final video which they have created after combining few of the most creative videos.

So I hope you enjoyed

Recently Blogger launched direct uploading of videos to blogger. So now user can directly upload videos while they are creating posts inside blogger blog.

All you need is to click the new blogger video ICON which can be found on Create New Post / Edit post area.

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Yesterday Orkut rolled out much awaited new looks to ORKUT.
They Named it : True Blue Simplicity
Orkut, a social networking website from Google. It is one of the most accessed website in the world and top social networking website in Brazil & India.
So here is the new looks :

But seems it is lot different than the one we were expecting earlier. See the older report : New Orkut Looks On the Way.
Here is the older one which we expected to see on upgrade. May be they will roll out it later. Read the rest of this entry »

Just to add here Orkut won the MTV Youth ICON Award 2007.
Nominees can be found here

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We all know that Competition is over now for Gmail Video. Outcome ie. results are yet to come but here I am sharing few videos worthy to share:

Video 1 :

Video 2 : Read the rest of this entry »

Finding Common Community in orkut ie. Community where your friends are members also

Few days back orkut introduced a new feature in orkut. It is small yet nice. All it do is that it shows the communities which you and your friend are part of.

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Get Google Earth for free with Google Pack

I hope you know about google earth. If no then lets have small introduction. It is a free software provided by Google to explore whole world in 3d interface.
Now see how google describes it :

Google Earth Free
Google Earth combines the power of Google Search with satellite imagery, maps, terrain and 3D buildings to put the world’s geographic information at your fingertips.

• Fly to your house. Just type in an address, press Search, and you’ll zoom right in.
• Search for schools, parks, restaurants, and hotels. Get driving directions.
• Tilt and rotate the view to see 3D terrain and buildings, or look up to explore the sky
• Save and share your searches and favorites

So to add more now Google earth comes with ability to explore space.
So you can get & explore

Free images of stars, galaxy, planets, supernova, constellations, moon and lot more

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Google India Labs

Products for India which google wants to test by offering them to public can be found on Google India Labs.
As google say about Google India Labs:

Google labs for India showcases a few of our favorite ideas that aren’t quite ready for prime time. Your feedback can help us improve them. Please play with these prototypes and send your comments directly to the Googlers who developed them.

So Google Labs Current Offerings are :

1. Google online Hindi, Gujaratie, Tamil etc. Multilingual Keyboard.
2. Google Indice Tanslilteration Tool (Hindi phonetic typing tool)

1. Google Online Multilingual Keyboard : Widget

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Since google allowed usage of HTML tags in Orkut Scraps, we have new place to play with it. Most interesting thing is to see which tag works and which one not.
Recently, blinking text was working on orkut scrap but seems it no more working.

Today we will discuss two ways to write an orkut scrap in bigger fonts. It will use HTML and a little of CSS. I think after learning few HTML tricks on and on for ORKUT, we will see huge pile of users who are aware of HTML coding in no time. lolz.

How to increase font size in ORKUT scrap or How to insert big fonts in scrap

Way 1 :
This one is simple and is easy :
All you need to do is enclosed your “TEXT” between [h1][/h1] tags.
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Few days back I found a nice post from Pilgrim’s Blog: Its no different from Alcohol. Today I decided to give it a place here too. I hope you all will like his effort as well he too will like to see this here

So here he is giving a nice and interesting description of various phases of addition of orkut.. He starts from Day 1 goes to Day 2 and then week then month and .. you read on ..
If you are an orkut user then most probably you can fit yourself somewhere in it.

Addiction of Orkut : Different Phases

Its similar to any other drug, alcohol addiction.

The need to be Cool (Day 1)
You feel like a social outcast. You hear so much about it from other people and you think you are net savvy and still young and hip. You do not want to have a generation gap. You just create the account and have no friends on your list. You browse a little and soon see others having at least 200. You feel more depressed. Start searching for at least the ones you know and talk everyday or from the blogger list. (Mine reflects the blog roll in a way). Just a little ego boost when you add the first friend whom you know very closely and they reciprocate by accepting your friend request. You join a couple of communities, Read the rest of this entry »

Since Google allowed inserting HTML codes in orkut, I thought why not to provide some ready made snippets / code of HTML which is tested in orkut and working & can really spice up orkut scraps.

Here is first one.

How to Insert Blinking text using HTML code snippet

The one I am going to show should look like following :

Now to get similar in SCRAPBOOK all you need is to post following code in your friend’s scrap box:
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Its no rocket science, just a cool looking figure that is 8888. It is almost 1 and half month since this gFAN site started. This is actually pagesviews not the unique visitors yet its is fine for site which is more fun.

So it was the figure.

Remember in orkut, whatever interest or information you put in orkut profile, it gets hyperlinked with search results in orkut itself for that word. It actually makes you to look for the people who have similar interest etc.

Google has re-introduced same for Blogger profile, just put in interest or whatever in your Blogger profile and when you will click on that you will get the list of Blogger sharing same words or items in their profile.

Now you can use that feature to increase your profile views. It is very simple, all you need is to clutter your profile with loads of interests. But before going in details, lets look what actually google has introduced in Blogger profile.

Lets make visual explanation of all this.

I took a random profile and from his profile I clicked his one of interest that is FOOD.

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India has the third largest userbase on orkut & hence orkut pays a nice attention to Indian Events.

I am constantly seeing Orkut Logo being used for while is in tri-color as well as it resembles Hindi ie. Devnagari script layout in design. All in all, its good looking as well its a nice move to make Indian feel special.
A worthy enough to mention here.

Find out which country dominate orkut

Many might be knowing about it already but its worthy to share it here.
Top 3 countries as per user base on orkut are:
1. Brazil
2. United States
3. India

To see rest:
http://www.orkut.com/membersALL.aspx

We all know that Star Office (from Sun) is famous Office management suite which costs around US $ 70 (precisely US $ 69.95 as per Sun Sunmicrosystems). But with google pack you can now get StarOffice at 8 for free.
Download now :

It provides many software and all details are also there.

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We all know that recently Google allowed to use html code in orkut scrap. It was infact much needed.
I tested and if you have knowledge of HTML and CSS etc.then you can really amaze your friends.

One thing is to note that html codes going to work for only those people who are in your list of friends.

So here it is :

How to add image in Orkut scraps

There is an Update
You can add image in two now its three ways.
1. Simply post the URL to the image, all files ending with .bmp .jpg .gif .png should appear as full image in scrap.
Like this :
http://www.free-extras.com/carebears/12.gif
This will show a bear.

Or
2. If you know HTML then you can put whole HTML code to link an image in orkut scrap.

<img src=” http://www.free-extras.com/carebears/12.gif” />
will show following:

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Orkut people are upto something always, recently they again updated the faces you see on orkut home page, right now there few new faces in it.

Here is the preview:

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More space for Picasa web album, more space for Gmail-More google space

Google introduced now cheaper option to buy more space for their services which includes Picasa & Gmail. What they have introduced is Shared Storage ie. if you buy more storage then you will have available for both ie. Gmail & Picasa.

Below is the Tariff as google introduced

• 6 GB ($20.00 per year)

• 25 GB ($75.00 per year)

• 100 GB ($250.00 per year)

• 250 GB ($500.00 per year)

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I was seeing it from few days but was not paying attention towards it. I saw that sometimes in my google searches (which a do a lot daily) there is time mentioned in front of result. I thought its been there as I don’t know much and was ignoring but today..Now I am not sure if I really saw what google guys are talking about today ???

Google Guys today officially announced that you can point out most freshest from search results. It will now show timestamp ie. date since the page is with google with search results thus making it easy to look for freshest one.
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I recently encountered this.

Google Cheat Sheet PDF

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Those who don’t know about Google Adwords:
It is a advertisement solution from Google basically allowing you to advertise on Google Network on CPC, CPM basis.
You

Start advertising at cheapest possible price.

Adwords Editor 4.0 for windows

Google recently (2 days back) launched new version of Adwords Editor.
Adwords editor allows you to dowload Adwords’s data on your computer, modify it, deal it with offline and then upload back to adwords’s site. Read the rest of this entry »

Google Calender is now teamed up with Google Finance, this means that you can get your favourite stock quote in calender automatically.

It will automatically record closing price of the stock each day. For this, as per Google blog- search for your for your stock symbol in search bar under calender, add it to your calender & you have it working.
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Google Calender

Google guys are always busy in trying to present things in more innovative to the web, sometimes they are small and sometimes big. Many of use are familiar about Calender/Organizing programs like Outlook etc.

Google also has this product which you can use to organize events, birthdays, reminders and a lot more things but the difference is that you can do it online, you can share it with friends (if you want) or you can even share with world.
It is true AJAX controlled, very nice and simple too.
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Google adsense is now available in Bulgarian & Serbian Language too

As per google, now the google adsense user of serbian and bulagarian languages can also use the adsense interface in their home langauages.
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