September 2007

Google Checkout to offer Free Donation Service for your site

Google Checkout introduced free donation service to receive donation via your site. Google Checkout is payment processor / gateway from Google, you can use it to accept payments online for your products.

Google’s free donation receiving opportunity is there till 2009. Google says that they are trying to make it simple and easy so that you can get more donation and easily too.

Note: They say that it is for non-profit organizations so use it only after reading their policies carefully.
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Listening online FM is easy. All you need is to use GTalk. Though you can use it via other messenger too but here we will talk about gTalk only.

Listen online FM free (FM on Computer) Hindi, english, punjabi and lots more fm channel / radio station

This is done using Gtalk2Voip, it is a free and publicly open voice gateway for major Instant Messenger clients.

Steps to listen to any channel listed below:

1. Sign in your Google Talk application.
2. Add this ID in your Google Talk service@gtalk2voip.com, when you will first add then you will get following screen with some welcome messages.
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Blogger recently introduced a nice thing. Can’t say if it has any real life use but yes it is damn interesting.

It is slideshow of ever uploading photos to the blogger. So it was fun watching it.

Google itself says :

Blogger Play will show you a never-ending stream of images that were just uploaded to public Blogger blogs. You can click the image to be taken directly to the blog post it was uploaded to, or click “show info” to see an overlay with the post title, a snippet of the body, and some profile information about the blogger who uploaded it.

You can access it at :

http://play.blogger.com

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Google rolled out Google Gadget ads. They describe it as Mini site inside your site. It is expected to be more interactive and more yielding to both publisher and advertiser.
Can be something like ads with fun.

It will need little work around to run the ad widget. See this : http://www.google.com/adwords/gadgetads to know more.

Also you will need an adsense account to earn money through all this :

So Join today and earn widget way

Earn money from wap / mobile websites too / Ads for Mobile wapsites

Google just launched adsense for mobile. Means if you have mobile website and want to monetize then you can now use adsense on it. For time being only one unit per page is allowed.
If you don’t know what Google Adsense is then, in short,its a advertising program for publishers to earn revenue from their sites very easily. You can join it too :

All you need is to goto Adsense Account then :
Adsense Setup –> Adsense for Moble
Rest is self explainatory .

Google just launched new addition to its Google Docs.
You can access Google docs at : http://docs.google.com .

Google added Online Presentation to Google Docs

It is really a nice addition, now addition to its online facility to create spreadsheet, documents now you can have presentation too. This now makes this offering a new advantage ie. to Google Docs.

Its easy to work upon, its like a basic Presentation software.
Login to your docs account and then goto..
New –> Presentation

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Did you see, orkut is now really quick in adopting new features which were missing from long time, I think after implementation of new look to ORKUT they are now more comfortable to add new features to orkut. Another new feature added :

Send you introduction with friend request

I missed this one from day one I joined orkut. Infact we are using such feature from long in messenger like Yahoo where whenever we a buddy, we can give a brief introduction about ourself making it easy for both for further friendship.

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If you have noticed , then there is new feature now in orkut, it will actually allow you to disallow scraps for people who are not your friend.

Disable / Ban / Restrict Scrapping in orkut by other people

So now you can really stop other unwanted people to not to offend your scrapbook, can be really helpful in many cases, this feature will protect privacy at a very high level as far as I think of, I am not going to discuss all this here but really cool feature. Read the rest of this entry »

While replying a scrap, you might notice a new feature added to Orkut. Most probably Orkut India. You will see a list of Languages in drop down menu and when you will select one language from that menu, you will see its keyboard online just below scrap, so you can type easily.
Here is screenshot:

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With use of HTML in orkut scrap, you can do few interesting things with scraps. Earlier we talked about changing font Size and also inserting blinking text in scrap.
Today, as many of our visitors asked, we are talking about inserting various types of font in scrap.

How to change or use various font face / font design in orkut scraps using HTML

So we can actually have designer text in our scraps. There are few standard fonts available on internet so I am talking about them only. Most of the time they are available on all computers but do not expect them to work always, below I am going to show some and they are available at my computer as well as two other computer on which I have tested.

Impact : Lets have fun, says gFAN
Courier : Lets have fun, says gFAN
Garamond : Lets have fun, says gFAN
Fantasy : Lets have fun, says gFAN
Cursive : Lets have fun, says gFAN
Monospace : Lets have fun, says gFAN
Serif : Lets have fun, says gFAN
Comic Sans ms : Lets have fun, says gFAN
Sans-Serif : Lets have fun, says gFAN
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Google Reader just launched search feature.

That was really needed, it is now easy for those who are using 100s of feed subscription.
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Orkut just added a nice small feature, that is [S][A][M] & [T][E][M].
Lets discuss:

What is [S][A][M] & [T][E][M] or what is their use / meaning ?

Actually you will see [S][A][M] attached with profile or name of friends and [T][E][M] with name of community or community listings. They are shortcuts for certain links on orkut related to that user or community.
So lets see what they actually do :
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This trick is very simple, its nothing like something new yet many people do not think of using the feature this way.

Visit someone’s profile in stealth mode or invisible mode without letting your name listed in recent vistors ie. ANONYMOUSLY !

All you need is to change few setting in your orkut account while you want to visit profiles in stealth mode and when you are done then set back to normal.

So login to your orkut account :
Goto Settings -> Privacy -> Profile Visitors
There select Hide profile visits

Now surf in stealth mode, no one will know that you visited their profile.
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Google just launched a nice new feature to Google Adsense. It was very much needed and I was always thinking for something like this from long.
If you don’t know what Google Adsense is then, in short,its a advertising program for publishers to earn revenue from their sites very easily. You can join it too :

All you need is to login to your adsense account :
Goto Adsense Setup –> Allowed Sites
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Google had introduced flight simulator with the launch of Google Earth 4.2. They do not announced it officially but many had already discovered it.
Download Google Earth Free with Flight Simulator (it comes with google pack):

Running Flight Simulator for first time need to use some key sequence and then you can find it under Tools -> Enter Flight Simulator.

To activate first time you need to press : Ctrl + Alt + A, for Mac user it is Command + Option + A.

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Google launched new feature to the Google maps. Now using Line Tool in google maps, you can find out almost exact measurement of distance.

All you need is to draw trails on your map and on moving mouse over it, will show the distance.

Recently Google book search launched new feature to google book search. For those who don’t know what is Google book search:
Google has digitized many books from library collections, including hundreds of books related to Old English literature: editions, translations and lot more and has presented it to user which can be searched and read online.

So now you can have Personalized online library which you can share with your friends and others.
I have created a sample one which can be found here : Gfan Google library

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Orkut recently introduced yet another new feature, by this feature you will have a list on your ORKUT PROFILE HOMEPAGE showing who has done changes in their profile. It may include notifications of modification in their profile description, adding new photos to their profile, receiving new testimonial or uploading new youtube videos. So you will have list of recent changes done by your friend in front of you.

You may have seen many people announcing in their name area that new photo uploaded etc, I think this the reason for Google / Orkut guys to roll out this feature and is the source for inspiration for them.
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Info Type:: Tips
Application / Software : Orkut & Firefox with Greasemonkey.
Brief Introduction : We are going to talk about a script which can be installed on user’s computer and it can help user to automate various formatting task in ORKUT scrapping.

This post is specifically for Firefox user as it only works with FireFox. Firefox is one of the best browser available on internet. It can help you to save lots of time and better browsing experience.

I found a nice script here which actually ads a nice formatting toolbar to your orkut page. With the help of this toolbar you can easily format your scraps. You can add glittering text too. You can insert desired smiley just for single click of mouse. So basically this toolbar automates various process of scrapping which otherwise can be done manually too by adding required codes / text.

All you need is to install this script and start using it.

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Norton Internet Security is one of the most famous and valuable product to make your computer safer by removing virus, threats etc. from your computer.
Key Technologies

* Antispyware
* Antivirus
* Two-Way Firewall
* Advanced Phishing Protection
* Intrusion Prevention
* Rootkit Detection

But very little know that you can get this all free legally with Google pack here :

Download Norton Internet Security Free with Google Pack

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Just select the package you want to download , here only select Norton internet security and you will have FREE ANTIVIRUS SUITE in your computer.

Now google allows to have inline Adsense ads in Google hosted blogger blogs

It was always felt that google should allow posting Adsense ads in posts of bloggers ie. allowing inline ads in posts of blogger. I hope you know about Blogger, Blogger is a free blog hosting service provided by Google and similarly Adsense is revenue generating program for website owners / bloggers / publishers.

Its pretty easy to add adsense ads in your post & start earning right away but before that you must have adsense account, you apply for it:

1. Log into your Blogger account at http://www.blogger.com .
2. Visit your blog’s Template tab and click on the Page Elements link.
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Orkut knows how to keep happy its visitors and how to make them feel special.

They have introduced 5 new languages for Orkut which means now you can browse whole orkut in the language you speak. The languages are Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati, Marathi, Tamil & Telugu. They will sure introduce more languages.
Have a look on Hindi layout :

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