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Free yourname.IN domains from Google!
03 months ago
by madz
in Announcements
Google India and Hostgator have joined hands to provide Small/Home office Business with a website of their own completely free of charge for the first 1 year! It also comes with INR 2500 worth Google advertising credits. Now, there is no reason for not having an online presence!
Android update: Version 2.3 Codename Gingerbread
31 year ago
by madz
in Sneak peak
A few hours ago, Google officially launched yet another version of immensely popular Mobile OS – The Android, codenamed “Gingerbread“. Ever since the first release, Android has been gaining a huge portion of mobile OS market share like a hungry Piranha. Here’s version 2.3 of the trump card from Google.
“Bom Sabado” ate your cookie? Google fixed it!
01 year ago
Last 48 hours had been very horrible for Orkut users. Orkut is a social networking site by Google. A vast majority of profiles, nearly milions, had been defaced, had their passwords hacked, erased and more, all because of a cookie stealing script that goes by the name “Bom Sabado“
Few hours ago, google announced that they have fixed the vulnerability and there’s no longer any threat from the worm, but as a word of caution, its best to have your passwords updated to be on the safer side. And if you want to know about this worm in detail, here is the place to go.
http://www.dailylatestnews.com/2010/09/26/bom-sabado-worm-orkut-fixed-google-029589
Understanding Google wave
01 year ago
Hey!
Google Wave has gone public and is now available for everyone! All you need is a google account and you are all set to wave, literally! This article will try to explain some basic features of the wave and will help you get started using this great innovation.
The dashboard
Lets call the homepage of the google wave as “The dashboard” for the sake of convenience. Here’s a screenshot of the dashboard.
The top left is your navigation menu. It contains a host of other options and add on applications called extensions that aims to ease your work and simplify your collaboration requirements.
The bottom left panel is where your existing contacts are shown. You can also add/remove contacts in this panel. Even drag drop works!
The third panel, the inbox panel is just like your email inbox. This is the place where all your waves, conversations are archived chronologically. The upper tab also allows you to search within the inbox message contents very quickly.
The panel at the extreme right is the place where all your wave activity, ranging from sharing pictures, editing documents, chat, group discussions takes place. There are self descriptive icons for each of the functions supported.
All the panels of the dashboard are fully resizable and can also be minimized or hidden when required.
Initiate a wave meet
Let us start by clicking a blank wave as shown below.
This will throw you a new panel as shown below.
Choose to accept google gears if prompted. This will fasten up your page load times. Now to add contact, drag drop your contacts on the wave panel and you are now ready to start a wave meet with your friend.
The chatting occurs in real time i.e your friends can see as you type. They need not wait until you hit the enter key! The level of interactivity has been considerably improved. Unlike conventional methods, you can just simply drag drop images from you computer to the wave panel and its shared instantly.
A thumbnail preview is shown and can be maximized on to a clean black background too. Just like those online flash galleries.
The User Interface [UI] is quite intuitive and works just the way you want it, though google claims that there might be some bugs still. Say you accidentally added your friend to your boss’s meeting and you want him removed, no need to head over to options, stumble onto remove contact. This time you do it in google style, yes, you guessed it, just drag and drop him back to your contacts list. He will be immediately removed from your meeting list.
Here’s a video from Google highlighting some special features of their wave:
The overall interface of the google wave is neat, clean, simple, intuitive and quite appealing. Google wave, A revolution in human collaboration??
Google joins celebration of pacman’s 30th anniversary
01 year ago
by madz
in tips,tricks & Tutorials
Its been indeed quite a looooooooonngggg time since our classic favorite PAC MAN series was introduced and know what, its already the 30th anniversary! 30 years of eating dots and saving pac girl over and over again! 
The whole world may or may not cherish this day, heck, might not even remember it, but there’s one internet giant that has taken steps to ensure that everyone notices it! Google is known for its variable homepage doodle graphics. They were usually static images depicting art, tech, math, science and stuff. But on pacman’s 30th anniversary, Google has made an interactive Pacman doodle, yes, it completely playable!! Visit their homepage, just hit the “insert coin” button and eat away! Hurry, do Check it out!
And yeah, Happy anniversary dear Pac Man! 
Chk out the video here
Better themes for your blogger page! Really!!
11 year ago
by madz
in tips,tricks & Tutorials
If you have been on blogger for more than a while, you would have noticed that blogger doesn’t actually have the best themes as compared to other blogs, wordpress, for instance. Still, you’ve been loyal to blogger but always had this feel that “what If my blog page looked cooler”…
Fret not, for there are a huge number of third party designers who have been making really nice themes for your blogger page. Most of the themes resemble or have been ported from WordPress themes, so guaranteed these themes will re-kindle that fresh feel you had on day 1 of your blog.
Follow the step by step instructions below for totally revamping your blog page
#1 Browse for themes
Here’s a list of websites that I recommend personally. Good collections of XML based themes (instructions below) , neatly organized into categories.
http://www.bloggerthemes.net/
http://templates.bloggertricks.com/
Just download their Zip/Rar theme files and continue reading.
#2 Backup
Now that you have downloaded a theme of your choice to your desktop, lets backup the current blog. Head over to your dashboard, choose Layout -> Edit Html
Its very important that you backup everything by clicking on Download Full Template. See screenshot below
And if you have been using widgets, make sure to make a note of them, as sometimes changing theme messes up the widget layout.
#3 Upload New theme
Select Browse from the same page, navigate to the folder where you have saved your new unzipped XML theme. Choose the xml doc and click upload. Thats it!You should have the new theme codes in the edit Html canvas box.
#4 Edit the theme
The theme usually comes with general setup. The following instruction is applicable for 99% of the blogger themes, so follow along.
In the html code, you should see something like
li class=’navlinks’ a href=’YOUR LINK HERE’>Home
li class=’navlinks’ a href=’YOUR LINK HERE’>page 2
li class=’navlinks’ a href=’YOUR LINK HERE’>Contact me
Just replace the “Link here” with your blogger pages links and feel free to rename the tabs to whatever you wish. Just make sure the code is intact, i.e the XML patterns are left untouched.
#5 Add Widgets
Now that your basic setup is ready, lets add some widgets. We are going to use native blogger widgets, which you can find in the “Page Elements” tab under the Layout menu (see screenshot on step#2)
Add, config and arrange using drag drop methods and click save.
#6 Save and Preview
All done!! Now hit that save button and view your revamped blog! Nice right? Leave comments below and a few screenshots of your new themed blog for all to see