30 Aug 2005

26 Aug 2005

Greasemonkey: Gmail Conversation Preview



I ran into this post on a cool script for greasemonkey which lets you see a preview of mail conversations on gmail. I think its pretty cool (see screenshot above). The author says he was inspired by the bubbles that appear on google maps.

Google Talk Tips

A friend just pointed me out to some google talk tips. Thought i should share them.

-= Good talk tips =-

24 Aug 2005

Google Talk (Beta)

I've just received an invitation for Google Talk from a friend. So, the rumours were true Google was planning to do an IM.

You can download it here.

Google Quote:

They say talk is cheap, Google thinks it should be cheap


A hint of things to come (VoIP?).

Google Cheat Sheet and Googlisms

For those of you who, like me daily, here are two useful google links - a search Cheat Sheet. The next one doesnt belong to google corp. but you might want to check it out anyway. Its called Googlism. Use it to find out what google says about you (or someone you know or famous).

22 Aug 2005

Flickr and Steganography

I am sure you have heard flickr being widely used for uploading images. The fact that it offers substantial capacity for upload (and more so for professional accounts) makes it all the more handy. I have long stopped storing photos locally. I just upload them and delete them off my hard-drive.

However, here's a thought-provoking article on how images stored on flickr can be used to store hidden information. The technique is called steganography. In simple terms it is the science of hiding messages in such a way that only the person looking for it knows its there. An innocent looking image file, for example, could very well be hiding secret text messages. And in case of services like flickr where they are millions of images being uploaded non-stop, this might easily go unnoticed. Keith explores this possibility in an article on his blog titled "Steganography with flickr".

21 Aug 2005

Quake 3 source code is now avialable

Slashdot just reported that the entire source code for the famed game Doom III Arena is now avialable under the GNU General Public License.

You may also want to check out the web pages of its creator - idsoftware. For those who not were there, these people are the ones who started it all by introducing the hugely popular shoot-em game - Wolfenstein. They did not stop there but went on to create the more popular Quake.

However, to day my favourite games remain to be Tomb Raider and Microsoft Age of Empires.

20 Aug 2005

The stunning 'Protopages'

Now, Check out Ajax in action - that too for personal pages. Try out protopages.

Ajax in 30 seconds

I have ranted about Ajax in the past. Today i ran into this 30 second tutorial by Rasmus (of PHP fame) on how to do PHP and Ajax. It simple and down right to the point. Here's a link on Rasmus.

I found it in this article (State of Ajax) which has several other interesting links for my permanent book marks collection. Here are few, the rest you may pick up directly from the article:
These are just some. Do share yours with me..

19 Aug 2005

Spam protection from blogger

I've just "word-verify" enabled on my blog which will prevent spam comments on my blog (they just started trickling in). Sorry commenters, but keep 'em coming. I love you for your comments.

See what "word-verify" comments are.

RSS 3 Specs up for review

I just read on slashdot that the RSS 3 specifications are up for review. Even if that doesnt make doesnt make sense to you, you might want to take a look at the slashdotters' comments. Some of them are quite insightful.

You might also want to know that microsoft is adding support to RSS in the next version of Windows (called Vista) and have named it web feeds.

Found objectionable content on blogger?

Now the blogger team has made it possible to report objectionable content on their blogs. It can be flagged for being reviewed by someone at blogger.

Check out this post by the blogger team here.

17 Aug 2005

Google Blogger does a la-word

In a google-meets-microsoft move, the popular blogging site blogger (ahem.. where you are reading this) recently published a tool to let you post to blogger using (ugh) microsoft word. Though i cant imagine why anyone would want to do that, but .. whatever! Here's a how-to for it.

In an interesting move however, they've enabled my favourite tool - Froogle for use with mobile. Groovy!

Update (19/Aug):

I am using this tool for an hour or so now. It has a useful option for those of us who are worried about the garbage html that word produces (Settings on the toolbar -- Options Tab -- Preview HTML before sending). This is, assuming that you are interested in and willing to cleaup words mess, of course ;)

I also just found out that although you can use it to edit your existing posts, it does not support images. So those will be lost when you republish the changes.