If you have a blog or a website then it would be nice thing to have the ability for your readers to translate your website into their own language. You don’t have to create different versions of your website to provide your readers with a way to read your website in the language of their choice.
DemoGeek.com has a well explained article on how to translate your website or blog to different languages using Google Translate Gadget.
It is definitely worth a read.
Ever felt the need to manage your emails better? If you are using Gmail then you should read this article on how to better manage your emails. A nice and simple trick to make use of that really pays off when it comes to email management using Gmail.
This is pretty cool. Read on to learn how to bring your Google Calendar agenda to your Gmail sidebar.
To me @Live addresses are cool even though I like Gmail interface and email handling a lot better than Hotmail. It is short and sweet and stands out. When Microsoft announced that it will open up the @Live addresses I was excited. But then the news faded and there was no word for a while. In the mean time our unofficial hackers came up with a hack that will let us get @Live addresses (unofficially) by changing few parameters in the browser URL.
Here is how you do it,
Enjoy!!! And make sure to get your @live addresses as soon as you can as this hack might not work forever.
Google just released a new feature to its Google Maps called Mapplets. Mapplets are simple/small gadgets that can be embedded into the Google Maps. Mapplets can be found under “My Maps” if you are signed-in to Google network. There are bunch of Mapplets that Google has put out to begin with including, Real Estate Search, Photos, Gas Prices, Distance Measurement Tool, Earth as Art, and Crop Circles. But when you click the “Add Content” button you get a much bigger list of all the available Mapplets and I’m sure if you don’t find the one you are looking for it would be available soon.
To check out Google Mapplets you would, obviously, have to visit Google Maps.
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Most of us run into this minor ache of coming up with the domain name that’s available. Often we try multiple times to see if the domain name is available or not to mostly end up with an irritating “domain unavailable” message. “Bust a Name” gives you a hand on this issue to help you come up with a combination of domain names based on some keywords and to check and see if those domains are available. By default it checks for .com, .net and .org which is pretty handy.
Take a look at this cool service from here.
Tags: Domain, Register a Domain, Bust a name, Domain Service
Viacom, the sole brand owner of MTV, VH1, Comedy Central, Paramount Pictures and a whole lot of world famous entertainment brands, have decided to slap YouTube with a $1 billion lawsuit. We all know that people turns to YouTube for copyrighted content most of the time and the biggest hitter on this ordeal was Viacom. Given it’s diverse brands it was no surprise that Viacom took the biggest hit and now since they know the financial power of Google they wanted a share on that.
My question was, what if this has happened a year before Google bought YouTube? I’m sure Google must be aware of this risk.
Read the full story here.
It’s been a breaking news on the blogosphere. That’s no surprise given the popularity of WordPress blogging platform. They just (few days back) released the latest version of WordPress 2.1.1 and that had some good stuffs that must have got attention of some of the bloggers to upgrade.
To their surprise, it’s been revealed that the copies they’ve downloaded might not be the genuine copy. Someone (?) had hacked into their servers to modify the release bits to include backdoors. So whomever have downloaded WordPress 2.1.1 for the past few days are advised to upgrade to WordPress 2.1.2.
Given the severity of this stuff, they’ve even established an email address, 21securityfaq@wordpress.org, that you can use if you have any questions regarding this.
Source: Matt at WordPress
You must not have noticed this but Microsoft just moved it’s YouTube competitor Soapbox service from private beta to public beta. So what does that mean to you and me? It means that they are done with a smaller user base testing and now they want to expand that user base to a larger scale. That’s a step forward.
WordPress just released it’s latest stable version 2.1, code named “Ella”, named after Ella Fitzgerald. Here is a list of features that’s been bundled with the new release,
Get WordPress 2.1 from here.
I love spiral texts. Generate one from here (PartyPrinter).
PS: There are other shapes like heart, wave and even maze. Also keep in mind that the output comes in a PDF format.
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When the corporate world meets Web 2.0 standards their logos might look like this. Some of ‘em are really creative and some of ‘em are really shiny.
Take a look at here.
One of my favorite video blog on the internet, The ScobleShow, by my favorite blogger Robert Scoble, has gone premium with its flash video player. It used to be that you have to launch a new window or a popup to play the content but now Scoble has upgraded the site to play the video with in the same window itself (like what YouTube does).
I like the change much better even though it lost the flexibility in adjusting the size of the video. For interviews like with Om Malik it’s okay to have the small in-built video player but for some videos where people demo stuffs the flexibility to adjust the size of the video would be a darling. I’m sure he will have that in no time.
Good job Scoble. Way to go!!!
Digg.com just unveiled a revamped Digg.com design which among other things makes uses of the screen real estate to deliver more content. They’ve added 3 major Digg categories, News, Videos and Podcasts (which is still in beta as they’ve unrolled). The overall look and feel of the site looks great..
Digg founder Kevin Rose has blogged about this at his Digg The Blog and has posted a short video that summarizes the new design features.
Visit Digg.
Did you notice lately that, after Google has grabbed YouTube, it has become a bit slow? I’ve noticed lately that when it comes to streaming it’s taking more time than before to stream-ahead (buffer) the bytes. It has become annoying to a level that it interferes with the user experience.
Mighty Google…can you hear me?
