Google Chrome official Themes – worse than anything Wednesday, Aug 5 2009

The Very first time when i clicked on  one of the google chrome theme it crashed …

Chrome Themes

Its always good to have themes and personalise your browser according to your mood and environment ,but google themes makes your eyes blind. I was wondering why  they released  themes like  “Baseball” , which make seeing tabs almost impossible and 1 out of 10 crashes .

I think  google is short of QA members for which they released it and asked the Users to test it .[Beta ??? ]

Special Note : Nice QA google

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Atlast GMail goes offline Thursday, Jan 29 2009

Google yesterday has rolled out its offline support for gmail which is exactly the same way gmail already works on mobile phones such as android.For this you need to install Google Gears plug-in.  After installing the Google Gears plug-in to your browser, Gmail detects when you are offline. It caches your e-mail so that you can read it, respond to it, search it, star it, or label it. When you are connected to the Internet again, it sends all the messages. You can even open attachments.

whereas the disappointing thing here is,Google which is known for giving multiple features( GMail labs )  for its product , were overtaken by their successor ” Zohomail ” who offered offline support late last year.At this time i thought its worth comparing both giants “googlemail and zohomail”.

Like Gmail, zohomail also supports Labels ,in addition to that it also supports folders which has its own advantage. The interface of Zoho mail is pretty good and  loading fast but it doesn’t have option of switching to Basic HTML view like gmail .But the feature that i like most is conversations, where responses are listed hierarchically so that you can look at a conversation and visually see who responded to whom. I thought this is very useful and its not available in any webmail. It also has an integrated chat which is almost same like gmail which is integerated with other zoho Apps like zoho writer etc. It also offers features like Configuring multiple mail accounts from a single mail client, Mail preview at the bottom , Mail conversations using Conversation View and also Import Contacts from your Gmail and Yahoo accounts.Its also has  tabbed interface which  is quite similar to Yahoo Mail. After seeing all this features from zoho, in my opinion zoho stands ahead of gmail in features but not in market.

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Google Searching techniques – Special queries – Part 3 Wednesday, Jan 28 2009

So far we have seen queries that mostly dealt with restricting searches .  Now , lets see some special queries which are really interesting .

Range Query

[#]. .[#]

The above (..) Searches within a range of numbers. eg: Buckingham Palace 2000..2009 (Search for Dave Barry articles mentioning pirates written in these years.)

Some special queries

define:

Show a definition for a word or phrase. eg: Define: Testimonial (Show a definition for the word Testimonial and search result for the word )

phonebook:

this list all phonebook listings.eg: phonebook: William CA (Search for william’s phone numbers in California – CA)
Note : this is specific to USA . Doesnt work for other countries

rphonebook:

Show residential phonebook listings. eg: rphonebook: bill clinton CA (Search for the phone number of every Bill clinton in California State – CA )

Now comes the most interesting thing.

Have you ever wondered of any movie showtime or how does the movie actually look like.Google gives option for this too.

movie:

Find reviews and showtimes.eg: movie: slumdog millionaire ( This Searches for information about this movie, including reviews,show times, etc.)

stocks:

Given ticker symbols, show stock information stocks: goog (Find Google’s current stock price.)

weather

Given a location (US zip code or city), show the weather. eg: weather mumbai (Show the current weather and forecast )

book (or books)

Search full-text of books.eg: book Ender’s Game (Show book-related information.)

Time

Finds the current time in the city. eg: time melbourne

Sports Scores

To see scores and schedules for sports teams type the team name or league name into the search box. This is enabled for the English Premier League, National Football League, National Hockey League, and Major League Baseball.

flight

Finds flight status for arriving and departing U.S. flights. eg: flight American airlines 18

Currency conversion

Converts currency using its built-in currency converter. eg: 150 GBP in USD
with this , i end this series of google searching techniques . if  you have any other  intersting query or comments  you are most welcomed to write it on .

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