Click 2 Connect My views & reviews, including some good reading stuff which I liked.

Official Google Blog: Easier sharing in Google Docs

If you are looking for new blogger template, check out the following sites

1. btemplates.com
2. Deluxe Template
3. Bloggers Style
4. eBlogTemplates

The above four sites contain the most exhaustive list of free blogger templates.

Enjoy.

Finally Gmail is having option to choose contacts from address book while composing mail. This is one of the feature I had been waiting for long.

More hOfficial Gmail Blog: Composing a message? Try the contact chooser

Ever visited some URL, which you would like to clear from auto completion in Firefox? But don't want to clear full history, as that will make you re-type all those URLs again....

well, than you have a way out... you can selectively delete URL from Firefox... there's no messing around with registry, neither a need of installing third party software.

Simply type in the URL, get the focus on the particular URL you want to delete and "shift+delete". You can even goto history and select the particular URL and than press "shift+delete".

That URL is gone now and will not re-appear in your auto completion anymore.

One of the most used and best free site/blog counter is sitemeter.com

The only problem is, counter is visible to all. If you like to show off the number of hits, well, than it's not a problem. But what if you want to hide the sitemeter counter and yet want to use it for free?

Here's the official way out by which you can hide it..

1) Login to your sitemeter account.
2) Go to 'Manager' from top menu.
3) Go to 'Meter Style' option from left hand menu.
4) Select 2nd last meter style. Counter, which shows simple numbers.
5) Now in “DIGIT COLOR” select 'Transparent', Similarly in “BACKGROUND COLOR” select 'Transparent'.
6) DONE.

Now your counter is hidden.

When I logged in today to my yahoo mail account was greeted with one very pleasing message... "now you can chat with your windows Live friend"

now that's really cool. Google is already shared with AIM and now Yahoo with Live. Hopefully, it will reduce the number of chat people got to sign in to talk to there friends... :)

Finally Gmail came up with multiple attachments and progress bar.

I had been waiting for this profile for quite a long time.

Thanks Google.

Something I really liked about Chrome browser was when I open the new tab, instead of getting blank page, I get thumbnails of all most frequently visited website. But somehow, despite of liking this feature, I was not able to switch out from FireFox for many reasons and now I don't think I need to even. Well, answer is new Google Toolbar for Firefox.

To quote from official google blog...

One of the features I'm really excited about is the new tab page. Now, when you open up a new tab, instead of the blank white page you see by default in Firefox, you will instead see small thumbnails of your favorite sites (up to 9), as well as recently-closed and bookmarked pages based on your browser history. You can edit the thumbnails, and all this data remains locally on your browser, which means none of the information about your most viewed sites or recently closed pages will be sent back to Google.

Found this really cool Google Maps mashup site called IndiaRailInfo.com

It lets you search for "From" and "To" station and gives you available trains for your destination. Lot of sites do that but IndiaRailInfo also gives you an option to look at the train route on Google Map.

But the best part is status check of train. Just type train name or train number and check its exact location on the map and time by which it's running late.

Here's the snaps shot of status check



Here's how my journey to Kolkata via Yeshwantpur Exp looks like on Google Maps. It's long 34hrs and 35 mins journey, travelling 1,972km through 30 different stations in between.

While editing my 'Configure Blog Post' setting, I saw the setting for 'Show Star Rating', is this the new feature on it's way ??



Though as of now, I am not able to figure out, how to use the same. Anyone aware of it, who can share more insight on it.

Update from Blogger Status

Blogger Status
Wednesday, May 07, 2008

Some users may be seeing star ratings on their posts without having opted in to this new feature. This is an experimental feature that was accidentally enabled on some users' blogs. We're currently working to remove star ratings on all affected blogs. In the future, you'll be able to choose to opt-in to this feature; it won't appear automatically.

Update: The Star Rating feature has been disabled for the moment.


Posted by Siobhan at 18:35 PDT