by Sujoy on July 23, 2008
If everywhere, everyone has been flooded with this image showing an article on INSOMNIA, it is so because KNOL is out for the public now. KNOL is Google’s knowledge base ( a way to tackle Wikipedia) of articles written by people ranging from specialised ones to bloggers to anyone stung by the writer’s bug. As if your blogger/wordpress account wasn’t enough. Google wants to centralise it all. But yeah, no one here would be interested a status update of you at 2 am. Articles here aren’t anonymous. There are personally written posts (quite long ones) on topics by people who are specialized enough to know the ins and outs.
Firstly, do NOT go to Knol.com. That is a Dutch website offering Steam machines. The business for them is so gonna break through the roof. At least they should include Adsense!! Anyway coming back, the official website of Knol is http://knol.google.com. And the homepage has a few past articles featured written by authors who are Neurologists, Proffessors at renowned Universities, and highly qualified physicians. Most of the written posts featured on the homepage are on health topics viz. Heart Diseases, Cancer, Fighting Obesity etc. But there are other topics as well. As this one, written by a certain Chewy (Geeky Geekington) who has written a post on Devil May Cry 4. And from his anonymous profile, (here known as biography of the author) we still don’t know much about Mr.Chewy. So that brings us what Knol is all about. I shall point it out in the points below. [Continue Reading]
by Sujoy on July 17, 2008
I knew this would soon be fixed and it was quite sooner than I expected. If you have closely followed the trend, anyone whom you mailed twice appeared in your contact list on the left side chat window. This made your chat window filled with even all those names with whom you would never chat. The result- an unorganised, cluttered and populated chat contact list. And as expected, it is FIXED. GMail Blog reports today that the automatic addition to contact list has been modified. The automatic contacts addition/update still works but on two levels viz. My Contacts and Suggested Contacts.
What is the difference? My Contacts are the one added by you explicitly through invites,import,sync etc. This also includes frequently mailed email IDs (not as frequent as the previous one, this one now has a minimum of 5 emails. )
And well, Suggested Contacts is where GMail puts in all the auto-created contacts. The default settings are, that for frequent email-ed Suggested Contacts will be automatically shifted to My Contacts. But the settings can be altered. Through this, the usage based addition to My Contacts can be changed or even removed.
I’d say this one is a good change. Would definitely remove a lot of clutter on my contact list. At least I can tick one on the checklist now.
For people like me, you and almost anyone who use GMail from your personal machine, your workstation, your mobile phone, may be even a cybercafe, we often login and logout frequently, without really remembering whether any of these sessions are active/logged out and that whether my GMail is secure? Well, no matter how cool we are with our lives being open, the Inbox is a space which is as private as your personal diary. And not only that, you might even have some vital information in it. The new GMail to be rolled out would be featuring new features to keep your Inbox secure and you- free from stress of any Inbox breach.
The new post on GMail blog reports the new added feature and that is : Last account activity. It mentions the time at which the last activity occured in your account, and even the IP address from which it happened (if that helps you to trackback ). There is even a details link that is featured near it (all near the footer of the inbox) which when clicked, indicates whether the activity occured from a browser, a mobile phone etc. The detail link also shows a page with details of all the locations at which the Inbox is open/or was accessed with Date/Time information along with respective IP addresses.And for the extra-cautious, you can go ahead and sign-out all other sessions.
As the blog suggests, this feature will be rolled out soon and will be enabled only in Firefox and IE7. Sorry Safari!
by Sujoy on June 29, 2008
It has been a good 6 months since the launch of Techkeyla. And well, I was very happy with the O2-20 Theme that I had for this one. But it has been here since day one. And well, the itch for a change in the theme had been troubling me for quite some time. It actually began when I saw the Underscore theme of Upstart Blogger. I loved the simplicity of the Theme, the Underscore in the Title, and the clean white background. But then, I had issues with its Post Width and its sidebar size. And then, I saw Chris Pearson’s Cutline 1.3 -3 Column Split. Instantly liked the whole simple layout, white blackground and well, the rotating header image. The theme is widget ready.But needed some changes to be done. The original theme can be downloaded here. ( Download Link ) And well, did the following changes.
Edited the Header Images. Created a few customised ones with GIMP. Front Page: Kept the theme of my previous Techkeyla intact for the Front Page header. It shows the 3 pillars of what TECHNOLOGY is today. Apple – Google -Microsoft. Moving on to the Single Post page, I included the gadgets that rule the web space today. From the iPhone to the 360, PS3, Wii, Guitar Hero et al. [Continue Reading]
