Published on November 1, 2008 Filed Under Google
If you use Google alerts for tracking your blog mentions or keywords or ego searching now you can receive the alerts using RSS feeds. Earlier alerts are available only through email, the new RSS support may reduce the email overload.
To setup alerts go to Google alerts and specify the search terms you would like to track. Then select the alert type comprehensive includes everything, if you wish to receive alerts from blogs or news select those ones, you can also select web, video and groups. In the delivery options select feed and you are good to go.
Google News Alerts are faster now according to Google Blog and includes images wherever possible. Google Trends also offers RSS feeds for tracking hot search terms.
Published on November 1, 2008 Filed Under Tools
Windows System Control Center is a freeware portable utility that provides UI for organizing and executing various free utility tools. WSCC itself is not a tool but it is just an UI for managing some useful freeware utilities.
Windows System Control Center can execute the programs offered by Sysinternals and Nirsoft. It is a standalone application and does not need any install process. Download the app and run it, first time set options for storing sysinternals and nirsoft files. Sysinternals applications can be accessed from the net but nirsoft utilities you have to download yourself. The left menu of WSCC provides shortcuts for the applications categorized according to the provider and nature of the utility. There is a search bar to quickly search for the app you want to run.
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Published on October 31, 2008 Filed Under Video
YouTube has rolled out a new feature that will let you link to a specific point with in YouTube videos.
To create deep links for the videos append a time link to the end of the the youtube video URL, for example if you want to link to a video after 1min 15sec you would add #t=1m15s to the end of the video url. Users while commenting on videos can mention the time in their comments like 1:14 is hilarious, in this case 1:14 will become live link and when you click this one video plays from there.
This is a useful feature, if you want to link to a specific point in the video instead of forcing others to see the entire video for that hilarious moment in the video.
A new beta version of Google Chrome 0.3.154.9 is released, it is not yet pushed to users but it will updated in the next few days. However if you want to update now all you have to do is open up settings menu (small ‘tool icon’ on the right corner of the browser) and click “About Google Chrome”, it will get updated to the latest version immediately.
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Published on October 30, 2008 Filed Under Tools
Bulk Image Converter as the name suggests it can convert from one image format to another. It is not a full pledged converter app like FormatFactory or others, instead it just does the image conversion from one format to other.
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Published on October 29, 2008 Filed Under Google
Google is releasing new features to Gmail one after another via Gmail Labs, some of these features are useful and some are for fun. Today they introduced Calendar and Docs gadgets for Gmail via Labs.
These gadgets can be added to the left-nav in Gmail next to labels and chat. The two gadgets released today include calendar and Docs gadget, Calendar gadget allows you to see your Google calendar agenda and alerts you when you have a meeting or something and the Docs gadget shows the recently accessed docs. You can also search across all of your documents right from the Gmail itself.
There is also a third labs feature that allows you to add any Google gadget by entering the URL of the Google Gadget XML file. Google says that this is not very polished feature and it is released for developers in mind. It also warns that these gadgets may slow down Gmail loading, so keep an eye on the speed after adding these gadgets on your Gmail load times.
Microsoft demoed a pre release of its next OS Windows 7 at PDC 2008. The build used for demo is 6933.winmain.081020-1842 according to Neowin. Windows 7 has some new features and enhancements to User interface compared to vista.
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Microsoft today announced that it plans to release web version of office applications at professional developers conference (PDC2008). These are lightweight versions of Microsoft Office suite that can run in a browser. Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari browsers are supported.
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Published on October 28, 2008 Filed Under Microsoft
Windows Live now became an OpenID provider, the release is meant for a technology preview and users are advised to wait for the final release to use Windows live ID as OpenID.
The Windows Live ID Provider enables anyone with a windows live ID account to setup an OpenID alias to use at OpenID supported web apps.
To use it go to https://login.live-INT.com/ and use the sign-up button to set up a Windows Live ID test account in the INT environment. Go here https://login.live-int.com/beta/ManageOpenID.srf to set up your OpenID test alias. These are test accounts and may not be permanent accounts.
Microsoft is late on the party, Yahoo and Blogger added support for OpenID in January.
Published on October 27, 2008 Filed Under web apps
Can You Run It? is a web app that tells you if you can run that popular game on your computer. It compares your system specs with the minimum requirements of the computer games and shows you whether your computer can run that game or not.
It does so by downloading a Java applet for Firefox and ActiveX for IE. Select your game of interest from a long list of popular games and click the “can you run it?” button, it will analyze your hardware specs and shows the report in a few seconds.
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