Offline Gmail

No internet connectivity or low connectivity??
Tired of writing the same mail or viewing the inbox numerous times?
Now comes the "Offline Gmail"
Its cool gmail lab designed by the gmail team.
I got most of the information about this from the gmail blog.
It has been around for a long time but i did not use it for a long time.
Now i use it most of the times, the GUI is like viewing from a mobile device.
When you are online, the google server stores all the inbox to your computer.
So when you are offline, it will fetch the mail which is stored on your computer itself.
Now you will ask what if I want to send a mail?
Its very interesting how google does that,
it will store your mail in outbox.
Constantly the gmail is looking for internet connection.
When it gets one, all the outbox mails are sent and new inbox mail are sent in.
Its just awesome to have this facility because now you need not learn how to use applications like Outlook Express ;)
This is how you can install the offline gmail
1)Click the gear icon in the upper-right -->> select Mail settings.
2)Select the 'Offline' tab -->> select the 'Enable Offline Mail for this computer' radio button. Click save changes.
If you have some downloading problem then you can see this help.

If you are using google chrome then you have nice extension for it.

Here is a nice video about offline gmail that you can look into
Enjoy offline mailing :)

URL Shortener

Is you link too long to remember or write it down while you are on a call?
Many times we want to share some link with our friends and everyone,
but its too long so we just send it via mail or any other alternative.
You get sick and tired of sending to everyone or telling everyone.
What you can do is that change the long url to a short one.
I have came across two websites which does that.
First one is Google url shortener and other is tiny url.

Google url shortener

Its very easy to learn and use it.
Just type in your url and press button shorten.
You can convert a url by logging in to your account also.
It will store all urls in your account.
The only problem is that you cannot give a your customized url.
Google will provide you with a small url which is again difficult to remember.




Tiny URL

It will give you all the option as above.
And a new option to customize your url also.
This is the best thing i liked about it.
Now you can remember this new url also.
One more thing is that you can add this into your toolbar.

Enjoy shortening ;)

What Do You Love

Its an interesting website powered by Google.
It is all you want about anything you love.
Like if you are searching for a phone, let us say HTC wildfire.
Search that thing in the search bar.
You will get all the exciting results from there.
It will give you all the information about it.
You need not go to different websites to find the place where you can find the phone.
You will get the stores, the reviews, the results from YouTube.
You will also get the latest news from there.
It has a nice look, you have a small rectangular section in left hand side.
If you slide that rectangle then you will get another results related to the search.
You can see numerous graphs which will show you the comparison with other phones.
One of the features i like was that if you search some word,
you can actually translate it into numerous languages.
One more thing is that you can view 3D pictures also using SketchUp.
Here is the link for it -> www.wdyl.com

Happy Dussehra to all :)

Google background

Hey sorry friends, I was not able to post anything interesting.
But I am back.

How many times in a day you use google???
10 times atleast?
Person like me goes on google every half hour for some or the other reason.
If you are bored of seeing the same white background in google then there is a solution for this.
You can change your google background with just few simple steps.

Steps
1)Sign in you google account
2)Go to google.com
3)Bottom right corner there is an option saying "change background image"
4)Select any photo of your choice. It may be from public library, picasa or your own computer.
5)You will see the change

Try it out if you like.