Tag Archives: Google
Published
Mar 12, 2008
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In Google/Yahoo
Ever since I moved my mails from Gmail to Google Apps, I was using my Google Apps email address in Google Talk. But still some of my old friends are added in my Gmail address. So I was searching for a way to run multiple instance of Google Talk in the same machine and found this tip. I thought of noting it here so that I know where to search if I reinstall Google Talk in my system.
To run multiple instances, all you need to do is to pass the parameter nomutex to the Google Talk Exe file.
c:\program files\google\google talk\googletalk.exe" /nomutex
If you want, you can create a new shortcut in your desktop with this parameter.
Posted in Google/Yahoo
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Tagged Apps, Google, Talk
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Published
Oct 9, 2007
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In Google/Yahoo
In addition to fetching fresh results and following cricket scores, you can also now also get the current time for any city by just searching in Google.
All you have to do is just type time followed by the city name
Eg: time Chennai
You can also search by typing the time zone
Eg: time central
Next time when I have to send a meeting request to my clients (who are in US), I can save a few seconds by doing a Google search rather than changing the timezone in my computer clock to find their current time.
More details in Google friend’s newsletter. Thanks Phil for finding this.
You can also check out my Google Search syntax complete tutorial or the latest additions to Google Search Syntax.
Posted in Google/Yahoo
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Tagged Google, Search, syntax
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Published
Sep 20, 2007
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In Google/Yahoo
Google has added some new search syntax and so here is the update to my Google Search syntax tutorial.
Fetch only Fresh results
First one is to narrow down your search to only the most recent web pages. This is particularly important, since Google has started serving fresh results.
Alex Chitu from the unofficial Google Operating system blog has found that we can use as_qdr query parameter to search only for fresh pages.
In order to use this you have to add a new parameter as_qdr at the end of the url like below
http://www.google.com/search?q=ipod&as_qdr=d
The as_qdr parameter can take the following possible values.
- d[number] – past number of days (e.g.: d5)
- w[number] – past number of weeks (e.g: w5)
- y[number] – past number of years (e.g: y5)
More explanations by Matt Cutts and also at Life hacker.
Cricket
Being born in India, circket is there in my blood and the same for Sadeesh Duraisamy who works in Google. Thanks to him and now we can keep an eye on the latest circket scores by just typing the word cricket in Google’s search box.
Well, it’s time for me to watch the do-or-die match with South Africa for India in the latest twenty20 tournament. 🙂
Posted in Google/Yahoo
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Tagged cricket, Google, Matt
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Published
May 16, 2007
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In Google/Yahoo
I used to get lot of emails from people asking me to help them with Google search syntax, ever since I dissected Google’s Search syntax and I used to reply them back with the correct search syntax.
Recently I received a mail from a person named Jack and I couldn’t come up with the search syntax for his query. So I am listing it here to get the help from the wisdom of crowd and here is the query.
Find all links that have ‘love‘ in the url (allinurl) AND the word ‘sweet‘ in the content of the page.
Can anyone do this? ❓
Posted in Google/Yahoo
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Tagged allinurl, Google
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Published
May 13, 2007
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In Google/Yahoo
Is it just me who is not able to access any of the Google sites (Gmail, Google.com, Google.co.in) from India? All Google related sites are returning 404 for me from noon (13-May-07, 7:00 AM GMT, 12:30 PM IST). I could remember this happening to Gmail some time back. But now even Google Talk seems to be down.
Anyone else sharing the same plight like me?
Update: It’s 5 PM (IST) now and all Google sites are working fine.
Posted in Google/Yahoo
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Tagged Gmail, Google, Outage
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Published
Apr 21, 2007
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In Google/Yahoo, Random/Personal
One big advantage in having a unique name is that people can google and find you. Well, that’s what has happened now. One of my friends at school, (with whom I lost contact) found me after 7 long years through a Google search about Linux which let him to this blog post of mine. Thanks Google and Linux.
So I have found one more reason to blog, to help my old buddies find me through Google search 🙂
Posted in Google/Yahoo, Random/Personal
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Tagged Google, Linux
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Published
Jan 16, 2007
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In Google/Yahoo
When I talked about the reliability of user data in the web 2.0 style websites, I asked you to just imagine what might happen if you loose all you email from Gmail. But indeed it has happened to few people. Here are few links from reliable sources
Oh my god! I just cannot imagine this happening to me. More over it seems that Google doesn’t retain a copy of your email once you delete it due to privacy issues. This means that there is very little chance that your email can be restored. All say that the solution is to back up you email. But how to back up my 1.5 GB of email? 🙁
Posted in Google/Yahoo
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Tagged Gmail, Google
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Published
Nov 4, 2006
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In API's/Mashup
I didn’t have much to do last weekend and so I thought of giving a try to Google Gadget and ended up developing my first Google Gadget – Bloglines Notifier. As the name implies it will notify you the count of unread items in your Bloglines account. (Nothing special just a trivial one 😉 )
You need to enter your Bloglines account email id and it will retrieve the unread count using the Bloglines API and display it in the Gadget screen. The count will be automatically refreshed according to the interval set in the Gadget settings. Since Bloglines doesn’t need you to be authenticated before retrieving the unread count you don’t need to enter your Bloglines account password.
The Google Gadget API is very simple to start with but at the same time very powerful if you need to do complex or advanced things. If you are interested grab the Google Gadget API Developers Guide and get started. It’s actually that simple.
The full source code of this Gadget is available here and if you are interested you can add it to your personalized page by clicking this button. 
Now I can have one icon less in my system tray. 😉 BTW if you guys have a nice idea for a Gadget, let me know I shall give a try.
Resources Used
Posted in API's/Mashup
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Tagged API's/Webservices, Bloglines, Gadgets, Google, Google Gadgets, Notifier
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Published
Jun 13, 2006
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In Google/Yahoo
As I promised earlier, here is the result of my comparison of various online spreadsheet services. I compared the services based on the following criteria.
- Basic Requirements
- Interpretability
- Usability
- Functionality
- Sharing and collaboration
Do let me know if I have overlooked something and also your comments and suggestions and I will try to keep this list updated. Also let me know if want me to add some more services to the list.
| Features |
Google |
Zoho |
iRows |
NumSum |
EditGrid |
| Basic |
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| Browser Support |
IE 6, FireFox 1.07 |
IE 6, FireFox 1.0, Mozilla 1.4 |
IE 6, Firefox 1.5, Opera 9 |
IE 6, Firefox 1.5 |
IE 6.0, Firefox 1.0, Epiphany, 1.8.5, Galeon 2.0 |
| Stable or beta |
Private beta |
public beta |
Out of beta |
Public beta |
Public beta |
| Regsitration |
Needed |
Not needed |
Needed |
Needed |
Needed |
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| Interoperability |
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| Import Excel (*.xls) |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Import CSV (*.csv) |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Import OpenDocument spreadsheet (.ods) |
No |
No |
Yes |
No |
Experimental |
| Import OpenOffice.org Calc (.sxc) |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Import Lotus 1-2-3 (.123) |
No |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
| Import TeX (.tex) |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
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| Export Excel (*.xls) |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Export CSV (*.csv) |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Export OpenDocument spreadsheet (.ods) |
No |
No |
Yes |
No |
No |
| Export OpenOffice.org Calc (.sxc) |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
| Export Lotus 1-2-3 (.123) |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| Export TeX (.tex) |
No |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
| Export HTML |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Export to PDF |
No |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
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| Print Preview |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Max size of imported file |
400 KB |
No particular limit |
500 KB |
500 KB |
Not available on site |
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| Usability |
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| Key board navigation |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Right Click menu |
No |
No |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| No of sheets open (by default) |
1 |
3 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
| Undo/Redo |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Cut, copy and paste |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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| Line Wrap |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Resize Row |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Resize Column |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Bold, italic, underline, colors etc., |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Align Horizontal and vertical |
Yes |
Only Horizontal |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Insert rows and cols |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Delete rows and cols |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Delete Selection |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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| Functionality |
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| Search |
No |
Search Files based on tag |
Yes |
No |
No |
| Add Images |
No |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Fill Series |
No |
To be impemented soon |
Yes (but Only copy) |
No |
No |
| Functions |
around 200 |
Yes |
around 50 |
Yes |
around 500 |
| Format Numbers |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Format Currencies |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Header rows and cols |
Only Rows |
No |
Yes |
No |
No |
| Hide rows and cols |
No |
No |
Yes |
No |
No |
| Merge Sells |
Only horizontal |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Sort |
Only entire sheet, by one column |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Charts |
Not yet |
Bar, Column, Pie, Line |
Pie, Bar, Line |
Line, Area, Bar |
No |
| Automatic Save |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Build-it Templates |
No |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
| Publish on other sites |
No |
Yes |
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No |
No |
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| Sharing and Collaboration |
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| Tagging |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Chat |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
No |
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| Share read access with another user |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Share write access with another user |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Share read access with public |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Share write access with public |
No |
No |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Password-protected read access |
No |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
| Password-protected write access |
No |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
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| Real time collaboration |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
| Conflict resolution |
Last save wins |
Last save wins |
Not applicable |
Last save Wins |
Last save wins |
Links to the above sevices
PS: I composed this list in Excel and then imported it to ZohoSheet and then generated the HTML page and then hand coded and cleaned it.
Posted in Google/Yahoo
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Tagged Google, iRows, NumSum, Online, Spreadsheet, Zohosheet
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Published
Jun 7, 2006
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In Google/Yahoo
Google’s release of Google Spreadsheet yesterday has generated lot of sudden attention on online web applications especially those which are proving to be direct competitor to Microsoft Office applications.
In addition to Google’s Spreadsheet I came to know about a couple of other great products like Zohosheet, iRows, NumSum from Techcrunch’s article yesterday which are also targeting similar user base. So I thought of comparing all these online spreadsheets to get an idea about their pros and cons. (Nice weekend project right?)
So guys let me know your favorite features which you would expect from a spreadsheet program so that I can base my comparison on them. Also let me know if I have missed any other online spreadsheets.
Here are the links to the programs which I am going to compare
I will publish my results as soon as I finish them so stay tuned and don’t forget to leave your favorite features in the comments.
Posted in Google/Yahoo
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Tagged Google, iRows, Microsoft, NumSum, Office, Online, Spreadsheet, Zoho, Zohosheet
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