Quick Tip: Add Facebook Updates Next to Gmail Buzz

Google Buzz has been keeping me stay inside my Gmail Inbox a lot more than I usually do.
With this new Google Chrome extension, it appears I am about to stay a lot longer!

Google Facebook Integration Google Chrome extension adds Facebook right below Google Buzz link inside Gmail.
Get it here - https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/hbjjmjlajhdcbnkdajndkmkjlkfphipc

Google's Chrome OS revealed + with video!

Google had a low-key event today to preview Chrome OS, its new operating system based on Linux and the Chrome browser. Things are still pretty early -- it's not even in beta yet, let alone on shipping products.


The entire system is web-based and runs in the Chrome browser -- right down to USB drive contents, which show up in a browser tab, and the notepad, which actually creates a Google Docs document. Web apps are launched from a persistent apps panel, which includes Gmail, Facebook, Twitter, and Hulu, among others, and background apps like Google Talk can be minimized to "panels" that dock to the bottom of the screen. Local storage is just used to speed up the system -- everything actually lives in the cloud, so all it takes to swap or borrow machines is a login, and you're good to go.

What is Google Wave ?

Google Wave is an online tool for real-time communication and collaboration. A wave can be both a conversation
and a document where people can discuss and work together using richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.

What is a wave?

A wave is equal parts conversation and document.People can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.

A wave is shared. Any participant can reply anywhere in the message, edit the content and add participants at any point in the process. Then playback lets anyone rewind the wave to see who said what and when.

A wave is live. With live transmission as you type, participants on a wave can have faster conversations, see edits and interact with extensions in real-time.

When to use it ? - http://wave.google.com/help/wave/using-wave.html

Reliance Netconnect Broadband+

Reliance Netconnect Broadband+ offers a choice of Huawei and ZTE.

Reliance Huawei was the only one that works out of the box on Ubuntu and gets detected as /dev/ttyUSB0.

After that you can edit /etc/wvdial.conf and put the following lines.

[Dialer Defaults]

Modem = /dev/ttyUSB0

Username = yournumber

Phone = #777

Password = yournumber

New PPPD = yes

Stupid mode = yes

Replace yournumber with your number (provided at the back of the box).

ZTE didn’t even get detected, and strangely enough there was no message on dmesg either.

No Surfing !

Work fast on the faster 3.5

This is something so useful that it should have been built into Firefox. When filling out web forms, you can easily enter any text you use regularly, like email address or names, with just two mouse clicks. In Firefox 3.5 the extension no longer works, unless you bump the extension version. Here's how to do it .

1. Download the XPI file and save it to your hard disk. I downloaded version 0.4.0.4.200610221528 ( by right-clicking on the green Add to Firefox button and selecting Save Link as...

2. Open the .xpi file you've just downloaded - it's basically a zipped archive, so open it with 7-zip or whatever zip software you use.

3. In the archive you'll see a file called install.rdf - you need to edit this file and replace the one that's in the xpi with your edited version. This file is a text file so you can open it with notepad or whatever text editor you use. (not MS Word )

4. In install.rdf, under the section that begins: Find the line that says: 2.0.0.* and change the 2 to a 3. Update: Now that Firefox 3.5 RC3 is out, you'll need to change 2.0.0.* to 3.5.0.* (In fact, why not be prepared for Firefox 4 and change the 2 to a 4!)

5. Finally, install the extension by selecting Open File... from Firefox's File menu and choosing the xpi file you've just upgraded That's it. It worked for me.

back when i was born ...

people seached for me like this ... and they got the results with my address :D

Family united by Google and Facebook

There are four characters in this true story - father, mother, son and a daughter.

When their marriage broke down, the father took away his son with him to another country though he was just three years old at that time.

That incident happened some 27 years ago and the mother has been searching for her son ever since.

One day, the couple’s daughter, who stays with her mother, typed the name of her "lost" brother into Google and came across a link to some Facebook profile that had the same name as her brother.

She sent a message to that Facebook user and, as luck would have it, he was her brother. The family was reunited through Facebook and Google after some 30 years.

BBC has a video of the reunion while The Sun has more details on how the family members traced their lost son.

Play games on GTalk

Google released a realtime gadgets API for Google Talk that's especially useful if you want to play games with your friends.

For now, the APIs are only available in a developer sandbox, which includes a special interface of Gmail Chat. Here's how you can play chess with one of your friends:

* Go to the sandbox and send this link to your friend:http://talkgadget.google.com/talkgadget/sandbox .

* When your friend started to use Gmail Chat's sandbox, click on "Options", select "Start application", paste the following address:
http://code.google.com/apis/talk/examples/chess.xml
and press Enter.

Google and Wolfram alpha on one page

Well, that's good for people how would have to switch tabs to know what each search gives you ... You may want to add this add on at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/12006