Gmail : Customize the ‘From:’ address on outgoing mail !

Yet another superb feature by Gmail.

Many accounts can be integrated into a single gmail account.

Goto Settings>Accounts>Add another email address

Here any mail id (even non gmail) can be specified (id which you use ) which you wish to use as the from address in your gmail account.

After “Send verification” is done, a mail will be sent to your other id where you are supposed to verify the authenticity.

After verifying, that id will be integrated into your gmail account which can be used as a from address.

A nice drop-down menu appears when you compose a mail where you can select from a list of ‘From:’ addresses.

Hurray !

Please note that this not a spoofing technique and your original gmail id is traceable.

Gmail: Help Center Page on this topic is here.

Google mp3 player in Gmail!

A new GMail feature lets you play MP3 files right inside the GMail interface without having to download the MP3 or open an external media player.

When you receive an audio file as an email attachment, click the play button and Google will play the audio file for you in a popup window.

Awesome!!

It’s actually the Google video player that’s playing the audio file.

Any MP3 files from the embedded Google Video player without even having to login to GMail. Here’s the URL:

http://mail.google.com/mail/html/audio.swf?audioUrl=URLofmp3

Replace the URLofmp3 with the actual location of the MP3 file on the web and play it inside Google Video.

Yet another territory expansion by google!

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Gmail – Largely Unknown features revealed..

Gmail has an interesting feature where you can add a plus sign (+) after your Gmail address, and it’ll still get to your inbox.

Heres how it works,say your address is mymailid@gmail.com, and you want to automatically label all work e-mails. Add a plus sign and a phrase to make it mymailid+work@gmail.com and set up a filter to label it work.

(filters can be set in settings->filters).

Also,be sure to use plus-addressing for every form you fill online.

Eg: You could use
mymailid+timesofindia@gmail.com for timesofindia.com
pinkyrocks+somesite@gmail.com for somesite.com
Like this we can automatically label,Archive or Redirect the incoming mails to trash.

Gmail Rocks!! [:)]

You can find the original article here.

Objective!

The objective of this blog is to be the leader in tech-blogging (yeah..right!)
Wow.. Now thats a big expectation.. Let me inform the (millions of) readers that this is going to happen shortly .. So I am launching the site icon/seal in advance

(Has the quake3 icon coz couldn’t think of any other..)

Error code 766

Today, when i tried to login to my gmail account, i got the message in an annoying javascript pop-up :

“oops… the system was unable to perform your operation(error code 766).
please try again in a few seconds.”

Goddammit.. Not again.. that too when i REALLY want to check my mails!

Ok..i tried googling error code 766… nothing!! Got some stupid search results which niether concerned gmail or anythin near!

Hmm.. i decided to wait a few ’seconds’ as advised.. seconds passed by.. same msg… minutes passed by.. same stupid msg.. an hour passed by.. and it was the same message telling me to wait for a few seconds!.. Please tell me the exact no.of seconds i should wait instead of a ‘FEW’ seconds…

Finally after a an hour and 35 minutes.. i could access my Inbox…

Ahhh..finally, i thought … I may have many important mails..letsee…

To my dismay there a message in there waiting to be read :

“No new mail! There’s always Google news if you’re looking for something to read.”

Goddammit!! ><

Internet Explorer??.. Whats that??

Sometimes i wonder why people still use IE as their primary browser.

Here are some of the reasons :

• They dont know there are other browsers too.
• They BELIEVE all MS products are SUPERB!! (god save us)
• They dont have an internet connection or any other means to get a new software installed.
• They work in MS.
• They’ve never used Firefox.

Now, lets come to the serious stuff.

IE has so many Bugs (and fixes) that One has to select a set of sites to sail through unharmed

Consider the following piece of JS code.

<script>for (x in document.write) { document.write(x);}</script>

This is 61 bytes in length. When this occurs in a web page,Internet Explorer throws an exception and quits, taking all your currently open windows with it.So uch for your unsaved work! Firefox handles the code perfectly.

Also i would like to specify that this is only an example of a code snippet that may occur in a web page.Many such instances do occur.

f your browser crashes with just 61 bytes of code, Isnt it time to switch?

You can find the original article here.

Wikimapia mania

The site wikimapia.com is simply awesome for the performance it delivers….

The places can be searched easily n viewed.. far better the google earth.. in appeal n user-friendliness .. the images r actually picked up from the google earth database itself and displayed on the browser…

Some of my Wikimapia images..

My Home in Bhadravathi –> Anirudh’s Place

Links to some ‘other’ famous monuments

• Eiffel Tower

• St.Peter’s Square

Another Weekend Roaming….

This weekend was hardly different from the previous ones.. went to my cousins on Sat afternoon… slept,ate n celebrated the gowri ganesha festival on sat n sundays….

Then came the painful day –> monday… aaarghhh… Why the hell does this come back…

Came to the office as usual… only miniscule amount of people in the office when i looked around… aahhh the lazy world…

del.icio.us / blocked

At 3.40 pm today , i tried to login to del.icio.us and bam .. there appears the message..

Blocked

You’ve been temporarily blocked for accessing our site too quickly. This could be the result of misconfigured software, buggy scripts, or malware. Please hold off for a few minutes, and try again later, in a gentler fashion.

If you think we’ve wrongly blocked you, email support@del.icio.us

And yes.. i did mail em.. no response till now…

A similar mail from me previously was promptly answered and the problem was corrected… last time that is…

But not this time i guess… I was very impressed with the customer care or user care or whatever it is….

I guess it was all wrong…

Just when i needed the bookmarks listed in my delicious page.. this happens ..this makes me mad…. real angry… hell with these guyz… As useful as this site is, it really tests one’s patience sometimes…

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Gmail – Inbox (1)

Gmail – inbox(1)..This is the window title i wish to see .. when i am bored and dont have anything to do… ie. when i am sleepy …

This probably holds good for millions of bored gmail users all over the world… this brings new hopes to our boring lives.. but only till u open the unread mail… then..its gone.. till i get the next one