Plurkr – Technology Step by Step

Ok – being a Google fan I enjoy seeing everything new about the Google products. I like this all Google Labs concept. Unlike Yahoo, Google tries to bring everything that’s new and powerful to its users [my personal opinion, of course]…

Ok – let’s see what’s new this week:

1. GMail browser title bar tweaks

Turn on the title bar tweak from the Labs tab under settings and you will have something like this:

2. Multi select and progress for uploads

This is another great stuff introduced by Google in GMail, the ability to select multiple files for upload & see the upload progress for each one:

3. Import or Export your GMail Filters

If you are a GMail user I’m almost sure you are using the filters. It’s a great way to organize your email [this goes here and this goes there]. Well – from now on you can easily import/export your created filters.

Here are some other ideas for things you can do by importing and/or exporting your filters:

• Download all your filters. If you’re using POP or IMAP to get backup copies of your mail messages, now you can include your filters too.
• Share filters with other people. If you have a set of filters that is especially good at organizing particular kinds of mail that others also receive, you can now make those filters available to them.
• Temporarily “disable” a set of filters by exporting them and then deleting them. To “reenable” them, just re-import them from the file you exported.
• If you’re comfortable editing XML, you can make new filters that are similar to existing filters. Export the old ones, edit the resulting XML file, and import it back again. For more information about modifying these XML files, see Gmail Labs user group for Filter import/export.

4. Google Calendar goes Offline

2 days ago Google announced: “In addition to offline access to Gmail while you’re traveling or without a strong internet connection, you can now see your Google Calendar events when you’re disconnected. Offline Calendar lets you view your existing schedule and events, but not edit them, so you don’t have to print out calendars the night before a trip. This feature has been available to businesses and schools using Google Apps for about a month; we’re now turning it on for everyone.”.

So – that’s more than excellent ;)

5. Google Analytics for Flash [+ tutorial]

2 weeks ago [or something like this] Google launched the tracking of Flash applications from Google Analytics. A week ago, Matthew McNeely from InsideRIA has created a great step by step tutorial on how to integrate the Google Analytics tracking in your Flash – here is the link

$timator is a website that evaluates your website value based on different criteria like: structural value, pages indexed in Search Engines, presence in Social Bookmarking systems, web recognition, backlinks, internal links, domain influence, directory inclusion and many others

This is only sort of a game, don’t try selling your website for this price. [or you may try]

After launching the themes, GMail now allows its users to make their own custom theme with their favorite colors.

To access this, go to your account Settings and then choose the Themes tab and ther eyou will see a link “Choose your own colors” – click on it and then start making your own personal GMail theme

[via GMail official blog]

If you are a programmer, you will love this little web application. As the description says, Snipt is a place when you can save all your code snippets.

Bugs and some small stuff I don’t quite like about it [+ some ideas]:

• I can only delete a snippet by clicking on “edit” first.
• I would really love to have the ability to delete multiple snippets or add a tag to multiple snippets.
• [BUG] when adding a new code snippet if I don’t add a tag it gives me a warning, but if I forgot to add the short description [or simply don’t want to add it] the snippet is not added to the database and no warning / info appears.
• When viewing the snippets, it will be excellent to choose between to view-modes: full snippet view & snippet title view – in this way the

Bespin is a Mozilla Labs experiment that proposes an open, extensible web-based framework for code editing that aims to increase developer productivity, enable compelling user experiences, and promote the use of open standards.

To learn more about Bespin, here it is a video tour-guide made by the developers of Bespin:

Introducing Bespin from Dion Almaer on Vimeo.

I played with it a little bit and I really liked the concept.

I can’t wait to see new features ;) [btw – some color schemes will be nice]. What I liked the most is the fact that will allow collaborations to the same file. Maybe a SVN-like system in the future? Who knows…

Go ahead – make an account and give it a try.

Blokt is a downloadable Adobe AIR desktop application that is sure to put your problem solving skills to the test! Through a series of progressively difficult levels, you must slide the blocks to allow the red block to exit. Many levels will require multiple moves to bring the red block to freedom.

There are 2 version – a free version with only 10 levels available and a PRO version with 160 levels. I bought the PRO version and I really like it…

BTW: the PRO version it’s only $1.99, so, really, anyone can afford it.

1. Cellsea Free Online Ringtone Maker

Cellsea it’s a website that has all kind of stuff for your mobile phone – one of these being a free online ringtone creator. I give it a try and it worked great. The ringtone sounds excellent [it’s on my phone already] and the UI it’s simple, clean and easy to use. You just need to let it load 100%.

IMPORTANT: to save the ringtone you must have an account. It’s free ;)

Formats supported: MP3, midi, wav, aiff, m4a, aac, mp4, wma, flv

2. The Unlocker Online Ringtone Creator

The Unlocker offers an online ringtone creator for free and you don’t need an account to save the ringtone to your mobile/pc.

3. Make Own Ringtone

Make Own Ringtone it’s a website specialized in ringtones. It doesn’t have anything else. Just a ringtone creator and a lot of options to use [by choosing the advanced mode]:

With it I encountered some errors, but I think the server was kind of busy when I test it.

4. ToneBee Online ringtone maker

ToneBee allows you to create and save ringtones, but, just like CellSea, you need to have an account.

If you load your MP3 file, make your selection and when you want to save you see an error like this don’t panic:

Here are the steps for creating a ringtone from your MP3.

Now you can click on Save ;)

5. MyMusicRings

MyMusicRings has the classic MP3 upload function, and, an YouTube video to ringtone converter.

I didn’t like the User Interface, but… the YouTube feature it’s a really cool one.

That’s all – enjoy and… make great ringtones !!!

This theme has been developed exclusively for the MilBits blog. Because of the large amount of requests, the MilBits team decided to give MilBits WordPress Theme for free under GPL license.

This theme has a lot of optimizations within the code and defined development strategies to increase performance both for users and search engines.

Features:

• WordPress 2.6+ is supported (tested on 2.6 and 2.7)
• 2 columns
• Supported browsers: It works on most common browsers under Windows, Linux and Mac: Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer, Chrome… (only in IE 5.5 and 8.0 the sidebar is broken).
• CSS is valid. HTML is also valid but WordPress sometimes add code in XHTML, so it doesn’t validate. To solve this trouble, you could install this plugin
• Widgets are supported
• If there is no comments on a post it isn’t show; so ‘No comments’ is never shown.
• Images optimized using CSS sprites
• In sidebar, last comments are shown using Simple recent comments plugin
• In sidebar, most commented posts are shown using this plugin
• Editor’s comments are highlighted using this technique
• CSS layout. Every part of the pages (sidebar, articles, icons, pagination) are commented and isolated to make it easier to find and edit.
• Comments and trackbacks are separated thanks to this tips
• Usable 404 pages to make it easier to understand.
• Width of lines is optimized for reading using width in ems (usability tip)
• SEO (Search engine optimization): Archives, tags and categories doesn’t show full articles to help article’s pages to get higher in SERPs.
• Every article has options to share in 12 social bookmarking sites
• Subscription to feed is highlighted from sidebar and article’s page.

[Demo] | [Release Page] | [Free Download for MilBits WordPress Theme]

Are you a TV addict? Do you watch a lot of TV shows? If so, I’m sure you use all kind of websites to search for the newest episodes.

Well… You can delete all those site because ted does all this work for you.

What is ted?

ted can find episodes of any TV show you like to watch. Just add your favorite shows to ted and he will search for the newest episodes and downloads them for you. ted uses bittorrent and RSS technology to get you the newest episodes as fast as possible!

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enjoy ;)

Details:

We’re making offline Gmail available to everyone who uses Gmail in US or UK English over the next couple of days, so if you don’t see it under the Labs tab yet, it should be there soon. Once you see it, just follow these steps to get started:

1. Click Settings and click the Labs tab.
2. Select Enable next to Offline Gmail.
3. Click Save Changes.
4. After your browser reloads, you’ll see a new "Offline^0.1" link in the upper righthand corner of your account, next to your username. Click this link to start the offline set up process and download Gears if you don’t already have it.

 

via GMail Blog