All Email Messages in Gmail Have a Permanent Web Address

Do you know that it is possible to bookmark individual email messages of Gmail just like you would bookmark any regular web page.

To experiment, open any Gmail thread in your browser and notice the address bar as it gets updated with a unique URL. That’s the permanent address of your email message and it will stay the same as long as you don’t delete the message from your Gmail mailbox.

Why Bookmark Gmail Messages

This could be a handy alternative to search in Gmail (for accessing important emails quickly) or may be useful in situations where you don’t want to create another tag in Gmail just to remember a couple of important email messages.

You can bookmark Gmail message links in your web browser or save them as private bookmarks in delicious or even add them to your Read It Later list. Thanks Ouriel for the tip.

There aren’t any security issue because you can only access the email bookmarks if you are logged into your Google Apps or Gmail account.

Online Test Console for Google AJAX APIs

Google today released a new browser based console where you can write and simultaneously test applications that use any of the Google AJAX APIs including maps, search mashups, blogs feeds and more.

The programming console, known as AJAX APIs Playground, provides sample starter applications for all Google APIs but you are free to change the source code and save the modified version to your own Google Account for referencing later.

You can experiment with all functions / methods available in Google APIs and hit the Run button to display the responses in real time much like the Yahoo! Pipes interface.

Google’s AJAX API console will definitely save developers some time as they can validate and test their code right inside the browser without having to write code in local HTML files.

If you are looking for more resources to learn about the Google AJAX APIs, a good place to start is this YouTube channel and the Google I/O site.

McAfee VirusScan Plus 2009 Free 1 Year For 1 PC

1) In the Promo Code box, type VSPPROMOCF and hit the “Submit Code” button.

2) Now, McAfee VirusScan Plus is free of charge ($39.99 has been cancelled out)

3) Click the “Checkout” button to complete the process.

Get it here.


I am not sure how long the promo will last but wanted to share with our visitors.

Tata Indicruz launch in mid 2009

After the grand success of Tata Safari, Tata, one of the leading car maker in india, is planning to launch new Tata Indicruz from its basket. Tata Indicruz is a MPV which is powered by existing Safari's 2.2 litre DICOR diesel engine. The Indicruz shares its name with TATA products like the Tata Indica, Tata Indigo, Indicom (Tata Telecom). So it should be easy to guess that the Indicruz will bear striking similarities to other Tata vehicles, and it does. The new Indicruz would provide more capacity to seat as the interior is quite roomy. The Indicruz will be launched in the segment in which Toyota Innova, Chevrolet Tavera, Mahindra Xylo will be competing. Even Tata Nano launching this month covering major consumer segment. The car is equipped with two air begs for the safety point of view. Tata Indicruz would offer traction control, climate control with personalized zones, navigation system, driver, passenger and side-airbags, anti-lock braking system, 4-wheel drive and other comfort, convenience and safety options. Indicruz is expected to carry the price Rs. 9 - 10 lakh but it is sure that car would shake the roads. "Quality is expected to be much better than the Safari and a shade better than the new Sumo Grande. The Tata Indicruz is expected to be unveiled in mid 2009" Officials said.

Adsense Fake Screenshot generator.

I know lot's of you have been on salespages, where they tell you that they earn thousands of dollars. Well this is a trick to make you believe that there product or ebook works. It's makes them earn lots of money by making you believe that you absolutely need to buy it.

I'm sure you have noticed a lot of sites where the owner claims to
beearning several thousands dollar each day through Google AdSense. His proof? A
simple screenshot.

Enter your amount in dollar and create your own proof to show yourfriends
that you are a true AdSense-millionaire.

well, here is the online service that they have used. Google adsense generator will generate a fake picture of your earnings. when your on there site, you can enter what you want to have earned today and yesterday's earnings. It's will make a picture like this and people will believe that you really earned that much.

Look at how much I earned :D

now you can be an adsense guru too.

Midomi: finding music by humming or singing.

Sometimes you want to search for a song that you have heard. but you have no idea of the title of who sang the song. Then I think Midomi is what you're looking for. It's a very amazing music search tool that lets you search for songs by just humming, whistling or singing the music that you are looking for.

To search for music, you can just press the search bar and allow midomi to have access to your microphone and start humming or whistling. In order to search effectively, you must at least give a 10 second worth of recording. After your recording is processed then the music search results will appear.

Aside from being a cool music search tool, Midomi’s mission is to build the most comprehensive database of searchable music. You can also contribute to the database by singing in Midomi’s online recording studio in any language or genre. Midomi is also a social networking site where you can create a profile, song your favorit songs and share them with your friends and get discovered by other Midomi users. You can also listen to and rate others’ musical performances, network and buy original music.

FeedChronicle: Your feeds in the form of an online newspaper.

when you have lots of feeds, then it's hard to read them all in your feedreader.

FeedChronicle is one way of organizing your news feeds. Instead of getting them through your feed reader which most people normally do. you will get the feeds in the form of an online newspaper. You can get feeds from popular news site like NY Times to social media sites like Digg.

The service is quite useful if you want to get your news from different sources. Say like you want to get Tech News from Digg Technology and TechCrunch and you like to get World News from CNN or NY Times. Managing your news feeds can be easily accomplished by selecting the source you want for each category. This will save you time subscribing to a particular news category on different news sites. Just select the news sources through a drop down menu and you’ll have your customized online newspaper in a few minutes.

Why Web Designers are Not as Smart as Web Writers

The first reason is that I wrote a headline that just about forced you to read this post, heh. Actually, what I really want to talk about is the interaction between Web designer and Web writer.

I often write about Web design, although I’m not a designer. Oh sure, I can muck around with Macromedia’s Dreamweaver, HTML, Adobe Photoshop and other tools of the trade, but I didn’t get a degree in graphics design. Mine was in mass communication.

Most of what I know about Web design comes from working with some very good designers over the years and a goodly amount of my studying on the side. I’ve learned to speak the designer’s lingo and I so respect the work they do to the extent than I’d starve if God hadn’t made good Web designers. I’d like to believe I understand their objectives as much as they understand mine.

When I work with a designer, my thoughts often go beyond what many writers think about into the realm of things that most designers think about. I start to worry when a Web design gets in the way of how site visitors will be able to find information logically and intuitively, how the site navigation is structured, how site visitors travel through the site, how fast the page loads, whether the site is optimized for search engine optimization and several other factors that designers should also be thinking about. The one thing I dislike is design for the sake of design. If you use Flash animation, there should be a reason for it other than the fact that you think a dancing monkey is cool.

So how should designers and writers interact so that we solve the real issue of why were even working on a project in the first place, which is to meet the client’s requirements?

I’ve been thinking about Web designer and Web writer interaction lately because I just completed a project with a designer I’ve never met face-to-face. We hooked up online and I worked almost entirely with the designer to get the job done. It was his client and I would never do anything to jeopardize the relationship between the designer and the client. That’s one of those things, professionals never stick their noses into.

The guy I worked with knew what the client wanted, and he knew what he wanted, but even so, both he and the client asked me to toss my opinions into the pot. Why? Because they know that everyone likes to see a flashy car, but it also matters what the dashboard looks like, how easy it is to understand what the gauges and buttons do, how comfortable the seats are, whether the pedals are positioned correctly and so on. To abuse my analogy a step further, think of the person who does the back-end work and the engine designer who makes sure the car zooms-zooms, the way it’s supposed to.

We worked together exceptionally well and we did a terrific job for the client, if I do say so myself. We both kept our egos out of the job and focused on the client’s needs. There were a few things I was asked to do on the writing side that I didn’t agree with but I kept my mouth shut because that’s the way the designer (and client) wanted it. The deadline was tight enough already and I wasn’t about to give people I’ve never met face-to-face my opinion on why I thought they were wrong. I hoped that maybe down the road I’d get a chance to make some changes.

I’ve pulled together a list of sites that I think will help the both of us–Web designer and writer–to understand how a Web site looks and works. However, in the interest brevity, I’ll run that tomorrow.

Meanwhile, from a designer’s perspective, what are your expectations from the writers you work with? How do you find designers, or how do that find you? What’s a good way to collaborate. Does it piss you off when you think a writer has his nose too deep into the design side, or do you listen first and yell later?

Let’s get a dialog going.

Toorgle: download torrents using google.

well, we all know google is the, in my opinion, the best and most powerful search engine ever. It can find everything you want. Google is so powerful in searching that it can provide you with almost everything you need.

And now there's a website Toorgle. the web interface of toorgle looks quite similar to Google.
But it's able to search up to 200+ torrent websites and it now has over 5,000,000 torrents indexed.

You can even add Toorgle to Firefox search bar. Meaning you can directly search for torrents by typing the keywords on the searchbar. Don't need to type the whole URL and wait for the website finish loading in order to make a search.

Read this Article about Headlines Now if you Know What’s Good for You

You can learn an awful lot about how to write compelling headlines from studying your junk mail. I get a lot of it because of a dead relative. Naw, I don’t mean the poor guy is sending me junk mail from the great beyond. He passed away and his mail is being forwarded to my house.

He was a good-hearted man who gave money to just about every charity that came begging. He also belonged to a number of civic organizations, subscribed to a variety of magazines and bought stuff from catalogs. His legacy is 12-14 pieces of junk mail a day. All of it comes with a plea or a pitch for money.

My usual MO is to toss the junk unopened into a recycle bin I keep on the front porch just for this purpose. Lately, though, I started to wonder just what was in all those envelopes. So, I’ve been studying junk mail, which I haven’t done in a long time. I found that not much has changed in the last 100 years, give or take, when a direct marketer lobbed the first piece of junk mail into a mail box.

You would think the Internet would have killed off junk mail but the direct marketing business has been savaging the environment more than ever. Direct mail spending–including preparation, production and postage–reached $58.4 billion in 2007, and may pass $72 billion by 2011, according to a new study from the Winterberry Group. Believe it or not, the industry would have done even better in 2007 were it not for a postage increase that caused some direct marketers to scale back their junkie plans.

Here are headlines (and some subheads) that grabbed me:

1. HOW TO LIVE WELL IN HARD TIMES. WHAT YOU CAN DO TO KEEP YOUR MONEY SAFE
2. Why Hope Never Dies
3. Earn Up To 5.7% Guaranteed
4. How To Get VIP Treatment Wherever You Go
5. How Obama Can Restore Confidence
6. 9 Heroes Who Inspire Us
7. Escape from Pain–Without Drugs
8. Pay Less for Everything
9. How to Turn a $25,000 IRA Into $500,000 or More. And why it’s easier to do it in today’s post-crash market
10. 5 little-known ways to reduce arthritis pain without anti-inflammatories and painkillers. Hint: One is to eat more grapes
11. The biggest mistake you can make when E-mailing your resume
12. Absolutely Amazing Ways to Save Money
13. How to keep a mugger from harming you
14. PROTECT What You Need, RISK What You Can
15. Get retirement income that’s guaranteed to last your entire life
16. Yours FREE When You Reply Within 11 Days
17. Sex. It’s Never to Late to Learn Something New.

I’ll tell you why these headlines command attention. They…

1. Are all about you. It’s: “Here’s how you can save money.” It’s not: “Here’s how we can save you money.”
2. Promise to help you solve significant problems.
3. Intrigue you with the idea of giving you information you might not find anywhere else.
4. Warn you of potential dangers and offer ways to prevent something bad from happening to you.
5. Offer you something free.
6. Call you to action using imperatives and the active voice.
7. Promise to inform you on topics that interest you or you think you must know.
8. Involve making, protecting or saving money.
9. Talk about your getting a little sumthin’ sumthin’.

Did you notice none of these headlines asks questions? The reason is that people already know the questions. What they want are the answers.

Some copywriters chose to use all caps for their headlines; some chose to capitalize key words; some chose to initial cap each word; and some chose to cap the first letter of the first word (writers call that sentence case). A few copywriters emphasized key words in italics or with all caps. They used as little punctuation as possible. Few copywriters ended headlines with a period, for example.

I’ve always believed that headlines in sentence case were easiest to read. I’m going to rethink that one. Headlines in all caps are hardest to read, but can be effective with certain topics (color also helps). Using all caps for KEY words, WORKS very well, I think.

You can learn a lot from reading body copy in junk mail letters, so I’m working on that now.

Google tunes up Chrome development

Google's Chrome development team has offered a status update of its work on the company's young open-source browser.

The most significant changes, according to a Chromium Development Documentation posting on Thursday, include the following:

• New version of WebKit.
• Form autocomplete.
• Import bookmarks from Google Bookmarks.
• New network code.
• New window frames on Windows XP and Vista.

Although Chrome was just unveiled in September, Google uncharacteristically took it out of beta in December. But while the label may be gone, the company wants to keep that eternal flame burning in the "never-ending Beta test and a continuous feedback loop" via items such as automatic update channels:

With Google Chrome, we want to release fewer features more often instead of making you wait 12 months for the next Major Dot-Oh Release Jam-Packed With Features. We can get your feedback faster, fix things faster, and release new improvements as soon as they're ready. We want Google Chrome to stay nimble so it can keep pace with changes in the sites and web apps you use.

Early adopters can subscribe to one of three update channels:

• Stable channel, which delivers features and fixes only after they've been tested. This is the default channel when someone first installs Chrome.
• Beta channel, which delivers features from the Dev channel that are "stable and complete" but "may lack the polish one expects from a finished product."
• Developer preview channel, which is "where ideas get tested (and sometimes fail). The Dev channel can be very unstable at times, and new features usually require some manual configuration to be enabled."

Mahindra Xylo launch on 13 jan

Once again, leading car-maker Mahindra & Mahindra is making its presence in Indian market by launching its new MUV Mahindra Xylo. Xylo is ready to run on the Indian roads on January 13, 2009. The car is rolled out from its Nashik based manufacturing plant. After the success of scorpio, its new edition from M&M is Xylo. "Xylo's launching would be remarkable". officials of M&M said.

Mahindra Xylo is same powerful as scorpio as Xylo has same engine as scorpio. Xylo is designed by Italian designer team which is remarkable work. The car would have a compition with Toyota's Innova. The Xylo offers all facility in its sement to its users." Mahindra Xylo has been developed by a team of 160 experts who have created new benchmarks in terms of technology, performance and style. After the great efforts of all team, Xylo is ready to set to storm the MUV segment". Mr. Rajesh Jejurikar, Chief of Operations, Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. said.

To see more Xylo's pictur gallery, CLICK HERE

Jing Pro Records HD-quality Screencast Videos for YouTube

Jing, your favorite application that records both still screenshot images and screencast videos, is now available as Jing Pro though TechSmith will continue to offer a free version of Jing as well.

Jing Pro is unique in the sense that it lets you record HD quality screencast videos that can be directly uploaded on to YouTube. From a YouTube perspective, HD means any video recorded in 1290 x 720 (16×9 HD) and encoded in H.264 or MPEG-4 format.

If those numbers make no sense, watch the following video to understand how a HD quality screencast video would look like when shared on YouTube.

HD screencast recorded in Google SketchUp using Camtasia Studio 6.

Jing Pro, like the free version, is available for both Mac and Windows through a subscription based license that would cost you around $15 per year.

If you are not a heavy user of Jing, i.e. you only capture still screenshots and sometimes short video clips, the free version of Jing should be perfect as it also offers 2 GB of storage space.

Jing (free) support only SWF format while Jing Pro supports SWF as well as MPEG-4 video required for YouTube HD. The Pro version is therefore for people who can’t afford the expensive Camtasia Studio but still need a solution to capture great looking desktop videos for sharing on YouTube, Facebook and other sites.

For Mac users, an alternative to Jing Pro is iShowU HD (thanks Orli) that can also creates HD video, allows uploading to YouTube and costs $30 for life. There is probably no alternative to Jing Pro on the Windows platform except for Camtasia.

How to Embed Almost Anything in your Website

Learn how to embed almost anything in your HTML web pages from Flash videos to Spreadsheets to high resolution photographs to static images from Google Maps and more.

Embed RSS Feeds in Web Pages

Go to this page, replace the feed URL with your own feed, use the default color scheme or change it to something else and then click Get Code. You’ll get a JavaScript snippet that can be easily placed in the sidebar of your blog.

If you like to embed feeds from multiple sources, merge all of them into one using Yahoo Pipes and then pass the combined feed to the Google Gadget. You can also use RSS widgets like WidgetBox or YourMinis that are done in Flash and not JavaScript.

Embed High Quality or HD YouTube Videos

To embed a high resolution version of YouTube clip in your web pages, first make sure that “Watch in High Quality” or “Watch in HD” link exists next to the YouTube player as most videos are only available in standard format.

Next copy the YouTube embed code and append &ap=%2526fmt%3D18 (for high quality) or &ap=%2526fmt%3D22 (for 720p High Definition) to the URL value of the movie parameter in both instances (see YouTube HD example).

Embed MP3 music and other Audio

If you like to embed audio files like songs, podcasts or interviews in your web pages, use Yahoo! Media Player - its a free Flash music player that automatically detects all links to MP3 files in the current web page and turns them into a music player. Another alternative is the Google MP3 Player.

To embed other audio formats like 3GP, Midi, Real or Windows Media, it may be a good idea to convert these files into MP3 using Zamzar so that they play on almost any web browser.

Embed Flickr Photos and Slideshows

To embed an individual Flickr photograph in your blog, click the "Share This" link (available next to the photo title) and choose embed it. Flickr requires that the embedded image should link back to Flickr and this built-in embed option automatically takes care of that requirement. (see example)

To embed a Flickr photo slideshow in your web page, open any Slideshow in a new page (see example) and choose "Customize HTML" from the embed option (see example). Here you can specify a custom size for your Flash slideshow so that it fits just right into your web page.

Embed Picasa Web Albums

When you open a photo album inside Picasa, click the link in the right sidebar that says "Link to this album" and choose "Embed Slideshow". You can use the same approach to embed individual photographs that are available inside Picasa.

Embed Events from Google Calendar

Click the drop-down arrow next to any Google Calendar and select Calendar settings. Open the Google Embeddable Calendar Helper program by clicking the customize button and choose elements that you want to display or hide in the calendar.

Embed Very Large Photographs

To embed really large images in your blog, you may either use Deep Zoom or the Google Maps viewer. These programs break your photographs in small tiles and you can even pan / zoom across these images very similar to the default interface of Google Maps.

Embed Charts and Graphs in Web Pages

My personal favorite is Zoho Sheet – any chart created inside Zoho Sheet can be published as an external image without exposing the full spreadsheet. If you are interested in creating charts with low volume of data, use Google Charts.

Embed GIF Animations and Screencasts

GIF animations (see example) are a perfect way to embed short screencasts in web pages as they require no plugins and auto-play inside feed readers. You should upload GIF files to your Flickr account as it preserve all the frames while lot of other image hosting website will drop anything after the first frame.

Embed Chat in your Blog

If you like to chat with visitors who are currently on your site, get the chat widget from Meebo Me and place it in the sidebar of your website. Visitors show up in your Meebo buddy list so you can strike up a conversation, answer questions, or just keep tabs on guests. Also see some more options to embed chat in blogs.

Embed Word Documents

Upload your document to Scribd and they’ll give you the embed code in Flash. Scribd supports both doc and the new Office 2007 docx format in addition to Open Office documents. Even Barack Obama is using Scribd to upload his public documents and upcoming plan.

Embed PowerPoint Presentations

While the popular choice is Slideshare, you should also consider using Issuu (best web application) for presentations that are either large or formatted in the form of magazines or catalogues (see example). The only downside is that Issuu accepts PDFs so you need to convert the presentation before uploading onto Issuu.

Embed Spreadsheet Data

Both Zoho Sheet and Google Docs allow you to publish a range of cells from a spreadsheet into a web page but the embedding process in Zoho is less complicated - select a range and choose "Publish" from the contextual menu to embed that range into your web page.

Embed Adobe PDF Files

To embed PDFs in a web page, you can either use Issuu (for magazine style PDFs) or Scribd for PDFs has either have lot of text or have a top-to-bottom reading layout similar to Word documents.

Embed Flash (SWF) or Flash Video (FLV)

The best option to embed Flash content is via swfobject. It improves the overall user experience by providing alternatives in case Flash is missing and your Flash content also becomes more searchable. This tutorial has all the files and other details to help you get started with SwfObject 2.

Related: How to Embed FLV Flash Videos

Embed LinkedIn Profile

If you wish to display your LinkedIn profile in the sidebar of your blog, try LinkInABox. People (site visitors) can read a summary of your LinkedIn profile without leaving the site.

Embed Google Maps in Web Pages

Embedding a Google Map in your website is now almost as easy as adding an image – just open the Static Maps wizard, search for location that you want to embed and specify the dimensions of your map. They’ll provide a simple URL that actually points to a static image of that map.

Embed Another Webpage in your Blog

If you like to embed another website into your web page, your best bet is an IFRAME tag also known as an Inline Frame. Just set the SRC value to the address of the web page that you want to embed into your current HTML document. You could try IFRAMEs for inserting live search results from Google into your web page without having to worry about APIs.

Embed Windows Media or QuickTime movies

While it is possible to embed mov or wmv videos in web pages directly using the OBJECT tag, I recommend that you put these videos onto blip.tv and then embed them in web pages as Flash video. That’s because your visitors can then play the video without extra plugins and two, they always have the option to download the video in the original format from blip.tv servers.

Embed Other Fonts in Web Pages

Most web pages use universal fonts like Arial, Times New Roman or Verdana since they are installed on most computers and hence your web pages will render correctly. If you want to try something different and render pages in fonts like Microsoft Calibri or Adobe Garamond Pro that are only available on some machines, all you need is sIFR – it lets you use almost any font for your web pages using JavaScript + Flash and is perfect for writing “newspaper style” headlines.

Embed your Lifestream in a Web Page

You have a presence on YouTube, Flickr, Twitter, Last.fm, Facebook, Amazon and a dozen other online places. It can get really tough for friends to track you at so many places so what you should do is create an account at FriendFeed, import all the different services that you use and then use the FriendFeed Badge to embed your lifestream activity on your main site. You can also create Lifestream with Google Reader.

Make Gmail Inbox more Friendly than ever

I won't say that Gmail isn't user-friendly itself but you can always spice things up to make it even more Fun and useful with Xoopit.

Xoopit is a FireFox extension that brings life to your Gmail inbox by providing you a cool way to view and browse all your images, videos,files and links buried in your email attachments.

To make itself even more interesting, Xoopit offers you to search your stuff instead of your messages. That means if you're looking for any specific picture or a file that somebody might have sent you a few months ago. Xoopit will filter around people or keyword and find the photos and files you're looking for.

It browses through your Gmail to find photos and videos from YouTube, Flickr, Shutterfly, Kodak and Picasa. Links sent to your Gmail account are automatically collected, saving you the hassle of going to these sites.

In addition to that, Xoopit allows you to do a web search while composing a mail in Gmail and add results directly to your message.

Note that when you sign up for Xoopit, it asks for your Gmail username and password so that it can index the photos, videos and files in your Gmail. Xoopit works like other mail clients connecting to Gmail, such as your desktop mail program or cell phone.

Key features of Xoopit

1. Browse photos & videos from Youtube, Flicr, Shutterfly, Kodak and Picasa
2. Easily find and access your files
3. Quick share to friends, Facebook or your blog
4. Search your stuff, not your messages

Xoopit works for Gmail, Google Mail and Google Apps users.

Add Keynote Transitions to your Presentations without Mac

Apple recently demonstrated a new version of Keynote software as part of the iWorks ‘09 office productivity suite. Among other enhancements, Keynote ‘09 includes an array of new animations and transitions effects that you can add between slides.

Now Keynote ‘09 is available for Mac only but if you are on Windows or use another program like Microsoft PowerPoint to create presentations, SlideRocket is coming up with something that may interest you.

SlideRocket has taken some of the new transition effects that were introduced in Keynote ‘09 and added them to their own web presentation software. That means you can upload your existing PowerPoint slides on to SlideRocket and apply transitions that were otherwise only available in Keynote.

You can view the new Keynote transitions in SlideRocket through the above presentation but these are probably not live for everyone yet. This demo will give you some more idea about the capabilities and features of SlideRocket.

SlideRocket founder Mitch Grasso says that this is "one of the unsung advantages of web applications - we can iterate new versions easily and quickly."