Gmail team has announced the new feature that lets you attach files while sending mails even when you are offline (via Offline Gmail).
“Starting today, attachments work just the way you would expect them to whether you are online or offline.Just add the attachment and send your message.”
To Activate This Feature:
Enable ‘Offline Gmail’ under ‘Labs’ section first (Click ‘Enable’ and save settings)
Now you can see the ‘Offline’ link next to the green Labs features button just right next to your username inside your right upper corner of Gmail.
Click the above Offline link and install the Gears
Install Gears and restatrt your browser, you are done.Go through your mails offline and send attachments offline and even more of them.
P.S: You cannot however use ‘Adding Inline Images’ in Gmail Offline, except that you can virtually play around with your offline Gmail messages.
Apple introduced the all-new iPod shuffle, the world’s smallest music player at nearly half of the size of the previous model, and the first music player that talks to you. The revolutionary new VoiceOver feature enables iPod shuffle to speak your song titles, artists and playlist names. The third generation iPod shuffle is significantly smaller than a AA battery, holds up to 1,000 songs and is easier to use with all of the controls conveniently located on the earphone cord. With the press of a button, you can play, pause, adjust volume, switch playlists and hear the name of the song and artist. iPod shuffle features a gorgeous new aluminum design with a built-in stainless steel clip that makes it ultra-wearable.
iPod shuffle is based on Apple’s incredibly popular shuffle feature, which randomly selects songs from your music library. And now, when you can’t remember the name of a song or an artist playing, with the press of a button iPod shuffle tells you the name of the song and artist. iPod shuffle can even tell you status information, such as battery life. With the ability to hold up to 1,000 songs and the VoiceOver feature, you can now easily switch between multiple playlists on your iPod shuffle. iPod shuffle can speak 14 languages including English, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish.
The new iPod shuffle comes in silver or black and features a sleek and ultra-wearable design with a built-in stainless steel clip. iPod shuffle is the smallest music player in the world and is incredibly easy to clip to almost anything and take with you everywhere you go. iPod shuffle features up to 10 hours of battery life.
Specifications And Price:
Size and weight
Height: 1.8 inches (45.2 mm) Width: 0.7 inch (17.5 mm) Depth: 0.3 inch (7.8 mm) including clip True volume: 0.26 cu inches (4,326 cu mm) Weight: 0.38 ounce (10.7 grams)
Capacity
4GB flash drive Holds up to 1,000 songs in 128-Kbps AAC format3 Stores data via USB flash drive
Battery and power
Built-in rechargeable lithium polymer battery Playback time: Up to 10 hours when fully charged Charging via USB to computer system or power adapter (sold separately) 80% charged in 2 hrs; fully charged in 3 hrs.
Headphones
Apple Earphones with Remote Frequency response: 20Hz to 20,000Hz Impedance: 32 ohms
Environmental requirements
Operating temperature: 32° to 95° F (0° to 35° C) Nonoperating temperature: -4° to 113° F (-20° to 45° C) Relative humidity: 5% to 95% noncondensing Maximum operating altitude: 10,000 feet (3000 m)
Pricing & Availability
Suggested price of $79 (US) through the Apple Store
Some Adsense publishers who were expecting their February 2009 Adsense Earnings check from Google may have observed this message “Check stopped - earnings credited back” message in their Payments History tab[Even though there were no visible holds on the account].I was searching for an official word from Google about this and finally I could get one.
This is due to a bug in Adsense payment hold system.
He says
“If you were one of the publishers who ended up with your AdSense account on hold for payments due to an AdSense bug, you were reassured that payments would be processed to be included at the end of February. Originally, the payments were to be included in the payments at the end of February. However, because Google had to remove these holds manually, it seems as though this wasn’t done until after the February 15th cut off time. So what does this mean for affected publishers? You have to wait another month to receive your payment due to Google’s bug, according to AdSensePro Jen.”
So affected publishers can expect their earnings to be included in next payment cycle[If you get this message “Check stopped - earnings credited back” before March 15th in your account or if you get it after March 15, you can expect your earnings to be included in next month’s payment cycle].
Google Joins Twitter—But What does Google’s First Tweet mean?
Twitter,the star of micro blogging revolution has been getting huge response from all over the globe and has been attracting the real big companies around the world.The latest addition to Twitter is the Search engine giant Google.[Other Google services like Blogger and Youtube already have Twitter accounts]
On Feb 26,2009 Google marked it’s official entry into twitter[link] with an interesting first tweet which contains a stream of 0’s and 1’s following ‘I’m’.Reads as:
Although you can guess the full sentence from the starting word I’m but it’s still tricky.It just took some minutes for tech geeks to decode the binary code.[Refer ASCII Coding Wiki]
Decoded Google’s First Tweet:
It decodes to nothing but what we have guessed
“I’m F E E L I N G L U C K Y”
Interesting,isn’t it?[After all Google always tries to be different!].
And Yahoo is even quicker to welcomes it’s rival with a welcome tweet:
The second tweet of the Google is about the new Google Apps Status Dashboard where you can check the status of various Google Applications.
Once you download the set-up file(476 KB) which then downloads and installs the plugin for you[Similar to How you did while installing Google Chrome)
[And yeah,if you are using Internet Explorer,the plugin will be blocked by IE by default,so you need to allow IE to run Gmail voice and video plug-in]
The Post on Official Blog explains the next step:
“Once you install the plugin, to start a video chat, just click on the "Video & more" menu at the bottom of your Gmail chat window, and choose "Start video chat." You'll have a few seconds to make sure you look presentable while it's ringing, and then you'll see and hear your friend live, right from within Gmail. You can click the "pop-out" iconto make the video larger, or click the fullscreen iconin the upper left-hand corner for a fully immersive experience.”
I guess this is the most awaited feature in Gmail chat,after their recently added New Emoticons, this is the right step in modernizing the Email client with embedding voice and video chat in it.
This new feature has already been getting good response from the users and Google is looking forward for still more exciting features.
I’m sure it’s going to attract lot of Skype Users.
The U.S. government on Thursday (October 30, 2008) issued a recall of 35,000 Sony Corp notebook computer batteries, calling them a fire hazard to consumers.
The recall affects Sony lithium-ion batteries that were used mainly in computers from Hewlett-Packard Co, with a smaller number in notebooks from Dell and Incand Toshiba Corp .
The recall affects around 32,000 HP notebooks, 3,000 from Toshiba, and 150 Dell computers.
Sony blamed the faulty batteries on manufacturing line adjustments in 2004 and 2005, which it believes may have affected the quality of some cells. Other incidents of overheating may have involved a problem with raw materials.
It may be noted that last month the consumer electronics giant SONY recalled 438,000 of its Vaio laptops due to battery overheating concerns.
According to Reuters, there has been 19 reports of the batteries overheating, including 17 reports of fire with two people experiencing minor burns.
Sony spokeswoman Elizabeth Boukis told that the company will support the U.S. recall, along with that of an additional 65,000 batteries worldwide. On a global basis, PC makers have reported 40 overheating incidents.
Boukis said batteries covered by the new recall are unrelated to those in company's massive 2006 recall. That action covered 9.6 million batteries and cost the company millions.
to make the video larger, or click the fullscreen icon
in the upper left-hand corner for a fully immersive experience.”
