Ajax Start Page as like as Google IG by Omar AL Zabir

Recently Omar Al Zabir published his Ajax Start Page as like as Google IG at http://www.dropthings.com.



Here you will get his Recent post from his Blog about how did he came up with this Ajax Start Page which is similar to Google IG. Enjoy reading his Post:

http://msmvps.com/blogs/omar/

Upload a photo for your LinkedIn profile

Recently LinkedIn.com updated their Networking service and added a new option of adding your Profile Image with your Professional Profile.



This profile image/picture could be set as a Public or Private to certain of your network from your Public Profile Settings.



see: LinkedIn.com

Search Option within the Google Reader

Though i have noticed it for last 1 week. I couldn't get time to write and share about it yet. You will get a searching option at Top middle section of your Google Reader Page.

And here goes an article from Google Readers Blog on Search Option of Google Reader. Enjoy using and searching your feeds in your Google Reader :)

Google Browser Sync - Firefox Extension

Suddenly i was browsing on Google Labs and found Google Browser Sync - a Firefox Extension. Got interest to try it out. Here is a little overview on Google Browser Sync.



After clicking on the "browsersync.xpi" you will be redirected to Install the Firefox Extension from this Google Labs page. And after you are done installing the Browser will be restarted and will ask for your Google Account Information to Login and a Security PIN to choose for the 1st time ever you install in your any system.

Google Browser Sync for Firefox could save Cookies, Saved Passwords, Bookmarks, History, Tabs and Windows with 2 options - Store and Encrypt.



After configuring the Google Browser Sync of Firefox properly. If you close your Firefox browser and Restart again. Then you will face a prompt says whether you are interested to Restore the Last Session or not?
And if you chose to Restore the pages then those selective pages are restored with their saved sessions and appears as below:


Limitations:
Google Browser Sync has a limitation of Public Shared Computers. It was requested not to install in Publicly Shared Computers as it has no security of the User's Browsing History + Saved Sessions + Cookies + Security PIN and Google Account Information. Google Browser Sync has no option to back my Firefox Extensions. Easily accessible for anyone to check my private Security PIN for once and get my updates for ever :P


My Expectations:
Google Sync should have the option to change the User Login as like in Delicious Extension the User Login is changeable. Google Browser Sync should have the option to Sync the Firefox Extensions which is done by FEBE. Secure option to hide Security PIN.

Reading 600+ Feeds using Google Reader

Suddenly i noticed this Blog post in Google Reader's Blog which was posted in last June 22nd, 2007: Read it : "Doing the Shuffle"and enjoy the video below:



Keep rocking with Google Reader!

LinkMeIn - a PHPClass made for LinkedIn users

In most of the community pages we see that they asks us to invite friends to join in the network. LinkedIn is a Professionals Network where there are different people from different profession with different level of their skill sets. My friend Ehsan created a PHP class named LinkMeIn in contribution of Open Source community and he shared this class file at PHPClass.org

I found it interesting cause it creates 2 type of reports by parsing my LinkedIn Connections -

• Array type
• XML type
  

Both formats can be used for further implementation in any other community web services. As he said in his Blog post to comment for any bug found. I went to try it out at his demo and interestingly i faced an Error ;)


Here i am sharing the screen shot so that i don have to face any issue in sharing it at PHPClass discussion. I will be using the URL of this post :p

Adding a new account in your Gmail

Here i am going to share a screen shot recently i made for one of my friend who wanted to know how to add a new account in your Gmail account. I think it could help others as a startup too :)



It's really interesting and easy to manage in Gmail :)
Truly speaking I really liked it!

Facebook Job Puzzles

Thanks to Aasife Barkat (my friend) for sharing this Facebook URL. I felt interesting about sharing this Puzzle of Facebook. It's really a nice way to find different experts from from different skill sets.



See at: http://www.facebook.com/jobs_puzzles



Enjoy solving this Facebook Puzzles!

Blogger was Down approx. 2 Hours!

Yesterday night I saw a message like "Blogger and Blog*Spot are unavailable". Was interesting to me to find out the reason.. was it hacked?




Today after posting a post in my general blog i went home and at evening i got Blogger.com down! I have no idea why i got that Google Error 502.




It was more then 1 or 2 hours i saw Blogger.com down! Then it came back again.. and here comes my Post :p



I searched for the reasons and in Help Blog of Blogger i found this Status update as below:


source: help.blogger.com

Blogger Templates has only 2 columns

After so long i started to feel like i need a Template where i can have 3 columns. And while went to change and pick a new Template of Blogger, i am disappointed. It is really disappointing that Blogger has limited it's Template into only 2 column based Templates.



Two (2) Columns:
It was nice to see the my blog of 2 columns which was always center aligned in the screen. But without adding widgets, tags and scripts etc you don need to to have 3 column based Templates.

Three (3) Columns:
These days most of us using laptops of wide screen as i am .. and even sometimes the Wide screen LCD monitors in home or office use. And reading Blogs in this screens makes me feel to have more then 2 columns :p Adding different widgets, scripts, tags increases the interest to have 3 columns in my Blog.

Will start looking for any ready made Blogger Template so that i can just pick and start use of it. I don't want to change the Template customizing it right now.. which could be possible just editing the scripts from HTML view. Need something more handy rather customizing them.