Blog straight from Firefox

I just installed another new extension called Performancing from Firefox and this is an attempt to post directly from there. Will have to see if this works or not. For now I don't see my categories appearing. This can definately be improved much more. More feedback if this post is successful. Update: It did not post directly on my blog, I manually posted it here. I even did not get any error message showing that the blog post was not posted on my blog. Technorati Tags: , ,

Gmail adds two new excellent features

So ofcourse, I am still waiting for Google Calendar! But I found two new features in Google Mail today. One is Automatic Vacation Response and the other one is Groups feature for Gmail Contacts (sorry, no links here).

Both of them are really handy features, especially when you are using your Gmail address as your main email tool. I even use Gmail for work purposes. So let’s see Automatic Vacation Response First. So we can setup the vacation response settings and either configure to send the vacation message to everybody or to only people who are on my contact list.

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The second one will become my favourite I think. It is groups for contacts. See the images below.

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We can select the contact that we want to put in a group and click on "Add to group" button on the top. If you pull down the menu there is an option of "new group" there. So name the group and that’s it. So from the screen above I created a group called "Daily Titbits" and added 6 contacts in it. In the screen below you see the group created called "Daily titbits" which includes the contacts that I added above.

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Now what I have to do is when I compose the message, I just have to write "Daily titbits" and all the 6 contacts will be loaded. Isn’t this faster and fun! Ofcourse this feature will save me time and increase my productivity. Also once I set up the groups the chances that I will forget to email somebody (who should be part of the group) the needed content will be reduced to minimal. So enjoy this nice features. But Google Calendar, where are you?

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Gmail adds two new excellent features

So ofcourse, I am still waiting for Google Calendar! But I found two new features in Google Mail today. One is Automatic Vacation Response and the other one is Groups feature for Gmail Contacts (sorry, no links here).

Both of them are really handy features, especially when you are using your Gmail address as your main email tool. I even use Gmail for work purposes. So let’s see Automatic Vacation Response First. So we can setup the vacation response settings and either configure to send the vacation message to everybody or to only people who are on my contact list.

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The second one will become my favourite I think. It is groups for contacts. See the images below.

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We can select the contact that we want to put in a group and click on "Add to group" button on the top. If you pull down the menu there is an option of "new group" there. So name the group and that’s it. So from the screen above I created a group called "Daily Titbits" and added 6 contacts in it. In the screen below you see the group created called "Daily titbits" which includes the contacts that I added above.

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Now what I have to do is when I compose the message, I just have to write "Daily titbits" and all the 6 contacts will be loaded. Isn’t this faster and fun! Ofcourse this feature will save me time and increase my productivity. Also once I set up the groups the chances that I will forget to email somebody (who should be part of the group) the needed content will be reduced to minimal. So enjoy this nice features. But Google Calendar, where are you?

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Quick Technorati Mini tip

So if you like Technorati Mini, here is a tip by Stevel Rubel where if you use Firefox, you can put Technorati Mini in the side bar (simple enough). Now one more simple tip again here for Technorati Mini. Now normally you might want to monitor few different buzz words using Technorati Mini, so here is what you do. 1. Go to http://technorati.com/mini 2. Put in the search terms separated by a space like (tools microsoft google windows or you can even use booleans) 3. Click on the search page 4. In the new Window, you will see the latest results that has the words you mentioned as search terms 5. Right click on that window and click on "Bookmark this page" 6. You can click on "Load this bookmark in the sidebar if you wish (for me this consumes a lot of screen space which is much important to me, also it is very distracting to have it open in the side bar) 7. Open it from the bookmark and you will see updated results from Technorati every 60 seconds including all of your search terms Technorati Tags: , ,

Rumours: Google buying Opera

Rumours are out that Google might be buying Opera. I am still attached to my one time favourtie browser Opera. If this happens then I can see many people moving away from IE and Firefox to Opera. One reason is Google will make their features and services fit perfectly inside Opera (or will it be Opeogle). Whatever happens, Opera is a great browser and good luck to Opera on this one. Technorati Tags: , ,

Get to the Technorati Kitchen

Technorati has opened doors to their kitchen for Internet visitors as well. Now you can see what's cooking at Technorati. So now they will showcase as to what the developers at Technorati are working on. At the moment they have showcased "Explore". Explore shows as to what's hot on specific topics right now. As from the links I see that it's only covering the blogs and not considering the news site as such. One could easily check out what's new on the topic they care about by going to http://kitchen.technorati.com/explore/xxx (where xxx is the topic they want to read about). So mind you, while you are there, don't forget to check out Technorati Mini, I am going to set in my browser as well :). Technorati Tags: , , , , ,

BlogJet 1.6.1 Released with even more better features

I must have missed the release of Blogjet 1.6, but not this time. I found out today that Blogjet 1.6.1 is released (this one now supports MSN Spaces). Don’t know what Blogjet is? Blogjet is a tool that can be used to blog directly to your blogs without even going to the web interface. Blogjet can be integrated in Firefox or into Internet Explorer. Right click in a window while in Firefox and just click on “Blogjet This” and you are on the go to create a blog

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One feature that I was really looking forward too was Group Posting into multiple blogs at once. As I maintain multiple blogs ( www.itejas.com is the other one), there are times when I want to same information there too, so this should come handy. Other new features include as belows:-

NEW FEATURES

I will try to post this on my other blog using the Group Posting feature and see how it goes. One feature I would like to see is creation and insertion of Technorati Tags. I think that will definately come in handy.

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