Lenova Thinkpad Takes On Apple MacBook Air [Advertisement Video]

This is a nice advertisement promoting Lenova Thinkpad.  The advertisement shows how clumsy a MacBook Air becomes when the remote optical drive is connected to it.

For those who are not aware of MacBook remote optical drive

MacBook Air does not have a built in optical drive like how all the laptops has. The optical drive of MacBook Air comes as an detachable external unit that can be attached to the laptop when ever required. This is one of the biggest draw back of MacBook Air.

Read CNET Review of MacBook Air for more information about Apple MacBook Air.

via stumbled upon

How To Display Row Numbers In A GridView Control [ASP.NET]

While developing web sites using ASP.NET, developers often requires to display row number in GridView controls. Here is a simple template field code  to display sequence number start from 1. Insert this code as one of the fields in our GridView code.

<asp:TemplateField>
    <ItemTemplate>
        <%# Container.DataItemIndex + 1 %>
    </ItemTemplate>
</asp:TemplateField>

Incase if you wish to start the sequence number from any number other than 1, replace Container.DataItemIndex + 1 with Container.DataItemIndex + n.  For example Container.DataItemIndex + 5 substitution in the above code starts generating sequence number from 5 onwards.

How To Bypass Annoying Google Analytics Login Page

Google Analytics login page has an annoying issue. It always asks us to enter password when we visit www.google.com/analytics/, even though we are logged in to other Google services like GMail and Google Reader.

All the Google services except Google Analytics are Single Sign on enabled, which allows us to automatically login to service without entering password if we are already authenticated.

Not sure about the reason why Google did on implement Single Sing on feature. Luckily Google Operation System blog has identified a work around that allows us to bypass the annoying login screen of Google Analytics. All we need to do is to visit https://www.google.com/analytics/home/ instead of www.google.com/analytics/.

Thanks Ionut Alex Chitu

How To Hide A Folder In A Website And Exclude It From VSS Too [Visual Studio.NET]

In any project of Visual Studio.Net environment excluding a folder is very simple. We just need to right click on the folder and select Exclude from Project. But in Website of Visual Studio.NET it is not that easy to hide a folder and also there is no direct way to exclude a folder from Website.

The easy way to exclude an unwanted folder from a website  is to physically delete the folder from the website structure. But what if you should not delete the folder from the website structure? Here is a simple trick to hide(not deleting) a folder from Visual Studio.NET editor as well as from Visual Source Safe.

Set Hidden attribute for the folder which you want to exclude from project, and the refresh the Website(project) in Visual Studio.NET Solution Explorer. Here are the detailed steps to be followed

1. Open Windows Explorer
2. Locate the physical folder of your website
3. Right click the folder which you want to exclude, and then select Properties
4. Check the Hidden attribute
5. Click the Refresh button in the Visual Studio.NET Solution Explorer

Using this simple trick you can even hide files of a website from Visual Studio.NET environment.

India Sets World Record By Launching 10 Satellites In One Go

ISRO, The Indian Space Research Organisation has set a new world record by launching 10 satellites into Earth's orbit in one go. The satellites weighed 820 Kilograms.

The spectacular launch positioned India ahead of Russia, US and Europe who never put so many satellites that weigh so heavy in a single mission.

India used its premier launch vehicle PSLV  to carry a C9 Cartosat 2A, Indian Mini Satellite (IMS), and eight foreign nano satellites. The other country who archived similar feat close to this is Russia who placed 13 small satellites that weighed 295 Kilograms.

The journey of Indian space research started way back in 1963 with the launch of a sounding rocket to study gravity waves. Even though India may be a baby in the Space Research but it's competing with the big powers to set world records.

If You Never Failed, You Never Lived [Message]

 

Convert YouTube Videos To Animations

If you want to convert YouTube videos to a GIF animation and share the animation with your friends/colleagues here is a simple solution from Gickr.

Gickr is a free online service that allows you to convert YouTube videos to GIF animations. The output animations of Gickr can be easily downloaded to your computer and shared with your friends/colleagues.

To convert a YouTube video to GIF animations

• Copy URL of the YouTube video which you want to convert and paste it in Gickr Conversion Page
• Choose the size and the number frames of output animation(you can leave it to default selections)
• Click on the next button

That's all! Gickr will automatically generates the GIF image and provides you options for downloading the GIF or embedding it in your website or blog.

Via Digital Inspirations

Skype Launches Unlimited International Calls for $12.95/Month

Skype, the popular VOIP software used for making cheap PC-to-Phone calls has introduced a new package that offers unlimited International calls for just 12.95/Month.

The catch is -- unlimited calls are allowed to only landlines and the covered destination countries are restricted to only 34 around the world. 

The exceptions "to only lindlines" is mobile networks of Canada, China, Hong Kong, Singapore and USA allowed in the unlimited calls package.

Here is the complete list of 34 supported countries

Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada (incl. cell phones), China (incl. cell phones), Chile, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Guam, Hong Kong (incl. cell phones), Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Republic of Luxembourg, Malaysia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Singapore (incl. cell phones), Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, United Kingdom, USA (incl. cell phones)

Skype Subscriptions [via AP & Lifehacker]

Good One Line Sentences About Life

The next45years.com has compiled a good collection of one liners about the secret of life. Here are the few sentences which you might like

Image by lukatoyboy

1. Do good if you can to every person you meet, but always do no harm. - Bansi Gandhi, 63
2. Find your passion and pursue it. - Lea Williams, author and educator, 58
3. Remember you are part of something larger than yourself. - Antony Holland, 86
4. Find something you love doing and make it your career. - Paul Hersey, 76
5. Learn to step out of the boot more. - Don, 78
6. Don’t draw the curtain too soon; there is always an encore or fourth act. - Joci James, 79
7. Be kind to yourself and to others; you can’t go wrong that way. - Mary, 87
8. The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live. - Joan Borysenko

Read more at The Secret to Life in One Sentence or Less

Recommendation for Starting A Startup Site with ASP.NET

If you are planning to start a startup website development using ASP.NET here are the 6 valuable tips for rapid and cost effective development from DimeBrain.

1) Use ASP.NET MVC instead of ViewState mechanism for writing better code which are unit testing and maintenance friendly

2) Don't use 3rd party control libraries as developers have to spend more time in understanding the 3rd party APIs and debugging the bugs resulted due to misuse of the APIs.

3) Use JQuery which is small and does most of the JavaScript related things

4) Do not use UpdatePanel. Instead build the system with "real" ASP.NET AJAX; that is, build static page methods, WCF services, or script methods, and call those on the client-side via JavaScript

5) Use a graphic designer as the startup has no excuse of poor design

6) Use an automated entity persistence solution to perform insert and update operations on database

Read more elaborated explanation of all the tips at DimeBrain 

Building The Great Pyramid of Giza [Documentary]

If you love to know the history and watch documentaries, here is a great video series on construction of The Great Pyramid of Giza.

The 6 videos series produced by BBC is a reconstructed life story of Nacht, one of workers who was part of building king Kufu's great pyramid.

via Youtube

[end of post]

Configure Firefox to Forget Browser History Immediately After Closing It

Problem: Your are browsing your favourite web sites at office without the knowledge of your manager. One day your manage want to browse and show a web site related to work on your computer. The moment he starts typing first few characters of the web site, your Firefox browser reveals history of the websites which you visit. How to avoid such embarrassing situations by clearing the browser history automatically after closing the application?

Solution

Firefox has an useful option which automatically clears the web browser history as soon as you close the application. To enable this auto clear option

• Select Tools-->Options--Privacy
• Choose the option Always clear my private data when I close Firefox
• Clear the option Ask me before clearing private
• Click Ok to save the settings

 

India's Tata and Reliance Industries In the List of World's 25 Most Innovative Companies

Tata and Reliance Industries from India featured in the list of World's 25 most innovative companies list released by BusinessWeek Magazine. Tata is riding on the cheapest commercial car Nano and Reliance Industries on an aggressive growth plan.

In the list of 25 most innovative companies released in New York, Tata is ranked 6th while Reliance Industries at 19th. Both Tata and Reliance first time made it in to the list, which is topped by Apple. Apple is followed by Google, Toyota, GE and Microsoft in the top 5.

Here is the list of top 12 companies

1. Apple
2. Google 
3. Toyota Motor  
4. General Electric  
5. Microsoft
6. Tata Group  
7. Nintendo
8. Procter & Gamble 
9. Sony 
10. Nokia  
11. Amazon.com 
12. IBM 

Read the the full list in BusinessWeek Magazine 

How To Store Photos On DVDs/CDs To Play Them Using DVD Players

Problem

You want to send digital photos captured during a recent get together to one of your relatives. The relative either do not have a computer or don't know how to use a computer. But he has a DVD/VCD player which he want to use to view the pictures.

Solution

Use the free software VCD Menu Lite or Slide Show Movie Maker  to convert Photos to movie files and copy them to CDs/DVDs. VCD Menu Lite works on Windows XP as well as Windows Vista but Slide Show Movie Maker works only on Windows XP operation.

Follow these links to download VCD Menu Lite and Slide Show Movie Maker

Learn to Cook Chicken Nuggets In 5 Minutes[Cooking]

Chicken Nuggets are one of my favourite food items. I never knew that it is so easy too till I watched this video.

 

Even though preparation time is 25 minutes, it is very simple to cook the delicious nuggets.  Here is the summary of cooking process

1. Chunk Chicken Breasts
2. Blend the Chicken
3. Prepare bread crumbs
4. Beat Eggs
5. Coat the nuggets with plain flour, egg and bread crumbs
6. Fry the nuggets

via VideoJug

Know The Difference Between Capturing Videos Using Digital Camera and Video Camera

We can record videos using a digital camera as well as a video camera. But everyone advices to use Video Cameras for recording videos. But do you know why video cameras are recommended? 

Here are the two reasons

1) Digital camera's use low bandwidth storage formats as they have less memory. As a result it stores highly compressed and poor quality videos. But video camera use high bandwidth storage formats that have better quality

2) The optical lens of digital cameras are more suitable for capturing still images. So it is very difficult to capture videos with motion.

A Wedding Cake Depicting Too Much of Cell Phone Usage

 

Is this not close to the reality? A bride and groom attaching themselves to mobile phones just after their wedding ceremony... In the crazy world we live in this is not far away.

 

This cake topper is available to order from WeddingCollectibles  for $19.95.

 

Thanks textually.org

[end of post]

Script To Reseed Identity Columns In SQL Server

At times we need to reset seed value of identity column of SQL Server tables. This is mainly required when we need to clean test data from identity columns tables and start inserting fresh data from the beginning.

You can use DBCC CHECKIDENT command to reseed or reset seed value of a identity column. For example, the following command resets seed of customer table 0.

DBCC CHECKIDENT (Customer, RESEED, 0)

After reseed of the identity column, the following INSERT statements uses reseed value + 1. If you INSERT a record in to table Customer after executing the above reseed statement, the newly inserted record gets 1 as identity value.

Not Able To Understand The Recent Tie Up of Google With Salesforce? Then Watch this video.

The recent partnership of Google with Salesforce has resulted in a new product called Salesforce for Google Apps.

But as a common netizen how much do you understand about this partnership?

Here are two official videos released by Google and Salesforce that explain the partnership in simple English

Google's Video

Salesforce Video

 

Thanks amit

Google Earth Adds Street Views & Real Time Sunrise & Sunset Views - Watch Amazing Video Demo Of New Features

The later version of Google Earth software is loaded with amazing new features. These new features make the exploring Earth using Google Earth more fun.

The new features that are part of Google Earth 4.3 are

• Day/Night Lighting option provides options to view real time lighting effects like sunrise and sunset
• Street Views  are not part of Google Earth
• Imagery Dates allows you to find the exact time when a particular satellite images was captured

Here is an amazing video by Google Earth Blog which demonstrates all the news features

You can download Google Earth from here.

Download Fring For Jailbroken iPhones

Fring, the free chat and Voip software for mobile phones, has released a new version of application that works on Jailbroken iPhones.

Fring is the favourite application for mobile phone users to chat with Google Talk, Skype, MSN Messenger, Yahoo and AIM buddies.

Visit Fring's iPhone page to download and install the application on your iPhone and you can more about at Fring blog post.

Here is a video demonstrating Fring working on a Jailbroken iPhone

Google Digging The Web Deep - Googlebot To Fill Forms On Websites to Index More Content

Googlebot, the search bot used by Google to collect documents from the web to build a searchable index for the Google search engine, now has the capability to automatically fill and submit forms available on Websites to discover new web pages and URLs.

Google Webmaster Blog has announced that Google started to index web pages hidden behind web forms.

Google is constantly trying new ideas to improve our coverage of the web. We already do some pretty smart things like scanning JavaScript and Flash to discover links.......In the past few months we have been exploring some HTML forms to try to discover new web pages and URLs that we otherwise couldn't find and index for users who search on Google. Specifically, when we encounter a <FORM> element on a high-quality site, we might choose to do a small number of queries using the form. For text boxes, our computers automatically choose words from the site that has the form; for select menus, check boxes, and radio buttons on the form, we choose from among the values of the HTML.

With this move Google has started digging the web deep and we can expect more relevant results in the future.

Image by bucklava

Follow Olympics Torch Relay On Google Maps

Olympic game lovers can track the current location Torch Relay online using Google Maps. The Google Maps page shows the current location of the Torch and also the route in which it will be carried over the globe.

In the map, the red colour lines connecting the cities depict the route already covered by the Torch Relay and the black colour lines depicts the route the Torch Relay will follow in the coming days. The current location of the Torch Relay is depicted using a torch icon.

When we grabbed the screen shot of the map, the torch is at Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

While Google is progressing so well with new ideas like this, Microsoft and Yahoo seems to be sleeping. Microsoft and Yahoo have their own version of Map systems but we never see them involving in the events like this.

Via GOS

Firefox Browser For Nokia N810 Mobiles

Fennec, the code name of Firefox browser application for Mobiles is available to download from here.

This pre-alpha release of the browser application is only recommended for Nokia N810 mobiles. The Fennec browser is based on the architecture of Firefox 3 beta 4 and it is not yet fully loaded with all the promised features. In  the future it is expected to support add-ons, web applications, AwesomeBar, one-click book marking and inertial scrolling.

[end of post]

Most Useful & Powerful Features of Google

 

Google has many special features to help us to find exactly what we are looking for.The popular features are:

• Simple Math
• Currency Conversion
• Current time in any city
• Unit Conversion
• Spell checking

The search engine has built-in calculator function, simply enter the calculation you'd like done into the search box and hit the Enter key.

Here's how we can convert currency  - just type the query xxx USD in INR in the search box, press enter and the results are right there in just one click - that's it.

A very simple and quick method to find the current local time in any city or country is via search engines - just type time in City in search box to instantly know the local time of any global location.

 

The Google's built-in calculator can also solve units of measure and conversions, and physical constants.

 

It also has powerful spell checker.It's able to suggest common spellings for proper nouns (names and places) that might not appear in a standard spell check program or dictionary.

Microsoft Windows OS Will Collapse By 2011. Gartner Analysts Predicts.

In a sensational report by Gartner analysts claim that Microsoft Windows Operating system is collapsing. Micheal Silver and Neil McDonalads, the Gartner analysts in a presentation at Las Vegas said that Microsoft should make radical changes to Windows otherwise it is at risk of loosing the market.

Microsoft has not responded to the market,is overburdened by nearly two decades of legacy code and decisions, and faces serious competition on a whole host of fronts that will make Windows moot unless the software developers acts.

Today 70 to 80 percent of corporate applications requires Microsoft Windows to run. But by 2011, Gartner analysts expecting that majority of these application will be OS-agnostic, such as Web application.

Read more at PC World and ComputerWorld

Could Not Load Type 'xxxxxxx.xxx.UI.Admin.Test' - ASP.NET 2.0 Error and Solutions

When an .aspx page of ASP.NET 2.0 Web Application is viewed, at times we get the error "Could not load type xxxx'. The sample error message displayed is as follows

---

Parser Error

Description: An error occurred during the parsing of a resource required to service this request. Please review the following specific parse error details and modify your source file appropriately.

Parser Error Message: Could not load type 'xxxxxxx.Web.UI.Admin.Test'.

Source Error:

Line 1: <%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="Test.aspx.cs" Inherits="xxx.Web.UI.Admin.Test" %> Line 2: Line 3: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/ DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

Source File: /Test.aspx    Line: 1

---

There are several reasons why we get the error. We will present you the major reasons why we get the error and also how to correct them

Reason 1: Invalid Build Output Directory

If the build output folder of the web application  is set to any folder other than Bin\, you would get this error. For example pointing the build output folder to ..\CommonBin\ or C:\Bin is not a valid configuration and this invalid configuration causes the Could not load type error.

To solve the error always point your output folder of the web application project to \bin

Reason 2: Referring to Code Behind Modules Without Building The Application

If you refer to any code behind module in .aspx pages or Global.asax page and the web application has'nt been built then you get this error.

To solve the error, build the web application using Build option(Ctrl+Shift+B) available  in Visual Studio.NET development environment or use command line compilers like CSC.

Refer to Microsoft support page for elaborated information

Reason 3: Incorrect asp.net version configuration in IIS

Incorrect asp.net version configuration in IIS server also causes this error. For example, if you are using Visual Studio 2005 with an  IIS configured with ASP.NET v1.1 is an invalid configuration.

In order to solve the problem follow these simple steps

1. Go to Start Menu, click on Run (alternatively use Win Key + R )
2. Type INetMgr and press enter to open Internet Information Services Application
3. Expand the tree node displaying local computer name and navigate to Web Sites-->Default Web Site
4. Right click on Default Web Site node and select the popup menu option Properties

5. Navigate to ASP.NET tab in the properties page and set the version to 2.xxxx(for Visual Studio 2005) or 1.xxxx(for Visual Studio 2003)

Yahoo Partners with Google To Fight Against Microsoft

The corporate war between Yahoo and Microsoft is turning ugly day by day. We would think companies of this size, the size of Microsoft and Yahoo, never stop so low. But it is happening.

Microsoft offered a bid to acquire Yahoo couple of months ago and Yahoo rejected it stating bidding price is very less.  Microsoft continued to pursue Yahoo bid by threatening to overturn Yahoo's board of directors with the help of share holders.

In reply to Microsoft's Threat  Yahoo joined hands with Google by signing an agreement to run Google Ads on Yahoo search pages. Yes what you read is absolutely right. Yahoo is going to test run displaying Google Ads instead of their own ads!.

Yahoo!’s board of directors is exploring strategic alternatives to maximize stockholder value, including exploration of potential commercial business arrangements.

Microsoft has respondedto Yahoo's partnership with Google

Any definitive agreement between Yahoo! and Google would consolidate over 90% of the search advertising market in Google’s hands. This would make the market far less competitive, in sharp contrast to our own proposal to acquire Yahoo! We will assess closely all of our options. Our proposal remains the only alternative put forward that offers Yahoo! shareholders full and fair value for their shares, gives every shareholder a vote on the future of the company, and enhances choice for content creators, advertisers, and consumers.

Via TC

Host Your Web Sites On Google Servers Using Google's App Engine

Google's App Engine is a new service that allows web application developers to outsource hosting and data storage for their applications by using Google's hardware and software infrastructure.

Google App Engine is not just another web application hosting service. It's a a new stack of fully featured and automatically scalable web application platform. It makes easy to build applications that grow from one user to million of users with out any infrastructure headaches. The App Engine platform is built with Python application servers, BigTable database servers and GFS services. It is very important to note that mighty Google Search Engine is powered by all these services.

The current release App Engine allows developers to use Python server side script language for web development. This is seen as the only limitation of the service for people who does not know to develop application using Python. Google has plans to add more languages in the near future.

The official video of announcing Google App Engine at Campfire One on April 7, 2008

Best Collection Of YouTube Tools To Amazingly Change The Way You Use YouTube

Youtube.com is undoubtedly the best online video web site and one of the most visited web site on the Internet. According to data at Alexa.com which ranks web sites based to their visitor traffic,  Youtube.com has now overtaken Google.com as the world's second most visited web site[source yahoo].

To make best use of the best Internet video sharing site, we are presenting you the following tools, websites, plugins and other useful resources.

RealPlayer is the first mainstream media player that lets users download and record videos from Youtube

Orbit Downloader - an indispensable free tool that lets us to download streaming web videos in a click.When you are watching a video on say Youtube,Orbit adds small button when you hover the mouse over the player - click that button to download the video or song to your hard drive.

Universal Uploader  - a Firefox browser plug in that allows you to upload and download images, videos and documents from Flickr, Picasa Albums, Youtube, Box.net and Facebook with a single user interface

Youtube RSS Feeds - an excellent collection of RSS feeds to watch videos in your favourite feed readers like Google Reader and FeedDemon

KissYouTube, KeepVid and Vixy - Websites which allow you to download Youtube videos without installing any software

Delutube - Allows you to watch deleted Youtube videos. How many times you encountered the message "This video is no longer available"? Delutube is all you to need to watch deleted Youtube videos

iDesktop.tv - A most interactive user interface to view  Youtube videos. It also allows users to download and save videos in most popular formats like Window Media, Mobile(3GP), iPOD and QuickTime

YouTube User scripts - A collection of 59 + user scripts to perform several tasks with YouTube

TubeStop - A Firefox plugin to block Ads and stop auto playing of Youtube videos

VideoFocus - A Greasemonky script that shows YouTube videos without any distractions like ads, comments and related videos

Scenemaker.net - This is an excellent service which allows  you to share just the scenes which you like from an online video. For example, you saw a lengthy video of Bill Gates Keynote and you only want to share a portion of it on your blog. Then Scenemaker is the right tool for you use by defining your favourite scene starting and ending locations in the lengthy video

Yahoo to Microsoft: We Are Ready to Sell Yahoo!, But Pay Us More.

Yahoo has responded to Microsoft's 3 week ultimatum and said they are ready to sell Yahoo! if more money is offered. Jerry Yang, the CEO  and Roy Bostok, the chirman of Yahoo! sent a letter to Steve Balmer which states

Dear Steve..... we will not allow you or anyone else to acquire the company for anything less than its full value.......We consider your threat to commence an unsolicited offer and proxy contest to displace our independent Board members to be counterproductive and inconsistent with your stated objective of a friendly transaction..........We regret to say that your letter mischaracterizes the nature of our discussions with you.

You must specify a non-autogenerated machine key to store passwords in the encrypted format. ASP.NET Error & Solution

When you develop and run an ASP.NET 2.0 application which uses user management controls like CreateUserWizard, Login, Forgot Password and etc, you would be greeted with an error message

You must specify a non-autogenerated machine key to store passwords in the encrypted format. Either specify a different passwordFormat, or change the machineKey configuration to use a non-autogenerated decryption key.

This error message is displayed if you choose to store encrypted passwords with the  membership providers and there is no machine key available in web.config file.

How To fix this error

• Use machine generator service  to generate a new machine key(ASP.NET 2.0 and 1.1 versions are supported)
• Copy appropriate machine key (either ASP.NET 2.0 or 1.0 version) to clipboard
• Paste the copied machine key in web.config file of your web site or web project inside the section <system.web>
• That's all. Now you can run the web application with out this error.

Nokia PC Suite Comes Out Of Beta

Nokia N Series PC Suite has came out of beta after 7 months of rigorous testing. The software is available to download from Nokia N Series support site.

[end of post]

Google's Orkut Is Powered By Microsoft .NET Technology!!

Do you know that Google's social networking web site Orkut.com is powered by Microsoft technology? We just learnt that Orkut is powered by its rival company's ASP.NET technology. All the page URLs of Orkut ends with the extension .aspx, which is file extension of Microsoft ASP.NET web pages.

Here are the few web page URLs of Orkut

• Home page: http://www.orkut.com/Home.aspx
• Edit profile: http://www.orkut.com/EditSummary.aspx
• Scrapbook: http://www.orkut.com/Scrapbook.aspx

Orkut was developed independently by Orkut Büyükkökten, a Turkish software engineer working at Google. It's surprising to see that Google employees are fond of Microsoft Technologies.

Google Docs Goes Offline - Allows You To Edit Documents Without Internet Connection

Google announced that in the coming weeks they would start rolling the offline editing capabilities to their popular web office suite Google Docs.

The offline editing support is powered by Google Gears API, which allows users to working with web application even though they are not connected to Internet.

For now, the offline access is limited to support only editing of documents and creation of new documents is not permitted. Also this support is available only for the word processor application but not to the presentation and spreadsheet applications.

Here is a video posted by Google Docs team explaining the new offline editing feature

Hilarious April Fool's Day Spoofs From Google Empire

Google has the rich tradition of perpetrating April Fool's day spoofs. All most all the branches of Google Empire has done their part today by announcing April Fool's day spoofs. Here are the few interesting picks

Virgle(Virgin Atlantic + Google)  - Colonize Mars

Google in partnership with Virgin Group announced a project called Virgle, to establish colonies in Mars. Project Virgle says

Starting in 2014, Virgin founder Richard Branson and Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin will be leading hundreds of users on one of the grandest adventures in human history: Project Virgle, the first permanent human colony on Mars.

Here is the official Google video made by Larry and Sergey about Virgle

 

 AdSense For Conversations

Adsense blog announced new ad system which allows displaying ads relevant to topic which people are discussing.

AdSense for conversations is a new type of monetization solution that "puts the 'context' in contextual advertising". Now, in just a few simple steps, you can begin displaying ads that are relevant to the topics you're discussing -- in an unobtrusive screen above your head.

gDay - Search Tomorrow's Internet. by Google Australia

Ever wonder Google is going to index content of web which is not yet created? gDay from Google Australia is all about indexing the content which is not yet available on the web.

GMail Custom Time - Send Mails In  Past

Never be late again. Always send mails on time. The new GMail Custom Time feature allows you to set sent time of a mail to the past.

Just click "Set custom time" from the Compose view. Any email you send to the past appears in the proper chronological order in your recipient's inbox. You can opt for it to show up read or unread by selecting the appropriate option.

Google Calendar- Wake Up Timer To Pour Water If You Don't Wake Up

Do you have trouble waking up from bed on time every day morning? Install the new Wake Up Kit of Google Calendar which drags you out of bed and  pours water if you don't wake up on time

The "wake up" notification uses several progressively more annoying alerts to wake you up. First it will send an SMS message to your phone. If that fails, more coercive means will be used. The kit includes an industrial-sized bucket and is designed to be connected to your water main for automatic filling. In addition, a bed-flipping device is included for forceful removal from your sleeping quarters

Google Docs - Create You Paper Airplane With Just a Click

When a new document is created, Google Docs added an option called New airplane to File menu. When the  option New airplane  is selected it opens a Google branded paper airplane.

Orkut - delicious and low fat Yogut

The logo and name of Orkut is changed to Yogurt