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Blogger FTP shutting down
I write on my blog:Without getting into criticism myself, I am trying to analyze the repercussions on sites using this service. For more details on who's impactedand blogger team's efforts to ease the load, go here
Impacted Websites i.e. those using the FTP publishing feature like www.arbitmba.com
- Move their Site to Blogger's hosting via the custom domain functionality or
- Start using a different blog management software like Wordpress.org
In both cases you will have to perform a migration activity, but as far I have studied, neither migration is going be any more or any less painful than the other. In both cases some functionalities will have to be recoded.
Internet lingo in Hindi
Twitter for Consumer Businesses
A very good presentation on how some companies are using Twitter - a definitive guide to Enterprise2.0 aspect of Twitter.Drag-n-Drop attachments into GMail
Most of us still prefer Outlook to the GMail web interface - in fact some people still use outlook to check their GMail accounts.
While there are several reasons such as availability of backup to using Outlook; one of the reasons is also usability features of Outlook like ability to Drag-and-Drop attachments into the compose window. Well, the good news is GMail also offers this service now.
To use this, go to Settings->General Tab, scroll down to the end of the page and locate "Attachments". Select the option "Basic attachment features - Attach one file at a time and don't show progress bars"
Now whenever you drop a file on the "Choose File" button on the Compose window, it gets attached automatically in GMail.
Google to the power of 4
http://GoogleGoogleGoogleGoogle.com Follow the link and you can open four Google searches in a single window. So can search for four criteria at a single time.
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Blogger FTP shutting down
Blogger / Google have announced that they will be deprecating Blogger FTP support from March 3 onwards. In an email to all FTP publishers they said:Last May, we discussed a number of challenges facing[1]Blogger users who relied on FTP to publish their blogs.FTP remains a significant drain on our ability to improveBlogger: only .5% of active blogs are published viaFTP — yet the percentage of our engineering resources devoted to supporting FTP vastly exceeds that. On top of this, critical infrastructure that our FTP support relies on at Google will soon become unavailable, which would require that we completely rewrite the code that handles our FTP processing.
Three years ago we launched Custom Domains[2] to give users the simplicity of Blogger, the scalability of Google hosting, and the flexibility of hosting your blog at your own URL. Last year's post discussed the advantages of custom domains over FTP[3] and addressed a number of reasons users have continued to use FTP publishing.For that reason, we are announcing today that we will no longer support FTP publishing in Bloggerafter March 26, 2010. We realize that this will not necessarily be welcome news for some users, and we are committed to making the transition as seamless as possible. To that end:
- We are building a migration tool that will walk users through a migration from their current URL to a Blogger-managed URL (either a Custom Domain or a Blogspot URL) that will be available to all users the week of February 22. This tool will handle redirecting traffic from the old URL to the new URL, and will handle the vast majority of situations.
- We will be providing a dedicated blog[5] and help documentation
- Blogger team members will also be available to answer questions on the forum, comments on the blog, and in a few scheduled conference calls once the tool is released.
We have a number of big releases planned in 2010. While we recognize that this decision will frustrate some users, we look forward to showing you the many great things on the way.
Google Apps not to support IE6 and older browsers
We plan to begin phasing out support of these older browsers on the Google Docs suite and the Google Sites editor on March 1, 2010. After that point, certain functionality within these applications may have higher latency and may not work correctly in these older browsers. Later in 2010, we will start to phase out support for these browsers for Google Mail and Google Calendar.
Google Apps will continue to support Internet Explorer 7.0 and above, Firefox 3.0 and above, Google Chrome 4.0 and above, and Safari 3.0 and above.
Starting this week, users on these older browsers will see a message in Google Docs and the Google Sites editor explaining this change and asking them to upgrade their browser. We will also alert you again closer to March 1 to remind you of this change.
In 2009, the Google Apps team delivered more than 100 improvements to enhance your product experience. We are aiming to beat that in 2010 and continue to deliver the best and most innovative collaboration products for businesses.
Google Inc.
Mountain View, CA 94043
No-SQL Databases - thanks to rise of Javascript
Server-side Javascript also dovetails nicely the new breed of NOSQL databases. Being web-native, these databases tend to communicate in HTTP, and in some cases JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is the message format. Javascript libraries already include support for exactly that kind of interaction and programmers are familiar with them. Some of these NOSQL systems go beyond data persistence and into the zone of full-fledged Javascript application environments.HyperOffice - SharePoint / MS Office like web tool
Source: http://www.readwriteweb.com/enterprise/2009/12/why-do-small-business-services.php
Collaboration services targeted for the small business market often seem more like software suites than web-based services with deep linking capabilities and tag-based environments. The portal mindset seems to have such a hold on the small business market.
HyperOffice feels monolithic - it provides the capability to create personal and group environments but extensions to the web are limited. In some respects this may be just the right approach. HyperOffice users may not want the capability to build data mashups and tie into services like Twitter.
The HyperOffice UI resembles a Microsoft Office environment. The main page includes icons such as desktop, mail and calendar.
The features are basic but provide a clear functionality for the user. HyperOffice has personal and group settings. Groups may share calendar items, collaborate on documents and other tasks. Additional features include tasks, notes, a wiki and the ability to search Google and Yahoo! from within the application.
Everything - Fastest Search Engine
http://www.voidtools.com
How long will it take to index my files?
"Everything" only uses file and folder names and generally takes a few seconds to build it's database.
A fresh install of Windows XP SP2 (about 20,000 files) will take about 1 second to index.
1,000,000 files will take about 1 minute.
How To Browse Only the Unread Messages
Tip from: http://www.dailyblogtips.com/gmail-tip-how-to-browse-only-the-unread-messages/If you have tons of unread messages, or as in my case if there are some messages which you marked as unread to be read later and now those messages are buried deep under pages and pages of "read" messages, you would have to run through all the previous pages in order to find those unread messages.
There's a better way to do this:
Search for "label:unread" on the Gmail search box, this will filter only the unread messages.
You can also use "label:unread label:MY_LABEL" in the search box to search through only unread messages in MY_LABEL
Google Real-Time Search Live Now (Video, Links)
Google Real-Time Search Live Now (from ReadWriteWeb)This is what I saw in the morning and pointed out in my previous post ...
Google.com experiments Search results layout
for one particular site have an inbuilt scrollbar with the results
scrolling continuously for that site.
Innovative way of presenting 'detailed results' for one site that
satisfies the search terms requirement more 'deeply' than others.
Gboard, a keyboard just for Gmail users
Gboard, a keyboard just for Gmail usersThe Gboard has 19 buttons and each corresponds with a task in Gmail. From the board, you can search, go to results, go to starred mail, compose a message, reply, reply to all, forward a message, star and archive messages, delete and mark messages as spam, flip through your messages (and within message threads themselves), select messages and go right to the inbox.
