I recently re-installed Windows XP. I had a long list of bookmarks and history which I never erased for sake of easiness. Before going to format my partition, I was worried enough to backup my Firefox settings so that I could restore them upon fresh installation. Fortunately I came across a tool called
MozBackup which makes your life happier. I made a copy of my Firefox profile which is stored in SQLite Database shipped with Firefox > 2 and recovered it back in new firefox copy. It saved my time to create all those bookmarks again and storing password etc. Use this utility as it's quite handy.
I just found a helpful utility to retrieve the existing CD key of the windows product already installed on a pc.IT could be helpful if you dont have cd key stored and you need it again. Download it from here:
http://www.magicaljellybean.com/keyfinder/
You will be aware of terms like Blind Love or Blind Faith but did you ever hear thing like
Blind Search? Yes there it is and it's a utility made by a
Microsoft Employee which let you pick the best search result based on your choice. It's interesting fun game. I am not so familiar with Microsoft's Bing but surprisingly few results return from query were better than results by Google. Not sure it's due to usability (Most of the Bing results appear in the middle column) or something else. Anyway it's quite a kewl tool.
As OPERA
say itself. Further from
The Register.
Google provides another feature to customize your search results in Tabular form. Google Square does it. For instance the square of Larry Page or of Bill gates. For details visit:
Google now has come up with a
P2P type tool which provides
online collaboration and spelling suggestion tool by using
NLP techniques. I don't know how it's gonna make difference in the presence of facebook and LinkedIn but it does sound interesting. Read further about it on
Wave's blog.
Google is now going to
support RDFa and microformat to represent structured data. You can learn further about their implementation
here.
Amazing effort which makes things a lot easier
via AJAXIAN.
I read in papers that PTCL has doubled the speed for broadband users. Now you can have a 2MB line @Rs.2000. Currently I am paying Rs.2000 for 1MB line. It sounds interesting. Naturally I tried to verify but current Speed test which shows the following result:
Once spoken can't be taken back. This is so true but not in Emailing world anymore. Gmail Labs has come up with a feature which allows you to undo your mail. It's pretty useful feature and could you save your from embarrassment.Thanks Salman for pointing it out. You may enable this feature from Labs tab in Settings option. Different stages of this feature are given below.
Google has come up with an interesting idea called Tip Jar or I named it as Google Totkay,where users will share different tips and tricks online and other will be able to rate them based on their effectiveness. It seems like famous Mrs.Tariq(the sister of Anwar Maqsood) gets digital. :-)
One user gave a very interesting and somewhat realistic tip about shopping in a grocery store.
"Go to the grocery store with your belly full. You won't buy too many things because you just ain't hungry."
So far I have not found similar tip to keep wives away from shopping centers for long time. Maybe some smart husband submit some tips and tricks in future. *keeps fingers crossed* :-)
Google toolbar v6.0 for IE has come up with an interesting feature which can help you to search and launch installed application on your PC. QSB(Quick Search Box) will not only search your queries on web but on your computer too. Now you don't need to go to Start Menu to launch an applicaiton. Just search it within QSB and launch it. Pretty Cool. As you can see below, I searched DW on my system.
Gmail recently introduced a flash based file uploader module for attachments. It was working fine at office but not at home and it keeps asking me to install flash player. I already have flash installed. Even I installed the latest version. What's wrong Google!!!!!!!!!!! things are not going in favor of Google.
Today around 2.30PM I was unable to get into my Gmail account. I suspected an ISP problem but there was some other issue. Thousands of others users also suffered like me. More details given here.
Yes Google is run by Humans and humns do mistakes.