TECH TOLA

Did you know ? You can actually create tables in Microsoft Word and Outlook without using the mouse and menus.

Though many blog posts have been written already about this, I wasn't aware until today morning, when I checked the mail sent by Sheril to CrusaderZ group with the Subject Line - "Technical Tip"

Just try this "+=====+==========+========+"
without the double quotes in Word or Outlook.

It is very very handy, gives you control over the column sizes exactly and faster than creating tables the traditional way.

To add more rows just use the TAB key at the last column.

Adobe Photoshop gets a new webware avatar. Yes, adding to the suite of web applications like Zoho, Google Docs, Windows Office Live and others, now Adobe has launched a web version of their Photoshop completely made in Flash.

Though its not the complete version of Photoshop, its definitely worth a try and looks very sleek with its jazzy interface.

You can rotate, tweak, twirl the photos. Also has some fun tools to deform your face in funny ways.
Whats more ? They give 2GB of online storage for your photos absolutely FREE !

Check out the Adobe Photoshop Express

Its actually a online animated GIF generator. Another site to be mentioned in Techtola's Image Generators. They had some really tempting options, that made me to download them. Check out





Read the full post for the link

Check out all the options at Red Dodo

Computer World today had a very interesting news about concept laptops of the future. Some technology designers designed these great looking futuristic laptops.

Man touch screen here again !!!

Check out the article at Computer World

How about getting email ids like these

ashwin@drunkfunk.in
prajish@koolmail.in
raj@ilovebasketball.in
rohit@clickass.in
rakesh@mogambokhushhua.in
chris@clubsachin.com

Thats not the only cool names available, there are nearly 150 cool domain names like these in which you can get your Email-IDs, all provided by hotmail.com.

Under who I like section I found that there is clubasin.in, clubsurya.in, clubvikram.in. But where is Vijay and Ajith, even there is no Mohan Lal, Mamooty or Chiranjeevi while there is Kamal and Rajni.

Check the options below in which you can get your email Id.

Where I Live	Who I Like
Select Any bangalorerocks.in chennairocks.in delhirocks.com punerocks.in punerocks.com mumbairocks.in mumbaimail.in kolkatarocks.in iliveinmalabarhill.in iliveingoa.com hyderabadrocks.in goarocks.in goarocks.com goaisbliss.com goagoagoa.com emailmumbai.com delhirocks.in metroonmove.in delhi4u.in delhiden.mobi delhifevers.in unwinddelhi.in delhihaatrocks.in salaamdelhi.in dillidilwaloki.co.in dillimanch.co.in saddidillibindas.mobi	Select Any clubaamir.com clubabhishek.com clubabhishek.in clubaishwarya.com clubaishwarya.in clubamitabh.com clubamitabh.in clubasin.com clubasin.in clubdhoni.com clubdhoni.in clubdravid.com clubdravid.in clubhrithik.com clubhrithik.in clubjyothika.com clubjyothika.in clubkajol.com clubkajol.in clubkamal.com clubkamal.in clubkareena.com clubkareena.in clubpreity.com clubpreity.in clubrajni.com clubrajni.in clubrani.com clubrani.in clubsachin.com clubsachin.in clubsehwag.com clubsehwag.in clubsimran.com clubsimran.in clubsrk.com clubsrk.in clubsurya.com clubsurya.in clubsushmita.com clubsushmita.in clubvikram.com clubvikram.in
Who I am	What I Like
Selectiamcrazy.in iamgood.in iamhot.in iammarried.in iamsingle.in iamsizzling.com iamsizzling.in iamcold.in iambald.in iambad.in Iamgod.in martinian.in boscoite.com globallyunique.in dangerouslyhigh.in bungeejumper.in goballistic.in imjustadreamer.in slipperysadhu.in trancemusiclovers.in lover4life.co.in jinxed4ever.net partyanimals.co.in ndanuts.co.in ministryofsoundlovers.mobi Underpaid.co.in Overworked.co.in Bornleader.co.in Peoplesperson.co.in Workaholic.co.in Techgeek.co.in Gogetter.co.in Stuckinarut.co.in indianexec.co.in Roughplayer.co.in hitwithchicks.com hitwithchicks.in Squashchamp.co.in indiankhiladi.co.in Guitarguru.in F1freak.in coolaquarius.com coolaries.com coolcapricorn.com coollibra.com coolmail.co.in coolpisces.com coolsagitarus.com coolscorpio.com cooltaurus.com coolvirgo.com crazysexycool.in dpsonline.in hitwiththechicks.com iamafreebird.com Symbirocks.com Symbi.in	Select Any iloveyoga.in ilovetennis.in ilovesoccer.in iloveshuttle.in iloveshuttle.com ilovechess.in ilovefootball.in ilovegoafeni.com ilovegolf.in ilovehockey.in ilovekabbadi.com ilovekabbadi.in ilovecars.in ilovebikes.in ilovebhavans.in ilovebasketball.in ilovebadminton.in vadapaavrocks.in Footballfever.co.in stumped.co.in hittiewicket.co.in onetuppie.co.in squarecut.co.in chauka.co.in pitchcontrol.co.in rugbyrocks.in
I Don't Fit
Select Any apunkaid.com clickass.in coolmail.co.in samepinch.in samepinch.co.in koolmail.in koolmail.co.in charsaubees.com individuality.in itsaboutme.in itsmychoice.in iwanttobeme.in leavemealone.in mememe.in memyself.in mogambokhushhua.com thatswhoiam.in wassup.co.in freaknetwork.in dancefreak.in feelthebeat.in coldsweat.in berealistic.co.in ontheedge.co.in soupedup.in clingonbling.co.in jamnation.in drunkfunk.in flemgems.co.in crazyflamingo.co.in laughterclub.in hangoveradda.co.in gullidandagang.mobi Ruleatwork.co.in Breaktherules.co.in Pindropsilence.co.in medco.co.in hellstuck.co.in ringtring.co.in Neversaydie.co.in headsyatails.co.in mastblast.co.in bhangrarocks.in studentzindabad bhangrarocks.com gillidandagang.mobi

Excited huh ?? What are you waiting for visit www.coolhotmail.com

P.S.- While checking the page HTML source code to copy all the above links, I found many domains where commented and absolutely funny. E.g. iloveoldmonk.in in What I like !!!

Type chrome://browser/content/browser.xul in your firefox address bar.

You can create browser inside browser inside browser or even more levels. It is somewhat useful when you have lot of tabs open and need to maintain them as 2-3 groups of tabs when browsing.

Check the screen shot. Its not photoshop edited.
Source:- http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Building_an_Extension#Chrome_URIs (found it while trying to learn creating extensions)

While RAPGET is little known and is not fully reliable, I found link to another download manager which is recognized on the cyberspace, with awards from Softpedia as adware, spyware free, and has got noticed by mashable.com even.

Orbit Downloader can download even streaming content of various protocols and also files from Rapidshare. Its very fast, faster than most download managers, consumes very less CPU and memory. It can smoothly download videos from Youtube and it has a cool plugin called GRAB++ which can grab almost any content (flash movies, videos, streaming music) from any site.

All I can say is, Go get it !!

Link to Orbit Downloader

Russian Developers strike again. Here is a cool little app (just 200KB as it says on their site) which claims to be a download manager for files hosted on

• rapidshare.com
• rapidshare.de
• megaupload.com
• sendspace.com
• turboupload.com
• speedshare.org
• webfile.ru

and 68 other services !! They also claim to provide simultaneous multiple downloads, auto downloads etc. The best part is its absolutely free.

I am trying it now. Will soon update this post with my personal review.
Link to RAPGET

What is Webware? A Short Intro from the Webware Site.

"There's a shift underway in how people use computers and the Internet. Every day more utility is being delivered over the Web. Full applications can now be run in a browser, accessible from any computer. Software? It's no longer required. Software is becoming Webware."

Webware.com is a partner site of the world famous CNET group.

Webware Awards 2008 They choose the best internet applications purely based visitors votes. They have a wide range of categories which are listed below.

• Audio & Video
• Browsers & extensions
• Chat & Email
• Commerce
• Content & Publishing
• Developer Tools
• Digital Photography
• Mapping
• Media
• Mobile
• Networking
• Productivity & Business
• Search
• Security & Spyware
• Social Network & groups
• Storage
• Utilities & Drivers
• Web Design Tools
• Widgets and desktop enhancements
• Uncategorized

And here are my selections (Click to enlarge)


I personally recommend Zoho applications, it has a lot of better features compared to Google Docs, (read my previous comparision post) and definitely worth a try.

I quit Orkut and stopped watching videos a long time ago, so did not vote for that section.

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It can monitor and generate reports for problems regarding SSL Certificates, DNS Records, Server Overload, Network Problems. Keep reading to get the link to this useful site.

BasicState.com gives you all of this for free. Link to site

P.S. I wonder why they don't have a logo for their site, heading is just in plain text
Source:msnbc Check out for more MSNBC websites of the week

Guys @ Zoho have made it easy to view your excel files which reside anywhere on the web or even on your local computer.

When you want to make sharing an excel file easy, just upload it to any free file sharing site, I would recommend googlepages for easy upload.

Then make a link with the URL
http://zohosheet.com/view.do?url=(link to your Excel file)

Example
http://zohosheet.com/view.do?url=http://prasna991.googlepages.com/cool.xls

or Even this

Need to view a local file. No need to even sign up. Try this page.
Absolutely no need to install MS Excel.

If you are unaware of Zoho and Google Docs, let me Welcome you to the world of Online Office Applications. These are some of the super innovative Web 2.0 applications which serve as replacement for regular Microsoft Word, Excel, Power Point.

The best thing about these applications is that, they don't require you to install anything on your computer except your web browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox etc.) All you need is an internet connection, and your browser.

I decided to try out both of them and make a comparison. Before that let me summarize some of the common features that make these online applications more appealing to users.

• Easy PDF Generation. Converting and downloading to other formats. (e.g. Open office formats)
  
• Easy to E-Mail and Share with users on the web.
• Online Storage, so access from any where on the web.
• Easy publishing to Blog options.
• Allows you to upload existing standard formats like RTF, DOC, DOCX(Zoho Only), XLS, PPT and then edit them.

Google Docs Vs Zoho Writer

These are the online versions of Word Processors they have created. First I tried out

Google Docs and Spreadsheets

• UI is very simple and minimal.
• No Skins available.
  
• Okay for small editing.
• Docs Looks to be like a typical Rich Text Email editor.
• Still has table, special symbols, image insertion.
• Spreadsheets application is good with the options for formula, formatting and styles.
  
• Biggest advantage is the integration with Google Account.
• Still makes you miss Word & Excel.
  
• PDF and Zipped HTML generation is relatively much faster than Zoho.

Zoho Writer and Sheets

• UI looks appealing with lot of options, resembles your regular Word Processor a lot.
• Very intuitive UI for options, especially the Table tool, bordering etc.
• Has a variety of Skins to suit your mood.
• Has Adjustable Click-Drag Page Margin option, Page View and Page Setup.
• Very rarely makes you miss MS Word.
• Spreadsheets are also relatively much better than Google spreadsheets with a lot of options.
• No Zipped HTML File generation option. Relatively Slow PDF generation
• Has Latest DOCX Office 2007 format support.
• Allows you to customize toolbars (Now thats a real WOW !)
• Unlike Google Docs, Zoho apps allows you to edit files with Side Bar visible at the same time and I love that !! :)
• Relatively super fast DOC and DOCX format generation.
• You can use it offline too with Google Gears !!!
  

Talking about their Online Powerpoint replacements, I used the Zoho Show and Google Presentation tools, and found that Zoho show wins in that also. Zoho provides more cliparts, auto shapes, templates etc.

As final words, I would like to say it was amazing to see a not much familiar tool Zoho package beats the Tech Giant Google's tools with a vast difference. But still both the tools are yet marked as BETA and I hope Google adds more and more colors to their suite.

Link to Zoho, Google Docs