Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Multiple user management in Chrome browser








Managing multiple users on Chrome










Want to share a computer with your family or friends on a regular
basis? Do you want to keep your bookmarks, themes, and settings separate
from everyone else’s? You can add new users to Chrome to let everyone
have their own personalized copies of Chrome on the same computer.







     Add a new user






  1. Click the wrench icon wrench icon on the browser toolbar.

  2. Select Options (Preferences on Mac and Linux).

  3. Click Personal Stuff.

  4. In the “Users” section, click Add new user.


  5. A new window for the user appears, with a special icon for the user in the top corner. Here, you can sign in to Chrome with
    a Google Account to associate the account with the user. Once signed
    in, all the bookmarks, apps, extensions, theme, and browser settings for
    the user will be synced to the account. 


    If you prefer, you can also choose to skip this step and not sign in.
    Settings for the user will be saved only on your computer instead.


    ( Multiple users using Chrome is intended to provide a
    quick and simple way to set up personalized copies of Chrome for people
    who are already sharing Chrome on the same computer. It isn’t
    intended to secure your data against other people using your computer.
    To truly protect your data from being seen by others, please use the
    built-in user accounts in your operating system of choice. )












    Switch to another user 





    Click the icon on the top corner of the window and select the user you want to switch to.






    Let us see about editing an user:


    If you have multiple users associated with Chrome, you can change the label and icon associated with a particular user.


    (These settings are not available if you only have one user associated with the browser. You can only edit the current user.)





    1. Click the icon in the top corner of your window and select the user you want to edit.

    2. A window for the user you've selected will appear. In that window, click the wrench icon wrench icon on the browser toolbar.

    3. Select Options (Preferences on Mac and Linux).

    4. Click Personal Stuff.

    5. In the “Users” section, select the user you'd like to edit.

    6. Click Edit.

    7. In the “Edit user” dialog that appears, you can choose a new name and icon for your user.

    8. Click OK to save your changes.






    How to delete an user:


    1. Click the wrench icon wrench icon on the browser toolbar.

    2. Select Options (Mac & Linux: Preferences).

    3. Click Personal Stuff.

    4. In the “Users” section, select the user that you want to delete.

    5. Click Delete. Alternatively, you can click the X icon to the right of the user.

    6. In the confirmation dialog that appears, click Delete.


















Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Plastic Bottles replaces traditional bricks to construct House





SABON YELWA, Nigeria — The idea undoubtedly seemed strange at first:
take the plastic water bottles that litter Nigeria's roads, canals and
gutters and allow people to live inside them.


Not literally, but almost.


What
a group of activists did was come up with a plan to build a house using
those bottles, providing what they say is an environmentally smart
strategy of chipping away at a housing shortage in Africa's most
populous nation.


With the prototype near the northern Nigerian
city of Kaduna now well underway, the group wants to extend its efforts
and build more, aiming to unleash what they say is some long bottled-up
potential.


Unconvinced? Supporters say those yet to see the
structure on the outskirts of the village of Sabon Yelwa can throw
stones if they want to. This house is being built to last.




"This
is the first house in Africa built from bottles, which could go a long
way in solving Nigeria's huge housing need and cleaning the badly
polluted environment," project initiator Christopher Vassiliu said
during a tour of the building.


It is in many ways a marvel to look
at. The project was initiated by the Kaduna-based NGO Development
Association for Renewable Energies (DARE), with help from foreign
experts from Africa Community Trust, a London-based NGO.




Sitting
on 58-square metres (624-square feet), the two-bedroom bungalow looks
like an ordinary home, but it differs in many ways. When completed, the
house whose construction started in June will be used to train masons in
building such structures.


It is made from capped, sand-filled plastic bottles, each weighing three kilogrammes, or nearly two pounds.


The
bottles are stacked into layers and bonded together by mud and cement,
with an intricate network of strings holding each bottle by its neck,
providing extra support to the structure.


Bottle caps of various
colours protrude from the cement-plastered walls, giving them a unique
look. Those behind the project claim the sand-filled bottles are
stronger than ordinary cinder blocks.




"The structure has the added
advantage of being fire proof, bullet proof and earthquake resistant,
with the interior maintaining a constant temperature of 18 degrees C (64
degrees F) which is good for tropical climate," Yahaya Ahmad, the
project coordinator said.


With the right adjustments to the
supporting pillars the building can be as high as three stories, but can
go no higher due to the weight of the sand-filled bottles, Ahmad said.


Situated
amidst an expansive irrigation farm, the building consists of a
rotunda-shaped living room which connects to the interior via a short
corridor.




Two rooms stand opposite with a bathroom and a toilet between them. A side door leads to an open courtyard and the kitchen.


The
house is also designed to produce zero carbon emissions as it will be
wholly powered by solar panels and methane gas from recycled human and
animal waste.


"Nigeria has a serious waste and energy problem, and
this project is one small step towards making positive changes," said
Katrin Macmillan, a British environmental activist involved in the
project.


"Plastic bottles take hundreds of years to bio-degrade in landfills."




Construction,
which has reached 70 percent completion, is estimated to require 14,000
bottles. Huge piles of empty plastic bottles litter the site from
donations from embassies, hotels and restaurants.Environmental experts say Nigeria, a country of some 160 million, throws out about three million plastic bottles daily.


The
country is also grappling with a deficit of 16 million housing units
that requires a staggering 45 trillion naira ($300 billion) to meet,
according to Nigeria's Federal Mortgage Bank.




Plastic houses are
cheap to construct as it costs a quarter of the money required to build a
conventional house, said Vassiliu, a Greek national who has been
working in Nigeria as a water drilling engineer for 30 years.


The project is to cost two million naira ($12,700), Vassiliu said.


A
second plastic bottle project is due to commence in January at a
primary school in need of more classrooms in the town of Suleja near
Nigeria's capital Abuja.


"The project would take 200,000 bottles out of landfills into education", said Macmillan.




Photos and News


By Aminu Abubakar (AFP) and Internet

Monday, August 15, 2011

Setback for Facebook : Randi Zuckerberg leaves Facebook, starts her own Social media







Randi Zuckerberg, the sister of Mark Zuckerberg, leaves Facebook in order to start her own company.  After serving six years as director of marketing, the businesswoman says that she wants to get involved in a project of her own, that will still involve Facebook.




Randi Zuckerberg was named director of marketing for Facebook in 2005. Since then, she has been deeply involved in making the most popular social network what it is now. She has helped breaking the barriers that existed between the classic mass media and the internet media. She has helped develop Facebook as a mean of the mass media by itself. Now, six years after the first steps of this incredible journey, Facebook releases an official statement on Zuckerberg’s departure.  “Randi has decided to leave Facebook to start her own company. We are all grateful for her important service”, the statement said to CNNMoney on Wednesday.




Mark Zuckerberg and Randi Zuckerberg


Randi , who is only 29 years old, says that her goal “is to launch my own innovative programming and work with media companies to develop their programming in new, and more social ways.” After spending years pouring her “heart and soul into innovating and pushing the media industry forward by introducing new concepts around live, social, participatory viewing that the media industry has since adopted”, Zuckerberg’s sister is going to start her own company, named “RtoZ Media”. But she is not going to leave the social network giant. Her new project will involve Facebook as well. “Facebook will clearly be a central element in all my projects”, the businesswoman said. She added that her plan is to demonstrate that “ANYONE” is able to do “groundbreaking media work in the platform.”


Prior to being Facebook’s marketing director, Randi Zuckerberg worked as a panelist on Forbes on Fox, a business analysis program, broadcasted on the Fox News channel.


Saturday, July 2, 2011

Free Android App to send Free SMS







I have created an free Android application sms440.in (Earlier sms7.in) to send free SMS across India.




Supports Indian languages. 





Can send upto 440 characters in a single message.





Maximum 50 SMS Per day.



Useful in roaming.













Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Google's new network sharing project : Google+





 Redesigned network sharing site from Google.




Sharing is a huge part of the web, a part that we think could be a lot simpler. That's why Google've been working on adding a few new things: To make connecting with people on the web more like connecting with them in the real world.






We hope that you like what Google've cooked up so far. And stay tuned, because there's more to come.















Circles







You share different things with different people. But sharing the right things with the right people shouldn't be a hassle. Circles makes it easy to put your friends from Saturday night in one circle, your parents in another and your boss in a circle all on his own – just like in real life. 



















Sparks





Remember when your Grandpa used to cut articles out of the paper and send them to you? That was nice. That's kind of what Sparks does: It looks for videos and articles that it thinks you'll like, so that when you're free there's always something to watch, read and share. Grandpa would approve. 
















Hangouts







 


Bumping into friends while you're out and about is one of the best parts of going out and about. With Hangouts, the unplanned meet-up comes to the web for the first time. Let your mates know that you're hanging out and see who drops by for a face-to-face-to-face chat. Until we perfect teleportation, it's the next best thing. 













Mobile




Instant Upload 





Taking photos is fun. Sharing photos is fun. Getting photos off your phone and on to the web is pretty much the opposite of fun. That's why Google have created Instant Upload: So that from now on, your photos upload themselves. You don't even have to say 'cheese'.






Huddle









Texting is great, but not when you're trying to get six different people to decide on a movie. Huddle takes care of it by turning all those different conversations into one simple group chat, so that everyone gets on the same page long before thumbs get sore.










Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Baby falls from 8th floor, gets stucked behind AC Unit in 7th floor, rescued





A child was saved from death after falling from an eighth-floor window and becoming jammed between an air conditioning unit and the wall. A passerby heard the toddler’s screams and looked up to see his legs dangling from behind the air conditioning unit on a building in Beijing, China.




The witness said: “I heard screaming and looked up to see a kid stuck behind an air conditioner while his legs were dangling in the air.” Neighbours called for police but then realised that the boy was starting to slip.

"Several men appeared at the balcony on the 7th floor. One of them climbed over and caught the boy's wrist,” said an onlooker.




The three-year-old was saved after several attempts by two Grocery shop workers named 


Wang and Zhou, who risked their lives leaning off a balcony.

Google Translate now supports 5 Indian languages: Tamil Telugu Kannada Bengali Gujarati

       Beginning today, we can explore the linguistic diversity of the Indian sub-continent with Google Translate, which now supports five new experimental alpha languages: Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Tamil and Telugu. In India and Bangladesh alone, more than 500 million people speak these five languages. Since 2009, Google have launched a total of 11 alpha languages, bringing the current number of languages supported by Google Translate to 63.


Indic languages
differ from English in many ways, presenting several exciting challenges when developing their respective translation systems. Indian languages often use the Subject Object Verb (SOV) ordering to form sentences, unlike English, which uses Subject Verb Object (SVO) ordering. This difference in sentence structure makes it harder to produce fluent translations; the more words that need to be reordered, the more chance there is to make mistakes when moving them. Tamil, Telugu and Kannada are also highly agglutinative, meaning a single word often includes affixes that represent additional meaning, like tense or number. Fortunately, Google's research to improve Japanese (an SOV language) translation helped them with the word order challenge, while their work translating languages like German, Turkish and Russian provided insight into the agglutination problem.
You can expect translations for these new alpha languages to be less fluent and include many more untranslated words than some of the more mature languages—like Spanish or Chinese—which have much more of the web content that powers our statistical machine translation approach. Despite these challenges, Google release alpha languages when they believe that they help people better access the multilingual web. If you notice incorrect or missing translations for any of the languages, please correct them; Google enjoys learning from mistakes and your feedback helps them graduate new languages from alpha status. If you’re a translator, you’ll also be able to take advantage of their machine translated output when using the Google Translator Toolkit.



Since these languages each have their own unique scripts, we’ve enabled a transliterated input method for those of you without Indian language keyboards. For example, if you type in the word “nandri,” it will generate the Tamil word நன்à®±ி (see what it means). To see all these beautiful scripts in action, you’ll need to install fonts* for each language.



I hope that the launch of these new alpha languages will help you better understand the Indic web and encourage the publication of new content in Indic languages, taking  five alpha steps closer to a web without language barriers.




*Download the fonts for each language:
Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Gujarati and Kannada.



Now we can translate to 5 Indian languages using Google Translate: Tamil Telugu Kannada Bengali Gujarati




       Beginning today, we can explore the linguistic diversity of the Indian sub-continent with Google Translate, which now supports five new experimental alpha languages: Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Tamil and Telugu. In India and Bangladesh alone, more than 500 million people speak these five languages. Since 2009, Google have launched a total of 11 alpha languages, bringing the current number of languages supported by Google Translate to 63.




Indic languages
differ from English in many ways, presenting several exciting challenges when developing their respective translation systems. Indian languages often use the Subject Object Verb (SOV) ordering to form sentences, unlike English, which uses Subject Verb Object (SVO) ordering. This difference in sentence structure makes it harder to produce fluent translations; the more words that need to be reordered, the more chance there is to make mistakes when moving them. Tamil, Telugu and Kannada are also highly agglutinative, meaning a single word often includes affixes that represent additional meaning, like tense or number. Fortunately, Google's research to improve Japanese (an SOV language) translation helped them with the word order challenge, while their work translating languages like German, Turkish and Russian provided insight into the agglutination problem.




You can expect translations for these new alpha languages to be less fluent and include many more untranslated words than some of the more mature languages—like Spanish or Chinese—which have much more of the web content that powers our statistical machine translation approach. Despite these challenges, Google release alpha languages when they believe that they help people better access the multilingual web. If you notice incorrect or missing translations for any of the languages, please correct them; Google enjoys learning from mistakes and your feedback helps them graduate new languages from alpha status. If you’re a translator, you’ll also be able to take advantage of their machine translated output when using the Google Translator Toolkit.




Since these languages each have their own unique scripts, we’ve enabled a transliterated input method for those of you without Indian language keyboards. For example, if you type in the word “nandri,” it will generate the Tamil word நன்à®±ி (see what it means). To see all these beautiful scripts in action, you’ll need to install fonts* for each language.



I hope that the launch of these new alpha languages will help you better understand the Indic web and encourage the publication of new content in Indic languages, taking  five alpha steps closer to a web without language barriers.




*Download the fonts for each language:
Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Gujarati and Kannada.



Saturday, February 12, 2011

Google Wedding Planner : A Wedding Gift from Google to betrothed couples


For many, your wedding day is one of the biggest, most momentous days of your life.  The perfect dress, the right tuxedo, the proper shade of blue, the three-tier cake with chocolate fondant, and all of your closest family and friends—these are just a few of the many things you might think about for your special day. Although there’s much to consider and a lot of work to do, the payoff is great: it’s one of the happiest days of your life.

To help you plan this important day Google’ve created wedding-specific templates in Google Sites, Google Docs and Picnik, and gathered tips and tricks for using these and other Google products at google.com/weddings. From wedding websites to save-the-date cards, these tools simplify wedding planning, letting you focus your time on the fun things—like tasting cakes!








Google teamed up with renowned wedding planner Michelle Rago, who provided her insight and creativity to guide the designs you’ll find on this new site. Michelle also shared her experience to provide tips and advice to keep your guests comfortable and you sane.







Google’ also hosting a wedding sweepstakes, so if you’re getting married in the next year you can enter for a chance to win $25,000 towards your dream wedding(see Official Rules). Plus, Michelle Rago and her team will advise the winning couple on location, flowers, food and other design elements to create a day that is uniquely their own.




Visit google.com/weddings to start planning, or share the site with your favorite betrothed couple and help them on their way to wedded bliss.