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May 22, 2007

Lighter side of life -III

Compliment

A walked past B towards me. When A was near B he said, “Yeh, u look good today” and B said (with a big smile) “Thank You”. A came near me and said in a hushed voice “I actually told you”. J Gave an embarrassed blushed smile back.

Email

A manager had written to his team “Yesterdays meeting went in the well”

Another one

"Please WET the file with me before sending it"

May 18, 2007

Welcome back...

There have been a lot going on at Google. I have recently got addicted to Google Reader and Google Calender, I will discuss about them in the coming sessions. Google is acquiring many online companies which offers free as well as paid services. This practice is going on for the past few weeks as a regular practice.

Google acquired Picasa more than a year ago, it started out as a simple Picture manager which had cool editing features and ability to send pictures to your email as an attachment. Now Google has extended its feature by adding web space of 200MB to it. The pictures can be uploaded from Picasa to picasaweb.com for easy access and addition of albums to your Website. I personally felt Flickr.com had better features compared to Picasaweb.com, but this is only when it comes to online presence. When we combine Picasa system client with Picasa Web it becomes one of the best picture editing and storage application available.


Google Docs, well that is what they call it. Google Docs includes Spreadsheets and Presentations (to be added shortly). This is another feature rich service provided by Google. You can save and edit a Spreadsheet, a Document and to be added shortly Presentation'. Imagine a place "online" where you can store your documents which can be edited and shared with other users with same (well! almost same) features you use in MS Office or Open Office Org. Google Docs support extensive support for various file formats (which covers almost all the popular ones). I have even used Google Docs to convert some of my ".ods" format files to ".doc" without no trouble. Although Spreadsheet cannot run Macros it still can help you manage a decent spreadsheet with few important functions and charts. I often use the Google Docs to edit and save the documents which I want to publish online or through Blogger (which can be done directly). Google Docs is a must use for Web dwellers.

Google Browser Sync:Google has been funding Firefox as part of improve open source community and providing free software application which has become a basic necessity while going online. Google Browser Sync is a Firefox extension (so it works only with Firefox browser) which I use almost everyday. This extension helps Firefox to sync basic settings of one Firefox browser with another one. By installing this extension in Ffirefox at my office and at home I ensure I don't miss any Bookmarks and other browser settings which I have configured at one place. It uses your Gmail ID to store information and settings of the browser. For example if I add a bookmark at my office and come home and open my Firefox, which is also configured to sync using my Gmail ID, I will find the bookmark already there for me to use. This is a cool stuff which I wanted to share with you.

This is it for current edition...coming next...we will see Google Analytics, Google Calendar, IGoogle, Google Notebook and some more.
Next edition will be the last of "Google Introduction", after this we will be digging deeper into each services.

Till then....enjoy the artful presence

May 05, 2007

Air show in chennai (சாரி, கொஞ்சம் லேட் ஆயிடுச்சு)

அடா அடா அடா. என்னவொரு விருந்து கண்களுக்கு. சென்னை வெய்யில் பற்றி நான் கூற வேண்டிய அவசியம் இல்லை. அந்த வெயிலையும் பொருட்படுத்தாது வந்த மக்களுக்கு என் முதல் சல்யூட்.

விஷயம் என்னவென்று தெரியாதவர்களுக்கு, Indian Air force - ன் எழுபத்தி ஐந்தாவது வருட நிரைவு விழா கொண்டாட்டம், கடந்த இருபத்தி இரண்டாம் தேதி சென்னையில் நடந்தது. IAF - ன் கொண்டாட்டம் தரையிலா இருக்கும், விண்ணில் தான்.

சாயங்காலம் 5 மணிக்கு, முதல் போர் விமானம், வணக்கம் செலுத்தும் வகையில் காற்றை கிழித்து கொண்டு பறந்தது. அடுத்தது ‘சூர்யகிரன்’ (கீழே உள்ளவை) என்னும் போர் விமானங்கள் விண்ணில் அணிவகுத்து வந்தன.



அவர்களின் சில அற்புதாமான விண் விளையாட்டுக்கள்.




அடுத்ததாக, ‘ஸாரங்’ என்னும் Helicoptors. (கீழே உள்ளவை)


Helicoptor - ல் நிரைய அம்சங்கள் இருப்பது தெரியும், ஆனால் இப்படி சாகசஙள் செய்ய முடியும் என்று நினைத்ததில்லை.

கிட்டத்தட்ட நெட்டுக் குத்தாக கீழே இறங்கியது, ஒன்றன் மேல் ஒன்று மிக குரைந்த இடைவெளியில் பறந்தது, போன்றவை.



முடிவில் தேங்க்ஸ் சொல்லும் வகையிலும், தமிழ்நாடு என்பதற்காகவும், "T" வடிவில் பறந்தனர்.

சினிமாவில் போலி சாகசங்கள் செய்வதை வரிசையில் நின்று டிக்கெட் வாங்கி பார்க்கிறோம், ஆனால் உண்மையான கதாநாயகர்கள் இங்கு தான் இருக்கிறார்கள்.