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January 26th, 2009

Firefox Plugin: Tab Scope

Posted in » Firefox - by Ades

If you loved the tab previews on Opera, then you will love this too - it’s a firefox version of tab previews.

Mousing over on any tab will show you the real-life screenshot preview of the website that you are viewing. Width and height of the preview window can be adjusted.

Plugin URL: addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4882
Author Site: www.xuldev.org/tabscope/

January 25th, 2009

watch youtube videos in gmail

Posted in » miniblog - by Ades

posting any youtube link in gmail chat will show the video directly in the chat now. it saves time. more

January 24th, 2009

Moving FeedBurner account to Google

Posted in » Google, Trackers - by Ades

For the past few days my RSS feed counter has been showing wrong count. Instead of showing 1200+ subscribers it is showing 700-800 subscribers. It’s clearly something wrong, because even with fluctuations it should be around 1000+ subscribers. Plus/minus 200 subscribers is ok, but when almost 500 subscribers are missing then there is really something wrong.

I guess it’s time to move my FeedBurner account to Google. As you remember after Google acquired FeedBurner, they have been encouraging people to move their FeedBurner account to Google. Everyone must move by February 28, 2009.

Why is FeedBurner merging its product with Google’s?

Our vision when FeedBurner joined Google was to help bring the best of what FeedBurner offered in syndication publisher tools and solutions to the AdSense platform, and vice versa. In the time since the merger, the FeedBurner engineering team has joined the Google engineering team (but still focuses on the same set of tools for RSS monetization, analysis, and optimization) and is not managed as a separate company or subsidiary.

Why do I need to transfer my account?

We are moving all FeedBurner accounts to Google Accounts.

Since Google’s acquisition of FeedBurner, Inc. on June 1, 2007, we have been moving the FeedBurner application to Google hardware, software, and data centers. This allows the application to scale and perform like most Google applications and integrate easily with other Google platforms. It also means more reliability in delivering your content, analytics, and monetization, as well as a more secure and consistent experience for your users.

In order to provide an integrated experience and to support the new features we have planned for our feed platform, as well as to improve security, it is necessary for logins to be handled via a Google Account. from FAQ

Transferred!

It took few clicks and about 1 minute to transfer the account. My new RSS feed is now http://feeds2.feedburner.com/AdesBlog. Old feeds will automatically point to the new one, but for the new subscribers it’s recommended that you give the new feed url.

Google warns that the RSS count might temporarily show “0″ for the latest day, and it might take around one week for it to work normally.

So, when are you transferring yours? I hope not on the last day - 28th February 2009!

FAQ Page: www.google.com/support/feedburner/bin/answer.py?answer=126303
New Login URL: feedburner.google.com/

January 22nd, 2009

polaroid pogo

Posted in » miniblog - by Ades

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polaroid has been reinvented, this time it’s digital + has built-in photo printer. coming to market spring 2009. click here

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January 22nd, 2009

WP Plugin: Twittar - twitter avatars for wordpress comments

Posted in » WordPress - by Ades

Twittar is a wordpress plugin that uses twitter profile images for your blog’s comment section.

Features

Loads user’s avatar by matching the email address to the user’s Twitter email address.
If user doesn’t have a Twitter account, it first tries to load user’s gravatar. If user doesn’t have a gravatar, it loads a default image. This is an optional setting.
You can set a 2-pixel border to the images (you choose the color).
You can choose the size: we suggest 24, 48 or 72 pixels.
You can set an image other than the default one to load if a user doesn’t have a Twitter account or a gravatar.
It builds a valid image for you (with alt and title attributes, etc.) based on user details.
Allows you to add a class to the image, so you can style it later.

I think it’s quite cool. It’s a plugin from smashing magazine.

Plugin Page: click here

January 21st, 2009

WP Theme: FREEmium WordPress Theme

Posted in » WP Themes - by Ades

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Freemium Theme is a free premium theme for wordpress, it was designed by Paul Kadysz and developed by Dariusz Siedlecki and made free by freebiesdock.com.

You can see the demo here.

Some of the features of freemium theme are:

XHTML compliant
flickr RSS support
jQuery menu
2 widget ready sidebars
completely free

Download: freebiesdock.com/freemium-wordpress-theme/

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January 21st, 2009

why google employees quit

Posted in » miniblog - by Ades

read the emails of former google employees and why they quit google read here