Speed Up Firefox
Firefox always slow down your PC after some time(It’s not a bug. It’s part of the cache feature. This ‘feature’ is how the pages are cached in a tabbed environment.)
To improve performance when navigating (studies show that 39% of all page navigations are renavigations to pages visited less than 10 pages ago, usually using the back button), Firefox implements a Back-Forward cache that retains the rendered document for the last five session history entries for each tab. Read more…
Google Wave has arrived. The real-time communication platform has been one of the hottest and most anticipated products in the tech and social media space for months. Soon around 100,000 people will be messaging each other in one of Google’s most ambitious projects to date.
So what if you’re one of the lucky ones to get an invite, or just want to understand exactly how this new tool works? While we cover the basics in our Google Wave Guide and have explored its game-changing features, we haven’t really written about exactly how to use Google Wave (Google Wave) and how to navigate it.
General Interface
The Google Wave interface is divided essentially into four boxes: Navigation, Contacts, Inbox, and your current Wave. Here’s a rundown of each of these core pieces of Wave:
Navigation: This is not your standard left-hand navigation bar. Yes, it has similarities to Gmail (Gmail), but navigating Wave is definitely a new experience. Each of the items essentially filters your inbox for waves that fit what you’re looking for. “Active” refers to waves that have new activity, “History” checks for old, archived waves, and “Settings” lets you manage things like your extensions. You can also add custom searches (i.e. waves that discuss your company) and add folders. Adding a wave to a folder is as simple as drag-and-drop.
Contacts: Your contacts are more prominent in Wave. That’s because you drag and drop them to add them to waves, rather than type in an email address or a username. You can search through your contacts and manage them via your Google (Google) account. It’s still a bit buggy – Wave will tell you some people don’t have accounts when they do – but overall it’s smooth.
Inbox: The inbox in the middle of the Google Wave interface doesn’t work like an email inbox. The key to navigating the inbox are search and search commands. It’s the easiest way to filter different waves. We have a list of key search commands below.
Wave Box: This is the box on the right hand of Wave. This is where conversations happen. Add participants, discuss what you’d like, and add multimedia through Google Wave gadgets and extensions (for more on Wave Extensions, check out Google Wave Extensions: An Inside Look).
This is the pure overview of the interface. However, if you want to learn more about the features and the terminology, we suggest checking out Google Wave: A Complete Guide. Google also created a quick YouTube (YouTube) video tutorial of Wave, courtesy of Wave’s mascot, Dr. Wave:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiGdUmvPRy8&feature=player_embedded
Starting a Conversation
Getting a conversation started in Google Wave is rather easy – it’s understanding all of the available conversation features that’s difficult. Let’s explore a few steps to get started with a new wave:
1. Click on the “New Wave” link. This will start a new conversation.
2. Drag and drop friends you’d like to have join your wave from your contacts box into the top of the wave.
3. Start typing.
Remember, Wave is different than email. You can reply to messages as threaded conversations and, more importantly, you can edit the text of anyone in the conversation. These options become available when you click on the downward facing arrow at the top of any message (a blip) within a wave.
Also note the top bar, with “Reply,” “Playback,” “Archive,” “Mute,” “Spam,” and “Read.” While most of these are self-explanatory, the feature you should be using liberally is “playback.” If you join a wave in progress, always start by playing back the wave to see how the conversation transpired.
Wave Search Commands
A big part of navigating through your Wave inbox are the search commands. They help you find public waves, your archived messages, or just waves related to work. Here are some of the most important commands to keep in mind:
is:read and is:unread: This will help you find all of the waves you have or have not read. is:active is the same as is:unread currently.
is:mute and is:unmute: The same type of deal – This helps you find conversations you may have muted or unmuted.
title:(keyword): This command helps you find waves with a specific word in their titles.
caption:(keyword): This helps you find waves with a keyword in the captions of attached images and files.
from:(address): This command will help you find waves from specific people. On the same token, from:me finds waves from you. to:(address) finds waves where it’s just you and the person you’re searching for.
past:(date), previous:(date), after:(date), and before:(date): These four commands help you search for waves in time periods, based on days, weeks, months, and years. Use “d” for day, “w” for week, “m” for month, and “y” for year. So, if you want to find something from before 3 months ago, you’d type “before:3m”. Yes, it’s complicated.
has: The has command will search for whether a wave has an attachment, a document, an image, or even a gadget (has:gadget).
There are actually a lot more commands. To read them all, click here
Wave Navigation
There are an abundance of keyboard shortcuts that make using Google Wave a more streamlined experience. Thanks to a list first created by Google’s Greg Dalesandre in the development version of Google Wave, we can bring you a full list of keyboard shortcuts, which we’ll update periodically.
First, here are the commands for Wave Navigation:
Up/Down Arrows: As you might expect, use the arrows to navigate messages.
Tab/Shift-tab: Same functionality as the Up/Down arrows (outside of edit mode).
Home/End: Moves you to the first or last message.
Space: Go to next unread message (note: it doesn’t have to be within the same wave).
Left/Right Arrows: Switch focus between digest panel and wave panel.
Page Up/Down: Currently doesn’t work properly due to a bug.
Ctrl-Space: Marks all messages as read.
Messages in Wave Enter: Replies to messages. Your reply will appear just below the selected message. If it’s the first reply, it will not be indented (but otherwise it will be).
Ctrl-R: The same as enter.
Shift-Enter: Replies to messages at the end of a thread. Replies of this nature appear at the bottom with the same indentation in almost all cases.
Highlight Text + Enter: Creates an inline reply. Your reply will be indented inside the current message.
Ctrl-E: Edit a message.
Ctrl-Enter (while editing): Inserts an inline reply at the caret.
Text Editing
None of these commands will really come as a shock, but they’re still good to know.
Ctrl-B: Bolds text.
Ctrl-I: Italicizes text.
Ctrl-G: Adjust the color.
Ctrl-L: Currently links to another wave if you hightlight the text and put in the URL or Wave ID, but the keyboard shortcut will be changing soon according to Google.
Ctrl-C: Copies text.
Ctrl-X: Cuts text.
Ctrl-V: Pastes text.
Structural Formatting
Once again, not too many surprises here:
Ctrl-<#>: Changes the current line to a different-sized heading – 1 is biggest, 4 is smallest.
Ctrl-5: Adds bullets.
Ctrl-6: Normalizes text/removes bullets and headings. Does not remove italics, bold, or text edits.
Ctrl-7: Left alignment.
Ctrl-8: Right alignment.
Last month we have published about newly launched
TATA DOCOMO GSM service. That time the main concern about value added services. I think GPRS or mobile internet was one of them. At the time of launch they have given an option for GPRS but that plan was on “per KB basis” which was little costly, if you are a frequent user of internet on mobile. Now because of competitive market in INDIA, TATA DOCOMO has taken one step further with “Unlimited GPRS Plan” at very cheap rates.
While other premium operators like Airtel, IDEA provide unlimited internet with minimum rent of 15 Rs a day, TATA DOCOMO is giving Unlimited GPRS pack in just Rs95/month. Well its cheaper than Aircell Pocket internet which costs Rs98/month.
Packs available with TATA DOCOMO
* Rs.15 GPRS Pack:
This is a pre paid recharge pack of Rs.15, allowing you unlimited internet access for next 3 days. Just select DOCOMO internet APN on your GPRS handset.
* Rs.95 GPRS Pack:
This is a pre paid pack of Rs.95 allowing unlimited internet access for up-to 30 days. Just select DOCOMO internet APN on your GPRS handset.
To activate any of the packs mentioned above, just visit nearest retail shop and purchase recharge voucher.
GPRS Settings for TATA DOCOMO GPRS
Just SMS internet to 52270 and save the settings as default on your mobile.
Or configure as follows
Connection Name : TataDocomoInternet
Data Bearer : GPRS
Access Point Name : TATA.DOCOMO.INTERNET
Username : blank
Password : blank
Homepage : blank
Connection Security : Off
Session Mode : Permanent
No proxy required
“blank” means you need to leave it as it is.
Well TATA DOCOMO GPRS works pretty fine on mobile because of EDGE network. We were able to get a speed of 60 Kbps ( i.e. kilo bits per second). But this depends on network condition. Now we have to wait for 3G services from private operators, which may get launched next year. Because of competitive market in INDIA, I think INDIA will host cheapest 3G services in World.
Source: Free V Calls
Today I am going to share some websites with you which allows you to recharge your mobile online. Many times when we want immediate credit into our account, now no need to go to any shop for recharge, you can use these website for recharging your mobile online anywhere anytime.
Fast Recharge : One of the oldest website on Internet to start online recharge service. Currently they are offering recharge only in following five states.
- Chennai
- Uttar Pradesh
- Maharashtra
- Gujarat
- West Bengal
They accept payments from Credit Card, Online Bank Transfer and Mobile Payments
Recharge Guru : Another online service to recharge your mobile phone. They provide recharge coupon for Airtel Mobile GSM, Vodafone or Hutch Mobile GSM, Idea Mobile GSM, MTNL (Trump) Delhi, BSNL, BPL Mobile & Virgin. One of the best feature of this website is that they accept payments from Paypal. Visit and enjoy.
Recharge It Now : One of my favorite websites that I often use to recharge my mobile online. It’s a 24×7 service that is also called instant pre-paid recharge station. They provide recharge coupon for
- Aircel
- Airtel
- BSNL
- Idea
- TATA
- Vodafone
- Loop Mobile
- Reliance (CDMA only)
- Virgin Mobile
Visit and enjoy : Recharge It Now
Source: Devils Workshop
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