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Need access to Google Buzz? Here’s a hack!
Posted by CeeTee in Tips and Tricks, Twitter on February 10th, 2010
Ok, this post has been shamelessly ripped from Aalaap’s blog. So I guess I owe him one!
You probably don’t have Google Buzz in your Gmail yet. So here’s how you can use it on your PC without having to beg for invites.
Fire up Firefox.
Install the “User Agent Switcher” add-on and restart Firefox.
Go to Tools > Default User Agent > iPhone 3.0.
Visit http://google.com/buzz and start buzzing!
Firefox will ask you if you want to share your location with the website. Say yes!
When you’re done buzzing, switch back the user agent to default.
How does this work? It’s so simple, I feel shitty writing this. Google Buzz isn’t available in Gmail for everyone yet, but mobile web access to it is open. At least for those using the iPhone. You can login, post updates, follow people, comment on others’ updates, get updates from nearby and all of that. So you get Firefox, make it pretend that it’s an iPhone using the UA Switcher add-on, and use the mobile version of Buzz through it. Voila. An added advantage is that Firefox also supports geo-location – the same HTML5 API that’s used on the iPhone – so you actually get location-aware information.
10 must-have applications on a freshly formatted Windows box
1. Notepad2
A notepad on mild steroids, if I may. A lot of people (read: developers/programmers) prefer Notepad++, but that, I think is too powerful for a person like me. Notepad2 has color schemes per programming language (to read/understand the code), antialias zoom, and is HIGHLY customizable.
Alternative: Notepad++
2. Avafind
Perhaps this should be right on top of this list. Avafind caches the file names and not the contents. So if you know the name of the file you are looking for, all you do is hit Shift+Esc and start typing the name of the file. Search results are returned at runtime and is insanely fast. Indexing for a 500GB hard drive takes not more than 60 seconds. Newly created files are automatically indexed in the Scout Bot feature. VERY VERY impressive piece of software, but shame that the company shutdown a couple of years ago.
Alternative: Everything
3. Opera
Well, no description needed here. A LOT of people prefer FireFox saying that it is a very powerful browser. Agreed, but have you seen the bloat on it when you install the addons to make it powerful as they say it is? Opera is one COMPLETE browser. It does NOT need any additional addons to make it powerful. Bittorrent, download manager, themes, built-in plugins, RSS reader, email and chat client, etc. What else can you ask for ? One thing which impressed me the most is that with the newer major versions of Opera, the size of the installer shrinks!
Alternative: Firefox
4. Paint.NET
People who use MSPaint are either retarded or are just ignorant. Those who use a cracked version of Photoshop just to resize their pictures are even more retarded (Yes, I know a few). Paint.NET is seriously MSPaint on double the steriods. Very very powerful for a novice who edits images on the fly and does not care about installing/purchasing a copy of Adobe Photoshop.
Alternative: GIMP
5. CDBurnerXP
Those were the days when you bought a new CD/DVD Recorder and you got a copy of Nero Burning ROM v6 with it. Nero v7 was insanely huge (it had a 700MB installer, if my memory serves me right). Switched to CDBurnerXP 3-4 years back and I am stuck on it since. A confusing name (with the part with ‘XP’ in it), people wonder if it would run on a Windows 7 box (well, yes it does!)
Alternative: Can’t think of any as good as CDBurnerXP
6. 7-Zip
I still see a LOT of people at work and otherwise use the evaluation version of WinZIP v7 which probably died back in the early 2000s. A few use WinRAR and the intelligent lot use 7-zip. Insane compression ratios, can uncompress RAR, ZIP, gz, tar.gz, and a whole lot of archives. Best part is that it can read contents of an ISO file too!
Alternative: WinRAR? Maybe.
8. Foobar2000
A no-nonsense, light media player. Sweet 2MB memory footprint when playing minimized. Maxes out at about 8MB of RAM usage. The kinky Winamp v5 who wants to whip the llama’s ass is still a preferred choice among Windows Media Player and others. Foobar is highly customizable with skins, plugins and what not. Note that once you start with the eye-candy, you will be sacrificing the available RAM on your PC. I like it simple and light.
Alternative: Windows Media Player 11
9. Unlocker
Many a times, when people want to delete a couple of files, Windows throws a message on the person’s face saying ‘Cannot delete file: Access is denied’ and does not let him/her delete the file until he/she reboots the machine. Worry no more, Unlocker is here. Right click on the file, click Unlocker, Click on the ‘Unlock All’ button and you are good to delete the file.
Alternative: None since I started using this one.
10. Launchy
OSX folk have QuickSilver, Linux users have Gnome-Do. Windows users have an app somewhere in the middle of the awesomeness of launching applications. A quick (customizable) hotkey combination and start typing the name of the app you want to launch. Hit Enter and it pops open! No need of going to Start > Programs > Blah 2008 > Blah 2008 blah. Launchy is also customizable with plugins. You start typing a simple mathematical calculation and Launchy’s Calcy plugin shows you the result and asks you if you would like to launch the answer in Google. How awesome is THAT!?
Alternative: Not sure if Rocketdock falls in the same category as Launchy
This is my list of 10 must-have applications after a fresh PC format. This list does NOT include any Personal Antivirus/firewall application – You are free to choose whatever you are comfortable with.
Feel free to post in your comments below
The perfect Nun Chucks
Posted by CeeTee in Random Thoughts, Sarcasm, Twitter on November 27th, 2009
Nun Chucks. LOL
Movie Marathon!
Hi Guys
Let me confess, I am a HUGE movie buff and I end up watching about 10 movies a week!
I am looking for recommendations for movies so I can go out and rent the DVDs and have a look at it. At the end, I am thinking of posting a huge list of the movies and what I feel about it. Sounds fun ?
Fill out this form below and I will do the rest. You may fill out multiple movie names by separating them by commas (for e.g. Terminator 2 – Judgement Day, Pirates of the Carribean Series, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, etc)
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Sync Google Calendar with MS Outlook, Thunderbird and S60 mobile phone and SMS notifications
How to sync your Google Calendar with Microsoft Outlook and Symbian S60 phone
Part 1 : Google Calendar with MS Outlook
1. Download and install Google Calendar Sync
2. Enter your Google account email address and password.
3. Select your sync method (most likely you want two-way syncing) and the sync frequency you prefer. Depending on the frequency of meeting invites, I have set it to 10 minutes
4. Click Save and you are good to go
Google Calendar Sync
Part 2 : Google Calendar with Thunderbird
1. Download and install the Provider extension (Save it to your desktop, opening the Add-ons dialog in either Sunbird or Thunderbird, and dragging the file you just downloaded into the Add-ons dialog. Restart Thunderbird)
2. Now that Provider is installed, you have to add your new Google Calendar. In Sunbird, go to File -> New Calendar; in Thunderbird, it’s File -> New -> Calendar when you’re in the calendar view.
3. You’re now looking at the Create new calendar wizard. Select “On the Network” and hit Continue.
4. Choose Google Calendar as the calendar type. The Location field requires the XML flavor [important] of your calendar’s Private Address, which you can get by opening Google Calendar and choosing Calendar settings from the drop-down next to the calendar you want to access.
5. At the bottom of the settings page you’ll see the Private Address section. Copy the XML link and paste it into the Location field in Sunbird or T-bird.
6. When you hit Continue, you’ll be asked for your Google Calendar username (your Gmail address) and password. Enter it, give your new calendar a name, and hit Continue.
7. You’re done.
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Part 3 : Google Calendar with S60 phone
1. Open GooSync
2. Register for a free account (The paid accounts are not really worth the money)
3. On the homepage, click on ‘Configure’ (Remember, the free version of GooSync syncs only 1 calendar)
4. Enter your phone number and you will be receiving the Sync settings via SMS
5. Save the settings and you are ready to Sync
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Part 4: SMS Notification (Incoming SMS is entirely free in India)
1. Open Google Calendar in Firefox or Internet Explorer (Wont work on Opera)
2. Click Settings
3. Click ‘Calendars’
4. Click on ‘Notifications’ for your primary calendar
5. Set default reminders as SMS – 2 hours before each event (Can customize it per your requirement)
6. Click on ‘Set up your mobile phone to receive notifications’
7. Enter your phone number. You will receive an SMS with a confirmation code which you will need to enter in the same page in Google calendar
8. You are done
Google Calendar Settings - click to enlarge
Disclaimer: Please ensure you have taken a backup of your Google calendar before trying this out. I have configured atleast 3 of my machines with Google Calendar and they have worked fine for me.
Top 10 categories of people who piss me off
Here’s a brief list of people who just don’t fail in pissing me off
1. People who send you 2MB BMP attachments
2. Those who try to find a way past you by going through the 10 inch gap between you and the person you are talking to
3. People who cross the roads like goats and sheep. They think they will pass through without the driver knowing
4. People who eat my food
5. Those who keep right clicking the desktop and clicking Refresh. It just does not do anything!
6. People who have their annoying twittascope feed on twitter
7. Those who swear by Internet Explorer still being the awesomest browser EVARRR
8. People who swear by Linux being the solution to all our computer problems. Just install it once and see the hairfall count go up exponentially just to get the fucking MP3s working on a Linux Distro
9. Those who dont know about or like LOLcats
10. Those who don’t read the fucking URL properly and get phished 
A big Holla !
Hi there !
Welcome to CeeTee.me. Feel free to stick around (though there’s not much at the time of writing this post). This is my very first attempt at hosting my own website.
In the meantime, you could catch up on Twitter or Facebook
Will be posting stuff that I find interesting very soon
Cheers
CeeTee
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