Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005 Recognizer Pack

Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005 Recognizer Pack enables you to convert handwriting from digital ink to typed text in multiple languages on the same Tablet PC. Supported languages are Chinese (Traditional), Chinese (Simplified), U.S. English, U.K. English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, and Spanish.

tablet_pc

** This download is available to customers running genuine Microsoft Windows.
Download Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005 Recognizer Pack

bubbl.us : Free online Mind Mapping tool

bubble.us is free online tool to create and visualize Mind Maps. The web application comes with loads of features like easy to use Adobe Flash based UI, create and save mind maps online, sharing maps with friends, Embed maps to website of blogs, It also allows you export mind maps as image and printing facility.

Online Mind Mapping software

Email Marketing PDF whitepapers

In the world of Internet Email Marketing is critical to the success of your business. It doesn't matter if your business is online or off, marketing by email will save you money, drive traffic to your website, build customer
loyalty, increase brand awareness, create sales, and increase your profits.

Email Marketing PDF

Below are few Email marketing PDF whitepapers to get you start with

Email Marketing Best Practices Document from www.emaillabs.com

Email Marketing Best Practices Document from www.lsoft.com

Guide to Email Design from www.mailchimp.com

Enhanced Google Image Search Lets you find Cartoons and Cliparts

Google has enhanced its image search by adding two new filters for clip art and line drawings. With these filters you can now get more closer results what you want to search. To use these you need to select option from advanced image search or you can filter you search results by applying additional filter (see below image).

Find more details at Google's Official Blog

Teal Green - Free Blogger Template is ready to Go

..great .  Completed my 2nd Blogger Template "Teal Green". As you can see in below image, it is a 2 column template with 3 columnar footer space. Also, there are lots of space in header, sidebar and footer area which can be utilized for Adsense or any other Ad services.  Happy Blogging.
See Live Demo here.

Free Blogger Template

Download Teal Green Template (XML Format)
Download Teal Green Template (Zip Format)

Related Posts:

Simple Blue : 3 Column Blogger Template

View Google and Yahoo Image Search Results as Slideshow with CoolPreviews

CoolPreviews is one of the most popular  Firefox add-in which enables you browse web with ease. With CoolPreviews you can view Google & Yahoo Image Search in ultra sideshow mode. It also allows you to preview links without clicking, giving you the power to browse the Web faster. Just mouse over any link, and the preview window immediately appears to show you the content.

View Google and Yahoo Image Search Results as Slideshow with CoolPreviews

Rendering issue with Google Chrome incognito mode

This happened many times with me while working with Gmail in Incognito Mode. Selection checkboxes were not visible even after inbox was completely rendered. I also noticed the up and down arrows of right scrollbar (circled in the image) were also not visible.  In few cases they appeared after some time (20-30) seconds and in few case they didn't appeared.

I really love working with Google Products because of their simplicity and usefulness. This is just to let Google Chrome team know and apply the fixes.

Google SketchUp Gingerbread House Design Competition

Google has announced an exciting "Google SketchUp Gingerbread House Design" Competition. To participate, you just need to design a gingerbread house using Google SketchUp with the tag "gingerbread2009" and upload it to the 3D Warehouse. The winners will be announced at  Official Google Blog about a week after the competition closes on January 4th.

Find more details about the Prizes and Competitions at Official Google SketchUp Blog.

Blogger Trick : Applying Zebra Striping in Comments after each post.

An another idea to improve readability and visual appearance of comments section could be to apply Zebra Striping. In simple words Applying alternate colors.

To add Zebra Striping add the below Javascript : Include jQuery library. Add below line just before </head> section.
<script src='http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.min.js' type='text/javascript'></script>

Add below code to just before </body> section.

<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {
$("#comments-block dt").each(function(i){
      var divId='zpk' + i.toString();
      $(this).before("<div id='" + divId + "'></div>");
      $(this).next().next().prependTo("#" + divId);
      $(this).next().prependTo("#"  + divId);
      $(this).prependTo("#"  + divId);
      $("#" + divId).css("padding","10px");
       if(i%2==0){
        $("#" + divId).css("background-color","#cdd1f3");
       }else{
       $("#" + divId).css("background-color","#ffffff");
       }
 });
});
</script>

Related Posts:
Blogger Trick : Displaying post titles as summary on index pages
Blogger Trick : Adding numbering to comments after each post using jQuery
Blogger Trick : Make sidebar column height equal to the main content using jQuery

The Holidays on Orkut

As per Orkut Blog a special holiday page has been added by Orkut Team to keep Orkutians Holiday Sprit up. With this page you can create holiday parties using the events tool, send season's greetings to friends and relatives using photos and videos, and play with three fun, holiday themed applications.

So... hurry up as Holiday Apps will be there for A week or so.

Yahoo Messenger Like Text Messaging Feature Now in Gmail

As per Official Gmail Blog a new feature has been introduced where you will be able to send "Text Messaging (SMS)" from Gmail Chat. A very exciting feature for Google users but It would be really very useful when
  • This feature is available for rest of the world. Currently you can send receive SMS only for US numbers. 
  • Feature is also available on Gtalk. Every one may not like to keep open a seperate browser window for Gmail to use the feature.
If you have ever used Yahoo Messenger, a similar but more advanced feature was introduced long ago. Hopefully Google is going to provide similar features in near future in Gtalk too.

Visit Gmail Blog to see more details about the Text Messaging Feature


How to open/view .lit file

.lit is a proprietary filename extension for Microsoft Reader e-books.  Microsoft Reader is a free, downloadable software application that allows you to read eBooks on any Windows-based platform including Desktop/Laptop , Pocket PC and Tablet PC.


Download Microsoft reader :

Microsoft Reader for Desktop/Laptop 

Microsoft Reader for Tablet PC 

Microsoft Reader for Pocket PC

Simple Blue : 3 Column Blogger Template

Finally I was able to complete my first theme, have a look here : Simple Blue Theme .

 


Download Simple Blue Theme Download Simple Blue Theme (.Zip Format)

Your comments and suggestions are welcome for any feature or improvement.

Blogger Trick : Displaying post titles as summary on index pages

One more idea that can enhance use experience on index pages is to display a summary of all titles on the page. This way user will not have to scroll though all the content on the page. He/She can directly jump to the title of their choice by hitting the navigation link.


Now .. to add the feature you simply need to add few lines of JavaScript  code just before </body> tag.

<script>
if($(".post-title >a ").length>1)
{
   $("#main-wrapper").prepend("<ol id='summary-list'></ol>");
   $("#summary-list").css("background-color","silver");
   $("#summary-list").css("list-style","none");
   $("#summary-list").css("padding","10px");
   $("#summary-list").css("margin","0px");
   $(".post-title >a ").each(function(i){
      var anchorname=$(this).parent().prev("a").get(0).name;
      $("#summary-list").append("<li><a href='#" + anchorname + "'>" + $(this).text() + "</a></li>");
    });
} </script>

And you need to include my favorite jQuery library at the top before </title> tag.
<script src='http://geekonweb.com/scripts/jquery-1.2.6.min.js' type='text/javascript'></script>

Thats it..  

Get Gmail Stickers from Gmail Team

If you really love Gmail (which most of us do) and would feel proud to put a logo or sticker of the same around.. here is a good news for you. As per post on Official Gmail Blog by , you can get these stickers by snail mail. You just need to send Just send a self-addressed stamped envelope to:

Send me some Gmail stickers already
P.O. Box 391420
Mountain View, CA 94039-1420

The stickers includes one of three bookplate style stickers, Gmail logo and Gmail Shortcut keys.

Find more details at Gmail Official Blog

Blogger Trick : Adding numbering to comments after each post using jQuery

Another pretty simple jQuery code to put more information on page.. the way we want.  What if I want to see numbering after or before each comments on my blog. Yes! solution is there and very easily achievable if you have idea about html layout of   Blogger.

In plain English the solution would translate to

1. Find the HTML Element with id="comments-block"

2. Find all DT Element inside it

3. Insert content of your choice. that's it.

and  the above solution in jQuery can be translated to :

<script src='http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.min.js' type='text/javascript'>
</script> <script type="text/javascript"> $(document).ready(function() { $("#comments-block").find("dt").each(function(i){ $(this).prepend("<span style='color:red;margin-right:2px;" + "padding:2px;background-color:silver'>" + (i+1).toString() + ".</span>" ); }); }); </script>

See the demo page with numbered comments here.

WOW jQuery is really great. Definitely the page doesn't looks great ..but the goal is achieved. I leave this creativity to readers. Please do post links of your creativity here.

Blogger Trick - Make sidebar column height equal to the main content using jQuery

With CSS based layouts it is a common problem that columns can not be made of equal height. By Googling you may find may ways to solve this. Here I am going to show you an easy solution to achieve this comparing to the solution given by "Amanda" in her article "How to make columns of equal height in Blogger".

Approach here is also the same but I am using jQuery to cut-short Javascript code.

Assuming we have two columns "main-wrapper" and "sidebar-wrapper" . Below line will simply assign the height of main-wrapper to sidebar-wrapper .. which simply we want.

<script src='http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.min.js' type='text/javascript'/> 
<script type='text/javascript'>
$().ready(function() {
   $('#sidebar-wrapper').height($('#main-wrapper').height());
});
</script >

To add this script fist identify the column-ids and paste just above </title> tag in html editor. If you are not sure how to check for id's you can use Firebug a very popular add-in for Firefox for the same. By just hovering specific HTML gets selected in it. See the image below:

See the live sample here

Graphics2PDF : Convert BMP, JPG, GIF, PNG, TIFF to PDF file

Graphics2PDF is a free utility which can be used to convert various kind of image files to PDF format. Graphics2PDF supports BMP, JPG, GIF, PNG and TIFF files.  To convert you simply need to drag and drop  files into Graphics2PDF application and then click "Save as PDF". That's it.