New Gmail Themes!
Google has finally decided to give some makeover to Gmail. It’s added a new feature called “Themes” to Gmail. This themes tab has multiple theme options that you can use with your plain Gmail interface. Access the “Themes” tab from the “Settings” section. Below is the screen shot of the “themes” section and check out my latest Gmail theme too in the backdrop.
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Somebody stop me!!
Yeah! You read it right. Please somebody stop me! Otherwise I’ll keep on changing the theme of this blog again and again.
Okay. From today, my blog wears yet another new outfit from WP Remix. In fact I was very satisfied with my last time theme change, but somehow I messed up the design after I started tweaking it. Finally I decided enough is enough and here’s the new theme.
I hope (yeah! that’s the only thing I can do before messing up this design too!) I’ll be using this theme for next 2 or 3 months (did you heard it as weeks?!). I feel this new blog design looks little professional, so chose it from Smashing Magazine’s long list of free Wordpress themes.
That’s it for now. Welcome to my new(!) blog!
Create Struts 2 - Hello World Application
Recently I’ve started learning the Struts 2 framework. Though I’ve been using Struts 1.3 for quite some time, understanding Struts 2 was little tricky as the ‘Hello World sample application’ provided by Struts 2 site is little confusing. So, I was searching for a simple ‘Hello world example for Struts 2′ and after going through many different sites, finally I was able to run my first Struts 2 application. Here are the steps that I did to start with Struts 2. I am using Eclipse IDE and all the steps explained below are in referring to Eclispe 3 IDE.
What I am missing in Google Chrome.
I’ve been using Google Chrome from the day it’s got released. I am really impressed with this new web 2.0 browser, but it still lacks few features which I am really missing in Google Chrome. As the new browser still is in it’s early ages, I hope these features will be introduced in future versions.
Using wordpress custom fields to control Ads in your blog
Custom fields are the user defined information that are assigned to any blog post in Wordpress. They are also called as meta-data. Blog authors usually define the custom fields when they write the blog post to give some extra information like mood, whether,etc. Custom fields are key/value pairs, that means you can define any key and assign any value to this key. To know more about custom fields check out Wordpress.org site. With this explanation, it is easy to control the ad presence in your blog post easily with custom fields.
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Here comes the Flash Player 10
Adobe has released the beta version of Flash Player 10. This beta version includes some exciting features like 3D effects, creating custom filters and enhanced text layouts for Flash movies. Adobe has also worked on improving the sound APIs and visual performance. Flash Player 10 takes advantage of the hardware acceleration, thus freeing the CPU for doing other useful tasks. So, why waiting? Install the new Flash Player and experience the changes.
Changed the blog theme, again!
I don’t know the exact count of how many times I’ve changed my blog’s theme (approximately 7 or 8). This time I’ve changed the current theme to Hemingway blog theme. Previously I was using a theme which I got from Smashing Magazine, but somehow that theme was not suit for my blog’s mood.So, here’s Hemingway.
Usually most of the blogs have a main content area and one or two sidebars. But Hemingway has a different layout (also called as 1-column wordpress layout) with no sidebars and the links in footer area. I am kind of impressed with this style of presentation, so here’s the new theme for my Dreamz.
Anyhow, I’m not satisfied with the colors used in this theme. So, you may see few changes in the look and feel in the coming days. But, I hope, I will be sticking with this theme for at least some time.
Thanks to Hemingway and Wordpress Themes site for developing this theme and a BIG thanks to me, for bringing this theme to you. 
Chrome : Error 104 (net::ERR_CONNECTION_FAILED)
Initially there were no problems with Google Chrome browser. It just worked out of the box. But suddenly one fine day, it stopped loading web pages, showing “Error 104 (net::ERR_CONNECTION_FAILED)” message. At first I thought it’s a fresh bug coming out of chrome, Since Firefox and IE were just fine, I had to put the blame on Chrome.
But later, I found that Zone Alarm firewall is the culprit. Somehow, the application settings for Chrome in Zone alarm are all set to “Deny” and Chrome was failing to make a connection to internet. At first, I didn’t have a clue why chrome was failing but when I googled for the error message “Error 104 (net::ERR_CONNECTION_FAILED)“, it came to my mind that firewall might be the problem.
Now changed the setting and Chrome is back in action. 
Robinson Crusoe - An Unforgetful Story
When I was doing my schooling, there were only two libraries open in my home town. One was my school library and other one - Sowdambika Library was located in the market area. But both had very few story books and few Tamil weeklies. In my school library, they were lending Thirukkural and Bharathiyar poem books. To read other story books, we had to go to the Sowdambika library, which was located in a very small building. Only 5 to 6 people can sit and read books from there. But still, they had some good comic books. So, the library building was always crowded by school children. I used to go to that library every day with my friends.
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Google Chrome is impressive, really.
It’s been three weeks since Google released their new browser “Chrome” to windows users. Google’s dominance in web really helped them to push this ‘yet-another-browser’ easily to hundreds of people. Wait! Did I say ‘yet-another-browser’!? No, Google chrome is not a ‘yet-another-browser’, but it’s a new beginning to the world of web 2.0 computing. Yup! Chrome has redefined the way browsers are interacting with users and with the pages.