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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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! [...]