SimpleText.ws stores your text and keeps it synced between your work, home, and devices like the iPhone. Unlike manual syncing, SimpleText.ws merges your changes so you'll never lose data. It uses your google username and password to log in.
Things to be noted.
SimpleText is not a file sharing platform. You can write notes or todo lists, but not sensitive data like credit card information. WriteRoom for iPhone fully syncs with your SimpleText.ws documents.
Click here to access the home and for source code, visit this page.
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GMinder : A gentle reminder for Google Calendar
GMinder is a small program done by Reflective Code. As the name suggests, GMinder is reminder utility that integrates with Google Calendar. It is a small program that runs in your system tray and pops up a reminder if any due occurs.
GMinder is very easy to configure and use. After downloading you have to set the username and password to your google accout.
Event List
Double clicking on the system tray icon will open this window where you can see all your events.
Once GMinder is running, right click on the system tray and select Calendars. On loading it will be empty. To add new calendar, provide your google account details by clicking on 'Set' Button.
Login Window
Once username and password is set, click on the download button and wait for the calendar to download.
Option Window
[Note : If you face any problem with connection or error, please refer the screenshot below]
Quick View
Once installed, Single click on the GMinder icon on system tray and it shows a summary of events.
Tip: For faster GMinder startup time, run ngen.bat (found in the installation directory).
GMinder is very easy to configure and use. After downloading you have to set the username and password to your google accout.
Event List
Double clicking on the system tray icon will open this window where you can see all your events.
- Clicking on the event will take you to Google calendar where you can see the details.
Once GMinder is running, right click on the system tray and select Calendars. On loading it will be empty. To add new calendar, provide your google account details by clicking on 'Set' Button.
Login Window
Option Window
[Note : If you face any problem with connection or error, please refer the screenshot below]
Quick View
Once installed, Single click on the GMinder icon on system tray and it shows a summary of events.
Why 'No' to Google Chrome Frame?
What is Google Chrome Frame?
Recently Google released one more product called 'Google Chrome Frame'. Google Chrome Frame is a plug in developed by Google to bring Google open web technologies and speedy JavaScript engine to IE. Google Chrome Frame replaces the IE rendering engine with Google Chrome engine. Thus the web sites you visit, will decide which render engine to use. There are mixed responses about the Google Chrome Frame in the industry. Many forums and discussion threads, I saw large number of people supporting Google chrome frame as it makes IE work faster. But I cannot agree with that argument.
What Google wants?
Its pretty clear that Google is not keen on making IE a better browser, but trying to kill it by slow poisoning. What benefit it brings to Google by replacing the rendering engine? Its nothing but, slowly gaining control over the browser market share once owned or ruled by IE.
An end user's perspective
With Google Chrome Frame, the web is going to be more confusing to an end user. It will be really hard to maintain the information. One set information he saved will be in one engine, and some are in Google chrome. It could even lead to a confusion as your browser behaviour is controlled now by web sites, not by you. You will feel embarrassed to see none of your settings like passwords, security setting and other things are working when you visit a site that uses different engine. It will be really hard to an end user to maintain the information across the rendering engine.
A Developer's perspective
A never ending problem of a web site / web application developer is to make it a cross browser site / application. In this regard Google Chrome is a good concept. While developing the site / application, I could make my site to always load in Google chrome engine if installed otherwise ask the user to install it.
But at the end of the day, I am an end user who have a lot of information bundled into my browser. Why should I take my chance?
Recently Google released one more product called 'Google Chrome Frame'. Google Chrome Frame is a plug in developed by Google to bring Google open web technologies and speedy JavaScript engine to IE. Google Chrome Frame replaces the IE rendering engine with Google Chrome engine. Thus the web sites you visit, will decide which render engine to use. There are mixed responses about the Google Chrome Frame in the industry. Many forums and discussion threads, I saw large number of people supporting Google chrome frame as it makes IE work faster. But I cannot agree with that argument.
What Google wants?
Its pretty clear that Google is not keen on making IE a better browser, but trying to kill it by slow poisoning. What benefit it brings to Google by replacing the rendering engine? Its nothing but, slowly gaining control over the browser market share once owned or ruled by IE.
An end user's perspective
With Google Chrome Frame, the web is going to be more confusing to an end user. It will be really hard to maintain the information. One set information he saved will be in one engine, and some are in Google chrome. It could even lead to a confusion as your browser behaviour is controlled now by web sites, not by you. You will feel embarrassed to see none of your settings like passwords, security setting and other things are working when you visit a site that uses different engine. It will be really hard to an end user to maintain the information across the rendering engine.
A Developer's perspective
A never ending problem of a web site / web application developer is to make it a cross browser site / application. In this regard Google Chrome is a good concept. While developing the site / application, I could make my site to always load in Google chrome engine if installed otherwise ask the user to install it.
But at the end of the day, I am an end user who have a lot of information bundled into my browser. Why should I take my chance?
Google Sidewiki - Pros and Cons
Google added one more feature to their basket, "Google Sidewiki". Google Sidewiki is a browser sidebar to put comments or annotate on web pages. All the annotations or comments are public and can be viewed by any user who has installed Google Sidewiki. Comments can be shared using twitter, Facebook or by mailing.
What I like
What I hate
What I like
- if you want to comment on a particular line on a page or a blog, rather than putting a comment after the post.
- Comment on a page, where comments section is not available
What I hate
- If you want to use Sidewiki, you have to install Google Toolbar. I felt like you are buying an apple tree just for an apple. Amit of Digital Inspiration explains how to install Sidewikiwithout Google Toolbar. Click here to read it.
Google tries to centralize the comments into their cloud. They are kind of taking comments on my blog to Google cloud.
As I said earlier, Google centralizes the comments to their cloud, making me lose my control over the comments on my page. How can I moderate the SideWiki entries on my page? Should I go to Google and say this particular comment hurts my feeling or insults me?
Add Events to your Blogger
Do you have an event you'd like to invite your readers to? Blogger has released a new Gadget one of the feature as a part of 10 anniversary. The new gadget is available as one of the featured gadget.
How to use
Goto Customize, then Layout. Click on Add a widget. Now you can find Events under google featured gadgets.
The gadget syncs with your google events and displays as free or busy with any other events.
How to use
Goto Customize, then Layout. Click on Add a widget. Now you can find Events under google featured gadgets.
The gadget syncs with your google events and displays as free or busy with any other events.
Google increased its search box
Google has updated their search page with bigger Search Box. Now you can type upto 2048 characters to search. They have increased the font size of buttons, Search terms and suggestions.
What next? Will they turn Search box into a Rich Text Area?
What next? Will they turn Search box into a Rich Text Area?
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