I am going to explain and easy method to develop online forms using spreadsheets. Open your google docs and open a new spreadsheet. Fill in the header for the spreadsheet. Click on the Form menu available with the spreadsheet.

This will pop up a web page which contain the fields as per header in the spreadsheet. You can embed this form in web pages. When ever user fill in the form the data will be updated in the spreadsheet.

You can edit / delete the form fields. Moreover the form will be hosted in google’s space. So you don’t need to worry about the server and all. Embedding forms into different page are also possible, click on the more action menu.

No need to code, maintain the application ultimate solution from google for online forms.

If you are using gmail browser chat sometime while switching browser tab you might miss some of the IM alert. Sometime the gmail doesn’t produce an alert. The solution for this problem is using Gmail Chat Alert 0.3.0.

By using this plugin you can even add your own audio file for as alert tone.

Most of the cookies that resides in our browser has an expiry period. It will automatically deleted over a certain period of time or when there is no activity. Even with the help of some tools we can also remove cookies.

But Flash cookies will even exist for years until unless we clear it manually. This is a security vulnerability which can be exploited by malware programs. Without our permission they can access and manipulate. This may create some severe security issues later. Moreover 98% of the browser are installed with Macromedia Flash player. The data store use 100KB of data by default to unlimited maximum.

You can clear the cookies manually. Check out this link. You can see flash cookies resides in your system. Delete flash cookies you feel no more useful.

Ever you felt that your mouse over and menu item opening is slow in your Windows Vista? Yeah this is true there is a delay of half a second or more. But there is a workaround to avoid this unnecessary delay. I will explain you step by step process to avoid this.

1. Open your registry editor.  Type “regedit” on your search in start menu and press enter.

2. Expand the branches to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop.

3. Double-click the MenuShowDelay value. If it’s not there, go to Edit > New > String Value, and type MenuShowDelay for the name of the new value.

4. The numeric value you enter here is the number of milliseconds (thousandths of a second) Windows will wait before opening a menu. Enter 0 (zero) here to eliminate the delay completely.

5. Click OK and close the Registry Editor when you’re finished. Log off and then log back in or restart Windows or restart explorer.exe for this change to take effect.

This will remove menu show delay. Just do this and watch whether a significant behavior for your menu.

What is Haptic technology?

By using this technology the user can sense the touch, that is when we touch the touch screen we will get feedback from the touch screen either as a vibration or motion. The word “haptic” derived from Greek word “Haphe” which means sense of touch. When we hit a key in the touch screen we will get a feedback in your finger that key is working.

Nokia unveiled there first touch sensitive phone last week, 5800 XPress Music phone. It come with 3.2 inch diagonal screen. It has 3.2 Mp camera that uses professional Carl Zeiss optics and is good enough to shoot professional video clips for Web use a web browser that supports the Flash format used by most Internet pages to display video.

This device will be available here in India by the end of year 2008 for a cost around 20K. I guess its competent price with the features available.

Google blog search recently got updated with resemblance to techmeme, memeorandum and their memetracker counterpart.

This tracker will track latest news in business, politics, technology and displays in the web page. so that you will be updated by latest development in the world. May be I can say something similar to what google reader does. The main difference is in google reader we subscribe our interest but in blog search you will be updated with couple of predefined tags like business, technology, politics etc.