If you are regularly bookmarking your favorite sites in social book marking sites then I guess Shareholic is the right tool to make the process more simple. Shareholic is a firefox browser extension that enable users to bookmark in social sites like digg, Del.icio.us etc and share it in facebook twitter etc.

One of the main drawback is the user need to sign in before submitting it with shareholic. This is more helpful for bloggers to share it to social bookmarks. We can also bookmark the page via right click.

Check out this cool program to download many youtube videos. You select videos one by one, or you can select a user or a channel. The program will queue up all the videos from that user or the channel and downloads in one by one without your intervention. You can see the progress as it downloads and it will give you a pop up when the download it complete.

Download 1-click YouTube Batch Downloader software here

The program also converts the videos for you to a format of your choice, whether its you IPod or Zune.

The application users a browser like interface and you can browse youtube in the program itself. Your download or download all buttons becomes active in pages that they are applicable.

Gmail is one of the best email client available online, moreover slew people are using the application as there email client. This email client provide vast variety of search option for searching the email in the mail box. I am going to explain how is it possible to sort emails within particular period of time. This is one best features that add more value to business, professional people because they have to regularly check the emails sent by different peoples.

On the search text box type the period with keywords after and before, I will explain it with an example.

For eg: If you need to search email after 2008/04/16 and before 2008/04/18, email between 2 days. Type “after:2008/04/16 before:2008/04/18“, moreover if you need to include some other criteria like email with particular keyword just include that keyword with a space after the format.

This post mainly intends to bloggers, web enthusiasts etc. Yesterday onwards google needle service is up and running however the service is under alpha release it is open to public. Google needle provide us set of services which includes.

1) Page rank calculator.

2) Retrieve your keyword’s position in google search.

3) Download Youtube video provided the URL.

Page rank calculator

This service will check the page rank of the URL, moreover google needle provide you HTML to embed the page rank in your blog.

Retrieve your keyword’s position in google search

One of the most annoying process for bloggers is to find the keywords position of a particular keyword in google search result. Google needle provide you the same service, this will avert the complication for keyword’s index from google search list. This is the most wonderful service that need to be lauded.

Download Youtube video provided the URL

This service will be helpful for those who want to download Youtube videos. You can enter the URL, the service will provide you Youtube video as flv file. This service is ominous for Youtube, however it is working well.

I guess more service are cooking in the lab, thereby making google needle a multi service platform.

Are you looking for expert advice about your queries? I would suggest LinkedIn answer section is the best place to ask expert advice. You know why?

LinkedIn the real social network

LinkedIn is the social that create real value for the time spend in using the social network. I can strongly suggest LinkedIn is the best social networking platform available, simply because the community in LinkedIn are mainly highly skilled professionals, entrepreneurs, successful personalities available across the globe.

As I mentioned above that community in LinkedIn are highly skilled professionals, this is the right place to ask your queries and get expert advice. The answer section that differentiate widely from yahoo answer because the question will be displayed only to relevant people thereby chance for getting right answer drastically increase. I will explain the steps to ask question in LinkedIn.

Step 1)

Click on the answer hyper link available on the top. Type your question and click next.

Step 2)

You can select the targeted audience and category to receive this question. This will be displayed to right people and get best answer.

If you are not a member of LinkedIn, don’t wait join now itself.

You have a broadband network, still your page request taking lot of time to serve. Use google web accelerator to speed up the page serving. Google web accelerator serves pages through powerful global systems of Google.

How Google web accelerator works?

Google web accelerators stores copies of frequently asked web pages in Google’s powerful systems.

The accelerator downloads only slightly changed data.

Accelerator manage the computer’s internet connection.

Compress the data before downloading into the local system, when the requested page serves from Google’s server.

Prefetching some specific pages in accordance to user requests.

How to install and manage Google web accelerator?

1) Download Google web accelerator.

2) After installing the accelerator your browser will entitled a icon with some specific status as below.

a) means the google web accelerator in running and the needle indicates downloading speed.

b) means page your request is not serving from Google’s server, so the page download makes time.

c) web accelerator is turned off.

Not at all the pages serves from google server. If the requested page is an HTTPS or some files like mp3, flv then the page doesn’t come from cached because of security reasons.

If you have an analytics account and you are into the habit of using it quite extensively then you will surely like this application. This is a desktop version of the google analytics application, made on the Adobe AIR platform. You need to have Adobe AIR installed on your machine.

The software is particularly useful for those with multiple analytics accounts. You can configure any number of accounts into this software and review all of their performance without having to login and logout.

The software has a really neat interface which is very much similar to the online version. Its also much faster than the browser based analytics version. Check out the software here.

This topic might be interesting for blogger’s / tech geeks. Are you get annoyed by spam mails, because you published your email address on your blogs / contact page of your site. Here is a workaround for it, you can simply use some client side scripting to print the email address on the site document.

<script type=”text/javascript”>

var your_email_address = ‘your address’ + ‘@’ + ‘your domain.com’;

document.write(’<a href=”mailto:’ + your_email_address + ‘”>Contact me</a>’);

</script>

Any change for email address display in user perspective?

Absolutely No! Since we are printing it into the document.

What we gain?

We can make the document spam proof.

You know how the spam bots works? It simply crawl your site and parse your document, during the parsing  programs grabs all email addresses in source document. Spam doesn’t bother about the client side programs normally, moreover it need a client side virtual machine to execute the client side javascript code.
Thus your email address won’t displayed in the document. It is cool idea right?

Another workaround to make spam proof is adding your email address as image !!!

Hurray….when I opened my google docs today morning I got offline functionality enabled for my account. I was looking for this, couple of days back. I got some information from a forum that only limited people got functionality available for the time being. Anyways I am happy that I got access for it now.

Let me explain the steps to enable offline access for your google document and spreadsheets.

Before going to this process if you haven’t install google gear install it.

Step 1)

Click on the link ‘offline’ on the top right of your google docs. You will get a pop up like below. Click on the check box and mark google doc as a trusted site.

Step 2)

Click on the enable offline access button. After clicking the button you will get another pop up

Step 3)

Create desktop shortcut for google doc. After allowing this it will start synchronization, that is a sluggish process. Don’t worry it will complete in some minutes.

After some time you will get a tick mark on the top right, that means your google doc is downloaded to your local machine. Disconnect your internet connection and go some place where you don’t have a internet access. Click on the google docs icon on your desktop.

Some basic tips.

The offline access is system dependent. If you need to access from different system you need to repeat the same process in all the system.
The offline access is browser dependent. You can’t share it with IE, mozilla, since data are saved in different folder.
The offline access is operating system dependent. You can’t share between operating system.

Now why should I care for desktop office? Google overcomes the main drawback with desktop office.

Anyways the google doc offline access does lack some more. I think for offline access, should be selective. What I meant was I can select file from the docs and only those file need offline access there by the syncing time can be drastically reduced.

Are you using some other rss reader and you are weird in using the application. You need the same subscription in google reader as well. There is solution for every problems google know it well. Yes you can import the your subscription to google reader.

Step 1)

Export your subscription as OPML file from your reader.

Step 2)

Click on the setting link on the top right of google reader.

Step 3)

Select Import / Export tab. Browse and select your OPML from your local machine.

Step 3)

After selecting the OPML from your local machine. Click on the upload button.

You can add your new subscription to your desired folder.

Google reader is one of the most popular reader available online now. Google acquired the prerogative right to say the application is best. I am one of the fan of google reader that is why I am regularly posting the tips in google reader. Last week I explained how to make your google reader offline. Actually google reader is ominous for other RSS readers applications, because lot of people are migrating to google reader. A new comer prefer google reader only, you know why? If he / she had a google account, all the application by google are free to use from the same account, thereby google brings the same crowd to all of their applications.

Happy using google reader .