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 .

Today orkut released their open social applications to public. Yes google came with open social concept couple of months back. Now anyone can develop their own application and install it in the orkut. The applications will be visible to profiles. Those who like the application, they can add it in their profile. Slew of applications are available in orkut. There will be a surge growth in applications in orkut soon.

Have you ever thought why social networking applications like orkut, facebook releasing this application ?

The answer is simple people are looking for changes, they are really bored with the current activities.

Anyways the open social is cool stuff. The main market is online gaming industry. Since orkut have a big user base, the visibility of applications installed in the orkut has wide scope.

This bring news business ground in orkut using open social applications. Its the right time to develop your application’s open social version, thereby increase your business.

Google reader is one of the best applications by google to read your favorite blog’s or sites. Slew people are using this service regularly like a newspaper. Frankly speaking I am addicted with google reader. A couple of months back google released there off line version of google reader. Those who don’t have internet access every time, this is the ultimate solution. You can go online and download the data and you can then go off line and read at your own time. Let me explain the steps to make your google reader off line.

Step 1)

Click on the link on your top right corner of your google reader with anchor text offline near your sign out link. If you haven’t installed google gear it will show a popup to install google gear. After installing google gear you are entitled to ask another popup like below.

Step 2)

After allowing the google reader as a trust application to google gear your reader will show a green icon on the top right.

Step 3)

After clicking on the icon the google gear starts downloading content to local machine for off line access. Basically the process is very sluggish. Don’t worry we don’t need to bother about it for a while.

Step 4)

Your google reader is now offline.

Step 5)

Make your offline reader online to read latest feeds. For this, click on the blue icon on the top right. It will start synchronizing.

hey don’t be baulked to try this, cos it is cool stuff. It is worth enough for trying.

Some of you people can’t see this feature, don’t worry it will be soon live with you as well.

This is one of our pet project started a couple of months back. The idea is to bring visibility of your pages to stumbleupon. I hope all of you people know how stumbleupon works? It very simple, if someone likes your page he will give a thumbs up for your page, thus stumble algorithm understand that the page is good. When some one click on the stumble button your page will be visible to somebody else with if he/she is having similar tastes he will give you thumbs up.

Now let me explain how stumble cult works? In stumblecult you can add your links to stumblecult. We are using a credit mechanism. Stumblecult is a group of stumblers where they submit there pages for others to discover, thus they will give a thumbs up for your page if they like it, moreover there is option for the stumblers to ignore your pages from stumbling. Those who thumbs up your page can claim there credits. The credits can be used submit your own links. Suppose you have 3 credits remaining you can’t request a thumbs up more than 3. The stumble verification is very automatic in stumblecult. Check out my traffic spike.

Yes I got a lot of traffic from stumble upon. Why are you waiting? Join stumblecult today itself get seed stumble. The revelation that stumbleupon will bring you traffic is very convincing after using stumblecult.

One of the best web 2.0 application now available online is google docs. A lot of Microsoft office users are now using google doc instead, for document preparation. The main attractive feature that distinguish it from office is the sharing mechanism. We can easily share the document, where as office doesn’t have such support since it is not online.

One of the main problem google doc faced was, it need internet connection even for editing the document. Since most of the google document users migrated from Microsoft office, they really want google docs to be offline. Yes google recognized the need. Now we can edit google document even while you are offline. Google uses google gear for this. I mentioned about google gears in one of my post.

With the help of google gear we can edit the document any time and whenever we go online it will be updated with the server. Watch out the youtube video and see how its works.

Have you ever experienced any fraud attack to your yahoo email ? Then I can assure you this is the ultimate solution to spurn those fraud attempts. No allay experiencing yahoo mail after adding sign in seal. Recently you can see a menu on the top of yahoo login box.

This is the tip to add your own sign in seal. We can add either a text seal or a image seal. Both are same in its functionality but change in the view level. Anyways let me explain how can we add sign in seal using image.

Step 1

Click on the radio button named upload an image.

Step 2

Browse a picture lets say your picture from your local system. Click on the preview button, it will start uploading. You will get your sign in seal ready.

Step 3

Click on save this seal button, now your sign in seal prepared and ready for use. Now just go through the yahoomail home page. Your login page is signed with your own sign in seal. Check out yahoomail home page in other browser too. It will work .

Since all of us using there own sign in seal no one can tamper its security. Cool concept right ? B-)

It released some times back but I saw it today. I was wondering why I use google chat gadget for group chat. I feel really ashamed about me. Anyways let me explain how to start a group chat using gmail web chat. Click the option menu available when chatting.

The gmail group chat conversation started. Now you invite individuals for group chat.

I dont know if people using Mozilla are aware of this feature. Placing bookmark buttons in the mozilla browser , other than the bookmarks option appearing in Menu item(’Bookmarks’).

In the picture above you can see some buttons/keys between the URL textbox and the browser Tabs. They are the bookmark visual interface keys.

Advantages:

• One click to your marked web pages.
• You can even group multiple pages to a single folder with a common name. (eg: in the pic, ASP.Net is a folder in which the related pages are grouped).

Dis-advantages:

• Once the space is over (known as front row space), all bookmarks are not available in the front row.

How to place bookmarks?

1. In the picture as you see, right click on the portion where you can place bookmarks, you can add new bookmarks manually.
2. Drag and drop the tab to the bookmark portion.
3. To enable the corresponding icon, simply click the bookmark button once placed. You get it.

Use firefox extension for gmail chat instead of webchat available with gmail. After installing the gtalk sidebar firefox extension add a button on the tool bar as below.

Drag drop the button to tool bar. The new icon will open the gmail chat as a sidebar. If we close the sidebar we will automatically signed off. The gadget can open multiple tab for individual chat in the client, overall cool extension.

Don’t be baulked to try this extension.