I got this tip from a commenter in my previous post about Remote Logoff in Gmail. Sharing it here for those who are still using Internet Explorer 6 or any browsers on which this feature wont work. Gmail checks whether the browser is a compatible one or not and then only displays the link to this feature. But however, if you know the file url , it can be easily used.

Follow these steps:
1) change your browser’s user agent string (you can use something like “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1)”), close the browser and reopen it in order the change to take effect. From now your browser will be identified as IE7
2) Log in to Gmail with your account, et voilà, “Last account activity” is available on the bottom of the page. You click it and the popup opens. Save the url of this page, which will work on all browsers, then undo the changes you made to the user agent string of IE6 and restart the browser.
When you are logged onto Gmail and you need the “Last account activity” page, simply use the url you previously saved.

Haven’t heard about it yet? The release of Firefox 3 will be made in a few minutes (Tue 10:30 PM Indian Standard Time). They are making this event a huge one by attempting for a world record in most downloaded file in a day. I am high with sky high expectations about Firefox 3. I am already using RC3 of Firefox 3 and I am pretty much satisfied with features and stability(In Linux). Already 1,736,232 people  pledged for downloading the FireFox 3 (When checked now @ 9.50 PM Jun 17 )

So what you are waiting for? Go and take a pledge!!

PS: The site is down at the moment due to the world record usage! =)) How they expected to set up a record without enough infrastructure?

Private Communities? Orkut is becoming complex day by day. Now , the latest addon is private communities. What exactly is a private community – Communities that are only open to people who share your email domain.

How does it work? First, enter the email address for the domain you share with your classmates or colleagues into the contacts tab of your profile. When creating a new community, simply choose the “validated – email validation required” option, then select the domain from the drop down box. Anyone who wants to join the community will first be required to validate his or her email address from that domain before being allowed to join.

For example, i have this site – neo999.com which is a biking blog. I want to have a private community only for the co-authors in my blog. So i can add an option like this -

The Domain neo999.com is automatically present in the list because i have given that domain in my profile as my webpage.

Official google blog post

A new addition to Orkut – Community Recommendations. Just a week ago they introduced a much useful Photo Tagging feature, which is still left unused by many users. Community Recommendations help us to join communities that ‘may’ be useful to us. Orkut compares the communities where we have already joined with other similar and large communities in Orkut. If a match is found, orkut will recommend it to us. Also, if a community have several friends of you as members, then it will be added to the recommended list assuming that it will be a community that you would like to join. A similar feature was introduced in FaceBook which recommends you more friends. It seems like google is trying hard to give a facelift to Orkut.

Community recommendations are shown in Home page positioned just above the community list.Or it can be reached through this link  ->http://www.orkut.co.in/Communities.aspx?tab=5

An option to turn this feature off is also present. You can cancel the recommendations by clicking the small symbol near the listings.

Inside the community recommendation page ( http://www.orkut.co.in/Communities.aspx?tab=5 ) we can see more recommendations. Clicking on “Why was I recommended this?” link will show the reason for that particular recommendation.

More info And screenshots : http://123orkut.blogspot.com/2008/02/receive-your-orkut-scraps-on-your.html

Here by i declare that, i am starting a personal blog again. I started bloging long back and what used to be a my-life-strory-blog turned out to be a biking blog ( www.blog.neo999.com) . Now, since i dont want to mix up bike with my life , i am starting this ‘brand new’ blog. Seriously, you wont find anything interesting to read here. You will find all rubbish thoughts, useless reviews about random gadgets and tech or movies or songs , and may be if you are ‘lucky’ a peep into my life .  So , here i goes…..

PS: All posts are subjected to Typos and Gramtical errors!!err..i mean Grammatical