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Google to DO LIST

To-do List is a list of tasks that need to be completed. It is a very helpful tool which provides additional support to memory. Although the name only implies a single list, it may involve more than one list. When one task is completed or satisfied, it is crosses off or checked. The traditional method of creating a To-do list, is writing down tasks on a paper using pen or pencil, usually in a notebook or clip-board.



What is Google To Do List?

Google being the foremost contender in web services launched To-do list online, which allows users to write tasks online just like writing them in a notebook. Google provides very simple and easy interface to create to-do list and thus helps a user immensely in organizing his/her personal activities. Here are some basic steps to create a to-do list in Google calendar (https://www.google.com/calendar/render?hl=en&tab=wc&pli=1).

  1. First to start creating a to-do list in Google calendar, user has to sign-in using a valid Gmail ID.

  2. Click on “My Calendars” and under that, click on “Tasks”.

  3. Once you click on “tasks”, a task gadget will appear on the right side of your calendar.

  4. Using the gadget, you can easily create to-do list according to your calendar.




Google has created the gadget and has blended it with a simple idea of due dates. Due dates are often prove to be very important. Thus you can use such due dates with your calendar assigning them to your tasks.

Using Due Dates in Google To Do List



  • Create a task on to-do list with a due date: You can do so by clicking in an empty space in month view and select the “Task” option.

  • You can also assign a due date to an existing task.

  • Once the task has been completed, a user can delete or mark task as complete by checking a box next to the task name.

Get the new Google Bar

Google recently went on a renovation spree to change the appearances of all the google services. Ever since the release of G+, google started rolling out new appearances to every other service they had.



Recently Google announced in its official google blog that google is now ready for its next set of change - the new Google bar which makes it easy to access different Google Services. Even though the new google bar is announced, it is still not rolled out for users but here is a simple tweak that help you get a head start in trying out the new google bar.

The tweak is to modify your cookie. All you have to do is follow these simple steps -

For Google Chrome users -

1. Add 'Edit this Cookie' extension to Chrome
2. Go to google.com
3. Click on the extension


4. Go to PREF section and change the value field to this

ID=03fd476a699d6487:U=88e8716486ff1e5d:FF=0:LD=en:CR=2:TM=1322688084:LM=1322688085:S=McEsyvcXKMiVfGds

5. Refresh the page


For firefox users -

1. Go to google.com
2. Press Ctrl + Shift + K
3. Paste the following into the text field and press enter
document.cookie="PREF=ID=03fd476a699d6487:U=88e8716486ff1e5d:FF=0:LD=en:CR=2:TM=1322688084:LM=1322688085:S=McEsyvcXKMiVfGds; path=/; domain=.google.com";window.location.reload();

For IE users -

Install Chrome, firefox or anything that evolved after dinosaurs!

Autopost Twitter updates to Facebook Wall


We get frustrated lot of time when we have to post lot of status updates in both Twitter as well as Facebook. We need some apps or some method by which we can redirect and post our status messages in both Twitter as well as Facebook at a time. But if you think in reality, we tend to update all our twitter updates to our Facebook wall if there is no control over the application.


Techspace provides you a simple app by which we can control which message has to be posted in Facebook and which message to be not posted by simple means. Yes, a application named Selective Tweets on Facebook provides an easy access to us and helps us to control which tweet has to be posted in our Facebook wall and which should not be with the help of hashtag (#). If you postfix "#fb" in the end of your tweet, your message will be posted in your Facebook wall page and if you don't postfix, then it will not be posted.


Steps to Autopost tweets to Facebook:-




  • Know your twitter username.



  • Go to this link and login with your Facebook credentials.



  • Provide the twitter username in the Selective Tweets on Facebook page and save it.



  • Now login to you twitter account.



  • Write your tweet and finally end the tweet with "#fb" (without double quotes).



  • Now go to your Facebook profile page and you can see your tweet appearing on your Facebook wall.


That's it. Please do comment if this post has helped you. Thank you. Stay tuned with Techspace.

How to try the New Facebook profile?

Facebook in the F8 Conference last week announced the release of new interface to facebook profiles. The interface is so designed to give a timeline of updates a person goes through. The timeline scrolls back to the day you first joined facebook. The new facebook interface encourages users to share more data over the social network. The new interface is still in development version and happen to have a few bugs and some more features are yet to be integrated. If you want to try out the new interface, then here is the step - by - step guide.


Instructions -

  • Go to your Facebook developers page. Click Here if your logged in .

  • Next  Click " Create New App ".

  • Name it anything you want it to sound like . both app display name and app namespace. Do agree to the checkbox which says " I agree to platform privacy policy ".

  • Next there ll be a CAPTCHA security verification .

  • On successful verification your app s basic setting page ll be opened.

  • Click "Open Graph" on the left side of the screen.

  • Next screen is "Open Graph : Getting Started " .

  • Type in whatever you want in accordance to the examples shown there. and then click "Get Started ".

  • Next 2 screens just scroll down and click "Save changes and next ".

  • And last screen just scroll down and click " Save and Finish ".

  • Wait..then go to your "home". You ll be invited for the developers release of New timeline

  • Accept it .. and have fun :) :)


Thanks to Sourabh K Rao for his post on A Cynic's Viewpoint.

Facebook now introduces "Subscribe" Feature

Facebook has now introduced its latest feature with the Subscribe button. The Subscribe button will appear on one's profile page just next to the Add as a Friend Button. Here's a quick look of where it is going to appear.



The 'Subscribe' button is similar to Twitter's Follow feature and somewhat similar to Google+ 's Add to Circle option. The person to whom you subscribe need not have to accept like in a friend request. But the person who subscribes to you will be able to view all the public updates on his news feed. Additionally, you can also view profiles of the people who have subscribed to you which means, no secret followers. Facebook in one of its post explains this feature to be most useful to celebrities. It says -

It is most useful for public figures like journalists, artists, and local politicians. For example, if you’re a journalist, you can use a profile to share your press coverage with your readers and ask them to post tips to help guide your research and investigation.

This is really good because celebrities and popular figures need not have to accept friend requests from infinite fans neither the fans have to wait for their friend request to be accepted. This feature is likely to attract more celebrities to appear on facebook.

If you want to have a Subscribe button on your facebook profile page, then you have to go to this site facebook.com/about/subscribe and click on "Allow Subscribers". This will enable the Subscribe button on your profile.

Ever since Google+ is released, facebook is on a spree of rolling out new features. The features provided by both the giants are more or less the same. Online forums are already discussing the genuineness of features as to who first introduced which feature. The discussion is taking egg or hen pattern, as no one knows which one came first, the egg or the hen. Same is in this case, no one can really tell who copied which part of the feature from whom.

Install Turpial in Ubuntu

You may have tried a lot of different twitter clients on Ubuntu. The default social network manager on GNOME, the Gwibber is little cluttered and behaves erratic at times. Here is an alternative to all of them - Turpial. Turpial is twitter client that works like a charm. It also supports identi.ca and is probably going to add facebook support soon. Here's the snapshot of it.



Installation Instructions -

You can install it from PPA by executing the following instructions -

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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:effie-jayx/turpial

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install turpial

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Otherwise you can download the .deb package from here and install it. Make sure you select the proper package for your version.

Facebook Improves: Photo tagging requires approval

Facebook, in its "The Facebook Blog" has posted a whole list of improvements that is going to roll out into Facebook in the coming days.


After a long day at work, you return home and log in to your facebook account to see that you are tagged in a picture where you're looking awkward. Worst part is that it even appears on the profile page as well. You go delete it but you are already late. How embarrassing could it get?


This happens to everyone and was one of the major requirement the users have been asking Facebook for a long time. But facebook has finally heard from the users and is soon to roll out this new feature by which before any of those tags appear on your profile, you get to review them. Here is a snapshot of how it would look.



This clearly means that you don't have to worry about being tagged in pictures that you do not want to appear on your profile. Whenever you are tagged, you get to decide whether you want it or not before anybody sees it.


Facebook has also released lot other features. Some seem to be derived specially to compete with Google+. Some other updates include these.


1. You get to control visibility of every part of your profile with a new inline menu that decides which set of people can or can not see.


2. Not a major update, Facebook changed the label "Everyone" to "Public".


3. You can now change the visibility of status updates anytime, even after posting it.


4. You can now add location to your updates.


You can get more information on what has changed in the tagging department here - facebook.com/about/tagging.


You can already see heated arguments in the comments section of facebook blog post between the google+ lovers and the facebook lovers.


So, what's your opinion?

Facebook Improves: Photo tagging requires approval

Facebook, in its "The Facebook Blog" has posted a whole list of improvements that is going to roll out into Facebook in the coming days.


After a long day at work, you return home and log in to your facebook account to see that you are tagged in a picture where you're looking awkward. Worst part is that it even appears on the profile page as well. You go delete it but you are already late. How embarrassing could it get?


This happens to everyone and was one of the major requirement the users have been asking Facebook for a long time. But facebook has finally heard from the users and is soon to roll out this new feature by which before any of those tags appear on your profile, you get to review them. Here is a snapshot of how it would look.



This clearly means that you don't have to worry about being tagged in pictures that you do not want to appear on your profile. Whenever you are tagged, you get to decide whether you want it or not before anybody sees it.


Facebook has also released lot other features. Some seem to be derived specially to compete with Google+. Some other updates include these.


1. You get to control visibility of every part of your profile with a new inline menu that decides which set of people can or can not see.


2. Not a major update, Facebook changed the label "Everyone" to "Public".


3. You can now change the visibility of status updates anytime, even after posting it.


4. You can now add location to your updates.


You can get more information on what has changed in the tagging department here - facebook.com/about/tagging.


You can already see heated arguments in the comments section of facebook blog post between the google+ lovers and the facebook lovers.


So, what's your opinion?

Facebook improves. Photo-tagging requires permission

Facebook, in its "The Facebook Blog" has posted a whole list of improvements that is going to roll out into Facebook in the coming days.


After a long day at work, you return home and log in to your facebook account to see that you are tagged in a picture where you're looking awkward. Worst part is that it even appears on the profile page as well. You go delete it but you are already late. How embarrassing could it get?


This happens to everyone and was one of the major requirement the users have been asking Facebook for a long time. But facebook has finally heard from the users and is soon to roll out this new feature by which before any of those tags appear on your profile, you get to review them. Here is a snapshot of how it would look.



This clearly means that you don't have to worry about being tagged in pictures that you do not want to appear on your profile. Whenever you are tagged, you get to decide whether you want it or not before anybody sees it.


Facebook has also released lot other features. Some seem to be derived specially to compete with Google+. Some other updates include these.


1. You get to control visibility of every part of your profile with a new inline menu that decides which set of people can or can not see.


2. Not a major update, Facebook changed the label "Everyone" to "Public".


3. You can now change the visibility of status updates anytime, even after posting it.


4. You can now add location to your updates.


You can get more information on what has changed in the tagging department here - facebook.com/about/tagging.


You can already see heated arguments in the comments section of facebook blog post between the google+ lovers and the facebook lovers.


So, what's your opinion?

Google launched music site - MAGNIFIER


The Giant Google has now come up with music discovery site called MAGNIFIER which will be surely loved by music lovers. They are neatly organized based on music genre. Free music can be found here.


All of the free music on Magnifier can be accessed through Music Beta, a service from Google that lets you upload your personal music collection to the cloud and listen to it on the web and your Android devices. You can add free music to your account by signing in and can listen it from web or android devices.


But the limit is that a user can add maximum of 20000 songs to his account. You can just upload the songs and listen from web browsers without downloading. Currently, this facility is only available for US users and that too with invitation only. This feature will be soon available for all users.

Gmail to come with a new login screen

Ever since the launch of Google+, Google has gone on to change the UI of lot other google products. First it was the google search itself and then blogger, then gmail(through a preview theme) and now the login screen for Gmail. The new gmail login screen was available for preview and here is how it looks -


Click on the image to enlarge.


The new interface looks similar and matches the Google Search template. So google is probably planning to have the same interface to all the other google services.

Sharing files between two ubuntu systems through local router

I have a old desktop running Lubuntu 11.04 and it is connected to internet through a wireless router. While I store lot of information on this computer, I also have a laptop running Ubuntu 11.04 that I most of the times work on and it is also connected to internet through the same router. Transferring files between these two machines is important to me. There are countless ways you could do it, but I preferred ssh to have a safe and reliable connection through the local router. If you are willing to do the same then here's how you do it.

Step 1: Install ssh on both the machines. Run this command in terminals of both the linux machines.
sudo apt-get install ssh

Step 2: Learn the IP address of your desktop. This can be done by right clicking the connection icon on the panel and then on "Connection Information".

Otherwise you can just run the following command and read for "inet addr:" field.
ifconfig

In my case, it is 192.168.1.3.

Step 3: Go to your laptop. Find "Connect to Server" option.

If you are using GNOME then you find this on "Places -> Connect to Server".

If you are using UNITY then you find this option by opening Nautilus. Go to File -> Connect to Server.

You get this window -



Step 4: Fill details into the fields and click Connect.

Service type must be selected to SSH.

Server field takes the address of the computer to which you want to connect to.

Port is 22, which is TCP standard for SSH Connections.

Folder that you want to share.

Username to access the desktop.

You can add a bookmark and give it a name for you to access it next time.

Step 5: Once you are done, click on "Connect". It prompts for password. Enter it and you are done. You have successfully established file sharing from your desktop machine to your laptop machine. You can do the vice versa by following Step 3, 4 and 5 on your other machine.

PS: I have used terms 'laptop' and 'desktop' everywhere. But this need not be the case and procedure is same for any two machines connected through same router.

How to get back your old facebook chat ??

Facebook, the biggest social network site updated many features like video call and now it changed its chat features as Sidebar chat, but its really annoying the users. We can’t see who are online, it will just show our few friends who are we interact most, it will be most irritating one for who have more number of friends. Its really simple script you have to install in your Browser to get your Old Facebook chat. Lets see how to get back our Favorite Facebook chat.

How to Install Old Facebook Chat Script in Google Chrome


In Google Chrome, its really easy task to install the script to enable the Old facebook chat. Just Click the Following link to install Script. CLICK HERE TO GO TO DOWNLOAD SCRIPT PAGE. In the Script page Click ‘INSTALL’ button which is in the Top Right side of the page.

Now the Install Popup will appear, in that box CLICK ‘INSTALL’ and now the Script is Installed.


Now the Script is Installed. Now Close the Existing Facebook page and Open the Facebook again. You can See your Old Favorite Chat is available. If you cant see the old facebook chat, Clear the cache and open the facebook. Anytime you can remove this script from extension menu of the Google chrome to get the New sidebar chat box.



How to Install Old Facebook Chat Script in Mozilla Firefox


In Mozilla Firefox, First we need to install Grease Monkey Add-on before installing the Old Facebook Script. So Open the Firefox and go to Download page of the Grease Moneky Add-on from the following link. Click here to go to Gease Monkey Add-on Download page. In the Download page Click ‘Add To Firefox’ button.

After clicking ADD TO FIREFOX button, the popup will ask about installation. Click INSTALL and Its done.


Now Gease Monkey Add-on is Installed. Now Click here to go to Script Page in the Script Page click Install button which is in the Right top, same as we did above for How to get Old Facebook chat for Google Chrome.

After installing Close the Facebook and Open it again to see the Old Facebook chat is available. if you can’t find, Clear the cache files and try again. Anytime you can remove this script from Gease Monkey add-on to get the New sidebar chat box.


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Google's What do you love?

Have you noticed this new link under your google search page? Not your google.co.in but the global page, www.google.com?


Yes, this is one of the latest product of Google. What do you love? Click on it and you will be taken to the "What do you love?" page. Just another search page like google where you can put anything you want and google is going to pull in all the possible results from your keywords. Be it "ice cream" or "BMW", you get all the results displayed as snippets. You get the trends, videos from youtube, books from the Google books, Maps, patents and almost everything. This is really a beautiful feature and you must try it for sure.


The WDYL - What do you love? Front page. Simple and Elegant just like the Google




The results page of WDYL.



At the end of screen you find a "More Coming soon" box. So the feature seems to be still in its premature life form but it is google and it evolves before you see it.

MOZILLA to Develop a Mobile OS !!

The ultimate makers of Firefox, Mozilla is now looking to improve their products . Mozilla corporation is now decided to launch a mobile operating system , which will be like iOS , Android , WP-7 .  The best part of this mobile OS is that it will be completely an open source , and will be used for the development of HTML 5 applications , the company wants to encourage developers to write codes on this platform for applications which will work almost like native apps . It seems like a valiant(brave) effort by Mozilla to bring something new.

Google introduced Chrome OS for a similar purpose , but Mozilla could improve upon it . For those of you who are wondering what this upcoming OS is going to be called ; for now it's known as Boot To Gecko or B2G. These are the plans to write the code , at the same time some codes will be borrowed from Android.However , Mozilla wants to improve upon the idea by developing a mobile OS which would guide to build web apps based on HTML5 .

It will be interesting to see what ultimately Mozilla come up with!!

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Windows Azure toolkit for Social games development - Microsoft


This is the decade of open source, online and cloud technology. We have seen a lot of social games available in the net and also in the largest social network Facebook. Windows Azure being a cloud platform wants to utilize it for full extent by a open source content management systems like wordpress, joomla, drupal and etc...


The toolkit has been launched for the developers and hoping to get lot more fun and exciting games such as Angry birds and farmville.


Some of the components of windows azure are :-




  • Accelerators.



  • Common Libraries.



  • Facebook credit to share and make money.


The toolkit is available currently for .Net and HTML5 platforms. They are planning to support for other platforms too.

Google+ have a huge problem with its photo tagging system!!


The most popular social networking site google+ has lead to a huge privacy problem .One of the best features about google+  is ,the way we can manage who see the things we share , with circles .Google+ has beaten Facebook in making it super easy to make sure that only intended people can see our updates.

As Google+ gains many users, a very serious privacy issue has been discovered with the way google+ manages with your photo albums.

Ofcourse google + allows users to keep private albums.In fact private albums are quite important in Google+ because photos taken using an Android device gets uploaded to your private photo album.

As one Google+ user has noticed, it seems like tagging someone on a photo means that he/she can see the whole album even if you have not shared it. This is not actually a bug – but rather a feature in Google+.

Facebook too allows users who have been tagged to see the photo. But people tag others in Facebook photos to let them see it. In the case of Google+ it it a bit different. The Google+ photo album is basically Picassa – the popular photo management tool. Since Picassa has been in existence much before Google+, people do not tag others on Picassa to share – they tag to organize their photos.

So basically what it means is that, if you try to organize your photos in a private album by tagging the people in the photos, not only they will be able to see every photos you in that album, they will be able to share it as well. If it happens with your Instant Upload album – that is the album to which Android devices automatically uploads your photos – others can see all the photos you have taken using your Android device.

This is simply a huge privacy problem.

Google+ is still officially in the field testing phase and let us hope they sort this out.

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Games to Google+ Coming SOON...



The most popular and the largest company Google launched Google+, a social networking site 3 weeks ago. Initially, there was only Streaming and uploading of photos and videos and now it has kept a major step towards the applications and games.

As we all know, Facebook is recently seeing a major fall due to the introduction of Google+. It has become like a rival for facebook. To fight against the Google+, facebook has come up with video chatting, group text chatting and enhancements in other stuffs. In the same way, to retain its position in the market, Google has kept a step ahead by introducing applications and games. This feature will be available for all the users very soon.

We being the users, have to see how Google will emerge with games and applications against the facebook's applications and games. All the best for both large social networking sites.

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BSNL Launches VVoIP


BSNL, the state-owned telecom service provider, along with Sai Infosystem - an Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) provider - has launched Voice and Video Over Internet Protocol (VVoIP). This will allow its customers to make audio as well as video calls to any landline, mobile, or IP phone anywhere in the world, provided that the requisite video phone equipment is available at both ends.
The service will cost 40 paise per minute for audio and Rs 2 per minute for video calls within the country over VVoIP. International calls are also available at affordable rates. A call made to the US or UK will cost Rs 1.20 per minute on landlines and Rs 7.20 on mobiles. Subscribers can avail this service by paying a registration charge of Rs 150.BSNL will start offering this service at Ahmedabad, and later make it available to Gujarat. It will eventually be brought to Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh.

Google acquires G.co domain - Official Google websites URL shortner


As Twitter, Amazon and etc... uses T.co, A.co respectively uses their own URL shorteners, Google too has come up with its own URL shortener service with G.co. Google still has goo.gl URL shortener service but it is for public use.


G.co is only for official use. Only the websites which will be owned by Google will have these links. G.co will not be available for public service. This service will help the users to clearly know which is an unofficial site and which is official site of Google.