Google Barcodes

Today we had a barcode that said google on the home page.I learned that there is a really cool project google has been working on.


This is a cool new type of barcode I have not heard of before. The QR code is a way to put up to 4000 letter characters and 10000 numbers in a barcode. I love the fact that you can control the level of accuracy. You can make it so between 7 and 30% of the barcode could be covered and unreadable and no data will be lost because the data is redundant like RAR files can be. It is like stiped harddrives in the way that if one of them is destroyed the others still have the files that were lost on the harddrive that failed. Read about how google charts API works to let you make these cool barcodes.
http://code.google.com/apis/chart/types.html#qrcodes

You can also use it to store a contact including about 10 different parts to it.
It can store a geographic location including how many meters above the area.
It can also store a SMS message, or an e-mail or a calendar event. Try out generating these barcodes and more in the following online demo.
http://zxing.appspot.com/generator/

These barcodes will someday be used more as maybe something that can add events to your google calendar or add anyones contact info from a book into your email profile. Mobile phones can read these barcodes and so it is a pretty new technology that will be helpful to someone someday.

re enabling the backspace in Ubuntu firefox

I have been using firefox in windows for a long time. I like pressing the backspace when I want to go back in the browser. I have switched to Linux and noticed that the default behavior for the back space and shift backspace is a page up and page down. I found a way to fix this issue from this sie here.
I will tell you how it is done encase the link doesn't work. In fire fox type about:config in the url address bar. Then find the preference name: "browser.backspace_action". Change its value to 0 to chage the default behavior of the backspace to really go back in the browser. Then shift backspace will go forword also. I really like this fix. Leave comments if you liked this article.

IGoogle is not permanent any more

Some people say once you go to igoogle.com and start personalizing a google page then you can't get to plain google by clicking on your home page any more. Well I figured a way around it.
Type this in for your home page: http://www.google.com/url?sa=p&pref=ig&pval=1&q=/webhp
Then when you go to the home page it will be go straight to the classic home instead of going to igoogle.com. Have a great day.

A little change

I am going to start to blog about some nice programs that help me get things done better and some of the nice thing they help me do. I use a program called DAEMON Tools to use ISO images on my computer. I also found a couple other tools that are like it. To download DAEMON Tools go to this website: http://www.disc-tools.com/download/daemon
This tool lets you load an ISO image on to your computer as an extra letter even though you have just one drive in your computer. You can actually have as many drives as you have letters in the alphabet. There are other types of images too such as .bin and .nrg and .cue files. Sometimes .cue and .bin files go together. You place the cue and bin in one folder. The cue file is very small. Then you point Nero to the cue file and it burns the .bin file for you. That is good for now.

Welcome

Welcome to Zoho Writer

Your Word Processor on the Web

Thanks for signing up with Zoho Writer!

Zoho Writer is the word processor designed for you, the next generation web citizen. Built using AJAX technology, it's fast and revolutionizes the way you work with documents. Having all your documents online (and offline too! we'll get back to that later!!), you have access to them from any computer, at home or at work. And no more emailing them back-and-forth to your colleagues, clients or friends for review, thanks to its instant collaboration, inline commenting and chat facilities.

It will take a lot more than this short welcome document to list all of Zoho Writer's features and hence a chosen few of the Zoho Writer's functionalities below :

Formatting Options:

Bold, italicize, underline, set back ground color & color your words, link to a web page,Set margins, use cool smileys and do much more. Use the same keyboard shortcuts as with any other word processing application for accessing these functions.

No Searching Within Menus:

Most functions are available at a click, thanks to the friendly toolbar. And for the super user in you, a few extra features are accessible with just an extra click.



Spell Check

What's a word processor without a spell checker? Zoho Writer's does all the dirty spell checking work for you so that you needn't worry about whether it's receive or recieve

Pictures

Want to decorate your document with pictures & images? Insert pictures and images in your Zoho Writer documents as you would in a normal word processor. Pull and place pictures both from your desktop as well as from the web. See how the image/picture looks like using 'Image Preview'. Shrink to fit in case the image/pic is of larger size.And set properties for the inserted pic/image like border, spacing as well.

Tags as Folders
	Get the best of both worlds. Tags are the new folders. Not sure whether you want to put a document in the Sales or Marketing folder? That's where tags-as-folders come in. Make the document available in both the folders! Now, isn't that handy?

Post to your blog

Being on the web, you can post to your blog from within Zoho Writer. As you have seen above, Zoho Writer's WYSIWYG editor is more feature-rich than a typical blog editor's. Be it Blogger.com, Wordpress.com, Livejornal, Typepad or any blog that supports metaWeblog API, you can make the post from Zoho Writer. You can add tags and make the post optionally as a draft as well!

Comments Add inline comments to particular paragraphs /sentences of a document. You & your friends (or your team members & your boss) canadd comments in a document you are collaborating on. Adding contextual comments is very useful for reviewing purposes. And this comes in handy for journalists/editors & teachers/students, in particular.

Bulleted Lists
Zoho Writer makes it easy

1. to have
2. numbered or
   
3. • bulleted lists.
   • And there is support for
     
4. multiple levels as well
5. 
   

Insert Tables Make tables and adjust the cell properties with ease. Pick easily the number of rows/columns.

Column Header1	Column Header2	Column Header3
Table Cell 11	Table Cell 12	Table Cell 13
Table Cell 21	Table Cell 22	Table Cell 23
Table Cell 31	Table Cell 32	Table Cell 33

Share your documents
Instead of mailing your documents to everyone, share them. And Zoho Writer makes it more than just sharing. You can give Read or Write permissions for each sahring participant. Collaborate real-time on the document and there's the added chat functionality as well!

Go Offline

Not sure you'll have internet access all the time? Zoho Writer allows you to take your documents offline. You can view your latest 25 documents now but editing support is coming soon. Stay tuned!

Integration With Other Zoho Apps

Zoho Writer comes from the widely diversied stable of Zoho. Signing up with Zoho Writer allows you to access a plethora of Zoho apps - be it our web based spreadsheet tool, Zoho Sheet, the online presentation creator, Zoho Show or the net meeting enabler, Zoho Meeting. The integration doesn't stop with just single sign-on. You can embed sheets and slideshows. And here's more - any change done to the sheet/slideshow gets automatically reflected in your Zoho Writer document! Those are just a few things that can be done with Zoho Writer. You will get to discover more as you work with Zoho Writer.

We have a very active forums at http://forums.zohowriter.com. And your queries, valuable feedback comments are most welcome at feedback@zohowriter.com as well.

Again, thanks for signing up with Zoho!

How to change IP address from the Windows command line

Check out this web page:

http://www.daybarr.com/blog/2007/05/11/how-to-change-ip-address-from-the-windows-command-line
It explains how to use comand prompt to change your ip address, gateway and dns servers plus how to chage it back to dhcp again. It uses netsh.
This is how you set your ip address, subnet mask and gateway:

netsh interface ip set address "Local Area Connection" static 192.168.1.140 255.255.255.0 192.168.1.1 1
netsh interface ip set dns "Local Area Connection" static 4.2.2.2 primary

Then back to DHCP
netsh interface ip set address "Local Area Connection" dhcp
netsh interface ip set dns "Local Area Connection" dhcp

This is so helpful. You just put this code in to a text file and change the extension from txt to cmd. Then you can open it and it will set your ip address. Then have another file that will change it back to DHCP again.

The AMD Phenom™ Processor will be here by the end of 2007!

It will have four cores and will have a range of speed of 1.8-2.3 Ghz at first.

I can't wait till DDR3 gets cheaper. Right now it costs $400-500 to get 1GB. DDR2 costs $40-50 for the same amount with a speed of 800Mhz. DDR3 has speeds of 1066-1333Mhz. Look at this bench marking site comparing the two.

After reading the above article you will notice that DDR3 has barely any improvement on DDR2. Someone should test them in a 64bit Windows Vista computer and see if there is any improvement then.

There is another nice technology that is coming called bluetooth 3.0 which is supposed to greatly speed up the transfer of data wirelessly to other bluetooth devices. Right now with version 2 the speed is 3Mbps. Well when the new version 3 comes out that speed will be increased to 480Mbps which is like firewire and USB2.0!

I like this article about the 480Mbps speed

The current standard version 2 uses the 2.4Ghz band. Here is a quote from the following site: "In other developments, the SIG said it continues to work with the WiMedia Alliance to incorporate 6GHz-band ultra-wideband technology into the 3.0 version of the specification, tentatively dubbed High Speed Bluetooth. The 480+Mbps spec is due by the end of the year, about six months behind what the SIG called an aggressive schedule announced last year.