How to find who is invisible on gmail chat

hi friends..

having another nice thing to write..

its "how to find who is invisible on gmail chat"

If you need to find your friend is actually offline or is s/he invisible in gmail chat, these are the steps to follow.

1. Log on to google talk

2. Hover the mover over the contact

3. Click the "down arrow" in the appearing box

4. Select "Chat"

5. Click the "down arrow" in the chat window

6. Seletct "Go off the record"

7. Type "Hi" in the chat

If you get a red text showing 

“ is offline , can’t receive the message right now ”

then that contact is actually offline.

If you do not get that red messege,

That means the contact is invisible.

Your friend is caught !!!!

Thats all, and that is how to find who is invisible on gmail chat..

Enjoy !!!

how to find who has blocked you in gmail

Hi friends,

These days i'm super buzy with a dozen of assignments and projects; so didnt had any intersting post for some time. Anyway, last week, i had to block one of my friends on my gmail chat (its just a joke that i did; he hee; friends name starts with D; guess...). So i wanted to find out is there any way for my friend to find out that i have blocked that name in my gmail chat list. Oops yes !! there's a way... And this is "how to find who has blocked you in gmail chat".

For this you have to use a chat client called "pidgin". Click here to visit pidgin website and download pidgin. 

After installing it, configure it to use for google chat (need any help ? drop me an email). You can configure pidgin for FaceBook chat also. There's a nice post about it on my friend Sanjaya's blog.

Launch Pidgin.

Enable your gmail account (if its not enabled).

Go To "Buddies" -> "Show" -> tick on "Offline Buddies"

Now you should be able to all your contacts (available, busy, idle, invisible, offline, or any...)

Then select a contact, right click and select "Get Info"

It will give you a brief information about the contact (at least the name)

If that contact has blocked you, then you won't get any information (not even the name) when you select "Get Info" option.

So.. now you can find who has blocked you in gmail chat. Thanks Hayesha for giving me his wireless net connection to use pidgin and for blocking me for few minutes in testing this...

Happy Chatting !!!!

Make Gmail Your Universal Email Account

Have you ever think of connecting all your email accounts to an one single email account ??? Some time before gmail made this happen and in this post i'd like to mention few facts about that.

In this cace you need two bacis things.
1. Sending email from the universal email account, as you are sending from other account.
2. Receiving the emails you receive to all other accounts to your universal email account.

Gmail has made this posible.

Go to Accounts in the gmail settings
use Add Mail Address in "Send mail as:" and "Get mail from other accounts:"
and follow the instructions.


Reading your Windows Live or Hotmail email directly from Gmail:
The above method works fine for pop3 enabled mail servers. but my hotmail and windows live free accounts dont allow me pop3 access. Therefore theres a little trick to be done. Add your hotmail/live to another service which provides you pop3 access and add that to your gamil. One such service is izymail. Create an account there and you will get the incoming mail server as "in.izymail.com" on port "110". Use that in adding your hotmail/live account. I ve attached an screen shot for your convinience.

Gmail Video Chat ( Voice and Video Chat Inside Gmail)

hi all,

after a long time... bit bz with acedemic + industry stuff.. just got to know about a cool news from my friend Garthee; Google Launches Voice and Video Chat Inside Gmail !!!!!

11 Nov 2008 (yesterday), Google launched video chat inside gmail, which is a cool feature for all the gmail users (actually gmail users who is sitting infront of a web cam with a microphone).

This feature requires to install a plugin to your browser which you can download from here. For more info visit Official Gmail Blog.

From my point of view, with providing rich content on web (with Facebook, Google Apps ie:Gmail, Gtalk, Calendar, Google Docs, Google Sites), Google has started and continuing its way to our future dream "The Web will be the OS"....

jst see this video, which i found on YouTube....

Windows Registry - Know it !! it will make your work easier

Hi all,

First of all i think its good to describe what made me to write this post. In most of the computers in lab at uni, every time i log in to a computer i need to set the connection settings of Internet-Explorer and then import them when launching Firefox and Download Managers. I don't know why the server do not push the settings when i log in; (in some computers the server does that while for some computers i need to manually set them).

Anyway, this is a headache for me and i was thinking of writing a script for that. Coz i ve attended a Linux Shell Scripting workshop few months before ( Thanking a lot to Anuradha Ratnaweera , Bud, Suchetha Wijenayake, Sanjeewa Wijerathne , D. Anuradha, Sapumal and my friend Hayesha for informing me about the event) and in this situation i wanted to write some kind of a thing for windows also.

i found that the Internet Connection Settings are there in the Windows Registry and i can edit them. Therefore i wrote a .reg file to write the proxy settings to the windows registry. WOW !! It Works !!!

just three lines,
if you are using this, copy the code below to a notepad and save in .reg format. replace myProxy and myPort with your institutes proxy and port values.

Cheers !!!

=== === === === === ( proxySettings.reg ) === === === === ====
REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings]
"ProxyEnable"=dword:00000001
"ProxyServer"="myProxyIP:myProxyPort"

Beginner or Expert – it’s the time to use NetBeans 6.1!!!

Hi folks, it’s again after some time I’m writing a blog post. These days if some one asks me “Hi how’s life?” my first answer is “Life is cool as usual but busy with my final year project stuff…

My project is mainly based on J2ME and I’m a newbie to mobile application development with Java. The first thing that I was seeking was a good IDE for the j2me development, because a good IDE enhances the performance a lot. After surfing the internet, reading experts ideas that they have stated in their blogs, I found the exact match for my requirement. Its NetBeans 6.1!! I just wanted to try it and see coz experts are using it. The rest of this post is based on my search results and experience of last 3weeks.

I knew about NetBeans IDE from my first year but what I had in my mind is it’s only for java. This is the first time I got to know that NetBeans is not only for java. It covers a verity of platforms and languages like C/C++, Java, Ruby, Php, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, JSP, JavaFX, XSL, WSDL, UML, Groovy, Scala, Prolog, Tcl, and many more…even people do OpenGL development (3D graphics modeling) with NetBeans6.1.

From my point of view, Net-beans6.1 is the best IDE that a student can use (irrespective of the programming language as NetBeans supports a variety of programming languages) because students cant spend a lot of money on software. You might use cheap pirated proprietary IDEs, but it’s illegal. Since NetBeans is free you are not violating any others rights (I know the IT experts also agree with me on the above fact).

NetBeans6.1 is a best GUI builder and a Rapid Application Development tool which is rich in features and great in performance. NetBeans supports Windows, UNIX, Linux, Solaris, Mac OSX OS platforms. Visual Designer for MIDP applications is very much useful in my work. When the source code editor is concerned variable highlighting and code completion features are really good and performing very well. In addition to those the NetBeans6.1 IDE is having the following features and many more… (I got the feature information from http://wiki.netbeans.org/NB61NewAndNoteWorthy.)

• Faster and improved startup of the IDE and projects (40% faster startup than NB6.0).
• Transparent windows when dragging and when slide.
• Ability to create different types of projects that share same class libraries.
• Associating JARs with projects Javadoc and sources.
• Great support for MySQL in the Database Explorer allows developers to register a MySQL Server, view databases, view, create, and delete databases, easily create and open connections to these databases, and many more.
• Viewing Java Bean patterns in the Navigator + BeanInfo Editor.
• Code editing and code completing enhancements including editing of javadoc comments.
• JavaScript support.
• JSF CRUD Generator, Spring Framework Support, Axis2 support for web services, SOAP UI integration for Web Service testing and monitoring.

So my dear friends, why are you waiting? Go to http://www.netbeans.org and download new NetBeans6.1 IDE, test it and enjoy it!!!

Looking for a free alternative to Adobe Illustrator & CorelDraw ?

Hi friendz,

Recently, while i was reading a code project news letter, i came through a note on a free software named "Creative Docs .net" which is really a very good alternative to Adobe Illustrator or CorelDraw. BTW, dont think that im an expert in designing.... any way im not that much bad in it.

Creative Docs .NET is a free (free for non-commercial use), flexible vector drawing software which runs on windows platform. It supports vector based graphics designing with rich text and ideal to quickly write short documents, manuals, posters, illustrations, schema s, plans, flow charts, and much more.

Though available without charge, Creative Docs offers tons of goodies seen only in commercial software - you can draw text along a curved path, merge shapes using boolean operations, convert text into Bezier curves, color gradients, etc... Creative Docs can also be used for creating optical illusions, drawing flow charts or for writing manuals like you would do inside Microsoft Word. The finished document or graphic can be saved in image formats or as a PDF document.[this paragraph is extracted from here]

Visit http://www.creativedocs.net for more information.
Im attaching some screen captures with this post that i got from their web site.



Happy Creative Docs !!