The Digital Story of the Nativity – (or Christmas 2.0)

How social media, web and mobile tell the story of the Nativity.
Christmas story told through Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Google, Wikipedia, Google Maps, Gmail, Foursquare, Amazon…

Times change, the feeling remains the same.

Clip to Onenote 3.0 Released

Next version of my add-on Clip to OneNote is released. Thanks for all my contributors, mentors, friends and users. This release Works with:Firefox 3.0a1 – 4.0b8pre and Thunderbird 3.0a1pre – 3.3a1pre. It is tested with  Microsoft Office Onenote 2010.

Whats New:

• For Firefox : Added Date, Time along with source URL
• For Thunderbird : Added Subject, Sent Date, To, From, CC and BC for mail clippings. Added Icon in mail header toolbar for easy access. Also added keyboard shortcut support for Thunderbird.
• The preference dialogue has options to change the above settings
• Added preferences to the drop down menu in the toolbar icon for easy access. (Reduced 5 clicks to 2 clicks)
• In Onenote : You can now insert the clippings into the current page. (The insertion point position)
• Added support for Firefox 4.0b8pre and Thunderbird 3.3a1pre and dropped support for Firefox 2.*

Ps: Updates will be announced in the new facebook fanpage. So please ‘Like’ Clip to Onenote and recieve updates there.

Bought a New Moniter Samsung SyncMaster B2030

wheooeo Just bought a new monitor, Samsung B2030.

Its nice to have more space specifically while working on Eclipse Java IDE. Hope it will increase my productivity..

About the moniter:

It is a 20″ widescreen LCD monitor with a native resolution of 1600 x 900 pixels with a 5ms response time and a dynamic contrast ratio of 50,000:1 for clear picture quality. It is designed with a high gloss black bezel with clear acrylic along the bottom edge for style. The Samsung SyncMaster B2030 features Samsung’s MagicBright 3 technology which optimizes the screen settings to suit the task. It also offers DVI-D and D-Sub connectivity and utilizes MagicAngle technology, allowing the screen to be viewed clearly from any angle. Price: 8700 INR

A Small Step…

Image via CrunchBase

A couple of days ago makeuseof.com has posted an article titled “Ditching Evernote? Check Out 5 Free Web Clipping Alternatives” As an alternative to Evernote they have mentioned Microsoft Office OneNote and along with that they have mentioned my add-on Clip to OneNote.

To supplement OneNote’s tools, you can try out the experimental Mozilla Addon – Clip to OneNote. Though the results are not that clean cut, but the add-on makes sending of text and images a bit easier from Firefox to OneNote.

via makeuseof.com

It is a good start and a motivational factor. Thanks to Saikat Basu at makeuseof.com

Technophilia – My New Technology Blog

Hello friends,

I have not posted in this blog for a while now. Its because I was little bit busy in creating a new technology blog called Technophilia (http://technophilia.madharasan.com/). I started it today because it is an auspicious day, novena to my patron St. Joseph begins today.

As I have already mentioned in my previous posts I am not going to stop blogging here, Only technology part of this blog is moved over there.

The new is all about technology related news, updates, events, gossip and what’s happening in this fast-changing world. You will also find great “How To” on that site. I will be blogging about what’s happening in the world of internet, Web 2.0, software reviews, a whole range of topics in the IT world. I will update my blog frequently, so visit often to get the latest news, events and gossip. Occasionally I’ll also blog about programming (more specifically Java), but that won’t be the main theme of the site.

I would like to thank Mr. Kuppusamy. K. S (Lecturer, Dept. of CS, Pondicherry University ) for encouraging me to do so.

I hope you will enjoy this blog as much as I enjoy making it. Please tell about this blog to your friends and colleagues, It will really mean a lot to me. Any suggestions or comments regarding the blog/content is welcomed.

Keyboard Shortcut to Shutdown Windows 7

Image via Wikipedia

I never shutdown my computer at night. I just turn off the monitor and go to sleep.  One problem I faced with Windows 7 was that when power goes off, which happens awful lot of time, its very difficult to shutdown my computer, without switching on my monitor. But if I switch on my monitor then UPS wont withstand (Yes, I am using age old CRT).

I really miss Windows XP, where I would just press: Win + U + U.

The shutdown button is replaced in Windows 7 with power button, I was struggling without that option. But recently my friend taught me the short cut key. But before going in to details, It is to be noted that the default power button action must be “shutdown”. To do that go to Taskbar and Start Menu Properties dialog box by right clicking on the task bar and selecting properties. In the second tab you will have the option to change the value for the default power button action. After you have set that you can use Win + Right Arrow + Enter or Ctrl + Esc + Right Arrow + Enter to shutdown. Easy na?

Clip to OneNote 2.2 Released with support for Thunderbird 2.0-3.0.*

Next version of my add-on Clip to OneNote is released. Thanks for all my contributors, mentors, friends and users. This release is compatible from Firefox 2.0 to 3.6 Beta and Thunderbird 2.0 – 3.0.*. It is tested with  Microsoft Office Onenote 2010.

New in this version:

• Support for Thunderbird 2.0 – 3.0.* is added. It is to be noted that support for Thunderbird 2.* will be dropped from next version and only 3.* and newer will be supported.

I sincerely thank all who have made a donation for this add-on. I am really happy to know that my add-on is useful to you. If you have a couple of bucks to spare, please consider making a donation.

I request you to review this add-on and post your comments so that the add on might be out of sand box as soon as possible.

Important Note:

Some users have reported that they get error message while downloading the add on. The error message may vary from Firefox could not install the file at .. Not a valid install package -207 or Firefox could not install the file at .. because: Invalid file hash (possible download corruption) when clicking an “Install” link. It is to be noted that these errors occur because of Firefox’s mirrors server error and not because of the add-on itself. And it will occur only to a add-on in sandbox and not to a public add-on. There are two ways to rectify it. First and recommended method is to logging into this site (if you don’t have a account, you have to create one) and then trying to download. Second method is to download from my server. Then you can open it in Firefox via File->Open file to install it.

Some Firefox Tweaks

Image via Wikipedia

These are some of the Firefox tweaks to customize Firefox to your own need.

Note that all these tweaks depend upon configuration settings of Firefox which can be set by accessing about:config url inside Firefox.

• To Open Search box Results in New Tab ,  search for value browser.search.openintab in about:config and set it to false
• In Firefox 3.6 to enable The Aero Peek for each tab  set browser.taskbar.previews.enable to true
• Again in Firefox 3.6 if you want to activate the new tab switcher button on the right-hand side of the tab bar, set browser.allTabs.previews to true
• Another really awesome new feature in Firefox 3.6 is an enhanced Ctrl+Tab, but you’ll have to turn it on with a simple tweak if you want to use it. Once you’ve done that, you can simply hit the shortcut key combination to flip between the tabs. Note that it only activates if you have 3 or more tabs open. To enable this just set browser.ctrlTab.previews to true

Hope these were helpful to you.. If you have any other favorite tweaks please let me know..

Clip to OneNote 2.0 Released

Finally after a very long gap, next version of my add-on Clip to OneNote is released. Thanks for all my mentors, friends and users. This release is compatible from Firefox 2.0 to 3.6 Beta and Microsoft Office One Note 2010.

To know more about this add-on or to download it please visit Firefox add-on site.

New in this version:

• Source code is completely re-written and compacted. The size is reduced from 26 KB to 11 KB
• Copy option is moved from Tools menu to Edit menu, because of its purpose and context
• A icon is added for menu items (both context and tool bar)
• Shortcut Key is added to access easily. Two shortcuts are available:
  1. Alt+Ctrl+L or
  2. You can access from edit menu by pressing Alt+E and when edit menu pops out Press L
• Alert message is added is nothing is copied rather than copying blank note

Future Enhancements:

• A new add-in for OneNote will be developed for more versatile access
• Options dialogue will be enhanced

I request you to review it and post your comments so that the add on might be out of sand box as soon as possible.

Wish you all a Happy and Prosperous New Year!

Burj Dubai – 2.3 Gigapixel photo

Camtasia capture of scrolling around a 2.3 gigapixel image of the Burj Dubai. If this image was printed out at 150 pixels per inch, it would be over 37 feet high…