Reminiscence and google docs
One of the highlights of passing out is to get the reminiscence form filled out.For those who dont know what it is . Its the form wherein you make your friends write somewords about you :) .good or bad honest words .Unfortunately the form we get has only a few lines and hence few friends to [...]
No evil ha ha
Yet another disappointing feature from google. I hate to see google trying to dictate what i do with my machine .
First the privacy issue and now this .
http://seoker.com/2008/02/11/google-hijacking-404-error-pages/
leave alone the discussion of right and wrong but why should this be there in first place at all ?
Update : http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/12/fyi-on-google-toolbars-latest-features.html
The suggestion come in only when [...]
google opening up people search with orkut
I logged in to orkut to find a new feature that i havent noticed before,the orkut people search .Facebook had opened up the people search sometime ago but google opening this didnt get much attention though .
And more strangely the default choice is yes ,ie people can search for your name at google and it [...]
XMPPpy
xmpppy is a wonderful little package to make Google chat bots or in general any jabber chat bot .Remember the conference bot posted earlier ?
lets see how we can actually login to our GTalk and send messages to our friends through xmpppy
first install xmpppy from its homepage.
python >> from xmpp inport *
>>c=Client(’gmail.com’)
>>c.connect(server=(’talk.google.com’,5223))
>>c.auth(’yourusernamewithout”@gmail.com”‘,’yourpassword’)
>>c.send(Message(’theyaga@gmail.com’,'Test message’))
quite simple [...]
Conference in GTalk
Yes , you heard it right .You can have a conference chat/talk using your GoogleTalk or basically Jabber server.
You can download the bot from here . Its coded in python and hence you would need python installed ,the rest should run smoothly .
Steps
1 . Create a userid@gmail.com which will act as the bot [...]
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