Google Notebook in Firefox

If you use Google Notebook, you'll find it usefull. It is a firefox add-on that adds your Notebook to the Firefox sidebar. You'll habe acces to your notes from the browser and it is better the their wiget from Google.

Try it, if you don't use Notebook you may start to use it now.

Googel Notebook in Firexox sidebar - find here about it, and about instalation of it.

Yahoo! Mail beta has Messenger

.. or at least it will.

The greatest advantage of GMail for me was the free POP3 access and the integrated talk client, an then was the no advertising thing. But now it seems that Yahoo! wants to integrate a Y! Messenger client in the Mail beta, to be available directly in the browser. With the new, more user friendly, interface of the Mail, Yahoo! took a big step, and this will be an important step too.

Here's a video presentation of the idea. In the presentation you can see some thing about it, and that this feature will be released later for all the users.


And more about the new Yahoo Mail on http://ymailupdates.com/.

GMail has about 3 GB - you could use it like a drive

You can use it on your computer by installing an application that will do to access the drive easier, or you could use it from the net.
The first method is very easy to use (too bad you can't see the drive in Total Commander, but the Windows Explorer will do). You just have to:
1. Download the GMail Drive shell extension 1.0.10 from here.
2. Extract he files from the archive and run setup.exe
3. Access the new drive in Windows Explorer - it will ask you to log in (you know that Windows Explorer is something like Internet Explorer but with some other default tools, so when you copy files on that drive you just upload a file into an email sent to you, and when you copy from it you just download that file, so don't expect extra speed).
Look at the tips on the download page that I gave you above. It is nice to put a filter to your uploaded files.
Here you can see a little illustration how it works:


The method number two:
But sometimes you want to access your files not only on your computer, but somewhere else, at school, where you have no time or will to install that application. You can use this page witch is user friendly, and uses the same GMail. It is xMailHardDrive page powerredby BlackBox.
I saw this site is in the beta version, and sometimes you need patience with it. This guy from the clip above say that is is ok. It wasn't for me...

If the second method doesn't work, try downloading files from your GMail inbox (that's kind of third method), that sure will work, it will be just harder to upload files, but for that you better use the first method from home, where you have the drive installed.

Statii de metrou in Bucuresti

Pentru ca sa ne fie mai usor sa ne orientam cand iesim din Metrou METROREX a amplasat la fiecare iesire de metrou o harta in care indica unde te afli, la adresa de mai jos veti gasi amplasarea statiilor de metrou pe harta oferita de Google Maps si Google Earth. Astfel, utilizatorii de Google Earth pot sa descarce fisierul cu amplasarea statiilor, iar cei care nu s-au complicat sa intaleze acest programel pot sa le identifice pe hartile de Googel Maps.

Pentru celelalte orase nu am facut lucruri asemanatoare din motive intemeiate:

1. Nu cred ca sunt metrouri (dar sunt linii de tramvai importante e adevarat)

2. Harta oferita de Google nu este destul de detaliata (de exemplu pentru Iasi)

3. Nu cred ca sunt in stare sa ofer informatii relevante chiar daca harta permite (de exemplu pentru Timisoara)

 

Va pun astfel la dispozitie:

• Statiile de metrou din Bucuresti pe Google Maps
• Statiile de metrou pentru Google Earth (fisier .kmz)
• Adresa unde sunt postate resursele de mai sus pe Google Earth Community

Sper sa va fie de ajutor.

Opera Introduces Fraud Protection : PhishTank

For the Opera users some new features in their browsers - the browser deals with the phishing problem.

Phishing is a form of online fraud in which a malicious party convinces users to visit a forged Web site. That site is designed to mimic a trusted site in order to trick users into divulging personal information, credit card numbers, or bank account details. According to PhishTank, the month of November alone saw more than 9,628 unique phishing attacks. Since most phishing sites are taken down quickly, only real-time protection holds the key to consistent safety.

Firefox and IE introduced this feature a long time ago, I don't know what is the way these browsers are detecting the "phishy" sites, but I think that the user should pay attention anyway where and how he gives his personal information.

About this PhishTank you can read more on the Opera site.

Internet can help you to convert a file

Sometimes you need to convert a file and you don't know what utility would help you to do that. A word document must be send to a friend and he cannot see it, make a pdf file and send it. Or your mobile phone supports only specific formats of audio files, take a mp3 file and convert it to the format you want. And for that you will need only an Internet connection (for bigger files you will stay longer and it depends on your connection speed too). There is a page - Media Convert - that convert files for free (max file size is 50 MB, but I don't think you want to upload and download a file bigger than that). It is easy an useful, it is always available (if you'll need a little tutorial on how to convert a file, see it here).

New on Google Earth: Panoramio and Wikipedia

In the morning, I was looking for a shorter path for my travels, and I sow these little white circles with an blue x on them on the map, and some gray ones. (You should see them too if you see a right part of the map - peek a city that may contain something interesting - and if in the layers panel the Geographic Web is checked).
So the x-circles are from Panoramio and the grey ones are from Wikipedia. (they are like the sites favicons - those that appears in the address bar before the site url).
Let's what the gray icons can do:
It retrieve informations from Wikipedia and show it in Google Earth, I found it nice.
The Panoramio little circles are nice too, you can see a picture of that place the circle is.
But the bes way to see it is in Google Earth. Find some time to watch it.