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Access Microsoft Office Web App Tech Preview without invitation

noreply@blogger.com (Huycb) — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:23:00 +0000

Many users have already received Microsoft Office 2010 Preview invitation as well as office 2010 is also leaked on torrent websites. Another interesting development at Microsoft lab is Online Office application which is to direct compete with Google Docs.

Microsoft has started accepting application for Office Web App you may register and wait for invitation but those eager users who want to try Microsoft Office Web App now just follow below steps and get instant access to Office Web App.

Access Office Web App Now Without Invitation

Go to Windows Live SkyDrive and sign in with the Windows Live ID (if you don’t have Windows Live ID then create New one ).
Upload some Microsoft Office documents (Word, Excel or PowerPoint presentation) to the Documents/My Documents folder on your Skydrive
Once you Upload Office Document you will see a message “join our preview program to Create, Edit, View and Share online ”
Click on Join Our Preview program and accept agreement
Now you can access Office Web App and Click on the link “Start using the Office Web Apps today !” start using Online Office.

Web Office Application

Note: This may not work for some users. If you are non-English users then first change language to English and then try.

Thanks to Liveside.net for the hat tip

Google Reader gets new features - more social

noreply@blogger.com (Huycb) — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 04:03:00 +0000

When we first started improving our sharing features, our goal was to make sharing as simple and flexible as the rest of Reader. Today, we're pleased to announce that we've made four improvements to give you more sharing control and help you easily find other people's publicly shared items within Reader.

Find and follow other people

Instead of sharing your items with others and hoping they reciprocate, you can now find people with public shared items and subscribe to their shared items with one click. Use our new people search feature (powered by Google profiles) to look for people who have public shared items. You can browse by name, location, or topic, and start following new people -- all from inside Reader.

Shhh, just between us friends...

If sharing publicly isn't your cup of tea, we now allow you to share items with a specific group or with multiple groups. If you choose to do this, only people you add to your sharing groups will be able to see and comment on your shared items. If you use Gmail, you will notice that these are the same groups from your Gmail contacts -- so, changes you make to these groups in Reader will change them in Gmail as well.

Take your 15 minutes of fame

If you want people who visit your Google profile to know what you're interested in on Reader, add a link to your shared items to your Google profile. Once you check the box marked "Add a link to my Google profile," anyone using the search feature within Reader will be able to find and follow your shared items.

To make it even easier for people to find you, you can also give your Reader shared items page a custom URL that uses your Google username, like www.google.com/reader/shared/pink.black. You need to enable this under "Profile URL" on your Google profile first.

If you liked it, then you shoulda put a "LIKE" on it

Have you ever wanted to tell an author or publisher that you appreciate an article they wrote? Or maybe you want to let your friend know that you enjoyed the blog post he shared with you. With a quick click of the mouse (or a swipe of the "L" key -- for the keyboard shortcut pros), you can "like" any item in Reader. All "likes" are public, so anyone reading an item you've "liked" in Reader can see that you're a fan. Checking out shared items for people who have "liked" the same items as you is a great way to discover other people with interests similar to your own.

And one last comment - about comments

One small note for this release: the ability to see and add comments to shared items is still restricted only to people you have in a sharing group (i.e. "Friends"). So, although your shared items might be public (and publicly discoverable), only people you have added to a sharing group will be able to comment on them.

NOTE: These features are English-only

[from GoogleReader.blogspot.com]

Adsense in Google Sites

noreply@blogger.com (Huycb) — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:30:00 +0000

As an AdSense publisher, you manage and develop websites, publishing content to earn money from Google's advertisements.

Google Sites is a free product (the replacement for Google Pages which going to close soon) that make the process of creating group wiki style websites easier. It can be used for many purposes, from family website or a company intranet project website. The process of making website now just like editing documents, and you can adding others contents as well, such as: videos, presentations, and calendars. All the information is stored securely online, and you (the owner) are the one decide who can view, edit the site.

Just a great new for Google Sites owner, with a recent integration, you can place AdSense ads on Google Sites to earn money in an easy way

According to Inside Adsense Blog:

If you're new to Google Sites, we encourage you to take it for a test drive today. After you've built out your site and ensured that it complies with our program policies, follow these instructions to add AdSense to your pages. You'll have the option to place ads in the sidebar as well as the main content of each page, and you can choose the formats that work best for your site. If you're not sure where to start, we encourage you to check out our optimization tips to make sure you're maximizing your site's revenue

Take advantage of the Adsense integration right now if you ready for it.

Unpatched Firefox 3.5 flaw

noreply@blogger.com (Huycb) — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:06:00 +0000

There is a new unpatched memory corruption flaw in the latest version of Firefox. What this means is that hackers could drop malware onto vulnerable systems.

Chances are this will be fixed sooner, rather than later – here is a little more about the story from The Register:

Security notification firm Secunia reports that the security bug (which it describes as extremely critical) stems from errors in handling JavaScript code. The flaw has been confirmed in the latest 3.5 version of Firefox, released in late June.

Older versions of the popular alternative browser might also be affected, Secunia warns.

Exploit code has been uploaded onto recently revived security exploit website milw0rm, a factor that could hasten the development of more attack code.

Secunia advises Firefox users to avoid browsing untrusted websites or following untrusted links pending the availability of a fix from Mozilla (there’s nothing in the pipeline just yet).

Best advice to you is to browse safely, don’t go to web sites you don’t trust, and be sure to keep your security programs up to date.

UPDATE:

Found this via Mashable and MozillaLinks.org:

As it is related to the new TraceMonkey JavaScript optimizer, users can mitigate it by temporarily disabling the optimizer. Until Mozilla addresses this vulnerability, here’s a temporary fix:

Type about:config in Firefox address bar
Set "javascript.options.jit.content" to "false"

So there is your fix for now. Mozilla reports that they are already working on a fix for the flaw and it will be released as soon as it becomes available.

[from FirefoxFacts.com]

Tasks graduates from Gmail Labs - Google Calendar has Labs

noreply@blogger.com (Huycb) — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 04:43:00 +0000

Gmail Lab's popular Tasks feature — which integrates a to-do list with Gmail and with Google Calendars — has officially graduated from Labs and is now incorporated with Gmail for all user by default

According to Gmail blog:

We launched Gmail Labs as a forum for delivering useful (and maybe not so useful) features that might not be quite ready for prime time. The idea was always that the most popular and viable Labs features would graduate and be made more readily available to all users...and that some of the less used, less viable ones would disappear forever.

I'm proud to announce that Tasks is in that first bucket - it's been one of the most popular experimental Gmail features and it's now the first graduate from Labs.

Another greate news for Google Tasks, it's Labs features in Google Calendar (GCal)

Currently the Google Calendar Labs features include everything from background image customization and Google Docs attachments to a cool world clock widget and three other new Labs features.

According to the Google Apps Blog, you should be able to access the Labs features in a new Labs tab in your Calendar settings today, but there's still no updates in calendars yet, so you might need to check back later today if you're in a similar boat.

Whether you're celebrating the graduation of Tasks or you're excited about the Calendar Labs features, let's hear what you think in the comments.

[via Official Gmail Blog - Google Apps Blog]

New in Gmail lab: anti-phishing key

noreply@blogger.com (Huycb) — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:40:00 +0000

We're always looking for new ways to protect Gmail inboxes from spam and phishing. Last year, we started taking extra steps to protect you from fake eBay and PayPal emails, requiring that any email claiming to come from one of eBay's or PayPal's domains actually comes from them. We do that by looking at the "From" header, and when it says "ebay.com" for example, it means it really did come from ebay.com. Anything else is rejected; it won't even appear in your spam folder because Gmail won't accept it.

Now, unless you are a regular reader of this blog with a photographic memory, you may not be aware of this extra protection. So, we thought we'd add a little something to remind you. Turn on "Authentication icon for verified senders" from the Labs tab under Settings, and you'll see a key icon next to verified emails that are super-trustworthy.

"Super-trustworthy" is a technical term Google just invented that means:

The sender, usually a financial institution, is a target of phishers
All of the sender's email is authenticated with DKIM
Gmail rejects any fake messages that claim to come from this sender, but actually don't.

It's a bit of work for senders to make their email super-trustworthy, which is why this feature is limited to just eBay and PayPal right now. We hope to add more senders in the future, and when we do, you'll know because you'll see the super-trustworthy key icon magically appear by those senders too.

You can discuss more about this here.

[from GmailBlog]

Useful Google Chrome tricks

noreply@blogger.com (Huycb) — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 11:54:00 +0000

There is no doubt that Google Chrome browser has grown in popularity since its launch and could well become the most used browser in some years, primarily because of its speed and efficiency and also because it would now form the basis of a new operating system.

I personally use Google Chrome a lot on a daily basis and so far I’ve found it to be very useful. Like in case of every tool, there are many cool tricks associated with this browser too which make working with the browser a breeze. Here are six such tricks.

1. Detach a Tab to New Window

Firefox 3.5 now has it but it was Google Chrome which introduced it. You can easily click and drag a tab outside of the main browser window to a new window

2. Drag Downloads To Desktop / Folder

Another cool feature similar to the tab detach feature. You can drag and drop downloads to any folder or the desktop directly from the browser

3. Learn The Shortcuts

Keyboard shortcuts help in increasing your efficiency while working on the computer. Google Chrome has its own set of useful keyboard shortcuts which you can find here.

4. Use Resources Page To Check Website Load Time

Right click on a web page and click on ‘ Inspect element ‘ . Then click on ‘ Resources ‘ tab to check what parts of a web page are taking time to load. Useful for developers and webmasters

5. Make the Most Out Of Address Bar

Google Chrome’s address bar works as Google search bar too. Hence you could do things like conversions, calculations and dictionary lookups directly from the address bar.

6. Drag & Resize Text Box On a Web Page

Another cool feature. You can drag any text box at the corner and increase its size. Like in the screenshot below, I can resize the comment box of this blog easily by dragging it downwards

[from GoogleTutor.com]

Microsoft releases Office Web Application 2010

noreply@blogger.com (Huycb) — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:51:00 +0000

Today at its Wordwide Partner Conference in New Orleans, Microsoft announced that the Microsoft Office suite has reached the 'technical preview' milestone, and that starting today the company will open up the Office beta program to a larger number of users. While a new version of Office is obviously big news for a lot of users, the really interesting part of the announcement is that Microsoft is also releasing more details about the Office Web applications - which are lightweight, browser-based versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote (Microsoft's note-taking tool). Beta testers can expect invites for the Office Web applications to go out in August.

Office Web: Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and OneNote

The web-based applications were designed to work on any browser and should even work on most mobile browsers. While some functions will only be available when Microsoft's Silverlight is available on a machine, Silverlight is not a requirement to run most features of the web applications. A Microsoft guy, Numoto, stressed that the apps will run on Firefox, Safari, and, obviously, IE, though Google's Chrome is suspiciously absent from this list.

Real-Time Collaboration

Another important aspect, which also ties in with a feature that Microsoft is stressing in the desktop applications of the Office suite, is the ability to collaborate on any document with various users simultaneously - including those using the web applications. While we haven't seen this in action, having a rich-text editor at hand for real-time collaboration on Word and PowerPoint documents is going to be a very exciting feature for a lot of users (however some third-party service providers who currently offer similar services will probably not be happy about this).

What About the Desktop?

The desktop apps obviously also got a make-over. But compared to the shift to Office 2007, the current release features only minor cosmetic updates from what we have seen so far. The integration of the web apps looks like the most exciting addition, as well as the ribbon interface becoming standard across all the applications. Also, Microsoft is putting a lot of emphasis on real-time collaboration, and different users can now edit documents simultaneously. Alhough Numote emphasized that all edits can be reversed.

Numoto also stressed the Office team focused on improving some of the most often used features. As an example, he told us that cut and paste is obviously one of the most popular features in Office, but that Microsoft found that after pasting something into a document, the key that was used the most often afterward was 'delete.' In order to improve the cut and paste process, Office will now feature a 'cut and paste preview,' similar to the feature that Office 2007 already offers for changing styles and fonts, for example.

Outlook aficionados will also be happy to hear that the email client will now feature an option to 'ignore' unwanted threads.

While the Technical Preview, which was announced today, will only be available for a limited number of users, the beta program will be open to everybody. Microsoft expects to ship the final version of Office 2010 in the first half of 2010.

So far, we haven't had a chance to actually test-drive the desktop or web apps ourselves, but you can expect an in-depth review from us once we get access to the beta.

Picasa Web Albums has some new features

noreply@blogger.com (Huycb) — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 09:34:00 +0000

Picasa Web Albums added some new features for managing your favorites and friends.

As you probably know, you can add any Picasa Web user as a favorite to get notified when he uploads new content. When you add him as a favorite user, you'll be included in his friend lists and he'll receive an email notification.

"Add to Favorites" has been around for awhile, but up until this point it hasn't always been easy to know which of your friends and family use Picasa Web Albums. Enter "Suggested Favorites." Similar to the way chat contacts are handled in Gmail, they'll suggest friends and contacts who you may want to add as Favorites, allowing you to easily keep track of what they're sharing with the world in their public albums.

Until now, you couldn't remove users from the list of fans, but Google changed this: if the list of fans includes spammers, you can block them. Users "will be blocked from commenting on your photos and adding you as favorite. Blocking someone cannot be undone," mentions a warning. You can also block users who post offensive comments.

But if you can add users to a list of favorites, why is there no option to favorite images? Picasa Web added a link below each photo: "I like this" and the number of likes, but you can't keep track of the photos you like.

You may want to know:

Adding Blogger blog to Google Webmasters Tools

noreply@blogger.com (Huycb) — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 16:17:00 +0000

Your webmaster search is: submit blogger sitemap google webmaster

Blogspot Blogs since long time but still newbies face problem getting verified and submitting Blogger sitemap to Webmasters tools.

Follow the simple steps to add blogger blog to Webmaster Tools. Adding your site to google webmaster tools increases your blog’s visibility in search engines which means more traffic.

Add and Verify Blogger Blog to Webmasters Tools:

Login to Blogger Dashboard.
At the end of the page, under Tools and Resources box – Click on Webmaster Tools.
If asked, enter username and password again to Login.
Your Blogspot blog is now verified and it is added to Google Webmaster tools.

Submit Blogger Blog Sitemap to Webmasters Tools

Sitemap is basically page containing Article URLs of your blog alongwith metadata. It is updated whenever you post an article and used by Search engines to crawl Blog data. Not only Google but also use by other search engines like Yahoo, Bing,etc.

Inside Webmaster tools, click on Submit a Sitemap and add the following code (after your blog url) inside the box

atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=100

If you have more than 200 posts then replace value 100 by something bigger number like 500.
You have successfully added Blogspot blog sitemap to Google Webmasters Tools.

It's time to sit back and wait for the result.

4 new gadgets from Blogger

noreply@blogger.com (Huycb) — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 15:30:00 +0000

Amanda from Blogger Buster has developed 4 new gadgets for your blog's sidebar.

Display thumbnails of your most recent Picasa photos

Share your recent Twitter updates

Show your most recent posts, with optional summaries

Show your most recent comments, with optional summaries

To add these gadgets go to your blog's Layout tab, click Add a Gadget, and then click Featured. There you'll find Amanda's gadgets along with other gadgets we are currently featuring.

You can stay updated when featured third-party gadgets are added by subscribing to the Blogger Featured Gadget blog.

Interested in building useful gadgets for bloggers? Get started now by reading the Blogger Developer Documentation.

Note: Currently some third-party gadgets will not display correctly in the Chrome browser. We are working on a fix for this.

[via Blogger in Draft]

Vacuum your Firefox databases for better performance

noreply@blogger.com (Huycb) — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 14:49:00 +0000

Since Firefox 3.0, bookmarks, history and most storage is kept in SQLite databases. Also, the default history time span was raised from 9 to 90 days as it became more discoverable and useful thanks to the awesome bar, so depending on your browsing habits it could represent some pretty large databases.

As any other database, SQLite databases become fragmented over time and empty spaces appear all around. But, since there are no managing processes checking and optimizing the database, these factors eventually result in a performance hit. So, a good way to improve startup and some other bookmarks and history related tasks is to defragment and trim unused space from these databases.

To do this:

Step 1: get sqlite3, a single file command line SQLite database manager, for your platform (available for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X).

Step 2: Copy the downloaded binary to your profile folder where all your .sqlite files reside.

Step 3: Close Firefox.

Step 4: From a command line prompt in your profile folder, run:

sqlite3 [SQLite database] VACUUM

replacing [SQLite database with the name of a SQLite file, like places.sqlite.

On Windows, to defragment all SQLite databases in one command, run:

for %a in (*.sqlite) do (sqlite3 %a vacuum)

I ran the script in a couple of machines resulting in a noticeable reduction of start up times after databases defragmentation:

Machine	places.sqlite size before vacuum	places.sqlite size after vacuum	Cold startup Before	Cold Startup After
Machine 1: 1 window, 20 tabs	10 MB	9 MB	11 s	8 s
Machine 2: 3 windows, 25 tabs	40 MB	27 MB	10 s	7 s

So if this is all good, why hasn’t Mozilla included this defragmenting procedure? The thing is they want to but still haven’t found the best way to do so. One of the suggestions so far has been to do it during an update: it has the advantage of been semi regular (about every six weeks), and already interrupts the user workflow (and requires the database files been released, turning Firefox off).

If you try this mechanism, please take some time to get your before and after times and sizes and share your results in the comments. For cold startups, you will have to restart your system to get valid results.

[via MozillaLinks.org]

Gmail and other Google services leave Beta

noreply@blogger.com (Huycb) — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 10:30:00 +0000

Google today will finally remove the long-standing beta tag from some of its most popular web applications, most notably its wildly popular email application, Gmail

In addition to the beta-less Gmail, Google Calendar, Docs, and Talk (i.e., the rest of the Google Apps suite) will also shed the beta moniker. Gmail has notoriously worn the beta badge since its initial invite-only launch back in April of 2004. Strangely, Google's reasoning for keeping Gmail and other apps in beta for so long isn't all that fleshed out: "Obviously we haven't had a consistent set of policies or definitions around beta," said Matt Glotzbach, a director of product management at Google. Mr. Glotzbach said that different teams at Google had different criteria for what beta meant, and that Google felt a need to standardize those. "It was time to address the issue and bring the products out of beta," he said.

Some reports also point out that "the change will mean precious little to Gmail's millions of users" who've been happily using Gmail in beta for years. It seems clear that only little number of users were avoiding Gmail just because of its beta label. Still, if your workplace was hesitant to adopt Google Apps because of its beta status, this move could make all the difference (a fact not lost on Google).

We're still seeing the beta label on every Gmail account we've got as well as our Docs accounts, but Calendar is beta-free. Google's rollouts are always just that—rolling—so you can probably still expect to see the rest of those beta tags drop sometime yet today or this week if they haven't already. The Official Gmail Blog even highlights a new tongue-in-cheek Gmail Labs feature called Back to Beta that, when enabled, "Soothes the soul by putting the familiar beta sticker back on the Gmail logo."

[via LifeHacker]

What happend to free version of Google Apps

noreply@blogger.com (Huycb) — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 05:03:00 +0000

The free version of Google Apps is history. The current sign up page makes no mention of the previously free Standard edition. Instead, new users get a 14 day free trial, and then must pay $50 per user per year after that trial. Google Apps is a suite of online applications like gmail, Google calendar, Google Docs, etc. that are packaged and tailored for business use.

Earlier this year we reported that the usage caps were being squeezed by Google over time for Google Apps, from 200 users down to just 50. When the service first launched in August 2006 it was free and described as “a service available at no cost to organizations of all shapes and sizes.” A paid version first appeared in 2007.

Google’s President of Enterprise commented about the decreasing number of users allowed for the free version, saying that the cap reductions were needed to keep resellers happy, adding “There’s no reason to believe that the cap will continue to “move down” - we have no plans whatsoever to do that.”

You can actually still see the free version at this page. But it doesn’t appear to be linked to from any Google page at this point. We’re emailing Google for comment

The old version of Google Apps had a comparison chart of the Standard and Premier versions that looked like this:

Update: A Google spokesperson says, “In experimenting with a number of different landing page layouts, the link to Standard Edition was inadvertently dropped from one of the variations. We are in the process of restoring it and you should see it soon. We have no intention of eliminating Google Apps Standard Edition, and are sorry for the confusion.”

Update 2: A link to the Standard edition has been added back.

[via TechCrunch.com]

Target ...

noreply@blogger.com (Huycb) — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 09:17:00 +0000

For life, career ... and for everything ...

Control language displayed in Adsense ads unit

noreply@blogger.com (Huycb) — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 13:57:00 +0000

Any of you here know how to target Adsense ads to another language other than English? Cos, one of my friends challenge me such thing which beyond my knowledge about Adsense.

The only way I've known is guided very clear in Adsense help section, which is: the ads will display target language based on content language. But it's not enough to target language. My friend site written in Vietnamese, but the Adsense ads is still displayed in English, or even worse it's displayed public ads.

Finding a way to control language in my Adsense account, I found an option to target its language by using channel. Turning on the target setting and check the result in my Vietnamese site, but the ads is not displayed correct as I expected.

Maybe, because of Adword users do not target their ads to Vietnamese. But I've just noticed that the Adsense ads displayed in my gmail email written in Vietnamese is still in my language, why my ads is not. I tried to change my site's meta tag but it did not make my ads displayed better.

I really lost here. Anyone of you know the way to get me out?

Please help me if you know how.

Any good blog client for mobile S60?

noreply@blogger.com (Huycb) — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 08:10:00 +0000

Finding a blogging client for mobile really drive me crazy.

At the moment, the only blogger client for mobile I knew is Blogger for UIQ, not S60 device. These's another way posting an entry to your blogger account by using the feature called Mail-to-Blog, but it provide very limited features.

Calling for help to find a good blogging client.

Thank in advance

@ the Zoo

noreply@blogger.com (Huycb) — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 05:05:00 +0000

Google Docs gets new feature and tools

noreply@blogger.com (Huycb) — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 12:58:00 +0000

Google Docs just added some new features to its Presentation component. It seem that the Feedback team got was good, and they've been busy adding more features that people have been requesting to make their product better. As they announced on Google Docs blog:

Save as PDF, for when you really need to download your presentation as a file.
PDF-based printing options (save trees and ink!). Go to File->Print, select how many slides you'd like on a page (up to 12), and preview your choice.
Vector shapes, for your basic diagramming and drawing needs. Use block arrows to point out what's important, or say something in a call-out bubble.

Earlier this year, Google Docs team also added a feature that allows us to embed Google Presentation file as Flash-base slides how to any site. Unfortunately, Google Presentaion still lacks some important features like Save as PPT and Slide Master, etc.

Another news related to Google Docs: Google Data team has released a new Windows client called DocList Uploader that lets you easily upload multiple documents from the desktop to your Google Docs account. Files can be uploaded to Google Docs via the right-click menu or drag-and-drop functionality. You can download the DocList Uploader from Google API Blog to have your own experience of the new windows-client from Google.

Also, if you're Firefox lover you can install gDocsBar which is a Firefox extension. The gDocsBar allows you always-on access to your entire collection of Google Documents in Firefox sidebar. Uploading documents to Google Docs has never been easier than with gDocsBar. Simply drag and drop a file to the upload section at the bottom of the gDocsBar sidebar, and the file is instantly uploaded. Now that you're logged in, you'll see a list of your Google Documents, including Spreadsheets and Presentations. You have the option to sort them by date, title, or author, in ascending or descending order. There are also tabs for each type of Google Docs, so that, if you so choose, you can see only one type of document at a time. All documents are instantly searchable by name, author, or content.

Using Blogger’s OpenID with your own site

noreply@blogger.com (Huycb) — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 16:38:00 +0000

As we all know, we can use OpenID to post comments on Blogger's blogs. Not only that, we can use our Blogger's URL as an OpenID. But the coolest feature about Blogger' OpenID is that you can use your websites, blogs, or any URLs as your OpenID and still use Blogger as your OpenID provider.

The feature is called "delegation". That means you can use your non-BlogSpot URL as your OpenID identity, but still login to any site that accepts OpenID authentication with the Google Account you use on Blogger.

In my case, I can use http://www.evnp.com/ as my OpenID, while my main Blog is hosted at http://huycb.blogspot.com - which is my real OpenID provided by Blogger.

All you need to do is just add the HTML code below to the <HEAD> section of your site (ex: http://www.yoururl.com/)

<link rel="openid.server" href="http://draft.blogger.com/openid-server.g" />
<link rel="openid.delegate" href="http://yourbloggerblog.blogspot.com" />

Change "http://yourbloggerblog.blogspot.com" to your blog’s URL then you're done.

You can now use http://www.yoururl.com/ as your OpenID identity on any OpenID sites, and you will be directed to Blogger to sign in.

[via BloggerInDraft]

Improved YouTube For Mobile

noreply@blogger.com (Huycb) — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:55:00 +0000

YouTube just has an excited update for its mobile site. You're now able to watch all the YouTube's videos on your mobile. The YouTube's moble site is available at m.youtube.com.

To use the mobile interface, you need a phone that is able to stream 3GP files over RTSP. But there's a better way to play YouTube videos from your mobile phone: a Java (J2ME) application available for some phones like Sony Ericsson K800, W880 and Nokia S60 3rd Edition. YouTube's mobile application also lets you upload videos from your phone. To install it, just go to m.youtube.com/app on your phone and follow the steps described in YouTube's help center.

According to YouTube's blog, here are what's changed:

Millions of videos: YouTube for Mobile now features tens of millions of videos, which includes most of the videos already available on YouTube.com and your own uploaded videos.
Community on the go: You can now access your YouTube account, your Favorites, your own uploaded Videos and your favorite Channels. You can also share, rate, and comment directly from the mobile website to other YouTube users.
Mobile phone uploads available within moments: Now if you upload videos from your phone to YouTube via email/mms, they will appear within moments on both m.youtube.com and www.youtube.com. This means you can easily share videos you capture on your phone with your friends and family. All you need to do is create a mobile profile at www.youtube.com/mobile.
Global: YouTube for Mobile is available and localized for the UK, Italy, France, Spain, Netherlands, Poland, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, Australia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, New Zealand, Germany, and Russia.

"YouTube for Mobile is all about bringing video to mobile phones. We believe in providing the best user experience possible for all users, which in some cases means different YouTube solutions for different phones," explains the YouTube blog.

So just point your phone browser to m.youtube.com and check out the latest changes!

Will Blogger catch up the race?

noreply@blogger.com (Huycb) — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:10:00 +0000

Recently, Wordpress has increased its free storage for all hosted blogs from 50 MB to 3 GB. What’s the impressive space for a blog?

It’s about 3 times as much free space as Google’s Blogger offers. Even more, the storage is directly attached to WordPress’s blog account, and does not restrict to any filetypes – unlike Blogger, the storage is offered via Picasa Web Albums and we can upload image only.

VS.

Increasing storage is a big deal in online services. Will Blogger catch up the race with the big W(ordpress)?

Associate email addresses with your Google Account

noreply@blogger.com (Huycb) — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 16:41:00 +0000

Google has just recently added an option to associate additional email addresses with your Google Account. You can do so by sign in to your Google Account and try to Edit your Personal information, you now should see the option right after "Edit Personal Information" section.
Note that, you cannot add email addresses already associated with another Google Account or Gmail addresses. If you try to do so, you'll get an error explaining: "A user with the email you specified already exists." or "You can not associate a Gmail address with your Google Account".

Once added, Google sends a verification email to the additional email address to verify you have access to it. You have to click on the link inside verification email and sign in to your Google Account again to verify. At the sign in page, Google explaining that "This will allow Google services to recognize that [your associated email address] and your Google Account are associated (e.g. all invitations sent to this email address will automatically appear in your Google Calendar)."

For now, it seems the only benefit to doing this is for Google Calendar.

You can also use any of your additional email addresses to sign in to your Google Account instead of using your username or Gmail address, but no doubt this will be used for other services too.

But I think, it would be nice if Google let us link multiple Google Accounts together so that we could manage all Google Account at once (Like the feature we have in Microsoft Live Account - Link Windows Live IDs)

Hi there, I'm back!

noreply@blogger.com (Huycb) — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 17:11:00 +0000

It's quite long since I wrote my last post here, in my blog. But now, I am back on track. "Better late than never".

Everything seem to be OK. Here are some photos taken since I went back Vietnam.

It's just to update some information about me.

MERRY CHRISTMAS & HAPPY NEW YEAR

noreply@blogger.com (Huycb) — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 19:08:00 +0000

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year to all of you.

I hope, you have a Wonderful Holiday Season!