Murali\’s Blog

Link to MS Office Tutorial : Get Started with PivotTable Reports in Excel 2007

muraliblogs — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 05:25:01 +0000

A nice detailed tutorial on PivotTables in MS Excel 2007 here –

PivotTables reports in Excel 2007

Is there a GrandCentral for Instant Messaging ?

muraliblogs — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 01:40:20 +0000

We have got a number of good IM clients. IM clients like Digsby, Pidgin, Miranda and Trillian help in signing onto multiple IM clients at once.

Why can there not be a GrandCentral for IM ? Just like Google has the Google Voice (formerly GrandCentral) product ?

Goodbye Twitter (for now) !

muraliblogs — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 04:16:20 +0000

I deleted my Twitter account today. It is boring…

Thanks MyPhone

muraliblogs — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:25:34 +0000

MyPhone by now might be a familiar service to many Windows Mobile users. It certainly saved my day. I had a new laptop and set the ActiveSync connection the wrong way (haven’t we all done that atleast once and moaned at the loss of data !). The next thing I know is that my Windows Mobile phone Contacts are all gone. I had started using the MyPhone just a couple of months back, and had synced all my messages and contacts with the service.

Today was the first time I was going to restore those contacts back. I was not sure if it was going to work; but it worked like a charm – my contacts were all synced back to my phone.

Thanks MyPhone.

Drupal 7 User Experience Project

muraliblogs — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 01:24:45 +0000

http://www.d7ux.org/ – Great stuff. Waiting for Drupal 7 to be out.

Link: Using the Windows command shell

muraliblogs — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:25:18 +0000

A nice little site on the Windows command shell – The Command Line in Windows

Google ! broken link on Google Mobile Products page to Google Reader

muraliblogs — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 03:43:17 +0000

Google ! please fix this. The link to Google Reader on the Google Mobile Products page is broken and results is a 404 error. The link points to http://www.google.com/m/google.com/reader/m/view/?source=mobileproducts&source=m2 whereas the URL that works is http://www.google.com/reader/m/view/?source=mobileproducts&source=mail.

Update: The link seems to be OK now.

Question: How can I move all my Google Reader Starred Items into Shared Items?????

muraliblogs — Sat, 24 May 2008 15:00:18 +0000

I have a lot of posts that I have Starred in Google Reader, and would now want to move it all into Shared Items, to make it available via FriendFeed. I have found a couple of articles that explain how to shared the Starred items directly, but Friendfeed doesn’t seem to be liked it, and seems to be parsing only the Google Reader Shared Items link.

Is there a way to just drag all the items into Shared??

Update:

I have already tried making the Starred items Public like this, but this didn’t seem to work

and the public page URL is http://www.google.com/reader/shared/user/04058743716240195013/state/com.google/starred

Now when I try to add this at Friendfeed, it does not seem to like it –

Mozilla Prism ! Use it to read docs

muraliblogs — Sun, 04 May 2008 10:21:44 +0000

Mozilla Prism is a nice way to browse all that API documentation and HTML user guides free of distraction. I have resorted to creating Prism shortcuts to almost all of the API documentation, HTML User and Reference guides. When I need to refer to a User guide, I just launch the shortcut, and all I see is that API documentation.

Not radically new, but beats launching a new browser instance to read these docs, and getting distracted by getting tempted to check email, blog subscriptions, etc.. etc.. etc..

Here is how it would look – This is an instance of Prism with the Spring Framework tutorial open currently – I can concentrate just on the tutorial, and not get distracted by anything else.

Adapt pages for mobile viewing using Google <add>Mobilizer</add>

muraliblogs — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 04:51:31 +0000

Update:

I seem to be very late in discovering this, really only after browsing the web on the phone. This Google page mentioned below is popularly known as Google Mobilizer and has been already blogged about many times. Just search for “Google Mobilizer” and there are tons of links that show up.

While I wait for my broadband service activation, I have been depending on my Airtel GPRS data plan for all my Internet needs.

I subscribe to a lot of RSS feeds in Google Reader, and reading them over this GPRS connection can take a loooong time.

I use a HTC Touch for my phone needs, and share the GPRS connection to my PC using the “Internet Sharing” program that comes with it.

I can access Google Reader’s mobile versions at http://www.google.com/reader/m/view/?source=mobileproducts&source=m2, which I access from my PC.

When I click a link in any of the RSS entries of a news feed, Google Reader most of the time automatically adapts the page for mobile viewing rendering it faster.

Agreed, it is not as pretty as the actual HTML page, but I can get through my RSS feeds pretty fast just viewing the Mobile verions as well.

The URL is always http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=;. So for instance, I need to visit CNN, I just type http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.cnn.com and I see an adapted version of the site.

Even easier, just bookmark the URL http://www.google.com/gwt/n. The page looks like this –

Enter the URL, say http://www.cnn.com and of course I select the “No Images” most of the time to speed it up even further.

Many popular websites today have versions specific to mobile phones, but the links in most of the RSS new entries always seem to point to the actual HTML versions, which is a sad thing. It is good that Google Reader adapts those outgoing link destinations for mobile viewing.