Avoid waiting before you download in download sites using SkipScreen Firefox Addon

Most annoying thing for free users in the most of the download sites like rapidshare, mediafire is waiting for 45 - 60 secs before we can download the file.

SkipScreen is an excellent addon for Firefox which helps us to skip this section and get the Download link directly.

Following sites are supported as of now by this addon

* Rapidshare.com
* zShare.net
* MediaFire.com
* Megaupload.com
* Sharebee.com
* Depositfiles.com
* Sendspace.com
* Divshare.com
* Linkbucks.com
* Uploaded.to

Recently Mediafire is trying to force Mozilla to remove this addon, Support SkipScreen by leaving a comment as "Save SkipScreen!" on the SkipScreen Addon Page

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Get a Google Wave Invite

Google has announced about a new way of communication and collaboration tool Google Wave few months ago in the IO summit. They released a Developer preview release to the developers who participated in the IO summit and also to some of the early birds who requested for a Wave Account ( Luckily I got one ;) )

Now they have released Google Wave for individuals on a limited basis. If you got a Google Wave account you will get a new email/wave address as xyz@googlewave.com and the 'xyz' will be your Google ID. Currently Google Wave account is opened up via invites only as we had it during the initial launch of Gmail. Any Wave user can invite eight friends to Google Wave as of now, Google might increase the invite limit going forward.

Transmit Google Wave is a site which brings all the Wave users together so that the invites can be shared and can spread the Google Wave usage. You will be able to either request a Google Wave account or you can share the invites you have if you are an existing Wave user.

• Google Wave : http://wave.google.com
• Wave Protocol: http://www.waveprotocol.org
• IO Summit : http://code.google.com/events/io
• Transmit Google Wave : http://www.transmitgooglewave.com
• Get Google Wave Invite : http://techicloud.blogspot.com

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New Look for Mozilla

Mozilla has changed the look and feel of one of its portal mozilla.org . Earlier Mozilla changed the look for Mozilla.com and then labs.mozilla.com. Now its the turn of mozilla.org to look good.

If you want to navigate to Mozilla Projects look for Top Left corner of the page, there is no separate link to Mozilla labs. You will be able to reach Mozilla labs via Projects page only

In fact there is no change in the Mozilla Wiki, Mozilla Blogs, they all have the same look as they had earlier.

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PointSense V2.0 for Windows Mobile

PointUI is an excellent windows mobile application for UI customization. PointSense is one of the theme available for PointUI, which brings in HTC Hero like look and feel for Windows Mobile.

Earlier Version of PointSense don't have functionality to add widgets to the home screen, in fact to any of the screens. With PointUI we can enable multiple sliding screens in windows mobiles even for versions WM5, WM6.

Here are some of the screen shots of PointSense UI for windows mobile, will update with a separate post on detailed explanation about installation of PointSense V2.0

 

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Google launches "Listen" for Android

Google recently launched its podcast/web audio application for Android. We will be able to search, subscribe, download and stream audio files from the web.

Here is info about Google Listen from Google.

Listen from Google Labs brings podcasts and web audio to your Android-powered device. It lets you search, subscribe, download and stream. By subscribing to programs and search terms it will create a personalized audio-magazine loaded with fresh shows and news stories whenever you listen. In this release Listen is indexing thousands of popular English-only audio sources.

Source: Google Labs

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Google Chrome now supports themes and bookmark sync

Latest Chrome Dev channel builds supports theme and book mark sync support. These features are not available in the general build, instead it is available in Google Chrome 3.0 Beta, Google Chrome 3.0 Developer Preview builds.

Themes:

To enable themes you need to start chrome with the following option "--enable-extensions"

Find a Chrome shortcut on your desktop, right-click, select "Properties" and append a flag to the target field: --enable-extensions. Restart the browser to use the new option.

To manage the extension enter the following in url bar "chrome://extensions/"

You can choose one of the themes from the following link Chrome Themes

 

 

Bookmark Sync:

Google is back with Browser sync on chrome. Earlier Google had a Firefox Bookmark Sync addon, which got discontinued after the arrival for Mozilla Weave for firefox.

Now Google has come back with same for chrome, this time instead of a separate server space to save the bookmarks, Google is using docs to store the book marks. Bookmarks will be only available as read-only in Google Docs

Using bookmark sync you can sync your chrome bookmarks across multiple computers

You need to enable "--enable-sync" to enable bookmark sync functionality in the latest dev build.

Find a Chrome shortcut on your desktop, right-click, select "Properties" and append a flag to the target field: --enable-sync. Restart the browser to use the new option.

After starting chrome with sync enabled, you can see "Sync my Bookmarks" option under "Customize and Manage Chrome" tool which is found on the right hand top corner just below the "x" close button.

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Run Android on HTC Windows Mobile

HTC is the first company to release Android powered mobile devices. Android is supported officially only in HTC G1 and HTC Dream, but various developers from from XDA are working on porting Android to run on other HTC devices.

Few common HTC devices which can run Android as of now are HTC touch, HTC Wizard, Diamond etc… but still within this general names there are various code names are used based on specific configuration.Make sure you choose the correct version of files(installation method) for your device.

Here I have posted some of the videos demoing Android on officially not supported devices and reference to project pages.

1. Android on OMAP850 based HTC devices

Wing-Linux is the project which ports Android to OMAP850 based devices. OMAP850 is nothing but the CPU Type

Following devices comes under OMAP850

• T-Mobile Wing
• HTC Herald (HTC P4350 )
• HTC Wizard
• HTC Gene (HTC P3400)
• HTC Prophet
• HTC Touch Viva
• HTC Elf
• HTC Artemis
• HTC Excalibur
• Asus P320

2. Android on MSM7500 based devices

Vogue-android is the project hosted on Google Code works on porting Android on MSM7500 based devices. This project is more active and even ported HTC Hero build as well to the devices which they support.

 

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• How to Indentify your CPU type on windows mobile

Start –> Settings –> System –> Device Information –> Hardware –> CPU

• How to Indentify your Device type on windows mobile

Start –> Settings –> System –> Device Information –> Identity –> Model No

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