Add Yahoo Messenger Chat to browser sidebar panel

Chat with friends on Yahoo! Messenger in the Firefox or Opera browser sidebar without installing anything.

      

Do you regularly chat with your friends on Yahoo Messenger? Would you love to message your friends from the browser itself? Or your mobile phone browser? If yes, then this is the right place for you. Read further on adding Yahoo Messenger Chat to your browser sidebar similarly adding Google Talk in sidebar.

Though there is Yahoo! Messenger for the Web, the flash interface is slow to load and occupies too much screen space. Therefore it is not possible to use it in the browser sidebar. However there is a solution:
»  Bookmark the given webpages and select the appropriate option to add them in browser sidebar / panel. Works both in Opera & Firefox.

http://us.m.yahoo.com/p/messenger
http://wap.oa.yahoo.com
http://wap.yahoo.com
http://mm.yahoo.com

While these Yahoo Mobile Messenger website interfaces may not be loaded with features like the Google Talk Gadget provides, but it allows you to easily check on your friends while browsing and you have anytime access to your contacts and message history; great for at work or travel. Adding it to the sidebar is as easy as bookmarking the above links. So have fun chatting with your friends. If you have any suggestions or tips, please leave a comment.

Note: You can also access the Yahoo Messenger in your mobile phone browser using the above websites.

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Add shortcut icons to My Computer

Folder2MyPC - Add folder, program icon to My Computer

Ever wanted to add your own icons to My Computer or the Control Panel ?
Well now you can add shortcut icons to any folders and programs in "My Computer" and "Control panel" using Folder2MyPC software developed by Shedko Software which is available for XP and Vista.

Download links are provided below. Try it and comment if you like it.

Read more about Folder2PC here.

Features:

1. You can add shortcuts to any folder to "My Computer".
2. Any icons from "My Computer" can be changed or removed.
3. You can add a shortcut icon to any program to both "My Computer" and "Control panel".
4. Control Panel icons can be sub-grouped under the default folders.
5. Windows special system folders such as Printers & Faxes, Fonts, Network Connections, etc can also be added easily.
6. Custom icon can be specified for the shortcuts.
7. You can also set the title and comment tooltip for the icons.
8. It is possible to create folders for the current user or all users.
9. Option to open folder in new window or same window.
10. The software available in both Windows2000/ XP & Vista.
11. Program available in English, French, Russian, Arabic, Portuguese (Brasil), Italian, Spanish, Polish, Turkish and Ukrainian languages.

Download:

Folder2MyPC 1.9 for Windows Vista
http://rapidshare.com/files/30593707/shedko_folder2mypc_19.zip

Download Folder2MyPC for Windows XP

http://rapidshare.com/files/26213856/Shedko_Folder2MyPC_1.8.5.0.zip

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Chat in Google Talk in your browser

Now you can use Google Talk in the panel / sidebar while browsing with your favourite browser.You don't need to have the GTalk desktop client installed at all. GoogleTalk Gadget can be displayed in browser enabling the user to chat in the browser itself.

   

The Google Talk Gadget is clearly more usable than the stand-alone GTalk desktop client or the floating AJAX chat version in GMail. It has many features like group chat and emoticons which are not yet available in the desktop client.

Each chat session in TalkGadget opens up as a tab (like browser tabs), it can show previews of images or video and the chat client can easily be embedded inside webpages. In addition to viewing YouTube videos and Picasa Web Albums, you can now also watch Flickr slideshows in your chats.

Steps to use GTalk in your browser:

1. Goto Bookmark Manager. Click to create new bookmark.
2. You can also visit the given webpage and bookmark it by pressing Ctrl + D.
3. Paste the following URL in the address (URL location) field.
   
   

   http://talkgadget.google.com/talkgadget/client

4. Enter any name for the bookmark like GTalk.
5. Checkmark the option for adding in sidebar or panel.
   Select "Show in Panel" for Opera Browser.
   Select "Load this bookmark in the sidebar" for Firefox.
6. Click OK to save the bookmark and you are done.
7. Now you can chat away easily with the TalkGadget at your disposal within the browser panel / sidebar.

Google TalkGadget requires Adobe Flash Player 8 or above.

Works in both Opera Browser & Firefox.

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Write in flip-text like this ʇxǝʇ dılɟ

Check out the cool flip text! Its nothing special but only plain Unicode. Ya! you heard that right, its the Unicode character encoding scheme which allows characters from all language scripts to be encoded in a single character set.

There are multiple uses for this kind of text though funny it may be.
You can use it in social networking websites, personal blogs, movie or book spoilers, solutions to riddles or crosswords, or just to annoy your readers!

So would you like to write like this?
If so, then just check out here and here. Go ahead and have fun flipping your text.

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Google Calendar alerts via SMS on your mobile for events

Google Calendar, previously code-named CL2, allows users to receive event reminders and notifications on your mobile phone. So you don't have to be online to get the reminders of gCalendar events and you can just chose to receive them as sms alerts on your mobile phone. What's more is that sms alerts for your events are free and setting them is easy. Most mobile carriers are supported though the list of supported service providers may not show your mobile carrier as it is not updated.

Follow these steps to activate the free sms reminders.

Open the Google Calendar site.
Login into using your Google account.
Click on "Settings".
Goto the "Mobile Setup" tab option.
Select your country.
Enter your mobile number (No need to put international code).
Click "Send Verification Code".
You will get a sms on your mobile phone with the verification code details.
Input the verification code in the box provided on the website.
Click "Finish Setup" and you will be shown a message that your mobile phone is successfully validated.
Do not forget to save the settings when you are done.

You will also require to set the reminder types which would prefer to be reminded via. Email, SMS and popups are the choices available in the dropdown menu.You can also select the time before the event when you should be reminded. Google provides a maximum of five reminders per event but they can be of any aforementioned type. If you need more reminders, you can always set another event for the same.

Thus you can schedule reminders for events on your personal calendar or any other calendar to which you're subscribed. Whether it's World Cup's schedule, a birthday/anniversary calendar, or any other calendar, you can set up mobile reminders for all of them separately.

You can also specify different reminder alerts for some events which will override the general settings for that calendar. So now you can receive sms alerts whenever you have a important meeting or task scheduled. And you will never forget birthdays and parties and those important events of your life...

And did I mention that these sms reminders are free...

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