Jaydeep Patil: January 2009

1/29/2009

Offline GMail

On 27th Jan 2009 GMail team launched the Offline version of GMail.
This is soon available for everyone who uses US and UK English.
For using this follow below steps.

1.Login to GMail
2.Go to Labs Tab in Settings
3.Enable the Offline GMail (If not visible it should be there soon.)
4.Save your settings.

After your browser reloads, you'll see a new "Offline^0.1" link in the upper righthand corner of your account, next to your username. Click this link to start the offline set up process and download Gears if you don't already have it.

1/20/2009

Manage your expenses, Budgets, Finance

Last week I am searching for some website with which I can track my expenses or manage my budgets.
But didn't know what to exactly search so, I wasted lot of time to find sites.
then finally, I found sites
again got confused which one is better?
I hadn't got information on this so, decided to give information to people with same need.

I found lot of sites, which I have categorized in

1.Manage your online accounts (Savings, Credit Card account, Loan account)

2.Manage your expenses (budget)

3.Support for both Online accounts and budgets

Category 1:
1.mint
Here you can add your online accounts.
Website will use secure connection to download data from your account.
User friendly

2.Rudder
Website contains Widgets to display details such as account balance,bills

3.Wesabe
Website will provide the Addin for firefox for uploading the account details.
Supports social networking

Category 2:
1.Bill Manager
Monthly calendar GUI.
Support for Pending bills.(Reminders)

Category 3:
1.Geezgo
Conjusted GUI.
Supports Social Networking
You can view cashflow

2.BudgetPulse
User Friendly
Money Tracking
Multiple accounts

3.Buxfer
Provides Firefox addin to view the details
User Friendly
Multiple Budgets

1/19/2009

Access GMail even if it is blocked

If u search on the internet you will get lot of tricks regarding this
but many of them related to using proxy sites
Here is the trick which will not require proxy site. :)

1.Log on to Google
2.Go to iGoogle screen
3.Add GMail gadget developed by google
4.Select Gmail in your igoogle screen

It looks like this..

By using igoogle Gmail gadget you can Read,Compose,Delete the mails also you can see mails from trash and Report mail as spam.

GMail in iGoogle

1/12/2009

Proto-Startup Event

Proto is a event for Startups
Helpful for startups generally discuss the problems which startups are facing.
Which business models have to use?
How to raise funds.
you can get information here.

1/02/2009

Display HTML code in blog post

At the time of creating my last post I faced one problem "To display HTML code in the post".
For this I surfed and found the simplest solution.
Just copy paste your code and convert it into the blogger post code.
you can find it here

1/01/2009

Visual Studio 2005 & 2008 ShortCut Keys

There are 450 keyboard shortcuts in key VS 2005.
If you want to see all these then use following macro.
To Run Macro
1.Tools->Macro->Macro IDE OR ALT+F11
2.Expan MyMacro->Open Module1
3.Copy the following code
4.Run Macro (F5)

Check file c:\\Shortcuts.html

'Start Macro
Public Module Module1

Public Sub ListShortcutsInHTML()

'Declare a StreamWriter
Dim sw As System.IO.StreamWriter
sw = New IO.StreamWriter("c:\\Shortcuts.html")

'Write the beginning HTML
WriteHTMLStart(sw)

' Add a row for each keyboard shortcut
For Each c As Command In DTE.Commands
If c.Name <> "" Then
Dim bindings As System.Array
bindings = CType(c.Bindings, System.Array)
For i As Integer = 0 To bindings.Length - 1
sw.WriteLine("<tr>")
sw.WriteLine("<td>" + c.Name + "</td>")
sw.WriteLine("<td>" + bindings(i) + "</td>")
sw.WriteLine("</tr>")
Next

End If
Next

'Write the end HTML
WriteHTMLEnd(sw)

'Flush and close the stream
sw.Flush()
sw.Close()
End Sub
Public Sub WriteHTMLStart(ByVal sw As System.IO.StreamWriter)
sw.WriteLine("<html>")
sw.WriteLine("<head>")
sw.WriteLine("<title>")

sw.WriteLine("Visual Studio Keyboard Shortcuts")
sw.WriteLine("</title>")
sw.WriteLine("</head>")

sw.WriteLine("<body>")
sw.WriteLine("<h1>Visual Studio 2005 Keyboard Shortcuts</h1>")
sw.WriteLine("<font size=""2"" face=""Verdana"">")
sw.WriteLine("<table border=""1"">")
sw.WriteLine("<tr BGCOLOR=""#018FFF""><td align=""center""><b>Command</b></td><td align=""center""><b>Shortcut</b></td></tr>")

End Sub

Public Sub WriteHTMLEnd(ByVal sw As System.IO.StreamWriter)
sw.WriteLine("</table>")
sw.WriteLine("</font>")
sw.WriteLine("</body>")
sw.WriteLine("</html>")
End Sub

End Module
'End Macro

You can also check ShortCut Key Poster Developed by Microsoft
Visual Studio 2005
Visual Studio 2008

Jaydeep Patil