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.

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

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

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.

.NET Framework Library Source Code

Now you can debug into .NET Framework Source code with Visual Studio 2008.
Source code is available for following libraries:

• NET Base Class Libraries
  

• ASP.NET
  

• Windows Forms
  

• Windows Presentation Foundation
  

• ADO.NET and XML

Microsoft Reference
Detailed explanation about how to enable this.
Stepping into .NET Framwork Library source.
Debugging .NET Framework Library source.

25% Discount on Microsoft Certification

Now you will get 25 % discount on the Microsoft Certification Exam.
Only, You need to register for it.
There are two options in this offer

1.You will get 25% discount on the Certification fee
OR
2.If you fail in 1st attempt, You can give 2nd attempt free of cost.

For Registration Click here

HeadStart 2009

HeadStart showcases innovation in India. HeadStart brings together all the stakeholders of the innovation ecosystem - entrepreneurs and startups, researchers from industry and academia, early adopters of new products and investors - at one place for showcasing innovation and networking. HeadStart 2009 is on the 9th and 10th of January 2009 at the NIMHANS Convention Center, Bangalore. The agenda comprises of keynotes by eminent technologists and entrepreneurs, live demos of new products, panel discussions, technology tutorials, investor meetings and talks by corporate adopters of technology. The nomination deadline for live demos on stage has been extended to 7th December and you can nominate products here. Register to attend HeadStart & Compute 2009. Registration is free for entry into the stall space and demo pit where over 60 companies will demo products. Registration is paid for entry into the auditoriums for keynotes, panel discussions, live demos, tutorials and research presentations.

Microsoft Innovation Days

Great Opportunity to learn the Microsoft Technologies.
Register for this event and you can learn Silverlight and AJAX in ASP.NET
For details click here.

Microsoft Virtual TechDays

Microsoft Virtual TechDays are back to give you another opportunity to get trained on the latest and in demand Microsoft technologies. You get the opportunity to learn and explore how Microsoft products and tools can help you quickly address your most time-consuming development challenges.

You can:

• Learn about the latest Microsoft tools and platforms from Microsoft technology experts

• Learn about how to extend your expertise on technologies that you work on every day

• Interact with the best-in-class technologists attending the event.

Topics which are to be covered are:

• Query Tuning with SQL Server

• Fundamentals of cloud services

• Introduction to Microsoft Strata

• Essential Business Server 2008

• Load Testing in VSTS 2008

You first need to register for this event on the Virtual TechDays website and download Microsoft Live Meeting to join the fellow developers, architects and project managers at this online event on November 24 - 26 from 10:00 AM to 6:30 PM.

Free Books from Microsoft Press

You can get free ebooks from Microsoft....

Written by industry experts, Microsoft Press books deliver the accurate, from-the-source information that you need to take your skills and knowledge to the next level.

Free e-book offer

The free e-book offer includes chapters from three recent publications from Microsoft Press:

•	Programming Microsoft LINQ by Paolo Pialorsi and Marco Russo (ISBN: 9780735623910) This practical guide covers the intricacies of LINQ, a set of extensions to the Visual C# and Visual Basic programming languages.
•	Programming Microsoft ASP.NET 3.5 by Dino Esposito (ISBN: 9780735625273) Get the practical, popular reference written by ASP.NET authority Dino Esposito—now updated for ASP.NET 3.5.
•	Introducing Microsoft Silverlight 2, Second Edition by Laurence Moroney (ISBN: 9780735625280) This guide describes how you can simplify the development and deployment of rich interactive applications (RIAs) by using Silverlight 2 tools with Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 and the Microsoft .NET Framework.

Learn more about the free e-book offer, and sign up for the Microsoft Press Book Connection newsletter, which provides news about upcoming and recent releases, special offers, and additional information from those who know our books best.

Sign up to download the additional chapters!

Social Bookmarking in Blogger

If you want to display links to social bookmarking sites in your blogger then here is the hack..
It will look like this

Blog Archive Calendar

Today I was confused between Blogger and Wordpress
but concluded blogger is better.
but, I missed one feature of word press 'Blog archive calendar' then I googled and found Blogger Archive Calendar thanks to phydeaux for creating such a useful gadget..