Better Gmail Multitasking in Google Chrome

This is the second Chrome-only feature in Gmail, after inserting images using drag and drop. If you open the compose page or a conversation in a new window, Gmail uses some tricks to load the new page fast. The downside is that you can't close the initial Gmail tab without also closing the pop-up window.

Here's what happens if you open the compose page in a new window when you use Firefox:



When you try to close the original Gmail tab, a dialog informs you that the compose window will also be closed: "Are you sure you want to navigate away from this page?".


Gmail's blog says that Google Chrome added some code that makes the pop-up windows "long lived".

"If you're using the latest version of Google Chrome, you can now continue to work in popped out windows after you close your main window (especially handy for those of us who always like to keep an eye on our tasks). For the technically curious among you, our friends on the Chrome team made it possible to transfer the code that runs Gmail from one window to another as the window closes. When the window that hosts the code fires an unload event, we move the iframe with the code to a surviving window. Everything continues to run, including timers and outstanding requests."

The enhancement is great, but I'm wary of non-standard features that only work in a browser. The feature is part of HTML5, so it should be implemented in other browsers. Google Chrome happened to be the first browser that implemented it.

Gmail doesn't have tabs, but you can open many views in a new window by shift-clicking on a link, by clicking on the "new window" icon or link. This way, you can keep a conversation open while composing a message (shift-click on "Compose mail" or Shift+c), open Gmail search results in new windows (shift-click on the results), reply to a message in a new window (shift-click on "Reply" or Shift+r).

Google Doodle Notifier

If you picked a background image for Google's homepage, you probably noticed that Google uses a special white logo. Unfortunately, the customized homepage can't show the regular Google logo and Google doodles for special events.

That's the reason why Google shows a small notification icon next to the logo when there's a doodles you can't see.


When you click on the colorful icon, Google shows the doodle on a white background.


I wonder if Google will use full-page doodles for users who picked a background image.

Google Web Alerts No Longer Available

Google will no longer offer alerts for web search results and will replace them with comprehensive alerts that include results from Google Web Search, Google News and Blog Search. Marcel Gordon, Product Manager for Google Alerts, says that web alerts weren't very popular.

"We've decided to retire Web alerts because they are used by very few people and an alert of type Everything will find the same results. This week we'll be changing all alerts of type Web into alerts of type Everything. You may receive more results after this change. If you find that you are getting too many results, you can change the "How often" setting to "once a day" or "once a week." You can also change your search query. You can do this on the alerts management page, or by removing the alert using the link at the bottom of each alert email and creating it again with different settings."


Maybe Google should discontinue Google Alerts and provide regular feeds for search results. Right now, you can create feeds for web search results using Google Alerts, but they have URLs that can't be generated automatically. Google News, Blog Search, and Google Video already offer feeds for search results.

{ Thanks, Abhijeet. }

How to Set Google's Background Image as a Wallpaper

Even if you don't want to add a background image to the Google homepage, you must admit that some of the images are beautiful. Here's how to set one of the pictures as a desktop wallpaper:

1. You should should first pick a background image. Click on "Change background image" and select an image you like.

2. If you use Internet Explorer, right-click on Google's homepage and select "set as background". That was really easy.


In other browsers it's more difficult to save the image or to set it as a wallpaper. For Firefox, right-click on the image, select "View page info", go to the "Media" tab and find the JPEG image in the list. Then you can save the image and set it as a wallpaper.

In Google Chrome it's even more difficult: you need to right-click on the image, select "Inspect element", find the last img tag from the page, right-click on the URL, select "Edit attribute" and copy the address using Ctrl+C. Now you can open the image in a new page, save it and set it as a wallpaper.

In Safari you need to enable the developer menu in the settings, go to the "Develop" menu, select "Show Web inspector" and copy the address of the last image from the page.

(Update: someone in the comments found a better way to save the image in Firefox, Chrome and Safari. Right-click at the bottom of the page and you'll find options like "Set as desktop background" or "Save image as". Thanks, ichmbch.)

3. Now you can click on "Remove background image" at the bottom of Google's homepage to hide the image. Today you may still see the default images select by Google, but that's just a full-page doodle that promotes the new feature.

Google Promotes Homepage Wallpapers

Google's wallpaper feature is now available internationally and Google tries to convince people to change the background using a trick. Google's homepages in France, UK, Canada and many other countries have a default background image.

Marissa Mayer, from Google, explains why Google's homepage no longer has background image today: "To provide you with an extra bit of inspiration, we've collaborated with several well-known artists, sculptors and photographers to create a gallery of background images you can use to personalize your Google homepage. Included in the collection are photographs of the works of Dale Chihuly, Jeff Koons, Tom Otterness, Polly Apfelbaum, Kengo Kuma (隈研吾), Kwon, Ki-soo (권기수) and Tord Boontje, as well as some incredible photos from Yann Arthus-Bertrand and National Geographic. We'll be featuring these images as backgrounds on the Google homepage over the next 24 hours."

The only option displayed is "Change background image", which requires to login using a Google account and lets you pick a background image. If you don't like the wallpaper chosen by Google, you'll use the option to customize it.


That's quite clever, but Google didn't consider that some users don't like to see a background image. If you pick an image and select "Remove background image", Google shows one of the default wallpapers. Fortunately, the promotion only lasts a day.

What you can do is to pick a background image, wait until tomorrow when Google's classic homepage will be available again or use Google SSL homepage, Google's Firefox homepage, the Linux template and other similar interfaces. Another option is to use Opera, which is not supported by Google.

When you pick a background image, one of the options is a plain white background:



Update: Google's promotion ended 10 hours earlier. "We had planned to run an explanation of the showcase alongside it—in the form of a link on our homepage. Due to a bug, the explanatory link did not appear for most users. As a result, many people thought we had permanently changed our homepage, so we decided to stop today's series early," explains Marissa Mayer.

Maybe Google should stop showing full-page doodles and games when you visit Google's homepage. There are many subtle ways to promote a service or celebrate an event without annoying your users. For example, Google could show a game, an animation or a background image when you click on a doodle.

Plain White T's - 1234 Lyric + Song

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Ada lagu baru Plain White T's yang saya suka nih. Judulnya 1234 alias one, two, three, four. Buat yang belum pernah dengar lagu ini, kalian harus segera download, karena lagu ini sangat bagus dan enak untuk didengar. Buat yang ingin download, akan saya sediakan download link nya di akhir posting ini, dan buat yang tidak tahu liriknya, saya akan berikan liriknya.

Here is the lyric:

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Google Caffeine: Indexing the Web Faster

Google announced today that new indexing system called Caffeine is live. The goal is to find fresh content faster, to index web pages faster and to update the index in real-time.

"Our old index had several layers, some of which were refreshed at a faster rate than others; the main layer would update every couple of weeks. To refresh a layer of the old index, we would analyze the entire web, which meant there was a significant delay between when we found a page and made it available to you. With Caffeine, we analyze the web in small portions and update our search index on a continuous basis, globally. As we find new pages, or new information on existing pages, we can add these straight to the index," explains Google.

Now that the index is updated in real-time, you'll find recent information faster, sometimes a few minutes after it's posted. Matt Cutts says that you'll sometimes find web pages that weren't indexed when you started typing your query. This is really incredible, even though it's still very difficult to rank recent web pages.

To find recent web pages, click on "past 24 hours" or "past week" in Google's right sidebar (the screenshot shows Google's old interface). You can even sort the results by date.

Google Voice to Integrate with Gmail as a VoIP Service

Google tests a new feature that makes Gmail chat more useful: users are able to make and receive Google Voice calls from Gmail. A new phone icon opens a Gmail chat window with a dialpad, an option to find contacts, a credit balance and a call button.


Right now, if you want to call someone using Google Voice, you need a phone. You can either visit Google Phone's site on your computer, enter the phone number you want to call and wait until Google calls your phone and connects you for free or use Google Phone app on a mobile phone.

The new feature will allow users to make voice calls over the Internet and it's likely that it won't be limited to Gmail. In April, TechCrunch reported that Google "built a Google Voice desktop application to make and receive calls" and that the application is tested internally. Google used technology from Gizmo5, a VoIP service acquired by Google last year.

For now, Google Voice's integration with Gmail is not publicly available.

{ Thanks, Anon. }

Google Maps Navigation for Canada and 10 European Countries

Google Maps Navigation for Android is now available for Canada, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, and Switzerland, in addition to the 3 countries that were already supported: US, UK and Ireland. It's interesting to notice that Google still uses data from Tele Atlas for all the countries supported by Google Maps Navigation, except for the US and Canada.


"Google Maps Navigation is an Internet-connected GPS navigation or 'satnav' system that provides turn-by-turn voice guidance as a free feature of Google Maps. Google Maps Navigation (beta) with Search by voice is available in version 4.2 of Google Maps, on Android devices 1.6 and higher," explains Google.

Free turn-by-turn navigation could be an important reason why people choose a mobile phone, so Google and Nokia try to make the most of Google Maps Navigation for Android and Ovi Maps for Symbian. Most likely, in the near future, all smartphones will include a free application for navigation.

In other related news, Google Search by Voice is now available for German, Italian, Spanish and French. Search by voice is an important feature of the Quick Search Box app for Android, Google Mobile App for iPhone and Blackberry. The nice thing is that you don't have to download an update for none of the applications, as the new languages are automatically recognized.

Download IDM 5.18 + Patch + Serial Number Full

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Setelah sebelumnya memberikan download link untuk IDM versi 5.16 Build 3 + patch full version, kali ini saya akan memberikan link download IDM versi 5.18 + patch. IDM ini baru saja selesai saya upload ke MediaFire. Nah, tentunya dalam versi yang lebih baru ini sudah terdapat fix beberapa bug yang terdapat dalam versi sebelumnya. Selain itu, versi terbaru ini juga lebih cepat saat mendownload.

Untuk menggunakan patch, pertama Anda install dulu IDM seperti biasa. Ketika proses install selesai, maka secara otomatis IDM akan automatic launch. Disini Anda akan diminta untuk register atau memasukkan Serial Number. Pilih CAncel saja, maka Anda akan keluar, lalu jalankan patch yang terdapat pada folder installer, tunggu hingga proses patch selesai, lalu buka kembali IDM, maka IDM sudah siap Anda gunakan.

Jika ingin mencobanya, langsung saja download pada link dibawah ini.

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Cara Format Ulang Handphone Nokia S60 3rd Edition

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Apa Anda pernah mempunyai masalah pada handphone Anda? Sekarang ini, handphone banyak digunakan untuk mencari informasi di internet. Kadang virus dapat masuk ke handphone dan merusak aplikasi yang terdapat didalamnya. Saya sendiri pernah mengalami hal serupa, handphone yang saya gunakan adalah Nokia 6120c. Nah, Adobe PDF Reader bawaan Nokia rusak tidak bisa digunakan. Akhirnya saya hard format handphone saya, dan semua berhasil kembali seperti semula.

Anda ingin tahu cara format handphone Nokia S60 3rd Edition? Saya akan memberi tahu caranya.

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Google's Special Results for the Football World Cup

Google started to show a special OneBox for the FIFA World Cup, the international football tournament that will start Friday in South Africa. If you search for "world cup", you can see a list of the teams and the upcoming matches.


At the bottom of the page, Google replaced "Goooooooooogle" with "Gooooooooooal!", at least for the first page of search results.


Google Street View is now available for South Africa and you can see the 10 World Cup stadiums in a gallery. Google Earth links to 3D models of the stadiums and the 9 cities that host the World Cup.



{ via John Mueller and Websonic }

Safari Reader for News Articles

Apple launched Safari 5 for Mac and Windows. In addition to a better support for HTML5 and a much faster JavaScript engine, Safari added an interesting feature for reading news articles and blog posts.

"Safari Reader removes annoying ads and other visual distractions from online articles. So you get the whole story and nothing but the story. It works like this: As you browse the web, Safari detects if you're on a web page with an article. Click the Reader icon in the Smart Address Field, and the article appears instantly in one continuous, clutter-free view. You see every page of the article — whether two or twenty. Onscreen controls let you email, print, and zoom."

The feature works well, but the "Reader" option is not always available. It's quite difficult to detect news articles and to extract their content, so Safari's heuristics are far from perfect. Safari Reader is especially useful for sites that split articles into multiple pages to increase the number of page views. Some of these sites offer a printer-friendly version of the article, but that's usually difficult to read.



If you're using Google Chrome, there's an extension called Readability Redux which offers similar features. Firefox users can install the Readability extension. Both extensions are based on the Readability project, whose goal is to make "reading on the Web more enjoyable by removing the clutter around what you're reading".

Download Video Lucu Iklan TV - Part 1

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Jika Anda sering merasa jenuh saat sedang belajar, pasti Anda membutuhkan suatu hiburan yang bisa membuat kalian tertawa. Nah, semester lalu, ketika saya belajar dalam kelas, saya dan teman saya sempat merasa jenuh ketika pelajaran berlangsung. Dosen mengetahui hal tersebut, dan beliau memutar video lucu ini untuk kita tonton bersama. Kami sekelas tertawa menyaksikan video lucu tersebut. Dan tentu saja, rasa jenuh kami hilang seketika. Ketika pelajaran dilanjutkan Saya merasa lebih baik saat menyimak pelajaran.

Nah, terdapat 20 video lucu yang diputar oleh dosen kami. Dan beliau memberikan semua video itu setelah pelajaran usai. File videonya juga kecil (tidak sampai 2Mb), dengan format .wmv, tetapi kualitas gambarnya sangat bagus, dan time length tiap video juga lumayan lama. Saya akan membagikan 5 video per postnya, jadi ada 4 part untuk artikel ini.

Untuk 5 video pertama, silahkan download pada link dibawah ini:

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Google Maps Previews in Gmail

Gmail added a new Labs feature that parses your messages and lets you preview some content using web services. This time you can preview the addresses from a message using Google Maps. The addresses extracted by Gmail are displayed after a message and you can load a map preview without opening a new page. Right now, the feature only works for US addresses, but Google promises to address this issue.


Gmail already displays addresses from messages in the right sidebar, but you need to click on a link to open the map in a new page. The new Gmail Labs feature has another advantage: it also previews links to Google Maps.

Gmail's blog says that a map preview feature is now available for Google Buzz, but it only works when you paste a Google Maps link in a Buzz message. Unfortunately, Google's thumbnails is really small and clicking on the thumbnail opens a static map.


To find the Labs feature, open Gmail Labs and use your browser's find-on-page feature (Ctrl+F / Cmd-F) to search for "Google Maps previews". Gmail Labs offers other similar contextual gadgets for previewing links to Flickr, Picasa Web, Yelp, Google Voice messages, Google Docs and the YouTube preview feature is enabled by default. Developers can create custom contextual gadgets for Gmail in Google Apps and hopefully the APIs will be extended to the regular Gmail app.

Tipe Data Dasar Dalam Pemrograman Java

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Setiap bahasa pemrograman pasti memiliki tipe data. Kadang setiap pemrograman memiliki bahasa pemrograman yang berbeda-beda. Tipe data dasar merupakan tipe data yang paling sederhana yang dimiliki Java. Untuk menggunakan tipe data ini kita tidak perlu melakukan instansiasi. Berikut adalah tipe data dasar dalam bahasa pemrograman Java.

1. Boolean
Tipe data boolean digunakan untuk menentukan nilai benar atau salah. Oleh karena itu boolean hanya terdiri atas dua nilai, yaitu True dan False. Tipe data ini biasanya digunakan pada operasi logika.

2. Char
Tipe data char digunakan untuk menangani data berupa karakter-karakter ASCII. Tipe data char ditandai dengan penggunaan tanda kutip tunggal. Contoh tipe data char adalah: 'a', 'B', '4', dan lain sebagainya.
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Prospek Pemrograman JAVA Saat Ini

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Bagi teman-teman yang ingin mendalami atau ingin menguasai bahasa pemrograman JAVA, tahukah Anda mengenai prospek dari bahasa pemrograman java saat ini? Sebelum kita membahas mengenai hal tersebut, kita bicarakan sesuatu tentang Undang-undang HAKI (UU HAKI). Undang-undang HAKI ini melarang siapapun untuk menggunakan software bajakan, termasuk dalam pengembangan software. Nah, java merupakan solusi yang tepat untuk UU HAKI tersebut. Kenapa demikian? Karena bahasa pemrograman java merupakan bahasa pemrograman yang bisa dipakai dengan gratis.

Walaupun java adalah bahasa pemrograman yang gratis, tapi jangan pernah meremehkan kualitas yang dihasilkan java. Karena bisa dikatakan sampai saat ini kualitas dari bahasa pemrograman java belum ada yang bisa menandinginya. Dalam segala aspek, bahasa pemrograman java memiliki keunggulan yang memungkinkannya untuk digunakan pada pengembangan software-software enterprise.
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Spelling Corrections in Google Suggest

Google Suggest has already been detecting misspellings and showing suggestions that include the properly spelled keywords, but now the mistakes are easier to spot. If you type a misspelled query, Google Suggest includes the "did you mean" label.

"These spelling suggestions already exist on the results page, but by moving them to an earlier point in the search process, we hope we've made it faster and easier to get to the results you're looking for. Right now, this feature is offered only for google.com in English, but we're working to roll this out internationally in the near future," explains Google.


A Wall Street Journal article listed some of the most commonly misspelled words in Google and other search engines: "Criagslist" instead of "Craigslist", "Facebok" instead of "Facebook", "definately", "definetly" or "definatly" instead of "definitely", "stilletos" or "stillettos" instead of "stilettos", "mischevious" and "mischievious" instead of "mischievous". Yahoo's most misspelled word of 2010 so far was Eyjafjallajokull, the famous volcano in Iceland that erupted this year.

Download Program Sistem Informasi Hotel

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Pernahkah kalian menginap dihotel? Mungkin kalian tidak banyak menyadari, bahwa dengan menginap dihotel, setidaknya kita bisa mengetahui cara pelayanan hotel terhadap para tamunya. Nah, dari sini, kita sebagai programmer muda bisa membuat program sistem informasi hotel dalam C++. Kita bisa mengetahui, apa saja ilustrasi yang dapat kita masukkan kedalam program sistem informasi hotel. Nah, jika kalian mendapatkan tugas akhir, kalian bisa menggunakan contoh proram berikut sebagai referensi. Silahkan download contoh program sistem informasi hotel pada link dibawah.

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