Add google forms in Blogger

since long i had been using google forms to collect information online. In order to get comments on the blog i had been working hard to find out a way. finally i found a way to get it working.

Step 1: Create Google Form

There are multiple sites which provide you this information. You can create a form from the Docs list or from any spreadsheet. check out Google help for best information.
Step 2: Publish the form

Publishing google form is another piece of cake. check out this.
Step 3: Customize the Google form to get notifications

Now customize the form to receive notifications when people submit your form.
Step 4: Add it to blogger

In order to add the form to your side bar of blog. Go to Layout--> Add Gadget. Add html/javascript and then add the html code which Google forms provide you with (Get html code while editing form from embed drop down)

Working example : http://sonycenter-newdelhi.blogspot.com/

Great way to spend a day ... one life

Was being forwarded this mail by someone. The thoughts we amazing and were worth spreading. Go through it and enjoy.

Not sure if this leads to infringement of share rights. If someone feels yes then do let me know, i will remove this.

Free Mail server

My search for using a mail server for my internal purposes finally ended with http://www.hmailserver.com/.

hMailServer is a free e-mail server for Microsoft Windows. It's used by Internet service providers, companies, governments, schools and enthusiasts in all parts of the world.

Let the NEWS flow to me

Every person is unique; in addition to that I assume every person (I know) has access to information. In my case: my interest areas vary depending upon my mood, behavior and my likings and vary almost every month if not every week. For example my current interest area has been Indian stock market (some specific stocks) and UID (Indian government Unique Identification project) .

To satiate my thirst on these topics/interests I spend on an average 14 hours (in a week) on internet.

This calls out for approximately 2 days of every month on internet searching for something which I know I will be interested in reading. This is called as NEWS searching.

Now think something like NEWS flowing to me on a specific topic rather than I go and dig out for NEWS. Google Alerts do exactly this. One just has to do something like:

1. Setting up a search item which I am interested in reading.
2. Ask Google alerts to send me alerts (in case I want mails) (every month/day/moment)
3. Or Ask Google alerts to write it to RSS feeds and have a reader on top of it in one's mail box.

I found this amazing to be in touch with what I want. And actually I have saved almost 1 day of my month... at least I can spend more time doing something more worthy rather than just blindly searching.

10 useful web based tools

I had an oppurtunity to read through one of the artciles of int newspaper which have excellent tools that can be used online for free. http://www.livemint.com/2009/06/16204233/10-free-web-tools-you-didn82.html

Some tools which i haved used extensilvely are :

http://www.docjax.com/home/index.shtml : DocJax

http://superminder.com/ : Superminder (Reminder Tool)

http://www.cometdocs.com/ : Cometdocs (Free Online file converter)

http://bubbl.us/noflash.htm : Brainstorming and mind-mapping software

http://www.openwith.org/ : Offering detailed information about most file extensions that you can encounter & provides links to free programs that you can download and open such atypical files with.

So happy being online.

Something technical - Connection using proxy in eclipse

Though i have restrained myself by not entering some hard core technical things in this blog; it has sometimes negated my initial thinking of "Just Write"....

so adding some technical information.

I was recentrly facing a simple task of making a java program run which was making HTTP/LDAP connection using a proxy in eclipse. I tried various search terms in google but it pointed me to "adding proxt in install/update of Eclipse". Finally i found out that by using "-Dhttp.proxyHost=host.example.com -Dhttp.proxyHost=7777" as the JVM params will resolve issue for any IDE java run. It does not have to be specific to Eclipse.

Hope someone else also finds this useful.

PC Gadgets

Found this article while browsing my daily newspaper.

http://www.livemint.com/2009/06/30231716/Free-and-usefuldoes-your-pc.html

It excited me as i was using most of these softwares and found them useful. So want all my blog readers to give a try to them as well.

It is getting bigger : 2009 Lok Sabha Elections

With 2009 year 2 crore more people will be eligible to vote. Having said that more youngsters with a bend of mind towards internet and information will be into voting procedure.

Internet community, newspapers and even political parties are well aware of this. And this can be corroborated with following points: -

1. A lot more videos on youtube this year than what it was a year ago.
2. All Political parties better web-sites these days. check out websites of BJP and Congress.
3. BJP has a team of people for internet campaign.
4. Even Google is in foray with 2009 Lok Sabha Elections.

So it is no longer restricted to newspapers & street campaigns. 2009 general elections are getting bigger and digital.

Just one question : Can someone actually do this?

My goodness how can someone actually achieve this feast. If someone can do this I believe that all our dreams our un-imaginable things as also achievable.

Worth Watching.

This shows how simple things can be more attractive

One needs to be just creative in doing things no matter how simple they are they will be always be catchy!!

Lip Dub Pop Muzik from fredasterical on Vimeo.

A lip dub by me to M's Pop Muzik. I took a bit of time with this one. Hope you enjoy!