Webpage Screenshot

Webpage Screenshot is a nice extension for Google Chrome.

Day 1 : Slide Set (Little Princess)

My Angel's first glimpse

16th February 2009 just looks like yesterday and my marriage just seems as recent past. With those beautifual memories still fresh in my mind; i have been blessed with another blissful female in my life. I am so glad and I welcome this little cute angel in my life. She is so calm, serene and charming that I don't even have words to explain her completely. Will write about her soon. Till then adore her first glimpse.

How to reduce weight - Introduction

In last 10 years i have three times successfully increased my weight :-D and was twice able to reduce it. This time when i have kept a resolution to reduce it again, i really want to blog out my complete plan and various stages of execution.

This will help me to keep my weight in check. But as we all know it is a human tendency to incline towards what we like rather what is correct. So these posts of mine will help me in future to get back to proper shape.

First i will like to remind myself to couple of facts :

1. Weight reduction is must for me and i can't be relaxed about it.
2. I can't stress myself for weight reduction otherwise I will loose the charm of losing weight. ( I love such catch22 scenarios)
3. Weight reduction has to be step by step. With achievable steps first so that it gives me encouragement.
4. It is important to understand which task is achievable. Following is definition for achievable tasks : Tasks that can be performed with least effort in given conditions and produces maximum benefits.
5. Understanding environment dependencies. There are various factors which are not in our hands but are dependent on people around us. One can be strong willed and defy all local factors but one should consider cost involved in defying them. For example, I come from an Indian family so if i think of fasting and then reducing my weight then I might not succeed. There will be times when my mother/wife will convince me to eat that they have cooked with efforts. Hence effort involved to reduce weight by solving these complex scenarios will be tooo high. So never get involved in complex scenarios.

With above facts in mind i need to document my realistic (rather than idealistic) goals.

1. My main goal is to get my BMI to 25. (Say X kilos) {don't want to share my current weight as of now}
2. Current Weight is X + 18 Kilos.
3. Time frame to achieve this goal is 1 year. I want to keep it realistic ( I know am lenient with myself) but i think it is fair keeping Point #2 (from facts) in mind :).
4. My first month goal is to get to X + 15 kilos.

Will be writing about how to get to first goal in next post.

Till then keep blogging.

Export Google Sites

Export Google Sites: "Google has released an API for Google Sites that lets you create or edit pages, upload or download attachments, monitor the activity of a site programmatically. The API could be use to create a new interface for Google Sites, to upload files from other sources or to migrate your data.

Google's Data Liberation team built a Java application for importing and exporting Google Sites. The application lets you export the pages from a site and all their attachments to a folder.

'The folder structure of an exported site is meant to mimic the Sites UI as closely as possible. Thus if exporting to a directory 'rootdirectory,' a top-level page normally located at webspace/pagename, would be in a file named index.html, located in rootdirectory/pagename. A subpage of that page, normally located at webspace/pagename/subpage, would be in a file named index.html in rootdirectory/pagename/subpage. Attachments are downloaded to the same directory as the index.html page to which they belong,' mentions the user guide.

You should only enter the domain name if you use Google Apps. 'Webspace' is the name of your site: http://sites.google.com/site/sitename/.


Unfortunately, you can't use this tool to import HTML files to an existing site. The importing option is only useful for the sites exported using the same application.

TEDTalks : Eric Giler demos wireless electricity - Eric Giler (2009)

TEDTalks : Eric Giler demos wireless electricity - Eric Giler (2009): "Eric Giler wants to untangle our wired lives with cable-free electric power. Here, he covers what this sci-fi tech offers, and demos MIT's breakthrough version, WiTricity -- a near-to-market invention that may soon recharge your cell phone, car, pacemaker.

Dynamic content on google sites

For long i was struggling to get dynamic content on my google site. I was looking for a solution which can take data from my google spreadsheet and display in a tabular form on my google site. I finally wrote a gadget which exactly does that.

Check out the final product at http://sites.google.com/site/aarcodelhi/products/portable-audio/cd-radio-cassette-player

The data for this page comes from a spreadsheet : http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=tFiR1ZmN_ykniquXwjig-LA

This was done using the my Google gadget. : http://hosting.gmodules.com/ig/gadgets/file/105177211040923965386/two-column-google-spreadsheet.xml

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.