Do you see what I see...has Google changed their favicon across all it's services? I generally user Google Suggest for all my daily searches. But intrigued by its new favicon, I tried various services...but seems like only Google Search and Google Suggest have theirs changed. I have no clue why, do you any?
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Talking of Windows 7, I stumbled upon these neat slick wallpapers of same. The unofficial logo concepts and these wallpapers are created by Long Zheng of istartedseomthing and hosted at deviantART for public download. The download pack contains walls for most screen resolutions including widescreen. You can see a couple of them here...get tons of them here.
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Microsoft is mum about the much hyped Windows 7, but there are enough rumours flying around in circles. Windows 7 was formerly codenamed Blackcomb and then Vienna. As I could understand after reading through a few top-notched blogs, Windows 7 might end up just being a non-disruptive update to the groundwork laid by Vista! Readers please be advised that Windows 7 is not here until 2010, or at least till end of 2009. You can watch a video of Windows 7 (as claimed by the owner of the video) in one of my earlier posts.
an eye-catchy image of Windows 7 boot screen I found on the webCurrent news about Windows 7
- Milestone 1 (M1) is already made available to select partners. Microsoft's developer division is testing all teir builds against Windows 7
- Windows 7 will likely feature a more modular approach, Windows Server 2008 like architecture that lets developers install selective features while leaving the unwanted untouched
- Microsoft is looking for ways to tightly tie next-gen Windows Live Services with Windows 7, including ways to provide unique Live Experience for Windows 7 users.
- M1 testers report a new version of Windows Media Center adn support fro multiple graphics cards
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As a sequel to my earlier post on Google Talk's Language Bots, I found this interesting stuff on bots.
JBuddy Bot Builder is an integrated development environment (IDE) designed to make developing, testing and deploying interactive IM Bots and Text Messaging applications simple and easy. It is built on top of the JBuddy Bot Framework and JBuddy SDK with powerful public and enterprise IM capabilities and is cross-platform. This best of class solution is available as a FREE download and includes a FREE license to jump start your project.
JBuddy Bot Builder boasts of the following features:
- IDE for rapid bot development, testing, and deployment cycles
- WYSIWYG test chat windows for local online and offline testing
- Cross Platform (Windows Vista, XP, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris, etc)
- Built on top of the JBuddy Bot Framework 2.0
- Leverages the IM capabilities of the JBuddy SDK 6.1
- Free 3 concurrent chat session license perfect for prototypes and occassional use
Only after a month of subscription to visitor maps, which are stabled at the footer of this page; I can see a lot of hits on my pages. Though I stand incomparable to Amit or Gina, not bad at all, I should say to myself. Most of the concentration is from the United States, Europe and India as you can see below for yourself, though there are finger number hits from the rest of the globe.
Below are the visitor locations on my blog in various formats. These were captured at 2200 hrs EST of May 18th.
Heat Map
Cluster Map
Day/Night Map
I didn't know till date that Google's instant messenger, Google Talk, more popular as GTalk, also helps to learn English language through its chat module.
Yup, you read it right. As of now, there are 10 language conversions available on GTalk. 9 of these conversions help converting a foreign language to English while 1 helps convert English to Chinese. If you already run GTalk, go ahead and test these language converters. Add these, what do you call these by the way...errrr...translators, language bots, transbots...sounds nice...add these 'transbots' to your buddy list and start chatting in foreign languages in no time...zip-zap-zoom!
- ENGLISH to CHINESE - en2zh@bot.talk.google.com
- ARGENTINA to ENGLISH - ar2en@bot.talk.google.com
- GERMAN to ENGLISH - de2en@bot.talk.google.com
- SPANISH to ENGLISH - es2en@bot.talk.google.com
- FRENCH to ENGLISH - fr2en@bot.talk.google.com
- ITALIAN to ENGLISH - it2en@bot.talk.google.com
- JAPANESE to ENGLISH - ja2en@bot.talk.google.com
- KOREAN to ENGLISH - ko2en@bot.talk.google.com
- NETHERLANDS to ENGLISH - nl2en@bot.talk.google.com
- RUSSIAN to ENGLISH - ru2en@bot.talk.google.com
- ENGLISH to ESPANOL - en2es@bot.talk.google.com
- ENGLISH to FRENCH - en2fr@bot.talk.google.com
- ENGLISH to ITALIAN - en2it@bot.talk.google.com
- ENGLISH to JAPANESE - en2ja@bot.talk.google.com
- ENGLISH to KOREAN - en2ko@bot.talk.google.com
- ENGLISH to RUSSIAN - en2ru@bot.talk.google.com
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Readers...wait a minute. I think I found a hack to the restriction levied by Google on its online payment processing service; Google Checkout. It just struck my little brain that this could be done. But let me check this myself before I throw light on my readers. Though it'll need spending a few bucks towards testing this hack, I'm willing to do it. I'm away trying to hack Google Checkout...will post my findings soon...Einstein at work ;)
