how to start Google Chrome in Incognito Mode by default April 5, 2009

So, how to start Google Chrome in Incognito Mode by default or in other words create a shortcut for Google Chrome Incognito Mode in the desktop.
>Place a Google Chrome shortcut on the desktop (or any other desired location).
>Rename the shortcut to any convenient name like – Private Chrome.
>Right click on the shortcut and select ‘Properties’.
>On the ‘Target’ field add an –incognito to the end of program path. (Note: Make sure there is a space between the last apostrophe and the dash)
>Your incognito browser is now ready for launch. If you select ‘New Window’ from settings, you will get a normal non-incognito chrome window.

Find that ’someone’ who gives away your email address to spammers. April 5, 2009

When you give your email address to a website, you hope that they don’t sell or trade your address to a bunch of spammers. Well if they do, here is a simple way to see what sites are responsible for what particular piece of email. This requires you have a Gmail account.

If your Gmail login name was username@gmail.com and you went to samplesite.com to fill out a registration form, instead of just entering username@gmail.com as your email, enter it as username+samplesitecom@gmail.com instead.

When Gmail sees a “+” in an email address, it uses all the characters to the left of the plus sign to know who to send it to. In this example it would still send it to username@gmail.com.

Now whats cool is if you search Gmail for username+samplesitecom, you will see all massages that were sent to that email address.

To see who is responsible for sending a specific message click the Show Details link and you will see the complete address.

Readability Bookmarklet April 3, 2009

A helpful little browser bookmarklet from Arc90 strips all but the main text out of any web page and re-formats its layout, size, and margins, creating a newspaper or novel-like page for easier text digestion.

Head to the Readability page linked below, choose your “Style” (newspaper, novel, eBook, or terminal), your text size, and how wide across the page you want the text to spread. Grab and drag the customized bookmarklet to your bookmarks toolbar, and click it when you come across text that’s smooshed, oddly formatted, or surrounded by stuff you don’t want to see.

When it works, it does just what it says, and the fonts and rendering are quite relaxing. But it doesn’t catch every site’s text—in fact, Lifehacker and most of its Gawker Network siblings just don’t play.

The bookmarklet is free to grab and use.
Readability [Arc90 Lab Experiments]

Email in Indian Languages April 1, 2009

Today I introduced my sister and brother-in-law to Gmail as Google launched a new feature in Gmail that makes it easy to type email in Indian languages.
They were amazed. But I think Google has a long way to go when compared with Quillpad. Quillpad can also predict if multiple words are possible for your input. You can click on the word to select from those options. In addition Quillpad allows you to type English words freely in between Tamil words. It intelligently transliterates them into Tamil. If you are an ardent user of Firefox then we have the Lipikaar FireFox Extension which is also the fastest and takes fewer keystrokes to type than others.
I think, someday we all are going to use touch-screens that will have on-screen keyboards, which can be customized to any language and then the barrier will be broken.