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Pibb for your communication

Pibb is a great way to communicate online, it brings together the familiarity of forums, power of blogs, flexibility of email and convenience of instant messaging in one browser window. All messages are delivered in real time, then archived automatically for later search/viewing. This feature set makes Pibb ideal as a communication back-channel for conferences, for use as a support tool, or for community based private/public discussions

I have been using Pibb last two days. Even though Pibb has not picked up in terms number of users. It has the capability and features. It could be a great support tool. It can be used to support your open source software or service. Or it can be used to give one to one suggestions. If not anything it could be used as online meeting too. It has the search and save functionality.

More over it is Open Id enabled. Which means if you have a wordpress.com or AOL or livejournal.com url. Then you can just login and start communicating. It has Pibb me functionality for one to one communication.

What is open id?

Here is very good presentation by Simon about OpenId. It explains everything about OpenId a common user should know. Its big but very simple and direct.

Smallest unified IM software : Easy Message

You must be tired of using multiple IM clients to chat with your friends on multiple systems. If you had already known about unified IM software you would have used Trillian , GAIM or Pidgin etc. They all are installable softwares. What if you wanted to carry them on your CD or USB. You either need to go to Gaim portable or Easy Message. Easy Message of just 200kb is the smallest IM client. You can carry it even on a floppy disk (??).

The features include

• MSN style status bar notifications
• Supports ICQ, Yahoo, MSN and AOL
  
• POP3 mail notifications
• sound notifications
• hotmail integration
• proxy/firewall support
• international character support
• automatically import your accounts contacts and groups
• saving groups and contact list

It does not support Gtalk or Jabber. That just one -ve point. Otherwise its most suitable application to have on you USB drive.

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How to get category or label wise RSS in New Blogger

I wanted to subscribe to category (called label in blogger) of my friends blog. Even the blog admins do not know how to get those RSS feeds. Hence I did some digging to find it out
To get the RSS posts that belong to the label "Bangalore" you need to use the url

http://yournewbloggerurl.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default/-/Bangalore/

**Do not miss /-/ part in the url.
There are many other parameters which you can pass to filter the posts. I have listed few more information is here.

• alt - the type of feed to return, such as atom (the default) or rss.
• orderby - the order to return entries, such as lastmodified (the default) and starttime.
• max-results - the maximum number of entries to return.
• /category - specifies categories (i.e. labels) to filter the feed results. For example, http://www.blogger.com/feeds/blogID/posts/default/-/Fritz/Laurie will return entries labeled with Fritz AND Laurie.
• updated-min, updated-max - the bounds on entry update dates.
• published-min, published-max - the bounds on entry publication dates.
• start-index - 1-based index of the first result to be retrieved (for paging).

How to store passwords

Chris talks about storing the passwords. He introduces to online password service called passpack. The passpack service is free. It uses AES encryption algorithm to store your passwords on their server.It has many other features like anti phishing etc.If you want to store your passwords online then this could be a good place.Follow their blog to get more info on passpak and in general secure passwords.

Top 5 search engines for easy code searching

Reusing the code/frameworks ( either the in public domain or FOSS licensed code) is pretty common. But searching for useful code online is not very easy.The regular search engines like Google or Yahoo are not designed for code searching. Now there are few specialized code search engines which can fetch better result. Here are the top five code search engines

1. Google Code Search
2. Krugle
3. Koders
4. oreilly Code Search
5. CodeBase

All the above engines allow you to search on Language (like Java, C etc) and license (like GPL, MIT etc). Except for oreilly code search, rest of them search the internet.
Oreilly code search contains the code from their books.Which currently contains over 123,000 individual examples, composed of 2.6 million lines of code all edited and ready to use.

CircleUP: Ask team for suggestion and get collated answer

Every time you ask a question to your team, collating their answers is a big problem. The usual way to collect the suggestion from a team is to share the excel sheet on LAN and ask them to enter their choice. But this will not work when the team is across the internet. Or if your teams are separated by firewall. Now we have an online application to do the boring collating work for you. Its called CircleUP

What is CircleUp?
It’s a simple, FREE and easy way to ask questions of any community you belong to and get back a single organized result to use and share instead of a blizzard of emails and instant messages.
With CircleUp you can avoid:

• Searching through your inbox to find replies from everyone who responded
• Tracking who replied and who didn't
• Getting replies to your question sent in different formats
• Having to cut and paste answers into a Word document or Excel spreadsheet to aggregate them
• Getting replies that don’t actually answer your question
• Annoying "reply to all" messages that disrupt the group and clutter your inbox
• Fumbling through your mailbox archives to find old information
• Not being able to share answers with the group or save them for the future

Circleup works with your outlook client or IM or any email provider. None other than you (who is asking the question) needs an account registered at CircleUP. And the answers can be seen only by you.

DNS Stuff : For all online lookups

As some of you know I was out of reach for two days. A mess up with my MX records forced the mails to be lost in the woods of Internet. Only when few friends called me to ask why i didn't reply; I realized that there is something wrong. My first step was to correct the MX records at my domain name registrar. Then check it from a third party tool to verify everything was OK. There are many such tools available on the net for such look up. I found called DNS Stuff

The DNS stuff gives almost all the services in one clutter free UI. Services like email id lookup; dns lookup; trace route etc. They all are very useful when you do system admin yourself.

Utilize all your Gmail Space

You have lots of space left on you Gmail account. You want to utilize that space to store your digital content. But you dont like uploading the your digital contents as attachment. And then browse them.

Then Getspace is an ideal product for you. GetSpace allows you to utilize that unlimited space available on your Gmail account through a very user friendly interface. You can have multiple gmail accounts too.

“Gspace is the FON friendly site that provides FREE Online Storage to access your files everywhere.

“Gspace turns the 2GB of your Gmail account into free online storage. With Gspace you can manage unlimited Gmail accounts to store all type of files within its simple, user friendly interface.

“Listen your favourite stored music directly from your Gspace, view your collections of pictures and manage your Gdrive files as well.

“Download Gspace now and transfer files between your computer and Gspace at anytime, from everywhere!”

Online software developement environment

Create Workspace is a online development environment that facilitates the complete management of your Web-based projects. With a syntax highlighting editor built right in, it provides the ability to edit text, PHP, JavaScript, HTML, Java, Perl, SQL and other types of files directly on a remote server. Finding and managing those files is made easy with a cutting-edge file management utility embedded right in the app. With this utility, users can connect to, and manage the files on an arbitrary number of ftp sites

Workspace is complete online IDE. It gives you all functionalities to work on a web based project from with in a browser. It can connect to multiple online FTP servers. And you can edit those php files with out downloading to your local machine. This will also allow you to browse those FTP servers from behind firewall. The main features include

• Connect to multiple ftp servers simultaneously
• Always connected to your space on our servers
• Create, rename, and delete files and folders
• Upload and download files
• Download archived folders
• Cut/copy and paste files and folders

If you don't have an FTP server of your own. Don't worry every account gets some free space to work on. So go create a workspace.

Add comments and pictures to Google Maps

Google today updated its map application Goolge Maps with the ability for its users to add conversations, comments and pictures on maps.

You can even add videos into the maps and share that link with your friends. This is grate for road trips. Add the pictures,links, comments on the road you took. Then share it with the world or just friends.

Other than these you draw lines, put a place holder or draw shapes on maps.

You can even upload this maps on to the Google Earth to see them on Google earth in 3D. Its just a click on the button.

Pictute Credit: Google Maps