How to Suggest a Feature to add in Gmail.

Gmail always want to be the best and unique by providing great services to their users. They are constantly building and testing new features, last month they introduced a new feature, Creating personal Mailing list through Contact Manager. By the popular demand from users, they have added many features like free automated forwarding, signature options, IMAP Access.

There may be such things in your creative mind that you wish it could do, just let them know what it is with the help of Suggest a feature option. Click "Help" at the top of any page in your Gmail account. On the right side of the Gmail Help Center, you'll see a "Let us know" link in the "Suggest a feature" box.

So what your creative mind is thinking:
Want colorful background themes? or Want Gmail to do your laundry? let them know.

Easily find out who is the Owner of any Domain.

Who Is The Owner is free online tool which let you find out the owner of any Domain quickly and easily. This tool finds the info about the owner by querying more than 350 whois servers around the world.

You just have to simply type in any domain name and you will get all the available information about the owner i.e. Name, Address, Phone etc.

Build-to-order cell phone store launched

A company called zzzPhone offers cell phone handsets that you can customize during your order on their Web site.

Computer World Reports,

zzzPhone is an American company with a factory in China that uses " the same high quality components as major brands Motorola, Nokia, Palm, and Samsung; these unlocked, tri-band cell phones deliver features that exceed those offered on the ultra-popular Nokia N95 and Apple iPhone, at less than half the price."

Company is comparing their phone with Nokia N95 on their website, 110gm zzzPhone with Windows Mobile or Equivalent OS, two sim card slots, 3mpxl (5 and 7mpxl upgrade available) camera resolution and lots more. See the complete comparison.

All zzzPhones work anywhere in the world except for Europe, according to the release.

Microsoft launches Wireless Laser Mouse 6000 and 7000

Microsoft just announced a new pair of Wireless Laser Mouse 6000 and 7000. The new 6000 wireless mouse offers 2.4 GHz wireless technology with up to 30-foot range. The Wireless Laser Mouse 7000 sacrifices a bit of portability for a rechargeable batteries -- with a horizontal charging dock to host the mouse when times are rough and juice is scarce.

Both mice include Microsoft's HD Lasers and a few Vista-friendly buttons. You can pick them up in March for $50 and $70, respectively.

Source: engadget

Windows Vista SP1 will arrive in March

Microsoft has announced today that Windows Vista SP1 has been released to manufacturing. SP1 will be available in only five languages, English, French, Spanish, German and Japanese. It will be available in other languages in April.

It will address the key issues that users have identified in Vista over the last year. As Microsoft said, they have made great progress in performance, reliability and compatibility. It will bring more new improvements that are based on the feedback of customers.

In mid-March Vista SP1 will be available in Download Center on microsoft.com, Users with Automatic Update option enabled will start to receiving it in mid-April.

Microsoft also started to manufacture DVDs of Windows Vista OS including SP1 for their enterprise customers who get their software via Volume Licensing program.

Read more about this Release on Windows Vista Blog.

Who Else Wants the MacBook Air for FREE!

There is no need to say how many of you act immediately If anyone say "Who Else wants the MacBook Air for Free!". So people, here is a great news for you that The Boy Genius Report (BGR) is giving away the fabulous prize a brand new MacBook Air (1.6GHz, 80GB) to one lucky reader. They aren't asking so much in this giveaway. All you have to do to enter is drop a comment on their MacBook Air giveaway! post and they will pick one lucky winner at random.

Here are the simple rules to enter.

• You may enter once and only once. Entering more than once will disqualify you
• The giveaway is open to residents of the U.S. only. Sorry.
• Entries close on Sunday, February 10th at 11:59 PM. They’ll announce the winner on Monday, February 11th.

I cant participate in this contest because the second rule is showing me a Red Signal. If you are a resident of U.S. and have your luck with you, then Best Luck!

Please Read their Post Carefully before Entering.

Add the programs you want to the Control Panel

A small utility called Your CPL will allow you to add programs of your choices to your Control Panel. This utility is compatible with Windows 98, ME, 2000, XP. This utility comes is a package containing four files. You have to move YourCPL.cpl and YourCPLconfig.txt to the Windows system folder. for instance in Windows XP that both files need to be moved in to system32 folder.

The file YourCPLconfig.txt contains the information of those programs which are to be added to Control Panel. By default you will find a example entry of Windows Registry Editor in this file for your convenience.

The format of adding program to the file is given below

Path to program[press Tab key]Icon caption[press Tab key]Descriptive text

Example of adding Registry Editor

c:\windows\regedit.exe Regedit Registry editor

You may add Command line arguments if you want by pressing tab after Descriptive Text. Each application has to be added in separate line.

In the above screenshot you can see two new application shown by arrows which are added with the help of this utility.

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Why do text looks too blurry in Internet Explorer 7?

Fonts in Internet Explorer are not displaying as clear as you want (they look blurry)?, it is all because of the ClearType feature of Internet Explorer 7.

I found, the same problem was appearing in Microsoft Frontpage.

What is ClearType?

ClearType is a subpixel rendering technology developed by Microsoft to improve your readability of text over LCD monitors (Such as Laptop screens or Flat Panel Screens). Sometimes ClearType can appear Blurry on CRT monitors. By default ClearType is turned on in Internet Explorer 7.

How to Turn Off ClearType Feature in IE 7?

Following are the steps to turn off/on the ClearType feature.

• Goto Internet Explorer, click on Tools menu, then select Internet Options.
• Then goto Advanced tab, scroll down to Multimedia Section.
• Unmark the Always use Clear Type for HTML option, Click OK.
• Restart Internet Explorer.

This will solve your problem, If you need any help please feel free to comment here.

Lite-On's Moldable Mouse takes whatever shape you want

Now you can give what ever shape you want to your mouse. Lite-On Technology's Moldable Mouse can be squeezed into any shape you want, many peoples have suffered wrist injuries from the extensive use of mouse in a fixed position. Hope this mouse will eliminate this problem with its unique feature.

Moldable mouse is made of "non-toxic lightweight modelling clay, covered with nylon and polyurethane blend fabric". It can be kneaded into any shape the user prefers, and the shape is self-retaining.

The click buttons and touch-sensitive scroll pad of the mouse are stick-on parts with built-in RFID (Radio Frequency Identification Device), can be added to any location you want. The texture of the material feels similar to silk, but is much more flexible, comes in a variety of colors.

This Moldable Mouse is still in the concept stage, but it has already won a Red Dot design award.

[via Engadget]