Spammers in Google Group

Google group has always been under the sprinkles of spammers.

It should not be hard to rule out that non-member posting more than 2 post within a couple of minutes can not be a non spammer...

Google should find a way to automatically suspend such accounts in Groups.

Google bazziya

Google blinked?
My first impression of Google Buzz was already negative. Before I had barely started, I already had couple dozen people following me.  You know... cost/demand analysis. They made Google wave overly hyped and no one got it in the beginning. So, the demand went all over the place including Ebay. Later, not many used it.  Now not many people wants buzz. Why? Simple!!! many people felt that It was pushed to their inbox.
So, usual remark was that Buzz... a failed wave.

I believe, had they limited it to "invitation-only" for a month, the demand would have gotten high.
Many remarked that having buzz inside gmail was like sleeping in a transparent bedroom. It is not, but people felt insecure.  I believe, the same person who was die-hard seeker of Google wave had been turned off by that time. Tuning and tweaking the buzz came later.

Google, you came late this time!
People who had access to social networking site had already been engaged. Clinging is easy. Many people also felt lack of innovation in there... What was buzz all about? Google + twitter? Google + facebook?
Call it Gootter? Gwitter? twiggle? GoogleFace? or FaceGoogle?
Google, a leader in many respect, blinked and came late into this social play ground.

I tried it, before the end of 24th hour the network grew to more than my regular contacts.  I believe I am already connected to the people I wanted to connect. New connections are OK, However, to me it was just one more way to distraction. No! I already have enough distractions :)

Off the Buzz... not!
In anyways, I decided to go off the buzz.
I thought I had disabled Google Buzz... By writing last "Bye Bye" and disconnecting it.
But it was not!!!
Later, a friend in told me that I was still updating my status in Google buzz (But I was not, really). I looked into my public profile and found that was the case. This was because of the fact that it had pulled out stuffs from my twitter and connected sites.
It was like my ghost account. I am out of buzz... not!!!
Finally, after deleting all the updates (oh... they call it buzz) and disconnecting all the sites...
I am off the buzz.

Connecting Back will be easy... unless they close the back door
On the bright side... if I want to connect again, it will be quick. It will be like jumping at the middle of the party.

Captcha again

Invisible letters, no one can break it!

Crash Message in Firefox@ Ubuntu

Few days back aakar-tech wrote about google gear being abandoned by Google in favor of HTML5.
However, it has been long time since I got this message...

I went into the google gear site... http://gears.google.com/

 

and re-installed the gears. 

 ... and I believe, it went away.

Rocket Launch leaves the shock waves in sky

This is a nice video...


Watch how the rocket leaves the shockwave ripples in the sky.


Also picked up by :
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap100223.html

http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/

http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/
Just the name is sufficient.
How does your site do?

ScreenGrab addon for Firefox

I find this addon for firefox to be very handy in terms of grabbing the screen shots off the monitor or browser.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1146

Unfortunately, I could not grab the portion which could show how to use it...
So, had to get my camera and snap it:

I am absolutely loving it!

Facebook New Layout

Finally, I got the new layout released into my account.

I like this new layout except for the fact that they have taken my most favorite button under the "account" section. Guess which one is it?
Yep: LOGOUT!
The compelling new feature of this one are the reinforcement of sending messages... I call it Facebook Email.
Similarly, Facebook chat is more handy. Notification was kinda eyesore... It can be more irritating now if they put red stuff to highlight it.
Search is there... (ohh at the top!) but it is still not the big thing in facebook... YET. :P
I really appreciate Facebook for not putting "my-space/yahoo" kind of irritating ads and also for not tuning personal ads (see this one on how they really can).

old versus new layout.

Facebook Hacked?

Just for a moment, I think it was.
My history shows that I was actually redirected to hacked page...

I landed on the page with various offers...

while trying to get out of the page I had another prompt:

Are you sure you want to navigate away from this page?
Would you like more information?  Call 1-877-215-0994
Press OK to continue, or Cancel to stay on the current page

Playing with Virtual Box in Vista

Umm... Experience is the best thing to have... assuming that there will be no problems while doing all sorts of experiments.
OR
alternatively, that problems if any will teach us.

let me tell you... It is not that much fun compared to having full swing dual boot system over the virtual box OS. However, it is not a bad idea to have Ubuntu handy in virtual box without having to reboot the system.
I had a problem of screen resolution. The darn thing would not resize itself to higher resolution... it was solved by installing some Vboxadditions that came along.

I still do not have any idea what happened except that after banging your head here and there... pulling hair and moving hands like crazy ... sometimes works!

References:

http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/opensource/?p=208
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=700264

I am not much of a GEEK! 

Pay Pal automated assistant #$%^&

Confronting the customer service is never a good experience. Lucky ones get good ones.
I noticed that paypal also had automated assitant. Having  recently chatted with the cleverbot, my expectation was sky high :)
Here is the screenshot... you have to try it yourself to feel the automated customer service rep.
;)