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Google Sync bring Gmail Contacts and Google Calendar events to your phone

It doesn’t really matter if this is actually Microsoft technology (Microsoft Exchange) , that Google licensing it. In fact,  they should collaborating more, in joint-effort to made the internet a better place for everyone.

The real beauty here is how Google Sync, unveiled yesterday by Google, able to make our life easier. It works by synchronizing your Google Calendar and GMail Contact (for the time being) to iPhone and Windows Mobile phones.

Google Sync is a two-way service, which means you can make any changes on your phone or in your Google Account. At the end of the day, both will have similar data regardless where the changes made before.

The setup is pretty straight forward. Choose your devices and follow the instruction carefully. It took me less than 5 mins to get its working.

List of phones where this service is available.

Head to m.google.com/sync to give it try.. My experiment’s screen shot as below.

My Calendar – ‘Test Google Sync @ 4AM’
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The ‘Test Google Sync @ 4AM’  now synchronized to my iPhone. Cool!!
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Admin 10 February 2009 internet tool , , , , , 5 Comments

Read Books@Mobile Google Books Search while waiting..

Next time if someone is asking how many books have you read in a year, just show them your iPhone or Android phone. Tell them you’re reading it there and has lost count of how many books have been read so far. I know it is sounds ‘poyo‘  :) (never thought this slang available online though)

I’m quite impress with the new mobile version of Google Books Search. It just amazing to be able to read books on the phone, without getting too much eye strain.  The book content and the font was rendered clearly on the phone screen. 

And yep, it is the answer too for anyone who tends to come out with thounsands excuse for not reading. Of course this is for book lover too. There are 1.5 million mobile public domain books in the US (and over half a million outside the US) for you to choose from. Just prepare the charger beside you incase your phone’s battery dried out.. while reading. Isn’t that good??

I write once about the ‘Read While Waiting Project‘ sometime back which basically promote reading while waiting on something. With more places installed with WIFI device especially at the city center nowadays, perhaps it is best to include this app. as part of the campaign.

Some screenshot from iPhone..

Original view

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Google Book Search mobile version

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The books

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How the book’s contents appear on the screen..

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Admin 10 February 2009 internet tool , , , , 7 Comments

Backup Gmail and Hotmail on the cloud with Zoho Mail

Folks at Zoho has posted an instruction how to backup Gmail on Zoho Mail. The concept is similar to the client based applications such as Microsoft Outlook and Windows Live Mail, where the email downloaded into that particular email client.

In case this is the first time you heard of Zoho, it is an web office suite and collaboration tool, which among other contain Zoho Mail. It is email client that ‘live’ on the cloud. That means the backup emails are kept on the cloud, which theoretically safer rather than keeping it on the local drive.

Although the post specifically mention Gmail, it is actually works for any other email that support POP3, including Hotmail, that has just got their POP3 support recently.

To get started, head to your Zoho Mail and follow this – Setting – Mail Setting – Mail Accounts.

On my testing below, I used back the Hotmail’s POP3 setup.

zoho backup Backup Gmail and Hotmail on the cloud with Zoho Mail

There you go my Hotmail in Zoho Mail.

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Admin 10 February 2009 internet tool , , , , , , , 2 Comments

Google Translate can’t translate https URL

Its quite surprising that Google Translate tool can’t translate https URL. See my attempt.

Original Page..
original https Google Translate cant translate https URL

Translated successfully with Yahoo BabelFish..
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My attempt to translate https://www.pearc.de/ failed with this error message
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Switch from https to http, which is unsuccessful as well.
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1-0 for Yahoo..

Admin 9 February 2009 internet tool , , , , , 1 Comment

Yahoo Calendar Beta hands-on and the similarities and differences with Google Calendar

The new Yahoo Calendar Beta is quite impressive.  In term of features, it is almost on par with its older rival, Google Calendar except on the few aspects. I have Yahoo Calendar brief hands-on this evening while working on some old project.

I love comparison, and to start with, I choose Google Calendar. So first of all, I tried my best to find similarities between these 2 calendars on the cloud.

Both calendar has full-fledged calendar function, from creating simple events to recurring events. Event’s reminders can  sent via email or SMS pop out (Google Calendar only) and Yahoo Messenger (for Yahoo Only). Yahoo’s SMS events reminder however only applicable for US users, while Google accept almost all carriers all over the world.

Both support event’s drag and drop between hours, days, weeks or months. Yahoo is slightly ahead when it allows  adjusting the event period by resizing the event’s box size to be shorter or longer.

Apart from that, both calendars allows sharing the calender with public or people you wanted as well as prints the calendar directly within the application.

To differentiate between calendar type, both allows multiple calendar type, normally on the nature of that calendar such as for personal or business use. The different calendars are differentiate by color, the people who can shared with and etc.

Additionally, Google Calendar have an option to display holiday calendar which Yahoo Calendar lacking with.

The are couple of differences that I notice, and I believe there are more. This are difference that bound to the service provider.

Yahoo has Flickr integrated into Yahoo Calendar. If users happen to be Flickr user, enabling this feature will randomly fill up certain days with the photos from Flickr. Future release includes filling up the day event with the photos that you uploaded that day.

A quite huge different obviously, that Google Calendar can be viewed offline , feature that was introduced on Google Apps recently. With this feature, Google Calender is more appealing for frequent travelers who needs to get in touch with their hectic schedule.

yahoo calendar Yahoo Calendar Beta hands on and the similarities and differences with Google Calendar

Admin 8 February 2009 internet tool , , , , 2 Comments
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