Google De-Automates Addition of Gmail Contacts

Google has smart solutions for every thing that comes on the way, This is one out of that


"We've heard from some of you that Gmail's auto-added contacts can lead to too much address book clutter,"

"One of the advantages of automatically creating contacts is that all of the addresses you e-mail subsequently show up in auto-complete. We wanted to preserve this benefit while giving you the ability to have a clean, uncluttered contact list, and we've come up with a solution that's rolling out this week.

It separates your contacts into two groups: 'My Contacts' and 'Suggested Contacts.'"Gmail still auto-gathers e-mail addresses, but now they're just "Suggested Contacts." You, the user, now must now take a more active role in defining your social circle.


Instead of removing/etc the functionality, how smartly they came up with a smart solution.

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Learn selenium using flash cards

Using flash cards : It's a interesting way to get some fair amount of idea on selenium in flashy way :)

Google Brings Full-Album Downloads To Picasa

Here's a tip for families sharing photos on Picasa Web Albums, or for anybody else who needs to shuttle large sets of photos from one computer to another. With Picasa Web Albums, your viewers can download entire photo albums to their Picasa library on their PC with just a click. This is perfect for situations like parties or big family get-togethers, since you know other guests will probably want original-resolution files they can print at home, or save to their local photo library. Obviously, we love it when people browse and enjoy photos on the Picasa Web Albums site itself, but we won't step in your way if you're trying to share full-resolution originals with your friends.

Downloading full albums is pretty simple, and enabled by default -- just look for the "Download Album" link on the left-hand side of an album page. Note that the PC you're browsing with needs to have Picasa installed for this link to appear; downloaded albums will automatically appear in a 'Downloaded Albums' folder inside Picasa.

Of course I had to test it out. It works just as Google describes.

There's actually another feature that I am more excited about. Picasa lets you embed photo album slide shows into blogs or web sites.

How To Install Ubuntu Linux In 12 Easy Steps

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Maintaing web session state without cookies

Maintaining Session State without Cookies

Some browsers do not recognize cookies, and users can choose to disable cookies in their browsers. The HTTP POST method provides an alternative to cookies to maintain session state. The HTTP POST method provides the same state information as would a cookie but has the advantage that it works even when cookies are not available. This method is not common in practice, but it is a good example to learn from. The HTTP POST method works similarly to an in-memory cookie; user information can be maintained only during the visit, and the session state information is gone when the user turns off the browser.

There are two kinds of cookies, as follows:

• In-memory cookies: An in-memory cookie goes away when the user shuts the browser down.

• Persistent cookies: A persistent cookie resides on the hard drive of the user and is retrieved when the user comes back to the Web page.

Graduation college days

My graduation days were totally different and I have never faced those kind of days in my education cycle. The college in which I studied was Priyadarshini P.G. college situated in Ameerpet,Hyderabad

It was full of fun and only fun and no studies at all :) there were strength of only 18 members and that too only boys :( (Though it is a co-ed college)

Among those boys there were hardly three or four guys including me who were little serious about their studies, Remaining all were ho-hum kind of students, As it was tough course (B.C.A) containing all hard computer subjects, most of the lectures were also not fair enough to teach the subjects in a proper way.

English period was simply a recreation period for us and nothing else---

There was an english teacher used to take english classes for us and that period was like full fledge of merriment, Guys used to tease each other in front of teacher by throwing chocks and talking some rubbish about each other and also at the same time will behave like decent student by synching with teacher for few minutes by replying to her queries then again back to same track. Also there was a balcony in our class room which was the major part of recreation for us, So guys used to roam around in the balcony teasing other people walking on the road.

So that's how we spent our class periods & graduation time,But at the time of exams guys use to get tensed and start referring some books and taking each other's help to get some passing marks finally.

But one thing was that it had a major impact on my education & carrier, Because of no such seriousness in studies at all in class and neither from management side. Life was very much adrift. Despite all these things I got a good percentage and stood as a second topper in the class, Apart from my heavy hard work major credit goes to my cousin brother neeraj(B.C.A completed and at that time he was pursuing M.sc (IS) ) and my cousin sister poonam (she was pursuing B.C.A parallel to me but in some other women's college) and of course my bhaiya & bhabhi.

Nevertheless of all these I still sometimes I keep regretting myself that if I would have got some good college then does it have made any difference ..? or it would have been same like this.. ?