Free Local Calls From Gmail in 2012

Google has announced it is extending its free Gmail calling deal for another year, allowing desktop users to make calls to any domestic number within the United States or Canada through the end of 2012.

The offer has been available since August 2010 when Google introduced the ability to call mobile or landline phone numbers right from within the Gmail's chat interface, powered by technology from their Gizmo5 acquisition in 2009.

Although at the time it was said the free local calls offer would stand for the rest of the year 2010, Google has kept it running ever since and plans to continue doing so for at least another 12 months. It may be that they're focused on growing the user base in order to become a serious contender against Skype, or perhaps the company is making enough revenues form international calls to subsidize the service.

Google Voice users can accept incoming calls through desktop Gmail at no charge. Those outside the U.S. still have to pay for all of their calls at what Google calls "insanely low rates," starting at $0.02 a minute.

How to Rectify Blog Layout Error

Temporarily use draft.blogger.com.   Here edit as you like as you were blogging before until your blog error is solved by google.

Happy Blogging!

3D Browsing by Cooliris

This is an add-on which can be downloaded at COOLIRIS.

Turn Firefox into your ultimate media browser.

Cooliris is a browser plug-in that revolutionizes how you find, view, and share photos and videos. Whether you're browsing the Web or your desktop, Cooliris presents media on an infinite "3D wall" that lets you enjoy content without clicking page to page.

Cooliris works with Firefox, as well as Safari (Mac), and Google Chrome (Windows).

Launch Cooliris anytime

Start your Cooliris experience by clicking the Cooliris mouseover icon, browser toolbar icon, or desktop icon (Firefox and IE only). 

Cooliris is a free downloadable plug-in that turns your favorite browser into a super media browser at the click of your mouse. Get a quick rundown on its key features below or watch the demo video.

OMNIMO UI Change Windows 7 Desktop Like Windows Phone

If you haven’t heard of Rainmeter, it’s a popular freeware that enables some of the rich customization on your Windows desktop.

This is the tool that can push the desktop customization to the maximum. If you are really interested, be sure to check out their documentation first, as they have a nice explanation on what the whole product is about, and beginner guide for you to get started.

Yes, you can use Rainmeter to create your very own customized Windows Desktop.

Some basic customizations you can do with Rainmeter are

• add different skins;
• perfectly styled widgets, e.g. CPU, RAM, Network monitor, one click music player, RSS feeds, etc. on your desktop.

Although, it may sounds very much the same as the default Windows gadgets and sidebar, there are a fundamental differences:

1. You can use Rainmeter on Windows XP, as well as on Vista and 7.
2. You can have a totally different look for the widgets on every theme.
3. You can create your own widgets/themes/skins. 

This is what the finished desktop looks like. Lets begin customizing your Windows 7 desktop and make it looks and feels like the Windows 7 Phone running on your desktop.

First, download and install the Rainmeter, be sure to download the right version if you are running on a 64-bit edition.

Next, download the additional Omnimo UI. This is the skin for Windows 7 Phone which you need to have to make it look like the picture above.

Run the Rainmeter first before doing anything, which creates the default directory for skins, themes, and backup. Do not run the Omnimo UI if you have never run Rainmeter before.

Now, exit the Rainmeter and launch the Omnimo UI Rainstaller.

Once you’ve done this, you should now see Rainmeter launch with the newly added Theme called Omnimo UI. And this is exactly what you see on the first screen shoot.

You can now customize, to show which widgets, feed URL, clocks, weather, etc. you would like to have on the desktop.

Finally, enjoy your Windows 7 Phone theme on your Windows 7 Desktop.

Customization Guide

How to create virtual desktops in windows 7

WindowsPager is not a new tool, but the latest update brings seamless integration to Windows 7. It is an opensource portable pager utility for Windows that creates four virtual desktops(also called virtual workspaces).

It integrates perfectly in the Windows 7 taskbar(also called superbar) with complete preview of apps running in virtual desktops. Clicking each icon will take you to it’s respective virtual desktop.

Apart from switching the desktops by clicking the icons in the taskbar, you can also switch by right-clicking any Windows title bar and selecting the virtual desktops.

You will be surprised to know that the preview of virtual desktops in the taskbar is live, which means that you will see which windows are open in each desktop and where they are positioned. To test this feature hold any window and move it around the desktop, watching the preview in the taskbar.

Download WindowsPager

It works on Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7. You will find executables for both 32-bit and 64-bit OS inside the zip archive. It is a portable tool which weights around 500Kb only and can run straight from the USB drive. Enjoy!

Cool Google+ Tricks

Google+ is the current hottest social networking website.People are navigating from facebook to test this new social networking website.So,many of us have our accounts on both Facebook as well as Google+.Now you can integrate Google+ and facebook and can see the news feed of both from a single window. 

• By writing text between * it gets bold.If you write *word* it will become word
• By writing text between _ it gets underlined.If you write _word_ it will become word
• By writing text between - it gets strikethrough.If you write –word- it will become word
• Google+ supports Drag and Drop,so you can share things like links,photos,videos by directly dropping them into Share box
• To mention someone in your comments use + or @ before writing their name.
• Google+ doesn’t have private messages but you can share a post with only specific friends and don’t forget to disable Reshare
• To get permalink of any post click on the timestamp of that post.
• Public and Private posts are differenced by colors; Green = Public, Blue = Limited to circles

1. Space=Scroll Down
2. Shift+Space=Scroll up
3. J=Single Post Down Scroll
4. K=Single Post Up Scroll
5. Q=Jump to Chat
6. Return=Start Comment

Integrate Facebook With Google+

Google+ is the current hottest social networking website.People are navigating from facebook to test this new social networking website.So,many of us have our accounts on both Facebook as well as Google+.Now you can integrate Google+ and facebook and can see the news feed of both from a single window. 

There is a plugin wisely named Google+Facebook which will add an extra tab in your google+ account using which you can access your Facebook news feed.You can also like ,comment or add status updates to facebook from your Google+ account.Google+Facebook extension is available for Google Chrome,Internet Explorer and Firefox browsers.

Download Google+Facebook

The only drawback of this plugin is that it doesn’t automatically updates Facebook Feed.You have to refresh your page to check new updates.