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Forgot to send an attachment.. Sent a mail too early or to a wrong person.. worry not, gmail labs has introduced an undo function now.. which right now gives you 5 secs (plans to extend it to 10) to undo mail after it has been sent. Read complete article here !!

p.s. : This post is an entry for OG Contest

World Domain Map

A new way of looking at world. It shows country code top-level domains (ccTLDs) with font size relative to population. It shows about 245 different codes.  It will be good to see a similar map with no. of registerd domains for that TLD as well. Source [bytelevel] :- you can buy a copy for you from their website.

Nice plugin I found today for eclipse. Its a script editor for Nullsoft Scriptable Install System(NSIS) – which is an open source system for creating Windows Installer.

Earlier we were using Venis for the same, which is ok too. But Its really helpful to have a plugin like this, if you are working with nsis and are addicted to eclipse like me .

If you are new to NSIS and want to know how to create windows installers, read this tutorial and few examples here.

Links to look at for creating a facebook application.

• Facebook’s Developers page
  

• Step by step, detailed tutorial for beginner

• Google Code : Java api for facebook applications

• Video tutorial, read comments as well. A few bugs resolved.

• Using Expternal iframes in Facebook app, bug resoled

• In  case you have issues with authentication. while using java api.  Visit here.
  

Create widgets/facebook apps from rss feeds or your website itself in just few minutes using any of these..

http://www.clearspring.com/

http://widgets.yahoo.com/tools/

http://www.widgetbox.com/

OpenSocial basically consist of a set of 3 APIs, which a site using it has to provide. Developers can use it to access

• User Information
• Friends Information
• Activities on the website.

Those websites which are using OpenSocial would agree to accept the API calls and return appropriate data. OpenSocial uses normal javascript and html, unlike Facebook which has its own markup language (fbml). For the application developers, benefit of the Google approach is that they can use much of their existing front end code and it would be easy for them to just modify the code a bit and get it working with OpenSocial.

You can have a look at it over here :-

http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/

http://orkut-open-social.blogspot.com/

I just came to know about the youtube APIs google is providing. Its really cool and i’ll try to explore it more to get preview videos for MediaMelon

This plugn is basically a XML file, that use the OpenSearch description syntax which is compatible with IE 7 and Firefox. Here is a basic template which you can use for making this XML file :

Code:


<OpenSearchDescription xmlns="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/" xmlns:moz="http://www.mozilla.org/2006/browser/search/">
    <ShortName>engineName</ShortName>
    <Description>engineDescription</Description>
    <InputEncoding>inputEncoding</InputEncoding>
    <Image width="16" height="16">data:image/x-icon;base64,imageData</Image>
    <Url type="text/html" method="method" template="searchURL">
    <Param name="paramName1" value="paramValue1"/>
    ...
    <Param name="paramNameN" value="paramValueN"/>
    </Url>
    <Url type="application/x-suggestions+json" template="suggestionURL"/>
    <moz:SearchForm>searchFormURL</moz:SearchForm>
</OpenSearchDescription>

You can find more about it over here. You can also advertise your plugin and install it programmatically.