Read mail through sms

I was gazing through this blog when i found this great feature.This trick pertains to mail's like Gmail that allows forwarding. Gmail's ability to forward messages helps you to read your message in your cellar phone in SMS format. Gmail slices the message into SMS-friendly chunks and forwards it to your cell.

Here are directions for various carriers on Gmail's help section. Basically, you just set up a filter to forward to your mobile email address, using the appropriate domain:

Verizon: 10digitphonenumber@vtext.com
Former AT&T customers: mailto:10digitphonenumber@mmode.com
Sprint: 10digitphonenumber@messaging.sprintpcs.com
T-Mobile: 10digitphonenumber@tmomail.net
Nextel: 10digitphonenumber@messaging.nextel.com
Cingular: mailto:10digitphonenumber@cingularme.com
Virgin Mobile: 10digitphonenumber@vmobl.com
Alltel: 10digitphonenumber@alltelmessage.com OR mailto:10digitphonenumber@message.alltel.com
CellularOne: 10digitphonenumber@mobile.celloneusa.com
Omnipoint: 10digitphonenumber@omnipointpcs.com
Qwest: 10digitphonenumber@qwestmp.com

10digitphoneno. is your mobile no

A very short message (800 or so characters) takes about approx 8 SMS messages to go through. You can make use of filters & disposable id via + addressing to receive only important message and not just any fwd.

If any one of you have details regarding mobile service provider's id then plzzz give it to me . This applies for all mails that allow forwarding.

IGOOGLE TIPS

If for any reason you don't like the little "+" next to the stories, and you never use it, you can remove it from your iGoogle completely with this script. It also removes the white border around modules.

Install + remover

A custom-made iGoogle theme with blue background and rounded corners. Use only with iGoogle's default (white) theme; it looks quite ugly with the other ones. It also changes the font to Georgia and increases the text size.It has a problem although when you drag and drop, the boxes are stretched to the full window size but still it great.

Install Script

source: mashable.com

This allows yOu to changes the headers of modules to blue. Although there are some other minor modifications. This is a Simple script,. It is a good for learning how to customize the CSS of iGoogle yourself.
Install Script

You can remove most of the white space between the modules on your iGoogle homepage with this script. This is great tool for heavy users. It is not compatible with some other scripts, especially Resizable columns.

Install Script

This is one feature that iGoogle doesn't have i.e resizable columns. This is present in other sites but not in google, It's really useful if you really need to squeeze every last drop of screen real estate. This script will make this feature available in iGoogle, just grab the white space between The columns and drag it left or right.
Install it

iGoogle's new themes are pretty neat, but some of the elements on the page are placed over the image, which ruins the overall look of the page. This little script will make these elements transparent. The effect is subtle but beautiful.

Install it

If you don't use iGoogle for searching you might want to remove the search box altogether. Why do you want to remove it to give mores space for all your gadget.
Install it

This rounded corners theme. It looks quite nice. It's best for those who dont like sharp pointed corners.

Install it

If you are hunting for even more space in your iGoogle, then this is the right tool for you . This one adds a link which enables you to show or hide the headers of the modules.Thus increasing quiet a bit of space.

Install It

Reduces the font size to free more space for the actual modules. It Doesn't look good on some configurations, but if you're desperate for space you might want to try it out.

Install it

This one might seem a bit strange, but it also might be useful to some users. It displays the entire iGoogle page in a one column mode i.e all the gadgets are displaed in one column only. This is mainly for those who use those who who use firefox Igoogle add-on

Install It

To use this script you need GreaseMonkey & firefox


Download greasemonkey (download when in firefox)

may also work for opera

Web over India's map

India is in it's 60th year OF INDEPENDENCE. It is one of the fastest growing economies in the world. It is the worlds most diverse country. There have been several wars that we have fought with our neighbours like PAKISTAN & CHINA over the years.


I was checking my visitors at Google Analytical in "Map Overlay". Map overlay is a feature that lets me know how many visitors I had per country on a map. If you click on a particular country on the map it takes you to that country and it show the visitor of that country ,city wise (see the pic below).



I had seen the map of India at Google analytical several times but didn't pay any notice to it. Today when i was looking at it i suddenly found out that India -Pak border was not properly displayed. Even India-china border was not proper. It shows POK as part of Pakistan this could be allowed as it's administered by PAK. Even the Aksai Chin plateau area is not properly displayed.These are disputed areas that either countries claim it to be theirs. This map shows these regions as PAK's and China's respectively. SO does it means that Google takes Pak's and China's side. No Google is far better than.

Before we head into reading you need to know a bit of facts
CHINA dispute from wikipedia(read full story)
China and India share a long border, sectioned into three stretches by the states of Nepal and Bhutan, which follows the Himalayan mountains between Burma and Pakistan. A number of disputed regions lie along this border: at its western end is the Aksai Chin region, which is an area the size of Switzerland that sits between the Chinese regions of Xizang (Tibet) and Xinjiang (Sinkiang). The eastern border, between Burma and Bhutan, comprises the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh (formerly the North East Frontier Agency). Both of these regions were overrun by China in the 1962 conflict/war.

PAK dispute from winkipedia(Read full story)
The disputed territory POK is claimed by both India and Pakistan, but controlled by Pakistan. It is administratively divided into three parts:
Azad Kashmir
The Northern Areas, consisting of the regions of Gilgit and Baltistan. Gilgit was an agency leased by the Maharaja to British Government. Baltistan was western district of Ladakh province which was annexed by Pakistan in 1948. Both regions of Gilgit and Baltistan are administered as a de facto "Federal Territory" of Pakistan by a Pakistani minister. As the area is part of the disputed Jammu and Kashmir region, the local population is denied the right to vote or send representatives to the Pakistani parliament or senate;
A part of Hunza-Gilgit called Raskam and the Shaksgam Valley of Baltistan region, ceded by Pakistan to the People's Republic of China in 1963 pending settlement of the dispute over Kashmir. This ceded area is also known as the Trans-Karakoram Tract.
These territories border the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir to the east and Pakistan to the west.


I decided to do some research as to what did other sites show. I decided to visit only those sites that specialise in this field i.e either encyclopedia or map sites.


I visited

• maps.google.com
• maps.yahoo.com
• mappoint.msn.com
• mapquest.com
• wikimapia.org
• britannica.com

I first headed over to Maps.google.com Owned by Google.This showed the correct map. The disputed regions were shown in dotted lines and that's fair enough. Another area which China claimed i.e Arunacjal pradesh(just next to butan) is shown in dotted lines although it's now Indian state. To tell you the truth google powered maps( i dont mean alalytical like sites) were the only site that site that showed correct map . So thumbs Up for Google Maps


You can view the full map over here



Next i went to Yahoo Maps. They had launched several new features.This made the site load too slow. It took me almost 2-3 min to zoom into that level.But finally i got it. Here the story was quiet different. Aksai Chin plateau area was shown separately. POK was shown as Pakistani. They have shown the Aksai Chin plateau as a separate country i.e it's represent by the same line as that of a country. So yahoo maps sucks



Just check Map of india at Yahoo Maps





Next stop was Microsoft's virtual earth aka Msn map.This was bit better than Yahoo. This showed POK as pak region but the plaetue is shown as a disputed region. It's shown with dotted line unlike yahoo.They even showed Arunachal pradesh also in dotted lines although it's an Indian state.


See the complete map at Msn Virtual Earth


I also tryied out AOL'S mapquest. This site turned out to be much like Microsoft . There was only one change the border b/w POK and India was shown in dotted line.




At Wikipedia's map(wikimapia) everything perfectly fine as it was powered by Google. This was much much of a physical map but showed everything correctly.



Check out full map Over Here

My Final destination was Britannica this as expected showed the right map. See the map


Just reminder that Google Analytical only gives us details regarding our site and not about the worlds. It has to show these region as part of one country or other or else it would lead in to problem. If there are visitors from these region what would Google do. Several such disputed regions exist in the world.It has to cant show them separately as it's of no use or importance to a webmaster. It only that we Indians have been unlucky and these regions have been excluded from India.



But sites like Yahoo, Msn and others should show the right map.