Send SMS through GMail!

Yeah, that’s true!Now you can send sms through gmail. Yep, right through the chat window. Click on the Labs link, Scroll down to ‘Text Messaging (SMS) in Chat’ and enable it. Click Save. Half job done! Now, just enter the mobile number of your friend to whom to want to message, a little context menu appears sayn “Send SMS”. Click it, a pop-up box appears. Enter the name of the person whose the mobile number is, click save. That’s it! A chat window opens, now type in whatever you want to. It won’t cost YOU anything, but it might cost the person you are messaging for each SMS they receive. Time to get your enemies’ mobile numbers!

But sadly, it’s available for US only. We Indians again have to wait till we can send sms through Gmail.

Gtalk Sidebar Gadget for Firefox

Okay, so you thought if you want to be invisible you’ll always have to sign into Gmail? I’ll give you a solution. Bookmark this link in firefox,

http://talkgadget.google.com/talkgadget/popout

Right click this bookmark, click on properties. Then check ‘Load this bookmark in the Sidebar’.

Go ahead, and log in. Now you CAN be invisible without having to loging in to your gmail account always.

Stumble it!

MTNL Broadband DNS servers

I was searching for alternate DNS servers for my mtnl connection. Here is a list of the servers that I found.

203.94.243.70
59.179.243.70
59.185.0.50
203.94.227.70
4.2.2.4
4.2.2.1
208.67.222.222
4.2.2.5
202.159.217.198
69.90.236.105
203.84.243.70

Before setting any of these as your dns server, ping them first to know if they are working or not and if the response time is good enough (the lesser the better).

True FREE web hosting

The first thought that you might have had after reading the title might be,”true?eh?what?”. Good. Thats exactly what I want. Ever wanted to make a website and starting search for free web hosting services? Every place that you must’ve found, each one of them might have had some or the other drawback. Some put their own ads, or some have too limited space, some have other conditions. Damn! Even I was searching for a way to host my site, tried many “free” hosting services, but still wasn’t satisfied. So, the best way is, use googlepages AND yahoo geocities. Now, you must be thinking why not use googlepages OR geocities? Let me explain to you, in googlepages you cant make folders. Though googlepages allows uploading many formats (I don’t know exactly how many), but it doesn’t allow you to make folders. Lame. Though you CAN put everything in the root folder, but read on, this is the way where geocities comes in. Yes, geocities allows you to make folders. BUT, the webpages that you design there, they’ll put an annoying bar at the right of the page. Again, Lame. So, what you can do is, upload your webpages to googlepages, and the rest of folders like images, css, etc, upload it to yahoo geocities. And in your html, change the paths to the online geocities folder. For example, suppose you have a image in your webpage, and you’ve made a folder named images in your yahoo geocities folder, so simply change the path of the image in the img scr tag as http://www.geocities.com/<your page name>/<foldername>/<image name>. Thats it, you are done. Now, upload this html file to googlepages.com and click the link the name of the file. Sweet, eh?

Some of you might think why all this, well, yahoo geocities is one the sites that allow remote linking. Even the paid basic services of some web hosting providers won’t allow remote linking. That means, if you think of using some free file hosting service (like adrive.com ,zdrive.com) and upload your images and folders there, you will only see the images when you are logged in to your file hosting server. That means, other people on the internet won’t be able to see the images on your site or any other flash files, etc that you’ve put there.

And one last thing, since yahoo has a 15MB space limit, don’t hesitate to make multiple accounts! Its free pal.

Happy Hosting!