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Friday, July 31, 2009

Outlook: Macro to warn sending a mail without subject

Here below are the steps: -

1. Open your outlook

2. Press Alt+F11. This opens the Visual Basic editor

3. On the Left Pane, one can see "Microsoft Outlook Objects" or "Project1", expand this. Now one can see the "ThisOutLookSession".

4. Double click on "ThisOutLookSession". It will open up a code pane.

5. Copy and Paste the following code in the right pane. (Code Pane)

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Private Sub Application_ItemSend(ByVal Item As Object, Cancel As Boolean)

Dim strSubject As String

strSubject = Item.Subject

If Len(Trim(strSubject)) = 0 Then

Prompt$ = "Subject is Empty. Are you sure you want to send the Mail?"

If MsgBox(Prompt$, vbYesNo + vbQuestion + vbMsgBoxSetForeground, "Check for Subject") = vbNo Then

Cancel = True

End If

End If

End Sub

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6. Save this and now close the VB Code editor and take a breath.

From now on, this macro will make sure you do not make the mistake of sending a mail without a subject.

Monday, December 10, 2007

Auto Hot Key software

AutoHotkey is an open source macro-making utility for Windows that can automate almost anything by sending keystrokes and mouse clicks. It can also create hotkeys for keyboard, mouse, joystick, and handheld remote controls. Similarly, it can create abbreviations that expand as you type them (AutoText). Finally, it makes it easy to create your own graphical user interfaces and custom menus.

Its a light weight program with excellent options to automate the routine work.

http://www.autohotkey.com/


Monday, November 5, 2007

Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Blog Readers......

Your friend updates his/her blog often and you want to read it as soon as possible. How do u know whether they posted anything new in to the blog or not? If it is one blog u can visit it directly and check it. But if u read 20 blogs, its a bit time consuming task.

There is a solution for this. Blog readers.... :-)

Many desktop and online tools are available which will monitor your interested blogs and notify when there is an update. i want to give a brief idea about these tools.

Online blog readers

1. Google Reader


2. Bloglines



3. Newsalloy



4. Rojo

5. feedlounge



6. gritwire

Desktop blog readers

1. rss reader



2. Feedreader



3. attensa

4. akregator Linux(KDE)



I found a related post in one blog while writing this post. here is the link.

I found an article about reading blogs in time management site. here is the link and one more here.

Monday, October 29, 2007

Hit Counters for ur website, blogs

Add a hit counter to your website or blog and findout how many people are visited your site.
This greatly helps you in finding your site reputation.

Free hit counters are available in many sites. Some of them are mentioned below
1. Hi stats (200 + counters) Good styles
2. Atflash
3. flashiness (seems bit slow)

Html Counters
1. Easy Counter
2. Free stat counter
3. Html Hit Counter

Do you want to design your own counter using PHP, then visit these links
1. Tutorial 1
2. Tutorial 2
3. Level 10 hitcounter installer

Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Image hosting sites

There are many free image hosting sites available.

Some of them are
1. Picasaweb
2. Photobucket
3. flickr
4. FreeImageHosting
and many more

I like photobucket for bulk uploading and downloading, picasa web for upload and download few images.

A browser (like ie, firefox) flock is available for uploading photos to photobucket, flickr. It has many other features like easy blogging etc. For the list of services offered by flock, click here.

Photobucket has a special feature(I am not sure, this any other image hosting site has) that, It has the feature to generate html code for the photos u selected.

Login to Photobucket.com and upload some photos.
Ur photos will appear some thing like this.



select the images u want to show in ur site, click on "generate HTML". Photobucket generates code for u.



This is very simple way of publishing ur photos in ur website.

*click the photos to enlarge.

Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Create your own website

There are numerous sites available for creating own website.

The best one i like is www.googlepages.com
Features :
No adds,
No pop-ups
Good Templates

Drawbacks :
No PHP support
No Database support
Does not allow own template
Very less site space (100 MB)

For a list of free web hosting sites click here. This site compares all free web hosting sites with features.

Creating own site with googlepages

Open www.googlepages.com
Sign in with your existing gmail id.

You will get a similar page like this.



your website name will be ur gmail id followed by googlepages.com
for example, gmail id : suman.knr
your website name is : http://suman.knr.googlepages.com
(Remember, no www)

if u want to chane the site name, click on the "Create a new site" (located top-mid of the above page)

click on the create a new page, it asks for a name for the page and opens the page for editing



u can change the look and layout (it is located right hand side, slightly top side of the page).

A tool box is located at the left hand side of the page. Use these tools to make ur page more attractive.

"edit html" is located in the bottom - right side of the page. With which u can edit the html of particular section of the page.

Click on Images, to upload and use images in the webpage. But the drawback is, there is no mechanism to maintain the images in folders or groups. If u upload many images, it will be a bit difficult to manage in future. For more information on image uploading, click here.

Write the content what ever u want, click "publish" to save the changes and make it visible to others.

A tutorial



Part 2


For some more help on google pages, click here

Now your own webpage is ready. my website address is http://suman.knr.googlepages.com, u might want to have a site like www.sumanb.com or www.sumanb.net or etc. ( I mean with out specifying the site where u created ur page).

For this, u have some redirection sites. With which u can make ur website address as www.sumanb.co.nr or www.sumanb.tk*
The registration for redirection is very simple. type www.yourdesiredsite.tk or www.yourdesiredsite.co.nr, it will show wether the site is registered or not. If the site is not registered, u can registered by filling your details.

* ".tk "site shows some adds on top of ur page. ".co.nr" site does not show any adds and has some extra features.

http://www.titanichost.com/, brinkster offers you to create a website with ASP support, http://www.myjavaserver.com/ with JSP support.

Friday, October 12, 2007

Synergy - A Keyboard and mouse sharing software

Synergy lets you easily share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with different operating systems, each with its own display, without special hardware. It's intended for users with multiple computers on their desk since each system uses its own monitor(s).

Redirecting the mouse and keyboard is as simple as moving the mouse off the edge of your screen. Synergy also merges the clipboards of all the systems into one, allowing cut-and-paste between systems. Furthermore, it synchronizes screen savers so they all start and stop together and, if screen locking is enabled, only one screen requires a password to unlock them all.

It works with Windows, Linux, Unix, Mac operating system. It has the ability to share mouse and keyboard on many machines though it runs on different OS.

Set up is very simple and configuring is also very simple.

WebSite

Download

Synergy use :



When u move the mouse to the corner of a screen, it automatically appears in other computer (of course, u can set it which corner u want to).

* Most of the description copied from the site.

Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Google as a calculator

Google is tremendously increasing the applications. It designed a calculator in the search bar itself. When you need some calculation urgently, you need not search for calculator. All the calculations can be done with google.com



for example,

type this in google,

2 + 3 * 5

you will see a result like this

2 + (3 * 5) = 17

it supports many scientific calculations also

sin(pi/2)



result is



sin(pi / 2) = 1

half a cup in teaspoons



half (1 US cup) = 24 US teaspoons

160 pounds * 4000 feet in calories

(160 pounds force) * 4 000 feet = 207.390891 kilocalories

euro to INR conversion



1 Euro = 56.012747 Indian rupees

When you need some calculations urgently, dont waste your time to search your calculator or no need to download and install a calculator application. Go to google and type what ever the calculations you need. It is very easy.



For more information visit http://www.google.co.in/intl/en/help/features.html#calculator

Tuesday, April 24, 2007

StumbleUpon -Discover great websites

An excellent addon for firefox for internet browsing lovers StumbleUpon.

Idea is simple but extremely good.



I will try to explain in my words. First, you need to install StumbleUpon, give your email id to store ur preferences.

It gives a list of topics, select your choices. I recommend you to select very few that you are really interested.

Click on save. on the toll bar click stumble

You will get a web page from your preferred choices.



There is a drop down menu on the tool bar showing ALL.

Click ALL and select a topic for example, "Internet Tools". From now on if you press stumble, you will see a web page from that "Internet Tools".



It also provides option to include web pages to StumbleUpon. open the web page you wanted to include in stumbleupon. click i like it button on stumble tool bar. It will recognize that and add it to your interested sites. It will show that page to others which matches to the type of the topic.



Here is the link to install StumbleUpon http://www.stumbleupon.com/