Amazon customers bought more e-books than printed books for the first time on Christmas Day.
Kindle, is now the most popular gift in Amazon’s history.
Kindle is now available in India
Don’t you see scope for a blog post in these three lines ? Yes, and if you read books, I mean, a lot of them, this is enough for more than a blog post for you.
Will I ever consider buying an e-book reader, and start replacing my printed books with e-books ?
Yes, E-books are more convenient, cheap, and eco-friendly (less printed books = less number of trees cut ) – of course after you pay a good amount initially, for the e-reader , but I will not get to smell my new book .. (I love that smell ! ) .. and many more little and beautiful things about printed books …
Can I share books with people ? I buy a book, finish reading, and then exchange it with a friend for another one … ( free ! ) – is this possible with an E-reader and E-books ?
I have always wondered if the reading experience will be the same. But these new stats from Amazon is giving me better feeling about ebooks. People do like E-Books and E-Book Readers .. especially Kindle.
But, I should admit, I love the idea of ebooks, and would love to have a Kindle for myself ! but things are not looking so pretty in India,
Kindle in India
Even though the advertised price is $279, it may come up to $ 405 in India including shipment charges, and taxes. Browsing the Amazon online catalog and purchasing the book also may be costlier in India.
Do you have good things or bad things to share about ebooks ? Will you buy one for yourself ?
Twitter is contributing to English language, almost every day. Have you noticed it yet ? Within that 140 characters limit people write poems, send news, discuss and do almost everything.
Yes, and there was a twitter story writing competition too !!. Then why can’t they create new words … here is a collection of some interesting words on twitter, or twords, may be ?
Tweople = Members of a Twitter
Tweterrer = User of Twitter
Twitterzine = A magazine published on twitter
Twoosh = A full 140 character tweet
Dweet = Dweet sent when someone is drunk
Tweetaholism = Addiction of Twitter
Tweetln = A meeting on twitter
Twitterati = Glamorous Twitteres whom everyone wants to follow.
Wait ! We are not done yet … we have an entire online dictionary for these kind of words !! Check it out Twittornary
Adding more styles to your wordpress theme, and why is that “style” highlighted ? Simple : because, this post is about making your blog look more stylish, by adding few more stylesheets ie, style sheets for categories.
I was reading this post from http://tarskitheme.com about a brilliant plugin : Category Style Sheets. by Benedict Eastaugh. It is a simple but awesome plugin that allows you to add style sheets for each category of your blog. That means, you can have different background colors, images, link colors etc for individual category archives, and each post in that category.
What I have done, ( So Far )
I have created two style sheets for two of my categories. WordPress & Blogging. I have changed background colors for category archive pages, and individual pots in these two categories. Now, go to any blog post in that category and you will see the plugin in action. I have changed only the background color. Should I try more ? Do you have any suggestion ?
My friend Binny has started an interesting initiative on his blog, called “Plugin Week”. The idea is to release one plugin each day, for the entire week. He has already published 2 plugins – Eventr & Autofields WordPress plugin.
He is lazy, wait, it’s a new kind of laziness, I don’t know any name for it, hmm, ( you can suggest one, of course ). If you tell him to shut off his PC, when he is not using it, he will say, ok I will write a script for it , so that he pc shuts down itself, when I am not using it for a while .. yes, he can write code for anything and everything.
He told me that he has got some script running on his PC, which downloads all the TED videos to his machine, whenever the Internet connection is free. ( I will get a DVD with Ted videos from him when I visit him next time … oh no !! that’s not a bribe for writing this post, ok ? you guys can write me an email or drop a comment and I will get you a copy of that DVD )
Okay, I am still on my break, ( hmmm …. long one .. ) and will get you more updates later. Don’t forget to subscribe to his RSS feed, and try out all his plugins….
Guys, we have a new design, but I did not change the theme, yes this is “copyblogger”. Inspired by deigners and bloggers out there, I tried my css skills on the copyblogger theme and ended up here, with this design. ( header image needs a color change, agreed redesigned header : brilliant job again by Chirag !!)
So, what I need now is little feedback, good bad and the ugly. If you say, “really good”, I may not work hard enough to make this look even better, so be careful when you comment !!
PS: Thank You Gisele Jaquenod for helping me to fix the sidebar error & Thank You “she” for her valuable suggestions !!
Once you install the plugin, to start a video chat, just click on the “Video & more” menu at the bottom of your Gmail chat window, and choose “Start video chat.” You’ll have a few seconds to make sure you look presentable while it’s ringing, and then you’ll see and hear your friend live, right from within Gmail
How to Popuout video : When you are on a chat, you know how you make it a separate window, and continue to chat , this is possible with video chat also. The follow image shows where you should click to pop the window out from your gmail inbox.
gmail video chat
How to watch in full screen : When you are watching someone on the video, and wants to make it full screen, you will see an icon similar to youtube.com’s “full screen” button. Click on that, and you will go fullscreen. See this image here if you can’t identify the button.
Another Update for you : Video Chat from iGoogle
You can now use Video chat from iGoogle ie, your customized google home page. The first time you use video chat in iGoogle, you’ll need to download a small plugin. It’s free and installs in seconds. To video chat with a friend, click on the “Start video chat” link in the “Actions” menu at the bottom of a chat window ( source )
Old Post : Using Your Webcam to take picture for profile photo
Even when we use gmail and gtalk for most of our chat and email, we often go back to Yahoo, for video and Webcam. What if you have webcam also, on your gtalk or gmail ? Well, don’t get excited, the feature is yet to be announced. But, I think, its on its way. Reason ? Google announced recently, that Google Talk gadget users will now be able to take a picture directly from the webcam to use as their profile picture gtalk.
” Currently, this feature only works in the Google Talk gadget, but will set your picture across the Google Talk network, including in Gmail.”
Yahoo never allowed us to use webcam from a linux machine, will google enable that feature ? Thats my concern now.
How To
From the Google Talk gadget, click on your Google Talk picture, and select the “Take Photo” option. You’ll see the image from your webcam appear, and you’ll be able to take and retake pix to your heart’s content. When you get that perfect shot, just click “Save” to set it as your picture.
Currently, this feature only works in the Google Talk gadget, but will set your picture across the Google Talk network, including in Gmail.
Twitter
How to watch in full screen : When you are watching someone on the video, and wants to make it full screen, you will see an icon similar to youtube.com’s “full screen” button. Click on that, and you will go fullscreen. See this image here if you can’t identify the button.
Another Update for you : Video Chat from iGoogle
Even when we use gmail and gtalk for most of our chat and email, we often go back to Yahoo, for video and Webcam. What if you have webcam also, on your gtalk or gmail ? Well, don’t get excited, the feature is yet to be announced. But, I think, its on its way. Reason ? 
