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Turn Off New Geolocation Feature In Google Chrome

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The latest beta (developer) version of Chrome, Google Chrome 5.0.375.23 Beta (Official Build 45690) is coming with a inbuilt geolocation feature that lets any website know the location of your computer once you allows access to track your physical location.(See the screenshot below).

Geolocation in Chrome
Well, this may be useful in many ways for websites that offer services based on your location, like Google Maps for instance.This feature gets activated when you click the small little circle at the upper left corner of your browser in Maps.

However if you are worried about your privacy, you shouldn’t allow access at the first place.If you have allowed access initially and later want to rollback and deny access to Google maps to track your location, you should follow the following steps:

Turning Off Geolocation In Google Chrome:

1. Click on the wrench chrome tools menuand click Options.

2. Go to Under the Hood tab

3. Under Privacy, click Content settings

Chrome options under the hood

4. Go to Location tab in the Content Settings

5. Choose “Do not allow any site to track my physical location”.

Chrome Content Settings

6. Close the settings windows.

That is it, Chrome won’t track your location to websites from now on, hope this small tutorial has helped you.For more tutorials and updates from us, you can subscribe to Techrena RSS feeds via email.

Find Techrena.net On Facebook, Twitter & Google Buzz

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Ever since we have launched this blog, we have been striving continuously striving to helping you out in your day-to-day computer and internet use.We have recently celebrated first birthday anniversary of techrena.net jubilantly on March 27, 2010 at Hyderabad.

As we grow our blog, it’s our first priority to make it easy for our readers to connect with our blog in all possible ways.You can either subscribe to our RSS Feed (or receive via email), you can follow Techrena on Twitter or on FriendFeed or on Google Buzz.

If that isn’t enough for you, we have just created a Facebook page, adding which to your profile makes it much easier to connect to Techrena.net directly from your Facebook profile.Just click on the “Like” button that you see on our Facebook and you are good go to.Alternatively you can also find a Facebook Like Box apperaing on the sidebar, where you can find the Like button along with the number of connectors to the site right now.See you all on Facebook !

Transliterate Any Web Page With Google Script Converter

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Google India has announced an online Script Converter tool to transliterate text into 17 languages.This comes after Google’s initiative to provide Google Transliteration IME in 14 languages.

Google Script Converter tool, a Google labs feature will convert any given web page or piece of text given as input from one language script to another meaning that it will just transliterate it but will not translate.

This tool will be useful if you know how to speak a language but can’t read it.Say for instance you can speak and understand Hindi, but you can’t read it.So you would rather like to read the script in a language which you can read to understand it.You know what it means when you say नमस्कार but you can’t read it in Hindi.So what will you do? Go to Script Converter, type the text in Hindi to transliterate it to an easily readable English script, the output would be namaskar.

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Screenshot: A Techrena post transliterated to Hindi and Telugu.

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The question is who needs this tool? Yeah, all of tech freaks like us who on constantly use gadgets like mobiles, iPod, iPad, internet every thing in English and who have almost forgotten the native Indic script.

List of supported languages (17):

Bengali,
English,
Greek,
Gujarati,
Hindi,
Kannada,
Malayalam,
Marathi,
Nepali,
Persian,
Punjabi,
Russian,
Sanskrit,
Serbian,
Tamil,
Telugu,
Urdu.

[How To] Save And Manage Google Chrome Sessions

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Almost all the browsers off late are coming up with an option to save and manage the browsing sessions.What it means is that you can save the entire session for later reading when you are in a hurry.For instance in Opera, you’ll find this option under File> Sessions>

session manager in opera

But where is such option in Google Chrome?

Ans: It isn’t there at least as of now.This is one of the most requested feature in Google Chrome.I wish the developers considers this in their future releases.

Tip #1: Even though, Google Chrome hasn’t got a default Sessions manager, it does however offer to save your currently opened tabs.For this, go to Wrench > Options > Basic tab> On Start up

Select “Reopen the pages that were open last”

This will save the current session and opens it up as it was when you last closed your Chrome.

Tip #2: There are some good extensions available, through which you can manage your sessions in Google Chrome.One such extension is Session Buddy.

With Session Buddy, you can view all of your tabs in each window of a current or saved session.

Session buddy

The extension also makes it possible to access saved crash recovery sessions automatically after a Chrome or OS crash.

You can also edit each saved session by deleting individual tabs or windows.

Entire session can be exported into a text or CSV format file.

Install Session Buddy

More Google Chrome resources:

Hide Most Visited Sites from New Tab in Google Chrome in Easy Steps

Enable GreaseMonkey User Scripts in Google Chrome

How to Download Video From YouTube in Google Chrome

Reopen or Recover Recently Closed Tabs in Google Chrome

[How To] Undo Clicking Never Save Password For This Site In Google Chrome

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Google Chrome:

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Google Chrome by default offers the option to save password for any webpage that requires the users to be logged in.You can see the classic “Do you want Google Chrome to save your password?” alert whenever you enter username and password for any website.

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The users will have two options they can either choose “Save password” or “Never for this site”.If the user clicks “Never for this site”, no matter desirably or accidently, Google Chrome will no longer offer the prompt to save password for that login page.

Considering that you have clicked it accidentally and want to undo it, you can follow the steps given below to remove the site from save password prompt exception list.

Steps:

1. Click the Toolschrome tools menumenu.

2. Select “Options”

3. Click the “Personal Stuff” tab.

4.Click on “Show saved passwords”

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4. Click on the “Exceptions” tab

5. Select the site that you want to remove from the list

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6.Click “Remove” (or use “Remove All” to clear the list) and click “Close”.

SEA-ME-WE 4 Undersea Cable System Outage – Slower Internet Speeds In India

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The internet users in India may have been already facing the slower internet speeds from couple of days, due to the undersea cable system repair.There’s been a disruption in the South East Asia-Middle East-West Europe 4 (SEA-ME-WE 4) undersea submarine cable system that connects South East Asia & Europe, the disruption was located near Italy and this is taking its toll the internet connectivity in south east Asia including India.This is not the first time that such a disruption is happening, in January 2008, almost 50% of entire India lost internet connectivity due to the undersea cable cut.

The SEA-ME-WE 4 project is a combined effort of a consortium of 16 international services, of which India’s biggies Bharti Airtel and Tata Communications are a part.

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I’ve got a service message from my ISP regretting the slower internet speeds due to the undersea cable cut.

Due to undersea cable cut across Asia & Europe you may experience slow speeds & packet loss. Intl Service team is working on it,please bear with us-BeamTelecom

Well, the latest buzz is that the repair work will go on for four more days and the companies have been taking various efforts to minimise the impact on the users.

Resources: SEA-ME-WE-4 official site

[How To] Start Video Chat Inside Gmail

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Google has introduced Gmail voice and video chat long back.But as I still see, some users who rarely use Gmail aren’t really aware of it, as they still stuck to the voice chat through Gtalk desktop version.It may be that they are not really aware of how to setup Gmail voice and video chat inside Gmail.So here I’ve decided to discuss about how to get this video chat feature inside your Gmail that lets you start a video chat directly from your inbox besides reading and sending Email messages through Gmail.

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All you need to get Gmail voice and video chat inside your browser is to install this Gmail voice and video chat plug-in.Just download the plugin and install it.Close all your open browser windows while installing it and then restart your browser.Now you’ll see a small green camera icon right before your name in Gmail chat.That means that the plugin is successfully installed and running.

You can now start a video chat on Gmail, iGoogle or Orkut with anyone who has also installed this plugin (in which case you see the same green camera icon before their names in chat).

Gmail voice and video chat works well with all Firefox 2.0+, Internet Explorer 6.0+, Safari 3.0+ and Google Chrome.

Download Gmail voice and video chat plugin

Read: New File transfer feature launched in Orkut and iGoogle chat (soon to be launched in Gmail).

Microsoft & Facebook Launch Document Sharing Service Docs.com

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With the advent of internet, day-to-day life is becoming much simpler.Would you have ever thought of creating office documents  without even installing a Office software like Microsoft Office or Open Office.Thanks to the wide number of document sharing websites like Scribd, SlideShare and the most popular Google Docs which lets you create documents on the cloud and share them with the world.

Now a similar alternative service is coming up from Microsoft in association with Facebook.

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Microsoft’s new document sharing website docs.com lets you create Office documents and share them with your friends in Facebook, courtesy Office Web Apps and the Facebook Connect.

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You can upload Word documents, PowerPoint presentation & Excel spreadsheets etc., to Docs.com similar to the way do it in other online documents sharing websites like Google Docs.But Facebook integration helps you to share these documents with your friends.You can also grant viewing and editing rights to your selected Facebook friends so that they can edit your documents online, thus making collaboration easier (such collaboration also exist in Google Docs, if you can remember).

Your friends can discover the documents that you shared in the updates just like they discover your photos or videos that you have shared. You can also discuss with your friends about a doc via comments just like you would do with a status update or photo.

You just need a Facebook account to start with.You don’t need to install Office 2010 or you don’t need a Windows Live ID either.Doc.com service is still in private beta though you can use your Facebook account to get notification as soon it becomes publicly available.

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Videos:

Getting Started For Docs

Docs for Facebook – Overview

Access Firefox Bookmarks Easily via Bookmark Keywords

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If you have been using Mozilla Firefox for sometime, you will definitely love the was how Firefox makes it easier to add and manage all of your bookmarks.You can always access your bookmarks easily from the bookmarks menu present in the Firefox.If you need to open a particular webpage from your bookmarks quite often, you may wish you have a better way to open it more quicker.Well, you can do this via a a feature “Bookmark Keywords” available in Firefox.You just need to assign some short keywords, typing which in the address bar immediately gets resolved to your original webpage URL that is stored under your bookmarks.Follow these steps to know how to assign bookmark keywords in Firefox.

1. Open the particular bookmark for which you want to add keyword from the Bookmarks menu.Right click on the “Properties” tab.

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2. In the properties window, add the keyword through which you want to access this bookmark in the filed “Keyword” and click save.

Add Bookmark keywords in Forefox

3. Once you have saved this, you can access this particular webpage by just typing the keyword (“tdn” in my case) in the address bar.

Add Bookmark keywords in Forefox

That’s it, access your favorite bookmarks more quickly using this.This is actually not a new feature in Firefox, it has been there for a while in Firefox but for some reasons this is still not very much used to that extent by the users.

Pinging Your WordPress Blog To Google Blog Search

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Is new your new WordPress not appearing in Google blog search results? Learn how to include your WordPress blog in Google blog search results.

Google Blog Search Ping Service – The manual way

If your blog is relatively new and if it hasn’t been included in Google Blog search yet, then you can notify Google blog search about your blog and get it included in the same by visiting this Google blog search ping service page.You can either enter your blog URL or enter your blog’s feed URL.

Google Blog Search Ping Service

You can also use this Google’s blog ping service to ping your latest posts manually.

Using WordPress Update Services – Automatic:

If are usingWordPress platform for your blog, you need not worry bout pinging Google blog search each and every time when you publish a new post to your blog.WordPress has a default “Update Services” where you can add various update services which you want WordPress to ping automatically after each post.You can find Update Services under “Settings> Writing” in your admin dashboard.

You can either choose pingomatic.com pinging which updates multiple services (including Google blog search ping service) and search engines about your blog updates or you can manually add the following Google blog search ping server (which supports XML format) into the WordPress update services:

http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2

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You may also read more about Google crawling & indexing, also about protecting your WordPress internal files