Friday, November 24, 2006

NASA World Wind

http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/

An alternative to Google Earth from NASA, this application runs on Windows only

World Wind lets you zoom from satellite altitude into any place on Earth. Leveraging Landsat satellite imagery and Shuttle Radar Topography Mission data, World Wind lets you experience Earth terrain in visually rich 3D, just as if you were really there.Virtually visit any place in the world. Look across the Andes, into the Grand Canyon, over the Alps, or along the African Sahara.

HP India Support Contact Details

Contact Details of HP India - DesignJet Plotter Support team

Toll Free Number : 1800 425 8999,
From non BSNL/MTNL : 30215500
Email - pl30support.in@hp.com]

For all other HP Products
From non BSNL/MTNL: 30306363

Sunday, November 12, 2006

Add or Remove an address book in Outlook

Add an address book in Outlook
On the Tools menu, click E-mail Accounts.
Under Directory, click Add a new directory or address book, and then click Next.
To add the type of address book you want, do one of the following:
Add an address book using an Internet directory service (LDAP)
Click Internet directory service (LDAP), and then click Next.
In the Server name box, type the name of the server your Internet service provider or system administrator gave you.
If the server you specified is password protected, select the This server requires me to log on check box, and then type your user name and password.
Click More Settings.
Under Display Name, type the name for the LDAP address book that you want to be displayed in the Show names from the list in the Address Book dialog box.
Under Connection Details, type in the port number provided to you by your internet service provider (ISP) or system administrator.
Click the Search tab, and then change the server settings as needed.
The search time-out setting specifies the number of seconds Microsoft Outlook spends searching the LDAP directory to resolve names in a message. You can also limit the number of names listed in the Address Book after a successful search on a name.
Under Search Options, if the Search base box is not filled in, type the distinguished names provided for you by your administrator.
Click OK, click Next, and then click Finish.

Add an additional address book
Click Additional address books.
Click the address book you want to add, and then click Next.
Note You must exit and restart Outlook to use the added address book.

Remove an address book
On the Tools menu, click E-mail Accounts.
Under Directory, select View or change existing directories or address books, and then click Next.
Click the address book you want to delete.
Click Remove.
Click Finish.

Monday, November 06, 2006

Gmail - Attachment download

Gmail is smart, when you click to download an attachment, and while we are busy browsing to the correct directory to save and key in the file name, it would have already started downloading in the background, so when we click the save button, its just need to download the balance, pretty smart thinking by google guys.

You can also save time, by first attaching an attachment and then start composing the mail, by the time you have composed the mail, the attachment would have been uploaded, you just need to click send.

The best part of Gmail is all task are completed without requring of loading the page again and again, we don't need to navigate to several pages.

eg: other webmail, if we have to upload an attachment we need to wait till its uploaded only then anything else can be done, in case of Gmail, during upload, you can still continue composing the mail. :)