ReviewSaurus – Technology Rocks!

Google Gears is a small utility which was launched by Google as an extension for Google Reader. This utility allows you to download the posts for offline viewing and then later synchronizes them when you go online.

This can be extremely handy for those who want to check the RSS feeds while they are not connected to the internet or they may want to invest time in going through the feeds.

There are many features & benefits of using Google Gears and here are some of them :

1. Works with Internet explorer and Firefox (didn’t check any other), I think it will work with each browser which runs Google Reader.

2. Feeds work much faster as it doesn’t load up any images & doesn’t refreshes after every few minutes, thus doesn’t use up the memory of the computer regularly.

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Today I have the pleasure of posting the email interview that I conducted recently with Nirmal of Life Rocks! 2.0 (one my favorite blogs and successful blogs from India). This interview is the first of the Interview series which I’m going to run on ReviewSaurus. Let’s find out more about Nirmal and his blog :

1. Would you please introduce yourself to our readers ?

I’m Nirmal T V and I hail from the beautiful town of Kochi, Kerala, India. I completed my B.Tech in Civil Engineering and worked as a Civil Engineer for a period of one year. After that I went to complete my Masters in Advanced Construction Technology. Although I’m a Civil Engineer by education, I’m a Software Engineer by profession. I entered software field in Nov 2005.

2. Tell us more about your blog and When & how you came into blogging ?

My blog is Life Rocks! 2.0 which was started by me in October 2005. It was completely a personal blog then and I never knew the existence of tech blogs. I came to blogging just by shear curiosity. My friend had a blog in blogger, so I too decided to try out blogging. In March 2007 Life Rocks moved to own domain and hence was renamed to Life Rocks! 2.0. Recently I started a new blog for cell phone reviews at Cellularized.com.

3. What are your goals for your blog & what benefits do you see in blogging?

Initially blogging was just my hobby, but now blogging is my passion. Benefits of blogging are getting more knowledge about various topics which you are interested in and of course money. But it always takes time to get a good income from blog.

4. What sets you apart from other blogs?

The main difference with my blog is that I don’t blog about technology alone. I cover a vast area like Internet, blogging, Cell phones, softwares, life, my views and also the latest news in focus.This has really proved advantageous to me.

5. Do you have any suggestions for other bloggers or any success secret, which you’d like to share with us ?

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You are a freelancer, or you work for some one, or you are a student, you would have by now created documents – large documents.  As every writer knows, we need to organize the document into proper paragraphs under proper headings and sub-headings.  And when you want to change the formating, if you had not planned for it, it will drive you insane by the sheer amount of repetitive work.

Let us take an example document.  Note that it is not large, but it is sufficient for illustrating the problem.

Just assume that the document is large with several pages as opposed to the short one shown in the example.  Now, the person reviewing it, or you yourself, needs to change the font of all the text – one font for the paragraph, and one for the headings and subheadings.

You go about selecting and chaning them all.  After you are done with it, and feel you can finally take a break, another request may crop up:

I hope you understand now, when I say it can drive you insane. 

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Gizmo project is a VoIP application and an instant messenger. Gizmo uses SIP as it’s backbone of voice based calls. Apart from that Gizmo is multi IM too and allows users to chat across multiple networks like MSN & AIM and soon it will support Yahoo & Jabber too. Gizmo’s main idea is to provide voice service for free (pc to pc) and cheap rate calls to mobile or land-line phones. Lets check out the PROS & CONS of Gizmo Project in this review.

PROS of Gizmo Project :

1. Voice clarity : Gizmo project has good voice clarity and you’ll feel as if you were talking on a normal phone. It also allows you to keep a check on the voice quality of the call by displaying you the quality of the bandwidth. This allows you to decide that which applications you are going to use while using Gizmo Project, just in case you are using a slow internet connection. If you’ll have fast internet connection, then you’ll not find any problems even if you are using other applications which uses your internet connection.

2. Multiple Instant messenger : Gizmo project supports multiple messaging platform like AOL, MSN and is planning to include Yahoo and Jabber client too. So, it is one of the benefit of Gizmo that it allows you to chat with your friends who are using other networks too. Not only that it supports the voice too, i.e. you can call the people of other networks and that’s one of the best feature of Gizmo Project!

3. Various Call Features : Gizmo project has got various call features, it allows you to make PC-to-PC calls for free, PC-to-phone calls and with the help of PhoneIN service, one can receive the calls from land-line or mobile phones too. Conference call also helps a lot, when you want to talk to your friends and discuss those happy moments! Because it’s based on VoIP so the international calls are offered at very cheap rates and that’s where it helps you cut down the phone bills.

Another thing which impresses is that it allows companies to setup the network as PBX or Asterix thus allowing them to cut down the costs as every account within network can act as an phone extension! For more details check out their knowledge-base.

4. Available for multiple platforms : One of the good things about Gizmo project is that it is available for multiple platforms including Windows, Linux, Mac & its even available for Nokia phones and Treo phones. So not only you can keep it while you are using your computer but while you are using your mobile phone too.

5. Various additional features : Another feature, which impresses is the ability to record the conversations and it can be good for those who want to take interviews and for those podcasts, which you always wanted to make. File transfers, Map the location using MAP IT feature.

CONS of Gizmo Project :

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How cool is it, to share your opinions and views and getting rewarded for that ? Well, you are the one who will decide about it and if you think that it is cool enough then I’m sure you’ll go ahead and leave comments from now on my blog posts.

I’ve decided to give out goodies to my regular readers and I can find out that only when you’ll leave comment on this blog. So, I’ll request you to share your thoughts and what you think about a specific software or any news which comes up on this blog.

This is going to be a 15 days contest, where there will be two prizes :

1. The top commentator
2. The best comment in these 15 days.

Because, I’m starting this contest on June 22^nd, so I’ve decided that the prize for this month will be declared on July 1^st and from there on, it will be a 15 day contest.

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