A Bug in Gmail Erases Thousands Of Accounts

On 27th Feb,2011 , Around 150,000 Gmail users when logged in to their Gmail accounts were shocked to see their worst nightmare come true, all of their email correspondences and chat logs were erased and there accounts were reset to their original state as if they were newly created. All this havoc was caused due to a Bug that erased all the account info and made it vanish in the cloud.

Though the Google says that its estimate of the number of accounts affected were 150,000, or approximately 0.02% of all Gmail users so consider yourself as a very lucky person or whatever but the truth remains that when it comes to really important messages.

This also shows how important it is to always backup your important data and emails before some bug simply erases your years of correspondances.According to Google a bug in an updated version of their storage software was responsible for the data loss in their servers affecting their redundant data stores. They have since reverted to an older version of the software.

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Add Smilies/ Emoticons in Google Talk (Gtalk)

I Really love to use Smilies while chatting. Well, unfortunately GTalk doesn’t have smilies included by default . So Here You will find Out How To do it ... Well, it’s really simple. The main concept of getting smilies is through converting the text smilies of GTalk into smilies. As the new Version of GTalk includes support for themes we can add a theme with custom smilies in order to get rid of those text smilies. In short, it’s nothing but just adding a custom theme. Follow Simple Steps : 1) Download any one of the below smiley theme which you like. Download Classic Emoticons theme Download Bubble Emoticons theme 2) Now extract the zip to a specific folder. 3) Go to the following location: C:/Documents and Settings/(your user name)/Local Settings/Application Data/Google/Google Talk/themes/user/chat 4) Replace (your user name) with your Windows account user name without brackets The folder chat isn’t there by default so you have to create a folder with the name “chat” inside t...

Create a PDF Viewer ShortCode

Do you need to show PDF files on your WordPress Blog. If yes here is a small code for this. This will gives a feature to open the PDF files using Google Docs . The first step is to paste the following code into your functions.php file: function pdflink($attr, $content) { return '<a class="pdf" href="http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=' . $attr['href'] . '">'.$content.'</a>'; } add_shortcode('pdf', 'pdflink'); Once you saved the file, you'll be able to use the shortcode on your posts and page. Here is the syntax : [pdf href="http://yoursite.com/linktoyour/file.pdf"]View PDF[/pdf] If you enjoyed this post, Please Consider Sharing it! You may also like to read: How to turn off Find My iPhone How to fix 'iPhone is disabled Connect to iTunes' error messages How to mirror/screencast iPhone to a smart TV how to Delete All Photos from iPhone How to make Chrome default browser How ...

Get Full Feeds Inside Google Reader

The new way of RSS Feeds only offer headline and a short excerpt and if you want to read full Story you have to leave your Google Reader . Best Solution for this if you are using Google Chrome . You will be able to read the full text of a story inside Google Reader itself but without going through any transformation service. To get Started, simply install the super Google Reader extension inside Chrome and it will add a new menu called the "Super Setting" to your feeds page. Then choose the "Readable" option for all the partial RSS feeds that are you are subscribed to in Google Reader. That's it. The next time you expand a partial item inside Google Reader, This extension will automatically fetch the full content of that page in real time and will display it in place of excepts. You can use the "pre-fetch" option to let it process the full feed in the background and this will reduce the time it takes for Google Reader to Display the full Text entries...

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