Today morning in Twitter I saw people are talking about themes in Gmail so I logged onto my Gmail account and found following notification is on the top. I clicked it and activated the mountain theme.

As of now this feature is not available to all Gmail accounts because I’m using two Gmail accounts but this theme feature is available only on one email account. I hope Google will expand this feature to all others too.

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To activate a theme manually go to Settings -> Themes. Then select your favorite theme. That’s it; you can have a customized view of your inbox. If you liked this feature as I do, Give me a five then.

Dazzling interface of Pomegranate

These are some interesting stuffs I need to point out

Global Voice Translator
It translates 50 Languages. Say you wanna speak with your French friend, all you need to do is speak on this phone on English, and it’ll automatically translate and speak out in French for your friend from the speaker in the rear. You French friend can do the same thing.

Most of us are still wondered about web based translation tool. Obviously it’s an awesome feature. Personal translator got a real big problem. In near future political leaders can bring this phone instead of a beautiful translator lady.

Shave while you travel
There is a razer attached to the phone. You don’t have to spend time on wash-room to shave your beard. You can do it while you’re on the run. Ladies can use it to shave the hairs on the hands and legs.

Shave and talk while you on the street. Cool huh?

Watch Movies with Pomegranate
You can use your Pomegranate phone as a projector and watch movies and TV shows in you home. It’ll bring Home theater experience to you and your family.

Also you can use this projector feature for your business purpose such as showing presentation etc.

Make Coffee with your Pomegranate
OMG you can now even make coffee with your phone. All you need to do is insert a flavor to your phone and use the phone and it’ll suck the water inside and make you a coffee.

Harmonica
You can play music with your phone. When you’re tired and stressed you can play music, as you play mouth organ.

Doesn’t it ring bell? Yes exactly they are fooling us by showing this wonderful site. Lol It took some time for me to find this out. Its your time to fool your friend.

So what is this? Well, it’s not a mobile device. It’s an advertisement for Nova Scotia…

The Pomegranate phone is part of the Nova Scotian government’s “Come to Life” viral marketing campaign. Nova Scotia has been criticized for spending $300,000 on the ad campaign, though the website received around 150,000 hits after a month, and they are considering it to be very successful.

-Wikipedia

Good news for Tamil Facebook fans. Today I found that Tamil interface is available for Facebook. Translations are done as facebook users. If you wish you can also contribute to the volunteer translations. If your language is not available in the home page then you can check for your language in translations.

Around 50% of the translations are done. Now most of the sites are tend to give Tamil interface for their sites such as Google, Gmail, Orkut, Google docs, WordPress.com, Blogger.com, etc.

As the numbers of Tamil users grow globally these sites are getting ready to grab them all.

As I mentioned above you can help facebook to translate their site into your language but I usually don’t recommend them. These internet giants outsource and do this work very easily but still they suck the blood of the community around their site.

Early days I used to fall for such initiations, where I still remember I used to translate for Google. Remember you translate everything but the copyrights will go to Google, Microsoft and Facebook.

Translation Interface

We must support localizations in open source programs such as WordPress, Ubuntu etc, but never ever fall for these internet giants.

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I was digging through internet and found this wonderful portable software. You can simply choose a short cut key and switch off your monitor in seconds.

First download the software (24 KB) and saved in a folder. As shown in the picture below, create a short cut in the desk top.

Now right click on the desk-top short cut and choose property

As shown in the picture click on short cut keys text box and choose your short cut key (I choose Ctrl + Alt + M)

That’s it you’re done. When ever you wanna switch the monitor off, you press your short cut key.

With this method you can effectively save power and convenient way to shut your monitor while let the laptop to run.

PS: you can use this software even with your Desk top

You need to install a plugin for your browser then only you’ll be able to do this video chat inside Gmail.

As usual, Google is one step ahead of their competitors.

1. Advertise on Twitter
You can sell space on Twitter profile and make some money out of it. I recently come to know about two sites which will help you to monotize your Twitter account. Check out the sites

• http://www.twittad.com/
• http://be-a-magpie.com/

Rumbling Lankan has written a post on How to find advertisers for your Twitter profile.

2. Pro-Twitter
You can allow followers only after they paying some fee. This method is not possible unless you’re a popular figure in a niche. For example say, you’re a well known Internet marketer and you start Twitter account and make twits. You only allow members who paid to follow your twits.

If you’re a popular figure then you’ll have enough followers.

3. Use it to Promote your products
Use Twitter to promote your products. If you’re an e-book seller then use twitter and promote your eBooks on Twitter. It does works when you have enormous number of followers.

Promote your blogs and get more traffic to your blog. More traffic more money

Also you can use Twitter to promote your affiliate products to make money online.

4. Pay Per Twit
You contact the advertisers directly and you come to an agreement where they’ll pay you for each Twit. This will work when you’re a popular and known Twitter.

5. Sell your account on Ebay
This may sound ridiculous to you but there are people who sold their Twitter account for $500 even. So don’t give up work on it.

As I always say, you can’t make money out of nothing. You need dedication and it’ll take some time to generate money online. Don’t give up keep on trying. One day you can make enough money online.

I make around $100 – $150 per month from several sources. I gave you these figures just to inspire you. Remember this amount is kept on increasing every month.

We’ll soon meet in another Make money online tutorial.

• Make Money Online Part 1 (Find Jobs Online)
• Make Money Online Part 2 (Pay Per Post)

Yesterday I found that my Dialog Mobile Broadband’s down speed has gone down to 50 KBps. Most probably I have reached the 5 GB limit. I want to check out how much I have downloaded so far, so I called the Dialog Mobile Broadband Technical support (which you can found on USB modem’s cover) and they have no idea how to find it. A guy over there told me that, I need to check it in My Dialog.

I went to My Dialog but still there is no such thing. Then he suggested me to call their customer care at 0777 678678. I called them and there was a lady answered and she doesn’t know what I’m speaking of. Gradually she hang up the phone to escape from me.

I didn’t quite I called the customer care again and someone else answered this time. That person asked me to check it out in the Modem Software. If you switch the machines then the modem software will not count the download that you made in the previous computer. I was keep on asking that person and that person was giving me several ideas to check out the limit, but we never be able to find it.

I’m just wondering there are anyone knows how to check how much I have downloaded?

I’m fed-up with Dialog customer care and Dialog keeps new people in their front end, who has no knowledge on products. What happened to the old customer care personals? Do they switch to Airtel?

Today I was trying to access but getting the following error message again and again. This is why I love Gmail. Gmail is very pleasant look, easy to work interface and very fast too.

Seems, even the yahoo’s servers are not steady. Those who buy hosting on yahoo, you better be careful.

PayPal

Two years back, I could still remember that we Sri Lankans can’t open PayPal account. Now things have changed and we can open an account in PayPal. But the most annoying thing is we Sri Lankans can’t receive money on Pay Pal while our neighbors such as Indians can receive money.

If you registered an account as Sri Lankan user, then you can’t receive payments from other Pay Pal users. In the other hand if you registered as a Indian, US user you can receive money to you PayPal account but you’ll have a sending limit (500 USD) and you can’t cash that money.

If your sending limit $500 reached then you’ll not be able to send money from your PayPal account. If you’re to send more than $500 then you have to verify your account by adding a credit card.

Recently one of my friends found a way to make it cash. You can withdraw the money to Get A Freelancer.com’s account and then you can withdraw the money using their debit card.

I have already requested for a debit card from them and they have approved my card too but yet to receive my card. Once I receive my card I’ll let you know the answer for the million dollar question, how much convenient will it be?

* Personally I’m not encouraging anyone to do so, till I learn the reality.

“To those — to those who would tear the world down: We will defeat you. To those who seek peace and security: We support you. And to all those who have wondered if America’s beacon still burns as bright: Tonight we proved once more that the true strength of our nation comes not from the might of our arms or the scale of our wealth, but from the enduring power of our ideals: democracy, liberty, opportunity and unyielding hope.
-Barack Obama

Script of full speech

John McCain’s Concession Speech