Wednesday, June 08, 2005

Google mirror (its not what you think)

Check out Google's mirror reflection.

This goes on to show that geeks have a lot of time on their hands!

Tuesday, June 07, 2005

Google AdSense program issue

I tried creating an account with the Google AdSense program for a protected website. However, my application was rejected because the website was behind a login/password screen.

Its interesting that google thinks that the site should be open for navigation to get an ad sense account.

Here's the email response that I got.

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Thank you for your interest in Google AdSense. After reviewing your application, our program specialists have found that it does not comply with our policies. Therefore, we're unable to accept you into Google AdSense at this time.

We did not approve your application for the reasons listed below. If you are able to resolve these issues, please feel free to reply to this email for reconsideration when you have made the changes.

Issues:

- Difficult site navigation

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Further detail:

Difficult site navigation: During our review of your website, we found your site difficult to navigate. Potential navigation issues include: pages behind a login/restricted access, broken links, excessive pop-ups, dialers, website pages under construction or not yet launched.

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For a complete list of AdSense criteria, please visit:
https://www.google.com/adsense/policies?hl=en_US
https://www.google.com/adsense/localized-terms?hl=en_US

If you would like to submit another website for consideration, simply reply to this email and provide us with the URL. If this new website complies with our program policies, we will help you start delivering Google ads in minutes.

Please contact us at adsense-support@google.com if you have any questions.

Regards,

The Google AdSense Team
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My Google

Just tried Google's new Personalized Home service, very similar to My Yahoo. Just like Google Maps, the drag and drop UI is very intuitive. The content options are very few right now but I'm sure we'll see more options soon.

Monday, June 06, 2005

Google Maps Integration

Google maps provides a very intuitive drag 'n drop UI.

I recently saw two websites which have integrated a third party database with google maps:

1) Cheap Gas integrates Gas Buddy with Google maps to give gas prices in your area.

2) Housing Maps integrates CraigsList real estate section with Google maps.

Third parties integrating data and UI from completely different websites is certainly a new thing and we can expect to see more of these websites in the future.

Sunday, June 05, 2005

Dell 2005FPW

I recently purchased my new Dell 2005FPW monitor from Dell.com. The purchase price was $398, considerably less than the listed price ($750), thanks to HotDealsClub.com.

The next task was to connect it to my Debian desktop (Dell Dimension 8300). After a lot of Googling, I was only able to use my monitor through the VGA interface of my nvidia card.

Here is the working XF86Config-4 file. Note that I am using "nv" module. The "nvidia" module always put the cpu to 100% use and I am unable to use it at this time.

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# XF86Config-4 (XFree86 server configuration file) generated by Dexter, the
# Debian X Configuration tool.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the XF86Config manual page.
# (Type "man XF86Config" at the shell prompt.)

Section "Files"
# if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/truetype"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
EndSection

Section "Module"
# Load "ddc"
# Load "GLcore"
Load "dbe"
# Load "dri"
Load "extmod"
Load "glx"
# Load "pex5"
# Load "record"
# Load "xie"
# Load "bitmap"
Load "freetype"
Load "speedo"
Load "type1"
# Load "vbe"
# Load "int10"
Load "Xrender"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "keyboard"
Option "CoreKeyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
Option "XkbModel" "pc104"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
# Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Generic Graphics Device"
#Driver "vga"
#Driver "ati"
#Driver "nvidia"
Driver "nv"
EndSection

# Customized display mode
Section "Modes"
# 1680x1050 @ 60 Hz
# Horizontal pixels
# Front porch: 104 Back porch: 280 Sync width: 176
# Sync polarity: - Scan rate: 65.29kHz Active pixels: 1680
# Vertical lines:
# Front porch: 3 Back porch: 30 Sync width: 6
# Sync polarity + Refresh rate 59.954Hz Active pixels: 1050
# Pixel clock: 146.25MHz
Identifier "16:10"
ModeLine "1680x1050" 146.2 1680 1960 2136 2240 1050 1080 1086 1089
-hsync +vsync
EndSection

# Configure your monitor
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "lcdmonitor"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "DELL 2005FPW"
UseModes "16:10"
HorizSync 30.0 - 83.0
VertRefresh 56.0 - 75.0
Option "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Generic Monitor"
HorizSync 30-70
VertRefresh 55-90
Option "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "widescreen"
Device "Generic Graphics Device"
Monitor "lcdmonitor"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 1
Modes "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 4
Modes "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1680x1050" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "Generic Graphics Device"
Monitor "Generic Monitor"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 1
Modes "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 4
Modes "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
#Screen "Default Screen"
Screen "widescreen"
InputDevice "Generic Keyboard"
InputDevice "Generic Mouse"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection

# end of XF86Config
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