Vishnu Prasad blog : Google

Google retires Send to SMS?

Vishnu — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 08:49:44 GMT

One of the helpful functionality of Google Toolbar has been the “Send to SMS” option. You can quickly SMS the information to your mobile device and continue reading on the go.

Looks like this option has been retired now. Below is the error message which shows up when you access the Send to SMS option.

Not very sure, what prompted Google to retire this useful feature. With the web fast becoming the new windows, this is like shooting a bullet in your foot. Google toolbar is a very handy extension of your browser if you prefer to search the web a lot, read news, check your gmail and like to satisfy your ego by checking your sites page rank.

If Google is really serious about this, then its time to update the toolbar.

/Vishnu

Trick or Treat!!!!

Vishnu — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 08:38:00 GMT

Happy Halloween

Got some time...then listen to Yahoo Podcast on the history behind Halloween.

View Website as a Graph

Vishnu — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 18:28:00 GMT

This Software displays your site as a graph. Very Cool...

This is how my site looks..

Click on this link to view it.

The program executes an applet to render the graph. I liked the way it slowly builds the graph as if its parsing the web pages for the tags and dynamically building the graph.
The catch is, it requires J2SE Ver 1.5 be installed on your machine. If you dont have it then you can download it. Your system literally comes to halt when the applet starts rendering the graph. IE which generally takes 8 to 15K memory sucks more than 50K.