Published by Mahin October 23rd, 2009
in Smart Todo.
As I had mentioned in my previous blog post, I’m currently busy with my new venture (www.smazzle.com) and hardly had time to convert the iGoogle ToDo gadget to a non-inline version.
Google sent me a mail indicating that they are going to stop supporting my iGoogle ToDo gadget within the next 2 months. You can still continue to use it until Google eventually stops supporting it. You still may have 2 months left in the gadget. But I strongly advice you to Print your tasks and move to any other version of iGoogle ToDo gadget or you can always checkout my alternative ToDo gadgets - Netvibes version or the Windows Vista version.
I will be working on a newer version of iGoogle ToDo gadget few months after the launch of our new venture. Until then, please use alternative gadgets. Keep visiting my blog for any updates and thanks again for using my gadgets.
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Published by Mahin October 23rd, 2009
in shopping.
Lately I had been busy with a brand new venture - a Deal Request Comparison Shopping Engine (www.smazzle.com) .
The idea is very simple - When you have decided on a product or list of products to buy, just request a deal and we (and the community) will help you find the best price including ALL rebates + Shipping + tax. We also compare Cashback rebates (like fatwallet or mrrebates.com or QuickenPicks) and include the best cashback in the price.
Comparison shopping is growing exponentially with 100’s of comparison shopping sites being added every year. This leads to a lot of confusion and a lot of clutter making it a very unproductive experience when you are trying to find the best price for a product. In general, if your time is more valuable, you would not care to spend time to comparison shop and would normally just go to a single site like amazon.com and make your purchase without worrying too much about price. BUT what if there was one site that can help you find the best price WITHOUT you having to spend your valuable time - Would you be interested ?
At Smazzle.com we understand that finding the best price involves a combination of Store Price + coupon + cashback + mail in rebates + gift card rebates +Shipping + tax. And furthermore each Cashback provider provides a different percentage of cashback. making it a even more complicated mathematical problem. We have developed a a very robust platform that can calculate all the combinations of rebates eventually providing you with the FINAL best price.
We know your time is extremely valuable and therefore once you request a deal, we spend quality time making sure the deals are the best and are as accurate as possible. Read more about us at the Smazzle Blog. Also learn more about the four categories of shopping sites and the steps to find the best price for any product. Just try us out and we promise to wow you !!
Published by Mahin June 14th, 2009
in Activity Tracker Plus.
Related to: [Activity Tracker Plus - Time Tracking Timesheet application and gadget]
Managers can leverage Activity Tracker Plus to the benefit of them and their employees.Some of the benefits of using Activity Tracker Plus by managers or employers include the following:
- Get a live view of the time logged by your employees or consultants wthout leaving your desks.
- Managers can view the activities of any remotely scattered team - Very useful if you have out-sourced consultants or contractors working in different places of the world.
- A dasboard view of all the activities that your employees are working on with a option to check the logs for each of them - in real time.
- Help boost productivity of the team by ensuring that everyone is working on the activity they were assigned to do.
- Get a real time estimate of how long an activity could take by looking at the logs.
- Get necessary help for employees who seem to take way too much time on few activities.
- Steer your team in the right direction if you find employees straying away to work on activities that are not important.
- Get a real time view of the projected total cost of the project by closely monitoring the time taken for the activities.
- Check the billable hours that are logged even before the consultant provides you with the bill.
Continued in next page…
Activity Tracker is a free time management or timesheet gadget. Capture billable time for invoicing and billing. Project management gadget. Free time tracking timesheet application and gadget for managers employees consultants and freelancers
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Published by Mahin June 12th, 2009
in Smart Todo.
Related to: [To-do List with Google Maps]
Few had informed me that To-Do List gadget all of a sudden stopped working. Google had stopped supporting inlining feature (which the gadget uses) but assured that the existing gadgets should not be affected. Unfortunately, it has affected To-do List gadget for few users. It is unfortunately beyond my control.
The good news is - ALL YOUR DATA IS SAFE within the gadget itself. so DONOT PANIC. and DONOT delete the gadget. If you delete it, then you will lose ALL your data.
I have outlined the steps on how to retrieve your data very easily and use other alternative gadgets I have developed.
- Assuming you had entered your todo and it looked previously like below:
- With this issue, the gadget should look like below:
- Right click on this gadget and say “View Source”. It should open a notepad with a lot of contents.
- Search for “screeperzone” and around that text, you should see a lot of “%22″ wherein you will see your todo lists. Unfortunately it is a little messy to extract one by one.
- I have other alternatives for the same todo list gadget - including for Vista and Netvibes. Please visit this link for the alternatives.
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Published by Mahin June 8th, 2009
in Activity Tracker Plus.
Related to: [Activity Tracker Plus - Track all your life activities with just a single click]
“Activity Tracker Plus Social” is a social client for “Activity Tracker Plus“. It lets you share your daily life log on your blog or your website or on any opensocial social networking platform including orkut, hi5, linkedin, Ning, Friendster, MySpace etc. It lets others see what you are doing now. It is always updated and therefore your viewers can always be current on your activities.
Your viewers will not be able to edit your activites and you have full control over what they see. You can just handpick a few activities to be public while the rest remains private. You can also decide to hide or show all the past logs for an activity that is made public.Since “Activity Tracker Plus” can work on any internet browser - You can punch-in from anywhere and punch-out from anywhere and all your viewers will be able to see what you are upto.To start publishing your life log, follow the steps below:
- You need to be using “Activity Tracker Plus” . Follow the link below to setup Activity Tracker Plus. It is a one time setup and takes only a few minutes.
Setup and start using Activity Tracker Plus
- Once you have setup Activity Tracker Plus and followed the instructions on how to use it, you can then setup “Activity Tracker Plus Social”. Just open Activity Tracker Plus and click on “Menu | What Else Can I Do ?” which should take you to the instruction sheet.
Just click the appropriate topic . (eg) “Publish my activites and time log for everyone to see on my blog or website” to read instructions on how to publish your life log.
Activity Tracker Plus Social lets you share your daily lifelog on your blog or any other social networking platform. It answers one question - What are you doing now ? Always updated and accurate. Control what they can see. Share your daily activities, daily lifelog, day-to-day activity on any blog or social networking platform with friends and family.
Published by Mahin June 5th, 2009
in Activity Tracker Plus.
Related to: [Activity Tracker Plus - Punchclock & Time Management Gadget]
“Activity Tracker Plus” is a punchclock time tracking gadget that can keep track of all your daily activities. You can use if for anything you want - Consultants can use it for time reporting, students can use it to track time spent in their homework and others can just use it to analyze how they spend their time. It provides a very simple interface and all you do is punch-in when you start an activity and punch-out when you are done. This gadget will take care of generating your time records or timesheet. It also comes with a social client - “Activity Tracker Plus Social” that will let you share your daily log on your blog or any opensocial social networking platform including orkut, hi5, Friendster, MySpace etc in real time.Activity Tracker Plus is built using Google Spreadsheet as the back end for data storage. That means, all your personal tracking data is stored on your own Google spreadsheet. You can back it up whenever you want or export it to your local machine whenever you want. It is YOUR data. The other important addition is that you NEVER have to delete any activity. Just keep punching-in or punching-out without worrying about space limitations. There is absolutely no limit on number of spreadsheet, no limits on notes length, no limit on number of activities, no limits on number of logs.
Activity Tracker Plus can be accessed from any browser (yes.. you can use iPhone too) AND it shares the same data from the same spreadsheet. That means, you can punch-in from iGoogle and punch-out from your iPhone… and you can punch-in again from you Mozilla internet browser. The data is shared and is stored on your very own Google spreadsheet. So you are not limited to using only iGoogle.Activity Tracker Plus is also very reliable and does NOT depend on a single platform like iGoogle. So even if iGoogle decides to disable all gadgets, all your data is still saved on your spreadsheet and you can still access them through any other Internet browser. You donot need iGoogle to access your data.. Just use any Internet browser.Activity Tracker Plus is very secure. It uses keys and checksums to make sure no one masquerades as you to access your data.Points to note before using Activity Tracker Plus
- If you are a previous iGoogle Activity Tracker user, please note that Activity Tracker Plus is NOT compatible with the old Activity Tracker and you will NOT be able to import all your activities. You can continue to send me requests to recover your old data (screeperzone at gmail.com).
For iGoogle users, please click on the iGoogle button below. Once you have added to your iGoogle page, click on the instructions provided in the gadget to create an account and setup Activity Tracker Plus
For Netvibes and Vista gadgets, please refer back to the previous version of Activity TrackerActivity Tracker - Punchclock & Time Management GadgetFor all other users, just click on the link below to setup your account and start using Activity Tracker Plus on your Internet Browser or any smartphone browser:
Setup and start using Activity Tracker Plus
Activity Tracker Plus is a free time management or timesheet gadget. Use it to improve productivity following Getting things done principles. Managing your time efficiently. Capture billable time, capture time spent in writing blogs, time spent on leisure activities, daily life log. Project management gadget.
Published by Mahin April 3rd, 2009
in Activity Tracker.
You must have noticed today that Activity Tracker says “Sorry, this gadget uses the inlining feature, which is no longer supported.“ This has been reported to iGoogle Developer forum and should be fixed shortly. Please watch this link for any updates.
IMPORTANT: DONOT close Activity Tracker. You will lose ALL the data.
In order to backup your data, please follow my post on backing up or exporting the settings . Please note the following:
- Before you click on “Restore your iGoogle page to the last backup” make sure you “Export” current settings.
- Then click on “Restore” as explained in the post and then “Export” to export the settings that you just restored (which should have all your activity tracker preferences).
- Now you should have 2 settings that you exported - the latest settings and the restored settings. The restored settings should normally have the Activity Tracker preference data.
- Then you can wait for iGoogle folks to fix the issue.
- If you need all the current settings for all your other gadgets, then import your latest settings back again using the import button.
- If you donot want to wait for Google to help us with the issue, then open this xml file in textpad and check for activity tracker related preferences. Then email it to screeperzone+pc at gmail.com and I can help you retrieve your data.
Hopefully Google should help us resolve this issue. If you are looking for alternatives, we have the Netvibes and Vista version too - Please visit this link
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Published by Mahin April 18th, 2008
in iGoogle General.
Before I begin, I want to let you know that I tested all my gadgets particularly to prevent data loss and any data loss problems have always turned out to be a temporary network issue. So if you think you lost data I recommend you to follow these steps.
- Restore it from iGoogle page backup. I did post a separate blog that discusses how to backup and share your iGoogle gadgets.
- Incase you forgot to manually backup some important data, DO NOT remove your gadget from iGoogle page - this can permanently delete your recent data.
- If you deleted your gadget by mistake, click “Undo” link (near Google search box) immediately. This will get your gadget and its data back. If you are still not able to get your gadget back (probably due to browser caching issues), open a new browser window and go to your iGoogle page. Click Shift + refresh.
- Shoot me an email (screeperzone+issues@gmail.com). I will try my best to get your data back.
- Check Google Gadget API groups for help. There are professional gadget developers out there who can help you.
- Visit iGoogle Troubleshooting help page.
- Don’t panic. Wait for few minutes and then open iGoogle in different browser window and click Shift+refresh.
I am currently compiling all the issues that users emailed me about and the solutions that worked. Most of the issues were due to temporary network problems and almost everyone got their data back.
Most common issues faced by Google Partner page users (not iGoogle users)
“Sorry, this module cannot be displayed, as it requires inlining but is provided by an untrusted source” –
Inline gadgets don’t work on Partner page. It only works on iGoogle page. Check this post . I have explained why I use inline gadgets in detail in this post.
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Many had been requesting some kind of a feature to backup data from Activity Tracker, Todo List and My Moments gadgets. I did some research and found out that Google provides such a feature to backup, import or export the data.
I will provide you with instructions on how to do just that. This information relates to the following iGoogle gadgets that you may be using.
[”My Moments” - Countdown, countup and much more..]
[Activity Tracker - Punchclock & Time Management Gadget]
[To-Do List with Google Maps !!]
Steps to backup/import/export the gadget data
- In your IGoogle homepage that hosts ScreeperZone gadgets, click on the small arrow provided on the tab and select “Edit this tab”
- Now scroll down to the bottom of the page and you should see a section called “Troubleshooting” and another section called “Export / Import”
- If you just wish to backup the gadgets, then click on “Backup”. The backup is saved in Google servers and you can recover the gadgets later by clicking on “Restore Now”. Unfortunately it saves only one snapshot of your Google settings. If you would like to save data at different times, then you will have to export your settings at different intervals. The next point discusses this.
- If you wish to Export the data into a file and later restore it back from the file, then click on “Export” and save the file iGoogle-settings.xml locally. You can later restore your settings and data by uploading this file. To upload, click on “Browse” and select the file. You can then click on “Upload” to upload the settings.
- For more information on other Google backup related services, visit this blog.
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Published by Mahin April 18th, 2008
in ToDo Tips.
Related to: [To-Do List with Google Maps !!]
Google provides a new feature where you can share your gadget with any of your friends and family. Everyone who happens to share the gadget will see the same information. The “To-do List with Google maps” iGoogle gadget leverages this feature and now you should be able to share your to-do list with everyone. Infact they will be able to edit it (if you provide permission) and everyone should be able to see the edit.
Following are the steps you follow to share your todo list gadget:
- Click on the small arrow on the top of the To-Do List gadget and select “Share this gadget”
- You should be presented with a dialog box where you can select the people you would like to share the gadget with or you can enter the email address. You will also need to specify if you would want them to just view your content or you would also let them edit it. On clicking “Send Invite”, your friends will be sent an email inviting them to add the gadget.
- IMPORTANT: If your invitee happens to have his own personal To-Do List gadget, then he/she might have conflicts with the gadget you are sharing. To avoid such a conflict, it is advisable that your friend have the shared gadget on a separate tab.
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