I was at IIT Madras (Chennai) for a week from October 1st to participate in the annual technical Festival , Shaastra, there. We planned to compete in one of the robotics events named Emergency Exit. So that was why there were hardly any posts the last week.

Although we went there with the primary aim to participate in the robotics event, we didn’t actually complete the robot and so didn’t compete. But there were hundreds of more interesting events. It was a lot fun to go and just walk theough the IIT.

If you get a chance to visit IITs especially during Saarang or Shaastra do not ever miss it.

Resizr is a free online image editing site. I will allow you to use almost all the basic photo editing features. “RESIZR was conceived in July 2006 by Matt Miller, after trying to help a user upload an image to the Urban Pug Forums. After suggesting some tools, it became apparent that there might be a need for a brutally simple online image resizer.”

With Resizr you can Crop, Resize, Change filetype (GIF,PNG,JPG), sharpen, adjust levels, change the tone of the image (to B/W &&; sepia), adjust brightness and contrast and even control the quality of output file. Resizr is equivalent to a photo editing software. It is free and also saves your file for a specific amount of time before which you can download it.

eSnips is a social content-sharing site, where you can publish and share any media type. You will get 5Gb of storage space on the servers when you signup for eSnips.

You can find lots and lots of books, music files, photos etc on eSnips. But if you want to download them you will need flash player. Here is the workaround if you do not have flash player installed but still want to download a file from eSnips.

This is the screen shown if you do not have flash installed.

View the source of the web page by pressing CTRL+U – firefox, opera, IE ; Find the section with the text “var scribd_doc = scribd.Document.getDocFromUrl” (do a search). Now select the URL of the file you need from inside the brackets. More details can be found in the image below.

Paste this URL to the address bar and you will get the file you searched for.

The post was a mistake from my part in understanding the context of the statement. I apologize for the error.

Thanks goes to Nirmal for pointing it out.

Google has opened streamlined login to analytics also. If you don’t know what this is read the second tip given in the previous post – Logging in to Blogger. If you login to one Google service (like GMail) and open another service like Blogger then you will automatically be logged in to Blogger also.

Till recently this was not allowed for Analytics (although the facility was available fro Adsense). So you would have to enter your password a second time to login to Analytics. From now on you can login to Analytics by logging in to any of the other Google services.

(Analytics is the free Web traffic and site data Analyzer from Google.)

The Google Adsense web site is down temporarily. I went to the login page and found and Error page stating that Adsense is temporarily down. The error message was shown in 27 languages. Here is the link to the error page – http://www.google.com/errors/asfe/system_down.html

This is a screen shot of the error page in PNG format.