SnappyFingers: An FAQ search engine, find answers to your questions

Most of the times we goto Google for searching answers for our questions. There are also websites like Yahoo Answers, Answer.com etc, where you can post your question & other users can answer questions to gain points. But SnappyFingers is quite different, it indexes all FAQs in the web. This makes easy for user to find answers rather asking at Yahoo Answer & wait to get reply.

SnappyFingers is a Question and Answer search engine. It crawls and indexes FAQs spread across the Internet, and provides search results in a easy to view Question/Answer format. It can be used for finding answers & also will be useful for conducting research.The site is in beta, and has a database of 3 million questions. Snappyfingers claims that their crawlers are working hard, and planning to increase the number of questions aggressively in the coming months.

I myself tried many questions on Snappyfingers & amazed with the results I got. It could be really helpful in many cases. Though Google is powerful enough to find anything on net, sometimes it fails to give right answers. The way SnappyFinger works is quite different from Google & you get answers in almost first five results. Looking forward for more good search results when it comes out of beta.

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Just noticed on my adsense account that USD to INR conversion bug has been fixed

USD to INR conversion rate is displayed as 1:45.780. That’s good news for all adsense publishers

Something went wrong in my adsense account yesterday. Since this is month end, I was checking whether payment got issued or not. And I was shocked & freezed for a while! My adsense account payment details showed conersion rate as 1 USD = 1 INR!! USD 497 after conversion should be somewhere around 22,000 INR, but it was showing INR 497!

Yesterday midnight I published this screenshot on Flickr which grabbed the attension of many, may be Google also. I got a mail from them after a couple of hours like this:

Hello,

We’re writing to let you know that your AdSense account is displaying an
incorrect exchange rate for your most recent AdSense payment issued on
September 23, 2008. While the exchange rate is incorrectly listed as 1:1,
please rest assured that your payment has been issued with the correct
exchange rate. You can expect your check to arrive according to the normal
delivery time, within two to four weeks.

If you normally receive communication from us in a language other than
English, we will provide additional information in your preferred language
next week.

We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your patience.

Sincerely,

The Google AdSense Team

Google Inc.
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View, CA 94043
USA

It looks like it’s getting displayed wrongly in my adsense control panel, but the check which is being sent should be having proper amount. Have to wait till the check comes to clarify.

Update:

While submitting this post to Digg, I found it’s not only me! Many other indian adsense publishers may be facing the same problem. Here is another blogger who is facing the same problem Http://blog.jalwaa.com/?p=97

Many of us use gmail because of it’s simple design & featureset it has to offer us. Google has introduced a new security feature for gmail, remote lagout. Many of use more than two computers to login to gmail. If you take my example, I login to gmail from home & office. Some times we often leave the browser opened & not being logged out of gmail, if the computer is at office or any public place your account might be mis-used. Now sitting at home computer you can logout of gmail in office computer or any other computer.

Footer in gmail contains your session details, when you last logged in & from which IP.

You can click on “Details” link which shows you a pop-up having details about your last sessions.

Check for all the sessions, see all are yours or somebody else is logging into your account! Click on “Sign out all other sessions” to sign out of gmail at all other places exept the current.

Bored up looking at same old interface from years, time to give web your colors! Stylish is a Firefox extension which enables you to change the look & feel of a web site. I got to know about this at Barcamp Bangalore from The100rabh a fellow Blog-a-lorean. If you take example of Gmail, it has the same interface from the day one. Though slighter changes were made in adding functionalities like chat inside email, there were no changes made in color scheme & look/feel.

Stylish enables you to define your own stylesheet for a website. But for writing a stylesheet of your own, you should be having knowledge of CSS. Hey, don’t stop reading! there are lot of ready stylesheets for many websites, which you can just load into Stylish. Stylesheets are available at http://userstyles.org

Procedure to install Stylish & load new stylesheet:

• Install Firefox if you don’t have from getfirefox.com
• Install extension Stylish for firefox from addons.firefox.com
• Browse available stylesheets at http://userstyles.org & load stylesheets you want
• That’s it!! start re-designing the web!

To give you an example how stylish can change a web site, I am posting couple of screenshots of Gmail after loading awesome stylesheet Gmail Re-Designed.

Google has released Google talk labs edition with lot of new features. The most awaited group chat is implemented in this labs edition. Group chat was implemented on gmail web chat app few months ago, but it’s desktop application was lacking this feature. Following are new features found on Google talk labs edition:

• Group chat, have conferences in Gtalk desktop labs edition. I used to log in to Yahoo! for this feature before.
• Notification from other Google services orkut & calendar.
• Tabbed chatting, no hassle of new chat window, chat with different friends in different tabs.

There are also few things which I don’t like in this new client:

• Installation is different from previous client, is pretty similar to Yahoo! messenger. First downloads a 300kb installer, upon executing that will download other required files to install application. This installer may not work at office, because they might be blocking the port through which installer tries to connect to server.
• One more much awaited feature “Invisible Mode” is not yet implemented.
• Copying of text from chat window is not possible! This looks really annoying for me.

You can get Google Talk labs edition here. This is the labs edition, you can click on “Feedback” button present at bottom of application to send your feedback about the application & to improve next Google talk release.

Cricket fever is on its peak as world cup started. Google India has launched a Cricket portal http://www.google.co.in/cricket which enables to add score card to your personalised home page. And also download Google desktop which enables to catch all cricket trivia from your desktop. In addition to this Google will host an expert blog named ‘Cricket Zone with Krish Srikkanth’ at www.worldcupwithkrish.blogspot.com. This blog enables users to interact with cricket experts about cricket. One more exciting stuff is Google has opened a blogging contest. Any one can open a new blog about cricket & best voted blogger will get a chance to express cricket views on TV with Kris Srikkanth.

You might be bit confused about the logo above. Well get into this web site & check out yourself.This was told to me by my friend “Prabhanjan“. This web site allows you to search simultaneously with Google & Yahoo.

You can put dot anywhere in your ID
i.e, hnprashanth@gmail.com as hn.prashanth@gmail.com, h.n.p.r.a.s.h.a.n.t.h@gmail.com
if u give these Id to anyone mail will come to your inbox only
If your frnd ask your ID impress him/her by giving ID like YourID+frnds name@gmail.com
ex: To my frnd Vinay i could give ID as hnprashanth+vinay@gmail.com……again mails comes 2 u’r inbox only
also like hnprashanth+how+are+you@gmail.com
No need to change settings anywhere,just try sending mail from other ID to gmail…..u will be amazed…
One more option is yourID@googlemail.com .