GoogleSurfKey will be outdated soon.

Today I just see that Google is doing keyboard shortcut feature for their search result page. Although now it's in google lab and just a experimental feature but I think it will be out of the lab soon. It's a good news for keyboard-centric user like me. :D So my GoogleSurfKey script will be outdated soon.

You can try this new Google's experimental feature out at the Google Experimental page. Now it can use only in main english google.

Google Surf Key 0.3.0 is released!!

I've not updated Google Surf Key script for a long time. Now I update it and release the new version 0.3.0. Recently google search has updated new result page layout and the DOM layout has changed (more complex) so my script hasn't worked anymore.

Install it here

This is version 0.3.0 changelog.

version 0.3.0 released.(15 Aug 2009)
- Updated for new Google's search result page layout.
- Fixed the 10 results limitation.(Only j,k traversing not number keys)
- Add l command to toggle show the index label.
- Change the implementation to use JQuery 1.2.6.
- Improve the link focusing.

Hope you like it!

Major Limitation of Gmail and Google Calendar in Offline Mode

Recently Google launched an offline mode of Gmail in labs and just few days ago Google Calendar offline mode had been released in beta after the news of this feature over a year.

Both of them use the capabilities of Google Gears for running in offline. So I installed Google Chrome for try out these things.

It works nicely but I found a major limitation. A few days ago ,I was disconnected and I opened the Gmail. I expected that I could browse my email easily and see my drafts but it didn’t work.

Google Chrome showed an error. It said “105 (net::ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED)” that is about Chrome cannot resolve an IP address of website (gmail.com). So it cannot work offline. The same error was shown when I tried the Calendar.

But Google Document or Remember The Milk which support Gears work correctly.

Gmail and Calendar work in offline mode correctly if they have already been opened before your computer is disconnected. They will switch to offline mode and continue running correctly.

I wish this limitation will be removed soon.

Google makes me smile

Today is Valentine's day. It's not special to me really. I visit google.com as normal. The google's logo on valentines day is so cute. It's makes me smile and I think people around the world that see this picture smile too.

I think it's so cool that just changes some small picture makes people around the world SMILE! :)
Thank you, Google.