Tuesday, 17 January 2012

Sync Google Docs to Desktop: Access, Edit Files Easily Like DropBox

InSync is an useful desktop application that closely resembles the very popular DropBox and allows you to synchronize your documents with Google Docs. Its much better than Offisync to integrate google docs with Office programs.
Sync Google Docs to Desktop: Access, Edit Files Easily Like DropBox
Once you install the free software made available (Mac and Windows), InSync is able to synchronize the files in a folder on your computer with Google Docs. This means that you save a file in the specified folder to make it available in our online Google account and thus share it collaboratively.
Sync Google Docs to Desktop: Access, Edit Files Easily Like DropBox
All changes made will be immediately saved. The synchronization takes place in both ways, from a remote PC and Google Docs. In this way we can easily edit a file online from anywhere in the web and find it easy at home, office or workplace.
# Check Out Awesome InSync Features : Link
The service is free and requires just a Google Account. The space can be shared with other web applications like GMail or Google Picasa Web Albums. InSync was launched but its temporarily down. Its is still in private beta and we just have to wait for its official launch. Check out a detailed review at techcrunch.

Monday, 16 January 2012

Dynamically Resize Image From URL, Embed Thumbnails Using URL Hacks


Dynamically Resize Image From URL, Embed Thumbnails This is probably one of the best online tool ever. There are many types of url hacks like embed only audio from youtube, update twitter from url address bar etc, but the one below lets you resize image from url path ie, you can use a direct link of any uploaded image and resize it by calling it with Resizer.

# Resizer.co – Resize Image from URL Path by Dynamic Request Calling

It lets you dynamically resize image from URL on the fly by just calling the image URL path. Till now, one had to use and online image editing tool to resize images and then download it or use it from their uploaded file link. But this is completely different. You can resize image from url path of the image file.
You can directly embed your resized, improved image into your webpage by a url like :
http://www.resizer.co?image=your-image-url&w=width-in-pixels&h=height-in-pixels
Example Usage : http://www.resizer.co?image=http://eulogik.com/lobo.jpg&w=250&h=200
HTML Usage : <img src="http://www.resizer.co?image=http://eulogik.com/lobo.jpg&w=250&h=200"> (Embed Thumbnails easily)
Original Calling through Resizer
http://www.google.co.in/intl/en_com/images/srpr/logo1w.png http://www.resizer.co/?image=http://www.google.co.in/intl/en_com/images/srpr/logo1w.png&w=120&h=100
See the source of the google logos above. Try changing width(w) and height(h) to any other numbers. Want to play more? Go to API Reference for more amazing features like rotation and autocorrection. In fact if you are aware of the timthumb php script, you will understand how this works.
Great Huh ?? Leave comments if you like it.