Guess what, there is a new feature on Google Reader. It’s going offline. You now have an option to read your feeds in offline or online mode.

We’ve used the newly released Google Gears, a browser plugin that enables offline web applications. Once you’ve installed Google Gears, you can download your latest 2,000 items so they’re available even when you don’t have an internet connection. To get started, simply click the “Offline” link in the top right of Google Reader.

You’ll need to download the Google Gears Setup file (188kb) which then download and install the plugin directly. This would take a while if your connection is slow.

Google Gears (Beta) is an open source browser extension that enables web applications to provide offline functionality using following JavaScript APIs:
# Store and server application resources locally
# Store data locally in a fully-searchable relational database
# Run asynchronous Javascript to improve application responsiveness

Once it’s done, you need to restart your browser and allow the plugin on the site. You then have the option to download your feeds and save them for offline reading.

Enabling the Google Gears plugin for the site


Downloading Feeds for offline reading

Online and Offline modes can be easily switched through by clicking on the tiny button at the top. The reader will synchronize the feeds accordingly.

Reader in Offline mode

More Info Links:
# Developer Site
# Developer Knowledge Base

Isn’t just sweet?

အခုတေလာ ဘေလာ့ဂါ ျမန္မာစာ ရိုက္နည္းက်င့္ေနတယ္။
လက္ကြက္ကို ေကာင္းေကာင္း မွတ္မိသြားျပီ။ စာရိုက္ေတာ့ အရမ္း ေႏွးေသးတယ္။ လက္ကြက္ စာရြက္ၾကီး တၾကည့္ၾကည့္ အဆင့္ကလြတ္သြားလို႔ ကိုယ့္ကိုကိုယ္ ဂုဏ္ယူတယ္။ ဒါေပမဲ့ ေရးရတာ အရသာမရွိသလိုပဲ၊ ကိုယ္ေျပာခ်င္တာေတြက ဗမာလို ေကာင္းေကာင္းထြက္မလာဘူး၊ စာေၾကာင္း ေကာင္းေကာင္းစီလို႔ မရဘူး။ ဘာပဲျဖစ္ျဖစ္ ငါဗမာစာ ရိုက္တတ္သြားပီကြ လို႔ေျပာလို႔ရသြားျပီ၊ သိပ္မ်က္ႏွာငယ္စရာ မလိုေတာ့ဘူး။

အခုတေလာ ဘေလာ့ဂါ ျမန္မာစာေတြ ျပန္ဖတ္ေနတယ္။
ဘာရယ္လို႔မဟုတ္ပါဘူး၊ စာတလံုး တတ္ထားတာ၊ မေမ့ေအာင္လို႔။ ကိုယ္ဖတ္တဲ့ စာတလံုးရဲ့ အဓိပၸါယ္နဲ႔ တန္ဖိုးကို နားလည္လာေအာင္လို႔၊ အရသာရွိရွိ ခံစားႏိုင္ေအာင္လို႔။ ဘယ္သူ႔ အတြက္မွ မဟုတ္ဘူး၊ ကိုယ့္အတြက္ ကိုယ္ပဲလုပ္ေနတယ္။

အခုတေလာ ဘေလာ့ဂါ စာအုပ္ထူၾကီး ၃အုပ္နဲ႔ မ်က္ႏွာအပ္ အိပ္ျဖစ္ေနတယ္။
မိုက္ခရိုေဆာ့ဖ္ စာေမးပြဲ ဆက္ေျဖဖို႔ စဥ္းစားထားတာ၊ တဆင့္ေတာ့နီးသြားျပီ။ ဟိုး ေခ်ာင္ထဲက ဖုန္တေလာေလာနဲ႔ စာအုပ္ၾကီးေတြ ခုတင္ေပၚျပန္ေရာက္ေနလို႔။ အိပ္ေဆးေကာင္းေကာင္းတစ္ခြက္လဲရသြားတယ္။ စာအုပ္ ကိုင္လိုက္တာနဲ႔ ေခါကနဲပဲ။

အခုတေလာ ဘေလာ့ဂါ အလုပ္ေတြ အရမ္းရွဳပ္ေနတယ္။
project ေတာ္ေတာ္ၾကီးၾကီးတစ္ခုကို တာဝန္ယူထားရတယ္။ မလုပ္ဖူးေသးတဲ့ နည္းအသစ္တစ္ခုန႔ဲ ဒီ project မွာစလုပ္ရတယ္။ နည္းသစ္ရဲ့ လုပ္ေဆာင္ခ်က္နဲ႔ အသံုးျပဳပံုေတြကို အခ်ိန္ယူျပီး ေလ့လာေနရေတာ့ ပံုမွန္ ထက္ပိုျပီး အခ်ိန္လဲၾကာ၊ ေခါင္းလဲ စားတယ္။ အဲလို project ေတြလုပ္ရျပီဆိုရင္ အလုပ္အေၾကာင္းကလြဲလို႔ ေခါင္းထဲမွာ ဘာမွ မထားေတာ့ဘူး။ စားလဲ ဒီစိတ္၊ သြားလဲ ဒီစိတ္၊ အိပ္လဲ ဒီစိတ္၊ ညညေယာင္လို႔ ထေအာ္ရင္လဲ အလုပ္အေၾကာင္းပဲ ေအာ္မိမွာပဲ။

အခုတေလာ ဘေလာ့ဂါ သူငယ္ခ်င္းေတြနဲ႔ စကားသိပ္မေျပာျဖစ္ဘူး။
သူတို႔ေျပာတာေတြပဲ နားေထာင္မိေနတယ္။ ကိုယ္မွာ အလုပ္အေၾကာင္းကလြဲရင္ ေျပာစရာ စကားမရွိလို႔။ ေလစိမ္းေတြ တိုက္ေနတာမဟုတ္ဘူး၊ ေလျငိမ္ေနတာ။

အခုတေလာ ဘေလာ့ဂါ စိတ္ရွဳပ္ေနတယ္။
ပြစိပြစိ ေဘးကလာေျပာတဲ့လူေတြကို တခုတခုနဲ႔ ေကာက္ေပါက္ပစ္ခ်င္တယ္။ ဘာေတြေျပာသြားမွန္း နားထဲကို မဝင္လိုက္ဘူူး၊ တဂြီဂီြ တစီစီပဲ ၾကားလိုက္တယ္။

အခုတေလာ ဘေလာ့ဂါ စိတ္ဓာတ္က်ေနတယ္။
လုပ္ခ်င္တာ၊ ျဖစ္ခ်င္တာ ေတြမ်ားျပီး ဘာမွ အရာမယြင္း မျဖစ္ေျမာက္လို႔ပဲ။

အခုတေလာ ဘေလာ့ဂါ စိတ္ပ်က္ေနတယ္။
ရည္မွန္းခ်က္ေတြ၊ ရည္ရြယ္ခ်က္ေတြ ကင္းမဲ့ ေနတယ္။ ေရလိုက္ ငါးလိုက္ ေပါ့ေပါ့ေလးပဲ ေနခ်င္တယ္။ အဲလိုေနခ်င္တဲ့ စိတ္ကို ဘာလုုပ္ရမွန္းမသိ စိတ္ကုန္ေနတယ္။

အခုတေလာ ဘေလာ့ဂါ ဘာကိုမွန္းမသိ စိတ္ဆိုးေနတယ္။
ကိုယ့္အသံုးမက်မွဳေတြကို ေဒါသထြက္ေနတယ္။

အခုတေလာ ဘေလာ့ဂါ စိတ္ေရာဂါအထူးကုေဆးရံု ေရာက္ဖို႔ ပိုနီးနီးလာတယ္။
စိတ္ စိတ္ စိတ္ စိတ္ နဲ႔ တစိတ္စိတ္ ျမည္ေနတယ္။

အခုလဲ ဘေလာ့ဂါ ေပါက္တကရ ေခါင္းထဲေပၚရာ ေလွ်ာက္ေရးေနတယ္။
အား ေခါင္းထဲမွာ ဘာေတြမွန္းကို မသိဘူး။
ေလာေလာဆယ္ေတာ့ ဘေလာ့ဂါ အိပ္ခ်ိန္ေရာက္သြားျပီ။

Here is one good site I came across (via barnyar, I think). It’s a very neat blog (wp platform), well organized categories for authors, download links using Megaupload, very clean no ad (yet) and might become users generated content site like any other ebooks share sites in the future as they accept contribution from users. I’m very much impressed with the site as I find many good books I like. I found two books from my favorite author Juu. Gonna download them soon. One of the advantages for providing a site like that in blog format is that you can roll the feed and keep yourself updated regularly than the normal static sites. So good work whoever the owners are.

ၿမန္မာအီးဘြတ္မ်ားကို တစ္စုတစ္စည္း တစ္ေနရာထဲမွာ ေဒါင္းလုပ္ လုပ္ႏိုင္ရန္ ရည္ရြယ္ခ်က္ၿဖင့္ ဒီဘေလာ့ကို ဖန္တီးၿခင္း ၿဖစ္ပါတယ္။ အခု ကၽြန္ေတာ္မွာ႐ွိတဲ့ ၿမန္မာအီးဘြတ္မ်ားကို အရင္တင္ေပးသြားမည္ ၿဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ေနာက္ထပ္ ၿမန္မာအီးဘြတ္မ်ားကိုလည္း ႀကိဳးစားၿပီး စုေဆာင္းပါမယ္။ စုေဆာင္းလို႕ ရသမွ်ကိုလည္း ဒီဘေလာ့ေလးမွာ တင္ေပးသြားမွာပါ။ ကၽြန္ေတာ္ မသိေသးတဲ့ ၿမန္မာအီးဘြတ္ေတြ အမ်ားၾကီး ႐ွိေသးပါတယ္။ မိတ္ေဆြတို႔မွာလည္း ၿမန္မာအီးဘြတ္မ်ား႐ွိရင္ မွ်ေဝေပးေစလိုပါတယ္။ မိတ္ေဆြတို႔ မွ်ေဝေပးတဲ့ ၿမန္မာအီးဘြတ္မ်ားကိုလည္း ဒီဘေလာ့ေလးမွာ ၿပန္လည္တင္ေပးသြားမွာပါ။ တစ္ကယ္လို႕ မိတ္ေဆြတို႔မွာ႐ွိတဲ့ ၿမန္မာအီးဘြတ္မ်ားကို မွ်ေဝေပးခ်င္တယ္၊ မိတ္ေဆြတို႔သိတဲ့ ၿမန္မာအီးဘြတ္လင့္မ်ားကို ေပးခ်င္တယ္ ဆိုရင္ေတာ့ myanmar.ebooks@gmail.com ကို ပို႔ေပးၾကပါ။ အားလံုးကို အထူး ေက်းဇူးတင္႐ွိပါတယ္။

Just one small thing I like to see/suggest is to put the book covers in each post and if possible a brief intro/description of the book. But I know it could be too much hussel for the site owner as he got to manage lots of books and some books might not have covers. But just a thought anyways as it will make it much prettier and informative for each post. The site is very new so I bet they might be doing lots of improvments later on. (like replacing default wp blogroll list with related myanmar ebook site links etc)

It’s a good thing they have “Help” page explaining how to use Megaupload and also provided the login info. Very thoughtful indeed. Note: Once you click on the category link, it will direct you to a page with all entries for that particular category/author. Download links are disabled there and you have to click post title to get to proper page with enabled download link. So, don’t think that the downloads are unavailable, just click around and you’re set to go. Visit the site: Myanmar Ebooks

Oh check out the “Credits” page write up. I find it quite amusing especially the last sentence. Becareful, you might twist and tangle your tongue as I did. Let me count how many “mm-ebooks” word they used in that one paragraph……..they need one more “mm-ebook” word to have 10 in total so how about adding “Thank you, mm-ebook admin” in the end as the closing paragraph. hehe that should make it total of 10.

ဒီဘေလာ့မွာ ႐ွိေသာ ျမန္မာအီးဘုတ္(ခ္)မ်ားမွာ အင္တာနက္ထဲမွာ ႐ွာေဖြျပီး ေဒါင္းလုပ္ လုပ္ကာ ျပန္လည္တင္ထားျခင္း ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ဒါေပမဲဲ့ အမ်ားစုမွာကေတာ့ ခ်ယ္ရီသစၥာမွ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ တစ္ခ်ိဳ႕မွာ ျမန္မာျပည္သားမွ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ တစ္ခ်ိဳ႕ တစ္ခ်ိဳ႕ေတြကေတာ့ ဖိုရမ္မ်ား ႏွင့္ သူငယ္ခ်င္းမ်ား ဆီမွ ရထားျခင္း ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ တစ္ခ်ိဳ႕ေတြကေတာ့ ဘယ္ဆီကရသည္မွန္း မမွတ္မိေတာ့ပါ။ ျမန္မာအီးဘုတ္(ခ္)ဘေလာ့သို႔ ျမန္မာအီးဘုတ္(ခ္)မ်ား၊ ျမန္မာအီးဘုတ္(ခ္)လင့္မ်ား ေပးပို႔ခဲ့လွ်င္ ေပးပို႔သူမ်ား အမည္ကို ေဖာ္ျပေပးေစလိုပါက ပို႕(စ္)၏ေအာက္တြင္ ေဖာ္ျပေပးပါမည္။ အကယ္၍ အမည္မေဖာ္ျပေပးေစလိုပါက ေဖာ္ျပမည္မဟုတ္ပါ။

မည္သို႕ပင္ျဖစ္ေစ ျမန္မာအီးဘုတ္(ခ္)ရ႐ွိခဲ့ေသာ ဆိုက္မ်ား ၊ ဖိုရမ္မ်ား ၊ သူငယ္ခ်င္းမ်ား ႏွင့္ ျမန္မာအီးဘုတ္(ခ္)ဘေလာ့သို႔ ျမန္မာအီးဘုတ္(ခ္)မ်ား၊ ျမန္မာအီးဘုတ္(ခ္)လင့္မ်ား ေပးပို႔သူမ်ား အားလံုးကို ျမန္မာအီးဘုတ္(ခ္)ဘေလာ့မွ အထူးေက်းဇူးတင္႐ွိပါသည္။

Check out the parent site ie. www.mmblogs.net too. I think they’re using WordPress MU and providing free blog service on my favorite wp platform which is very cool indeed. They got a good write up on what their site is all about and some rules and regulations. The only thing I don’t see that they should have is the network user links. Should provide the links of all those blogs that using their service. It’ll be good to see how people make use of their service don’t ya think so?

Anyways really appreciate the good effort from both sites. Do visit and check them out, I bet you’ll enjoy it. Just spreading the word with Link Love.

A good reading articles for all blogger. It’s long but good to take note. Here are the main points:

1. Whether to Disclose Paid Posts
2. Is Deep Linking Legal
3. The Legal Use of Images and Thumbnails
4. Laws that Protect You From Stolen Content
5. Domain Name Trademark Issues
6. Handling Private Data About Your Readers
7. Who Owns User-Developed Content and Can You Delete It
8. The Duty to Monitor Your Blog Comments, and Liability
9. Basic Tax Law Issues in Blogging
10. Limited Liability Laws and Incorporating
11. Spam Laws and Which Unsolicited Emails are Legal
12. Are Bloggers Protected from Journalism Shield Laws

Read full article here: 12 Important U.S. Laws Every Blogger Needs to Know

Rolling the “Promoting Suva” blog by Mr. Gilbert V. is like having an event calendar plug to your feed. He produces a well compiled list of everyday updates and event occurings, some of which I don’t even realize they excit. A good informational resource blog from Suva.

Stained Sole is new blog by one of my colleagues writing about error reports, good readings and tips & tricks on his projects.

I’m just here to post a note on awareness and familiarization of GV site. I’m sure some of you have already heard about this great news source site – Global Voices Online. In case if you haven’t, here is abit of info.

Global Voices Online is a non-profit global citizens’ media project founded at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, a research think-tank focused on the Internet’s impact on society.

Global Voices seeks to aggregate, curate, and amplify the global conversation online – shining light on places and people other media often ignore. We work to develop tools, institutions and relationships that will help all voices, everywhere, to be heard.

More info check out the FAQs section.

You may or may not notice that authors and editors from GV has been aggregating your sites and occasionally featuring/linking to your interesting posts. Those who have wordpress blogs will notice it quicker than those of blogger as there is a link tracking feature WP provides to detect the back links frequently. Ofcos’ you can always check Technorati for back-linking and tracking conversations.

GV is very search engines friendly site. The post published there will be on google search hit within an hour or so. That means, your link will get a bit of search branches and link bites. GV is also an internationally well known center for collecting news hence whatever featured on the site will reach to a vast medium of global readers.
At the moment, my regions of interest are:

East Asia (rather South East Asia) – Myanmar
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Oceania – Fiji
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Global Voices Online provides “RSS feeds” of all its content as it is posted to Country, Region and Topic sections.

Here is a list of feeds they roll for each region. [ GV feeds on Bloglines ]

I guess they haven’t updated the list for quite sometime now cos’ it is an old, incomplete compilation. They got only a few Myanmar feeds that time and no feed from Fiji in there. But ofcos each regional author has his own feed list. I have my own compilation for Myanmar blogs and also quite a few Fiji feeds. Due to last year coup in Fiji, many political blogs bloom up along with a few personal blogs. There is a good possibility of more Fiji blogs to come as awareness of blogging has been spreading through media – newspaper, forums, social networking and among youth groups.

The main difference between Myanmar and Fiji blogosphere is that, Fiji blogs are excelled in English; almost all of them post in English language with a few exceptions of Fijian language blogs. Where else for Myanmar blogosphere, a lot of new blogs emerge in Myanmar language and also some of the formerly English blogs are now transformed into native language blogs. Each has its own pros and cons; I won’t go farther into that.

Anyways, GV is starting to get interested in Fiji and South Pacific blogosphere as well as Myanmar Blogs. So if you find any interesting blogs/news from these regions especially from Myanmar, just give me a shout. The world is listening, so speak up your voices.

Alrite it’s very sleepy, sneaky, slimy, stupid kind of gloomy weather here at Suva today, plus it’s Friday evening so I’m getting bored typing this up. That’s all folks!

Oh Lunchers, your Lunch in Suva blog has already been noticed; how about that huh?

Over at WordPress.com, 3 new features have been added. Out of them, “Contact Form” features is very higly awaited feature and now it’s been out.

Here’s how: put

[contact-form]
in any post, and a simple contact form asking for the sender’s name, email address, website and comment will be inserted. When someone submits a message through the form, you receive that message in an email.

Other two include:
# Box.net Filesharing Widget
# More Slideshows

Personally, I don’t like slideshows so won’t be of much use for me but contact form is definitely a yes and the filesharing widget too. There are some more widget goodies under “Presentation Sidebar Widget” tab so check them out yarrh.