Hey check this out. This is very good offer for small/medium organizations. Google is offering (rather beta testing) for google application integration with your own domain. It’s kinda like subdomain system from google. You can offer customised google services like email, chat, calander with your domain.

Google Apps for your domain lets you offer our communication and collaboration tools to your entire organization — customizable with your branding, color scheme and content through the administrative control panel, and with no hardware or software to install or maintain.

Well I don’t think my domain can apply for that cos’ mine is personal and definitely not an organization type. But I think InternetFiji would try to test/make use of this for some of their customers. I’m sure inet will get an account if they apply for it. Well…just a thought, since I can’t check out for myself, Ian you mind setup an account for inet so I can play with it?
Anyways here are some facts.

Quick Facts
Cost: Organizations accepted by Google during the Google Apps for Your Domain beta period are eligible for free service for their approved beta users even beyond the end of the beta period, as described in the Terms of Service.

Languages:
Administrative control panel – Currently fully supported in English only.
Gmail, Talk, Calendar and Page Creator – varies by product.

Fully supported browsers

• Microsoft IE 5.5+
• Mozilla Firefox 0.8+
• Safari 1.2.1+
• Netscape 7.1+
• JavaScript and cookies must be enabled on all browsers.

Step 1: Sign your organization up

Step 2: Log in to the control panel and create your user list

Step 3: Select which services you want

Step 4: Activate your services

Step 5: Show your users where to find their new communication and collaboration tools

Sweet isn’t it? K try it out.
Links: Google Apps for your domain
Product Tour

Technorati Tags: Google, Applications, Domain, Beta

There is this thing call “Design is…” wallpapers going on around the blogosphere. I’m just following up a few and was inspired by some of their catchy phrases, so tryin to add a few of my own.

Lets’ see, Design is…

Design Is The Typeface Of The Web.

Design Is The Intercourse Between The “_ers”.
(Designer + customer, Creator + Consumer, ya da, ya dar etc.)

Design Is The Practical Abstract Of The Imagination.

Design Is The Developer’s Nightmare.

There you go, my very own “Design is…”.
Now all I need is some cool wallpaper to write on.
Since my case applies to the last phrase, I’ll just satisfy with the phrases and ditch the wallpaper part.

You can download/check out this excellent collection of “Design is…” wallpapers on flickr “Designer Wallpaper” pool.
Or if you like add your own “Design is…” wallpapers and phrases.
Technorati Tags: Wallpapers, Download, Design is, Designers

Ok I’m way off! The first thing comes into my mind when I see this headline “How to use Google to get a date” was some kind of datetime function or calendar effect that google added as their new component.

How to use Google to get a date – By Robert Scoble on blogging

I was thinking what’s wrong with System.DateTime, what possibly a google date would display rather than today date or calender date or what??? Google.GetDate();?

Hmmm turns out the “date” here is not the programming date but actual date kind of date. Like:
Google.GetDate(“Gal”);
Google.GetDate(“Guy”);

Yah yah I’m way OFF!!!

By default, once you create web applications/services, the project files are saved in Inetpub > wwwroot directory.

To move from default location to your own project directory you must:

1. first, set up the folder in required directory,
2. Create Virtuary Directory using IIS to point to your folder,
3. Using VS.net create new web application with the same virtuary directory name you created in Step 2.

The new project now will be saved in the folder you speficied rather than in default wwwroot folder. This makes it alot easier to manage your project files and better work folder organization.