Facebook Real-time Search now on Android Market

I got my first Android phone recently and immediately fell in love with it.. I started looking into the Android SDK and just to try it out, I created an app for Facebook real-time search(using the same features from Facebook Spectrum) and published it on Android Market. If you want to check it out, click on the link below.

Facebook Real-time search on Facebook Spectrum

A big Thank you to all of those who tried my new Facebook application - Facebook Spectrum and for providing feedback. A few weeks back, I added a nice feature to it - a real-time search of the posts (status messages, links, videos etc) on Facebook. Its very simple to use - Just enter your keyword and hit Enter. Watch the posts as they come in to Facebook from all over the world. And best of all, You don't even have to login to Facebook. I couldn't post a screenshot here as it would reveal the names and pictures of the users.. But if you are interested, check it out on www.facebookspectrum.com Happy searching..

Facebook Spectrum - Analytics for your Facebook account

Last month I created an application called Facebook Spectrum that displays the metrics for your Facebook account. Many of you must have - atleast for once - wondered how your Facebook friends span out in terms of number of videos they post, the number of albums they have, who else share your likes etc.. I have gathered those metrics in this application and even better, they are displayed in a much more readable format - using maps, charts and graphs. Go ahead and try it out if it looks like this is of any interest to you..

At the time of writing this post, here is what you can get from the application:

• Where your friends are located on a Google map
• A timeline view of your or your friends' posts with thumbnails
• A 3D spherical view of all your friends..
• Who among your friends has the most number of albums?
• Who among your friends has the most number of pictures?
• Whose profile is the most active in the last 30 days?
• How many mutual friends do you share with your FB friends?
• How many of your friends like what you like?
• A calendar view to disply your friends birthdays, Also gives you a list of upcoming birthdays
• How are your friends distributed with respect to gender
• How are your friends distributed with respect to education

If you have any comments/concerns, please post your comments on the application page on Facebook.

Extension for Google Chrome

Google introduced Chrome extensions, more or less like Toolbar plugins, that can be installed from their gallery. Extensions are like small software programs that run within your browser without having to open up a new browser. The beauty of these programs is that they are highly customizable and have all the features of a rich text HTML page. I wrote an extension myself (well, not really rewrite it from scratch) by extending one of my iGoogle gadgets Global Index Watch and I uploaded it to the Extension gallery. If you want to try it out, feel free to.

The Big Bang Theory

Recently, I watched an episode of "The Big Bang Theory" on my 15-hour long flight from India, and I should say I was instantly hooked on to it. The show, which is about geek humor, was so amazing that I wish I had more than 4 episodes on the flight's on-demand entertainment system. I always wondered why all the sitcoms are so stereotype and then I came across Seinfeld, which is the only show I loved till date. I think I watched almost all of the 180 Seinfeld episodes. Though I was not really bored with Seinfeld re-runs, I was looking for something thats as good as Seinfeld and looks like I found it now.. The Big Bang Theory is going to be a massive hit, and I can't wait for Mondays to watch it on CBS. I am now catching up all the past episodes online :) I hope The Big Bang Theory will go on for many more years to come..

Gadget used in over 200 countries now !!

When I developed my Quick Stock Watch and Global Index Watch gadgets, my main motive was to reach a lot of people across the world. There were a bunch of finance gadgets at that time, but they all catered to US stock markets. I clearly saw the need for a gadget that works across the stock markets all over the world. I then figured out that Yahoo has the most comprehensive coverage on stock market data. I chose Yahoo and created the above gadgets. This morning I noticed that Quick Stock Watch gadget has been used in 202 countries across the world. I was so happy to see that my goal is accomplished. It is also supported by hundreds of emails I get from users from different parts of the world thanking for such a nice plug-in. According to Wikipedia, there are 203 countries (both recognized and unrecognized sovereign states) in the world.. I wonder what that one country is, that has no users for my gadget :)

If you would like to try them, just click on the links above and add them to your iGoogle homepage. Not into finance? Check these other gadgets that might interest you.

Image Resizing Software (Beta)

In today's world of modern technology, 5-megapixel is the starting point for someone to buy a digital camera. Anything less than that is something people look down upon. Even cellphones do come with over 2 Megapixel camera built in. The fact that taking lots of pictures using such a high resolution digital cameras cost nothing is so predominant fact in everybody's mind that we do forget at times how we could handle so many pictures. Each picture on an average comes to about 2.5 Megabytes, which are mostly JPG images, the widely used format in almost all the digital cameras that are in the market today. I was at my sister's wedding recently where I ended up with 2500 such pictures, taking over 5GB of space on my hard drive. I wanted to share a couple of hundred pictures with my friends and family, but the filesize was too big. Sharing via e-mail is out of question. Sharing via applications like Picasa or Flickr too takes quite a bit of time to upload and download(especially on dial-up speeds). It was then I decided to write a software application that does resize the images to lower resolutions, without much loss of information and clarity. I love this app and I feel there are lots of people out there who face the same problem I faced a few days ago. You can do bulk resizing and there are several options to choose before you resize. You can even change the file format. The file to download is extremely small(about 1KB). Double click on the file to start the application. Ofcourse, you need to accept a certificate to let the software access your hard drive, no need to get scared about. The software is pretty easy to use and is absolutely free. If you like the software, feel free to share it with your friends too..

Click here to download the software.

More info and screenshots can be found here.