Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Getting unlucky after being too lucky

After feeling lucky and lcukier its time to be unlucky. So the present version of feeling lucky gives an option to unlucckify the queries that have been made lucky. Since, the lucky queries cant be seen on google,you will have to goto the unluckify page after installing the latest feel lucky greasymonkey.

The unlcukify page will remove the query from the lucky list. As soon as the query is removed it is displayed as an alert msg. Although this method works satisfactorily, their should be a more sensible method that does not require going to the unluckify page.

Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Feel luckier with google

This is an update to the previous post-Get lucky with google with input from Gautham pai. The new feel luckier script provides redirects to the suggested result.

For example if you were to search for nagarjunv you would get the suggestion of seeing results for nagarjuna.The script directly takes you to the suggested result page as in Yahoo. And a link to the original result is shown at the top as .

If you feel the word is correct on its own merit, that word can be added to the dictionary(on ur system only). Later it can be removed from the dictionary as well. The remove from dictionary link appears when the query is tried the next time, the redirect does not happen as the word is in the dictionary although Google suggests another result.

However, these scripts will be just as useful as bookmarks in their present form. They would be useful only if the redirects and made lucky queries are stored online. So the queries made lucky by other users of the script will also be lucky for us even if we are typing in the query for the first time. Google will have to do more than this simple script as it would have to take into consideration the language and other criteria as well.

Monday, July 16, 2007

Get lucky with google

Gauthampai said "Sometimes, 'we want to feel lucky' in the search result page as well. ;)" and here we are.

The greasymonkey feellucky makes it possible for us to bookmark search results as lucky. If you have made a particular query lucky by clicking on the make lucky link, the next time you put the same query you get lucky.

To install this greasemokey the firefox browser with greasemonkey is needed. To install just click on Install feellucky. The feel lucky script makes use of GM_setvalue and GM_getvalue to store the queries that need to be lucky. So the lucky feeling is limited to the system on which the gresymonkey is installed.

To make it useful for a wider audience, the lucky queries need to be stored on a server.

Friday, July 13, 2007

Deer eating leaves

A deer cannot be considered wild life as it is domesticated. These domesticated deer are easy to capture with your camera.
deer eating leavesIts brown with white spots all over it. This deer is from the Bandipur forest reserve. It was chewing on the leaves of a fallen branch along the road side.

Thursday, July 12, 2007

Daswala, zerbera (gerbera) and ooty flower

The yellow zerbera or gerbera has a light yellow shade. A ant can be seen on the flower at he lower right end of the flower. zerbera yellow
The next flower is a purple colored daswala or daffodil. The Daswala or dasvala comes in numerous colours.
dasvala daswala purple

The flower which we have been calling as ooty flower, whose name (either common name or botanical name is not known to me--let me know if anybody is aware of it.)
ooty flowerFlowers of all colors.

Wednesday, July 11, 2007

A bubul in the garden

A Bulbul is in the garden. And the nest was visible enough to be photographed.

This is the Red-whiskered Bulbul as far identification is concerned.
red whiskered bulbulBut the greatest threat to these eggs is from cats and other rodents prowling the garden. It has three eggs in the nest, they are chocolate colored with white spots.
red whiskered bulbul egg
It has built the nest in the "Neelambra" a plant that gives blue flowers. As it is not flowering season now, the nest is safe.

Monday, July 2, 2007

Flowers in the garden

The following pictures are from the garden. These are the flowers that were got from potted plants.
Red Zerbera flower
Red Zerbera
zerbera pink flowerA pink Zerbera

blue buttons flower
Blue buttons