Bangla Gmail Clips

Iphone widget for twitter in 2 minute

2009-01-26T10:30:00.000-08:00

You may add a Iphone widget for your blog in 2 minute. Here is final look. Isn't it cheesy?

Ok Lets start. First go to your twitter site. You may also get your favorite twitter site if want. Go down the page and get link of RSS.

Next is you have to go to DoYouFeed site. Link is http://www.doyoufeed.com/us/index.php Then put RSS link there.

There are few other option. You can tell how frequently it should update the RSS, what kind of theme you want and also which language you prefer.

Here is final link of your Widget.

I hope you enjoyed that tutorial and it was pretty easy for you.

বাংলা জিমেইল ক্লিপ ‌: ২ / Enable your site for Gmail Clips - Tutorial

2009-01-17T11:04:00.000-08:00

Gmail Clip requires a valid RSS feed as described below. You can easily make one RSS feed with few lines of PHP code. If you dont want to read much download following code, save as rss.php and modify over that.

Step 1: Get your basic RSS structure.

RSS is an XML-based format, so all you really need is a set of XML tags as part of the RSS specification. RSS provides a number of optional tags, and being XML, it can be (and often is) extended with any other tag.


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0">
<channel>
<title>My Blog Name</title>
<link>http://example.com/blog</link>

<description>Keeping webmasters up-to-date on technology.</description>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<item>
  <title>Story Title</title>

  <pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
  <link>http://example.com/my/story</link>
  <description>Today I saw a whale!</description>
</item>

</channel>
</rss>

One important thing is encoding. It must be utf-8 otherwise Unicode bangla will be broken. The easiest way to build your RSS feed in PHP is to leave all of that XML as plain text and only loop over the sections as needed (the <item> tags). The one gotcha here, as you’ve probably noticed, is the opening <?xml tag. This will probably clash with PHP, so instead echo that line out:


<?php echo "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>"; ?>

Then your structure is all in place. The item element is repeated for each story we have in our RSS feed; the date is RFC 2822 formatted (just use date("r")). We’ll use a simple foreach loop to put the content in:


<?php foreach ($items as $item) { ?>

<item>
  <title><?=$item['title']?></title>
  <pubDate><?=date("r",$item['time'])?></pubDate>
  <link><?=$item['url']?></link>

  <description><?=$item['description']?></description>
</item>
<?php } ?>

2. Serve it up!

To be recognised as an RSS feed, you’ll need to serve it as the right content type. Technically you should use application/rss+xml, but most browsers won’t recognise this. I find application/xhtml+xml works well, as does text/xml. The choice is yours, although IE7 seems to like text/xml better.


<?php header("Content-type: text/xml"); ?>

And we’re done!

Here’s a sample of the final product:


<?php header("Content-type: text/xml"); ?>
<?php echo "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>"; ?>

<rss version="2.0">
<channel>
<title>My Blog Name</title>
<link>http://example.com/blog</link>
<description>Keeping webmasters up-to-date on technology.</description>

<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<?php foreach ($items as $item) { ?>
<item>
  <title><?=$item['title']?></title>
  <pubDate><?=date("r",$item['time'])?></pubDate>

  <link><?=$item['url']?></link>
  <description><?=$item['description']?></description>
</item>
<?php } ?>
</channel>

</rss>

বাংলা জিমেইল ক্লিপ ‌: ১ / Bangla Music Site in Gmail Clips - Tutorial

2009-01-17T10:18:00.001-08:00

Here is one simple tutorial to make best use of "Gmail Clips". You can see in above picture that when logged in your gmail its showing list of music updated in one bangla music site. I added Nolokbabu.com as a test which has links of music there.

Ok. Lets stop talking and jump to action.

You can understand it needs a gmail account. So create one at Gmail . If you are under 13 then ask your father to help you.

Login an look at top right "Settings".
Click over the following Clip Link

Now add RSS link of your site (for example http://nolokbabu.com/rss.php)

If successful you will find a clip url as below
You can add more many site. Your browser and gmail must support unicode. Also the RSS
rss feed must be encoded with unicode.