Rakesh Agrawal’s Blog

August 31, 2011

No more dialing with your fingers! (with Google Voice + Google Chrome)

Filed under: Uncategorized — rakesh @ 2:47 pm

In the last few weeks, I haven’t dialed a single phone number and I love it! So how am I making phone calls? Using:
1) Google Voice account
2) Google Chrome, and
3) the Google Voice Add-on for Google Chrome.

Here’s how to set it all up:

  1. Create yourself a Google Voice account
  2. Add your phone numbers (mobile, office, home, etc) to your Google Voice account
  3. Install the Google Voice Extension for Google Chrome, available here in the Chrome web store: http://goo.gl/TidpC
  4. Now, anytime Chrome sees a phone number in your browser, it’ll become a link. When you click, it’ll ask you where you want to take the call and it’ll call you there, and when you pick-up, it’ll connect you to the number you clicked on.
  5. No more finger dialing!

My review of the Tesla Roadster (ie an all-electric sports car)

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , — rakesh @ 1:19 pm

Tesla Roadster

A while back, I borrowed a friend’s Tesla Roadster for a few days and I’ve always wanted to share my notes on trying it out… So here they are:

* At low speeds: felt like driving a golf cart (no power steering).
* The pickup impressed me, lot of fun to drive down an open winding road.
* Getting in and out was a pain, and I’m not very big. But once in there’s enough room inside.
* Computer shows you how many gallons of gas and barrels of oil you’ve saved — smart and neat.
* Starting the car should be more straightforward (or maybe I should just be smarter? :-) ).
* They should put a van de graff generator in the trunk (where the battery is) as a gimmick.
* I liked all the carbon fiber – on the rollbar (is that what it’s called?), around the battery in the trunk.
* It’s neat how clean the thing is – ie no explosions and the ensuing mess (I’ve told people you could eat a meal off the motor’s heat sink… no grease whatsoever!)

And here are some photographs I took of my friend’s Tesla Roadster:

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