It is with great sadness and heavy hearts that we tell you of the passing today of Jimmy “The Rev” Sullivan. Jimmy was not only one of the world's best drummers, but more importantly he was our best friend and brother. Our thoughts and prayers go out to Jimmy's family and we hope that you will respect their privacy during this difficult time.

Jimmy you are forever in our hearts.
We love you.

M Shadows, Synyster Gates, Zacky Vengeance and Johnny Christ

Big sadness, Avenged Sevenfold is my fave band. If you know my email address you'll see. It's very very sad when I heard TheRev died. In my book, Jimmy you are were the greatest drummer. a7x will never be the same without you... we'll miss you, Rest In Peace.

Log-in to your Gmail / Google Account and associate a phone number. You’ll then receive an SMS text message whenever someone tries to recover your Google password.

Create a new email address (on say Yahoo! Mail or Gmail itself) and set this as the secondary email address for your existing Gmail and Google Accounts. Check for emails on this new account manually or through a desktop client via POP3 / IMAP but do not enable auto-forward for the new email address as the original purpose will be defeated.

Take a paper and write down the following information about your Google Account. You will need this to verify your identify to Google in case someone else takes over your Google Account and the secondary email address associated with your account.

• The month and year when your created your Gmail / Google Account. You can look at the last page of your Gmail Inbox (or go to Sent Items) to get an approximate idea of the date when you created the account.
• If you created a Gmail account by invitation, write the email address of the person who first sent you that invite for Gmail. Use a search query like “in:all has invited you to open a free Gmail account” to find that invitation email.
• The email addresses of your most frequently emailed contacts (the top 5).
• The names of any custom labels that you may have created in your Gmail account.
• The day/month/year when you started using various other Google services (like AdSense, Orkut, Blogger, etc.) that are associated with the Google account that you are trying to recover. If you’re not certain about some of the dates, provide your closest estimate.

Do a test run. Log-out of all your Gmail / Google Accounts and initiate the password recovery process for each one of them using this form. This will help you make sure that your SMS settings and secondary email addresses are configured correctly.

Once in a while, do refer to that little line in the footer section of your Gmail Inbox that shows the different IP addresses from where your account is being accessed. If you find an unknown IP address, change your Google password immediately.

- Thanks Amit ,very useful. I'm glad that you got your account back.

Julian Smith and friends spent 7-hours filming Techno Jeep. a techno song created using nothing but the actual sounds made with the Jeep. It's awesome!

Download the mastered ringtone for free!

Last month Google announced the ability to hear translations into English spoken via text-to-speech, no official API for the text-to-speech service. Where this TTS data was coming from? people found that the speech audio is in MP3 format and is queried via a simple HTTP GET (REST) request:

translate.google.com/translate_tts?tl=en&q=text.

So, replace it with "text" and change the URL to whatever you want it to say and you’ll get back a MP3 file.

Example: http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?q=hello+world

You have to copy/paste or click it, and then click refresh, because Google is returning a 404 if there is a referring URL in the request.

For now, only available for short translations to English, limited to 100 characters. Maybe we'll see it get official support soon.

via Ajaxian