Showing posts with label Google. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Google. Show all posts

Friday, July 23, 2010

Google Images Redesigned

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Recently Google with its new search interface made easy to search for specific kind of images for example images with particular size ,color and type like clipsart, drawing etc .But it is also going to rollout some more features to its search interface to make its users more comfortable.



Here’s what’s new in the refreshed design of Google Images:

  • Dense tiled layout designed to make it easy to look at lots of images at once so that we can experience a rich list of images and browse from the group for what we are looking for.

  • Instant scrolling between pages, without letting you get lost in the images. You can now get up to 1,000 images, all in one scrolling page. And we’ll show small, unobtrusive page numbers so you don’t lose track of where you are.

  • Larger thumbnail previews on the results page, designed for modern browsers and high-res screens.

  • A hover pane that appears when you mouse over a given thumbnail image, giving you a larger preview, more info about the image and other image-specific features such as “Similar images.”

  • Once you click on an image, you’re taken to a new landing page that displays a large image in context, with the website it’s hosted on visible right behind it. Click anywhere outside the image, and you’re right in the original page where you can learn more about the source and context.

  • Optimized keyboard navigation for faster scrolling through many pages, taking advantage of standard web keyboard shortcuts such as Page Up / Page Down. It’s all about getting you to the info you need quickly, so you can get on with actually building that treehouse or buying those flowers.

Friday, July 16, 2010

Login To Multiple Google Accounts in Same Browser

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This the coming new feature in near future provided by Google to its users to sign in into different accounts at the same time that to in the same browser.As mentioned in Google Operating System (a unofficial blog on Google) Google is testing this feature and may release in near future.The post says " Multiple sign-in only works for Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Reader,
Google Docs, Google Sites and Google Code, but it's likely that other
Google services will be added when this feature will be publicly

available.

If you use a service that doesn't support multiple sign-in, it will
default to the first account that you signed in using your browser.
Google suggests to use a different browser, but you can also use chrome's incognito mode to sign in to an additional Google account.
Another
limitation is that Gmail's offline mode is disabled if you turn on
multiple sign-in."

Friday, June 18, 2010

Attaching Files Made Easy In Gmail

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Recently i have seen Gmail’s Official blog in which i found the different ways to attach a file to a email message.So i thought it will be useful to many so i am posting the different ways here.They have given 5 different ways to add and view an attachment, here are those 5 ways.


1. Drag attachments in :

Simply drag files from your desktop right into the message you're composing and they'll upload from there. (Make sure you're using Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox 3.6 for this to work.)


Tuesday, June 15, 2010

50 Creative Google Doodles

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What is Google Doodle ???



In Addition to Google’s Official Logo Google includes various modifications and/or humorous features, such as cartoon modifications of their logo for use on holidays, birthdays of famous people, and major events, such as the Olympics etc..These special logos are called as Google Doodles.

Here are some Google’s Doodle with creative designs with the occasion in which they have designed it.I really appreciate Google team of designers who designed around 1200 doodles for Google.You can find all of them Google’s Store .




Summer Games in Sydney - Weightlifting - (Global)



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Seasons Greetings - (Global)








Indian Holi Festival - (India)



Sunday, June 13, 2010

35 Reasons Which Led to Ban Of Google

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This is a funny post which shows you the 35 reasons given by turkey government to its people when asked for the reason of Google ban in their country .

codes.google.com                     -I know, you don’t need codes

pages.google.com                     -Surf the government pages

video.google.com                     -Use you tube .Oops sorry use something else.

translate.google.com               -Why do you need to translate anything

docs.google.com                        -Use paper if you need.

sites.google.com                         -Sites ? Why?

Thursday, June 3, 2010

Google Now Allows To Customize Its Homepage with our Favorite Picture

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And here comes a new update from Google.Google is also following the Bing’s trend for the search engine UI(user Interface).Recently Google announced that we can add our favorite picture to Google’s homepage by uploading the picture using our Google account and we can upload pictures from our computer, your own Picasa Web Album or a public gallery hosted by Picasa which includes selection of beautiful photos.Here are the images of Google homepage with backgrounds.

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An example homepage featuring artwork by Jeff Koons, photographed by Sandy Volz

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A second example page, featuring artwork by Tom Otterness, photographed by Cesar Perez

And for those who want to use clean Google home page they are providing a easy way to switch between customized search page and classic Google.

They are going to roll out this new feature to users in the U.S first over the next few days, so if you don’t see a link in the lower left-hand corner of Google.com now, check back soon. For those outside of the U.S can expect to see this new feature in the coming days as they roll it out.

And we can also share our customized search page with them by tweeting a picture of our page with the hashtag #myGooglepage .

And what do you think is Google copying things or just taking the idea and improving things better to make users more comfortable lets post your responses in comments.




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Thursday, May 20, 2010

Laboratory Of Google aka Google Labs

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Google Now days we are hearing this word frequently in news it may be because of there Buzz or there Chromium Os or Wave .Here is the one more feature which was provided by the Google to showcase the experiments going in their Labs.Here is there Website Google Labs.Now we will get some interesting features in their Labs..
Google Reader Play:
Google Reader Play a new way to browse interesting stuff on the web. It's super easy to use - after you've read an item, just click the next arrow to move to the next one. Let us know which stuff you enjoy by clicking the "like" button. Google reader Play
FireShot capture #003 - 'Google Reader - Play' - www_google_com_reader_play_#item_new_25
Aardvark :
Aardvark discovers the perfect person to answer any question in minutes.
It is easy!

  • Just send Aardvark a question in plain English, like you would to a friend.
  • You will get a personal response in about 5 minutes from someone in your network.
You can use Aardvark on the web at www.vark.com, and through your existing communication channels: IM programs (like Gmail Chat, AIM, Yahoo! Messenger, and MSN Messenger), Twitter, iPhone, and any email program.
You can ask Aardvark anything! A few popular subjects:
  • Travel tips
  • Restaurant & bar recommendations
  • Product reviews/opinions
  • Local services and entertainment suggestions
  • Music, movie, TV, and book recommendations
  • Technology & programming help
  • Business & school research
  • Home/Cooking/Gardening ideas
FireShot capture #004 - 'Aardvark' - vark_com
Follow Finder :
Google Follow Finder analyzes public social graph information (following and follower lists) on Twitter to find people you might want to follow. We suggest two types of social connections: users with similar follow lists, and other users you may be interested in following.A sample of the suggested people by Follow finder will be like this..
FireShot capture #005 - 'Follow Finder by Google - htnamus' - followfinder_googlelabs_com_search_user=HtNaMuS
And this Follow finder shows you the people only when you are already in twitter for some reasonable days and then searches for it .It wont show you if you are new to twitter..
Image Swirl :
Google Image Swirl organizes image search results into groups and sub-groups, based on their visual and semantic similarity and presents them in an intuitive exploratory interface.The Interface in which it shows the results is really eye catching.Here is one ..
FireShot capture #006 - 'Google Image Swirl_ allu arjun' - image-swirl_googlelabs_com_html_q=allu%20arjun#
And there is a problem with this Image Swirl it only shows results for some queries and all your searches wont get results..
FireShot capture #007 - 'Google Image Swirl_ allu arjun' - image-swirl_googlelabs_com_html_q=allu%20arjun#1
Google News Timeline :
Google News Timeline is a web application that organizes information chronologically. It allows users to view news and other data sources on a zoomable, graphical timeline. You can navigate through time by dragging the timeline, setting the "granularity" to weeks, months, years, or decades, or just including a time period in your query (ie. "1977").
Available data sources include recent and historical news, scanned newspapers and magazines, blog posts and Twitter status messages, sports scores and various types of media like music albums and movies.
FireShot capture #008 - 'Google News Timeline' - newstimeline_googlelabs_com
And we have many Others like Google Reader,Google Maps,Google Groups,Google Suggest,Google Desktop and many more .Totally there are 40 lab applications in there Labs Web site .

Sunday, April 25, 2010

Cool Google Chrome Extensions

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Now a days many people are using Google Chrome for their web browsing the main reason behind this is ,it takes less time to start and load the web pages.This also my personal experience due to which i have moved from Firefox to Google chrome.Previously Chrome doesn’t has a Option of extensions but they had included this and there came many useful extensions which make our browsing on the web easy. Here are some nice chrome extensions of the same kind.
Proxy Switcy: 
It is an advanced proxy manager for Google chrome ,It allows users to switch between Multiple  proxy profiles quickly and easily ..You just have to feed your proxy address to it and just want to change them when required.You can also choose a proxy for a Url such that whenever you type the Url the proxy enables automatically and no need for you to change the proxy profiles.You can download it here Proxy Switcy 
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Chrome Reader:
Subscribe feeds in Google Reader directly from the address bar! The extension is modeled after the standard Chrome "star" button. Also supports creating new folders and assigning feeds to them.It is a superb extension which makes you to Subscribe feeds from your favorite web sites easily .While surfing your favorite site if it has a option of feed then a icon appears on the address ba r of your chrome browser and if you clicks in it and you be subscribed to that site. Download this Extension here Chrome Reader.
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Inline Google Search :
This extension lets you search Google (web, news, images and videos) right from the page you are on.You will get a icon ‘G’ on the top of your browser. On clicking it you will get a search bar which shows a drop down list of your search results .You can download it here Inline Google Search.
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Web Page Screenshot:
Fast&Simple solution to save JPG screenshots of any webpage. The first extension that captures the whole page.It is the best solution which i have found to take a full page screenshot of any webpage except the chrome extensions gallery site.After installation it creates an icon on the top of your browser and when you want to capture a page you click on it and it asks you for taking a full page screen shot or only a part of the page after selecting your option it takes the screenshot of different parts of the page and attach them as a page and open the photo in a new tab and you have to right click press save image and by default it saves the page as a .png file. Download this extension here Web Page screenshot .
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Chromed Bird:
Chromed Bird is a Twitter extension that allows you to follow your timelines and interact with your Twitter account..You can tweet from it by pressing the arrows marks on the drop down box which  appears after clicking on the icon.Download this here Chromed Bird.
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AdBlock:
A superb feature which is previously for Firefox now is available for chrome also.It Blocks all the Advertisements on all web pages .Your Browser will be automatically updated with all the additions to the filter.Just click install and visit your favorite website and ads won’t appear.You can download and install it here AdBlock
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Will be adding some more soon….:)

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Explore Web With Google


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This time I am back with tips to explore Google.Do you know every day Google logs around 2 billion searches, So around 300 million people uses Google for their day to day searches. But some times many of us feel that Google is not able give the information which they are searching for..For those whose who feel that Google is not giving them the information they required, This post will be very useful....

1) If you like to search only in particular web sites then  site:google.com firefox will find all sites containing the word firefox, located within the *.google.com domain .


2)To Restrict results to documents whose title contains the specified phrase, intitle:fox fire will find all sites with the word fox in the title and fire in the text.

3)To Restrict results to documents whose title contains all the specified phrases this will help you, allintitle:fox fire will find all sites with the words fox and fire in the title, so it's equivalent to intitle:fox intitle:fire

4)To get from the sites whose URL contains the specified phrase ,inurl:fox fire will find all site containing the word fire in the text and fox in the URL .

5)To Restrict results to sites whose URL contains all the specified phrases ,allinurl:fox fire will find all sites with the words fox and fire in the URL, so it's equivalent to inurl:fox inurl:fire .

6)To get results from documents of the specified type ,filetype:pdf fire will return PDFs containing the word fire, while filetype:xls fox will return Excel spreadsheets with the word fox.

7)To Restrict results to documents containing a number from the specified range ,use numrange:1-100 fire will return sites containing a number from 1 to 100 and the word fire. The same result can be achieved with 1..100 fire .

8)To Restricts results to sites containing links to the specified location ,link:www.google.com will return documents containing one or more links to www.google.com .

9)This Restricts results to sites containing links with the specified phrase in their descriptions ,inanchor:fire will return documents with links whose description contains the word fire (that's the actual link text, not the URL indicated by the link) .

10)This Restricts results to documents containing the specified phrase in the text, but not in the title, link descriptions or URLs ,allintext:"fire fox" will return documents which contain the phrase fire fox in their text only.

11)Specifies that a phrase should occur frequently in results ,specifies that a phrase should occur frequently in results .

12)Specifies that a phrase must not occur in results ,-fire will return documents that don't contain the word
fire .

13)This will return documents that don't contain the word fire ,"fire fox" will return documents containing the phrase fire fox .

14)A Wild card for a single character ,fire.fox will return documents containing the phrases fire fox, fireAfox, fire1fox, fire-fox etc.

15)Wild card for a single word ,fire * fox will return documents containing the phrases fire the fox, fire in fox, fire or fox etc .

16)Using Operator , logical OR ,"fire fox" | firefox will return documents containing the phrase fire fox or the word firefox .

17)To view the definition of a word use the following method , Syntax: define: .

18)You can use the Google search box as your scientific calculator as  sqrt(10) .

19)Actually Not all Googles are the same! Depending on your location, Google will forward you to a different country-specific version of Google with potentially different results to the same query. A search for [site:stormfront.org] from the US will yield hundreds of thousands of results, whereas the same search from Germany (at least if you don’t change the default redirect to Google.de) returns... zilch. Yes, Google does at times agree to country-specific censorship, like in Germany, France (Google web search), or China (Google News)..

These are the tips which i came to know if any one knows more than these write them as comments .

Sunday, February 14, 2010

A buzz on Google BUZZ

So you've had tried Google BUZZ , Like to customize and make it suit to your requirements or want to remove it from your Gmail completely ....here are some tricks and tips on Google BUZZ.....

1)Hide Your Followers And Those You Are Following In Buzz..
     Thinking that buzz is revealing your followers and those whom u r following to buzz users!!!!
      Follow the instructions and you can hide the stuff from other buzz users.
             1.make sure that you have signed in into your Gmail account.
             2.Now open http://google.com/profiles/me .
             3.you will see your profile page and at the top of the page you may see like this.
             4.click on the edit profile button and now un check the box which says that Display the list of people I'm following and people following me .

         5.Now save the changes by pressing the save changes button in the bottom of the page...
That's done from now no one can see whom u r following and who r following you..





2)Add Spice To Your Text In Buzz
  
Google Buzz understands some very basic text markup language. That means you can spice up your text entries on Buzz by using bold text, italics and strikethroughs. Here's what you do:
      1.   *Make your text bold by placing an asterisk at each end of your word or sentence*.
      2.  _Using underscores at each end will italicize this Buzz comment_.
      3.  -Use a dash at each end for a strikethrough-
      4.  For an em--dash, just place two hyphens side--by--side..

3)Stop Buzzes Arriving To Your Inbox .

One of the complaints about Buzz is that it automatically adds Buzz to your inbox - yes, your actual inbox where you're already overwhelmed with traditional email messages. This occurs despite the fact that Buzz has its own section in Gmail, accessible via a link on the left. We're not sure if the Google guys haven't yet heard of "information overload" or if they just don't care, but some of us would rather keep our Buzz elsewhere.
Getting Buzz out of your inbox is simple, though, thanks to Gmail's filtering mechanism. Here's how to use it.


  1. Click "create a filter" next to the search box at the top of your inbox. 




  2. Then, in the Has words text box in the filter tool, enter label:buzz.



  3. Click the Next Step button; Gmail will warn you that Filter searches containing label and a few other search operators won't work, but don't worry--my testing shows that for Buzz messages, they seem to work just fine, so click OK and move on.
  4. Finally, tick the checkbox next to Skip the Inbox (Archive it) if you want to remain the mail in your mail archive and if you want to delete it check the delete it box and then click the Create Filter button. 
  5. If in future you want to make the mails come to your inbox then go to the setting tab of your gmail and then to filter tab and delete the filter with label:buzz ..


4) To Seperate The Buzzs By You And Buzzs By Others 

     By applying this trick you can get buzzes Seperately in to two different Inboxs in your Gmail.As shown below.
          You can get more details of this trick from Here..


5) Buzz Extensions

         Since the arrival of the Buzz app developers are busy with developing extension to the browers for buzz to make users comfortable.If you are one of those, then you might prefer that notification extension for your web browser .The extension that can display the number of unread status messages is available for the Google Chrome web browser.
Google Buzz Checker is a simply extension for the Google Chrome web browser that displays an icon with the current count of unread buzz messages. A click on the icon will take the user to the Google Buzz page where those new messages can be read. One nice feature of the extension is that it does not request a user login, it will work if the user is logged into Gmail. This on the other hand could be a problem for security conscious users who prefer to log out of Gmail whenever they have finished using the service.
Chrome Buzz for Google Chrome makes it more comfortable as it provides the status updates right in the web browser without having to load the Google Buzz page in the web browser first.
 Buzzer for Google Chrome is an extension that links Google Buzz and Google Reader. It allows the user to share pages, text and pictures on Google Reader and Google Buzz at the same time.

Buzz It is a Firefox add-on that can be used to make a status update via Gmail by posting the link and title of the webpage the user is viewing.

Two userscripts are also available right now. Google Buzz Comment emoticons adds emoticon support to the comments and posts while Google Buzz Count Hide hides the unread status message count in Gmail.

6) Hates Buzz Then Turn It Off

    Google Buzz not your thing? You can switch it off altogether, if you would like. Scroll all the way down to the bottom of your inbox and look for the link underneath your quota usage informational message. Click "turn off buzz" to be bothered no more.
   
7) Download Buzz Icons

    You can also download Buzz Icons which you can use in blogger blogs or word press ..
    Download Icons from This Link .

Happy to here any comments from you..If i have missed some you can share them in comments...

Friday, February 12, 2010

Think Big with a Gig …..Google’s Plans to revolutionize the Internet

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                       Ever Thought of downloading a HD movie in 5 min???Or collaborating with classmates around the world while watching live 3-D video of a university lecture..If not...Just imagine now...


Your Imagination is going to be true..Google is planning to make it true.

One thing which can really make you survive in the tech world is innovation. Google had realized this at an early stage and has always tried to innovate. This is the company which gave us a revolutionary search engine; a 1 GB storage E-mail inbox, when 100 MB was considered enough, for free and also interesting products such as Google Maps with Street View. But they are still not satisfied and plan to bring these services at a lightning fast speed to our homes. Google is experimenting with ultra-fast fiber network internet. 
Fiber optic communication has never been exploited to its full potential and has failed in reaching out to the masses . Google plans to change this by testing high-speed broadband networks in a small number of trial locations across the United States. Fiber optic communication is the method of transferring data from one place to another by sending pulses of light through an optical fiber. Google plans to revolutionize internet speeds forever by introducing connection speed of a mind boggling 1Gb/sec for as many as 500,000 people. That makes it about 20 times faster than the highest internet speed provided by AT&T or Verizon in USA. That is also about a 1000 times faster than the average speed we see in Indian broadband connections. Google says that this will have three main uses: To encourage the development of bandwidth-intensive applications whose development had been somewhat restricted before, to explore new ways of deploying fiber networks and provide an “open access” network which gives the user a choice to have multiple service providers. If this experiment becomes a success, Google can redefine what internet speed is all about.

It is posted in the google's blog that their goal is to experiment with new ways to help make Internet access better and faster for everyone.
Here are some specific things that they have in mind:
They want to see what developers and users can do with ultra high-speeds, whether it's creating new bandwidth-intensive "killer apps" and services, or other uses which they can't yet imagine.


They also  want to test new ways to build fiber networks, and to help inform and support deployments elsewhere.