AGoogleADay – trivia game where you can Google

April 21, 2011 |  by  |  Google, Sites  |  1 Comment

All the games which comes under fair game policy have a rule that you can't cheat ask someone, books and yup no Googling. How about a trivia game where you could not only ask Google, but were encouraged to do so. The difficulty level of the question is easily guessable cuz it has to confront the power of Google. A Google a Day is a new daily puzzle that can be solved using your creativity and clever search skills on Google. Questions will be posted every day on agoogleaday.com and printed on weekdays above the New York Times crossword puzzle. It

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Google Video Rest In Peace – download your videos before May 13

April 18, 2011 |  by  |  Google, News, Video  |  No Comments

Google‘s is all set to shut down Google Video service,it is reminding all the user who have uploaded videos to the site that they have until May 13 to download them before they are removed. Google have said that on April 29, Google Videos will no longer be viewable on the site, and the download function will still be available for a couple of weeks to allow users to retrieve their work. Here’s the email sent to Google Video users: From: “Google Video” Date: Apr 15, 2011 9:56 PM Subject: Google Video Hosted Content To Be Removed After May 13 Dear Google Video

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Now you can choose your own image as Gmail background

April 14, 2011 |  by  |  Google, Tips n Tweaks  |  No Comments

Gmail Blog has just made an announcement that you can personalise the Gmail interface with your own photos, coming from either Google’s Picasa or your own hard drive. How, well the steps are pretty simple 1 Go to the Settings menu. 2. Select Themes tab. 3. On the bottom left, select “create your own theme”. 4. Click on the link that invites you to select your own background image 5. Choose an image, either from Picasa or from your own hard disk

Google Docs Notifier – notifies unread documents on desktop

April 14, 2011 |  by  |  Downloads, Google, Softwares, Tips n Tweaks  |  No Comments

Google Docs is widely used to share documents with anyone we can easily create, edit, manage and share documents online. On top of that Google Docs recently allows users to upload any type of file. How about notifying the user when his file is edited and updated by his friends. Well Google Docs Notifier is a tool which shows all unread documents in your Google Docs. In addition, user can also view the online document directly by just double clicking on the document name shown in the list. The term to be noticed here is unread documents, there is a

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YouTube Copyright School

April 14, 2011 |  by  |  Google, News, Video, YouTube  |  No Comments

YouTube has launched a campaign to educate users on copyright infringement. And it includes a feature that will require users who receive copyright notifications to watch a mandatory PSA-style video. The four-and-a-half minute video, “YouTube Copyright School,” stars the characters of the popular Happy Tree Friends video series. In it, a narrator discusses the implications and nuances of copyright law, as well as YouTube’s new policy for handling copyright infringement, with Russell. It’s a relatively successful attempt to make a video about a dry topic bearable. Starting Thursday, watching the video will be mandatory if a user receives a valid copyright notification.

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Google ‘Tilt’ or ‘Askew’ on your smartphone

April 9, 2011 |  by  |  Cool Stuff, Google  |  No Comments

This ain't a prank from Google, Google search for terms like 'Tilt' or 'Askew' on your smartphone. Due to a bit of CSS trickery, the terms automatically change the orientation of your search results, offsetting them with a slight lean or tilt, leaving them slightly askew. Check the screenshot below - The search will not work on a normal Google search, for the folks who don't have smartphone to try it out don't cut a sorry figure use a mobile formatted search in your desktop browser.

Google Crisis Response making critical information like natural disasters and humanitarian crisis more accessible

April 5, 2011 |  by  |  Google, News  |  No Comments

Google Crisis Response Team formed in 2010, to provide a scalable way to make disaster-related information immediately available and useful in a crisis. To create a full-time team that would make critical information more accessible during disaster situations. This initiative is a project of Google.org, which uses Google's strengths in information and technology to build products and advocate for policies that address global challenges. The types of activities we might initiate include: 1. Organizing emergency alerts, news updates and donation opportunities, and making this information visible through our web properties. 2. Building engineering tools that enable better communication and collaboration among crisis responders

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Kinect turns Google’s Gmail Motion April Fools joke into reality

April 4, 2011 |  by  |  Concepts, Google, News, Video  |  No Comments

Gmail Motion the new feature that lets you use body gestures to compose and send emails in Gmail. It was obviously an April Fools joke. Hold on for a sec it is for real, thanks to folks from the Institute of Creative Technologies. Which the are fondly calling as SLOOW – Software Library Optimizing Obligatory Waving which uses Microsoft Kinect camera to control Gmail. The same team used the technology, which is actually called Flexible Action and Articulated Skeleton Toolkit (FAAST), to play World of Warcraft using only body motions in December 2010. What is FAAST? Flexible Action and Articulated Skeleton Toolkit

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Chrome’s extension Server Monitor notifies when server is down

April 4, 2011 |  by  |  Apps, Downloads, Google, Tips n Tweaks  |  No Comments

Server Monitor is an extension for Google Chrome which allows you to poll one or more URLs at a user-defined interval to check the status and content of the page. Server Monitor provides a useful, at-a-glance server status reference. A colored sphere icon is added to the browser. The sphere is split into as many sections as you have sites. Each section is colored based on the response from the monitored URL. Green means the site responded with the content that was expected. Yellow means the site responded but the content was different than expected. Red means the site failed

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Everything about Chromium OS

April 2, 2011 |  by  |  Google, Video  |  No Comments

Chromium OS is an open-source project that aims to build an operating system that provides a fast, simple, and more secure computing experience for people who spend most of their time on the web. See exactly what it's like to use a Chrome notebook, from start(up) to finish. Instant web - Chrome notebooks boot in about 10 seconds and resume from sleep instantly. Your favorite websites load quickly and run smoothly, with full support for the latest web standards and Adobe Flash. Same experience everywhere - All your apps, documents, and settings are stored safely in the cloud. So even if you

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