Google Friend Connect, the Google service which allows webmasters to enhance their websites with social networking features without coding, has just been updated. It has a new set of features intended to permit users to get to know each other better and in the same time, webmasters can customize the website experience and content. (more…)
During the year 2009, Google Docs service already introduced support for live PDF viewing. Taking into account the immediate advantage of displaying PDF directly into a web browser, which removes the need of a third party desktop application employed as PDF client, Google was just made available this technology to all webmasters and users through a new web based service, entitled Google Docs Viewer. (more…)
PicMarkr is a free online service which allows you to add custom watermarks to your images existing on a computer or on a Flickr, Facebook and Picasa image hosting account. Users have the option to resize the images, choose the type of the watermark (text with presets, images or tiled) and select the desired watermark alignment on the original images. PicMarkr service works really fast, but you can apply watermarks to maximum five files simultaneously, while the total size of the files must be 25 MB or less. (more…)
The Report Spam button situated at the top of your Gmail inbox, definitely helped many users, as well as the entire Gmail spam filtering system to eliminate a considerable part of undesired email messages and also to block spammers in the same time. Now, Google has introduced an additional feature which works in correlation with the Report Spam button. Based on this new Gmail feature, you will be able to automatically unsubscribe from mailing lists or newsletters. (more…)
Google Latitude, the service from Google which allows you to control your current location status and share it with friends from a mobile device or a computer, now was also launched for the iPhone and iPod touch as an application compatible with Safari browser. The Google Latitude app for the iPhone and iPod touch mobile devices works in a similar manner like the one corresponding to Android phones: the user is allowed to see its friends location on a map, as well as to modify the privacy settings. (more…)
Google Wave is the new Internet based communication and collaboration method from Google, which mixes in a single service the principles of email, chat and online document editing and sharing, enabling people to work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more. Starting with September 30th, 2009, this service will be extended beyond developers: 100,000 users will be invited to the preview of Google Wave. (more…)
Concerning browser security updates, Google Chrome silent update could be the safest, as compared to Mozilla, Microsoft, Opera and Apple technology, because it does not require user interaction and cannot be disabled from within the graphical user interface. Google Chrome silent update is automatically set to run every five hours, even if the browser is not running. Now, Google has made notable improvement to the silent update mechanism through the addition of a new differential compression algorithm called Courgette, which determines the process to be faster and to consume less bandwidth. For example, in case of the latest Google chrome developer channel, the size of the pushed data through Courgette is very low (just 78,848 bytes).
The My Location feature provided alongside Google Map service will automatically display in compatible web applications your current location status. After the recent addition of My Location support for Chrome and Firefox browsers, now Google has also launched Search with My Location for iPhone 3.0. It will help you to perform searches of local objectives much easier.
Google Friend Connect, the free service which allows you to create a social network around any website, now is available in 47 new languages. As a consequence, the social features added to an existing website through Google Friend Connect, can be provided to the visitors into their own languages.
In the attempt to limit and stop phishing and spam practices, Gmail Labs has launched a new experiment: Authentication icon for verified senders. When it is turned on, a key icon will appear next to verified emails that are “super-trustworthy”. Currently, this features is enabled only for eBay and PayPal, but more senders could be added in the near future.
Recently, Google has released a new development version of Google Chrome, the revolutionary web browser based on WebKit rendering engine, as Safari browser. Google Chrome 3.0.192.x is available for free download on dev channel for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X users. It comes with new features, as well as bug fixes, especially in case of Mac OS X and Linux based versions.
A feature similar to Google Advanced Search, which allows you to filter results based on usage rights, was added to Google Image Search service. From now on, the Internet users will know what images can be used for free, without the need to pay for a commercial license. Therefore, you can restrict the search results only to images labeled with licenses, like Creative Commons, which permits the sharing or modification of a certain photo according to the author specifications, but for free.
According to Google Search suggestions, you will be surprised to see what things matter or are important for most of the people around the world. The popular queries, displayed as suggestions, contain also strange questions that we could consider to be the reflection of the most weird thoughts of the people who use Google Search. These suggestions for ordinary queries speak for themselves: “What Is Love”, “Where is Michael Jackson body”, “Where Is The Love”, “Who Is The Antichrist”, “Who Is Lady Gaga”, “which celebrity do i look like”, “what should I do with my life”, “i am extremely terrified of chinese people”, “woman is the root of all evil” or “i like to tape my thumbs to my hands to see what it would be like to be a dinosaur”.
 |  |  |  |  |  |  |
 |  |  |  |  |  |  |
 |  |  |  |  |  |  |
 |  |  |  |  |  |  |
 |  |  |  |  |  |  |
 |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| By N2H | ||||||
