Archive for the ‘News’ Category

Firefox 3.1 to have Private Browsing Mode

Friday, September 12th, 2008

With Google Chrome and IE 8 having Private Browsing Mode, Mozilla is feeling the heat and will include a private browsing mode in Firefox 3.1- the next release of Firefox.

In private mode all user activity, cookies, searches etc. are not saved to the disk and discarded once user leaves the private mode.

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What’s new on Google today?

Thursday, September 11th, 2008
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Google Logo

Google provides its users with a number of facilities like Google Maps, Google Docs etc.. This post is about what new features has Google integrated with these online tools.

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New Artistic Themes for iGoogle

Wednesday, September 10th, 2008

iGoogle iGoogle - the personalized homepage from Google will now include more artistic themes designed by artists across the globe. In April this year, Google invited artists to design themes for iGoogle and today they have released 28 themes designed by various artists.

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Google Squeezed in LHC(Large Hadron Collider) on D-Day

Wednesday, September 10th, 2008

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Many people referred to 10th September as dooms day because of the experiment carried out by LHC (Large Hadron Collider). Well nothing went wrong in that experiment until now but google has been squeezed in the LHC. Don’t worry its just the homepage of google I am talking about. Google has changed its home page logo as shown above. If you click on the logo, it will provide results for LHC(Large Hadron Collider). Google might have done this for the ease of people as the queries relating LHC were searched most in the past few days.

What’s new on Google today?

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

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Google provides its users with a number of facilities like online TV viewing via Google Video, search suggestions via Google Suggest etc.. This post is about what new features has Google integrated with these online tools.
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Google News Archive To Include Old Newspapers

Monday, September 8th, 2008

Google-News Google News Archives will now feature information from some old newspapers like Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, New York Times and Washington Post. Google News Archive Search will index digitally viewable versions of old newspapers which are a store house of lots of information about earlier periods.

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Chrome took 1% of browser market in just 9 hours of its launch

Thursday, September 4th, 2008

Yes its true, just under 24 hours of its launch google’s chrome has captured 1% of browser market share. It has really started with a bang. To be more precise chrome took only 9 hours to reach that landmark. The hourly tracking of chrome on Market Share has revealed that Chrome passed 0.5% in just 2 hours. By midnight (EDT) it had surpassed 1% of the market share. By next day 4 a.m., it had hit 1.48% share, and after that it continued at 1% for the rest of the day. (more…)

Picasa now integrates Face recognition feature

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008

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The latest news on the fly is that Google has integrated Face Recognition feature to their Picasa Web Albums website. The website will now offer facial recognition feature to help you identify friends and family in your pictures without requiring you to tag them by-hand each time you see them.

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21 amazing facts about Beijing Olympics 2008

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

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Two months back no one could have imagined that China can put up a show like this. People around the globe witnessed one of the most unforgettable opening and closing ceremonies. But no one can really think about the technology, money and people involved behind it. So here are some facts that you must know..

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FriendFeed Gets Redesigned

Monday, August 25th, 2008

Firendfeed FriendFeed today released a beta version of its newly designed interface to all users. The new interface is available at http://beta.friendfeed.com and will soon be available on main site.

Below are some of the new features that are added to redesigned FriendFeed.

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