Google Translate On Google Chrome!

Of late, I’ve been checking out content on some Chinese and Japanese sites.  I’m able to do it with ease because Google Chrome comes with Google Translate inbuilt and it will offer to translate pages into English for you.  It can also be configured to do this on the fly. This is definitely a welcome [...] Read More...

Google Follow Finder! Let Google Find Your Twitter Friends!

  Google Follow Finder works this way “Follow Finder analyzes public social graph information (following and follower lists) on Twitter to find people you might want to follow.” Simply put Google will analyze and suggest people for you to follow on Twitter and it does help if you have been using Twitter for a while. [...] Read More...

My Thoughts From The IndiBlogger Meet…

It was fun. If anyone thought it would be a boring meeting and full of technical geeks or full time professional bloggers they would be pleasantly surprised.  As I myself discovered bloggers do come in all shapes and sizes and even ages. I personally thought not many would take the trouble of having their own [...] Read More...

Pip.io! Operating System For Social Networks!

The past few days I have been checking out a new operating system for social networks (hope I got that right) but in a nutshell Pip.io aims to be a universal social networking client along the lines of Trillian or Pidgin for instant messengers. From one central interface on Pip.io users can check Twitter, Facebook, [...] Read More...

New Look Google News…

Google News has not changed in a while but it appears Google is working on making some changes and is rolling out beta versions (or experiments) before making any major changes in the interface. Personally Google News works fine for me as it is but then news is something I very rarely bother with barring [...] Read More...

Google is building a private Internet that’s far better, and greener, than the Internet…

Posted by Tom Foremski, makes for very interesting reading as to where Google is headed… "The Internet is huge but it’s a hodgepodge of hundreds of thousands of smaller, private networks, connected through thousands of Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and dozens of backbones operated by the large Telcos and service providers." More details at Google [...] Read More...

Now Mobile Phones Will Censor What You Speak!

Yeah that's correct.  Google's engineers have integrated voice recognition in the Google Nexus One mobile phone that will automatically replace offensive words with a string of ### symbols.  Interesting prospect this and if it makes it to the actual words then I guess it would mean all swear words would be gone. More details here. [...] Read More...

Google Chrome Now With Support For Extensions And Bookmarks Sync!

Google Chrome's latest stable release now supports extensions which are very much akin to Firefox Addons and also bookmarks synchronization which means you can take your bookmarks wherever you go.  These features were very much a part of all beta versions of Google Chrome (which I have been using for a while now) but this [...] Read More...

10 Google Chrome Extensions Worth Checking Out!

I personally use most of them and of the ones listed the primary extension I find missing is LastPass, but other than that most of the good ones are listed on "10 Google Chrome Extensions Worth Checking Out".  All the usual suspects and also Flashblock which I was not aware of, but as the name [...] Read More...

Symbian 4 Preview!

Nokia's Symbian was the original "Smartphone OS" which allowed one to install and uninstall applications and software on a mobile phone much like in a PC. Of late though Symbian has taken a beating with the advent and growth of other smartphone OS like Apple's iPhone and Google's Android OS.  The new Symbian OS though [...] Read More...