Will Chrome takeover your desktop?
Many experts and analysts say that Google has hidden agenda behind Chrome. It will take over your desktop, encroach your personal browsing behavior, and will gather information about users’ likes and preferences to serve right kind of ads on the page. We spoke to Google and they defended themselves. They said, “At Google, we’re committed to transparency and choice. Our mission is to make the Web better for our users through product innovation enabling users to access, share and create content quickly on a Read more
Knol.com can be the wiki rival
The search engine giant, has unveiled its online publishing service — Knol. This service is a competitor to the much famous Wikipedia. Knol allows users to write articles on specific topics and to make money from them. The service is likely to compete with online encyclopedia Wikipedia. Read more
Yahoo opens up search tools called BOSS
BOSS: Build your Own Search Service
Boss system allows custom-built engines. Yahoo is allowing users to develop their own search engines with a package known as Build your Own Search Service (Boss). The tool will let users create search engines to retrieve customised results on their own sites.
The service taps directly into Google search APIs and allows users to put the search data within their own interfaces and add them to data from other web services.
Yahoo said that users will be able to create customised search engines which can return results based on user preference or social networking connections, all while drawing from Yahoo’s own search index.
The service is being offered as an alternative to Yahoo’s previous search API tool, which restricted the ordering and presentation of the results, as well as a strict limit of 5,000 queries per day.
Google released a similar service in 2006, allowing users to specify a custom set of sites and criteria for search results. Yahoo, however, hopes to take Boss far beyond this, possibly even leading to the creation of new search engines.
Google has launched a new 3D world platform ‘Lively’
Google has launched a new 3D world platform designed to be safe for teenagers to use. The Lively platform allows users to design and operate small 3D rooms which can be embedded into blogs and websites.
Unlike Second Life, which is adult-only and boasts a bustling adult economy, Google promised that Lively will not allow explicit content. The service is open to users as young as 13 and has strict controls on issues such as bullying and harassment. Read more
Add an image to a contact in Gmail
Looking at hundreds of e-mail addresses in your contact list can be boring. Wouldn’t it be much better to see pictures of your contacts instead?
Wish to send mails to your contacts. Once you’ve assigned a picture to a contact, you can see it whenever you position your mouse over an e-mail address or name.
To add an image to a contact in www.Gmail.com, just follow these simple steps:
Click on the ‘Contacts link’ that appears on the left pane of your Gmail account.
Click on the contact’s name to which you want to add an image.
You are then brought to the contact’s profile where an image selected by the contact already appears alongside the contact’s name. Click on ‘Edit’ to edit the contact information and make changes.
Move your mouse on the picture shown on the right side, then click on the ‘Change Picture’ link.
Select ‘My computer’ from the window that comes up next.
Click on the ‘Browse’ button to select an image of your choice.
Click on the ‘Upload picture’ button.
To crop the image, highlight the required frame and click on the ‘Apply Changes’ button. Click on the ‘Save’ button.
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How to secure and import filter rules for your e-mail account
you have defined some filter rules for your e-mail account and would like to use these rules for other accounts as well. Besides, you also want to use the data on your notebook.
Thunderbird saves the filter rules in the ‘msfilterrules.dat’ file. You can edit them, but it is easier to customize them using the free extension ‘Message Filter Import/ Export. It integrates a menu command for managing filter rules in the e –mail client. This useful tool is available on http://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/2474. Right -click on ‘Install now’ on the website and select the ‘Save Target As’ context command. You can now secure the extension on your hard disk. Start Thunderbird and go to ‘Tools|Extensions’. Click on ‘Install’ and navigate to the downloaded XPI file and open it. Click on ‘Install now’ to start the setup and restart Thunderbird. To ensure the rules of an account, go to ‘Tools|Message filter’. Set up the desired account and click on the newly visible button ‘Export Filter’ in the ‘Filter for’ combination field. Then name the text file and click on ‘Save’. Read more
how do I make my search more efficient to find the information I am looking for/
The Google search engine limits only to the first ten words entered in the search bar. So keep your search phrases as short as possible because Google searches words in the order they are typed, so ‘slow train’ would get you a different result than ‘train slow’. Here ae some tips that you can follow.
• INURL: looks only in URLs of web pages.eg. ‘inurl:Cricket’. Read more
