Google entered the war of browsers by introducing the beta version of Chrome in December.When Chrome was first launched in 2008, it was only available for the Windows operating system.Now Google chrome comes out of the beta and stable version is available for Mac and linux.The good thing of google chrome is that, it is really a light weight browser loads in seconds.This is showing some serious development from google on chrome.Not only the bugs have been fixed in this stable version but also some new features has been added too.
You’ll be able to synchronize not only bookmarks across multiple computers, but also browser preferences — including themes, homepage and startup settings, web content settings, preferred languages, and even page zoom settings. Meanwhile, for avid extensions users, you can enable each extension to work in incognito mode through the extensions manager. Read more…
The nearly universal reaction to seeing Google’s playable 30th anniversary Pac-Man doodle was, “Well, there goes Friday.” Indeed. A productivity firm has calculated the time spent playing Google’s Pac-Man front at more than 4.8 million hours.
RescueTime, makers of productivity tracking and optimization software, looked at the average time that 11,000 of its users spent on Google’s pages on Friday and found it more than quadrupled. Normally they spend 11 seconds on a Google page, but on Friday they spent 45.
Google page visit time is very low, of course, because people find whatever they need very quickly and usually hit a link on the first page of results. To triple the time spent on a Google page means something else is going on, and in this case, it was chompin’ dots.
So what? Just 45 seconds, right? Well, Google also did more than 500 million pageviews on Friday. So RescueTime, assuming its user base was representative (and 11,000 is a damn good sample size), ran some numbers and came up with: Read more…
The Pac-Man 30th anniversary Google doodle
Google has become famous for changing its logo for special events, but it has never converted it into a playable game before. Today, it is celebrating the 30th anniversary of Pac-Man’s launch in Japan with a version that lets you steer your pizza-shaped protagonist* around a maze that spells out Google’s name – at least for as long as you can evade the ghosts Inky, Blinky, Pinky and Clyde
To play, simply click the button that usually says “I’m feeling lucky” but now has the legend “Insert Coin”. However, if you don’t do anything, the game will start by itself.
If you click twice on “Insert Coin” then two people can play. Ms Pac-Man joins the game, with the second person controlling her movements using the WASD keys. Read more…
Today, Google unveiled the Google Font Directory and the Google Font API to help bring dynamic and selective typefaces to the web.
The issues surrounding fonts and the web are complicated and can be tricky to navigate. Google is hoping to make it easier for developers to integrate more distinctive typefaces into their designs.
Google’s cross-browser solution is similar to what companies like Typekit and Fontdeck are doing, that is, providing users with a library of available fonts that they can easily embed into their sites. Typekit has partnered with lots of commercial foundries and is priced affordably for designers who want to use lots of commercial typefaces legally.
Google’s solution is unique in that it is comprised of open source fonts. Google’s Font API can be integrated into websites using either HTML or using a JavaScript WebFont Loader co-developed with Typekit. Read more…
While there are many ways of parental control over children’s Internet activities such as using software, application or even setting parental control within Windows itself to monitor kids’ Internet browsing, surfing, chatting or online gaming activities, no filtering mechanism is 100 percent accurate. Therefore, Google has developed SafeSearch, a feature that lets you filter sexually explicit web sites and images from your search results, eliminating the most inappropriate materials from popping up on your children’s computer.
Parents who share the same computer with their children will find that Google’s SafeSearch very useful in filtering undesired search contents with three (3) different settings: Read more…
Google wave is creating a lot of buzz these days, so lets start exploring it from the very basics.
What is Google Wave? Google wave is an online tool that combines instant messaging, email, web chat, wikis, social networking, project management and some other good features all in one place. In short, Google Wave is an online tool for real-time communication and collaboration.
A wave can be both a conversation & a document where people can discuss and work together using richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more. Read more…
One of the many new features introduced in the iPhone 2.0 update is the ability for the iPhone’s calendar
app to recognize multiple calendars you have in iCal or Google calendar. If you sync your calendar to your iPhone through USB, you may notice a bug where the colors displayed in the iPhone calendar don’t match up with the colors in iCal. Although this appears to be a bug that Apple will have to fix, there are a few homemade workaround solutions you can try if you’re as meticulous about your colors matching as we are. Read more…
Google entered the war of browsers by introducing the beta version of Chrome in December.When Chrome was first launched in 2008, it was only available for the Windows operating system.Now Google chrome comes out of the beta and stable version is available for Mac and linux.The good thing of google chrome is that, it is really a light weight browser loads in seconds.This is showing some serious development from google on chrome.Not only the bugs have been fixed in this stable version but also some new features has been added too.
