Today the Gmail team has announced another exciting Gmail Labs feature “Access Gmail in an offline mode”.
Now you can access your Gmail even if their is no internet. Gmail primaralary being used via browser, one feature that lacks there is the ability to access email even if you are offline. Maybe you are travelling and you cannot gain access to Wifi but you would like to sort the emails that are already in the inbox.
YouTube announced officially of making videos available in High Definition. Well the demand of high defination has been around for ages, its quite annoying once you spend a ridiculous amount of bandwidth to stream a video and the quality turns out to be total turn off. So keeping that in view YouTube has taken an initiative to offer videos in HD now remember when you ask for more quality you have to pump in more bandwith and for me on a 1MB connection its was quite slow to stream in an HD video. A good example to test is to watch “Where the hell is Matt” or you can simple search on YouTube using HD as the keyword.
There is excitement in the air after the Bush Era, the two war’s and the global financial ciaos we are all looking forward to Obama. Adding to excitement is the fact the Obama is going to be the First African American President ever in the history of United States who is going to sworn as the 44th President of USA.
Huge Crowds are expected to pack Washington’s Nation Mall as Mr Obama takes oath to the office at exactly 1200 (17oo GMT). Those who can’t make it of course can watch it online live so far here is the list.
Top Placed to Watch Live Streaming of Obma’s Oath Ceremony
Google is now offering “Google Apps Reseller program” enabling technology solution providers to sell Google Apps to business around the world. According to Dave Girouard President of Enterprise Google “This program gives IT solution providers an easy way to introduce cloud computing to their service offerings, while helping more businesses make the transition to this new era of technology.”
So far more then 1 million business & 10 million users benefit from Google Apps, using Gmail™, Google Calendar™, Google Docs™, Google Sites™, Google Talk™, and Google Video™ for their business.
DreamHost a Los Angeles based web hosting company have launched “Dreamhost Apps” a free web hosting for a list of open source web applications like wordpress, drupal and a few more. The Dreamhost Apps apart from free hosting also provides a simple easy to use one click install facility where any one with no experience in web development can easily deploy open source applications like drupal, wordpress by one click installs. Though the hosting is free but optionally you can also buy a domain or transfer you current domain to it or upgrade your account to a full fledged hosting account from dreamhost.
Google today announced via their blog a new favicon inspired by user generated icons & the credit goes to André Resende, a computer science undergraduate student at the University of Campinas in Brazil, submitted the design that inspired their new favicon.
Google Favicon
So now we have to see how the public reacts, I remember the last time they change people rejected it quite quickly and there were tools, tips and tricks posted on how to revert back to the old favicon, but lets see what cooks up this time. So how do you like the new Google Favicon ?
Google have recently launched Google Friend Connect an open for all web widget that adds social network features on your blog or website.
What is Google Friend Connect
In simple terms Google Friend Connect is a Website widget which you can get it for free from Friend Connect Page and add it to your website or blog. Google Friend Connect makes it easy for anyone to sign into any website and join up by share a little about themselves through personal profile,discover other people with similar interests and invite their contact to interact with friends. So far Google Friend connect supports Google, Yahoo, AOL, or OpenID to sign in so its not necessary you have a Google ID. Being at its basic level the only two things Google Friend connect so far is the ability to join any site and also review the profile of others who have joined up. Its a start to a bigger ambition of Google indeed probably to convert the WWW to a one big social network. read more
Have you started to tweet this year? Did you answer the question “What are you doing?” well if you answer is yes then we got a huge list of tools and applications to spice up your twit activity. If you are already a twitter fan then you can use the tools to spice up your twitter actives.
We all know one thing when the twitter came to life we all rejected it but soon we got so much into twitting that now we made their server go “over capacity” couple of times a day.
So now lets get back to the list of twitter tools and widgets that can help and improve your twitter activities and make you twit more. read more
LG reveals the worlds thinnest LCD called LG Trumotion 480 Hz the worlds thinnest LCD and its indeed very sexy too.
LG Trumotion 480 Hz is expected to hit the market in the second half of 2009 and is packed with LG Display’s ‘scanning backlight’ technology that enables a backlight to be repeatedly turned on and off to reduce motion blur. The display can refresh 480 images per second. In addition, LG Display’s “Trumotion 480Hz” display boasts an lower motion picture response time (MPRT)of 4ms, eliminating motion blurring for fast moving images and enabling a realistic, crystal clear picture. The display also makes dark images even darker and bright images far brighter — providing unparalleled, vivid picture quality. Moreover, it can reduce energy consumption by adjusting the backlight brightness.
Source : LG
So now i know why Google pulled the plug with the good old “Support Firefox Buttons” in Google Adsense account where you could make a dollar by convincing your website visitors to switch to Firefox. But then that ad unit ended with no solid reason. Google must be planning for its upcoming browser Chrome so they simply pulled the plug on “Switch to Firefox” and came up with “Faster Web Browser, Download Google Chrome” which appeared on linked in and i just saw there 300px ad unit on my blog served by Adsense.
Google Advertising Chrome
