Published on Thursday, June 24, 2010 by admin Users especially those in the land surveying field might need to do distance measurement between two or more places from the map from time to time. Instead of using a measurement scale ruler, Google Maps Labs has added another feature, Distance Measurement Tool, to help users to do instant measuring in Google Maps. Users are given various options to choose differ...

Published on Tuesday, June 22, 2010 by admin A multi-state panel will join the international probe of information captured by Google's Street View vehicles. Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal will head the probe into what he called Google's "deeply disturbing invasion of personal privacy." The panel wants to know why Google saved the Street View data from private networks. Already under in...

Published on Friday, June 18, 2010 by admin A showdown between a flood of Android-powered mobile devices and Apple's iPhone 4 is shaping up. The problems that caused Apple and AT&T to suspend iPhone 4 pre-orders could help Android competitors Motorola, LG Electronics, and Sony Ericsson. While retailers will begin selling Apple's iPhone 4 soon, demand is likely to exceed supply. With a small army of Android...

Published on Wednesday, June 16, 2010 by admin If you are the visual type who remember faces better than names, GMail Sender’s Picture Extension is perhaps a useful Google Chrome browser extension that enhances your communication in Gmail. Associating faces with names can be challenging for some people and this extension to the Google browser will provide some fun and even help you pin a face to a name ...

Published on Tuesday, June 15, 2010 by admin The Motorola Droid continues to be the king of Android devices that include a hardware keyboard, and the smartphone which bore the Android flagship crown for some time before the Nexus One. Meanwhile, the Nokia N900 runs Maemo linux 5 - the operating system which - with polish and joint collaboration with intel - will soon emerge as MeeGo and power a host of...

Published on Tuesday, June 8, 2010 by admin We get the feeling that there will be lots more details on this whole announcement during Hewlett-Packard’s forthcoming press event, but for now, all we know is that HP’s next generation of web connected printers will have something that no other consumer printer has had before: an email address to call their own. As the need for printing declines with the...

Published on Thursday, June 3, 2010 by admin Microsoft's Brandon Leblanc defends Windows security despite reports from Google employees. Although Microsoft VP of corporate communications Frank X. Shaw already had his moment in the spotlight with Google-related comments on Twitter, Windows communications manager Brandon LeBlanc came out and updated his Windows corporate blog with his view--a retaliation of...

Published on Thursday, June 3, 2010 by admin Would it be any surprise if Google launched the Chrome operating system this October? As if on cue in light of recent talk that Google is kicking Windows to the curb, the search giant plans to release its Chrome operating system this fall. According to Google, the open-source software will be free and available to the general public. In a world that's relied he...

Published on Thursday, May 27, 2010 by admin Offline Installer The Google Chrome setup program, but one of those annoying vendor-specific download programs. It downloads the real setup program into a directory under %APPDATA%\Google. You can use that as your offline installer, but you can also download the real installer directly from Google. This link is version-specific. Symantec Endpoint Protection Google ...

Published on Saturday, May 22, 2010 by admin The long rumored Google TV that partners the internet company with Sony, Intel and Logitech has been debuted at the Google I/O Conference today. We have been hearing rumors of Google’s TV ambitions for awhile now, but we finally have some solid facts to go on. Today the curtain has been pulled back, and we have our first official glimpse at the Google TV, the fir...

Published on Friday, May 21, 2010 by admin With Android 2.2 expected to be launched today at Google IO 2010, what better time to be looking beyond that to Google’s subsequent refresh of the smartphone OS.  According to the new WebM streaming video project FAQ, Android “Gingerbread” is due in Q4 2010. [ad#300x250_image_ads] There’s no suggestion of how significant a release this might be �...

Published on Tuesday, May 18, 2010 by admin Last night Google spruced up their Android Market website, but it was not the major upgrade everyone has been waiting for. The site acts mainly as a showcase and does not allow users to browse all apps, download apps, see full app details, or even perform basic Google-functions like search. [ad#300x250_image_ads] Even though the site is still mostly useless, G...

Published on Sunday, May 16, 2010 by admin Over the weekend our good friends over at Androidguys.com reported that Samsung’s Galaxy S (also referenced as the i9000) could be headed to T-Mobile as the T959. In more recent years T-Mobile has opted to go with model names such as the Memoir or Behold; however, the company definitely has a history and knack for indexing their devices using letters and numbers. ...

Published on Sunday, May 16, 2010 by admin In a quick break from gadget-related news, here’s a nice gem courtesy of BuzzFeed. Two guys on the side of the road saw a Google Streetview car approaching, and acted quickly to make the most out of the opportunity! What would any respectable internet-goer do if they saw a Google Streetview car down the street? Tell us what you’d do in comments! [ad#300x250_im...

Published on Friday, May 14, 2010 by admin Hackers search for compromised sites and use many ways to insert hundreds of hidden spam links into trusted web pages. They target blogs, forums, CMS, image galleries and wikis. [ad#300x250_image_ads] Web site owners are unaware that their sites are hacked and infected with parasites. While the parasites are hidden from human web surfers, they are visible to Goo...

Published on Tuesday, May 11, 2010 by admin Google is reported to be working on an Android-powered tablet device that could challenge Apple's iPad along with devices from Hewlett-Packard and even Microsoft. An analyst said the value of an Android tablet is that it's not an Apple iPad. He said App Store functions will come to Android, where Apple CEO Steve Jobs can't distort reality. The Google Nexus One may ...

Published on Friday, May 7, 2010 by admin Launched last December, Google Goggles is capable of recognizing the user's snapshots and translating them. It runs on Android smartphones equipped with cameras. Google Goggles can also match snapshots with popular search returns for landmarks, book covers, artwork, places and even corporate logos. Google has revamped the Goggles mobile app it launched in Decembe...

Published on Wednesday, April 28, 2010 by admin If you want to download Google's new web browser "Chrome", you'll need to download a small 474 KB installer from its official website and then it'll download the required files of approx. 7 MB from Google server. Its annoying and painful when you want to install Chrome in more than one computer You'll have to download the required setup files in each system. [ad...

Published on Monday, April 26, 2010 by admin Google Chrome web browser has a unique problem where its password saving feature is not working properly on some websites. Despite the options already been set to instruct Chrome to offer to save passwords, Google Chrome does not ask, offer, prompt nor show a yellow bar that allows user to save the password future future logins auto-fill. When Google Chrome does no...

Published on Monday, April 26, 2010 by admin Some websites use a special directive instruction that prevents web browser from offering to save and remember the user name and password credentials for future automatic login. These websites, especially secure HTTPS sites, uses <form autocomplete=”OFF”> tag in the form elements’ source code. While AutoComplete attribute is controversial as it clearly ...

Published on Monday, April 26, 2010 by admin When logging in to a website by entering a user name and password credentials in Google Chrome, the web browser will prompt for options on whether users want Google Chrome to save the password. Options that available are either save password, or never for this site. If the user click on “Never for this site” button, intentionally or accidentally, Google Chrome wil...

Published on Wednesday, January 13, 2010 by admin Google has announced that it has begun rolling out file storage capabilities as part of Google Docs, bringing it more in line with services like Dropbox and Microsoft's SkyDrive, though they're not direct competitors just yet. The company says that regular users of Google Docs will soon be able to upload up to 1GB worth of files to the service for free, and in any fil...

Published on Thursday, January 7, 2010 by admin Google chrome extensions is now official for all chrome 4 users , although it still says Beta version. Chrome extensions is basically like the addons feature in firefox. The good things about chrome extensions is : You dont have to restart the browser after intalling/ uninstall You can install greasemonkey scripts right away without the greasemonkey addo...