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Firefox 4 feature list finalized; Chrome turns 2 with version 6 released

September 3, 2010

It’s not much of a happy news for Firefox fans that Mozilla has decided to remove atleast one (or more) of the promised features from the final version of Firefox 4 scheduled to be released by the end of this year. Mozilla developers said that in order to meet the deadline, some features planned for [...]

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1 Million calls made in just 24 hours using Gmail

August 27, 2010

US users of Gmail are now equipped with a super awesome feature that allows them to call any mobile phone within US and Canada for free (atleast till the end of the year) and at minimal rates in other countries. The service went live yesterday and within 24 hours, 1 million calls were made using [...]

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[Solved] Cannot connect to Gmail in Thunderbird 3.1.2 [Troubleshooting]

August 7, 2010

I use Thunderbird as my offline email client and it’s been a really smooth ride since more than a year. But recently I ran an update [3.1.2] and restarted my PC only to find myself not able to connect to Gmail [using IMAP] on Thunderbird 3.1.2. Turns out the issue lies with Google’s servers. They [...]

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Google Alarm – A Firefox / Chrome add-on that notifies you when Google’s watching you

July 31, 2010

Google and privacy issues go hand in hand. Even Google admits it. And people like you and me are getting increasingly cautious about our privacies online. And we should be. Internet privacy tools have become the talk of the day and if you are using Firefox or Google Chrome, here’s something new to keep you [...]

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How to: Install Android on a PC

July 26, 2010

Please note: The method shown involves making small changes to the BIOS. If you don’t know what BIOS is or not comfortable changing its settings, you should not perform this trick. How about running the immensely popular mobile OS, Android on a larger screen, on your PC or a laptop? Sounds cool, isn’t it? Well, [...]

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Google Image Search gets even better

July 21, 2010

Did you notice the Google Image Search lately? If not, a very awesome experience awaits you. Google’s Image Search has been revamped and is now much more useable than ever. Finally the annoying frame view has been done away with and the results page is now packed with densely placed pictures, giving you more image [...]

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Nexus One’s no more for general availability. But there is a fine line!

July 17, 2010

This seems out-of the blue but Google has suddenly decided to stop sales of Nexus One to general public. For developers however, Andriod developers specifically, it’s not the case. In the latest announcement, Google Nexus One blog declared Google’s decision, albeit without any justifications. Earlier this year, we announced that we will be closing the [...]

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Google brings art to its homepage!

June 10, 2010

Google is known for it’s never ending experiments even with things that are already working fine. After all these years, Google realised that its homepage is rather dull and went on to spice it up with some ‘art’. A small new feature has been rolled out that lets you change the background of the homepage [...]

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Gmail Tip: Move attachments column to far left

May 26, 2010

Today Google Labs came up with pretty decent feature for Gmail that lets you move the attachments column showing the different icons for each attachment to far left. This makes more sense because now its much more visible and easy to identify emails with attachments. Such small enhancements from time to time make Gmail [...]

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