Gmail gets themes support
Google added themes support for a select batch of Gmail users. I logged in a while back to find out gmail inbox in a strange shade of blue, with a notice at the top informing about new theme control panel in Gmail settings area.
[Halloween] Google is scared of Zombies
Google, the most popular search engine has huge computing resources available at its disposal. Google’s bots and spiders crawl the farthest reaches of interweb in search of more and more content to munch on — but when it comes to zombies eating their brains, they don’t want to take any chance. Google.com’s robots.txt directive currently [...]
Your Gmail address also becomes OpenID
After the recent announcement from Microsoft about their Hotmail/Live accounts becoming OpenID logins, Google also announced today that they are enabling OpenID support for their Gmail accounts. Participating websites can now accept millions of existing Gmail account holders.
Google Developer Day India, 2008
I was in Bangalore this weekend to attend the first edition of Google Developer Day 2008 held in India. Event venue was Hotel Chancery Pavilion, Bangalore. The Google India team had put together an exciting bouquet of Tech Talk Tracks and associated Codelabs sessions covering popular developer APIs like Google Maps APIS to fresh platforms [...]
Microsoft SearchPerks! Win prizes just for searching the web
Okay, let me ask a simple question. What was the last time you used Microsoft Live Search to search the intarweb? Now would you use it as a daily use search engine if Microsoft gave you “perks” just for searching the internet. As simple as that?
Announcing Microsoft SearchPerks. Sign up before December 31, install a [...]
Google India launches SMS Channels - Free SMS for your group
Google India launched a new service from its labs - named Google SMS Channels, it allows people to create SMS based channels for following up with updates. A Google SMS Channel can be hooked on to a blog, a regular RSS feed or to Google groups mailing list. Its also possible to manually send SMS [...]
Google Android AppMarket
Google recently announced its new Android mobile platform, an Open Handset Alliance Project. What’s even more exciting for invidual developers is, it will also have an open application market on the lines of Apple’s AppStore (probably, minus the apple’s strict application inclusion policies). All applications on the Android platform are equal and any app can [...]
Google Chrome’s About pages and Easter eggs
Mozilla and Mozilla Firefox have carried a few easter eggs hidden in their about: pages for long. Like Mozilla’s about:config, The Mozilla Book and Robots pages, Google Chrome too comes with a dozen about: pages covering everything from plugins, stats and cache to histograms and dns.
Google Gears for Safari on Mac OS X released
Google announced the release of its OpenSource Gears browser platform for Safari on the Mac platform. Gears for Safari will now allow more powerful web applications by enabling web apps to store data in searchable database locally and run javascript more efficiently.
CrossOver team announces Google Chrome for Mac and Linux
Its been just 11 days since Google’s new web browser Chrome launched exclusively for Windows - but the wonderful guys at CodeWeavers (the people behind famous CrossOver office suite) have already announced their Mac and Linux ports called CrossOver Chromium. Incidently, Chromium is the name of an OpenSource browser project based on Apple’s HTML rendering [...]
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