Technology Bites

Yahoo finance is still leader in Finance and Google Finance is trying hard to catch up. Google Finance recently got a facelift with a bunch of useful features. Today Google added a streaming news feature to Google Finance.

The streaming news can be seen both on the main page (Market tab) and on the overall market news page. The streaming news is only available to the US markets as of now and only be streamed from 8am to 5:30pm ET, 90 minutes before and after US trading hours. Google how about streaming news to the international markets also?.

Picasa Web Albums is a photo hosting service offered by Google. Using Google Picasa you can manage the photos in Picasa web albums. Picasa web albums although not as popular as Flickr, it is still used by many. Picasa Downloader is a freeware that helps to batch download photos from picasa web albums.
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Google dictionary is the new service from Google, that gives definitions for the words you search. When you search with a keyword a link “definition” appears on the blue bar above the search results. Google used to offer “define:word” parameter to get definitions, and now the dictionary is the natural extension of that.
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Sending files these days is not so cumbersome and there are tons of services. WeTransfer offers a simpler way to send files of upto 2GB to anyone. It doesn’t bother you with cat captchas are anything like that. It doesn’t ask you to register also, just upload the file and send it to your friends or colleagues.
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There are plethora of fabulous images on the web you might want to use in your blog. But, some times you might not be sure of the license and whether the image is copyrighted or not. Following are three useful WordPress plugins which enable you to add images to your blog without the hassle of license and copyright issues.

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TweetDeck, the popular desktop twitter client released a new version today. The new version 0.32 of the client comes with twitter lists support, LinkedIn, new retweets and geolocation features.
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Google Phone rumors are not new, but in recent months there are several reports suggesting that Google is launching a phone. Today Gizmodo is reporting that Google phone is a certainty according to a source. It is not just another Android set but it is Google branded mobile phone running android. We don’t know exactly if it is true or not, consider that as a rumor for now.
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Following are some useful web based utilities which enable you to manipulate images like removing red eye, splitting and slicing, adding watermark, extracting color schemes etc.,. These services are free for use and do not require any registration and extra software to get started with.
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When there are handy PDF utilities available on the web, you might not have to spend money buying expensive software to view, edit and share PDF files. There are prolific services like Zoho and Google Docs, where in you can compose a document and save it in PDF format. If you aren’t pleased with the output, following are some alternate options to process PDF documents.
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Google is testing a new search interface, the new look is not visible to everyone, but only for some users. The new look is with a new Google logo, colorful buttons and a permanently featured sidebar, something similar to Bing. The sidebar allows to narrow down the search to News, Blogs, Images, Video, Maps etc.
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