T-Mobile G1: Android Powered HTC Dream Phone Comes With Google Apps

Published at September 24, 2008   Filed Under Gadgets, Google   3 Comments  

Much anticipated Google Phone aka HTC Dream running Android launched today. T-Mobile G1 is the first phone powered by Android mobile OS with touch based interface.
It is available in US starting from next month by T-Mobile for $179 with a two-year contract.
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Now You Can Embed Books from Google Book Search as Widgets

Published at September 22, 2008   Filed Under Google   1 Comment  

Google today announced set of free tools that allows anyone to embed books from Google Book Search on their blogs or web sites.
We are also providing new ways for these sites to display full-text search results from Book Search, and even integrate with social features such as ratings, reviews, and readers’ book collections. By [...]

Gmail Labs: Forgotten attachment detector

Published at September 17, 2008   Filed Under Google   0 Comments  

Gmail Labs team added another useful feature, forgotten attachment detector. This is an experimental feature, you need to enable this feature from Gmail Labs tab. Go to Settings, Labs tab and enable this feature to use it.
After enabling this feature if you mention an attachment in your email but forgot to attach a file, [...]

Download Google Chrome for Mac and Linux

Published at September 17, 2008   Filed Under Google   3 Comments  

If you are a Mac or Linux user and wants to try Google Chrome, you can try now. There is no official version of Google Chrome browser for Mac and Linux yet. The folks at Codeweavers released an unofficial Google Chrome version for both Mac and Linux.

Google finally shows off Android handset

Published at September 16, 2008   Filed Under Gadgets   0 Comments  

Greasemetal: Greasemonkey for Google Chrome

Published at September 11, 2008   Filed Under Google   1 Comment  

Google Chrome doesn’t have native support for extension yet, but developers are finding ways to get addons like Greasemonkey to work with Google Chrome. Kazuho Oku found a way to get some greasemoney user scripts to run in Google chrome.
Greasemetal is a userscript runtime for Google Chrome. Using greasemetal you can run some userscripts [...]

3 New Features from Gmail Labs

Published at September 11, 2008   Filed Under Google   2 Comments  

Gmail labs introduced 3 new features today, these are useful little tweaks for the Gmail. If you have Gmail Labs enabled you can get these features. Go to settings, select Labs and enable these features to use them. The three features include, Custom Label Colors, Goto Label and Navbar drag and drop.
Custom label colors [...]

Download Portable Google Chrome

Published at September 3, 2008   Filed Under Google   10 Comments  

Google Chrome Portable version is released by a German blogger Caschy, you can download the Portable Google Chrome from his blog, blog is in German, look for a link at the bottom of the post.
This is not truly a portable version, there is no installation in USB device, just download the archive file and [...]