Technology Bites

Some of the Firefox’s popularity can be attributed to the number of add-ons available to pimp the browser. Google Chrome doesn’t have a stable extensions capability yet but it is possible to install extensions, only thing is you need to run developer builds of Google Chrome browser. Developers are building extensions to the Google Chrome [...]

Twitter made Microblogging more famous than any other and some folks gave up blogging for twittering. These twitter messages or micro blogs are rich source of valuable links, breaking news, and of course spam. Twitter acquired summize last year and launched as a twitter search engine.

Google Docs now allows users to upload Microsoft Office 2007 formats .docx and .xlsx. This is useful not only for Office 2007 users but also for lower versions of office. If someone sends you a Office 2007 file, instead of using an online converter you can just upload it to Google Docs and download it [...]

I am experiencing a Firefox crash when I tried to upload images to Wordpress using the built-in Wordpress Flash image uploader. In Google Chrome it works fine but Firefox crashes immediately when i try to upload an image.

Google today announced Google Web Elements at it’s Google I/O conference. Google Web Elements lets you easily embed content from Google sites like Youtube videos. Currently you can embed Calendar, Conversation, Custom Search, Maps, News, Presentations, Spreadsheets and Youtube news.

By now you might have tried Wolfram Alpha, if you didn’t heard about it yet it is a new search engine launched today. While it may be good in finding answers for complex questions and displaying rich information on places and other things, it is not yet a useful search engine for average user. Of [...]

Google News clusters got better today with categorized content from blogs, local news, quotes, images and videos. When you click on “all news articles” links below each cluster in Google News they will show cluster pages with all the above said sections, each section like blogs, local sources also carry links to more articles.

GoogleHacks is a simple utility with shortcuts for searching Google for specific file types like mp3 or videos. Google Hacks saves a lot of time by making it easier to search for files, it doesn’t search google but it constructs the search query for you and opens the results in your browser.

Google Analytics team released an API in beta and is now publicly available for all Analytics users according to Google Analytics blog. This is good news for the developers who want to integrate Analytics data in their applications or to release apps for general public.

Another feature released today over Google Labs along with Similar Images is the Google News Timeline that lets you visualize news, blogs etc in chronological order on a timeline. The results are fetched from Google News, Blog search, wikipedia entries.