Create, Restore and Backup Your Google Chrome Profiles

Published at September 16, 2008   Filed Under Google   0 Comments  

Google Chrome launch generated a lot of buzz and the slowly it is getting the much needed tools. Google Chrome backup is a tool that lets you backup your Google Chrome Profiles the easy way.

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   3 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 [...]

Browse Google Images Face Search in Cover Flow Interface

Published at September 7, 2008   Filed Under Google   1 Comment  

Google Images has a nice little feature with that you can search images showing face. To use google images face search you need to enter &imgtype=face to the end of the search string. Ex: Normal search http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=britney, for face search, http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=britney&imgtype=face
I stumbled over Facesaerch.com which allows you to browse these images in a coverflow interface. [...]

Download Portable Google Chrome

Published at September 3, 2008   Filed Under Google   13 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 [...]

Security Flaw in Google Chrome Browser

Published at September 3, 2008   Filed Under Google   0 Comments  

Google Chrome was released yesterday with some useful features and i was excited with its features, but with in few hours a security researcher Aviv Raff discovered that Google Chrome is vulnerable to carpet-bombing flaw. This vulnerability could expose Windows users to malicious hacker attacks. (via ZDNet)
The flaw is a combination of two vulnerabilities, a [...]

How to Download Google Chrome on Win 2K

Published at September 3, 2008   Filed Under Google   27 Comments  

Google Chrome is available for only Windows XP and Vista, but if you are stuck with Windows 2000 and want to try Google Chrome, use this trick (Thanks to Pratham)
You need to change the user-agent of the browser to download Google Chrome to Win 2K. On Firefox, go to about:config, create a new string entry [...]

Google Picasa Web Alubums Gets Face Recognition

Published at September 3, 2008   Filed Under Google   0 Comments  

Google Picasa Web Albums now recognizes faces in photos, the new version is live now, you can try the name tags feature here, or go to your picasa page you will see a notification for the same. Along with picasa web albums Picasa 3.0 desktop software also got this feature.
The facial recognition technology is called [...]

Google Chrome Browser Review: Its Awesome

Published at September 2, 2008   Filed Under Google   46 Comments  

Google Chrome released today for Windows XP and Vista, since this is the first release i was not expecting much from the browser, but Google Chrome is awesome. It is fast, looks good and renders web pages perfectly, and all the web pages i visited rendered normally with out any quirks. What else you want [...]

Its official, Google Chrome is launching tomorrow

Published at September 1, 2008   Filed Under Google   0 Comments  

Update: It is launched, and it looks awesome, see here for Google Chrome Review

I just posted about the Google Chrome, now Google Blog has posted an official response. Google Chrome is launching tomorrow in more than 100 countries. Initially it only supports Windows but Mac and Linux versions will be released in the near future. [...]