Secure Gmail with https

Published at July 25, 2008   Filed Under Google   0 Comments  

Gmail wants to help its users to secure their Gmail accounts from phishing eyes using https. Https keeps your email encrypted while it travels between your browser and gmail servers.
If you use public wi-fi you may want to use this option to secure your gmail account as it encrypts the data. Gmail sign on [...]

Google Knol is Live: Wikipedia Killer?

Published at July 23, 2008   Filed Under Google   0 Comments  

Google Knol is live, any one can create a knol on topics they are familiar with. They announced this project in December 2007 but it is in testing at that time and is now live. Knol is something similar to Wikipedia but it is different in some aspects like moderation and multiple articles on the [...]

Gmail and Google Calendar to get Offline Access with Gears

Published at July 18, 2008   Filed Under Google   1 Comment  

Google Operating System is reporting that Gmail and Google calendar may get offline access using Gears technology. Google reader and Google docs already support offline access using Google gears. According to Andrew Fogg who saw the a preview of the integration we may get offline support for these two apps in 6 weeks.
If we [...]

Google Docs Templates

Published at July 18, 2008   Filed Under Google   0 Comments  

Google Docs became more useful with the new templates. Seriously with out templates it is hard for users to start, a blank template is un usable at times. The new templates are available for Google Documents, Spreadsheets and Presentations.
The templates organized in categories from Albums & Flipbooks, to Business templates. These form a starting [...]

Search for text in Youtube Videos

Published at July 16, 2008   Filed Under Google, Technology, Video   0 Comments  

Now it is possible to search for text with in Youtube videos using keywords. Google released a Gadget with some political videos that allows you to search for text.
When you search with keywords results will appear below, you can click on videos to see the results. Also in the video progress bar you will [...]

Lively: Virtual World from Google

Published at July 9, 2008   Filed Under Google   3 Comments  

Google has launched a new service today called Lively, a virtual world. Users can create avatars, customize them and enter virtual rooms. The virtual rooms can be embedded on external web pages via iFrames. Given the large number of Google user base this can be a hit, but we will see in the near future [...]

Track who is logging to your Gmail account

Published at July 8, 2008   Filed Under Google, Technology   3 Comments  

Your email is the repository of your personal and business information, Gmail added a new feature today to improve your email security. If you are signed into your Gmail account from more than one computer a note will appear at the bottom of your Gmail Inbox. The message shows IP address of the computer where [...]

Google and Yahoo will index Flash files

Published at July 1, 2008   Filed Under Google, Internet   0 Comments  

There is a good news for Flash site developers today, that is Google and Yahoo will index Flash files from now with help from Adobe. This is the biggest hurdle for Flash sites in the past, the most popular search engines can’t index Flash content making it not reachable to the right audience. Of course [...]