Category Archives: Google

Google Chrome to get bookmarks synchronization

Posted on August 3, 2009 by vrreddy

Main hurdle for users to switch from Mozilla Firefox to Google Chrome is the lack of add-ons and features like bookmarks sync and others. But those days are numbered as Google Chrome is added support for extensions in the recent … Continue reading →

Setup Online Store with Google Docs and Google Checkout

Posted on August 2, 2009 by vrreddy

Google Checkout is one of the online payment gateways available, Google Checkout launched as an alternative service to PayPal but it never got any traction. PayPal is still the leader in this space and it offers rich functionality for setting … Continue reading →

Search Options for Google Images

Posted on August 2, 2009 by vrreddy

Search Options are a set of features that allow you to refine your web searches on Google. For example while searching you could these options to see for the stories that are published in the past 24 hours or past … Continue reading →

Google Finance Revamped, adds technical indicators

Posted on July 13, 2009 by vrreddy

Yahoo Finance is the leading financial web site and always Google Finance lagged behind Yahoo Finance in terms of usefulness, charts, technical indicators. Today I was greeted with a new design of Google Finance, interestingly no major blog has covered … Continue reading →

Google Translate now translates uploaded documents

Posted on July 12, 2009 by vrreddy

Google Translate, the handy translational tool on the web only allowed pasting text or URLs in the translation box for translating from one language to the other. Now it also allows document uploads, that means if you want to translate … Continue reading →

Google to launch Chrome Operating System

Posted on July 8, 2009 by vrreddy

Google announced today that it is going to launch a Google Chrome Operating System. There were rumors about Google OS from years and finally they announced that is was real. The Google Chrome OS will be launched as an open … Continue reading →

Google Chrome Extensions

Posted on July 4, 2009 by vrreddy

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 … Continue reading →

A Microblogging search engine from Google

Posted on June 13, 2009 by vrreddy

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 … Continue reading →

Google Docs accepts .docx and .xlsx files

Posted on June 1, 2009 by vrreddy

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 … Continue reading →

Embed Google Content with Google Web Elements

Posted on May 27, 2009 by vrreddy

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.