Get ready with Google’s countdown to 2009

google-countdown-09 To welcome the new year Google has its own preparation and Google’s countdown 2009 calendar is one of them. The countdown comes with a holiday calendar to make the most out of the holidays from shopping to planning.

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December 23rd, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Google introduces new options in Image Search

google-images Google last week introduced new options in image search which makes Google Image Search more flexible and search results more relevant. Sometime back Google introduced face search to search images with face and now its time to introduce new options. Now Google has extended its capability to search clip art and line drawings to find the perfect image one want out of the search.

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December 22nd, 2008 | 1 Comment

Blogging through email

posterous Gone are the days when people need to login to Internet, write the post and then publish it. Things have been made much simpler these days. All one need to do is just send an email to post everything in your blog and Posterous will do the rest. To start using the service just send an email to [email protected] and Posterous will create an account for you using your email and will reply back with a new address for your blog. Going forward all the posts made from your email address will be posted on your blog at Posterous. Posterous will be an ideal service for people who travel a lot to create posts on the fly using their iPhones or other mobile phones with ease. Just click a snap using your mobile and post it immediately with comments to your blog using Posterous.

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December 22nd, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Draw and share flow-charts online with Lucidchart

lucidchart-library Everybody knows famous online charting solutions like Gliffy, DrawAnywhere which are quite popular and cool options. Now LucidChart joins the race by providing a flexible solution to create, collaborate on, and publish attractive flowcharts and other diagrams from a web browser with awesome features. LucidChart is designed in such a way that it fit comfortably into the workflow of someone currently using Google Docs or Zoho. LucidChart is an online collaborative flow chart authoring application which lets you collaborate with other users or document owners in real time via group chat which is built right into the editor.

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December 19th, 2008 | 1 Comment

Run native code from web applications using Native Client

google-code Google recently made a revolutionary announcement by revealing an open-source research technology called Google Native Client which is capable of running x86 native code in web applications. Google has released this project at an earlier stage to get feedback from the security and broader open-source communities. Native client is a blend of GCC tool-chain based compiler and a browser plugin. Some consider this project as a really insecure because of fears over exploitation over a period of time. Google claims that the plugin provides a secured sandbox environment for the x86 code to execute and is quite safe to play with.

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December 19th, 2008 | Leave a Comment