How to access wikipedia or any other sites during blackout or when blocked.
Wikipedia has decided to black out its english language version in protest of SOPA and PIPA. But you got a homework to do and don’t know where to get the information? Google to the rescue. Search for the term in Google and hover over the arrows that appear on the result when you hover you [...]
Gmail users alerted when accounts accessed from China
Google sure can’t trust China anymore. After it was revealed by Google that China had launched sophisticated attack on it to hack in to Chinese human rights activists’ accounts, they are now taking them seriously. Gmail does warns users, if it detects any suspicious activities from foreign ip-addresses. I have been accessing my account from [...]
Features that Make Gmail Intelligent
Gmail announced a feature called Priority inbox that would make sorting emails in ones account incredibly easy as it uses an intelligent sorting algorithm which gets better every time you you use it. That is not the only intelligent feature in Gmail that makes it the best webmail. It also contains several small but useful [...]
Gmail Priority Inbox Launches
Google and their Gmail team never quite stop to amaze me. They had made email fun and easy from the time of launch when it was still in beta. Better spam filter, ever growing inbox memory (at a time when a competitor gave just 250 mb of space) and lots more. They launched multiple inbox [...]
Verisign will give you big bucks for your .COM story
Verisign is offering up to US$10,000 in cash prize for your story on how .COM changed your life in How Do You .COM contest. Also up for the grabs are $5,000, $2,500 and 10 iPads. .COM here is taken in context as the Internet phenomenon and not just a TLD. The .COM age changed the [...]
Innocent way to spam Twitter
We all loved Christopher Nolan’s movie Inception. It has been trending on twitter even before it released. Now think how to take advantage of people tweeting and searching about the movie Inception. Simple, use the word as a part of sentence and promote it. The Last Exorcism movie makers have used this trick to good [...]
Gmail’s interface is revamped
As mentioned in earlier blogpost, Gmail’s interface has indeed been changed today. It looks cleaner with contacts link and an ability to sort contacts by first name , last name and phone number. Here is the blog post Future design changes to Gmail.
Delhi police using Facebook to track errant drivers
Delhi police have started a facebook page to help ease traffic problems in the capital city of India. From NYT The traffic police department started a Facebook page two months ago, and almost immediately residents became digital informants, posting photos of their fellow drivers violating traffic laws. As of Sunday more than 17,000 people had [...]
Future design changes to Gmail.
An image uploaded to the Chromium OS bug tracker shows a number of changes to the design and layout of Gmail. This seems as a Google’s internal version of Gmail. These changes may or may not be made public. Here is the visible list 1. Three new links at the top of the sidebar menu [...]
Google to track mouse movements to deliver relevant results
Google has been granted a patent to a technology that will track mouse movements to deliver relevant results. The title is “System and method for modulating search relevancy using pointer activity monitoring”. Here is how the abstract for the patent describes it: A method and system of modulating search result relevancy use various types of [...]
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