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The Good, The Bad and The Ugly! iPhone interface of Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail.

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly! iPhone interface of Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail.

Greetings readers. Today I would like to share my thoughts on various mobile phone user interfaces. There is a common comment by most of the techies – Microsoft is well behind the web technologies. For some reasons, they are proving the techies are correct.
What made me write this ?
Yesterday I happened to use my [...]

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Story of a 34year old techie who found his father in Google.com

Story of a 34year old techie who found his father in Google.com

Guys! Today I would like to share an interesting news about a 34year old geek who found his father in Google. I am quoting it from Google Testimonials.
“After 34 years of not knowing who my father was, I typed his name into Google.com and found a link that I thought might help me. I sent [...]

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Google Latitude. Locate your friends in your phone or desktop!

Google Latitude. Locate your friends in your phone or desktop!

Google hits the webspace with a new location-based social networking software. It is ready to use for smartphone users. It will share your location with your friends in Google network.
Google located me in Trivandrum. Here is my screen shot.
I have located couple of my friends in Flip Media, Trivandrum (Remiz Rahnas and Felix Justus)
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Is “This site may harm your computer” a very simple human error?

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Dear Google – We all know Google coders are human beings and not cattle.
Yesterday, the eighth wonder Google.com gave birth to ninth wonder – a human coding error which ended up in showing a nasty alert – “This site may harm your computer”.
I was searching some keywords of my own blog and happened to notice [...]

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Offline version of Gmail. Another one on its way from Google Labs!

Offline version of Gmail. Another one on its way from Google Labs!

Gmail’s blog explains how this feature works and which Gmail features are available offline:
Source : Google System Blog
Once you turn on this feature, Gmail uses Gears to download a local cache of your mail. As long as you’re connected to the network, that cache is synchronized with Gmail’s servers. When you lose your connection, Gmail [...]

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WOW! Watch video in Gtalk itself!

WOW! Watch video in Gtalk itself!

Today I was chatting with my colleague Imthiaz Rafiq and he shared an YouTube URL. I was surprised to see the preview. But when I clicked on it, got shocked to see the video in Gtalk itself. This is an amazing latest feature by Google Talk.
Now you can watch videos, chat and manage emails in [...]

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Google’s new favicon is on air!

Google's new favicon is on air!

Few months back Google opened their creative desk for users to submit a cool and innovative favicon. They got a jaw-dropping response from the user as they got numerous submissions.
Today Google aired their new favicon. Ofcourse the new favicon is a sharp reflection of various ideas submitted by users. Google claims new favicon is a [...]

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To Support Google : A Note to Google Users on Net Neutrality

To Support Google : A Note to Google Users on Net Neutrality

A Guide to Net Neutrality for Google Users
“Net neutrality” is an issue that will shape the future of the Internet. Google has created this guide to net neutrality, which includes a brief overview of the subject, an update on where things stand in the U.S. policy debate, a set of actions you can take to [...]

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