Wednesday, June 13, 2007

Offline Google Reader, Tweak XP, Adobe Patches

Google Reader goes offline with Google Gears and other RIA

"Google Gears is a new service the idea behind is to be able to have desktop functionality and/or to be able to use web-based services when you are not online.Sometimes it also refers to accessing web-based services when you are online, but without having to use the traditional browser, my favourite for a long time has been the Google deskbar (now only available with the Google Desktop)"

Total Idea
Download what you were missing with Windows!

"Check out OutSource-XP, our backup solution for Microsoft Outlook, or OutNote, our unique software to attach sticky notes to Outlook emails and contacts. If your want to tune your Windows XP, Tweak-XP Pro is what you need. For a free optimization software for Firefox, download our freeware FireTune. Or just download the world's first software to combine optimization and tweaking for Windows Vista: TweakVI."

Adobe Acrobat 8.1 for Office 2007 and Windows Vista
Adobe has released Acrobat 8 patch compatible with Microsoft Office 2007 programs and Windows Vista. Other than the new PDFmaker add-on for Office 2007, the second most exciting feature is the PDF Preview Handler - you can now view PDF files in Office Outlook 2007 as well as in Windows Explorer on Windows Vista without starting Acrobat or Adobe Reader.
Amit Agarwal

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Posted by: Lena | 9:42 PM |

Friday, May 25, 2007

Tech Dispenser - geek blog

Here is a fantastic site for tech news Tech Dispenser
Here are some excerpts

The Computerworld Blog Network
Current Feature Stories

Business Benefits Behind Green Label

Data Center Knowledge – Chris Crosbys presentation at Fridays DataCenterDynamics Washington conference was titled A Common Sense Guide for Planning and Designing A Green Datacenter. “We put green in quotes because its so abused these days,” said Crosby, the senior VP of technical serviecs for Digital Realty.

Free Windows Powershell book, or why Powerscript would have been a better name

4sysops – For Windows Administrators – Actually, you could also say, it is an introduction into Windows Powershell from Microsoft. When I skimmed over the document, I came once again to the conclusion that Powershell is not really a shell, but just another scripting language...

Google Hot Trends: Hot or Not?

Googlified – First was Google Zeitgeist that publishes lists of popular queries, then the Google Trends that shows the amount of searches of a query over a period of time, now followed by Hot Trends, a nice little toy that was added to Google Trends today. Hot Trends, in Google’s word, is “a snapshot of what’s on...

More Office Document Formats

iface thoughts – So we have more formats United Office Format (UOF) is a XML-based document format that was developed by and for China, in addition to ODF and OOXML. It addresses all the office document types – word processing, spreadsheets and presentation. As I understand, the purpose of this format, like the others, is to bring compatibility...

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Posted by: Jethro | 9:30 AM |

Wednesday, August 16, 2006

Google In Pictures

Google, which just launched its free Wifi wireless Internet service in Mountain View but denies plans to create a national free Wifi network, has purchased a photo recognition company.

We've been working to make Picasa (Google's free photo-organizing software) even better when it comes to searching for your own photos—to make finding them be as easy as finding stuff on the web. Luckily we've found some people who share this goal, and are excited that the Neven Vision team is now part of Google. [Source]

This means that in the future Picasa will not only search your harddrive for pictures but will classify them for you. Perhaps it will recognize all the pictures with granny in them and automatically label them "grandmother" and so forth.

In other Google news, they have released to beta the first major revamp of Blogger since its aquisition from Pyra Labs in 2003. (oops. That article is from May 10, 2004 Thank you Jonathan Hickman for point it out.) I still hate blogger and advise against using their service due to poor business practices. I was burned by Blogger and lost much writing and advise that you blog using WordPress on a hosted solution. I will happily help anyone setup their very own WordPress blog.

India has begun blocking Blogger and others such as Typepad. India following in China's footsteps?

Doug McCaughan's personal blog is Reality Me and he consults as Superior Internet Designs.

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Posted by: Doug McCaughan | 10:22 PM |

Thursday, June 22, 2006

Google Page Creator

Google Labs have a great new product called Google Page Creator.

You will need a gmail account to create a website using this service and it will be hosted at yourgmailname.googlepages.com/home.

I have created a sample Google Page website for you to check out.

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