Fall in love with … Google!

Well, not exactly with Google, but with the aid of Google!
Here is a Google “search story”, watch it and you ‘ll understand what I am talking about:

You can find more stories on the Search Stories YouTube channel.
via the Official Google Blog

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Google Image Swirl – now in Labs

Google Image Swirl is an experimental interface from Google for searching images.
Image Swirl expands on technologies like “Find Similar Images” and “Picasa Face Recognition” to group similar images together and build hierarchies out of these groups.
The interface is showing similar images together in groups/clusters, and you can easily navigate and explore other relevant groups.
You can [...]

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Google Earth 2.0 for iPhone

Google has finally updated the Google Earth iPhone app.
Google Earth 2.0 comes with some new features and overall greater performance.
New features:

Login to Google Maps, and view your own created maps, or custom maps shared by others.
Browse photos, Wikipedia articles, business information etc. more easily.
Added new languages, now supporting a total of 31 languages.

Update/Download Google Earth [...]

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Google Storage is now cheaper

A couple of days ago Google has announced cheaper prices for extra storage.
Storage space is being used in Picasa Web Albums, Gmail and Google Docs.
Here is the summary of the new prices:

This is even cheaper than the Amazon’s S3 service, which is currently at $0.150 per GB per month. 20GB would cost $3 per month, [...]

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Google Chrome pwns Internet Explorer (IE) – see it in real action!

Yesterday, I have been browsing my Google Reader feeds, and I stumbled upon a  post from the Chromium blog. The actual title was “Introducing Google Chrome Frame“. Since that was something I have never heard before about, I just had to read it.
Well, it turned out that “Google Chrome Frame” is a plugin for Internet [...]

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Picasa – 3.5 (now with facial recognition!)

Picasa 3.5 has just been released, featuring some exciting new features as well as many improvements.
Let’s find out what’s new:
Name tags (facial recognition)
Picasa scans all photos, looking for faces. Similar faces are grouped together, so you can start tagging with their names. You can then find all photos with one or two faces present, make [...]

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Google Chrome – 3.0.195.21 Stable

Google Chrome stable version has been finally updated to 3.0.195.21, and is looking hot!

If you have just upgraded from version 1 or even 2, you will immediately notice that it is blazingly fast!
According to the official announcement, version 3 is about 150% faster (Javascript performance) than the very first release, and 25% faster than version [...]

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Google Fast Flip – read news fast!

Google Fast Flip is the latest experiment of Google Labs.
Fast Flip as its name suggests, is a brand new fast way of reading the news online.
With Fast Flip you can rapidly browse articles sorted by popularity, category or source.
Here is a screenshot of the main Fast Flip page:

Here is a screenshot of a single article, [...]

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Google Listen – for Android

Listen from Google Labs brings podcasts and web audio to your Android-powered device. It lets you search, subscribe, download and stream. By subscribing to programs and search terms it will create a personalized audio-magazine loaded with fresh shows and news stories whenever you listen. In this release Listen is indexing thousands of popular English-only audio [...]

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Gmail chat – how to type words in bold and italics

Today I have been typing on Gmail chat, and by accident I have found out how to type a word in bold. With a bit more of a search, I have also found out how to type in italics, and also strikethrough a word.
Here is the cheat sheet:
Bold: Surround the word with asterisks, e.g. *word* [...]

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