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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Gmail, Google Docs, Google Talk, Google Calendar are now out of beta!

Well, it took Google quite a long time, but as of now, Google Apps (Gmail, Docs, Talk, Calendar) are officially out of beta mode!
You can see the absence of the “beta” label on their logo:

What I love about Google it that not only they provide excellent services, but they have a great sense of geek [...]

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Google Chrome OS (Operating System) has been announced

A couple of months ago, during the Google IO 2009, the key product that has been unveiled was Google Wave. I guess most people have been waiting something more exciting, like a near-final version of Google Chrome browser for Mac OS/Linux etc.
However, today, out of all days, we got a huge product announcement from Google!
The [...]

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Google Chrome – Developer versions of Mac and Linux are now available!

Mac and Linux users are now able to test-drive Google Chrome on their favorite OS!
Chrome Mac and Linux developer versions are considered highly unstable, thus Google recommends them only for developing/testing/preview purposes.
Following beta versions should be considered safer, therefore if you’d currently like to see Chrome in action, get it at your own risk!
Official Announcement [...]

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Google Chrome – First TV ad

The Google Japan team has produced the following video, which is going to be broadcasted on selected TV networks across the world.

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