OK, I am just two months old on Twitter. With 70 odd updates in two months on my main account and about half as many on the other two, I can’t consider myself exactly a Twitter addict, but I do spend quite some time reading updates everyday. The concept is definitely cool, and some things [...]
Gmail has added a new welcome feature, that was announced just today — something that can allow you to almost retract an arrow after shooting it, as long as you realize it soon enough. If you are like me, your have more than once hit the “send” button on email and then instantly realized that [...]
I tried Google 411 today and it seems to be amazing. OK, you are on the road, or may be not, and you don’t know the phone number of the business you want to call. If you call 411 from your phone your phone company is going to bill you. So, that is where Google’s [...]
I had been facing this problem for the last few days. Every time I clicked on a YouTube video embedded in a web page, even on a google page, it would play without sound. When I clicked on the YouTube logo to watch the video on the YouTube website, it played fine. This situation wouldn’t [...]
I have been using Shieldhost for about two and a half years now, and in spite of the birth pangs my blog went through due to Shieldhost, its service had improved a lot in recent times. It did not take me long to sort out all the problems that I had in the first instance, [...]
Googlers Anupama Dutta and Nitin Arora have a Eureka moment at the Google blog. They announce that “Now you can blog in Hindi“. As if you couldn’t do this before. Blogspot’s new Hindi transliteration feature is commendable, but all it does is add another tool to a whole lot of existing Hindi typing tools on [...]
I think Google’s My Maps is a big milestone in Google Maps. Announced today, it scores big over other map websites, and most likely they are going to follow suit soon. My Maps allows you to draw over existing Google maps, and create you own stuff – roads, houses, whatever. You can then save [...]
I must admit it – Google’s two April fools jokes may be lame, but they got me – both Google TiSP (BETA) and Gmail Paper.
TiSP (BETA) was simply too good to be true, and still I fell for it. It claimed that TiSP (BETA) was a free broadband service working “by connecting your commode-based TiSP [...]
If you have a PDA or a PDA enabled phone, with internet access, there are easier ways of getting maps and driving directions when you are on the go. Just point your mobile browser to mapquest, google maps, yahoo maps, MSN live, etc.
If you don’t have live internet access on your PDA, you can look [...]
As a user of Jotspot, a great personal wiki site, I got an email today from Jotspot that they have been aquired by Google. This news has put to rest an old rumor about Yahoo! acquiring the company.
What remains to be seen is how Google integrates it into its online suite of document applications. Jotspot [...]
