The recent Google’s PageRank update downgraded none other than Google itself from 10 to 9. The update done on June 27,2011 changed the pageranks of many sites including Google. This is the second update in this year after the January one. PageRank of Facebook remained at 10/10 Check the pagerank of Google here PageRank is a algorithm [...]
Your Gmail Inbox is overflowing with email messages. Some are newsletters that you are subscribed to, some are messages from friends and colleagues that you would like to read as soon as they arrive while the rest could be spam that managed to trick the built-in Gmail filters. Focus on the Most Important Emails First! When you only have a [...]
Finding who is invisible is something that I always wanted to do.It’s always fun to ping a person who feels none can see him/her online. While studying XMPP protocol I found out that even when the person is offline the chat client knows that person is online. The Chat Client should know who all are really online at any given [...]
When you create a Google Account, you automatically get access to web-based office apps, email, calendar, file storage, tasks list and instant messaging but one piece that still missing from the Google cloud is project management. Even Google Apps, a service that is so popular among businesses, doesnt have any project management related features to help teams plan and coordinate [...]
The reports are out of the Nexus One sales during the first week and no, they dont look as good as they should have been – or atleast with the hype it created, we expected better. Nexus One sold just 20,000 units on its first week of sales. Flurry estimates that Nexus One was outsold by Droid by more than [...]
Video: Nexus One Disassembled If you are wondering what inside Nexus One, check this slideshow at iFixit*. They bought a new phone and completely disassembled it using a Phillips screwdriver. The Link With Zune & iPod The teardown reveals some interesting “secrets” about the components used in the Google Phone. For example, the touchscreen is made by Samsung who is [...]
Online newspaper sites like the Financial Times require users to sign-in if they want to read more than one article on their site. The New York Times too had such a restriction in place earlier but they seem to have dropped that requirement now. The Wall Street Journal, on the other hand, is a subscription-based site. They do offer free [...]
Casper is a brilliant mashup that displays movement of incoming and outgoing flights on a Google Map live. The airplanes are colored based on the name of the airline to which they belong but you can also change their colors based on the altitude at which they are currently flying or the flight type (whether it an incoming flight, outgoing [...]
If you are a girl and your first name is Elizabeth, youll find the following Google Map interesting as it marks all the street names and roads in North America that have the same name as you. You can also view this data inside Google Earth. And here a similar Google Map highlighting streets that have the word Michael in [...]
Google Nexus One news is everywhere. First it was the announcement, then came its pictures and later on yesterday the price and release date was confirmed. Today, the folks over at The Nexus One ave got their hands on the Google Nexus One and have posted a video of the phone. You can see the pre-release packaging of the Nexus [...]