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Download Google Music web app for iPhone and iPad

Arun — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 05:31:59 +0000

Google Music App for iOS devices (iPhone and iPad) available now. The App comes with Web interface. Once the user signed up for a Google Music account with his iPad or iPhone, he can get the mobile interface.

Users can upload up to 20,000 songs from thier personal music collection to listen on their iPhone or iPad.

How to get Google Music App for iPhone and iPad

Currently Google Music in in beta and with limited time free offer. You need an invite to use the service as well as the iOS App.

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How to Disable Remove Google Black Top Bar

Arun — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 17:38:36 +0000

Google recently rolled out all of its Google Search Pages, Gmail, Google Plus etc with a Top Bar in white/blue color. But it seems Google is testing that Top bar with different colors. Recently Google stopped its testing by rolling out with a Black Top Bar. But users showed their discomfort and criticized it looks wrong. It completely spoils the user’s Google Custom Homepage. It seems users liked the White/Blue colored Top Google Bar.

How to Disable Remove Google Black Top Bar ?

Disabling the Google back Top bar is very easy. It is a simple trick with some scripts in Firefox and Google Chrome.

For Firefox : install Greasemonkey Addon for Firefox. After that install this Google Bar Classic By Olmer.

For Google Chrome : Install this free addon called Remove Black Bar from Google.

Yahoo Buzz and Google Videos Shutting down

Arun — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 19:18:41 +0000

Two popular services by two internet giants Google and Yahoo will be closed very soon. Yahoo Buzz and Google Videos shutting down.

Yahoo Buzz Shutting Down on April 21,2011:

Yahoo Buzz started in 2008,is a news article sharing,Social Bookmarking website heavily inspired from Digg.It will be closed down on April 21,2011. Yahoo said “Part of our organizational streamlining involves cutting our investment in under-performing or off-strategy products to put better focus on our core strengths and fund new innovation in the next year and beyond”. It clearly shows Yahoo-Buzz is under-performing and Non-Profitable.

Google Videos Shutting down

Google Videos is a video search engine, and formerly a free video sharing website started in the year 2005.Google announced via email that after April 29 they would no longer allow playback of content uploaded to their service, effectively becoming a video search engine. Videos will still be available for download by the owner until May 13, 2011, when they will be removed.

Google encourages all the Google Videos members to move their videos to Google’s YouTube.

Samsung Google Nexus S Review: Advantages Features and Disadvantages

Arun — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 18:09:55 +0000

Google introduced their latest version of the Android platform, Gingerbread, and unveiled the next Android device from the Nexus line of mobile products—Nexus S. Its Samsung’s first connection with Google.

Samsung Google Nexus S Mobile Specifications

Android 2.3 (Gingerbread)
1GHz Cortex A8 (Hummingbird) processor
16GB iNAND flash memory
4.0″ WVGA (480×800) Contour Display with curved glass screen
Anti-fingerprint display coating
Back Facing: 5 megapixels (2560×1920) Camera
Front-facing: VGA (640×480)
720 x 480 video resolution
H.264, H.263 MPEG4 video recording
Wi-Fi 802.11 n/b/g
Bluetooth 2.1+EDR
Near Field Communication (NFC)
Assisted GPS (A-GPS)
microUSB 2.0
Quad-band GSM: 850, 900, 1800, 1900
Tri-band HSPA: 900, 2100, 1700
HSPA type: HSDPA (7.2Mbps) HSUPA (5.76Mbps)
Talk time up to 6.7 hours on 3G (14 hours on 2G)
Weight: 129g

Samsung Google Nexus S Advantages and Disadvantages

Gingerbread pre-installed
One-touch word selection and improved copy-paste
Internet calling (VoIP/ SIP support)
Portable Wi-Fi hotspot
1GHz Hummingbird processor
Brilliant 4” Contour Display
Unlocked by default
Latest Google Mobile apps
Rear and front-facing cameras
Nexus S provides access to over 100,000 apps, games, and widgets on Android Market

Disadvantages will be updated soon.Best Buy has announced it will sell the team for $ 199 on contract or for $ 529 unlocked (so your choice)

Download Chrome Toolbox-an Extension by Google Employees

Arun — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 13:21:02 +0000

Chrome Toolbox is a new extension developed by Google employees for their Browser Google Chrome.Its quick access tool that allows you to put your favorite browser commands in one drop down menu, save unsubmitted form data, magnify images, view videos in standalone windows, and define shortcuts to open all links in any bookmark folder.

Chrome Toolbox Features

Magnify any image on a web page, set it as your wallpaper, and view it in its original size
Drag any video on a web page (Flash and HTML5 video) out of the page in its own stand-alone window, closing the window puts it back to the original page, both with play state reservation
Customize tab behavior to close the tab on double click, to create a new tab on closing the last tab, and to always open a link in its own tab
Save and restore unsubmitted form data, to avoid data loss caused by session expiration or a no-cache page setting
One shortcut to launch all predefined URLs (from your Bookmark Manager folder)
Learn, compare and contrast shortcuts in Chrome and other popular browsers.
Put your favorite Chrome functionalities in the drop down menu, reorder them in the way you like
Define Boss Key
Mute all tabs

This extension will not only boost your productivity while using Chrome, but also help you learn a lot of browser functionalities and shortcuts that are mostly hidden . Download the Chrome Toolbox extension

[ via Chrome Blog ]

Google's free URL Shortner Goo.gl available to everyone

Arun — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 10:55:42 +0000

Google’s URL Shortening service Goo.gl available to public now.It will be a major competitor to other url shortening services.Goo.gl provides automatic spam detection and as it is from Google we can assure maximum uptime and reliability. Goo.gl also provides analytics on the links like Link History, Traffic, Referrers, countries, browsers, platform etc. This will be an excellent URL shortener for free of cost.

How do I use the Google URL Shortener?

Go to goo.gl and paste the long URL you wish to shorten into the input box at the top of the page. Click “Shorten” and to the right of the box you’ll see a short goo.gl URL that can be copied and pasted anywhere you’d like to share it.

If you’d like to track the analytics of your shortened URL, please sign in to your Google Account before shortening your URL. Your shortened URL will automatically be added to your goo.gl history.

Why use the Google URL Shortener?

People share a lot of links online. This is particularly true as microblogging services such as Twitter and Google Buzz have grown in popularity. With character limits in tweets, status updates, and other modes of short form publishing, a shorter URL leaves more room to say what’s on your mind.

Free download YouTube/Google Videos in different Formats

Arun — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 18:31:31 +0000

Bender Converter is an easy-to-use online application for downloading and converting videos from such services as YouTube, Daily Motion, Mega Video, Vimeo, TwitVid.com, Veoh, Google Video and many others. You can download video and audio in MP3, AVI, FLV Flash, iPod / iPhone and other popular formats. The service is fast and doesn’t require you to register. All that you need is a link to a page with a video and our software.

You can also do video search at Benderconverter.com and the service is very fast and No registration is required to download/Convert the Videos.

Download Google Alarm-Notifies Google Monitoring

Arun — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 17:41:26 +0000

Google Alarm is add-on for Firefox and Chrome Browsers. It will notify you whenever your PC information is sent to Google Servers.You don’t have to visit a Google-owned Web site in order for information to be sent to Google. You can visit a site that uses any of Google’s services, such as Google Analytics or Google AdSense, among others.

Use this software and you’ll be amazed at how frequently Google gets information about you, often when you don’t expect it. But the software can’t actually do anything about that happening; it just alerts you that it happens.

Download Google Alarm Now

Firefox Add-on Chrome Add-on Safari Add-on

Gmail to Phone Free Calls-Over 1-Million Calls on First Day

Arun — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 13:53:44 +0000

Google Voice is a service by Google that allows a single Google’s phone number to link to your home, work mobile phones which is an embedded service with Gmail.

It helps to make calls from your Gmail to Phones all over the world.(ie “PC to Phone” Call ).

Gmail users will enjoy free phone calls within U.S. and Canada for at least the rest of the year, according to Gmail’s official blog. International call rates will be low, Google said, as it revised its call rates.

Gmail users will have to download and install Google’s voice and video chat plugin. Gmail users should look for a “Call Phone” from the Chat menu in Gmail’s sidebar and dial any phone number using the virtual keypad. Gmail users with a Google Voice account can also receive incoming calls to their number within Gmail.

1 Million GMail Calls in 24-Hours

Gmail users will enjoy free phone calls within U.S. and Canada for at least the rest of the year.Google announced on Twitter that Gmail users have made more than a million calls within 24 hours since the free PC-to-phone call Gmail service was launched.

Google's facebook Killer "Google Me"

Arun — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 14:51:57 +0000

Google Likely to Launch Facebook Killer Soon.After all, Google has offered the Orkut social network for years, and it’s been a relative failure for everyone except the Brazilians.

Google Buzz, more of a Twitter than a Facebook, hasn’t taken over by the world.

Google this week confirmed its acquisition of online entertainment company Slide. The purchase rehashed speculation that the search giant is interested in working its way into social media, possibly with a game-centered service called “Google Me.”

Google’s Past Social Media attempts:

Google Buzz.
Orkut
Google Wave
Google Friend Connect
Google Me (Rumored)