Jash Jacob

Jash Jacob

Jash Jacob is the editor-in-chief and founder of Techzei, an independent technology publication based in India. He covers consumer technology, Apple, smartphones, software and product launches.

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  • Mapping With Google Gives Instant Access To New Google Maps

    Mapping With Google Gives Instant Access To New Google Maps

    Google has announced a new online course called Mapping with Google. Google Users will be able to register for this course and at the end participants will be provided with a certificate of completion. Sounds amazing , right ? Google said  “Want to tell a visual story of interesting places—from your favorite restaurants to newly discovered hiking trails?…

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  • How To Try Google Glass On Android Smartphone

    How To Try Google Glass On Android Smartphone

    Everyone’s so excited about the Google Glass. Everyone hopes that google ships these devices by the end of 2013. For the unlucky ones who could not get the hands on the Google Glass , this might be your lucky day. Couple of developers have hacked the glass for good and made it to run on…

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  • Get All Chromium Assets In One Place

    Get All Chromium Assets In One Place

    If you’re a designer or just an avid fan of assets, you can go right now to (link no longer available) and start to skim more than 1300 assets live. The cool thing is that you can also share some of your favorite assets. (link no longer available) (link no longer available) (link no longer available) (link no…

  • Access Chrome Apps From Spotlight

    Access Chrome Apps From Spotlight

    A “Create shortcut” context menu option in chrome://apps has been added in the last chromium build for Mac which allows you to launch your favorite Chrome Apps from Spotlight. If you want to test that, download the last Chromium build at download-chromium.appspot.com (or wait for Canary to auto-update) How To Make the Chrome App Accessible From Spotlight Enable the flag chrome://flags/#enable-app-shims…

  • Google Won’t Allow Face Recognition On Google Glass

    Google Won’t Allow Face Recognition On Google Glass

    Lambda Labs recently announced plans to launch their Face Recognition API for the Google Glass platform, but seems like they’re going to be disappointed  because Google has announced that they would not allow any face recognition technology on the Google Glass due to privacy concerns. Google Glass Team posted on Google+ When we started the Explorer Program nearly a…

  • Google Hangouts Easter Eggs Are Cute

    Google Hangouts Easter Eggs Are Cute

    Shortly after Google announced their new unified chat service called Hangouts, users discovered a handful of Easter Eggs.They can be accessed with a simple command in a chat box on either Google+ or through the Chrome app.Thanks to googler +Moritz Tolxdorff. Just use of these codes and see the magic in your chat boxes. /ponies A different pony…

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  • 4 Reasons To Upgrade To Nexus 4

    4 Reasons To Upgrade To Nexus 4

    The phone which was released in November last year, was the first Nexus phone created by LG. Like the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, Nexus 4 was packed with several special features including swift software updates, Vanilla Android and Unlocked Boot loader. Jelly Bean 4.3 coming soon Nexus 4 phone has already been spotted with Android 4.3…

  • Chrome Message Center Arrives with Chrome Canary for Mac

    Chrome Message Center Arrives with Chrome Canary for Mac

    Mac users now have access to Chrome’s new ‘Message Center’ in Canary builds. The feature, already available to ChromeOS and Windows Dev Channel users, provides a centralised place for viewing and responding to various alerts from services, apps, and extensions. At present the feature isn’t too fancy; a status bar item has been added to the…

  • Racer – A Chrome Experiment

    Racer – A Chrome Experiment

    A new experiment through Google Chrome called Racer teams up Android and iOS devices to create a racing game across multiple devices, as demonstrated  during the Google I/O keynote speech.   Racer – Chrome Experiment → Racer is compatible with any device able to run Chrome, and players can enter current games by entering in individual race codes.…

  • Google IO 2013 Live on Youtube

    Google IO 2013 Live on Youtube

    Google I/O 2013 is just a few hours away, and the excitement is in the air. The event will be streamed live online on YouTube and the video page for the Keynote has gone live. Don’t forget to set a reminder to watch the Live Keynote.

  • Google Mapathon 2013

    Google Mapathon 2013

    Mapathon 2013 — which starts on February 12 and culminates on March 25, 2013 — is an India-wide   mapping contest open to just about anybody who lives in India. Inviting Google Maps users from all over the country to help create better maps for India by adding knowledge of their neighborhoods through Google Map Maker.…