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  • Does Having a Lot of Stuff on Your Desktop Slow Down Your Computer?
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    Does Having a Lot of Stuff on Your Desktop Slow Down Your Computer?

    As a computer owner, you want a device that is performing optimally at all times. Whether it is work, studies, or entertainment, running into random crashes and overall sluggish speed is not fun. The frustration builds over time, and unless you get to the bottom of the problem and solve it, you can expect to…

  • How To Get Unbiased Search Results From Google
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    How To Get Unbiased Search Results From Google

    Its no secret that Google knows more about you than your girlfriend. Google’s search results are highly biased or rather optimised based on your personal browsing habits and your location. Although this is meant to enrich your search results, it often turns out to be inclined on the wrong side. Especially with all the country specific…

  • Google’s Nexus 6 Pricing leaves Indians disappointed
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    Google’s Nexus 6 Pricing leaves Indians disappointed

    Google finally changed the pricing scheme for its nexus devices with the Nexus 6. The entire Nexus branding no longer seems to do what it was initially intended to do, provide a cheap alternative to emulators to attract developers to help develop apps for the Android platform. Not only about developers, it was also Google’s…

  • Google I/O 2014 Updates

    Google I/O 2014 Updates

    Weeks after Apple’s WWDC, it’s Google’s turn now. Google is expected to release a new version of Android and talk more about wearable technology. The majority of the announcement will take place during the keynote which is scheduled to start at 9am PT/12pm ET. Join us here to know more. This is not a live…

  • How to make people Google for stuff
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    How to make people Google for stuff

    There are these times when I get asked questions and I wish I could make people Google them instead. These questions are usually ridiculously dumb or things that are pretty straightforward which can be googled. You can ask a person things that you don’t find on the Internet. Are people too lazy to use Google? Desperate…

  • 3 Tips To Find Better Results on Google Image Search

    3 Tips To Find Better Results on Google Image Search

    Every internet surfer would be familiar with Google Image Search. If you are looking for Images, Go to Google Images, type the term and you get several results! Easy as pie. Google indexes millions of web pages, so users can search for the information they contain using simple keywords. Here are 5 Google Image search tips to…

  • Android 4.4.4 Now Rolling Out For Nexus Devices
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    Android 4.4.4 Now Rolling Out For Nexus Devices

    Android 4 .4 .4 KTU84P Factory Images & Driver Binaries Are Now Available for Nexus Devices! Just over sometime ago 4.4.3 was launched after many leaks, while the next big version is being awaited at the I/O later this month, the update has taken everyone by surprise. Seriously, No one saw it coming with Google I/O…

  • Google I/O 2014 App Available on Play Store

    Google I/O 2014 App Available on Play Store

    With Google I/O 2014  just two weeks away, Google has released Google I/O 2014 app to help people stay up to date with everything happening at Google I/O, whether you’re attending in-person or remotely. Through this app you’ll be able to explore the full conference agenda, add events to a personalized schedule, find your next session on the…

  • FIFA World Cup Trends from Google
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    FIFA World Cup Trends from Google

    The streets of Brazil are continuously cheering for the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Officially, it has now begun. According to the data provided by the Google, there are more than 202.4+ million related searches about world cup with just 4 matches being played. So, what does the world actually want to know? What is the…

  • Google’s Project Ara Will Debut January 2015

    Google’s Project Ara Will Debut January 2015

    Google revealed that the first generation Project Ara device will be launched in January 2015. Project Ara was first started out by Motorola along with Dave from Phonebloks project, Google retained the ownership of Project Ara when it sold Motorola to Lenovo. With the modular phone, Google wants to take Android even further and from coming…

  • Vic Gundotra Resigns From Google

    Vic Gundotra Resigns From Google

    Vic Gundotra the man who built the now famous Google+ social network from nothing has announced his resignation from Google after 8 long years. Vic was the man who built Google+ from nothing after Google’s previous failed social networks. Vic joined Google eight years ago after working with Microsoft for 15 years. He started the…

  • Google sells Motorola Mobility to Lenovo for $2.91 billion
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    Google sells Motorola Mobility to Lenovo for $2.91 billion

    Google sells Motorola Mobility to Lenovo, which gives the chinese smartphone manufacturer a key to enter into the US market. Google had been losing hundreds of millions every quarter since the purchase of Motorola, and it appears it’s finally time to cut loose. Google believes Lenovo can turn Motorola into a major player in the…

  • Google developing a New IDE Chrome App Codenamed Spark
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    Google developing a New IDE Chrome App Codenamed Spark

    François Beaufort revealed on Google+ that the Chromium team is working on a exciting new IDE for Google Chrome. This project is to enable Chrome OS users to have a better IDE for development. The IDE is built with Dart, which came out of beta a week ago and Polymer for widgets GUI.  It’s codenamed Spark and the…

  • Coder Review
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    Coder Review

    Google recently launched their own Raspberry Pi project which is free, open-source and is available in Github for you to mess around with. Coder is a platform which can simplify the lives of teachers and educators who teach basics of building on the web. It is a platform which creates a local server and lets…

  • Opt Out of Google’s Weird New Ads that use your Face And Name

    Opt Out of Google’s Weird New Ads that use your Face And Name

    If you didn’t know already, Google has started to use your name and face for their advertisements. The good part is that it just takes two clicks to opt-out thanks to TechCrunch writer Greg Kumparak who went into the depths of Google+ to find it out for us. Here’s how to do it Click this link. (And,…

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