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Google rolls out new features for Google+ Communities
Google has finally rolled a few highly requested features for Google+ Communities.The first one is that now you can turn email notifications on or off for community posts and the second one is a brand new moderator view that puts flagged posts in a out of sight “Spam Folder”. The second feature should ideally help moderators…
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Google Maps Lite For Internet Explorer and Slow Computers
Google has finally introduced “Lite Mode” to Google Maps. This feature is to enable users who are using older and slow computers use the power of Google Maps easily. Lite mode enables google maps to work on some older browsers and operating systems , even on browsers that do not support WebGL and on systems…
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Google Improves RAW Photo support on Google Plus
Google has updated lot of things in the last few days starting from app updates to #Hashtags for Google search. The latest update is for Google Plus which is quite popular with photographers has improved RAW photo support. RAW-to-JPEG conversion in Google Plus is a major overhaul and It’s largely due to the acquirement of…
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Street View at CERN
Over the past few months, we’ve seen Street View come up for all sorts of places. Famous places. From Oceans to Cathedrals. But now is the time to treat the Science Geeks. Google has just released Street View at CERN! CERN is an European Particle Physics laboratory based in Geneva where some of the greatest…
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YouTube Mobile App To Soon Support Offline Streaming
YouTube team took to their blog to announce the next big cool feature for the YouTube mobile app.In what we consider as completely unexpected, The YouTube team announced that they would support offline streaming starting from November. Obviously, the video wouldn’t be saved forever to your device, but exact time span has not been announced…
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Google is Shutting Down iGoogle
Google has decided to end yet another product but only this time it’s retiring something which is not so popular in the recent years. The product retiring is iGoogle which was launched in the year 2005.It is scheduled to shutdown on November 1,2013 , the mobile version was already shutdown on July 31st,2012.Google stated it’s…
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Google Now Update Brings Bunch Of New Cards
Google has a new update for it’s Google Now App on the Android platform with new bunch of cards.The app can be updated now and is available for all phones above Android 4.1. The search engine giant has been working with Google Now and bring lot of improvements over the weeks. Car rentals card: Get…
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Google Helpouts – Powered by Google Hangouts
Google announced “helpouts” without much noise, it is a video chat service where experts can make a few quick bucks while assisting people for various tasks.As the name suggest, helpouts seems to be based on hangouts that has already been launched by Google few weeks back. It is not yet available for the public but…
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How To Disable Touchscreen On ChromeBook Pixel
Chromebook Pixel comes with a amazing display which is also a touch screen. If for some reasons you’re not comfortable with the Touch Screen, you can disable touchscreen on ChromeBook Pixel. Go to chrome://flags Set the “Touch Events” flag to “Disabled” Touch screen tips for your Chromebook Pixel Tap: Just tap the screen on the…
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Google Chrome Extensions for Penetration Testing
With e-hack around the corner I thought of posting a few amazing Chrome Extensions I use for checking vulnerabilities on Websites. E-hack is a Capture the Flag event which is going to be conducted on 27th July in Chennai. If you haven’t registered already you can still register here.You can find the full coverage about…
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Google Webmaster Tool Gets An Update With Easier Navigation
Google finally decided to update it’s Webmaster Tools platform with a update to make all the webmaster’s lives easier with easier navigation. The previous UI was really confusing and one couldn’t find what existed where. New Search Appearance pop-up Beginner webmasters will appreciate the new Search Appearance pop-up, which can be used to visualize how your site…
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The End Of Google Reader
Today is the day. July 1, 2013. Remember that harsh announcement from Google ? Around 4 months ago Google announced that Google Reader would be put to rest from July 2013. We thought it was quite sometime to figure out alternatives but the day is already here. If you want to retain your Reader data,…
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Google+ Photos Native App For ChromeBook Pixel
Google+ Photos App is finally available for all chrombook pixel users. It’s unclear when the other platform will get this App. The app is designed to ease the process of fetching photos from your camera or phone and quickly upload it on Google+. AJ Asver posted on Google+ : 1) When you plug an SD card…
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Google Announces Offline Disk Import For Google Cloud Storage
Transferring large data sets (in the hundreds of terabytes and beyond) can be expensive and time-consuming over the public network. Google now offers a service that let’s you Disk Import offline ! Google announced via blog post saying : To use offline disk import, write your data to HDDs and then ship them to a Google importcenter…
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Google’s Unified Storage Rolling Out Slowly
Google’s unified storage is finally here for almost everyone (it’s gradually being rolled out). The 25GB plan is no longer available and the entry level plan offers 100GB for $4.99/month. You get 15GB of free storage for Gmail, Google Drive and Google+ Photos and you can buy additional storage (100GB, 200GB, 400GB, 1TB, 2TB, 4TB, 8TB, 16TB). Until now, the…