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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…
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Google’s Loon Project : Balloon Powered Internet Access
So what is Loon Project ? Loon Project is a latest moonshot from Google[x] which aims to provide cheap internet to the two-thirds of the world’s population who do not yet have Internet access. Project Loon is a network of balloons traveling on the edge of space, designed to connect people in rural and remote areas, help fill…
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Google’s Cube Slam Cheats
Cube Slam is a video game that you can play face-to-face against your friends. It’s a Chrome Experiment built using WebRTC, an open web technology that lets you video chat right in the browser without installing any plug-ins. Cube Slam’s graphics are rendered in WebGL and CSS 3D, and its custom soundtrack is delivered dynamically through Web Audio. Try Cube Slam Now !…
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Android Studio 0.1.3 Released
Google Developers said We’ve just released Android Studio 0.1.3 with a number of fixes around Gradle project support, editor support, and user reported crashes. There is a new toolbar action for syncing Gradle file state with the IDE; source and layout editors now properly handle Gradle flavors and build types, and lint warns and can fix…
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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
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
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…
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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…
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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…
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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…