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Amazing Tools by Google - I. Navigation, Cooking and others
Google is a well-known search engine that keeps incorporating new tools and features from time to time. Let us find out a few of these useful tools or features that helps a user in day-to-day activities.
COOKING
With Google introducing the tool of Cooking in its search functionality it is now relatively easier to search for the latest recopies. You will be easily able to find relevant searches according to the keywords this way and avoid useless links. You will further be benefited with the search results with various headings that include categorization. For example, recipes for diabetics, low-carbo, low fat, vegetarian and weight watchers, etc. now it becomes relatively easier for you to search accordingly.
HANGOUT
This is a video chat provided by Google. Utilizing this service a user can engage in simultaneous video chat with at least 10 users instantly. The video chat can also be done through your mobile device, tablet or desktop. You will be able to view the chat friend in a window the moment you start the conversation. In Hangout, you also have the sharing option of collaborating docs and sharing screens. You also have the option of broadcasting your chat on Google+ profile or share it across YouTube instantaneously.
NAVIGATION AND TRAFFIC
Google has come up with the latest for Android users; this includes voice navigation that guides a user giving directions. This feature is accessible from Google Maps even users having navigation app on their phone can gain this functionality. Additionally this is not all; a user will also be able to get a clear indication about the traffic information through live updates. This feature is for selected cities along with color-coding that indicates the heavy (red), moderate (yellow) and frees (green). If you are stuck in a jam then you also have the advantage of taking an alternate route suggested via map avoiding traffic.
Read about the other tools in the next blog.
The Trending Sites
We are all fascinated by the growing variety and in depth level of information and knowledge that users, bloggers, websites etc. share on the internet. It's a growing list of popular links that people refer these days after browsing through search engines.
I have populated here a list of technical links that you could refer on for some daily dose of news, innovations and interesting facts. I will post new links in my next post. Till then happy time spending :)
TechStuffWiz
Mashable
Quora
NextNewDeal
HowStuffWorks
Coursera
I have populated here a list of technical links that you could refer on for some daily dose of news, innovations and interesting facts. I will post new links in my next post. Till then happy time spending :)
TechStuffWiz
Mashable
Quora
NextNewDeal
HowStuffWorks
Coursera
To Do things to keep your environment safe
You want to do something for your environment but can't think of anything. Here's some things you can do to contribute towards being environment friendly and simultaneously telling others about it too.
1. If you work in a company, you know that everyday there are hundreds and thousands of print outs getting printed every single day. That itself is a huge huge load on paper which in turn falls on trees. To reduce the load, reduce your prints.
If there is a bulk of print outs that you want to print, just reduce the font size of your entire document.
So for example, if you want to print 10 papers of a document, you might end up utilizing only 8 papers. That is a neat saving of paper sheets. If this is the case with one individual, just imagine the saving we can do with billions every single day.
2. You keep your phone on charge mode, you see your phone is charged 100%. Yet we sometimes ignore to remove the charger off our phone and keep the charging going. This is not a good practice.
It only ends up over heating our phone and wasting precious electricity. Start charging only up to a limit that is required. This will save our time and money too.
So switch off your AC's, Gaming consoles and other stuff when not required.
3. We sometimes forget or overlook to switch off the electric plug when we are done with our chores or watching TV for example. The bad part of this is it leads to current getting leaked also called as leakage current.
The result is the same. Avoiding this practice can lead to a less money wastage.
4. You can also save power by just changing the URL of your favorite search engine. Google had launched a new webpage called 'Blackle' which saves power because of its black screen. So logging onto Blackle can save power.
5. Participate in Earth Hour initiatives. Such initiatives do help saving power, resources etc. Or you might not even need an Earth Hour. Just do your own Earth Hour.
1. If you work in a company, you know that everyday there are hundreds and thousands of print outs getting printed every single day. That itself is a huge huge load on paper which in turn falls on trees. To reduce the load, reduce your prints.
If there is a bulk of print outs that you want to print, just reduce the font size of your entire document.
So for example, if you want to print 10 papers of a document, you might end up utilizing only 8 papers. That is a neat saving of paper sheets. If this is the case with one individual, just imagine the saving we can do with billions every single day.
2. You keep your phone on charge mode, you see your phone is charged 100%. Yet we sometimes ignore to remove the charger off our phone and keep the charging going. This is not a good practice.
It only ends up over heating our phone and wasting precious electricity. Start charging only up to a limit that is required. This will save our time and money too.
So switch off your AC's, Gaming consoles and other stuff when not required.
3. We sometimes forget or overlook to switch off the electric plug when we are done with our chores or watching TV for example. The bad part of this is it leads to current getting leaked also called as leakage current.
The result is the same. Avoiding this practice can lead to a less money wastage.
4. You can also save power by just changing the URL of your favorite search engine. Google had launched a new webpage called 'Blackle' which saves power because of its black screen. So logging onto Blackle can save power.
5. Participate in Earth Hour initiatives. Such initiatives do help saving power, resources etc. Or you might not even need an Earth Hour. Just do your own Earth Hour.
Google's the best Doodles - John Lennon, Games, Arts, Technology and much more
Impressed by Doodles and want to see more. Well here I have compiled some of the best doodles Google has come up with over these years. Get ready and enjoy !!!
For the rest of the exciting and dynamic doodles, go to this link below:
DOODLE
The music legend John Lennon
Charlie Chaplin
For the rest of the exciting and dynamic doodles, go to this link below:
DOODLE
Tweet in Rhythm
Oh yes, get ready to tweet the rhythm. Twitter has just launched a music functionality. It is called 'We are Hunted'.
Twitter bought this new start-up with an intention to reach out to the masses with the profound music culture.
The music application will provide the user with newly released Songs, Albums information from around the globe. Check out this official website for more information https://music.twitter.com
As the trend continues, this social giant has also got to acquire new start-ups to expand their value in the social networking market.
We are hunted determines trending songs and artists and gives this information to the users. This australian based company have announced that they will provide their services by joining hands with Twitter.
We are Hunted will allow online music streaming by using SoundCloud. This application will also allow video streaming via. Vevo. And if this app also allows music purchase, ads display and other stuff, we would have a new competitor to the e-Commerce business.
So now people can tweet and listen to their favorite music and watch videos too. Looks like We are Hunted surely got into hunting it right !!!
Twitter bought this new start-up with an intention to reach out to the masses with the profound music culture.
The music application will provide the user with newly released Songs, Albums information from around the globe. Check out this official website for more information https://music.twitter.com
As the trend continues, this social giant has also got to acquire new start-ups to expand their value in the social networking market.
We are hunted determines trending songs and artists and gives this information to the users. This australian based company have announced that they will provide their services by joining hands with Twitter.
We are Hunted will allow online music streaming by using SoundCloud. This application will also allow video streaming via. Vevo. And if this app also allows music purchase, ads display and other stuff, we would have a new competitor to the e-Commerce business.
So now people can tweet and listen to their favorite music and watch videos too. Looks like We are Hunted surely got into hunting it right !!!
The Chinese OS
In a move that could disappoint the OS giants, the Chinese government has asked Canonical to help them build an OS which will be specific for Chinese users on a whole. The new operating system will be called Ubuntu Kylin.
This OS will support Chinese dates and the language too. Kylin may also be able to run on websites, Shops, Portals etc.
This news also explains the intentions of the chinese to spread and support their technology to the world. Control over the Internet being the previous news.
This means a no-no to the known OS makers on the Chinese lands. Initially in a move, Microsoft had raised concerns to China over the growing piracy of their operating system and had put pressure to stop this rampant piracy.
With the Chinese coming with their own version of an OS, this may completely stop dependency on the West. Because an OS is just the beginning, later on many more technological dependencies may be stopped like software applications, Support and maintenance applications, Hardware, Machinery and much more stuff.
This OS will support Chinese dates and the language too. Kylin may also be able to run on websites, Shops, Portals etc.
This news also explains the intentions of the chinese to spread and support their technology to the world. Control over the Internet being the previous news.
This means a no-no to the known OS makers on the Chinese lands. Initially in a move, Microsoft had raised concerns to China over the growing piracy of their operating system and had put pressure to stop this rampant piracy.
With the Chinese coming with their own version of an OS, this may completely stop dependency on the West. Because an OS is just the beginning, later on many more technological dependencies may be stopped like software applications, Support and maintenance applications, Hardware, Machinery and much more stuff.
WatsApp and a Billion $$$
Going once .. Going twice .. Going thrice .. and it's a Billion !!!
Rumor has it that the most popular mobile chat software 'WatsApp' may be going for sale. The party to buy this mobile czar is none other than our next door neighbor 'Google'. Seriously if Google does buy WatsApp, nothing can beat the Internet Giants.
What's interesting is that last year or so FB has been on the lookout to buy WatsApp. But it seems that the deal just never took off. WatsApp being the best mobile chat messenger may be having other plans. But WatsApp can do big things if it sticks to what it has been doing rather than sell off your greatest and the most popular idea to net giants.
Look at FB, they have gone miles from where they have started. From a simple social networking start-up leading to a billion dollar jackpot. And now FB deals with e-Commerce, Ads, Apps of all nature and sizes, Chat, Messaging, Groups and a whole lot of user benefit initiatives. That's what time does. You think, scratch hard and your start-up is a profit making venture.
I would really like WatsApp to go the long way. It's tough but it's worth taking a risk :)
Rumor has it that the most popular mobile chat software 'WatsApp' may be going for sale. The party to buy this mobile czar is none other than our next door neighbor 'Google'. Seriously if Google does buy WatsApp, nothing can beat the Internet Giants.
What's interesting is that last year or so FB has been on the lookout to buy WatsApp. But it seems that the deal just never took off. WatsApp being the best mobile chat messenger may be having other plans. But WatsApp can do big things if it sticks to what it has been doing rather than sell off your greatest and the most popular idea to net giants.
Look at FB, they have gone miles from where they have started. From a simple social networking start-up leading to a billion dollar jackpot. And now FB deals with e-Commerce, Ads, Apps of all nature and sizes, Chat, Messaging, Groups and a whole lot of user benefit initiatives. That's what time does. You think, scratch hard and your start-up is a profit making venture.
I would really like WatsApp to go the long way. It's tough but it's worth taking a risk :)
The FB Home App. Flashy or unncessary?
So it's finally out now.
That FB is rolling out an app should have been known. They don't have a tie-up with phone manufacturers nor right now have the fire power to come up with an OS tough enough to beat the likes of Android and Apple Inc.
The app is named FB Home and it will be available on Android's Play Store. The app will integrate in the phone such that it will merge the users in the social networking medium.
The Home app acts like a medium between Android and the end-user. That is a neat idea to woo the users and the shareholders without going through much fuss of creating a phone or an OS. In my opinion, it seems unlikely that people will live long enough with the trademark white and blue styles and themes. However, this will get clear only when the app is launched by the Google Giants.
Another point is that will Android in its all consciousness block the FB Home from the Play Store, considering it's a rival in the tech world. If they do block the app, it will create negative vibes for the Google profit holders and make a bad impression for themselves. Google won't do that considering the intention that openness is a key characteristic Android thrives on. FB might play with the risk of publishing ad content depending upon user's choice, to generate more revenue. It's not necessary though because FB would just want to up their visibility on the OS stage as of now.
It has been so far so good for FB. Rest depends on Google :)
That FB is rolling out an app should have been known. They don't have a tie-up with phone manufacturers nor right now have the fire power to come up with an OS tough enough to beat the likes of Android and Apple Inc.
The app is named FB Home and it will be available on Android's Play Store. The app will integrate in the phone such that it will merge the users in the social networking medium.
The Home app acts like a medium between Android and the end-user. That is a neat idea to woo the users and the shareholders without going through much fuss of creating a phone or an OS. In my opinion, it seems unlikely that people will live long enough with the trademark white and blue styles and themes. However, this will get clear only when the app is launched by the Google Giants.
Another point is that will Android in its all consciousness block the FB Home from the Play Store, considering it's a rival in the tech world. If they do block the app, it will create negative vibes for the Google profit holders and make a bad impression for themselves. Google won't do that considering the intention that openness is a key characteristic Android thrives on. FB might play with the risk of publishing ad content depending upon user's choice, to generate more revenue. It's not necessary though because FB would just want to up their visibility on the OS stage as of now.
It has been so far so good for FB. Rest depends on Google :)
World's biggest Telescope ALMA
Hey people ...
I was off for a seriously long time and now I'm back. My hunger for tech stuff has only got bigger and I'm glad i am back after this long.
Coming back to the serious stuff :), a news has come in which states that one of the powerful telescopes ever has been built and it's coming online. That is good news for star gazers and space lovers.
The opportunities to gaze at the unknown and then knowing about it are countless. Thumbs up to the many people who contribute to such high-end projects.
It's called the ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/submilimeter Array). This astronomical wonder has been setup entirely in Chile at the Chilean Atacama desert. The telescope is a collection of four 27-foot telescopes that can all link together to observe one object. Cool huh.
ALMA’s power is not only in imaging but in spectroscopy. The light collected by ALMA can be spread out by frequency (or wavelength, depending on your tastes) where tons and TONS of emission lines can be seen from molecules in space. The identities of many of these molecules are unknown, so ALMA will be like a chemistry lab for the universe as well, with its own set of tools.
The ALMA site with the average annual rainfall below 100 mm is the perfect place for a new telescope capable of detecting radio waves just millimeters in wavelength. Indeed, radio waves penetrate a lot of the gas and dust in space, and can pass through the Earth’s atmosphere with little distortion. However, if the atmosphere above ALMA contained water, the radio signals would be heavily absorbed – the tiny droplets of water scatter the radio waves in all directions before they reach the telescope, and would degrade the quality of the observations.
The online images can be seen here at ALMA
I was off for a seriously long time and now I'm back. My hunger for tech stuff has only got bigger and I'm glad i am back after this long.
Coming back to the serious stuff :), a news has come in which states that one of the powerful telescopes ever has been built and it's coming online. That is good news for star gazers and space lovers.
The opportunities to gaze at the unknown and then knowing about it are countless. Thumbs up to the many people who contribute to such high-end projects.
It's called the ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/submilimeter Array). This astronomical wonder has been setup entirely in Chile at the Chilean Atacama desert. The telescope is a collection of four 27-foot telescopes that can all link together to observe one object. Cool huh.
ALMA’s power is not only in imaging but in spectroscopy. The light collected by ALMA can be spread out by frequency (or wavelength, depending on your tastes) where tons and TONS of emission lines can be seen from molecules in space. The identities of many of these molecules are unknown, so ALMA will be like a chemistry lab for the universe as well, with its own set of tools.
The ALMA site with the average annual rainfall below 100 mm is the perfect place for a new telescope capable of detecting radio waves just millimeters in wavelength. Indeed, radio waves penetrate a lot of the gas and dust in space, and can pass through the Earth’s atmosphere with little distortion. However, if the atmosphere above ALMA contained water, the radio signals would be heavily absorbed – the tiny droplets of water scatter the radio waves in all directions before they reach the telescope, and would degrade the quality of the observations.
The online images can be seen here at ALMA
Google Goggles
It's finally out.
For Google fans, there's a good news. Android has opened out a new application called the 'Google Goggles'. It's on the same line as is discussed on my post Project Glass
Just in short, the application enables you to take a snap or a recording
of anything around you. It then scans the image/recording and then
provides information about the object you've recorded.
A good aspect of this app is that it's available for free :)
But there's a bad news too. It works well only for a few things like Text, Products,Landmarks, Logos, Artwork, Barcodes and a few more objects. Doesn't quite give a good experience with Furniture, Apparel and Animals.
The obvious reason being that things listed it works fine with, Google has taken initiatives to store and acquire such type of data with them. Artwork has been captured through their Art Project, Landmarks using Google Maps, Products and Logos using Images that they have stored using Picassa.
Overall it's a good application. It needs work on a lot of areas though before it can becomes foolproof.
Follow the app here
Let the Games begin. Follow the Olympics 2012
And so it begins !!!
The web is a great way to stay updated and for those who can't leave their computer systems can surely afford to miss the fun. Well not literally, but Google is following the Summer Olympics closely this time. And i mean really closely.
This link here leads the way.
The official website for London games is another website that displays updates, information and loads and loads of other useful information about the Games.
It comprises of up-to-date events,, the torch rally, full schedule, voices, sayings, articles, the History of Olympics, News, Online Shopping, Photos, Videos and so much more.
Google website on the other hand is more information oriented. It contains medals tally, following a specific country's contingent, their medal tally, Events, History and loads of other information.
Olympics 2012 Doodle
Google came up with an Olympics style Doodle to mark the opening of the 2012 London Olympics that begins on 27th July.
The're going to update a new doodle everyday till the end of the Summer Olympics. Watch this space for more .....
The're going to update a new doodle everyday till the end of the Summer Olympics. Watch this space for more .....
What is Pinterest
The world's witnessed some fascinating and amazing networking websites around the years, to add to the list we have one more around now.
Welcome to Pinterest !!!
So what exactly is Pinterest???. At first I thought it was just another boring networking website trying to be cool on the face of the earth, but it ain't. It showcases our interests and our likes in an altogether different fashion.
Pinterest is more about showing or in other words following what we like. Be it Fashion, Food, Pets, Art etc etc. There is little focus on making friends which may turn out to be a breather for most of us, considering we already have FB and Plus to cover this aspect. But considering Pinterest provides a Facebook login to start with, that takes care of the argument about any rivalry.
Pinterest provides a mosaic style display of the posts that people have created or shared by pinning others boards(articles). We can like, comment or pin(share) any post that we're following on the website. We can follow our Facebook friends as well as follow new ones.
It gives us option to create a new board, on any of our likes or interest. This website is purely information sharing which is what people may also want these days. Click here for the link.
How to build a Telescope .... It's so simple
Hi All ...
Making your very own telescope is really easy. It's knowledge of lenses that you will need to make your own one.
The logic is the same as the lenses used in spectacles. Light which follows a straight path will pass through the first lens and its rays will get converged. When they pass through a second lens, the effect will be that of the distant object appearing nearer.
It's really really simple and less time consuming to make your own telescope. Watch this Youtube video to get the full idea ..... Enjoy
Website of the Day - Pinterest
The website of the day goes to ...
Tada daaaaaa .....................
Pinterest lets you pin your favorite moments, places, blogs, images, videos and a whole lot of stuff. anything that you want to share with your friends, just pin it up.
The tech page offers a whole lot of cool stuff that you would love to get your hands on. Because the links come from around the world that people want to share and want you to read about or gain information on.
I personally liked the webpage because it offers a collection of information from well known and not so well known sources, offering us an insight to lesser known people and what they want to showcase.
Internet Blackout. Can we afford it?
We may have potentially faced the worst because of this blackout that occurred on 9th July this year. The Internet blackout as they say resulted, in around 4 million systems being susceptible to the virus.
Systems not being properly monitored or kept safe by anti-virus or anti-malware programs would have been hit tremendously.This situation badly urges computer users to keep their systems safe of such commonly occurring attacks. Attacks that may have effects as bad or greater than what we've seen.
My article http://techstuffwiz.blogspot.in/2011/10/tips-and-tricks-for-better-system.html also stresses on maintaining your computer systems to derive enhanced performance. Use an effective anti-virus software either free or on purchase. It's not important to have a heavy software as it occupies much of your resources. A reliable one is sufficient.
The virus which spread to innumerable number of countries intended to alter the user's DNS settings which would always lead the user to fraudulent websites profiting the attackers.
A system well taken care of will work the best and most optimum for many many years, the same way when you had bought it, provided you take care of it and avoid unsure ways of operations.
Better to prevent and prepare rather than repent and repair :)
Windows Phone 8
Microsoft is way behind Apple and Google in it's race to attract mobile phone users towards it's Windows OS.
But their new Windows 8 phone may change that. The new phone may become Nokia's and its's greatest hopes to compete against their rivals. Microsoft recently gave out some information regarding their new OS and they also stated some important platform changes.
It confirmed that the Os will support multi-core chips. Also on a 64-core machine which is humongous for a phone. It will also support WXGA, WVGA with old application running on new software as well. It will facilitate users to port their applications from Android and IOS.
The OS will support micro-SD cards and will include Nokia's turn by turn navigation. If business is considered, the phone will support secure boot, encryption and other usual Office applications. The start up will have a new start screen, which will allow users to personalize their phones with colors and updates.
Google Turing Machine Tribute
Yesterday , Google gave a tribute to the popular scientist Alan Turing on the Google homepage. It was Alan Turing's 100th birth anniversary.
Turing had developed the Turing Machine in 1936 used widely around the world even today.
From Hotmail to Newmail
Microsoft has nowadays been kept busy by fellow competitors to hold on to its e-mail service customers. To keep the interest going on its e-mail service, the Silicon Valley giants have decided to give a makeover to its long serving Hotmail.
Hotmail was founded by Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith and launched in July 1996.
This e-mail service is close to getting 2 decades old and is the world's largest web-based email service with 364 million members, followed by Gmail and Yahoo! Mail, respectively. It is available in 36 different languages.
The new e-mail service will be called 'NewMail'. It may bear some resemblance to Gmail owing to its similar font. The search engine Microsoft Bing also shares a similar web interface as Google search engine with the search results getting displayed in the same blue font and style.
The new service will keep the user updated on their Facebook and Twitter activities as well. This will help Microsoft enter the world of social networking, diverting from it's products that used to focus purely on office softwares.
This service will work properly on mobile devices, tablets etc. Microsoft has some bigger targets to achieve on the Social Networking front. Integrating other networking services on it's products is a good idea sure to keep the customers on their pages and increase their market.
How to open a new account with Chitika
For those online users who want to earn money, monetizing your website is a good option. There are many advertisers who offer good income like Google, Chitika, Facebook and many more. In this post, I will tell how to open your account on Chitika Online Advertising Network.
After Google Adsense, Chitika offers good income on the adverts that you display. One thing I've noticed is it does take a few months to really get going with earning money by using adverts. But nevertheless, it's a great option to maximize your revenue with your online content.
Also there are many sources to increase traffic for your website. Something which is very useful if you need to monetize using your webpage on a good rate. Technorati is one of the sources where you can maximize your page views for your webpage. You can learn what it takes to open an account with Technorati by reading this post.
Click here to sign up as a new publisher on Chitika.
You will see this webpage when you click on the provided link.
This is a publisher's new user sign up page. Similarly you can also get to Advertiser's Program webpage.
Provide your personal details and your online sign-in credentials. Once your request is submitted, it goes for approval. t does take a few days to get their reply. If your request gets approved, voila you're done. You will then get an e-mail confirming your sign-up with them. You can then get started.
One thing is that the default mode of receiving your payment is through Paypal. You can also change it by going to payment options and selecting the cheque mode of payment. You will then need to provide your correct residential address to receive your payment.
Google Doodle
Google today came out with its new doodle to pay tribute to the great Russian jeweller Peter Carl Fabergé. It was his 166th birthday today.
Peter was well known for his easter eggs known as Fabergé eggs. He made these eggs by using precious metals and gemstones.
Peter was well known for his easter eggs known as Fabergé eggs. He made these eggs by using precious metals and gemstones.
Facebook - The IPO Story
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The leading social network is going all guns blazing since their new beginning with their Initial Public Offering.
Before the IPO, to raise the hoopla around them, Facebook
bought Instagram at a staggering $1 biilion. This when Instagram only
had 13 employees in the company. But most importantly, the photo sharing
application was being used by over 30 million users worldwide. That's
what caught their eye. The reach that Instagram had gained with their
photo sharing app. And now with FB having integrated Instagram, the
count has got doubled.
But the start was not actually what they thought it would be. The share prices dropped. Regularly. With a massive floatation of stocks from FB, and with a starting price of $38 per share, recovery was always going to be difficult.
Such may be the pressure, that FB is actually planning to develop a smartphone now. The smartphone would have Text messaging, the FB photo sharing, Chat and other FB provided software features. I mean the people who always hook up on FB would simply love it, but what can people expect from a social networking website bringing a smartphone in the market. I mean FB does not deal with hardware. They do not have genuises around them like Apple, Google or Microsoft. So introducing a smartphone would not be the easiest and the most smart thing to do now.
Apple apart from it's smooth and sophisticated interface can recover their money from iTunes and then there's the ever so popular and amazing Apple App Store. Google has its Android. But FB does not have these things. People nowadays lookout for interesting apps, features, hardware competency, apps stores, basic features like Radio, Bluetooth etc etc and a whole lot of etc. Even if FB is trying to pull-in some hardcore techies from Apple, executing a smartphone will be a tough ask to meet people's expectations.
In a recent news, FB was trying to include E-Commerce features onto its website. People come on FB to make new friends, share their personal moments and stay in touch. So driving people onto shopping may get a thumbs down eventually. It was also in the news that FB was not generating enough moolah from mobile advertising citing which General Motors withdrawn their advertising deal with FB.This may have triggered their thoughts to developing a smartphone.
They are even trying to buy out the Opera browser. Instead of standing on one point and executing it till the finish, it seems they are trying to execute n number of things all at the same time which may get haphazard. The strategy it seems is to convince people to not to use FB, but to live FB.
FB started with a simple and a highly sophisticated web interface that
eventually persuaded people to leave Orkut. But with mounting pressure
to keep its IPO running high, FB is slowly and steadily killing itself.
Google Knowledge Graph
Well what is it? The Knowledge Graph (KG) is actually a box that appears next to the search engine. Not any ordinary box though :)
Google say it's a kind of revolution that they have brought for the search engine. It will contain humongous amount of data that connects places, people and things and their relation with each other. It will lead you to your exact required search that you need to gather information about. It can be used to further enhance your search result.
The Knowledge Graph can understand the difference if the search may have different meanings and accordingly provide you the results that you are looking for.
The knowledge graph will not only provide information about the search you are asking for, but it will also provide information and links about subjects related to the search that you have given in the search box bar. For example, if you search about 'Earth' the planet, it may also give you information about the other planets in the Solar System. They will only refine the search results by analyzing what people are often looking for the same search that people give on the search bar so that you will probably get the desired results only for your search.
This means you can also see key facts about the search that you have given based on the questions other people have asked on the search.
This feature will also be available on smartphones, desktops, laptops so that you can discover more information and other features at the go and at your fingertips.
This will mean less amount of wastage of time and effort for your search and spending the same amount of time for your further analysis. How nice that would be.
The KG provides answers and not just links. A knowledge engine then may be the right word rather than a search engine.
You can look for the demo here.
Watch the video, they make it so good :)
Universe Scale Flash Website
I found a website recently. One of the best that I've ever seen.
It's completely made of Flash and it looks super cool. The website gives information about different man-made creations, inventions, discoveries and naturally occurring objects around the world. Not only around but ranging from the largest to the smallest objects that exist in the universe.
A scroll bar is present at the bottom that lets us move from the
smallest to the largest objects and vice-versa. Clicking on the objects
will then display a small window at its side. The window will give
information about the object like where it was
found/discovered/invented/exists etc. It's dimensions are also displayed
and also the significance of the object can be read on the window.
The size of the state of the object can be viewed just above the scroll
bar at its right. It would be 10 to the power of a number. The number
would be positive or negative going by the size of the state of the
object. The sizes vary from billions and billions of metres from +ve to
-ve. (Never even heard of one size called yottameter which is 10 power 24
meters). This and many many other types of information has been given
out from this website.
The link is here.
Robot Asimo I
ASIMO is a robot which was developed by HONDA in Japan in the year 2000. The name Asimo stands for 'Advanced Step in Innovative Mobility'.
It is humanoid in nature. It means that it has features and behavior that resemble a human body. It allows interaction with made-for-human tools or environments. It is designed to operate in human environment i.e. to run on two feet at good speeds or walking independently or climb stairs. It can help around people with various different chores. He's the first in himself to do these things.
Like a
human, it can understand voices, spoken commands, gestures, faces,
moving objects etc. It can carry objects, push things, turn switches on
and off etc. It can recognize a handshake, people waving their hands and
then it responds accordingly. It can do a whole lot of other things
too.
I will give detailed information in my subsequent posts.
Website of the day - Apple
The website of the day goes to .........
It's self explanatory what you can find it in there :)
Google Lunar. The breakthrough initiative
Google Lunar is an initiative by a non-profit organization named X-Prize foundation which has joined forces with Google. The project is called "Moon 2.0". It is to bring about path-breaking innovations in the fields of science and technology. To come up with solutions not possible They have introduce large-scale prized competitions with an ultimate aim to promote research and development in these fields. The even ultimate aim is to send a robot to the moon.
They have been able to garner the support of top companies, individuals and groups. This includes space agencies like NASA, ESA and JAXA. Moreover, the renowned James Cameron and writer Arthur C. Clarke have also extended their support to this cause. A statement on its webpage says "The $30 million competition for the first privately funded team to send a robot to the moon". How cool is that.
The prize goes to the team who will be able to send a robot to the moon, make it travel a distance of about 500 metres and make it send images, videos and other corresponding data back to Earth. Phew talk about competition. The closing dates for this competition have already gone by and the teams are now preparing for the same. Total of 26 teams from around the world have been identified and approved for this humongous task. Participants are put into high-profile sub-competitions which is a step further to win the grand prize.
Google has been pro-actively taking this task to a new level. With backing of some of the blue-chip companies, funding for this project should never be a problem. They have been constantly updating about the latest happenings in the quest to reach the moon. Talk about sky being the limit.
The webpage is GoogleLunar. And the following video provides a good idea of their goals.
Siri's new feature on iPhone 5
A new video is doing the rounds on the web that has gained a lot of attention. Sadly it is only a concept phone. But it looks brilliant in the video.
The video shows Siri application shutting down if say a thief were to enter wrong password for phone unlock mechanism. Siri would shut down the phone after taking a backup of the phone data onto iTunes from where it can be downloaded back to any device.
The phone disabling effect is really cool though. After saying that the password entered was incorrect, it says a goodbye and shuts down the iPhone. And then it gives a cracking screen effect on the phone. Never seen anything like this before. The day ain't far when devices would start cracking on nonacceptance ;)
Well here is the video. Enjoy :)
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