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Google Friend Connect open to all

Google Friend Connect is officially open for everyone, it allows you to add social gadgets to your site. Using friend connect any one can join your site with their existing Google, Yahoo, AOL or OpenID accounts. ... Read More →

Gmail Gadget for Google Desktop

Google has released a Gmail gadget for Google Desktop Windows users. This gadget allows you to access Gmail in Google Desktop. You can rum multiple instances of Gmail gadget if you use more than one Gmail account. ... Read More →

Update from Gmail team on security

Gmail team has responded to Gmail security problems reported at makeuseof.com and elsewhere, apparently Google has done some security checks and found no evidence of vulnerability in Gmail. ... Read More →

Gmail Themes

If you are bored of seeing the same Gmail interface over and over, here is a good news, Gmail has rolled out themes for Gmail interface. As usual themes are not yet available for all Gmail users, they will be rolled out in phases. Gmail blog says apart from themes the default look got some minor ... Read More →

Visit Ancient Rome in 3D with Google Earth

Google Earth now goes back in Time to 320 AD to show you the Ancient Rome in 3D. Google Earth got a new layer called "Ancient Rome 3D", "produced by the University of Virginia's Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH) and based on its Rome Reborn model, contains over 6,700 3D ... Read More →

Translate your Google Reader subscriptions

Google Reader is one of the best feed readers available for getting updates via RSS feeds from various blogs and websites. It added a new feature, automated translation support that allows you to read foreign language blogs or website feeds. ... Read More →

Google Alerts as RSS Feeds

If you use Google alerts for tracking your blog mentions or keywords or ego searching now you can receive the alerts using RSS feeds. Earlier alerts are available only through email, the new RSS support may reduce the email overload. To setup alerts go to Google alerts and specify the search ... Read More →

Google Calendar and Google Docs Gadgets for Gmail

Google is releasing new features to Gmail one after another via Gmail Labs, some of these features are useful and some are for fun. Today they introduced Calendar and Docs gadgets for Gmail via Labs. These gadgets can be added to the left-nav in Gmail next to labels and chat. The two gadgets ... Read More →

Gmail for mobile 2.0 released

Gmail has released a new version for mobiles called Gmail for mobile 2.0. It is available for J2ME supported phones and BlackBerry phones. The new version improves speed significantly with smoother scrolling and no freezing. Multiple account management allows you to quickly switch between Gmail ... Read More →