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Google Earth Meets the Browser

Today Google announced a browser plugin for Google Earth at I/O Conference "which brings the power of Google Earth to the web". Till now there is no way to build web applications using Google Earth, but now with the browser plugin and API we may see rush of web mashups built on top of Google Earth. ... Read More →

Google On iPhone and iPod Touch

Google launched iPhone interface back in January and is only available in English at that time. Today they announced the interface is now available in over 30 countries and 16 languages. Today they also announced that now you can access Google News in iPhone or iPod touch in iPhone interface. ... Read More →

Google Earth 4.3

Google has released Google Earth 4.3 beta version, you can download it from here. According to Google LatLong blog this version gives users a higher quality 3D model of the world. The new features includes a new navigation for richer experience when browsing mountains and buildings. More faster ... Read More →

Save Google Presentations as PPT for Microsoft Powerpoint

Google Docs now allows you to save Google presentations as .ppt files so that you can edit them offline in Microsoft Powerpoint. This is a missing feature from long and now Google added it. Earlier it is only possible to import .ppt files to Google presentations but no official way to save them as ... Read More →

Twingly (Spam Free) Blog Search Engine

Twingly is a new blog search engine currently in private beta. What is unique about twingly over others like Technorati or Google Blog Search is that twingly claims they are 99.99% spam free. That sounds interesting, becoz both Technorati and Google Blog Search have the spam problem, particularly ... Read More →

Google Docs Goes Offline with Google Gears

Google Docs is finally getting offline access. Zoho writer offered offline functionality long back using Google Gears extension. But Google took this much time to offer offline functionality via Google Gears. Starting from today users will get the offline access to Google Docs in phases like any ... Read More →

Sync Google Calendar With Microsoft Outlook Calendar

If you use Google calendar and Outlook calendar at different locations like one at work and one at home, it is cumbersome to update both of them to have the same information on both of these tools. Google introduced a small utility for syncing Google Calendar with Outlook Calendar that makes your ... Read More →

JotSpot is now Google Sites

Google finally relaunched JotSpot as Google Sites since it acquired 16 months ago. Google Sites is now available for all Google Apps users including free users. Google Sites is offering 10GB of extra storage. With Google sites you can create wiki style web pages with out learning any html. You ... Read More →

Now You Can Go Invisible On Gmail Chat

One of the useful features in Yahoo and other messengers is that the ability to set your status as invisible. This feature is necessary when you want work with out any disturbances and also see who is online. Google Talk doesn't have this feature, but luckily Gmail chat got this feature ... Read More →

Google Docs Tools To Increase Your Productivity

Google Docs & Spreadsheets is one of the best (if not the best) online office suite available at the moment. Google Docs has many interesting and useful features for the end user. Here some of the tools that makes you to get most out of the Google Docs. DocSyncer: DocSyncer syncs your ... Read More →