Archive | August, 2009
Google Doodle: Galileo’s telescope

Google Doodle: Galileo’s telescope

  Galileo Galilei (15 February 1564 – 8 January 1642) was an Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher who played a major role in the Scientific Revolution. His achievements include improvements to the telescope and consequent astronomical observations, and support for Copernicanism. Galileo has been called the “father of modern observational astronomy,” the “father of [...]

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Google Search by SMSes; Now its possible in India

Google Search by SMSes; Now its possible in India

Google Search Solution, Google India has launched the SMS search service, where you can SMS the Google number with and get results back via sms. The sms costs you (Rs 2 or whatever is the rate for national sms for your provider). This is a big+ because you dont have to pay for premium sms [...]

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Google develops 64 – bit version of Chrome for Linux

Google develops 64 – bit version of Chrome for Linux

Google has been working for several weeks on a 64-bit version of Google Chrome and Chromium. The Chrome Manager Dean McNamee writes dev in the “Chromium” Google Group that the V8 team have done a good job in the quarter and a 64-bit version has been developed, he also says that V8 is the JavaScript [...]

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Internet people – Only if they were real!

Internet people – Only if they were real!

Photo of the day! In the image, created by comic artist elontirien on deviantART, are Wikipedia, Google, Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, deviantART and YouTube …

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India comes up with a Google earth rival called Bhuvan

India comes up with a Google earth rival called Bhuvan

Google Earth‘s Indian rival is here! Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) took a huge leap into satellite imagery of geographical regions with the launch of `Bhuvan’, India’s mapping application website. Similar to Google Earth or Wikimapia, Bhuvan goes a step ahead. The application allows users to zoom far closer than the aerial view from a [...]

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How to upload files to Google docs via email

How to upload files to Google docs via email

Its easy to upload Office documents to Google Docs – just attach the files to an email message and send it to a secret address that has been assigned to you by Google Docs. What formats are supported? Google docs supports uploading many documents like (Word, Excel, powerpoint etc). You can upload documents (up to [...]

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Google Doodle: Korean Independence Day (South korea)

Google Doodle: Korean Independence Day (South korea)

Korean Independence Day (south) is also celebrated on the 15th of August just like the Indian independence. Liberation Day (Independence day) is a public holiday in South Korea, celebrated annually on August 15. It coincides with Victory over Japan Day, which liberated Korea from Japanese occupation. In North Korea, it is celebrated as Fatherland Liberation [...]

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Orkut Doodle: Indian Independence

India’s Independence Day is celebrated on August 15 to commemorate its independence from British rule and its birth as a sovereign nation on that day in 1947. The day is a national holiday in India. All over the country, flag-hoisting ceremonies are conducted by the local administration in attendance. The main event takes place in [...]

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Google Doodle: Hans Christian Ørsted

Google Doodle: Hans Christian Ørsted

Hans Christian Ørsted (14 August 1777 – 9 March 1851) was a Danish physicist and chemist who is best known for discovering that electric currents can create magnetic fields, which is an important part of Electromagnetism. He shaped post-Kantian philosophy and advances in science throughout the late nineteenth century. He was also the first modern [...]

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Coming soon: Google’s Fast and improved real time search

Coming soon: Google’s Fast and improved real time search

Google to launch its new realtime search. This search is more faster and seems more capable of producing real-time results. Although its way too early to make any definitive conclusions about this new search, but we will test it out thoroughly and give you a full report soon. Interested? try it out for yourself and [...]

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