Harsh Ajmera

Google Chrome OS Arriving Next Month??

Google first announced itsentry into the the operating system space back in July. At that time, Google stated that Chrome OS would not be available to consumers until sometime in 2010. However, various Chinese sources have today claimed that devices running the upcoming open-source OS could be seen as early as next month. Accoridng to Shanzi.com, Chinese hardware [...]

SAP Making Application With Google Wave

Google’s Wave communication and collaboration platform is getting early interest from enterprise application vendors like Salesforce.com and SAP. Both companies have built prototype applications using Wave, which was released in preview mode for about 100,000 users on Wednesday after being available only to developers. Wave combines a range of technologies such as document sharing and instant [...]

Google Invites for Real-Time Google Wave

Google Wave is opening up to the general public for the first time Tuesday, the company has announced. Just over 100,000 invitations are being sent out to users who had previously requested access to the web-based real-time communications service on a first-come, first-served basis. Wave invites should be arriving in e-mail inboxes throughout Tuesday night and Wednesday [...]

Google Launches – Google Docs OCR

Google Docs API tests a new feature that lets you perform OCR (optical character recognition) on an image. There’s a live demo that illustrates this feature: you can upload a high-resolution JPG, GIF, or PNG image that has less than 10 MB and Google Docs extracts the text and converts it into a new document. Google mentions that [...]

Open Aspects Of Android – Clarified by Google

The search giant has halted distribution of the Cyanogen custom Android build with proprietary apps like Gmail and Google Maps. While the Android mobile operating system is open source, some of its most appealing features like tight Gmail integration and Google Maps are not, Google said in a blog post. The search giant faced some criticism last week when it ordered [...]

Google Earth launches climate simulator

If a picture is worth a thousand words, how many words should we affordGoogle Earth? Hours can be lost skydiving your way towards your favourite locations. Seeing somewhere you know so well from above provides valuable extra servings of knowledge and perspective. It’s pleasing, therefore, to see Google announcing on its official blog that it has developed [...]

Export Google Analytics Data to Microsoft Excel

Introducing….. Excellent Analytics! Excellent Analytics? Am I just bragging now? No, it’s actually the name of a tool – check it out here: http://excellentanalytics.com. It’s completely free and also truly excellent! Excellent Analytics is an Excel plugin that you can download and integrate into most versions of Excel (EDIT – Greg pointed out in the comments [...]

Google Layout 2.1

Now that SketchUp 7.1 is out the door, I thought it’d be a good idea to tell you a little bit more about its 2D, Pro counterpart: LayOut 2.1 is more powerful than ever. We added features that should let you use SketchUp Pro for an even larger chunk of your workflow: Dimensions! LayOut isn’t just for [...]

Google Chrome OS Preview

Nasty Ad Slips Past Google

Generally you can trust the ads on Google to at least be safe. But that’s not the case right now for the top ad being served on the query “Firefox.” The top ad says it is linking to “Firefox ® OfficiaI Sit?” at the URL www.mozilla.com/firefox/. And that is indeed the official Mozilla Firefox site. But the [...]

Google Hiring People To Work From Home

Has the online titan now opened the doors for everyday people like you to work for them? If this is true, that means that thousands of people from US and Canda might have a safe and bright future working from the comfort of their homes, all of which will be decided in the next few [...]

Gravity – Collaborative Business Process Modelling within Google Wave

Gravity is a prototype developed by SAP Research in Brisbane, Australia and SAP NetWeaver Development providing real-time, cloud-based collaborative business process modelling within Google Wave. Google Wave is Google’s new real-time collaboration platform that combines features of e-mail, social networking, wikis and instant messaging in one integrated browser-based client. Google Wave offers rich developer APIs to [...]

Bing vs Google vs Yahoo

In the arena of world-class search, can Bing bring the hurt to Google and Yahoo? Microsoft’s newest search engine comes packed with search tools such as an Explorer Pane for refining searches, Quick Previews for sneaking a peek at a site before visiting it, and Sentiment Extraction for making sense of product reviews. Google and Yahoo, [...]

Useful Google Apps / Tools

Desktop: Search your computer easily and efficiently with Desktop, which retrieves e-mails, files and more. Toolbar: Add buttons so that you can quickly visit different sites. The Firefox Toolbar also finds suggestions for your searches and [...]

Track Social Media Traffic With Google Analytics

Getting Setup in Google Analytics Google anayltics is tough to beat when it comes to tracking website traffic and goals.  Setting up your analytics account to measure social media traffic is actually pretty easy. First, you will need to login to your analytics account.  Once logged in, look in the left hand column under “Settings”.  Click on [...]

Things We're Dying to Know About Chrome OS

What We Don’t Know About Chrome OS What will happen when you go offline? If the Chrome OS is all about running web apps in a browser, that begs the question – what will happen when there’s no internet connection available? Of course, Google apps like Gmail can run offline using Gears, but Gears isn’t everywhere yet. [...]