Just like you buy “applications” from the iTunes store and add them to your iPhone, everyone can now buy readymade “cloud applications” from the Google Apps Marketplace and install them to their Google Apps’ accounts.
Google Apps Marketplace, like the iTunes store, includes a mix of free and paid web applications but there’s one difference – you only pay once for installing an iPhone app but Google Applications are generally subscription based so you pay as you use.
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Google Calendar now supports pop-up reminders just like your favorite desktop email client.
If you keep Google Calendar open all day long, you probably end up seeing quite a few reminders every day. Browser alerts are okay, but I tried to find a way for Calendar notifications to integrate smoothly with everything else.
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It is always inspiring to read stories of people who may never have had an Internet connection but are still using the power of Internet to find clients from across the globe.
Meet Samson – he drives an auto-rickshaw in the Souther Indian city of Chennai and has a proper website where his prospective clients can read more about his services and where they find him.
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The people behind Common Craft are masters at explaining complex new media topics like Wikis, RSS, Social Media, etc. in plain English.
Microsoft has created a series of 8 second video demos to promote the new features of Internet Explorer 8. The only problem is that the site mentioned in these demos – internetexplorer8.co.uk -- doesn’t exist so they may want to grab that quickly.
Private Browsing in IE 8
“IE8’s Private Browsing feature keeps your browsing private and your secrets safe.”
Domain Highlighting in IE 8
Read more »We think of Google as a search engine but they are an advertising company. This short documentary on Google will give you a good idea of what Google is trying to do and how the different pieces fit together.
They want to own the cables that deliver the Internet and also the electricity to power them.
Not every number or statistic that you see in the movie may be true but it is still a good recap of Google’s constantly growing list of products and features. The movie originally aired on Australian TV show -- Hungary Beast.
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Thank you all for participating in the Intel Contest. The winners are:
Week 1: Eeshan Chatterjee from Manipal, Karnataka
Week 2: Viren Mehta from Mumbai, Maharashtra
Week 3: Namita Guj from Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra
Week 4: Sidharth Bhan from Bangalore, Karnataka
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Microsoft is slowly rolling out a new design for their MSN.com homepage. The design is clean and doesn’t appear busy anymore.
Like Yahoo, you can check your friend’s tweets and their Facebook status updates right on the MSN page. You can even update your status without leaving the homepage.
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If you use the same password on multiple websites, your may be in for some trouble.
This time-lapse video captures how the Google Docs team turned an online spreadsheet into sort of a painting canvas by filling individual cells of the sheet with different colors simultaneously.
It might have take them several days to plan and draw the whole thing but luckily, you get to enjoy the process in under 60 seconds.
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