No More Silent Chrome Extensions Installs

Lets start with a question upfront. Did you update your Chrome yet? In case you are wondering we are taking an update of your Chrome to version 25. If not your are doing a favor to neither you nor your Chrome browser. Nee to know what you are missing? Read on. Ever wondered where that extension came from to your chrome? As mentioned on the Chrome Blog, "Until now, it has been possible to silently install extensions into Chrome on Windows using...

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Mentions in Blogger Posts

Remember sometime back when Google gave you an option to start using your Google+ profile on your blogger account. What that essentially meant was a way to promote your Google plus profile so gets linked with your blogger account and you could use it to display in the author' block widget on Blogger. But there was more to it that met the eye. How did we come to know about it? We saw this when we landed on our Blogger a couple days before: We have...

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ApnaCircle Search and New Recruiter Space

Besides the Facebook and Google taking their war to another level and the Twitter Instagram tussle, the Indian PSN ApnaCircle has advanced in producing some little but effective changes as far as the Members are concerned. There has been some good news for the recruiter's on the network with the new Recruiter's tool introduced on the site by the company. We take a quick look on the changes. The search pages on the site have seen a makeover. They...

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Facebook Tests $1 Non-Contact Messages

Where does this one comes from? We are sure you will find this message ringing in quite a few ears who by now know about this new Facebook feature. We are more sure you will be thinking about this more n more once you know the feature. Facebook has started testing a feature that lets anyone message you for as low as $1. If you think that's ok, read carefully. When we say "anyone", it means people who are not in your contact list. Getting jitters...

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Track Santa Through Maps and Apps

When it comes to creativity and surprises with benefits, Google leaves no stone unturned. This time the festival time of the year when kids and bigs are waiting for a call and present from Santa, the company has started a track Santa theme around the things. Starting from just 10 min from now (at the time of writing that is), which will be 2:am PST time, you can start tracking Santa' route; courtesy a tracker and some apps developed by the guys...

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Viadeo Mobile App Marketing

In today's era when more and more people have gone smart with the hand held devices and prefer to be in contact with their network even while on the move, it becomes a compulsion that apart from the web version of their site the webmasters also focus on how they make the services available on these smartphones or the hand held devices in general. Not a surprise that Viadeo has been quite up to the mark (although they are still a bit slow on getting...

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YouTube Rewind : 2012 Trending Vids

2012 comes to an end and there is some nostalgia in the air as far as YouTube is concerned. YouTube yesterday launched YouTube Rewind, a channel devoted to the top trending videos that you have viewed on the video site for the year 2012. As per YouTube this year online users have viewed around 4 billion hours of videos in a single month. They have said what percentage was owned by the smartphone users but still considering the number is so huge,...

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Google Maps for iPhone

Nearly 3 months after the embedded app for Google maps was given a farewell by Apple, Google decided it was time they gave the iOS users (only iPhone and not iPad) an early Christmas present. So if you own an iPhone and are planning a trip somewhere you haven't been and you feel a little edgy using the iPhone' version of map especially after what happened to motorists in Mildura; cheer up. The Santa Google is here with a native app of their Google...

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Instagram Pulls Twitter Support

At first when the support for Twitter cards was pulled off users might have had a hard a time figuring out what is happening with their Instagram shared photos. But then it became clear what the main step was behind this pull. As Twitter mentioned on their status update about the Instagram photo rendering issues; the support for displaying the photos from Instagram in a tweet has been pulled off by the Facebook owned company, suggesting the Facebook...

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Google Plus Introduces Communities

Remember the groups that you created while you were still attending your academic sessions? Well if you do (and we are certain that almost everyone does), you remember how easy they made the discussions with your friends. Not long ago (although it feels like a century), people started introducing the concept of Groups/Forums to the online world where you could discuss the new chick in town and what not. Forums evolved and so did Groups and now we see another version of these that may more relate to the actual society we live in, a collection of...

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Apple Map Sends Motorist To Bush

No no, not the Bush you first thought. If that would have been the case Tim Cook, Apple' CEO should have been required to send an apology letter after what the in house maps app did to some motorists who were merely looking for a town location on the Maps that Apple created in house and used with the latest version of their smart-phone OS, iOS6. After the deal broke with Google on the maps app that Goggle previously provided Apple with, the...

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Google Maps API Gets Better For Android

Google released a new version of the Google Maps API for Android app developers to take advantage of new features for their sites/pages or even their apps which may be using the Google Maps. The updated API which is now vector based (as opposed to pixel based earlier) will help its users to navigate quickly and that too on both 2D and 3D view. The tilting an rotating the maps with the use of gestures will be easier now as well. While previously...

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Facebook Messenger Gets To Non-FB Users

SMS just turned 20. Considering everything is getting a makeover in terms of technology and features, it seems quite a few are thinking it's(SMS) getting old. The other Messengers like WhatsApp have gained a lot on top of the short messaging feature. Now Facebook has started with a tweak on its messenger app on Android that lets non-Facebook users to use the Messenger app and interact with their contacts without the use to create(or use) a Facebook...

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The Best Features of Android 4.2

The newest version of Jelly Bean (Android 4.2) didn't go well initially with the critics. With people citing the issues like the "December Bug" and problems with Bluetooth connectivity, there was a lot more missed than expected in the launch of this flavor version of Android OS. But as always Google and its Android Team made amends (seems like), by fixing the so important December miss and in the process giving the systems running this...

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Now Pinch-to-Zoom on Android Gmail

May be easy to have missed features but Google just updated the Gmail app for Android with a few very handy and useful features that we were surprised took to 4.2 version of Android to be rolled out. These features were shipped with the current Jelly Bean (Android 4.2) version but now the Gmail Android app has been updated so users with 4.0 (ICS) and above and also use the features on their respective devices. The Gmail app for Android version-ed...

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Facebook Rolls Out Photo Sync

If you are already using Android phones, chances are you are already aware of the instant upload feature of Google Plus. Via this feature you are able to upload the photos taken from your handset directly to a private album marked as "Instant Upload" on your Google Plus account. The process is seamless and happens in the background without any interference from your side. The album is totally private and cannot be viewed unless of course you are...

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Samsung Launches Android Camera

Using a smartphone camera has its benefits. At least you are not required to carry two devices when you can do with one. But there are occasions you would need to have a actual camera, isn't it? Although certain people may not agree with smartphone vs actual camera thing ;) Coming back to the camera topic. An actual camera is for every occasion and when the camera is an Android camera, that's an all added advantage. So after Nokia came up with...

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Google Profiles Inside Play Store Reviews

If you ever gave a review on any app inside Play Store, don't bother looking up your name or anything besides it. The reason is the info box shown above that shows up now when you try to review an app in the market. Any previews reviews that your provided will be shown by the name,  "A Google User". That's not all you are now forced to link your Google account with the reviews that you put on the Play Store for any app. Good thing we say,...

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Android 4.2.1 Fixes December Bug

The December month miss bug on Jelly Bean' 4.2 version seems to have been fixed with the latest 4.2.1 OTA of Jelly Bean. This new update is being rolled out to Nexus 7 and 10 and includes the Galaxy Nexus (no news for HSPA devices though) devices as well. The update is only a small one with a size of 1.1Mb so no expectations of any other major fixes. The OTA started rolling out from Tuesday on-wards and comes in just in time so people...

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And Now Gmail With Cloud

Tried sending mail attachments only to find Google complaining of size limit of the attachment? Seems Google has provided an integration feature just in time for Christmas and New Year shares. The maximum size you can now use is 10Gb, a full 400 percent than the previous size limit (which is still the case however in a traditional attachment w/o the Drive integration). All you need to use the feature is upload your file(s) first to your Google...

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Play Store Inside Google Plus

If you think Google was over and done with its product integration strategy that it has into lately, you were obviously wrong. Google+ has been the main talking point in the company apart from Android, search, panda and penguin and.. OK you got the point ;) . So the new thing or the integration rather, that the search giant have come up with this time around with their social network is the making it easy for its users to install the apps from the...

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