Technological Guide.

Google Chrome 13.0.782.14 Beta

Sunday, June 12th, 2011

Google Chrome is a well known and widely used lightweight, fast running and free web browser available in the internet world. Now Google Chrome 13.0.782.14 Beta is available for download (Google Chrome is still under Beta versions). Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer and easier.

One box for everything

Chrome’s address bar does 2-in-1 job. Type something in the address bar and it suggests for both web pages and search results with the typed keyword.

Thumbnails of your top sites

Can navigate to favorite pages instantly from any new tab.

Incognito mode

Incognito mode is a way for private browsing which won’t show pages in the web history.

Safe browsing

Google Chrome warns if ever about to browse a suspected phishing, malware or otherwise unsafe website.

Please visit Google Chrome Blogspot for releases and information about alpha and developer builds.

Download from Google or FileHippo.

12.06.2011 Softwares, Technology, Updates 2 Comments

GooReader, an online and offline Google Books reader

Saturday, May 28th, 2011

GooReader is a desktop application using which we can read Google Books either online or offline. There are lots (millions) of books and magazines online available for free reading. GooReader helps to search a particular book and read it with live visual book reading experience using its cool built-in graphics. Below is a snapshot of GooReader which I used it to search for ASP.Net (Being myslef as a web developer, I used ASP.Net keyword in GooReader to search for ASP.Net ebooks :) ) keyword.

Features:

  • Read Google Books online and offline using the rich interface available in GooReader to read publicly available books and magazines on Google Books without using web browser and its awkward page scrolling.
  • Create Bookmarks and Local Library: Can create a Library of Google Books on our PC instead of searching them each time. And bookmarks are automatically created when ever a book is closed.
  • Access online Google Library: allows to access your online Google Library
  • Save Books and Magazines to PDF: Inorder to print or read the books and magazines offline or to read on Mobile devices (like iPad) these books can be saved as PDF files (available in Paid version of GooReader).

Requirements: Microsoft Windows XP operating system (or higher) with Microsoft .Net Framework 3.5 SP1

28.05.2011 Softwares, Technology 3 Comments

Free Video Downloader from Vdownloader

Saturday, May 28th, 2011

We all like to spend our time watching videos online and sometimes we feel to have those videos stored on our hard disk or mobile to watch them later when we want to. But many online sites don’t allow downloading those videos. But now its possible using Vdownloader which is 100% free to download and use.

Vdownloader differs from other many popular programs by having integrated search engine and built in web browser. Vdownloader is a desktop software which can be installed on our pc. Using Vdownloader, we can search, watch and download videos to our pc from popular video hosting websites like YouTube, Facebook, Blip.tv, MegaVideo, Veoh, Vimeo, Metacafe, DailyMotion, Google Video, Yahoo Video, Break. Using this free version, we can convert videos into AVI or MPEG formats and download them to either pc hard disk or to mobile devices.

To save time, we can use batch download (upto 10 downloads at once) using Vdownloader along with a schedule feature to download later. All other advanced features are available in the Vdownloader Pro version.

You can download for free from Vdownloader.

Requirments: Microsoft Windows XP operating system or higher, Micorosft .Net Framework 3.5 SP1

28.05.2011 Softwares, Technology 16 Comments

Favicons in Gmail

Tuesday, October 6th, 2009

Favicon is the short name for favorite icon and also known as website icon, shortcut icon, url icon or bookmark icon which will be mostly 16×16 pixel square icon related to a particular website. I came to know that Favicons are started to appear in Gmail mails next to the mail messages after the subject and before the datetime.

So far, these favicons next to mails in Gmail are displayed for NetFlix only at present. This message was originally published by MG Siegler at Tech Crunch. These favicons will sure bring our attention to the mails and allow us to sort mails visually. You can check the favicon displayed to the mail from NetFilx in the gmail to the favicon displayed in the addressbar for the NetFlix website.

But I couldn’t see it in my Gmail even I tried to get password retrieval mail from NetFlix.

06.10.2009 Google, Online 2 Comments

Refine Google Search Results with new Search Options

Monday, October 5th, 2009

You can now refine your search results in the http://google.com with the search options. These search options was launched in May and now some additional options were added to the existing search options.

You can get search options panel by clicking on the “Search Options” with plus sign which will add an extra panel to the left side with Search Options which will refine the search results.

These Search Options allow you to refine search results on Specific date range, Past Hour, Visited Pages, Not yet Visited pages, More Shopping Sites, Fewer shopping sites, Books, Blogs, News etc. You can find more at Official Google Blog.

05.10.2009 Google, Online No Comments