Archive for the 'Google' Category

Finally Google search requests can be encrypted

At last Google started to offer HTTPS communication for search reqest: Official Google Blog: Search more securely with encrypted Google web search Google via kwout But this doesn’t guaranty against Google’s own privacy invasion. An alternative is to use ixquick: Ixquick Search Engine via kwout Their privacy page is very interesting: Ixquick Protects Your Privacy [...]

Using Google Translate to read Chinese pages

I wanted to  read this page [译文]程序员能力矩阵 Programmer Competency Matrix that is mainly in Chinese. So I use Google translate service to translate from Chinese to English. And the result seems to be good (I mean for an automated translation): From the Chinese: [译文]程序员能力矩阵 Programmer Competency Matrix via kwout We get in English:

Google , Microsoft, Apple and Yahoo Products

A single chart summarizing the product offers of  Google , Microsoft, Apple and Yahoo: A Big-Picture Look at Google, Microsoft, Apple and Yahoo – Bits Blog – NYTimes.com via kwout Found via acessoweb

Become a Gmail Ninja

Google published a great list of Gmail tips in the Gmail help pages: Gmail: Tips via kwout I personally like this one: Add “(EOM)” to the subject of one-liner messages. If you ever want to send a quick note where the subject is the entire message (like “Want to grab lunch at 12:30?”), but are [...]

Video Explaining Google Wave In 2 Min

Very nice video explaining the benefits of Google Wave compared to email: Google Wave Explained In Two Minutes (CLIP) (GOOG)

Google Chrome OS Demo

Google published a demo Video of Chrome OS: This look simple and interesting. Here is the video label: Google Chrome OS is an open source operating system for people who spend most of their time on the web built around the core tenets of speed, simplicity and security. This is a demo video to give [...]

Google Chrome OS announce is not a surprise

Google announced yesterday Google Chrome OS on their blog. But this move toward the OS market was expected since the release of Android last year. This post from Venture Beat published last January showed how some geeks made Android works on a eeePC Netbook. Official Google Blog: Introducing the Google Chrome OS

About Google Bug

This video highlight the bug experience by Google yesterday

The gardian is available is full-text by RSS

The announce is available on the Gardian blog: Upgrading our RSS feeds | Help | guardian.co.uk via kwout

Google Street View arrives in France

We can see it now on Google map front page: france – Google Maps via kwout Here a screen shot of Place Charles De Gaulle: place charles de gaulle paris france – Google Maps via kwout Found via: Regular Google Street View Live for France