Category Archives: GNU/Linux

Google Introduced Handwrite For Mobile And Tablet Search. Now Use Your Fingers To Search The Web

Google Handwrite is a new way for searching web by using your finger to write and search in your smartphone. After voice search now Google introduced new search feature Handwrite. It enables you to search anything anywhere by writing letters by moving your finger on the screen not by typing from keypad.

Start using Google Handwrite:

  1. Go to Google.Com in your mobile browser.
  2. Tap on Settings persent at the bottom of your screen .
  3. Enable Handwrite

Whereas in tablets, Search settings are available as an option behind the gear icon. As you can see in the folowing image:

After you enable Handwrite feature:

  1. Activate writing surface by tapping Handwrite icon present at bottom right corner of your screen
  2. You will be noticing search autocomplete below your search box as you type a few words.
  3. If you find any option appropriate then tapp it to search or continue your writing for longer queries.
  4. Use arrows (present next to the autocompletions) for moving the right option into the search box.

We designed Handwrite to complement rather than replace typing: with the feature enabled, you can still use the keyboard at any time by tapping on the search box. Handwrite is experimental, and works better in some browsers than others—on Android devices, it works best in Chrome. For now, we’ve enabled Handwrite for iOS5+ devices, Android 2.3+ phones and Android 4.0+ tablets—in 27 languages.

_Google

[iframe][/iframe]Help:

  • Check Writing Tips for Google Handwrite here.
  • Visit Google Help Center article for more information about Google Handwrite.

Google Apps Status Dashboard

Google Apps Status Dashboard offers you the performance information on Google Services (Apps). It applies to both consumer services and for organisations using Google Apps Services. You can visit Google Apps Status Dashboard anytime to view current running status of App Services. You may switch to its RSS feed.

Remember:

  1. Green Dot means No Issues
  2. Pink Dot means Service outage
  3. Orange Dot means Service disruption

Find A Perfect App In Chrome Web Store By Taking A Little Help From Your Google+ Friend Circles

Now Google Chrome Web Store helps you to share all your Google Chrome’s  items in your Google+ Circles. You may do so by finding them in Chrome’s Web Store and clicking +1 (located in store detail page).

And by clicking “From your circles” (located in Chrome Web Store’s category menu) you can review different apps and themes recommended by your friends. Now it is easy to find right app, you would be getting app suggestions from Chrome Web Store on the basis of all that apps +1’d by your friend circle in Google+.

AdSense Toolbar For Google Chrome

AdSense Publisher Toolbar is a Google extension which help you to access AdSense earning reports very quickly. It displays its report on the same page which you are reading.

It gives AdSense Publishers two different ways to access real time information about your account. It shows your AdSense earnings for the last day, present day, last month, present month . It also displays revenue data for top channels created by you in your AdSense account.

With Pop-up account overview you can view the following:

  1. Summary of account earnings (today, yesterday, this month, last month)
  2. Top 5 custom channels (with selectable date range)
  3. Top 5 URL channels (with selectable date range) And
  4. Lifetime revenue

In-site ad overlay provides you following options:

  1. It overlays for both adunit-based and legacy AdSense ads for the logged in user
  2. It overlays for DoubleClick for Publishers (DFP) tags on overlay-enabled domains
  3. Provides instant summary reporting on adunit-based AdSense tag overlays
  4. Provides instant summary reporting on legacy AdSense tags with custom channels

New in 3.x:

  1. A cleaned and light overlay.
  2. Supports for AdExchange Seller publishers.
  3. New panel with Ad Details
  4. Provides URL blocking in the Ad Details panel
  5. Provides creative blocking for ALL Ad Review Center users
  6. Feedback and Reporting on problems related to Ads

After you install AdSense Toolbar Extension it connects with your Google AdSense Account and uses AdSense API in the process of fetching your earnings data.

Add “Pin It” Button To Your Google Chrome’s Bookmark Bar

For installing “Pin It” button in your Chrome:

  1. Visit Pinterest Goodies.
  2. Display your bookmark bar if it is hidden: Visit Wrench Icon (present at the top right corner of chrome) >> Bookmarks >> Check Show Bookmarks Bar
  3. There is a “Pin It” button on that page. Drag it to your bookmark bar.
  4. Now while browsing the web you can pin any image by pressing this “Pin It” button.

Watch this video tutorial:

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Adblock Plus For Annoyance-free Web Surfing

Adblock Plus is good if you need to block  undesirable website elements to appear on web pages while you are surfing the internet. Subscribe a free filter service and add undesirable website elements to the block list with just a single click.

Use sudo apt-get install xul-ext-adblock-plus command to install this app from your Linuc terminal.

Visit Firefox >> Tools >> Add-ons >> Get Add-ons >> Search All Add-ons >> AdBlock Plus to add Addblock extension to your Firefox web web browser.

Visit Adblock Plus Webiste

Inexpensive And Surprisingly High Quality Hardware Fine Working With Android Jelly Bean Will Make Largest Possible Market For Nexus 7 In India

Inexpensive and Surprisingly high-quality hardware fine working with Android Jelly Bean will make largest possible market for Nexus 7 in India. If Google integrates Universal Free Education System (that primarily works in India’s Language) in Nexus 7 in its release in India then I am sure it would be attracting 1.21 billion people of India because they would be learning the most advanced technology in their language and that would be changing the geopolitical structure of Internet and Google too because only 121 million Indians are active on Internet from 1.21 billion overall guessed population. Currently 929.37 million Indians are using mobile devices because its inexpensive and easy as they don’t need any education for that. Hence, it would be good if Google targets them first.

Nexus 7 Is Getting Towards Very High Demand In Comparison To Other Tablets. 16GB Model Is Sold Out

Nexus 7 16GB Is Sold Out. Google is not taking any more orders for Nexus 7 16GB: https://play.google.com/store/devices/details?id=nexus_7_16gb No idea when it will be available again. Still, buyers may leave an email message for Nexus 7 16GB model and Google will notify them as soon the model get available. Nexus 7 8GB model is still available. Although demand for smaller 8GB version is comparatively low than 16GB one.

Linux 3.5 Kernel Is Released

Linux 3.5 has been released on 21 Jul 2012.

This release includes support for metadata checksums in ext4, userspace probes for performance profiling with tools like Systemtap or perf, a sandboxing mechanism that allows to filters syscalls, a new network queue management algorithm designed to fight bufferbloat, support for checkpointing and restoring TCP connections, support for TCP Early Retransmit (RFC 5827), support for Android-style opportunistic suspend, btrfs I/O failure statistics, and SCSI over Firewire and USB. Many small features and new drivers and fixes are also available.

Read Morehttp://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_3.5

Facebook Is Less Trusted With Personal Data Than Others

Fewer Internet users trust Facebook with personal data than other Internet companies.

According to Harris Interactive Inc. Survey:-

  • 1/3rd Internet users says that they are comfortable with Facebook’s policy of handling personal information
  • 41% respondents trust Google to show ads based on past Web searches.
  • 66% percent, are comfortable with Amazon using data on past purchases to recommend products.

French Supreme Court May Order Google To Censor Few Terms

Google suffered setback in its case against SNEP the music industry group. French Supreme Court ruled that Google may be asked for censoring search terms like ‘Torrent’, ‘RapidShare’ and ‘Megaupload’ from its Instant and Auto-complete services. Court argued that Google indirectly facilitates copyright infringement by not filtering these terms.

This new attempt from another court wouldn’t get rid of pirate sites. Pirate sites would just change their addresses in order to continue sharing activities.

YouTube Launched New Feature That Allows You To Blur Faces In Your Videos

YouTube has launched a new feature. Using this feature you can easily blur faces in your videos. It easily recognizes all faces in a video and you can blur them all in a single button click.

For using this feature: Select Video >> Enchantments >> Additional Features

Google Chrome Partnered With Tate Modern For Creating A Collaborative Art Project “This Exquisite Forest”

Google Chrome partnered with Tate Modern for creating an online collaborative art project “This Exquisite Forest” It uses modern web technologies like HTML5 Canvas and WebAudio API. You can create short animations, connect it with different others and this way you develop a collection of animated stories. Tate Modern Gallery would be displaying some of these selected stories through out the year.

Today Google Is Launching Updates To Google Maps

Google is launching updates to Google Maps with more detailed information on parks, coastlines, water bodied etc. These maps would be having accurate names, known locations with clearly labelled ferry routes. Updates to +Google Maps would be available for:

  1. Croatia
  2. Czech Republic
  3. Greece
  4. Ireland
  5. Italy
  6. Lesotho
  7. Macau
  8. Portugal
  9. San Marino
  10. Singapore
  11. Vatican City

Check Google Blog- More detailed maps in parts of Europe, Africa and Asia

Ubuntu – Find Your IP Address

Sometimes you need IP address to solve some problems with your internet connection. May be you don’t know that you have two IP addresses:

  • First IP address is of computer on the internal network. and
  • Second IP address is of your computer on Internet.

Finding your internal IP address:

  1. Click the network menu on the top panel.
  2. Select Connection information.
  3. Note your internal IP address.

Finding your external internet IP address:

  1. Visit whatismyipaddress.com
  2. Note your external IP address