Google Docs allows us to quickly view documents online without leaving your browser. You can also upload and share these files in Google Docs, so that anyone can view the content using their browser. Now the Google Docs Viewer launch support for 12 new file types. Microsoft Excel (.XLS and .XLSX) Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 / 2010 (.PPTX) Apple Pages (.PAGES) Adobe Illustrator (.AI) Adobe Photoshop (.PSD) Autodesk AutoCad (.DXF) Scalable Vector Graphics (.SVG) PostScript (.EPS, .PS) [...]

Enable Chat & Mail Notifications for Gmail Gmail desktop notifications let you know when you have a new email or Chat message. When you enable these notifications, you’ll see a pop-up when new messages arrive so that even if you’re not looking at your Gmail, you’ll still know when someone wants to talk to you. For now, these notifications are available only if you use Google Chrome as your browser. Chat notifications are enabled by [...]

“20 Things I Learned About Browsers & The Web” is a web application which looks like a book. This book is a short guide for anyone who’s curious about the basics of browsers and the web, and it is created in HTML5. Book : http://www.20thingsilearned.com/ The book contains the following 20 articles What is the Internet? (or, “You Say Tomato, I Say TCP/IP”) Cloud Computing (or, why it’s ok for a truck to crush your [...]

Which is your primary email account? gmail or yahoo or hotmail or rediffmail? Ok, leave it. Most of my friends are using yahoo and they hate gmail. I asked why, gmail got lots of features and why you hate it? It got free pop3, imap, labs etc. My friend replied “WTF dude, what is pop3 imap and all those stuffs? Why should we care about it? You know, the basic feature – folder wise arrangement [...]

Yesterday I tried Google Maps India to get the directions from one place to another. I tried few routes. It is not very accurate but very helpful to get an idea about the route. Not accurate means, the route is correct but there may be other short routes. 1st I tried to get directions from my home to my office at Technopark, Trivandrum. We have 3 main routes to reach there. Thiruvalla -> Kottarakkara -> [...]

Chromium is an open-source project- for the Mac OS X/Linux versions of Chrome. I tried Mac OS X version of Chromium. Download the zip file, unzip it and run Chromium.   The first site I tried is google.com. But got the error message “The webpage is not available”. So i thought it is not working and then after some time I tried my site and it loaded without any problem . Then I tried many [...]

MSN Web Messenger is  integrated with your Hotmail account yesterday(April 21st). You can use integrated web msn messenger and talk to others while checking/ mail. To send IM to your friend, go to contacts, click on the person you would like to talk to and click on “Send an Instant Message (Available), IM window will appear in a pop up window. Check out the screen shoots. I also added screen shoots of Yahoo and Gmail. [...]

Gmail officially launched theme for Gmail. 30 themes are available now. Some of them are color changes. To customize your inbox, go to the Themes tab under Settings. They will be rolling out themes to everyone over the next couple of days, so if you don’t see them yet, check back soon.

Google is rolling out video and voice capabilities for the chat function that is embedded in the Gmail interface. It’s simple to install and use. The first time you use this feature, you’ll be prompted to download and install a small plugin. To get started, visit http://www.gmail.com/videochat or click on the “Options” menu in a Gmail chat window and choose “Add voice/video chat. PS: Video calls are only available between Gmail chat users with a Gmail [...]