iGoogle Travel Themes

By Martin Kaba • Mar 31st, 2010 • Filed under: Web Utilities

Google has made available a new set of themes for iGoogle – ‘Travel’ is the new item in the menu. These themes bring beautiful landscapes, historic monuments, stunning beaches, iconic cities and other picturesque sites from all over the globe on your homepage. To bring you this imagery, we’ve partnered with a few leading organizations [...]

Google China Service Availability

By Martin Kaba • Mar 23rd, 2010 • Filed under: Extras, Web Utilities

Google has announced the end of hostilities with China, and has stopped censoring its (Google) services in China, So earlier today we stopped censoring our search services—Google Search, Google News, and Google Images—on Google.cn. Users visiting Google.cn are now being redirected to Google.com.hk, where we are offering uncensored search in simplified Chinese, specifically designed for [...]

Google Translate New Look Now Translates as you Type

By Martin Kaba • Nov 17th, 2009 • Filed under: Web Utilities

Three new features have been added to Google Translate, the free service with 51 different languages that helps you translate text and web pages from one language to another.

A Two Minute Video To Explain 3.5% Of Google Wave

By Martin Kaba • Oct 3rd, 2009 • Filed under: Ubuntu, Video, Web Utilities, Windows

What is Google Wave and why use it? Yes I know, these are two big questions. This two-minute video by Google tries to make things clearer, not every thing, as the video explains only 3.5 percent of Google Wave says TechCrunch. My guess is Google is using the email part of the story as a [...]

Translate your Website Content with Google’s ‘Website Translator Gadget’

By Martin Kaba • Oct 1st, 2009 • Filed under: Open-Source, Web Utilities, WordPress

Google Translate has got a new tool, called “Website translator gadget”. Web developers can use this tool to offer their web contents to their readers in 51 different languages. Its definitely a quicker and cheaper to get your web contents translated, though the translations still have to be improved. I tried translating my blog Kabatology [...]

Google Docs do Convert Images to Editable Text

By Martin Kaba • Sep 29th, 2009 • Filed under: Open-Source, Web Utilities

The not yet official OCR (Optical character recognition) feature in Google Docs can carry-out image to text conversions on high resolution files. All you have to do is upload your scanned images that have to be in JPG, GIF, or PNG formats to the OCR feature so that it can be OCR’ed. This feature still [...]

Stable Google Chrome 3 with More Features

By Martin Kaba • Sep 15th, 2009 • Filed under: Browsers, Open-Source, Windows

After celebrating its first birthday two weeks ago Google Chrome moved on and today it launches a super stable version of Google Chrome 3 web browser. Feature-full Google Chrome comes with, Speedy Chrome: This stable version of Chrome is the fastest ever, its faster than any previous stable version. Google says they’ve improved it “by [...]

Google Fast Flip

By Martin Kaba • Sep 15th, 2009 • Filed under: Browsers, Web Utilities

The busy Google Labs has launched a new service called Fast Flip – “a new reading experience that combines the best elements of print and online articles” to speed up slow browsing when reading news online. Fast Flip aims at letting “you rapidly flip forward to the content you like, without the constant wait for [...]

Big Big Google Search Box

By Martin Kaba • Sep 10th, 2009 • Filed under: Extras, Open-Source

“The new, larger Google search box features larger text when you type so you can see your query more clearly. It also uses a larger text size for the suggestions below the search box, making it easier to select one of the possible refinements.” … thats what it takes to be Google, little but significant [...]