Archive for February, 2009

Shows profile photos, facebook apps info in Yahoo search results ….Whola I found your information so easily on Yahoo search! Yahoo Search has launched a new feature that automatically shows Facebook profile photos in its search results. Now, when someone searches for your name on Yahoo, they can see your Facebook profile photo in the search listings. Here is a sneak peak: This is made possible [...]

Difficulty accessing Gmail today? – Gmail experiencing outage; traffic directed to “sorry.google.com” Visitors to Gmail service are being greeted with server errors worldwide, when trying to access their mail accounts. Google acknowledged the problem, and has put up a status page on Gmail’s Help page: “We’re aware of a problem with Gmail affecting a number of users. This problem occurred [...]

Some more windows tips: , located in the bottom row of most computer keyboards is a little-used treasure. Don’t ignore it. It is the shortcut anchor for the following commands: Windows: Display the Start menu Windows + D: Minimize or restore all windows Windows + E: Display Windows Explorer Windows + F: Display Search for files Windows + Ctrl + F: Display Search for computer Windows + F1: Display [...]

Plaxo on Wednesday announced its partnership with SimplyHired, which offers to show job listings according to your work profile information. What are social job listings? When you post a job to Plaxo, you have the option of sharing it to any or all of your Plaxo network. For example, you might choose to share the listing to your business connections and to one or two groups that you’re a member [...]

How to Sync Facebook Events with Google Calendar We all know that many websites that exists make ourselves more social, efficient, effective, etc …. Facebook being one of the many. Some of us use so many tools that it often requires another utility manager to manage themselves and its becoming increasingly complicated… As a solution Facebook recently discussed syncing Twitter and Facebook [...]

Microsoft My Phone pre-registration opens; Steve Ballmer’s press conference from the Mobile World Congress live! Earlier this month, Microsoft made its MyPhone website live, now the company has started sign up to get on the waiting list for access to the beta. The service, code named “Skybox”, will offer cloud services for mobile phone users. Official news of Microsoft My Phone won’t come [...]

New Microsoft ad “I’m a PC and I’m seven years old”; 7-year old Alexa makes panoramic photo Earlier this month, we saw an ad featuring, 4–1/2 year’s Kylie using Windows Live Photo Gallery to make a picture of her pet fish Dorothy “better,” then send it off to her mom and dad. If you missed it, here it is again: A new Microsoft ad now shows seven year old Alexa, who snaps some photos [...]

uTorrent adds Google torrent search engine service uTorrent – the client of choice for most BitTorrent users – has added a Google powered torrent search engine to its website. This added search capability uses. Google’s custom search program and prioritizes BitTorrent sites in the results. With millions of visitors a month, this is likely to bring in some additional revenue for BitTorrent [...]

Plaxo’s two click signup with Google OpenId a huge hit, shows 92% success Plaxo announces its success with the launch of its new OpenID – 2 clicks signup feature! Plaxo a trust partner of Google worked together closely to enhance user signup process…. And they did it! As per Plaxo, the success rate of the new feature to use OpenID for signup shows 92% of success. The goal of the Two-Click [...]

GOOGLE gives a quick sample of what they are upto!! Are you aware that your eyes are helping Google decide what their search results page should look like? What captivates a user’s engrossment on their screen can play a vital role in whether or not they click through to a search engine result. Now Google’s User Experience Research Team has introduced some new technology that makes finding [...]