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Google Extends the Street View Worldwide With User Photos

Google Street View is a feature available on Google Mapping products where users can switch to a view consisting of manually taken 360° angled street/road photos with 9 cameras at 2.5 m elevation on a moving vehicle. These photos are then processed to make a panoramic view to provide a feeling of being at that [...]

Grab big pics off Google Images the easy way

If you happen to frequent Google’s Images search tool with the intention of grabbing the full-quality version of whatever image you’re looking for, you’ve probably noticed Google makes you jump through some hoops to get there. In fact, Microsoft and Yahoo do the same thing, but it’s with good reason: to offer you the full [...]

Google Calendar Reminders on Desktop..!

// Google Calendar is one of those Google Services which has made my life very easy. Since, I’m quite a forgetful person, I use GCalendar to keep reminders about important commitments, birthdays, events etc. I have enabled SMS and email reminders for my Google Calendar entries, and yesterday I’ve found another tool that could bring [...]

Gmail on Desktop with GeeMail

Many of us use Gmail as our primary email address and some people like me, check their mails very often, like every few minutes. It would be definitely better if we had a desktop solution for the notifications of new emails. There are many tools like Gmail Notifier to do the job, but still you [...]

New Google Chrome 4 with Bookmark Synchronization

The Chrome team at Google is ‘very’ actively working on the browser, Google Chrome. And for some reason, it seems that they release a new version of the browser with every new feature added. After themes and extensions support, they have now included bookmarks synchronization. Not sure if this feature would actually come in handy, [...]