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  Google Chrome have some handy keyboard shortcuts as any other main stream browsers. Most of the functions which are not available through the menu , is possible through Keyboard shortcuts. In my last post about Google Chrome Review , I complained about the lack of undo close tab feature in Chrome. But though its not [...]

Google Audio Indexing or GAudi is the latest addition to Google Labs after Google Chrome.Google Audio Indexing is a new technology from Google that allows users to better search and watch videos from various YouTube channels. It uses speech technology to find spoken words inside videos and lets the user jump to the right portion of [...]

 Its festival season for Keralites. And here is the Google’s Onam gift : Google News in Malayalam. Like all Google news editions, the Malayalam edition gathers news from several Malayalam sources and automatically arranges these stories in different sections. There is also a seperate edition for Gulf Malayalies , which alone makes a huge population. After [...]

A fix for ” Installer User Interface Mode Not Supported – Unable to load and to prepare the installer in GUI mode. “ error which shows up on installing certain applications like Zend Studio. Actually this error is due to a bug in the installer. It occurs only if your windows user name contains certain [...]

Keeping all the calculations and theory away, lets make a raw attempt to compare the speed of Google Chrome and Firefox in Web 2.0 applications like Gmail. Lets see how fast is fast enough to say faster. The scene set for the test is a Google Mail App, similar to Gmail. Preference is given to [...]

Google is super hot this week. After Google Chrome , its a revamped version of  Picasa Web Albums with Name tags aided with Face Recognition. A new beta version of Picasa 3 is also out now. Name Tags is a feature by which Picasa Web Album automatically scans our photos and identifies “Faces”in the photos. To [...]

Here is a quick review on Google Chrome. A few minutes ago , Google Chrome was unleashed to the world. I have used it for say 15 minutes now and now writing this post from Google Chrome. From this short span of usage , what I’ve felt is that Chrome is going to stay. Unlike [...]

Today , Tuseday 2nd september (Noon PST , that means around 12 Am Indian Time) , Google is launching their beta version of new Browser Google Chrome. It comes with some new thoughts. First of all , the announcement itself was some thing new in the form of a cartoon , which can be viewed [...]

Here is a smart trick to restore or copy bookmarks from Firefox browser. This particular method requires no addons. Its pretty straight forward as copying the file in which Firefox stores the Bookmark details. Just follow the steps below.

Have you ever tried to install an old incompatible addon to Firefox 3? Since not every plugins/addons for firefox are not yet updated to be compatible with the latest Firefox, we often have to wait till they release a proper version. Its not liek the old plugin wont work in new Firefox. But they just [...]