Thursday, September 2, 2010

Google Street View In India With Photos?

google-street-viewGoogle Street View is a very powerful add-on feature for Google maps that gives you a real life view of any location. Google Street View is currently available for countries like USA, UK, Canada and many other. India is not so lucky. But looks like that is changing.

I was playing around with Google Maps today and noticed that now you can see the "Street View Yellow Person" Icon on top of the zoom tool.

(informationmadness.com)

Gmail Priority Inbox: Well, Email overload? Try Priority Inbox

Google has added a new feature to Gmail. That is ‘Priority Inbox’ which finds the important message and sort them for you. This new features analyze your mail and prioritize according to figuring out which sender’s emails you read and reply the most. This great feature is definitely help those who has thousand of messages to choose what is more important for them. The Priority emails will be pushed to the top of a user’s inbox – while others will drop to the bottom.
This Priority Inbox feature – will split the inbox into three sections: ‘Important and unread’, ‘Starred’ and ‘Everything Else’. Well, once you enable this feature you can see the “Priority Inbox”.
There is also a settings tab for the Priority Inbox added to Gmail’s settings allowing you to configure the filtering feature as shown in the image bellow.
‘As messages come in, Gmail automatically flags some of them as important’. Well, the Emails in your Priority Inbox are filtered and sorted based on what Gmail determines are most important to you based on – you send and read emails.

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

NEW FIVE SEARCH ENGINES FOR STUDENTS


NEW FIVE SEARCH ENGINES FOR STUDENTS VERY HOT NEWS IN INTERNET!
Google has become synonymous with search. But who knows better than a student, how many times Google has failed to produce the desired results. You are looking for a well researched article on High Strength Steel for your project and all you get by googling is a Wikipedia link you can't rely upon. You need an eBook for one of your engineering subjects, and what you get is a link to Google books with some sample chapters. These are just a few of the frustrating experience a student goes through. So if Google cant provide you with the relevant result, does that mean there is no such information on the web? Well there is. All you need is the right search engine to retrieve it for you. Here is a list of a few of such search engines.
1.EBook Engine : This is ultimate resource to find free e-books. The website claims that¡°If your e-book isn't here, then it is likely you cannot download for free anywhere.
2.Pdf Geni : This is yet another wonderful search engines for ebooks. You can download a firefox search plugin to use it directly from your browser. The search engine is also compatible with iphone.
3.Wolfram Alpha: It is a computational knowledge engine which aims to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable by anyone.You ll find it useful for complex math problems. And what ¡s more, you can download its mobile application to solve your problems on the go.
4. DeepWebTech: If you are looking for some serious articles related to science, business, medical or technology this is the place to go to. It searches for these articles from the deep web the part of the internet that is not crawled by normal search engines like Google. DeepWebTech gets results from the databases of recognized institutes and organizations across the world, something which Google can t do. A suggestion- use this if you need in depth information, such as for your engineering project etc.
5.DeepPeep: This is another search engine working on the same lines as deepwebtech. You can get articles from the database of renowned institutes like MIT.
Armed with these search engines, you will easily get through all your college reports and projects. And will stay a step ahead of your peers.