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Google launches its very own browser

Google launched its browser Chrome a few days back and me being a Google followed it right till it was launched. They’re publicizing it on the main Google.com page (so everyones already seen it by now). What google did was, before launching it they made this comic explaining the need of a browser made from [...]

September 5th, 2008

WTF

You have to check this amazing website WhatTheFont.com (wtf). It lets you upload an image and then tells you what font was used in the text. Incredibly useful if you have printed material or sometimes when you see some image on a website and you just have to know what font they used. Do have [...]

August 12th, 2008

Man creates website to track his love

A web designer sees girl of his dream on a subway train but loses her in the crowd. Later creates a website with her sketch to track her down. Whats astonishing is that he does find her and that too in 48 hours
Read on: Reuters

July 31st, 2008

Cuil, but for how long?

Former employees of Google, Anna Patterson and a few others have started a search engine that they claim is the “world’s biggest search engine”. They base this claim on the number of web sites that their database indexes, which is 120 billion. Google says it goes through more than 1 trillion pages but doesn’t index [...]

July 30th, 2008

Google’s Second Life: Lively

Google launched its own version of Second Life called Lively. Second Life is an internet based multiplayer game/world where people can actually live a second life having their own property, clothes, vehicles and what not. Lively is probably Google’’s reply to Second Life which allows you to ”create an avatar and chat with your friends [...]

July 10th, 2008

Firefox 3 Downloads Record

Recently Mozilla released version 3.0 of Firefox and they announced they were going to try and set a world record for the largest number of downloads of a software in 24 hours. Turns out they actually managed to do it (btw, this was the first record of its kind, no one had ever tried to [...]

July 5th, 2008