Find out where you are using your Gmail account

We all love Gmail, and because of that they keep releasing new features that are not only useful but also fun.

It’s the case of Location in Signature option that appends your current location (determined by your public IP address) to your email adress.
Also if you’ve got Gears with location awareness installed, your results will be even more accurate.

via: gmailblog.blogspot

Google’s new service: PowerMeter

Google just launched a free web service called PowerMeter (in beta of course) that has the ability to let users track the energy consumption wherever they are (home or bussines) if there is a way to upload the data.

It is not entirely up to Google for this thing to work, they are counting on others to build devices to feed data into Read more

The dawn of the hard drive: Google’s Gdrive arriving in 2009

Google’s most anticipated product Google Drive, or Gdrive will ultimately become the most powerful internet tool (some say).

Gdrive is an online storage where Google servers have the capacity to hold the entire contents of your hard drive. Not only that but it will it will do cool tricks - like booting your computer from online drive to load the Google operating system. Basically it’s desktop Read more

Vatican goes YouTube

Brothers and Sisters ! No need for long trips to the Vatican, because now the guys running the place are planning a personal channel on the video sharing site YouTube where the Catholics, the faithful,the curious, the sinners and all YouTube maniacs will be able to see Pope Benedict and other special Church events.

A news conference attended by Vatican officials and Henrique de Castro (managing director of media solutions for Google - YouTube owners), will be held Read more

Track your children with the GPS locator watch

And if you wanna know exactly where your kids are when they are playing outside or if they are indeed at school you must also know that a British firm is launching a satellite tracking device that will point exactly the child’s location to within 10ft.

It comes in form of a watch (Nu.M8) that uses GPS satellite technology and it can be securely fastened to a child’s wrist and if it is removed it will trigger an alert. Read more

iPhone and Android will see optimized Google search result pages

It seems that Google focused a little more on the mobile market lately and it has optimized its SERPs (search engine result pages) for the iPhone and Android. The optimizations include faster loading times and a better screen formatting. Google also added touchscreen friendly buttons and expandable maps. Read more

Google Chrome: no longer in beta

Released in September, Google Chrome has now been taken out of beta. About time if you ask me, because I kinda got used to some of Google products ( Gmail still in beta since 2004) of having the beta label on them.

The road so far: Chrome has been used by more than 10 million people worldwide, bringing better bookmarking, easier browser switching with a security that has been upped. The beta stage was essential as it allowed Read more

Gmail enables to-do lists

It seems like Google is focusing alot on Gmail lately and that’s a very good thing. I’ll pay the beers tho when the Gmail will exit its Beta stage, seems like forever. Google also added the Tasks feature, you can find it in Settings, under the Labs menu. Read more

Google goes to the next level of data sorting

Google just announced that they just sorted 1 Tb of data across 1000 computers in 68 seconds. Yes, you read it right, only if it were a world record for something like this. The previous ‘attempt’, according to Google, was done in 209 seconds and it sorted 1 Tb across 910 computers.

Google also acknowledges that they had triple redundancy and it’s an important factor in this benchmark, as the data was backed up on 3 different hard drives. Read more

Speech-to-search iPhone app from Google

I always wanted a voice recognition device or gadget and now my wish will be grated.

The lamp genie, in this case personified by Google will give the iPhone users a free app that allows them to speak a destination or question and within seconds, receive a certain answer. Read more

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