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Google has implemented a solution for drunken mailing called Mail Googles (in Google Labs). When you enable Mail Goggles, it will check that you’re really sure you want to send that late night Friday email. It gives you 4 or 5 simple math problems within a minute.
By default, Mail Goggles is only active late night [...]

After trying several ways to beat Google in the search engine war, Microsoft is now back to old ways of bribing people to use Live search. The program is called SearchPerks. You have to download a small tracking program which will track your search usage. You get 1 ticket for each Live search query with [...]

Google has released the beta version of Google Chorme - a new open source browser. Google Chrome is based on the open source web engine called Webkit, which also powers Safari browser. Some other features of Google Chrome are:

Tabs are independent. Each tab has it’s own location bar, navigation buttons etc. If one tab crashes, [...]

Mozilla Labs announced the launch of Ubiquity, a Mozilla Labs
experiment into connecting the Web with language in an attempt to find
new user interfaces that could make it possible for everyone to do
common Web tasks more quickly and easily.
According to Mozilla Labs,the overall goals of Ubiquity are to explore how best to:

Empower users to control the
web [...]

Google’s Blogger service is responsible for 2% of the world’s malware hosted on the web, according to a new report from security firm Sophos.
The security firm claims hackers are setting up pages on the free blogging service to host malicious code, or simply posting links to infected websites in other bloggers’ comments.
Beware next time [...]

I use GMail Manager add-on for Firefox to access my 5 emails I have under Google’s hosted accounts. For some reason, GMail Manager stopped working with hosted accounts for the past couple of weeks. GMail Manager team has released a new version couple of days back with a fix. The GMail Manager 0.5.5 includes the [...]

Google released a beta version of Picasa 2.7 for Linux 4 months back. They removed the beta tag and released Picasa 2.7 for Linux. As I mentioned earlier, some of the new features include

Upload to Picasa Web Albums
Save edits to disk - Save edits, undo saves, and revert to the original file with ease.
Folder hierarchy [...]

I had problem accessing my GMail yesterday for a brief time. I was getting an error saying imap.gmail.com could not be found. I thought there was some problem with my account, but after I read the news today, I realized that I wasn’t the only one who had that issue.
Technorati Tags: GMail, IMAP, Google

Google has released Google Email Uploader which is an open source desktop utility to import emails and contacts from Windows desktop email clients like Microsoft Outlook. You need to have a Google Apps account in order to get Google Email Uploader to work. It won’t work with regular GMail. This utility works only with Windows [...]

Google is laying off 300 of it’s employees. This is the first sizable number of people being kicked out by Google. All those employees came as part of Google’s acquisition of DoubleClick. Google was the one of the very few companies that kept hiring people when everyone else was kicking people out. It looks like [...]