GOOGLE _ DOODLE

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               EPITOME OF CREATIVITY : THE GOOGLE DOODLE                             

Doodle History

Over the years, doodles on the Google homepage have made searching on Google more fun and enjoyable for its users worldwide. When doodles were first created, nobody had anticipated how popular and integral they would become to the Google search experience. Nowadays, many users excitedly anticipate the release of each new doodle and some even collect them!

In 1998, the concept of the doodle was born when Google founders Larry and Sergey played with the corporate logo to indicate their attendance at the Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert. A stick figure drawing was placed behind the 2nd "o" in the word, Google and the revised logo was intended as a comical message to Google users that the founders were “out of office.” While the first doodle was relatively simple, the idea of decorating the company logo to celebrate notable events was well received by our users.

A year later in 2000, Larry and Sergey asked current webmaster Dennis Hwang, an intern at the time, to produce a doodle for Bastille Day. Pleased with the result, Dennis was then appointed Google’s chief doodler and doodles became a regular occurrence on the Google homepage. In the beginning, the doodles tended to celebrate largely visible holidays; nowadays, doodles represent a wide array of events and anniversaries from the Winter Games to the Mars Rover landing.

How many doodles has Google done over the years?

The doodle team has created over 300 doodles for Google.com in the United States and over 700 have been designed internationally.

How can Google users/the public submit ideas for doodles?

The doodle team is open to user ideas; requests for doodles can be sent to proposals@google.com. The team receives numerous requests so even if we do not get back to you about your request, please know that we do look at and consider all the requests that are submitted.

Where can I see all the Google doodles that have been done over the years?

All doodles can be found at www.google.com/logos.

also visit :

http://www.google-logos.com/category/google-doodles

NEW GOOGLE OPERATING SYSTEM

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CHROME OS----a pathbreaking innovation from Google.inc

What if nearly everything you usually keep on your computer — photos, documents, music and software — was stored online? Your machine would be speedier and perhaps less vital because you could simply use another machine to recoup your digital life should you lose your laptop.

This premise — somewhat scary, yet liberating — is behind Google Inc.'s upcoming Chrome OS, which will make notebook computers more like netbooks than most actual netbooks.

The software powering Chrome OS, which is based on the search giant's eponymously named browser, serves mainly as a tool for connecting your computer to the Web. That's where nearly everything you use is housed and linked to your Google username and password. It's a concept known as cloud computing.

A peek at the upcoming operating system and its vision of cloud computing shows a promising idea that could make computing faster and more convenient. But it still needs a lot of work.

Google expects the first computers powered by Chrome OS to be released this summer, and initially they'll be made by Acer Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co.

For now, though, Google is operating a pilot for some individuals and companies to test an unbranded laptop that runs Chrome OS. The company lent The Associated Press one of these machines, which aren't going to be sold to the public.

The laptop itself, called the Cr-48, doesn't really deserve to be critiqued, because it is a stripped-down machine that is chiefly a frame for Google's OS oeuvre. The shell is entirely matte black plastic, without a hint of branding. It has a webcam, a screen that is about 12 inches diagonally and a full-sized keyboard with a search key in place of the caps lock key.

The machine also has 16 gigabytes of flash memory for storing files, if you feel absolutely compelled to download something. Downloads are obviously discouraged, though; my music collection alone would nearly fill this allotment.

Moving on to the main event, Chrome OS brings a few clear benefits: Starting up the notebook takes just seconds — roughly 13 of them, according to my stopwatch — and waking the closed notebook from "sleep" mode is as quick as opening it up (almost too quick, as the notebook couldn't regain its wireless service quite as fast). By contrast, my Windows machine at work takes more than two minutes to boot up.

After you sign in with your Google account, the same username and password you would use to access Gmail, you can pull up a home page showing all the apps you've installed from the Chrome Web Store. Assuming you're connected to the Web, you can just start using apps and surfing the Web right away.

There were plenty of free and paid Web apps and browser extensions available when I tested the notebook. Some are only for the Chrome OS; others also work with Google's Chrome Web browser for other computers.

I installed a range of the free ones, some of which seemed to be just links to existing Web pages. The apps I snagged included Web-based office suite Google Docs, the chatting service Google Talk, Aviary's Advanced Image Editor and balloon-popping puzzle game Poppit.

As with smart phones and tablets such as Apple Inc.'s iPad, publications are also making Chrome apps. USA Today, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal are among them.

On my work computer, it can take ages to open up applications that are stored on my hard drive. With the Cr-48, I could immediately start editing a Google Docs spreadsheet or tweak the colors in a photo using Aviary because the programs are all running online. I only needed a strong Internet connection.

Surfing the Web was a pretty normal experience, with most websites loading speedily, though the Cr-48 was not that good at displaying Flash videos.

But I felt constrained because I had to use the lone browser that comes with the system and the Web-based apps I obtained. Apps loaded slowly when my Internet connection wasn't stellar. This wouldn't be a problem with programs stored on a regular computer's hard drive.

If a Chrome OS-based laptop becomes my primary computer, a data plan would be a must.

I feel anxious just thinking about the possibility that I couldn't access my documents at any time, and I don't even keep anything that important on my own laptop.

I mostly used the notebook with Wi-Fi at home and at the office, though I also tried out its 3G network service, which is provide by Verizon Wireless.

So what happens if you don't have any Internet access? The Cr-48 is pretty useless.

I could still write in an already-open Google Docs document, add notes in Scratchpad and look at photos I'd downloaded. But I couldn't use apps that are not yet opened because they're all connected to the Web.

If you lose your connection while using an app, you may be able to view some information that has been temporarily stored in memory, as I could when browsing The New York Times' app. But you'll need to get online as soon as possible to really use the machine. Faced with this situation, I'd probably just search frantically for an Internet connection or simply put away my laptop.

In its current state, the Chrome OS is far from ready to take over as my main computer, even if I were using it on a more powerful machine than the Cr-48.

vmware image of chrome is available .and it's using network installation method the os installed.

your gmail account used as user information.

Extensions to Decorate New Tabs in Chrome

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Do you want to experiment new ways to improve productivity? If your answer is yes, then here is something for you. We will have a look at 5 beautiful chrome extensions that changes the way your new tab looks. Not only the looks, these extensions gives you better functionality and features for the work you like to do most.

Access Bookmarks and Closed Tabs Easily with Incredible Start Page

Incredible StartPage is a featured chrome extension which claims to give you a productive start. It makes accessing bookmarks and closed tabs very easy by putting them in a beautiful list at the center of the page. You can also write notes in the new tab and post them directly to Gmail. If you are a bookmark person and keep using closed tabs frequently then use this handsome extension from here.

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Customize New Tab with Predefined Sites by SpeedDial

Normally, Chrome shows you most visited sites on opening a new tab. You can change this behavior, in fact make is better and attractive by SpeedDial. With this extension, you can predefine your tab sites instead of most visited one when opening new tab. You can also change tab background image, number of blocks and use site logos. This is the best extension to beautify chrome.

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Keep Track of Time with Modest Digital Clock

If you like to follow time, then this clock extension will help you with your punctuality. It is simple and minimalist but yet very useful. It de-clutters the new tab with the most precious thing.

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Get Google Tasks on New Tab

This simple extension helps you to be more productive. Remember Google Task? It is a simple to-do list available in Google calendar and Gmail. Now you can use it more effectively and frequently with this extension. The new tab will now display all your tasks with this extension. And you can easily add new or delete old ones with its intuitive interface. The developer hopes that with this, we will see more and do them more often.

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Set Beautiful Flickr Pics as New Tab backgrounds

The last extension in the series to beautify your new tab is VisivoTab. This one gets hand selected pictures from Flickr’s visivo and sets it as a tab background. Idle for artistic people with fast internet connection.
If you observe carefully, opening new tab is the most frequent thing we do on Google Chrome. With the above 5 ways we can change its behavior and layout and hopefully make this activity more useful.

3 Methods to Transfer Emails Between Two Gmail Accounts

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Want to transfer your mails from one Gmail account to another? Why? Because it could be helpful in certain situations like –
#1. Your email address is unprofessional and now you want to change to some other neat address.
#2. You are receiving huge amount of junk and now want to use new one. Therefore, you want to migrate emails from old Gmail account to new one.
#3. You got multiple active Gmail accounts and now you want to use only one Gmail account. So in this condition, you want to transfer old emails from multiple places and paste them into newly-active Gmail account.
We can approach this problem with 3 different ways. Mail transferring methods depends on how you want it and how much you want it? It could be as simple as setting a filter or as complex as downloading all mails to computer and uploading them to new mailbox.
Let’s look at 3 possible solutions to transfer emails between two Gmail accounts:

1. Set up a Filter for Forwarding Old and New Mails

This is one of the simplest method that I have found. All you need to do is set up a filter that forwards all incoming mails to your new Gmail account and then checking the “Also apply filter to x conversations below” checkbox. This is a very simple method but its effectiveness is not guaranteed though, it is working for me.
However, there are two disadvantages of this method. One, you need to keep alive your old account. Second, mails send to a list that you are a part are not forwarded to your new account so you need to come back to your old account periodically.
Note: If you don’t want your old messages then you can choose auto-forwarding from settings, which is lot more easy and a sure-shot way to get mails from old accounts.

2. Leverage POP for Downloading and Transferring Mails
This method is strongly recommended for comprehensive transferring. You can leverage Gmail’s fantastic POP ability to download mails from one account to another account. Just follow these steps –
In Your Old Account
1. Go to Forwarding and POP/IMAP option in Gmail Settings.
2. Select the first option Enable POP for all mail (even mail that’s already been downloaded) in the POP Download section.
3. Save your settings.
In the New Account
1. Goto the Accounts and Import option in Gmail Settings.
2. Click on Add POP3 email account button from the Check mail using POP3 section.
3. Fill up your old account information in the pop-up. Choose all defaults fields except POP server to pop.gmail.com.
4. Save your settings. You are done.
In this method, mails will not be transferred at once and it may take few hours if your inbox is gigantic. Unfortunately Gmail chat history will not be transferred.
This is the best method I have seen for complete migration. It is often referred as Mail Fetcher. GMail provides complete support for this here.

3. Migrate Completely – Even Moving Your Labels with You
One common problem of migration is that all mail labels are lost. Even though, you have transferred your accounts successfully, you will end up in unorganized mailbox.
Basically, they have removed all multi-label mails, applied them a single label and then used desktop client to drag-n-drop mails between various folders.

2 Speedy Ways to Search Google with Keyboard Shortcuts

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Navigating Google search results with keyboard keys is a long awaited feature. Shortcuts will save your time and speed up your work. Recently, when Google changed their layout , we thought that Google will also implement keyboard shortcuts, but unfortunately they did not. Fortunately for us, we have an official Google experiment that helps us to navigate search results with keys. There is also Keyboardr, which is a meta-search engine with better user interface.

Speedy Way 1: Keyboardr, Surf without Mouse

Keyboardr is a straightforward web application, also minimalistic and beautiful. It is a meta-search engine i.e. it searches Google, YouTube and Wikipedia at the same time. As soon as you type your query in search box, it starts displaying results organised in three sections. You can navigate results with arrow keys and Enter opens the corresponding result.

Firefox may notify you about pop-ups from Keyboardr. Click Allow from Options to get results page in new tab.

Speedy Way 2: Join Google Experiment for Keyboard Shortcuts

Few years back, Google rolled out a experiment allowing users to navigate using keys. Most of the shortcuts are similar to Gmail e.g. J and K for up and down.

Complete shortcut list:

Key	Action
J	Selects the next result.
K	Selects the previous result.
O	Opens the selected result.
<Enter>	Opens the selected result.
/	Puts the cursor in the search box.
<Esc>	Removes the cursor from the search box.

The only disadvantage is that once you have joined this experiment, you cannot join any other experiment. In addition, all your future Google searches will have keyboard shortcuts enabled. Well that’s not a disadvantage, is it?

YOUTUBE TRICK

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Have you ever wondered of watching two videos together in Youtube simultaneously ?
Yes it is possible to watch two videos together in Youtube simultaneously.
All you have to do is follow the steps below:
1)goto
http://www.youtube.com/   now select the two video's you would love to watch together.
for this 1st select one video say "here i am -by byran adams" copy the video's link from the address bar by pressing -f6 and save it in notepad.  Then select the 2nd video say "in the end-linkin park "again copy the video's link from the address bar and save it in notepad. now

2)there's a site that allow you to watch these two videos simultaneously  :
http://youtubedoubler.com/
goto this site and paste the link of the two videos you would like to watch and simply click the double up option thats all.See the picture below for details:

Google Wave!

Hi All,
know some thing about google wave  in the bleow video .

features:

• Live discussion: let everyone have a voice
• Task tracking: stay on top of who needs to do what
• Meeting agendas: leave a meeting on the same page
• Document creation: draft content and gather feedback in one place
• Brainstorming: let the creative juices flow
• ...or just start with a blank wave and see where it takes you!

GOOGLE INSTANT PREVIEW

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Google interduces instant preview recently .when you are try to search any thing through google search engine .the results are showing preview of the site before u gone to the site .so more easy to find the result ......

google Docs Adds Drag-and-Drop Image Insertion

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Google  added drag-and-drop image uploads and insertion between your desktop and Google Docs for anyone using the latest versions of Firefox, Chrome, or Safari.
Browsing through your upload dialog to upload something to the web when you're already staring at the file on your desktop is always a painful process. Some people hesitate to ditch desktop apps like Microsoft Office for Google Docs because of that sort of lack of desktop integration.. Now inserting an image from your computer into a document is as easy as drag-and-drop.
You'll need to have enabled the new version of Google Docs if you haven't already, but it's easy to do: Just navigate to Google Docs settings, click Editing, tick the checkbox next to New version of Google documents, and then click Save.
It's a relatively small upgrade in the grand scheme of things, but it's really handy if you're a regular Docs user.
source : google

View Hidden files With Google

hi frinds ,You can view documents that are suppose to be kept quiet, and the public are not suppose to read, all you got to do is………

1. Go to Google

2. Type this into the search bar "not for public release" -.edu -.gov -.mil

3. Exactly the way it is, along with your search.

GOOGLE TV is ready for launch

Google announced the support of Intel, Logitech, Sony, DISH Network. The internet giant said it was ushering in a new category of devices for the living room.
Based on the Android platform. the devices will run the Google Chrome web browser. Users will be able to access linear TV channels, as well as drawing on the internet and cloud-based applications including Adobe Flash.




FEATURES OF GOOGLE TV :

The web is now a channel

With Google Chrome and Adobe Flash 10.1, Google TV lets you access everything on the web. Watch your favorite web videos, view photos, play games, check fantasy scores, chat with friends, and do everything else you're accustomed to doing online. Plus, the world's best websites are now being perfected for television -- check out our Spotlight gallery for examples.

A new world of apps for your TV

Google TV will come pre-loaded with apps like Netflix, Twitter, CNBC, Pandora, Napster, NBA Game Time, Amazon Video On Demand and Gallery. Starting early next year, apps from Android Market will work on Google TV as well.
Watch the video.

 

Your phone = remote control

Your Android phone or iPhone can be used to control your Google TV in place of a remote control. Use your voice to search, and even use multiple phones to control the same TV. No more fighting over the remote! 

Fling a video to your television

Find a great website on your phone and want to show it to everyone? Now you can. "Fling" what you're watching, listening to, or doing on your phone by sending it to your TV with the press of a button.

Watch it now

Never miss a show again. With Google TV, you can access over 40,000 shows and movies whenever you want with Netflix ($8.99 a month) or Amazon Video On Demand (shows start at 99 cents!).

YouTube perfected for TV

YouTube is great on the web, but it's even better on television. With YouTube Leanback, you can watch videos without ever clicking play -- just sit back and watch all of your favorite YouTube content, personally chosen for you, in full screen HD. You can even create new channels on the fly.

Watch and browse,
simultaneously

With Google TV, you can browse the web or open an app and watch TV on the same screen. Check your fantasy football stats while watching the game, check your @replies on Twitter during American Idol, or purchase a product online right after you watch the ad. It's just like picture-in-picture mode, but with the web and the TV.

TV gets a homepage

Turn on your television and you'll instantly have access to your favorite channels, apps, podcasts, and websites, thanks to the Google TV home screen. The home screen is customizable for you, by you, so that you can always change your preferences.





 

Create a TV playlist

Want to watch something, but don't have time right now? Send it to your Google Queue and watch it later. You can also subscribe to your favorite websites and video podcasts, add YouTube videos, and more. It's like building a DVR for the web.

Record from the search bar

If you're a DISH NETWORK subscriber using Google TV, you’ll enjoy many enhanced TV and DVR features, including recording a show right from the search bar and being able to search all of your recordings at once.

 

 Rock out in your living room

Listen to your favorite music on the best speakers in your house by creating a personal radio station on the fly with Pandora or listening to any song, any time, with Napster.

 

 The ultimate picture frame

Turn the biggest screen in your house into a beautiful, high definition photo gallery. Now your TV can stream photos from Picasa, Flickr, and every other photo-sharing site. Plus, you can access any public gallery, not just your own.

 

 over-the-air updates

How many consumer electronics products go up in value after you buy them? Google TV updates itself automatically, so you'll get new features for free.