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Login to Zoho with your Google or Yahoo! Accounts
via Zoho Blogs by (author unknown) on May 14, 2008
Shared by Nkululeko Masondo Hmmmmmm Good move ZohoNow you can login to Zoho with your Google or Yahoo! accounts. Below the Zoho Sign-in section, you now have the option to login with your Google or Yahoo! accounts.If you already have a Zoho account with your Google or Yahoo! email address, you will be logged in to the Zoho account automatically. If you do not have a Zoho account with your Google...
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A need for speed: the path to a faster loading sequence
via Official Gmail Blog by Gmail Blog on May 13, 2008
Posted by Wiltse Carpenter, Tech Lead, Gmail PerformanceGreat performance has always been an obsession at Google and it's something that we think about and work on everyday. We want Gmail to be really fast, and we keep working on ways to make it faster. Gmail's architecture eliminates many of the delays in reading mail by employing techniques like prefetching, but recently we decided to...
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Nokia to Tackle Google, First in Mapping, Then Everywhere
via Wired: Gadget Lab by Dylan Tweney on May 13, 2008
Nokia doesn't want you to think of its forthcoming mapping software for PCs as a Google Maps competitor. But press them, and Nokia executives will admit Google is the enemy. And with that particular enemy, there can be no compromise.At the Where 2.0 conference in Burlingame, Calif. today, Nokia showed an early, alpha version of Maps on Ovi. Ovi is Nokia's still-wet-around-the-ears social...
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Big number scientific calculator
via www.alpertron.com.ar by (author unknown) on May 12, 2008
This high-precision calculator features complex numbers, precision up to 1 million digits and exponents up to 1 billion.
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Where does Google go next?
via money.cnn.com by (author unknown) on May 12, 2008
(Fortune) -- Sean Knapp had it made. As a young computer scientist, he couldn't have had a better gig: working at Google, the engineer's paradise. He had all the usual perks - a massage every other week, onsite laundry, free all-you-can-eat haute cuisine. Even better, he got to work on some of Google's highest-profile products, including the search technology that is the heart and...
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How Little Do Users Read? (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)
via www.useit.com by (author unknown) on May 06, 2008
Shared by Ionut The conclusion is that people don't actually read, they just scan the text.I was able to fit very nice formulas to describe users' reading behavior for pages containing between 30 and 1,250 words. For longer pages, reading became quite erratic. Pages with a huge word count are probably not "real" pages anyway � they're more likely to be either academic papers or...
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People Around the World
via Google Blogoscoped by (author unknown) on May 07, 2008
Shared by Philou Quite niceThe below form triggers an image search using Google’s option to show faces only. A different site operator will be used depending on the country you pick, e.g. site:de for Germany*.AfghanistanAlbaniaAlgeriaAmerican SamoaAndorraAngolaAnguillaAntarcticaAntigua and BarbudaArgentinaArmeniaArubaAscension...
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How Google’s Checkbook Stymied Microsoft
via bits.blogs.nytimes.com by (author unknown) on May 06, 2008
Shared by Aranittara Google gives out money to its competitors in order to destroy them lolShortly after Microsoft announced its hostile bid for Yahoo, Google objected and raised the prospect that it would lobby government regulators to block any merger.As it turned out, Google was very much the spoiler in the deal. But its most effective weapon was not threats or coercion, but its very...
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A Safer Way to Search
via Yahoo! Search Blog by ysb_admin on May 05, 2008
Today, we're announcing the beta release of SearchScan, a new feature from Yahoo! Search that helps protect users from viruses, spyware and spam. We've heard from users that security and privacy continue to be major concerns when they are online. We've also learned that solutions that require downloads and constant updating are less than ideal. To tackle the problem, we partnered with...
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Google Reader with Notes - reinventing the wheel
via The Last Podcast by (author unknown) on May 06, 2008
... that had been hacked into it already anyway).Google already has a note-taking application and it is far superior: Google Notebook. It does a million things better than Google Reader for sharing notes. You can share the notebooks, other users can comment on items, you can add pictures and tags, it has RSS feeds you can subscribe to (and hence add to your shared feeds if you are so inclined), ...
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