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Last week, Google enabled an interesting feature: custom backgrounds for its search page. Now the feature is available internationally, and to highlight it, Google collaborated with several well-known artists who’ve created a gallery of background images that will be featured on the Google homepage over the next 24 hours. Unfortunately, the feature comes with a somewhat bizarre catch: You cannot turn the background images off — at least on certain Google search pages. For example, when I open my localized Google search page — http://www.google.hr/ — I’m greeted by a colorful field of flowers. I can change the image by clicking on the link in the lower-left corner, but there’s no option to completely turn it off. For many users, this is quite annoying; as you can see from this Twitter search tweetzi Twitter Search , hundreds of users are trying to find a way to get rid of the feature and restore Google’s traditional white background. There are a couple of tricks to get rid of the ima...

W ithout a doubt Google is one of the largest company in the technology industry and the largest influencer on the Internet. We use Google product and services on daily basis, and some us are depend on it so much that if any of the services are down, we become helpless, resulting things to be put on halt. Using Google services and following the news & updates are equally important. Almost every Google services (excluding the ones in Google lab) have a blog and that’s where the staffs update us on latest development, maintenance, future enhancement and a whole lot more. Sure, some of us might argue that we can get updates from newsletter, but keep in mind newsletters aren’t frequent and if you compare to what you can get in the blog, newsletters merely summaries. In this article, we sum up a list of Google products’ blogs we generally used and we categorize them by different professions so you can get an overall view what you are likely interested. We’ve also added the hyperlinks to...

T he most of us have laready heard the story of  how Google got its name. But Google isn’t the only company out there with an odd name. Here’s the list of stories behind the naming of popular tech brands. HP : Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard flipped a coin to decide whether their company would be called Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett. SUN Microsystems : It’s actually an acronym for Stanford University Network, the school where the founders met. Cisco: Actually not an acronym, as often assumed. It’s just San Francisco without the San Fran, which is why the “c” was not capitalized originally. Apple : The company was late in filing for a name and trademark, and Steve Jobs issued an ultimatum: Come up with something better than Apple. No dice. Microsoft : Microsoft made MICROcomputer SOFTware. Get it? Yeah, that’s all there is to it. (During their early history, Microsoft wrote their name “Micro-Soft.”) Sometimes the best answer is the most obvious. Oracle : The company grew out of a...

Dear Google Chrome, I always wanted to use you as my primary browser but felt lazy doing so because you weren’t supporting some of my favorite Firefox extensions. Also, while I know that it is possible to use any search engine from your “smart” address bar, I was more comfortable with the Firefox approach that allowed me to switch search defaults with a click. My system has a fairly decent configuration – a fast processor and plenty of RAM – but it had become slow over time and hence I had no option but to rebuild the computer. I reinstalled Windows 7, Microsoft Office (their 2010 release is the best ever), Adobe Creative Suite (am still on CS3) and a host of other useful software. Internet Explorer (with Bing) was installed by default but since IE is still far from awesome, I had to make a choice between Firefox, Opera and you (Google Chrome) as the primary browser. This time, I dumped my good old friend (Firefox) and choose you instead. Feeling happy? Oh Chrome, you’ve come such a lo...

Google's Native Client project to accelerate Web applications just got a lot more real--and a lot more ambitious. Browsers today come with increasingly powerful engines to run programs written in JavaScript, but those programs must be translated laboriously into the native instructions a computer understands, typically making them much slower than the software that runs directly on the operating system. Native Client is an attempt to bridge those worlds, letting code downloaded over the Web run fast and natively. A year and a half ago, when Google announced Native Client , the open-source project could run only 32-bit software for x86 processors. On Wednesday, Google announced fulfillment of plans to build support for Native Client for 64-bit x86 processors and ARM processors. That was technologically challenging, but significant because those are the chips that are in most of today's PCs and most smartphones, respectively. But that's not all. The company also disclosed a ...

You may be spending hours in searching with Google .So learn some Google search hacks to get effective search results. 1. Identify Local Time for Any City in the World using Google If you want to know current local time in a particular city, use the following method. To see the current local time in Milan do the following. time Milan 2. Search for Keywords with Similar Meaning using  Google Instead of searching for only the given word , using ~ before the keyword you can instruct Google to search for webpages with the exact given word or the words which has same meaning . In the following example, giving ~tutorial also searches for keywords guide, manual, reference etc. Linux Installation ~tutorial 3. Match Any Single Word in the Search Using * While searching, if you are not sure about which keyword to be placed in the phrase , you can match any single word using *. For example, if you want to search for examples of Jedit editor substitution, and you are not sure ...

In an uncharacteristically low-key bit of philanthropy, Google has donated a cool $2 million to the Wikimedia Foundation, the parent of Wikipedia. Feeling a little guilty after ignoring Wikipedia’s donation drive all holiday season? You probably should, but consider your debt (and guilt) assuaged by the massive $2 million Google plunked into the Wikimedia Foundation piggy banks on Tuesday. Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales broke the news in the most understated way possible: a simple tweet . Advisory board member Mitch Kapor confirmed it with his own tweet , and a formal announcement should be forthcoming sometime Wednesday. The out-of-the-blue donation seems at odds with some of Google’s previous stances on Wikipedia. In 2007, it introduced Knol, a competitor to Wikipedia that never quite made it off the ground. Although pushing $2 million to a direct competitor would seem to represent a giant white flag, Knol is still alive and kicking .

reMail is a popular iPhone app that does super-quick searches of Gmail and IMAP mail accounts...and now it belongs to Google. In a move that may raise some eyebrows in the iPhone power-user community, Internet giant Google has acquired iPhone mail search application reMail . reMail may not be a top-selling iPhone application, but it has gathered a loyal following from serious Gmail and IMAP users who need to keep in touch with folks via their iPhones and somehow navigate the heaps of email they have carefully squirreled away in Gmail or IMAP accounts: reMail offers fast searching capabilities for those information troves, making mobile email more of a reality for serious email users. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. reMail developer Gabor Cselle will be joining Google as a product manager on the Gmail team. As a result of the deal, the reMail iPhone application will be discontinued, and it has already been removed from Apple’s App Store. Existing reMail users who have ...