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The idea behind a Google Account is that you can use one single username and password to use various services that Google offers. However, Google Accounts continue to be in chaos due to a single user having various types of accounts in the form of Regular Google Accounts, Google Apps Accounts and Non-Gmail Google Accounts. Moreover the integration between Google’s own services leaves much to be desired.
Posted under Internet
This post was written by Nikhil Pai on October 28, 2008
T-Mobile G1, also known as the HTC Dream or the Google Phone (GPhone) is the first mobile to be launched in the market that will use the Android platform. Featuring full touch-screen functionality and a QWERTY keyboard, the G1 offers complete mobile web experience by incorporating popular Google products such as Gmail, YouTube, & Google Maps.
Posted under Mobile
This post was written by Nikhil Pai on September 28, 2008
Google recently released its own open-source browser, Chrome, in direct competition to Mozilla’s Firefox and Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. Lets see what’s new and different in Chrome and compare Google’s new browser with Firefox and Internet Explorer.
Posted under Software
This post was written by Nikhil Pai on September 27, 2008
RSS feeds is an efficient way to check for news and updates to your favourite websites, without having to visit each site individually. In this article, we compare the various RSS readers and try to determine the best way to read your subscribed RSS feeds.
Posted under Software
This post was written by Nikhil Pai on August 10, 2008
Gmail, arguably the best free email service around is not without its shortcomings. While Google has made a lot of enhancements to Gmail since its launch, there are still many things that could make it even better. Here are the top five features on my wish list:
Posted under Email
This post was written by Nikhil Pai on July 13, 2008
What do you do when you have friends scattered across the various instant messaging networks such as Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, Google Talk, ICQ, Jabber and AIM ? Instead of using individual messaging clients on your computer you can use Multi-network messengers such as Digsby & Pidgin.
Posted under Software
This post was written by Nikhil Pai on June 21, 2008
Google has added the Gmail Labs functionality to its Gmail service. A collection of 13 new experimental features, Gmail Labs allows users to try out new features which Google wants to try out before they introduce it to the regular Gmail service. Unfortunately while the concept is super, the current features on offer are not.
Posted under Email
This post was written by Nikhil Pai on June 7, 2008
Google recently introduced the option to sign in as invisible in Gmail’s integrated chat. This was a feature long available in Yahoo Messenger & Windows Live Messenger but was absent in Google Talk. However Google Chat was much better off without the invisible feature. Read More…
Posted under Software
This post was written by Nikhil Pai on April 15, 2008
