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Gmail: Introducing Priority Inbox
Posted by Muhammad Furqan Abid in Google, Tech News on August 31, 2010
Google is rolling out a new beta feature for Gmail to manage bulk amounts of e-mail. This feature is know as “Priority Inbox“.
Priority Inbox is a new layout that guides you to focus on your important messages. This feature appears at the top of the “Inbox” link. This feature is an algorithm that uses information such as the people you e-mail the most, keywords and which ones you’ve opened.
GMail: Save Attachments to the Desktop via Drag-and-Drop
Posted by Muhammad Furqan Abid in Google, Social Media on August 04, 2010
GMail has introduced a new feature that Save several e-mail attachments to your computer by drag-and-drop. If you are using Google Chrome, Hover your mouse pointer over the file icon or Download link and a tooltip prompting you to “Click to view OR drag to your desktop to save.”
Microsoft Invention: Lets You Insert Batteries in Any Direction
Posted by Muhammad Furqan Abid in Tech News, microsoft on July 04, 2010
Basically battery come with two terminals Positive (+) and Negative (-). In order for it work, they need to go in the right position. Thanks to Microsoft for developing a new technology.
Google introduce Bing-like Custom Background
Posted by Muhammad Furqan Abid in Google on June 03, 2010
Google Personalized Homepage
Google has introduced a new feature yesterday (June 2, 2010) that allows users to upload a custom background from there Computer or a Picasa Web Album to personalize the Google’s homepage; just like a computer desktop. This exciting feature is known as Freeze Frame.
Facebook banned in Pakistan
Posted by Muhammad Furqan Abid in Social Media on May 19, 2010
Justice Ejaz Chaudhry of the Lahore High court ordered Pakistan Telecommunication Authority to block the access of social networking website ‘Facebook‘ in Pakistan until May 31.
The order came when a petition was filed by a lawyers’ group called the Islamic Lawyers’ Movement after the site held a competition featuring caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).
Google to start e-Books service this Summer
Posted by Muhammad Furqan Abid in Google, Social Media on May 05, 2010
The world’s largest search engine giant Google has made all necessary plan to introduce it’s new e-book store called Google Editions. The service will sell e-books on the web just like Amazon’s Kindle store or Apple’s iBooks.
Google’s manager for strategic-partner development Chris Palma told The Wall Street Journal about the plans on Tuesday at a publishing- industry panel in New York.
Google Chrome URL bar no longer shows http://
Posted by Muhammad Furqan Abid in Google, Web Browsers on April 20, 2010
The most recent developer version of Google’s Chrome browser has introduced a quiet, but appreciable change. When you see some text prefixed by “http://” you automatically know that what follows is a web address, as defined by the Hypertext Transfer Protocol.
Google has removed http:// prefix from the recent developer version of Chorme, and simply displaying a URL as “glanceworld.com”. Here are some questions raised What happens in other cases for example where the scheme is https or FTP? For this reason, some individuals are actually reporting the feature as a bug.
Firefox Lorentz Beta Released
Posted by Muhammad Furqan Abid in Tech News, Web Browsers on April 11, 2010
Firefox fans, it’s here: The first beta of Firefox Lorentz beta has been released.
Lorentz is Firefox version 3.6.3 with a much delight in update. Firefox beta allows you to separate plugins, such as Adobe Flash, so that they don’t crash the entire browser when they encounter issues and the plugin is replaced with a dark image notifying the plugin crash. This feature is called “out-of-process plugins.”
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