I have reviewed Google’s Search by Images yesterday and was impressed by the new search feature. The image recognition works extremely well in most cases. Search will still turn out blank occasionally but most of the time you get the information that you wanted to find. Today I’m going to look at different uses of [...]
New Social Media Plugin Pearltrees Offers a New Take on Web Favorites
After the sweeping successes of Facebook and Twitter (and, in a distant, simpler time, MySpace), everyone wants to know around what social application or website the next social frenzy will occur. Many contenders have thrown their hat into the ring, including some of the biggest names in computers today, but the only really successful social [...]
Receive Computer Notifications When Disaster Strikes Anywhere in the World
We live in an incredibly beautiful and violent world. Even as Mother Nature may bless people on one side of the world with plentiful rain and gentle weather she can rip the other side apart with volcanic eruptions, hurricanes, earthquakes or any number of horrific natural events. In such a well-connected world as our own, [...]
Desktop Ticker, Get RSS Feed Updates On Your Desktop
RSS feeds are dominantly used by tech savvy Internet users, say the experts. Even if that is true, it does not seem to have a negative effect on the number of websites that are offering RSS feeds as a service. Most users read RSS feeds either in a desktop software or online. Both methods have [...]
Google Search By Image
Searching by image is a new feature of Google Search that was introduced yesterday as well. It basically allows the web user to upload an image to Google to search for it on Google. The search will be on all Google properties, including Google Search and Google images. A search like this can come in [...]
Google Rolling Out Voice Search
Voice Search is the second new technology next to page prerendering that Google introduced exclusively for Chrome web browser users yesterday on Inside Search. Android smartphone users may already be aware of Voice Search, as it is available for their devices. The majority of desktop users on the other hand are new to the concept [...]
Troubleshooting Windows Defender Conflicts
I get troubleshooting emails on a wide variety of subjects, it’s always great when you can help people out and one I received this week was from someone who’d bought the latest version of Kaspersky Anti-Virus in response to a minor virus attack on her PC. Kaspersky removed the virus diligently enough, but it had [...]
Page Prerendering Introduced In Google Chrome Dev
Prerendering is a technology that can speed up web browsing by loading web pages in advance. The advantage of prerendering is an almost instant page loading time for prerendered pages. There are disadvantages though. The average web page has anywhere from a few dozen to more than one hundred links. Prerendering all link targets would [...]
Adobe Patch Day Brings Fixes For Flash, Shockwave And Adobe Reader
Microsoft had a huge patch day yesterday with 16 security bulletins for the Windows operating system, Microsoft Office, Internet Explorer and other Microsoft software. Adobe, the company behind popular technologies such as Flash Player, Shockwave or Adobe Reader released five security bulletins on the same day after teaming up with Microsoft to coordinate security releases.. [...]