If you’re in Mumbai, you must surely be using Just Dial’s service – where you can call 022 – 28888888, and get any information you like. For example, you want to take your better half to a nice romantic candle light dinner in Bandra West and don’t know any new places that have opened up. Sure, no problem, just call up Just Dial and they will SMS a list of restaurants to you, as per your liking.
Recently, on browsing through a couple of IT blogs, I spotted a Google advertisement. At first I thought it was a twitter ad, and was shocked to see twitter publicizing itself through Google Adwords.
When I saw the advertisement closely, I noticed it was an ad for Microsoft India, and the users who clicked on the ad were redirected to the twitter profile of Microsoft India.
Its a know fact how popular Twitter has become in the past 2 years. Every celebrity, every second news site wants to be on twitter to connect with the right audience. Given the scenario, its very funny to see MumbaiMirror on twitter, but with only 29 followers, and only 79 tweets.
Are you fuckin kiddin me?
While google offers a free client that you can download on your cell phone to view your GMail, I prefer using the native email client provided by Nokia. This also means I don’t get the threaded view, and each conversation/email is tracked as a new email. If you prefer the conversations clubbed together, you can download the email client from Google.
Find below the instruction on setting up your GMail or Google Apps account on your native client.
Egosurfing (also called egosearching, egogoogling, self-googling, or simply Googling yourself) is the practice of searching for one’s own given name, surname, full name, on a popular search engine, to see what results appear.
It has become increasingly popular with the rise of popular search engines such as Google, as well as free blogging and web-hosting services.
With EgoSurf, you can check how many points you get with EgoSurfing, and compare your results with others, which gives you a clue as to where you stand.
Addictomatic gives you the search results of your name from various services like Google Blog Search, Twitter, YouTube, WordPress.com blogs, Digg, Flickr, Bloglines, so you can see if your name is mentioned in any of these services.
So how often do you Ego Surf? Do you use any other services for Ego Surfing?
We’ve all heard of news about Microsoft wanting to take over the online search component of Yahoo!, but the deal fell through.
Whats new is Yahoo! has agreed a major deal to use Google’s advertising technology. The tie-up will see Google ads appear alongside Yahoo! search results in the US and Canada. Currently, its unclear as to how it will affect the UK market. This move will further boost Google’s dominance.
Did you miss an email only because the sender misspelt your username. If he misspelt it, chances are that the mail will bounce back. What if, he doesnt check the bounced email, or simply deletes it, or better yet, it goes into his junk folder.
The solution to this is to create a catch-all, which essentially means an email sent to {anything}@yourdomain.com will be forwarded to your main account.
A black version of google is called Blackle.
An all white web page uses about 74 watts to display, while an all black page uses only 59 watts. Google, which has a white background and gets about “200 million queries a day” could reduce global energy use by 750 Megawatt-hours a year by simply changing the color of its homepage to black.
And this is how Blackle emerged. According to Blackle’s homepage at publication time, 4,408.917 Watt hours have been saved by. Nice ideas. But how does the search measure up? Very well indeed. Give it a whirl yourself and start saving energy one search at a time. :: Blackle.com
More and more people are switching over to GTalk from other messengers.
Reason: Its low on memory, and very sweet & simple.
Here are a couple of tips and tricks to make your experience with GTalk more interesting 
