Handwrite : Write your search on Google!

Google now lets you write on its home page what you want to search with this newly introduced search method called Handwrite. Handwrite is intended for smartphone users and is available on the Google home page itself when accessed form a smartphone and has to be activated in the mobile search settings. After enabling the search settings, you get a button on the botton right corner, which u can tap and start writing. The letters has to be clear and legible and preferably not italics.  There is also the auto completion option available. So no worries! Just tap it to search.

Google now display mathematical results on a calculator!!

Earlier when we had to get answer to a mathematical calculation, we type in the expression in the search box and we get the answer in the results page in bold letters as the first result. But now Google has introduced a virtual calculator on the results page which would display the result of our expression. And if we want further more calculations to be done, It can be done on this same calculator, as we use other calculator applications on our system.
This virtual calculator consist of the basic mathematical functions along with the trigonometric functions and logarithmic functions. It also works on mobiles, other web browsers as well as on ios and android.

Gabe Newell calls Windows 8 an extremely large scale disaster!!

Gabe Newell, the co-founder and managing director of the video game development and online distribution company Valve Corporation, has reportedly mentioned the latest Windows product, Windows OS 8 a "catastrophe". This makes them give a much more priority for Linux. According to him, Linux is now a step backward only in the case of Games. So the Valve Corporation is now giving much more importance in developing for Linux. 

In the mean time there had been other reviews coming from different people about the drawbacks of windows 8. Earlier this year, Stardock CEO Brad Wardell wrote an article for Kotaku about Windows 8's issues. Wardell called the new operating system a "usability nightmare." If all the PC users derive at this kind of a conclusion, definitely it would draw more and more users to the Linux community!! 

Facebook implements a new feature to know the total views of your post

Not getting a like or comment on a post that you put doesn't always mean that you posts are not viewed by anyone. There wasn't any other way to know whether if at least someone who is too lazy to put a comment or like on a post has viewed it, till this time. 
But now, Facebook comes up with its new feature to let the users know how many people have actually seen a post they posted somewhere. This is right now implemented for the posts inside an group. The number near a check symbol under each post indicates how many people have already seen you post. And anyone who can view the post can also see this number and see how may people has viewed it. So go forth a post your updates on any group and see how relevant your posts are...!!

YouTube trying to make their users more disciplined???

YouTube is now making the users link theri google+ profile to their YouTube accounts. They are urging the users to actually enter their full name in place of the fake usernames and pen names that you used to give earlier. And guess what, your full name appear wherever you post a comment, or upload a video!!


It is quite disturbing for atleast some of the users out there. It prevents you from putting any unwanted, abusive or negative comments on the videos because the world sees it with your own full name along with you Google+ photo!!


The video sharing website now asks you for the full name when leaving a comment. If you decline to give the full name, or reveal the identity, you certainly owe an explaination....!! They give you variety of options for why you resist to give the name, like,  “my channel is for a product, business or organization” or “my channel name is well-known” etc. 


“We’ll help you review your YouTube content before your full name starts to display,” YouTube says in a message. “And if you change your mind, you can switch back to your username.”

And they also give you a chance to review the content you had posted earlier. You can go around and delete every single negative comments you've made so far. They provide a more simpler way for this actually. 

This may make the users and the video sharing website more cleaner and disciplined than before, i hope!!

Ubuntu-On-Air!!!

This is a great opportunity provided by the Ubuntu development team to actually discuss your issues and problems with the real developers of Ubuntu!! Doesn't that seems cool!! Its made possible through Google hangout. 

You could watch a hangout of the Ubuntu developers along with other prominent guests such as

- Barton George from Dell who  will be dropping by to talk a little bit about Project Sputnik, Dell’s new developer laptop initiative

- Leann Ogasawara, Canonical Kernel Team – For all your kernel-related questions
- Chris VanHoof Canonical Hardware Enablement Team – Chris will answer all your hardware questions, including how we roll with nVidia, Intel, and AMD

- Robert Carr, Canonical Web Applications Team – Robert will be answering all your questions about web applications

- Brian Murray, Ubuntu Defect Analyst, Foundations – Brian will be available to talk about how the Ubuntu teams manages your bug reports.

You can really have a chat with these people and come up with your questions and get the answers!! You can even discuss about the future developments in Ubuntu and the features and so on. 

For further more details on this check the Ubuntu on air website :http://ubuntuonair.com/

GIT!! A tool for version management

Version management has always been a matter of concern for the software developers. Git is a simple command line tool somewhere similar to the online code hosting site bit bucket. Git was a product of the conflict that arose between the two development teams: that is the bit bucket and the famous linux development team lead by Linus Torvalds. It actually came to existence in 2005.


Talking about Git, Git is a space for you where you can store all your code, watch others code, and clone a copy of another developer and start adding your own features to it. This all happens in one place. This becomes more useful when multiple developers are working on the same project. It is a powerful, sophisticated system for efficient version management.


[PS: It can even serve as a good seminar topic for your academic presentations, as it did for me...!! A report and the ppt of it will be uploaded soon!!]

Markupwand: A tool to make web desingning much easier than any time before!!

Now people with least knowledge in html and css can even get into the feild of web designing with this newly published website by the  Goyaka Labs. With a little creativty and knowledge in photoshop, u can create the layout of a beautiful webite in minutes. All you have to do is create a layout of the website in the form of a psd file, Upload the copy of it on this website and here you go. They'll create the html and css form of your psd file. That is your psd file is converted to html and css. Simple as that!! The various guidelines for doing all the procedures is given in the website. The users has to login through their google account. And the rest is all according to your creativity. We dont know the complexity involved in the process of convertion. But definitely this is goin to be of great use!!! 


Website link: www.markupwand.com