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goo.gl – URL Shortener from Google

Oct 16

Posted by Dharmavirsinh Jhala in News | No Comments


goo.gl - offers another URL Shortener..!

goo.gl - offers another URL Shortener..!

hey don't click these short urls goo.gl/aV8T or goo.gl/wX0r, why.! are they bombs? No they are just short urls....um.......what?

If everyone is having their own then how Google can be behind in the race..! Just kidding. Yes, but the fact is Google - The search engine giant has introduced another product from it's Lab offering URL Shortening service - goo.gl. Yes, it's integrated with your Google account and you can see the history and hits for all the URLs you have shortened. It has many other features along with Google's rock solid server farms. (Google offers 100% availability of goo.gl service)

Many a times while using a URL shortening service we worry about 3rd party website/service's availability, because if that service is unavailable at the time when user clicks on the shortened URL we are gone. Thanks to Google for adding one more helpful service.

Few days back I read a post from Dylan Tack about "URL Shorteners Must Die", I agree to Dylan's concerns regarding security and spamming on this but when a giant like Google is jumping into this I am sure security and spamming will be taken care well and I think such attempts will be punished too..! Read the rest of this entry »

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Google Caffeine: The new Search engine index

Sep 20

Posted by Dharmavirsinh Jhala in News | No Comments

Google announced launch of it's new search engine this June 2010. It's time to be happy for all those who update their website contents frequently and willing to appear in Google search as soon as they publish. Google has made this possible with it's brand new search engine index.

The new search engine Caffeine is Faster, Accurate, Relevant and with huge index. It also means that websites and contents which were holding hire positions in Google will be punished somehow and black-hat SEO tack-ticks will be found and punished much faster now.

Following screen-shot describes it's effect on Blogs@DiGiTSS; we are happy to know that impact is positive if one updates content frequently. (The large red-dot represents period when Caffeine went live)

Google Analytics showing Google Caffeine impact on Blogs@DiGiTSS

Google Analytics showing Google Caffeine impact on Blogs@DiGiTSS

If you are not updating your blog frequently it's alarm to wake up..! :)

Today this is 100th post for Blogs@DiGiTSS and I want to confess that we are not able to update it as frequently as possible and not able to push up every idea and thought on this blog as we wanted. But I am sure introduction of Google Caffeine will boost our blogging rate..! Hope that works for you too.

I would like to highlight and emphasize some statements from The Official Google Blog here, read them carefully, it would introduce you to some facts if you haven't read that already. Read the rest of this entry »

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Use Google Docs Viewer for Document viewing within Browser

Jan 24

Posted by Dharmavirsinh Jhala in Tools / Plugins / Extenstion | 19 Comments

Google Docs

Google Docs Viewer

I was looking for a way to let users see Microsoft Word Doc or PDF files online while using my application without leaving their browser without downloading files and then opening it to view with Word or PDF viewer. I was looking for some way out either via any PHP or Microsoft.NET libraries, did some googling on that; but later on I just got an idea that google already has all code written for me.. when I have any email attachment in PDF or DOC or DOCX google does it for me..! Even while searching I can see PDFs by converting them in HTML. So I just googled it up and found that Google already has this ability that we can use Google Docs Viewer without any Google Account Login. YES that's true no Google Account login is required. It's damn simple and easy. Just pass document path as attachment as parameter and we are done.

Google Docs Viewer gives us ability to embed PDF, DOC/DOCX, PPT, TIFF:

Yes that's true; Google Docs Viewer gives us ability to view/embed functionality of PDF, DOC/DOCX, PPT and TIFF viewing on the fly without writing a single line of code by just giving a link or embedding within. No PPTX or XLS/XLSX is supported, Read the rest of this entry »

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Offline Gmail on the way – Thanks to Google Gears

Jan 29

Posted by Dharmavirsinh Jhala in News | No Comments

Gmail Offline on the way

Gmail goes Offline

One of Gmail’s most requested features – offline support – is now available in testing. In other words, you can now use Gmail without an Internet connection, just like you can with desktop mail clients like Outlook.

The offline support is made possible by Google Gears, which you’ll need to download in order to utilize the feature. Here’s how it works, according to Google’s Andy Palay: Read the rest of this entry »

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Google Chrome… and the Browser war continues…!

Sep 14

Posted by Dharmavirsinh Jhala in Browsers | No Comments

Google Chrome has been arrived now since while..!

And war of browsers is continue with added competitor. End users are going to benefit from this as they will get better user experience as an end result of all these browser competition. So as the outcome we as end users will get feature rich, friendly, fast and secure browsing experience from most of the browsers as all of them will try to raise the bar.

Yes, Web Developers have one more browser in the list to be tested for their application or web site compatibility. Chrome is in it's beta and didn't passed ACID test yet.

There are some really nice features like:

  • In-build Task manager for ending process of each tab or viewing details of each tab.
  • Incognito mode. (Don't leave any trails when you browse).
  • Separate process running for each tab, so that one bad page won't crash rest of the tabs.
  • Ability to drag tabs out of the browser window. (That's fantastic..!)
  • Great space saving and clean look and design giving maximum viewing area for a web page.
  • Ominibox as smart Addressbar

If you didn't tried it yet, then give it a try. You can download it here.

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