Archive for February, 2009
Follow Google on Twitter
If you’re into the Twitter world, you may want to follow Google, which just joined yesterday and had already lined up 23,327 followers at the time of this writing, bringing you latest in Google news. How do we tell it’s authentic? Matt Cutts was quoted on Twitter saying “Yes, @google is the official Google account [...]
Tip for Amazon: Measure twice, cut once!
So which one is it? 12 or 60? Sounds more boring than Commodore Sierra games! Not even with the laptop inside should it weight 22 pounds! Now why would you recommend a 1 star item to me? Is my choice that bad? This is both sad and ironic. Such mistakes are becoming more frequent by [...]
Big Giant Down
Did you ever wonder how long a man can live without Gmail? Now you can live it! UPDATE 1: Thank God crisis is gone! I heard that Gmail’s POP/IMAP was still working at the time though. Now that Gmail is back up (for me at least), I still can’t find an official answer on Google’s [...]
Microsoft Gazelle – A More Secured Browser?
After the continuos slip in IE market share to Firefox and the quickly emerging Google Chrome, Microsoft researchers seem to be working on a new web browser that tries to turn things around in the way they treat web pages. While Google Chrome treats each tab as a process by it self, Gazelle, which relies [...]
Google Translate now gives more than just a word
Since it’s release, Google translate have drawn much attention, being implemented based on automation techniques rather than word to word, as the translation engine was trained by comparing similar articles in different languages. There was one element missing however since then. Given any word, you would get only one translation for it. No nouns, verbs, [...]
Tribute to Bill Gates
We must admit despite all our differences, he did make it happen.
Google Ta3reeb Arabic Transliteration
Google Arabic Transliteration (ta3reeb) is another cool service by Google, that translates the Roman characters into Arabic and vice versa. Don’t we Arabs have numbers standing for our extra characters, and don’t we get non-Arabic speakers confused when we do so? We have it now as brand names even. Taw9eel.com, 6alabat.com, and others. But the [...]