Archive for February, 2009
Google Kuwait can guess your language mixup
Do you ever get this? When my wife told me Google can autocorrect this for you I said “get outta here”. But then she showed it to me and I realized as someone who just let go the Google Kuwait enforcement, she got this extra feature! As you type in the wrong language (e.g. Arabic), [...]
First look at Google Chrome for Mac
With the deadline of end of June for Mac and Linux releases of Google Chrome, the first screenshot of Google Chrome on Mac has been published, and it may not be what you expected. Nevertheless, explaining the difficulty Google faces in porting the code and getting it to run, this is still a step in [...]
Can Gmail Chat Talk to MSN?
I’m not sure how true is that, but before today I never saw Hotmail contacts on my side menu chat list, today I see several of them, some I only contacted once long time ago, and can invite them. Up till now, I couldn’t see anything on Google News or anywhere else, but here is [...]
60 Minutes – Facebook
WordPress Automatic Upgrade Error, and the fix
If you’ve noticed today a message at your WordPress Dashboard saying new version of WordPress is available, tried the WordPress Automatic Upgrade plugin, you may have ended up with an error like this: “Fatal error: Cannot redeclare pclziputilpathreduction() (previously declared in /homepages/468/b1298473934/htdocs/r/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/lib/pclzip.lib.php:5421) in /homepages/468/b1298473934/htdocs/r/wp-content/admin/includes/class-pclzip.php on line 5498 There seems to be a conflict between [...]
Google Digitizes LIVE Photo Archive
Not only did Google introduce Image Ads today, but also have given the world digital access online to millions of LIVE’s archived photos stretching back to the 1750s, that were otherwise unreachable to most people. To perform a LIVE archive search, simply do something like “einstein source:life“
Google Embeds Ads in Image Search
Today I noticed that Google have started introducing Sponsored Ads on top of their image results page. Right now if I try several searches again however, for some reason it doesn’t show up. Was it just a small testing period? Maybe. The ads anyways don’t ruin the page look and usability to an annoying level. [...]