It really helped me many times when I go to other towns. I used it to find where I am , the places near by and the way to reach my target place. Now coming to Google Latitude. When we are able to find our exact location in Google map would not it be cool if we could track the location of friends and family in Google maps. Yes what is impossible for Google? They named it as Google latitude and launched the revolutionary thought.  Look at the below demonstration video for Google Latitude.

What do I need to activate Google Latitude?

A high end Mobile with latest Google Maps installed on it and of course data connection on it. By this way you share your location with your friends. If you are on a computer you can add igoogle widget and still  follow your friends who are all on mobile. Additionally you can share your desktop/laptop location if you have installed Google Gears.

I’ve tried this Google Latitude with our friend circle and I was able to track the location of one my friend in minute by minute when he was traveling long distance in car. Though his mobile does not have GPS, Google was able to track his latitude using the cellphone tower range and pointed his move in Google Map.

We can also see that Google take care of the privacy very well. You can share or disable the contacts  who can see your Geo location. You can also select city level location option if you just want to share your current city and not the exact place on that city. Interestingly you can also chose the locational manually so you can be in Mumbai and show your friends as you are in Chennai.

Another important thing we should think about  is, Google the internet legend already collected the data of what we search, what we do on internet. Each and every thing we do in the internet is being collected by Google. The  next, they started collecting the sensitive data like where we go and what we do physically!. Already there are lot of  hot discussions  going in internet regarding the privacy issue. People say that you can be spied if some one installs this software in your mobile. Does Google have to answer for this?

Other than blog RSS feeds via SMS, you can also use the Google SMS service for news alerts, weather alerts. Also you make a SMS channel for your friends group and post MSG from web or from your mobile so that all your friends will recieve that MSG via SMS on their Mobile. Currently this free SMS service is availble to only Indian mobile number and supports English, Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada.

]]> http://www.digitaldreamers.in/send-free-sms-to-your-friends-using-google-sms-channels/feed/ 0 http://www.digitaldreamers.in/now-make-voice-video-chat-in-gmail/ http://www.digitaldreamers.in/now-make-voice-video-chat-in-gmail/#comments Sun, 16 Nov 2008 14:40:56 +0000 praveen http://www.digitaldreamers.in/?p=115 Today Google announced the launch of Voice & Video Chat in Gmail. All the gmail user should install a Gmail Plugin to make this new voice & Video chat work. This plugin will work only in the browsers FF 2.0+, IE 6.0+, Safari 3.0+, and Google Chrome with PCs like Windows XP or Vista, as well as on Macs with OS X 10.4 or later.

Unfortunately, this new features integrated only in Gmail, not yet in Google Talk.  In the Chat section of your Gmail, select the contact you want to call. If they have a camera icon next to their name, you can make a voice or video call to them; just click Video & more. If your friend doesn’t have a camera next to their name in your chat list, you can invite them to download the Gmail voice and video chat plug-in from the Video & more menu in a chat window. Even if your friend doesn’t have a video camera, you can still make a voice call or a 1-way video call.

This is the video of the launch of Google Chrome

This is what all the browser says, but there is a strong reason for the need a new innovative browser with cool features. Of course, Google has a big story behind the birth of this browser. Unlike other browsers it has been built by keeping the web applications in mind with fast java script rendering engine. Read this comic to understand completely about the birth of this new browser in fun way. Being a Google fan,  I was waiting for those mins and downloaded the chrome at once after the official release.

The interesting thing is when I opened the browser for the first time, it showed the option to Import all the bookmarks, passwords etc.. from the Firefox.. Cool.. Cool… I had tons of stuffs to import from firefox to switch over this new browser. This feature helped me lot. I could not even wait for the next few seconds when it was loading the browser interface. I was that much anxious to see the interface of the Google chrome.

Again cool… Really a plain interface.. Like when Gtalk released with the same plain interface while we were sticking up with the graphical ad messengers like Yahoo..  Tabs were above the address bar which breaks the typical browsers interface. The Browser is really fast as they promised. But at some point of time I realized this is not the right time to switch over to this Google Chrome from my favorite Mozilla Firefox. The reason is, I’ve lot of useful adons in firefox which I use in my daily life and I could not even think to be online with out that.

• It was tested and concluded that Google Chrome is the Faster Browser as of now.
• Soon they will release the mobile version of Google Chrome with their most anticipated Android

“We don’t have that in the beta today, but we definitely plan an extension API [application programming interface],” Sundar Pichai, Google vice president of product management, said at the Chrome launch event in Mountain View, California, on Tuesday. “It is one of the things we will get to next.” So let us wait until that time.

]]> http://www.digitaldreamers.in/google-chrome-the-browser-of-future/feed/ 0 http://www.digitaldreamers.in/templates-for-google-docs-users/ http://www.digitaldreamers.in/templates-for-google-docs-users/#comments Sat, 19 Jul 2008 18:29:36 +0000 praveen http://www.digitaldreamers.in/?p=85 Google’s innovation is always endless.. Recently they have launched template gallery for Google Docs where there are lot of template collections we can use it instead of our defualt plain document.

Template galley includes

• wedding planners
• gas mileage calculators
• photo album
• resumes and cover letters
• fax cover letters
• invoices
• invitation cards
• calendars
• print mailing labels
• track portfolio values
• manage projects

Google says, users never need to send emails with attachments and receive the same attachment if there is any more changes. Google docs templates fits for most of the online users so they can share and collaborate with every body online at same time.

“After more than 34 months of active development, and with the contributions of thousands, we’re proud to announce that we’re ready,” Mike Beltzner said at Mozilla Developer Center. Mozilla listed the salient changes from Firefox 2 to 3 among its over 15,000 improvements, which included speed, memory usage, and reliability tweaks in the forthcoming release.

Once it’s available, Mozilla hopes to set a world record with the most downloads in 24 hours when June 17 arrives. Currently, over a million people have pledged to grab a copy of Firefox 3 on the 17th.

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