The name “Google” is a play on the word “googol,” Which means a mathematical term for the number represented by the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros.

Google as a search-engine it organise infinite number of results from the web.Lets have a look at the video that gives quick view of the google milestones.Its story of search engine to an operating system.

Also,its really great fun and inspiration to read the story about google

The Google Story: For Google’s 10th Birthday

Google story till 2009 was good and let see whats new coming up in 2010.

Photography and Internet has been taken to next dream level by technology.Here is a web technology that shows the near future’s richness in screen resolution and screen redraw.

Photosynth is a software that could change the way you look at digital images. It allows a bunch of similar photos of the same scene to automatically synchronize to reconstruct a interactive 3d view.Yes reconstructing the 3D view from the static photographs taken around the world.

Today ,We have the technology!! that challenges you that you have never seen a graphics like this before.

How it works

Photosynth examines pictures for similarities first and Seadragon technology browse through photos effortlessly, makes a bunch of thumbnails and waiting around for everything to load seamlessly.

Who did this
Blaise Aguera y Arcas is an architect of Seadragon, and the co-creator of Photosynth. Later this software was taken over by Microsoft .If this would have reached the hands of Apple to work with Mac book , it would have reached a great levels.

Here is the demo given by Blaise Aguera in TED Talk

Have you ever wondered what data is stored with your Google Account? Yes google knows your online life on the web,at least when your logged in google.

What is google dashboard

Google dashboard is platform which gives the whole details of the online activities.You might me surprised and stunned to see these details stored by google.Nearly 35 products like Alerts, Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Web History, Orkut, YouTube, Picasa, Talk, Google Reader, Latitude, Voice ,Connect, Profile and more are listed in google dashboard.

A detailed summary of your usage is listed with direct links for you to control.Your given a chance to add or delete the activities in google dashboard

Just click here to have a look at your online activity
http://www.google.com/dashboard

Google has built this with greater transparency and control over our own data,To me its a best example of single-sign-on to access our wide data with single log in.Moreover information shared or summarised here are less important expect google checkout. Its a great effort from google as long as it protects our privacy and data.

To know more about Google dashboard Watch this quick video

I could hear this term “Cloud computing” very often these days.The trend of cloud computing has gained its popularity in the recent economic crisis,Yes its a saviour for the business-driven company where they spend money in buying, installing, updating and maintaining systems and software.

What is cloud computing

Cloud computing comes into focus only when your non-IT business has website and you have the difficulty to maintain and manage the systems and software.Its basically pay-per-use service, adding or removing the resource(software’s and Systems) is done on the fly as the business demands.

Simply,Cloud computing is nothing but cost-saving computing to your company.

What is the business benefits in Cloud computing?

During Peak hours,the resource added by cloud computing and During Off-Peak hours,the resource reduced by cloud computing.profit or loss,finally your billed as similar to pay-for-what-you-use model resembles the way electricity, fuel and water are consumed.

classification of Cloud computing are

1.Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) :
A virtual server instances with unique IP addresses and blocks of storage on demand.
2.Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) :
A set of software and product development tools hosted on the provider’s infrastructure.
3.Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) :
vendor supplies the hardware infrastructure, the software product and interacts with the user through a front-end portal.

Industry leaders to provide cloud computing
1.Amazon
2.google
3.Salesforce

Video on cloud computing

Halloween
Halloween is our weirdest annual celebration and much more stranger than it seems.Unlike the 4th of July and Thanksgiving, Halloween is neither patriotic nor historical, yet it is celebrated nationally. it is not even associated with a particular religion.It’s also the favourite holiday where you can dress up as whatever you want.

Some people prepare for Halloween as a time for fun, putting on costumes, trick-or-treating, and having theme parties. Others view it as a time of superstitions, ghosts, goblins and evil spirits that should be avoided at all costs.

History of Halloween

History of Halloween is inspired through traditions which has been transpired through generations.

On the night of October 31, they celebrated Samhain ,All disembodied spirits of those who had died throughout the preceding year would come back in search of living bodies to possess for the next year. It was believed to be their only hope for the afterlife. The Celts believed all laws of space and time were suspended during this time, allowing the spirit world to intermingle with the living.People had a belief of dressing in Scary Costume to frighten the evil spirits.

Googleween

Halloween 2009,Google’s web celebration is done by changing the doodle(logo). To the surprise, Google’s Doodle ,’trick or treating’ is done by changing the theme on each click.

Initially the logo appears in grey color and later it was replaced by series candy-treat(2nd click much more candy),3rd click on the logo shows the scattered sweet wrappers.final click shows the result of “Halloween 2009″.

googleween

Recently remembrance of the bar code was the google’s doodle .

Happy Googleween!

Its always better to know your neighborhood saftey on halloween.

With great infra-structures in the surrounding, technology of your dreams(wireless electricity), Internet with information you are yet to achieve something.

William a half-starved uneducated boy,born in a country tormented with drought, poverty, disease, famine,very low expectations from a corrupted government and subverted leaders. All this, he broke through poverty and not only helped his family, but the entire village. Altogether,he is an achiever of nothing shorter of monumental.

William Kamkwamba is an African dynamo from Malawi who never heard the word google has built an electricity-producing windmill from spare parts and scrap.Being a school dropout and working in rough plans he was able to find a library book called Using Energy,by which he made his machine which generates power for his family home.

“I looked at my father and I looked at the dry fields it was the future which i could not accpect” – William Kamkwamba

“To encourage myself, I would look at the picture of the windmill in the book, and I would tell myself, “Somewhere, someone did this thing. If somebody did this thing, I can also do it.” Even then, with people saying I was crazy, I’d say, “OK, say what you’re going to say, but I’m still going to do this thing.” I would not accept to stop doing this thing because of what people were saying.” — TED interview

William Kamkwamba had been here in USA for promoting his book ‘The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind ‘ which he co-authored with Bryan Mealer.

He is a great inspiration for young achievers and you can also have a look at his vision blogged here. He is also pursing his graduation in electrical engineering and you can follow his steps in twitter

Congratulations Mr.William Kamkwamba !!!

An iphone application which was introduced by Viper, a California based company which might mitigate this winter.

“Think out of box”,A free downloable application “SmartStart” can connect your iphone with a hardware module installed in your car. Just like James bond, you can start the car, start the heat or A/C, raise the trunk, lock or unlock the doors, and sound alarms from any location ,hold on you cannot drive!!!

To start the car using iPhone you need
1.iPhone with free App(It works with Wifi or dataplan)
2.Viper SmartStart hardware module (install it in your car & module costs atleast $300)

Security ramification has to be taken care .Starting your car even if it isn’t within direct line-of-sight is great advantage,what if you have started the car in unsafe situation where you wouldn’t want to, secondly there are cars which comes with default remote starters which has cut-off timer which rest the engine if you didn’t show up, typically 10 minutes.

You can control five basic functions of the car from anywhere provided with wifi and this coolest application is free to download, you also have a set back on hardware cost(at atleast $300). It comes as free service for first year,and there after an annual charge of $30 USD added for your car safety.

Smartstart is also joining the list of automotive iphone applications which has recently drive the market.

Let us have a look at the demo here

Have you ever imagined to have 8,000 free online books of nearly 3500 authors at your fingertips!!!

WHERE to get free online books
Readprint.com, this site is well organised and categorised based on author, essays, fiction, non-fiction, plays and poetry.

WHY ReadPrint
Readprint.com is one of the best online library to find free books.Here the books are added frequently which is easy find and read.

ReadPrint highlights
Searching for a author’s profile and his only collections,yes you can find it easily

I was able to search William Shakespeare and Robert Frost .

Searching is made much easier
1.By title – in the search box
2.By author – ordered alphabetically
3.Recently Added books – listed in the front page
4.Top Authors – listed in the front page
5.Top Books – listed in the front page

Spreading a word of readprint will get a chance to Win a 17″ Apple MacBook Pro.

I would also recommend the readers to add their favorite sites in the comments. Later will organise the same.

Having a child around is a great fun. The way he/she learns and the way it grows is far ahead of technology. Analyst have proved that, a child can learn 15 different languages with in it’s 3rd birthday.

Parents should start teaching sign language at very early stage, this can improve the child’s memory and the way of communication also.

3 months old, signaling parents for a diaper change.
5 months old, when needed help with something.
8 months old, ask clearly and politely for more milk.

Its mainly depends on the nutrition and how parents tweet the child. Its also truth that 99% of the children’s will respond to good music. There is a video which just happened to bring smile from any tough face, a baby dancing to the tuned ladies in screen. Awesome!!!

Long before there was one or two mail ids or instant messenger, growth in Internet and social network has given multiple options. Hence later users started questioning “To chat why we need to use the same client?”,”why not we check the emails and update the social sites with same single IM client?”

Answer is “Digsby“, Having all the instant messenger and email in one application is pretty cool.

Instant Messenger supported in digsby
1.MSN Messenger (i.e Windows Live Messenger)
2.OSCAR (AIM/ICQ/Mac)
3.Google Talk
4.Yahoo Instant Messenger
5.Facebook Chat

Email supported in digsby
It automatically retrieves a “from” email address from the logged in instant messaging profiles.
1.Gmail
2.Yahoo! Mail
3.Hotmail
4.AOL Mail
5.POP/IMAP email

Social network supported in digsby
1.Facebook
2.MySpace
3.Twitter
4.Linkedln

Digsby has its own URL shortener Digs.by. Having built-in tiny URL will help to update and share the links across social sites.

Merits of digsby
1.Digsby is single application which supports messenger,email and social network.
2. Smart Shopper will suggest users with products based on users browsing habits.
3. Memory usage has been highly reduced comparing to previous version.
4. one simple way to manage buddy list.

Demerits of digsby
1. Your computer is being used when it is idle,reading the terms of service before installation gives better understanding.

“15. USAGE OF COMPUTER RESOURCES
You agree to permit the Software to use the processing power of your computer when it is idle to run downloaded algorithms(mathematical equations) and code within a process. You understand that when the Software uses your computer, it likewise uses your CPU, bandwidth, and electrical power. The Software will use your computer to solve distributed computing problems, such as but not limited to, accelerating medical research projects, analyzing the stock market, searching the web, and finding the largest known prime number. This functionality is completely optional and you may disable it at any time.”

2. Attention is also needed during installation to avoid crappy search bars, decline option helps to attain the clean version of digsby.

3. You can pay your bills by referring new friends to digsby. Poor affiliate program earns one dollar for every new user.

Digsby claims that the bloat ware and crap ware they install is completely removable, being smart(read terms of services and installation on each step) about it is a good way to keep yourself out of stupid apps that you don’t need.