Google Chrome 32 Brings Data Compress To Mobiles, Website Shortcuts to Android

With each new update of the Chrome browser, Google brings something new to the table. Chrome 32 for mobile has a significant new feature though: the ability to automatically reduce your data consumption. Additionally, Android users can create shortcuts to websites on the homescreen and iOS users get a taste of the Translate feature. But the big news, of course, is data consumption. The new data compression and bandwidth management feature claims it can reduce data usage by up to 50% on either Android or iOS. There are already ways to curb mobile data usage, but this promises to be...

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tinySpell Adds Spell Check To Notepad, WordPad, And All Windows Programs

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The Notepad program has been the part of all versions of Windows operating system ever since its introduction with Windows 1.0, back in 1995. While Microsoft has enhanced and overhauled most of the areas of Windows operating system in the recent versions of Windows, the Notepad program hasn’t seen much love from the developers at […]

Smart Contact Lenses, NSA Text Collection, Facebook Trending Topics [Tech News Digest]

Today in Tech News Digest, Google reveals its smart contact lenses for diabetics, the NSA is accused of collecting millions of random text messages, Facebook announces Trending, Spotify kills its listening time limits, Rdio goes free on the Web, Google Chrome gets a fancy update on Windows 8, and Cecelia Abadie is cleared of driving while Glassing. Google Reveals Smart Contact Lenses I can’t even look at my Google Glass now. Told ‘em, “Why are you so big? Why can’t you be contact lenses.” They’re feeling all bad now. — Danny Sullivan (@dannysullivan) January 17, 2014 Google has revealed it’s...

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Smart Contact Lenses, NSA Text Collection, Facebook Trending Topics [Tech News Digest]

Today in Tech News Digest, Google reveals its smart contact lenses for diabetics, the NSA is accused of collecting millions of random text messages, Facebook announces Trending, Spotify kills its listening time limits, Rdio goes free on the Web, Google Chrome gets a fancy update on Windows 8, and Cecelia Abadie is cleared of driving while Glassing. Google Reveals Smart Contact Lenses I can’t even look at my Google Glass now. Told ‘em, “Why are you so big? Why can’t you be contact lenses.” They’re feeling all bad now. — Danny Sullivan (@dannysullivan) January 17, 2014 Google has revealed it’s...

Read the full article: Smart Contact Lenses, NSA Text Collection, Facebook Trending Topics [Tech News Digest]

Smart Contact Lenses, NSA Text Collection, Facebook Trending Topics [Tech News Digest]

Today in Tech News Digest, Google reveals its smart contact lenses for diabetics, the NSA is accused of collecting millions of random text messages, Facebook announces Trending, Spotify kills its listening time limits, Rdio goes free on the Web, Google Chrome gets a fancy update on Windows 8, and Cecelia Abadie is cleared of driving while Glassing. Google Reveals Smart Contact Lenses I can’t even look at my Google Glass now. Told ‘em, “Why are you so big? Why can’t you be contact lenses.” They’re feeling all bad now. — Danny Sullivan (@dannysullivan) January 17, 2014 Google has revealed it’s...

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Find Legal Images On Google With A New Filter

Contrary to popular belief, pictures found on Google Images are not free to use any way you want. Google has recognized this belief is widespread, so they have now implemented a new filter in their search results that will show you the images which are legal to use. Using it is very simple. After entering your search term, click on the “search tools” option in the menu bar. That will drop down to reveal more options, including “Usage Rights“. Then choose the license you are looking for, and the search results will update instantly. The first results are often from...

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No More Google Notifier

Google Notifier will no longer be available. It was an app for Windows and Mac that displayed notifications for Gmail and Google Calendar in the system tray, while also allowing you to set Gmail as the default mail client for your computer.

Google sent this message, which suggests some alternatives:

We're writing to let you know about an important change to Google Notifier Beta. Starting on 31 January, Google Notifier Beta will no longer be supported, meaning that the app will no longer show recent emails and calendar events.



Since Google Notifier Beta was launched in 2005, a lot has changed. Smartphones can now notify us of new messages wherever we are, and improvements to web technology enable similar features to be built right into the browser.



If you want to continue to receive notifications, you can use any of the following alternatives to Google Notifier Beta, using the Chrome browser. To see the number of unread messages in your inbox at a glance, install the Gmail Checker Chrome app. To preview new messages on your desktop, go to Gmail's settings and enable Desktop Notifications. You can uninstall Google Notifier Beta by following these instructions.

It's funny to see that the app was still in beta.



{ Thanks, Koen. }

Google Music Timeline

Google found a great way to use the data from the people who uploaded songs to Google Play Music. Google Music Timeline "shows genres of music waxing and waning, based on how many Google Play Music users have an artist or album in their music library, and other data (such as album release dates). Each stripe on the graph represents a genre; the thickness of the stripe tells you roughly the popularity of music released in a given year in that genre."

The timeline starts in 1950, data is is normalized by the total number of albums from a certain year and there's no classical music.



Mouse over a genre to find popular albums, search for an album or artist.



{ via John Mueller }

Google's Experimental Search Box for Financial Sites

Google experiments with displaying a search box next to sites like Google Finance, Yahoo Finance, Reuters. There's a button with the following label: "get quotes" and you're supposed to use this feature if you want to search for share prices.



For example, when you type [Google] or [GOOG], you're sent to the right page from Google Finance, Yahoo Finance and other financial sites. If you search for [computers], you'll get a search results page from the financial site. Is this the first time when Google shows a search box and doesn't return its own results?

I checked the source page and it says that it's a rich snippet, just like those that are used for reviews, music, events, products.



{ via Rubén }

Read Feedly Offline: Download Unread Items To An Ebook

The Google News downloading service NewsToEbook now works with Feedly. With it you can download your unread items from Feedly to an EPUB or MOBI ebook file, which you can then read on your offline e-reader. Kindle, Kobo, Nook and even your tablet all support one format or the other, so this will work for you. The ecosystem of apps surrounding Google Reader didn’t completely collapse when Google shut down the service in July, 2013 – but it did take some applications longer to adjust than others. NewsToEbook, which could download your Google Reader feeds as an ebook, was basically...

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