Share your Google+ Circles

Google+ rolled out a new feature that let users to share who’s in their “circles”.

Google Plus has become a way for people to follow favorite celebrities, talking heads in certain fields and other interesting folks, and users have been asking for a way to share those groups with one another. Users can now do that by choosing a circle from Circles tab and clicking “share this circle” option. Users can decide which circles they want to share that information with.

When you share a circle, you only share who’s in it, and not the name of the circle. So if someone is in your “Acquaintances” circle instead of your “Friends” circle, they’ll never have to know. Even if you share a circle, all subsequent edits are private.

Google Docs: Now available offline

After Gmail and Google Calender, Google Docs is also available offline. After signed in to Google Docs, you can activate offline access from the gear menu. Then you will be prompted to install a Chrome Extension from Chrome Web Store. Once installed, you can access Docs from the new tab of Chrome. 

Only those docs that are prepared using Google Docs are available offline. Other uploaded docs are not currently available. 

Offline editing is not possible now.

Gmail is now available offline

Google released a chrome app called Offline Google Mail which allows users to work offline. You can read downloaded mails, reply to those emails and compose new emails. The messages will be send and new messages will be downloaded whenever you get connected to the Internet.

This app was built to function with or without web access. After you install the Offline Google Mail app from the Chrome Web Store, you can continue using Gmail when you lose your connection by clicking the Offline Google Mail icon on Chrome's 'new tab' page. 

You can download and install Offline Google Mail from Chrome Web Store. Presently this app is not available for other browsers.

Google will launch offline apps for Docs and Calendar soon..

Celebrities on Google+

Google+ launched verified profiles for celebrities. Celebrities started to join quickly on Google+ using their own names. 

Here is the list of celebrities in Google+

+Madonna

 American singer-songwriter, actress and entrepreneur.

+Britney Spears

American recording artist and entertainer

+Trent Reznor

American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, composer, record producer, and leader of industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails.

+Mariah Carey

American pop singer-songwriter, record producer and actress

+Amanda Palmer

Sometimes known as Amanda Fucking Palmer, is an American performer who first rose to prominence as the lead singer, pianist, and lyricist/composer of the duo The Dresden Dolls

+Rose McGowan

American actress and singer.

+Mark Hoppus

American musician, record producer, and television host

+T- Pain

Faheem Rasheed Najm better known by his stage name T-Pain, is an American singer-songwriter, rapper,record producer, and actor

+Felicia Day

American actress

+Jeri Ryan

American actress known for her roles as the liberated Borg, Seven of Nine on Star Trek: Voyager; Tara Cole on Leverage; and Veronica "Ronnie" Cooke on Boston Public

+Taylor Swift

American country pop singer-songwriter, musician and actress.

+Dolly Parton

American singer-songwriter, author, multi-instrumentalist, actress and philanthropist, best known for her work in country music.

+Sasha Grey

American actress

+50 Cent

Curtis James Jackson III, better known by his stage name 50 Cent, is an American rapper, entrepreneur, and actor.

+Ashton Kutcher

American actor, producer, former fashion model and comedian

Spam mails in the name of Google Plus Invitation

Although Google Plus has been released in the field trial stage, it acquired a plenty of concentration, interest and attention. The only method to get into Google Plus is through an invitation from someone that is already using Google+. But spammers have found a technique to utilize this to send you spam messages.

Spammers have realized that Google Plus is the next huge mania, so they have decided to utilize its popularity to send you spam emails. They are creating emails that look approximately identical to the Google+ invitations and that may take you to some other places.

If you like to acquire a Google+ invitation, make sure that you double-check the person that sent you the invitation. If you don’t pay attention and follow the link, you’ll reach on a pharmacy website that will attempt to sell you all sorts of medications. These sites may install any spyware or send spam messages to everyone in your email list. 

So it’s better to keep a close eye for these forged emails.

Google+: Google's Social Network

Google is launching a new social network Google+. Its in field trial stage and is available only for a limited users now. Its features are a lot like Facebook.

Google simplified its simple home page as part of The Google+ Project by adding a black bar on the top and moving some links to bottom. 

Google+ include Circles which lets you to share selectively to your specified groups within your personal network. Google+ also include Sparks,Hangouts etc.

Google Encrypted Search

Google SSL Search allows end-to-end encrypted search solution between your computer and Google. This protect your search terms and your search results pages from being intercepted by a third party. This provides you with a more secure and private search experience.
SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) is a protocol that helps provide secure internet communications for services like web browsing, e-mail, instant messaging, and other data transfers. When you search over SSL, your search queries and search traffic are encrypted so they can't be read by any intermediary party such as employers and ISP.
It works in the same way online banking or other login pages work. Using Secure Sockets Layer connections, the connection between you and Google is encrypted, so that third parties, beyond you and Google, cannot look at your search data.

An encrypted connection is created between your browser and Google when you search on https://www.google.com. This beta service only works with traditional search results. Encrypted connection may lead to slightly slower results. Encrypted search does not mean Google no longer stores your search data - it only means third parties cannot listen in to the connection between you and Google. Searching over SSL doesn't reduce the data sent to Google - it only hides that data from third parties who seek it.

Google +Like

   Add Facebook Like button to every result in Google Search.

Click here to check it.

How much Google knows about you

Google knows what you searched for as well as your activity on partner web sites that use its ad services. If you use the Chrome browser, it may know every web site you've typed into the address bar. It may have all of your e-mails, your appointments and what you're watching (YouTube). It may have transcripts of your telephone messages (Google Voice). It may hold your photos in Picasa Web Albums, which includes face-recognition technology that can automatically identify you and your friends in new photos. 

Technically Google doesn't know anything about you. But it stores tremendous amounts of data about you and your activities on its servers, from the content you create to the searches you perform, the Web sites you visit and the ads you click.

 

Google collects all data about your friends for the optimization of Google social search.

Google Social Circle page will show you all your connections split downs into various categories.

The Google gathers all this information from your Gmail Contacts, Gtalk chat list, Picasa, Google Profile, people you are connected through social networks, people you are following on Google reader and Google buzz.

Google's +1 Button

Google launched +1 Button  to find exactly what you’re looking for when someone you know already found it. Users searching for a particular article on Google can now see what their friends have liked, making it easier for them to pick the best out of the lot. +1 is currently available on searches in Google.com when you are signed in. 

In order to +1 things, you first need a public Google profile. When you create a profile, it's visible to anyone and connections with your email address can easily find it.

Your +1’s are stored in a new tab on your Google profile. You can show your +1’s tab to the world, or keep it private and just use it to personally manage the ever-expanding record of things you love around the web.

Google to withdraw support for older browser

Internet giant Google is going to withdraw support for older versions of various browsers. These includes Internet Explorer 7, Firefox 3.5 and Safari 3. Those users who have turned off automatic updates for Google Chrome will also be required to update their web utility. 

Google wants to capitalize on new capabilities of modern browsers that are not just there in older ones. For instance, desktop notification for Gmail and drag-&-drop file upload in Google docs require advanced browsers that support the new HTML 5. Older browsers do not have the capability to provide users with high quality experience. The apps which are going to get affected by this decision are Gmail, Google Talk, Google Calendar, Google Docs & Google Sites. Another reason that is being given is the insecurities in the older browsers that leave them prone to attack. It should be highlighted that this comes just after reports of Gmail accounts hacked by Chinese crazy wizards.

 So, be quick to update your current browser latest by August 1 in order to experience the new web bonanza of modern browsers that are not just a modern convenience but a necessity for what the future holds.

Cloud Computing

Modern computing in the age of the Internet is quite a strange, remarkable thing. As you sit hunched over your laptop at home watching a YouTube video or using a search engine, you’re actually plugging into the collective power of thousands of computers that serve all this information to you from far-away rooms distributed around the world. It’s almost like having a massive supercomputer at your beck and call, thanks to the Internet.

This phenomenon is what we typically refer to as cloud computing. We now read the

news, listen to music, shop, watch TV shows and store our files on the web. Some of us live in cities in which nearly every museum, bank, and government office has a website. The end result? We spend less time in lines or on the phone, as these websites allow us to do things like pay bills and make reservations. The movement of many of our daily tasks online enables us to live more fully in the real world.

Cloud computing offers other benefits as well. Not too long ago, many of us worried about losing our documents, photos and files if something bad happened to our computers, like a virus or a hardware malfunction. Today, our data is migrating beyond the boundaries of our personal computers. Instead, we’re moving our data online into “the cloud”. If you upload your photos, store critical files online and use a web-based email service like Gmail or Yahoo! Mail, an 18-wheel truck could run over your laptop and all your data would still safely reside on the web, accessible from any Internet-connected computer, anywhere in the world.

Google cooks recipes

   Google will now cook recipes into its search menu in a way that lets people easily find instructions for whipping up dishes in the kitchen.

   A "Recipe View" feature that Google is rolling out in the United States and Japan turns the search engine into an online cook book of sorts.

   "My parents follow the art of cooking by intuition, where the right amount of each spice is measured out by gut feel, but that's never worked very well for me," Google product manager Kavi Goel said while introducing Recipe View.

   "As a math geek and computer engineer, I prefer to work with concrete numbers and instructions, including when cooking."

   The feature narrows search results to only recipes along with ratings for each option.

   Recipe search terms can range from names of dishes to favoured foods, such as strawberries, or holidays. Searches can be filtered by calorie count, cooking time, or ingredients.

   "We like to 'eat our own dog food' at Google, meaning we like to test our own products and features ourselves before releasing them for public consumption," Goel said.

   "With Recipe View, we've taken this more literally than usual."

   The feature is to be rolled out to other countries after it becomes more seasoned.

Gingerbread + Honeycomb = Ice Cream Biscuit ?

   Eric Schmidt the CEO/Chairman of Google addressed the company s keynote at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona. Schmidt had a few surprises in store for us.

   Schmidt started the keynote by expressing his disappointment about the Nokia and Microsoft deal.

   He said, "We would've loved if they chose Android. They chose Windows. The offer to adopt later is still open. "We certainly tried."

   Schmidt also clearly outlined that Google did not see Facebook as a threat but Microsoft was a more direct threat with Bing improving by leaps and bounds.

   He stated, They have scale, brand, and reach to do good things. Facebook today appears to be additive. Facebook users use Google more, no evidence Facebook advertising is hurting Google's in any way. Right now, Facebook is zero to net positive, and Microsoft is a core competitor and will likely remain so for a long time.

   Schmidt took the time clarify all the confusion related to the different versions of Android. An also stated the expected version of Android will combine features of Honeycomb and Gingerbread.

   Schmidt said, "Today I'll use the commonly used names. We have OS called Gingerbread for phones; we have an OS being previewed now for tablets called Honeycomb. The two of them... you can imagine the follow up will start with an I, be named after dessert, and will combine these two."

   Schmidt also clarified that Google had launched the Chrome OS specifically for keyboard devices while Android was meant for touch-based devices. But he hinted a convergence of both the operating systems could take place in the future once the technology was more mature.

   Schmidt also announced a new app called Android Movie Studio which would allow creation of media. This app reminded us of the iMovie app Apple launched last year with the iPhone.Google faced some embarrassment as they were facing network issues and they could not complete the demo of the app.

Google to Add 2-Step Verification

   Passwords are a pain sometimes. Use the same one at too many places and you risk losing everything, use too many different ones and they’re too difficult to remember. Google are now trying to avert these problems by adding another layer of security to Google Accounts– two-step verification. 

   Google will first ask for your password, then a verification code that you can obtain using your phone. This is similar to the system introduced for Google Apps customers a while ago. This will added in the next few days, with a new link poised to appear on your Account settings page.

   If you’re absolutely sure no one else will be using your computer, you can even set the account up to remember your verification code for a 30-day period, following which you’ll have regenerate and enter it again.

Gmail Notifier

    Gmail notifier is a tool to check Gmail messages without opening the browser. It alerts when you have new Gmail messages. It displays an icon in your system tray to let you know if you have unread Gmail messages, and shows you their subjects, senders and snippets, all without your having to open a web browser.

   Click to download Gmail Notifier.

Google Multiple Account Sign-In

   Till now only single Google Account login was possible at a time in a browser. 
   Google has now enabled the option of Signing in to multiple Google accounts simultaneously from the same browser.This option can be enabled by going to the Google Accounts page and enabling the 'Multiple sign-in' option. 
  When multiple sign-in is enabled, a drop-down is displayed next to your email address at the top of the page, so you can quickly switch to a new account.
  If you use multiple sign-in, the first account you sign in to will be your default account. If you visit other Google products that don’t support multiple accounts after you’ve signed in, you will automatically sign in to your default account for that product. If you sign out of any Google product, you will be signed out of all your Google Accounts at once.

Google launches Instant

Internet giant Google launches Google Instant for fast searching. 

Google Instant is a new search enhancement that shows results as you type.The most obvious change is that you get to the right content much faster than before because you don’t have to finish typing your full search term, or even press “search.” Another shift is that seeing results as you type helps you formulate a better search term by providing instant feedback. You can now adapt your search on the fly until the results match exactly what you want. In time, we may wonder how search ever worked in any other way.

Benefits

•  By predicting search and showing results before you finish typing, Google Instant can save 2-5 seconds per search.
•  Even when you don’t know exactly what you’re looking for, predictions help guide your search. The top prediction is shown in grey text directly in the search box, so you can stop typing as soon as you see what you need.
•  Start typing and results appear right before your eyes. Until now, you had to type a full search term, hit return, and hope for the right results. Now results appear instantly as you type, helping you see where you’re headed, every step of the way.

Google says:

• Before Google Instant, the typical searcher took more than 9 seconds to enter a search term, and we saw many examples of searches that took 30-90 seconds to type.
• Using Google Instant can save 2-5 seconds per search.
• If everyone uses Google Instant globally, we estimate this will save more than 3.5 billion seconds a day. That’s 11 hours saved every second.
• 15 new technologies contribute to Google Instant functionality

Google Instant is starting to roll-out to users on Google domains in the US, UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Russia who use the following browsers: Chrome v5/6, Firefox v3, Safari v5 for Mac and Internet Explorer v8. Users on domains other than Google.com can only access Google Instant if they are signed in to Google. New domains will be added in next several months.