Gtalk adds Invisible Mode

Google Operating System blog reports addition of Invisible mode in Gtalk. The blogpost says ” Now you can be logged in to Gmail Chat and see if your contacts are online, but they won’t be able to see you’re online.”

However, this feature is available only with new version of Gmail and if you are [...]

How-To: Listen Internet Radio in your GTalk,MSN/Live IM or Yahoo IM

 
Yes, this is true. Google Talk/Yahoo IM/MSN/Live IM can be used to listen to Internet Radio as well. This is possible using GTalk2VoIP service.In order to do so, all you need to is follow the steps mentioned below:

Add service@gtalk2voip.com to your contact list. In case you are not comfortable with adding a contact in [...]

iGoogle: Make your own Gadgets.

iGoogle gadget’s are the talk of the town these days. With more than 25,000 gadgets available for iGoogle, the plethora of choices is sometimes overwhelming.
However, there are times, when one doesnt actually get the gadget of choice. To cater to this, Google has a Gadget creating wizard  which allows user to create his/her own gadget, using seven [...]

Step by Step Guide for Creating Google Custom Search Engines

Tech publisher O’Reilly has come out with a nice write up on making a dynamic search engine for the topic of choice. The write up is essentially a step by step tutorial for creating Google Custom Search Engines.
[Excerpt from the website]
What Is a Custom Search Engine?
A custom search engine (CSE) tells Google which sites to [...]

Google Acknowledges Orkut Bug

It gives me great pleasure that the effort I had put up in writing about the bug on Orkut has got results.
I received the mail from Google today appreciating about the post and would like to share this with you.
Hi Vaibhav,
My name is Tanushree Baruah and I work for the product and marketing
teams at Google. [...]

Google Adsense : Roundup

Just thought of bringing out the Google Adsense related stuff from the archives for new readers. Hope you would appreciate it. This post is mainly centred around my previous posts particularly on Google Adsense. The posts below are marked as hyperlinks and can be accessed easily by clicking on them. In these posts, i have [...]

Gphone: Is it coming?

I talked to one of my inside sources at Google today. He spoke on conditions of anonymity, but the guy is someone I trust implicitly. He said that he was baffled at Google’s apparent internal confusion on the GPhone issue – that they’ve actually demo’ed the thing in public before.
He said that the Google (applications) [...]

Google Maps add more Embedding

Google is always believed to keep its processes simple and in sync with its other LOB’s ( lines of businesses). Going ahead with that, google has made Google Map embedding also as easy as embedding a Youtube Video.
Here is how to actually embed that map instead of just linking to it.
1. Go to the [...]

Google Roundup

Just thought of doing a Roundup on some of my most read Google related posts. Such roundups are basically meant to bring the wonderful posts from the Archives for my new readers.
Do comment if you find them interesting.

Google: Web search History
Google Cheat Sheet.
Serial Numbers and CD Keys of Softwares brought to you by Google.
Refine Google to [...]

How does Google work??

I found an interesting image on the New York Times page and thought of linking this with my a post on my blog. This image clearly makes the layman understand the success of google’s fast search algorithm’s.
Cheers,
Vaibhav