Sunday, March 18, 2012

Google Tricks


This tutorial will teach you important and useful google tricks which is so easy but hiden to normal users.
*Know your IP address: 

Code to Google:
ip=?
Or,
what is my ip


It will give you this result, Your public IP address is 123.456.789.000, [123.456.789.000 will get changed to your IP address]. Now, you know your IP.

*Using google as unit converter: 

Code to Google:
1MB=?KB
Or,
1GB=?MB
Or,
1TB=?Gb
Or,
1TB=?MB
Or,
Any unit you want.


It depends on you, enter your desired number, for example 1GB=?MB or 15421GB=?MB, etc.
Please remember MB and Mb are both different things, Mb is a smaller unit than MB. 1MB is equal to 8 Mb. So, be careful while looking up.

*Advanced site search: 

Code to Google:
inurl:sitename.com
Or,
site:sitename.com


This will show you all links containing sitename.com in the url. This is most powerful search method to find something, just replace sitename.com with your desired site, for example hackalone.com or facebook.com

*Google as proxy: 

You may use google as free proxy, just open http://www.google.com/translate, and enter a site url that is blocked, and change the site language, for example, if you want to surf a site which is in english language, then select another language that you know, for example change it to hindi, and surf it freely. Well, its a trick but its too complicated, simply you can use http://www.proxy.hackalone.com

*Using google as currency converter:
1USD=?INR
Or,
1$=?INR


Simply replace the currecy code(INR) and number(1) as desired, it will give you 100% correct and latest info.

*Know time of a country: 
country time

Replace country from the code to your desired country, for example, change it to india, then the code is india time or change it to new york, then the code is new york time, it will show the current time of that country.

*Flight status: 
Delta fligh 007

Simply enter the flight name, and it will return you arrival and departure times.

*Rotate google at 360*:
do a barrel roll

Your screen will rotate completely once. Its a great trick.

*Know license of a software(Is it freeware or shareware): 
winrar license?

Simply change winrar to your desired product and it will give you a message like this, Best guess for WinRAR License is Shareware, this result will change according to your software. Please note this may not give all product info.


Saturday, March 17, 2012

Google Earth Android Update Brings Custom Map Views, KML Files

Google has rolled out a new update to their Android Google Earth application for mobile devices this week which has brought with it a number of new features, including support to now view custom maps.
The Google Earth custom maps features that allows you to view KML files, is extremely powerful and has now been added to mobile devices in Google Earth 6.2 for Android and iOS smartphones and tablets.
Google Earth 6.2
“For Google Earth for Android users, we’ve also added a new “Share” feature, which allows you to share a screenshot of your current view with people in your Google+ circles, via Gmail, or on other applications. Now you can share your favorite places with friends and family from your desktop computer, mobile phone or tablet. And, if you follow the Google Earth +Page, you can see what others are sharing and discover new locations around the world.”
The Google Earth 6.2 update is now available to download from Google Play and provides easy viewing of any MKL files you might come across when surfing the web. Google also revealed that an iOS update for Google Earth is also currently being processed and will be arriving shortly in the iTunes App Store.



PayPal Here, Credit Card Payment System Unveiled

This week as expected PayPal has unveiled their new “PayPal Here” credit card payment dongle for mobile devices. Along the same lines as Square, started by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey and launched back in 2010.
The new PayPal Here dongle is triangular in shape and PayPal will charge merchants a flat fee of 2.7 percent for each transaction, process through the device.
PayPal Here
The new PayPal Here dongle also provides a few additional features allowing you to take a photo of the card to accept payment, is equipped with an invoicing system and will also track cash and check payments.
PayPal’s mobile vice president David Marcus explained during the unveiling of PayPal Here at the San Francisco event yesterday.
“No business will ever have to say they can’t accept a form of payment,” – “We are going to aggressively push this out to our 100 million PayPal users around the world,” Marcus said. “We can accept any form of payment, short of barter.”



New iPad 3 Retina Display First Impressions (Photos)

We just showed you some hands on photos of the new iPad 3, and now we have some more which give you a closer look at the new Retina display on the iPad 3.
At first glance the Retina display on the iPad 3 is amazing, it has a resolution of 2048 x 1536 pixels, which is double that of the original iPad and the more recent iPad 2.
iPad Retina Display

iPad Display
There are already a number of applications available which make use of the high resolution Retina display on the new iPad, and we suspect many more will be released and update over the coming weeks.




Apple Details Retina Enabled Apps For New iPad 3

Apple’s new iPad 3 has gone on sale around the world, and Apple has now listed which apps support the new iPads Retina display which has a resolution of 2048 x 1536 pixels.
A number of existing apps have been updated to support the new Retina Display, which include the popular game Infinity Blade II, along with Amazon’s Kindle for the iPad.
New iPad Apps
You can see a full list of applications that have be optimized for the Retina display on the new iPad 3 over at iTunes.




New iPad 3 Camera Sample Photos

Earlier we showed you some hands on photos of the new iPad 3, along with some photos of the new Retina display, and now we have some sample photos which were taken with the camera on the new iPad 3.
The camera on the iPad 3 is quite an improvement over the one on the iPad 2, it features a 5 megapixel iSight camera which is capable of recording full HD video in 1080p at 30 frames per second, have a look at the sample photos taken with the new iSight camera on the iPad 3 below.
iPad 3 Camera
The iSight camera on the new iPad 3 features a backside illuminated sensor, auto-focus, tap to focus, and it has an f/2.4 aperture and file element lens.




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