Archive for the ‘Google’ Category

reCAPTCHA, a company that provides CAPTCHAs to help protect more than 100,000 websites from spam and fraud, was recently acquired by the IT giant Google. A CAPTCHA, according to Wikipedia, is a type of challenge-response test used in computing to ensure that the response is not generated by a computer. This feature is commonly used in ... Full story

Google Image Search is massively used image search engine that up until now only allowed you to search by keyword and resolution. While this is suitable for most cases, sometimes you need a bit more specification of the type of image, specially when the image has to go along with some sort of context of if ... Full story

Smart Youtube is WordPress plugin that lets you easily embed videos and playlists from Google's popular free video service right in your blog's posts, comments or RSS feeds. The plugin requires almost no configuration and all you have to do to insert a video on your post and/or comment (if said feature ... Full story

How many times have you sent an e-mail and right after pressing the "send" button you realized that you were sending it to the wrong person or forgot to send an attachment? Have no fear, Gmail is here! The totally-omg-awesome Gmail Labs now features a new option that allows you to undo ... Full story

Google announced that there are a few new Labs features on their webmail service which allows you to preview media content right from the e-mail, without the need to open a new tab! You can enable these features in Gmail's Labs settings, along with a lot more new features that Gmail has to offer ... Full story

I only recently started to use the share function in Google Reader and I'm already loving it. This strong feeling increased after I read on the Google Blog that the popular RSS reader now enables you to actually post comments on the items you share! This is awesome because it allows you to thank ... Full story