Posts Tagged ‘google’

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

Live.com just got three new handy features in what appears to be an attempt to once again compete with Google's search engine. Nevertheless, these features are pretty handy if you're fond of Live Search and welcome a bit more functionality: Currency Conversion A feature that should have already been implemented a long time ago, since it completely ... Full story

The team behind Google Chrome used a very specific method for tweaking it, consisting of basically three parts: Basics, Minor Tweaks and Under The Hood, and Roy Schwartz thought that could also be applied to other situations like, let's say, getting better sleep! The article can be found ... Full story

Some kids playing a LARP game were spotted on Google Maps and surprisingly enough, they're still doing it on a regular basis (at least regularly enough for two separate photos to exist)! LARP, or Live Action Role-Playing is a game where people usually wear costumes to represent fictional characters they created and take part in an agreed fantasy world. This can ... Full story

Twitter Gadget for Gmail is a twitter client embedded right in Gmail, allowing you to have one more service focused in just one browser tab/window. Instructions to install this gadget are quite simple and information is provided in the gadget's website, which needs a bit of a face ... Full story

Google announced today Game Themes for the iGoogle interface, featuring games like: Zelda, Tomb Raider, Mega Man, Dungeons & Dragons, Donkey Kong, Street Fighter IV, and more, much more! Click here to browse through a game and choose it as your iGoogle theme! ... Full story

According to AdMob Mobile Metrics, iPhone is responsible for around 50 percent of smartphone web traffic in the US, which is a big leap from Apple's latest numbers, back in August 2008, where the device held 10%. This of course means that other companies went down a bit, like Microsoft that went from ... Full story

GTD guru David Allen shows off his workspace and demonstrates exactly how he gets things done, all the way from capture techniques to the filing system! I must say, I falling more and more in love with GTD each day... Also, I digged up a bit around youtube and found this presentation he gave to the ... 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