A small extension that allows you to quickly look up definitions of words and phrases in the Webster dictionary (the only legally scrapable dictionary I could find). Hold Ctrl and double-click or select any word to look it up - an inline box will open to the dictionary entry of that word. You can also manually-entered queries using a shortcut which displays a small lookup form.
Friday, December 18, 2009
Google Chrome Extensions: Dictionary Lookup
Monday, December 14, 2009
Friday, December 4, 2009
Google Acquires AppJet
Google buys yet another company: AppJet, the start-up that created EtherPad, an innovative online word processor. The EtherPad team, that includes three former Googlers, will join the Google Wave team. EtherPad will be available for the existing users until March 31, 2010.
"Other real-time editors like Google Docs work by broadcasting an updated copy of the document to everyone every 15 seconds. This creates a noticeable lag that gets in the way of collaboration. You start editing something, only to find 10 seconds later that someone else deleted it. Etherpad updates every copy of the document every half second. This 30x increase in speed changes the experience completely. Your edits hardly ever clash with other users'. So you work confidently instead of tentatively." (from EtherPad's site)
"Other real-time editors like Google Docs work by broadcasting an updated copy of the document to everyone every 15 seconds. This creates a noticeable lag that gets in the way of collaboration. You start editing something, only to find 10 seconds later that someone else deleted it. Etherpad updates every copy of the document every half second. This 30x increase in speed changes the experience completely. Your edits hardly ever clash with other users'. So you work confidently instead of tentatively." (from EtherPad's site)
Google DNS
Google launched a DNS resolving service called Google Public DNS that uses Google's infrastructure to improve page loading time. A DNS resolver converts domain names into IP addresses and this process might slow down browsing.
"As the web continues to grow, greater load is placed on existing DNS infrastructure. Since Google's search engine already crawls the web on a daily basis and in the process resolves and caches DNS information, we wanted to leverage our technology to experiment with new ways of addressing some of the existing DNS challenges around performance and security."
You can replace your ISP's DNS service with Google Public DNS by changing the settings of the network connection and using the following IP addresses:
"As the web continues to grow, greater load is placed on existing DNS infrastructure. Since Google's search engine already crawls the web on a daily basis and in the process resolves and caches DNS information, we wanted to leverage our technology to experiment with new ways of addressing some of the existing DNS challenges around performance and security."
You can replace your ISP's DNS service with Google Public DNS by changing the settings of the network connection and using the following IP addresses:
* 8.8.8.8
* 8.8.4.4
* 8.8.4.4
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Get Gmail Messages Delivered on Multiple Computers via POP
Do you access Gmail messages on two or more computers via POP clients like Outlook or Thunderbird. The problem (or advantage) with POP access is that once an email message gets downloaded onto one computer, it is skipped by other email clients.
To explain that further – let’s say you have configured both your personal laptop and work computer to download emails from your Gmail account via POP access. Now if the emails are downloaded to the laptop first, they wont be available on your work computer (and vice-versa).
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