Saturday, April 3, 2010

Google India Adds Shopping Tool



On March 30, Google announced the launch of a new tool to find product information online in India. Google's new shopping tool - erstwhile available in U.S. and European countries now finds its way into India. Like Google shopping in the US, this tool indexes thousands of websites that have price and images of various products. As of now, the Indian avatar of Google Shopping throws data available from over 30,000 Indian websites.

Users can now try and look for product details and latest prices of goods and items across a wide spectrum. The tool also features a price comparison tool. This can help you look for the cheapest price available for the product of your choice. It also helps users choose products that are within their budgets. For example, you can search for all the phones that are priced from Rs.10,000 to Rs. 15,000.

One thing that Google could have made easier was getting into the shopping tool for India. This is the way Google suggests you need to adopt to use the shopping tool in India as of now. "To use Google's shopping tool, simply enter the product name into the search box at http://www.google.co.in. Then, on the results page, click on the "Show Options ..." link located above the search results and select "Shopping". Once you start seeing shopping results, you can customize your filtering options as required.
Dear Google, wouldn't a simple link be sufficient?



at 9:01 AM Posted by nasweef

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Saturday, January 9, 2010

Speed dials in Google Chrome

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While almost all browsers today come with a speed dial function, it’s Google Chrome that has been missing it. Firefox too didn’t have it but plugins made it a reality. The speed dial feature in short allows you to access your most favourite sites in a start page. Bookmarks can do that but access to them is still a click or two away. 

So far, Chrome didn’t have extensions but we’re glad to inform you that those days are over. Assuming that you have Chrome updated to its latest version, head over to Chrome’s Extension gallery – (https://chrome.google.com/extensions). You’ll find many there but look specifically for the Speed Dial extension. Clicking on it will start the download and installation. 


Configuration Page
 Opening the configuration window for Speed Dial

 Once the extension gets installed, click the Speed Dial icon in the address bar when you’re on a page you want to add to it. Click on Add Current Page. Open a new tab and you’ll see the Speed Dial window. To change the order of the bookmarks, click and drag the bookmarks around from one slot to another.

Speed Dial
The speed dial page

You’ll also notice that the Speed Dial icon has some resemblance to AVG’s icon. Click on the icon again, click Open Page and you’ll reach the configuration page for the extension. Once you’re there, you can easily set the number of speed dial links. Click on the dropdown to set it.
Setting the number of speed dial bookmarks you want
Setting the number of speed dial bookmarks you want


 
Themes
 Setting themes and wallpapers for your speed dial

If the background is too boring, you can set colours or even a wallpaper like you would for your desktop. For some unknown reason, Chrome only lets you set images from the web as your wallpaper. So, if you have a wallpaper available locally, upload it and then link it to it.

You also have the option of displaying the other controls such as the search bar, bookmarks and the recently accessed pages. When you’re done, click on Save and Close.

Options
 Turning on and off components on your speed dial page

 If you’re like us, you’ll soon be lining in your favourite sites for news, reviews, gaming, streaming in a very orderly manner.

at 10:42 PM Posted by nasweef

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App Store For Netbooks

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Intel Corporation has launched a beta version of its app store -- the Intel AppUp center -- for netbook computers. The first apps are now available for free download or purchase by visiting www.intelappup.com.
Four other Intel industry partners – Acer, Asus, Dell and Samsung - also announced store collaboration and plans.

The first apps now available cover education, entertainment, games, health, social networking and other categories. A sampling includes Arnold Palmer Golf, Boxee, Wikihow and Yoono.

The beta store will host applications for both the Microsoft Windows and the open source Moblin-based operating systems, the first operating systems to target the popular netbook computer category powered by the Intel Atom processor.

Over time, Intel and its partners expect to expand the stores to include applications for the large categories of handheld CE devices, smartphones, consumer electronic appliances, TVs and other devices based on future Intel processor families.
In addition to the Windows and Moblin-based operating systems, the Intel AppUp center will offer applications that use Web browser run-time environments such as Adobe Air and Microsoft Silverlight in the future.

Partner stores access the developer and store services the Intel AppUp center offers, including validating and categorizing apps and utilizing a common transaction infrastructure to administer purchases and downloads for these tailored stores. OEMs Acer, Asus, Dell and Samsung are working closely with Intel on their stores.

at 9:56 PM Posted by nasweef

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