12 More File Formats added to Google Docs

Google Docs makes viewing the documents even more faster than first downloading them and opening them locally, it is just like service at your doorstep (Yes, in your Gmail Inbox!). It is used by millions of people around the world, now it just got a lot more useful. Earlier it only supported formats like PDF, Microsoft Word and PowerPoint files.

Today, Google has launched a dozen more file types for its viewer:

• Microsoft Excel (.XLS and .XLSX)
• Microsoft PowerPoint 2007/10 (.PPTX)
• Apple Pages (.PAGES)
• Adobe Illustrator (.AI)
• Adobe Photoshop (.PSD) [Yay!]
• Autodesk AutoCad (.DXF)
• Scalable Vector Graphics (.SVG)
• PostScript (.EPS, .PS)
• TrueType (.TTF)
• XML Paper Specification (.XPS)

In Gmail, there is a "VIEW" button for all these file types now. Yay! It supports PSD too! :D

Google Docs Viewer is available for any website, click HERE for more information.
But keep it in mind that can't create files using Docs. Viewing the PSD file on Google Docs was an unusual but awesome feeling, it is good to have a quick peek on the files before downloading them and cluttering your hard disk with unwanted files.

The VIEW button for a PSD file

Google Changes its Navigation bar

The largest search engine over the web has rolled out a few changes on its home page. They have Made their navigation bar a bit more beautiful. They have done away with those underlined Links at the navigation bar and now they have added more color to it and also a blue bar indicating which service you are currently using. There is even a settings icon on the extreme right. The navigation bar gives google a better look and you all guys might be dying to see it. Below is the screenshot of the new navigation bar.

Above is the older navigation bar and below is the new one

We know you might be Dying to use the google's new interface So here we give you the link try it out yourself 

http://www.google.com/webhp?aq=f&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

The link Might not me working in some browsers, we cannot do anything about it 

Facebook photo viewer and Search [Updated]

Facebook's all new photo viewer design has been rolled out to many users now. There is no longer a separate page for every image, the photo viewer opens in a lightbox over the page for the selected image. One major benefit from the facebook's perspective, for this lightbox feature is that, users will not 'loose their place' from now onwards. The 'like' and 'comment' buttons lie at the bottom left corner of the photo box and the comment box sits beneath the the photo. Overall this is a good and fast photoviewer, but we can't open images in a new tab in it.

To revert back to the old photo viewer just remove '&theatre' from the URL. 

The Facebook Search is what that has impressed us, it segregates the Instant results into different categories, ie, Pages, People, Groups, etc.

Innovation is what keeps facebook going..! And that is what makes it 'more than 500 million active users'!!!

Beauty of the Web [HTML5]

The web was redefined with the coming of IE 9 beta and its HTML5 support but today i am not going to talk about the IE9 beta version or its latest RC version. Today We talk about the Beauty of the web that is HTML5.

But what is HTML5 ?? The answer lies below

HTML5 is a language for structuring and presenting content for the World Wide Web, a core technology of the Internet. It is the latest revision of the HTML standard (originally created in 1990) and currently remains under development. Its core aims have been to improve the language with support for the latest multimedia while keeping it easily readable by humans and consistently understood by computers and devices . Many new tags have been introduced with HTML5 such as the <nav>,<canvas>,<article> etc etc..

But Now the Question arises How is it Different ??

The HTML5 draft reflects an effort, started in 2004, to study contemporary HTML implementations and deployed content. The draft:

1. Defines a single language called HTML5 which can be written in HTML syntax and in XML syntax.
2. Defines detailed processing models to foster interoperable implementations.
3. Improves markup for documents.
4. Introduces markup and APIs for emerging idioms, such as Web applications.

Html 5 though is not supported on all browsers but that does'nt mean we should not use HTML5 

. Html5 is now compatible with the widely used browsers such as Chrome, IE 9, Firefox, Safari.. So you need not worry about the compatibility...  

Html5 can also be used to create drag and drop applications online games etc etc which were earlier done by flash. 

Browse the latest Html5 demos @http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/ And get a experience of the Beauty of the web If still not satisfied  see it here in Action http://goo.gl/M2xdC 

Facebook Page Gets A New UI

The new Facebook Page user interface (UI) has unified itself with the normal facebook profile UI. Now you have a row of photos above your page just like your profile all the applications have been shifted to the left side of the page. Facebook Page experience has reached a new level. Now you can use facebook as your page, that means you can browse facebook as if you were the Page. For example, I can comment on any other page... But the username would be that of the page, that is, VirtualBots.

join us on facebook :-

fb.me/virtualbots

Facebook turns 7!

Facebook, one of the biggest sites on earth, celebrated its 7th birthday on Friday (2/5/2011).

Over the years, this network has converted itself from a small University hub to a more than 500 million monthly active users. People spend almost half of their day on facebook supplying loads of embarrassing, funny, emotional, serious, SPAM messages as their status updates.

Back in February 2004 did anyone think that this social network can change the whole internet era?

We've created a timeline for Facebook, to show its power and its 'Still Growing' members...

2004

February 4- TheFacebook.com launches from a Harvard dorm room.

June- The Facebook moves to Palo Alto, California.

September- Groups application is added and the Wall makes its debut.

December- Facebook reaches nearly 1 million monthly active users.

2005

August- Thefacebook.com changes to facebook.com

September- Facebook adds high school networks

October- Photos application is added.

December- Facebook reaches more than 5.5 million active users

2006

April- Facebook via Mobile debuts.

August- Facebook platform and Notes application launches. Facebook partners with Microsoft.

September- News Feed is introduced. Registration for facebook is open for everyone.

December- Facebook reaches 12 million active users.

2007

May- Facebook hosts F8 event to launch facebook Platform. Facebook Apps makes its debut.

August- Facebook releases iPhone optimized site.

October- Facebook reaches 50 million active users. Facebook Platform for Mobile introduced.

November- Facebook launches Facebook Ads.

2008

March- Privacy Controls are added to Friend List.

April- Facebook Chat debuts.

August- Facebook reaches over 100 million active users.

December- Facebook Connect goes Open.

2009

February- Facebook introduces "Like" feature. It joins OpenID board.

June- Facebook launches Facebook Usernames.

August- Facebook acquires FriendFeed.

December- Facebook reaches 350 million active users.

2010

July- Facebook launches beta of Questions

July- Facebook reaches 500 million monthly active users.

August- Facebook Places launches.

October- The Social Network marks its debut.

December- Time Magazine names Mark Zuckerberg "Person of the Year"

2011

January- Facebook valued at $50 million. The Social Network wins at the Golden Globes.

FACEBOOK TURNS 7 !!!!!

Project Titan Onboard

We were hearing about the facebook email from quite a long time, but this morning, when I signed into facebook I saw "try the new messages" and bingo it was the facebook email. It really impressed us. Archiving our chat history with a person from the starting (the chats you do from now on) to the very end of your life. I think its useful... Ain't it?

Send mails to people who are not on facebook more socially.

You can attach files over the chat like photos , word docs etc. So get your @facebook.com id now

We got ours

botraunak@facebook.com & wowitsnaman@facebook.com

attachments with chat.

Even when Signing in you can use either yourusernam@facebook.com or your email id to log in...

New Year's Eve with the new Google Doodle! But what does it exactly mean?

Google always wishes us our favorite festivals with its awesome doodles!

Today (31st December 2010) we are saying a goodbye to another decade of pride and glory, and moreover its the New Year's Eve!

We all are lucky as we witnessed one of the awesome-st doodles of Google. The GMMXIE (or you can say GMMXLE) doodle. But most of you must be thinking, that what does it exactly mean? No problem, I'll tell you.

Its all 4th standard maths that is required in it. We all have studied Roman numbers throughout our cadet classes.

Okay, so lets try this... 'MMXI' in numerical is 1000+1000+10+1 respectively, which is equal to 2011! And therefore Google welcomes us to a new decade with its G[MMXI]E doodle.

Happy new year friends! Wish you all a prosperous new year!

WebM

WebM is a multimedia format design to compress HTML5 videos. The projects development is sponsored by Google. Based on developments of On2 , Xiph and Matroska. The extension of a file in this format would be .webm .

To know more about the project visit 

http://www.webmproject.org/

WebP

It is an image format launched by Google Inc. Its intial release was on 30 september 2010. A image created in this format would have and extension of .webp

To know more about the image format visit 

http://code.google.com/speed/webp/

Youtube In Html5

It is an opt-in trial of HTML videos on YouTube. You can view videos in the HTML5 player instead of the regular flash player. A supported browser is required to view the videos in HTML5 as other browsers would not be able to read the video tag in HTML5.  The browser should also support either the WebM format(with VP8 codec) or the h.264 video codec. The supported browsers are :-

• Firefox 4 
• Google Chrome
• Opera 10.6 and above
• Apple Safari
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 Beta
• Internet Explorer with 6,7 or 8 with Google Chrome Frame installed. 

To opt-in for Youtube in HTML5 visit www.youtube.com/html5

Search Engine "Blekko"

Blekko.com is the latest search search engine with a Difference! It has come up with a unique idea, this is because there is no point in making something similar to Google or Bing as it will ultimately sink. Blekko has got a new feature known as "slashtags", it allows the users the users to filter their search results easily and quickly. It reduces the amounts of spams and dead links that are offered to the users while searching anything. It has got a fabulous feature for the site owners called "SEO", it shows the search-engine optimization information like hostrank, inbound links, crawl stats etc. We can even Compare the stats of two websites! Blekko has really impressed us, no wonder its a "Google Killer".

Shorten your Links

An image link in the google search can be very long and if you want to show it to your friend long link looks very untidy and if there are
 commas in the link, the link breaks. To solve this problem you can visit http://goo.gl
However there is nothing new in it there are several other sites like http://bit.ly and
http://tinyurl.com which solve the same problem.

Speed Test Your Net

Speedtest.net is a website that allows you to analyse broadband speed. Ookla provides this service free of cost to anyone who wants to know about their internet connection, we can even test the internet connection to and from several locations around the globe! This tool analysis the speed at which information is sent from the internet to our computer (Download speed), the speed at which data is sent from our computer to the internet (Upload speed) and the time it takes for a small piece of data from our computer and back (Ping). We can even view all our previous results, share it on social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, and compare our results with others.

Google Instant

Google gave the way of browsing the net a different meaning. The latest Google instant searches are faster and more informative than ever before. The Google instant predicts what you are exactly trying to search and display them next to your search in grey translucent font. The Search Results Keep Updating As You Update Your Search Item!


        

The new gmail priority inbox

The new gmail priority inbox has got many new features It has the important and unread tabs. It recognizes the mails you are likely to read and reply. You can mark a mail as important or not important. If you want to read a mail again then you can put a star on it. It shifts in the starred tab and the next time you want to read it you don't have to find it in your inbox containing hundreds of mails.

The All new Twitter

The new twitter gives a Facebook like experience to the user, we can attach photos and videos and view them in the right column. The new twitter also has the feature of scrolling down to infinity and going through tweets.We can also see mini profiles of the tweet poster by clicking on their name their profile appear on the right column.