Google Chrome (BETA) for Windows

Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier.

Google Chrome

One box for everything
Type in the address bar and get suggestions for both search and web pages.

Thumbnails of your top sites
Access your favorite pages instantly with lightning speed from any new tab.

Shortcuts for your apps
Get desktop shortcuts to launch your favorite web applications.

[ Source: Google Chrome ]

Google eyeing operations in Malaysia

Web search engine giant Google is interested in setting up operations in Malaysia, citing the country’s technology infrastructure and strategic location, newspapers reported on Sunday. Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said Google has started discussions with Malaysia’s Multimedia Development on establishing a base in the country.

“They want to make their presence felt in Malaysia. It will be a big boost for our ICT industry,” he told reporters after meeting Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Abdullah said Malaysia ranked as the top users of Google in Southeast Asia, which was another reason why it would make sense to use the country as a base for its operations. In Asia, Google has offices in China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan.

Gmail welcomes your AIM friends.

Now you can talk to your AIM® friends using an integrated chat list right inside Gmail.

Gmail chat now offers the option to sign in to your AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) account to chat with your AIM buddies from Gmail. Your AIM buddies will populate your Contacts list, and are searchable just like your Google Talk contacts.

Chatting with your AIM buddies is easy — just click on a name in your chat list, and start typing.

Note that an AIM account is required to use this feature. AIM in Gmail is not a Google Talk and AIM federation; it’s the ability to sign in to your AIM messaging account from Gmail. Gmail uses Open AIM to provide this feature.

[ Source: About AIM in Gmail ]

How To Search Rapidshare Files Using Google

Using the same tutorial for searchinfg files from MediaFire, we will search the files from Rapidshare.com or Rapidshare.de with the extra parameter on the search format.

Just visit Google.com and type “site: rapidshare.com” or “site:rapidshare.de” followed by:

• “inurl:pdf” for e-book in PDF format
• “inurl:avi|wmv|mpg|mpeg|mov|mpeg4″ for movie format.
• “inurl:mp3|wma|ogg” for audio format.
• “inurl:exe|msi” for Windows executable format.
• “inurl:zip|rar|7z” for Windows compression format.

Example: site:rapidshare.com inurl:zip|rar|7z winzip

Search MediaFire for Free Videos, Music, Comics, and Archives

MediaFire is a free file hosting service that offers unlimited storage space and up to 100MB per file which equates to a lot of files to search through for free videos, music, and much more. By using Google, you can check to see what others have posted for download.

To look for music files, use this:
Google: site:mediafire.com mp3|wma|ogg

For a specific artist, include the artist’s name:
Google: site:mediafire.com mp3|wma|ogg daughtry

For a specific song, include the song name:
Google: site:mediafire.com mp3|wma|ogg “over you”

For video files, use this:
Google: site:mediafire.com asf|rm|avi|mp4|wmv|flv

For Comics, use this:
Google: site:mediafire.com cbr|cbz

To search for a specific comic title, include it in the query:
Google: site:mediafire.com cbr|cbz hulk

For archives:
Google: site:mediafire.com rar|zip

[ Source: tech-recipes ]

Google Pack now includes Star Office

Star Office is the basis for the free and open source OpenOffice.org application suite. Unlike OpenOffice.org, Star Office requires the Java runtime to use. So why would Google choose Star Office over Open Office for the Pack?

Beats us, but since launch a couple of their app choices left us shaking our heads, like Adobe Reader and RealPlayer. (With the exception of Firefox, they seem to be open source-o-phobic.) Other Google Pack choices include Google Earth, Google Toolbar for IE, Spyware Doctor, Google Desktop, Picasa, Firefox with the Google toolbar, a (neat) Google Photos screensaver, Google Talk, and Skype. Happily you can choose which apps you want before you download.

Google Pack [ via LifeHacker ]

Stylish New Design in Google Notebook

Google Notebook has a new UI that uses AJAX a lot (here’s the old one, for reference). “After a long slog, our sexy new version of Google Notebook is out. There are still bugs and things missing, but I think this version is a lot more fun than the old one,” says Dave Kushal on his blog.

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Google’s New Mail Feature: Gmail Paper

You click. We stack. You get. “Now that I have Gmail Paper, I understand the difference between labels and folders. I had one message with two labels, but when I tried to stick the paper version into two filing cabinets at the same time, it just wouldn’t go.” What will Google think of next?

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Google Translator gets busted

It seems that the Google translation tool doesn’t always work the way it should. Maybe it just translates what’s on our minds?

Link: Google Translator gets busted

Google’s unknown artist has huge following

The 28-year-old webmaster designs the whimsical logos that decorate Google.com’s otherwise Spartan Web site on special occasions.

Link: Google’s unknown artist has huge following