Our old buddy, Google Pack is now all set to cure your PC blues. Apart from the usual bundle (Google Earth, Google Desktop, Picasa etc.) the reconstructed pack sports two new additions:
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Norton Security Scan from Symantec which detects and eliminates viruses & internet worms. Don’t dismiss this as just one of those useless “free” tools ’cause this version is capable of updating itself regularly as well as can be scheduled to scan your system automatically at regular intervals.
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Spyware Doctor Starter Edition - another tool which has lately become an inseparable companion of an anti-virus solution. This one takes care of any spyware, adware, trojans and keyloggers that might be lurking around your system and includes smart updates as well as scheduling.
Keep in mind - both these tools are diluted version of the originals and can no way compete with their full-blown Anti-virus / Anti-Spyware counterparts. But till you get yourself one, these will do just fine. Moreover, I’d say you’re getting a pretty good value for money (zilch) since both these tools update without requiring any paid subscriptions.
As an extra perk, the Google Photos Screensaver which is a part of the bundle has undergone a major upgrade. If you’d always drooled over one of those digital picture frames, this is your easiest way out. The new screensaver will continously update and display new pictures from web-feeds generated by the many of the major picture-hosting service.
After all, any sort of prevention if better than cure 
Wanna give it a try? Head over to the download page…
Source: The Official Google Blog
Ventures into online machine based translations haven’t met with much success so far - at least not to a degree that can be called phenomenal. While smaller words / phrases / sentences translate fine, the translator engines perform rather pathetically when it comes to large chunks of text.
Translation …
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Yep ! At last it has really happened. Gmail is now officially open for public sign-up. No more invites and no more of haggling other’s for those invites either. This was long overdue though.
Past couple of months there’s been an incessant trail of rumours announcing the public release of Gmail - none of which could be verified. Apparently it was …
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This may seem like a very old topic. Rather it IS old. However, with quite a few sightings in hand over the past few days I couldn’t help but write-up a small report about it.
A couple of months back the whole blogosphere went up in an unanimous uproar …
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Webmasters who use the Google Webmaster Tools (formerly known as Google Sitemaps) will be pleased to know that now it’s possible to get a list of the incoming links to your site right from the Webmaster Tools control panel.
Earlier on, you could glean some information about your site’s inbound links using the Google search engine’s link: operator. It works …
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Today I came across this entry in ZDNet Blogs, which directs you to dig up the localisation files (or in other words language files) of Google Docs to find hints of a possibly upcoming online Presentation Manager.
Go through the following snippet from the Docs localisation file and see if you can spot any of it…
var MSG_VIEW_PRESENTATION=”View presentation”;
var MSG_PRESENTATION_SETTINGS=”Presentation settings”;
var MSG_DOC_TO_PRESENTATION=”Convert …
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Today was the first time ever, that I received an impression of the much discussed Google Video Ads - that too a pretty high-paying ad from IBM.
So far I’d only heard about them and never experienced them first hand. They’ve been as elusive as the themed ad units though both have been in existence since the first half of 2006 …
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If you’re a serious AdSense publisher, you’d have surely felt the need of an AdSense monitoring system that’d provide you with real-time statistics of the ad clicks & earnings from your site(s). Look no further - here are a couple of really handy tools that does the job for you. There are plenty of such tools available out there on …
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