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Google Buzz introduces Reshare feature
Google Releases Browser Add-ons to Disable Google Analytics Tracking
3 Tools To Search Files and Folders in Windows OS
Google Pacman cost the economy $120 million

Posted: 27 May 2010 04:30 PM PDT

VLC media player (Video lan player) is one of my favorite multi-media player because it renders most of the video and audio files without need of any extra codec. Be it, Windows or Macintosh, I use this on both the systems and I love it so far. If I have to select one multi-media player for my system, I believe it will be VLC media player.

Video Lan player

VLC media player released the latest 1.1 RC1 version which comes with few enhancements like:

GPU and DSP decoding, depending on the platform
Faster and more stable
New codecs and HD codecs enhancements
Webm and VP8 support
MKV, mp4 and avi improvements
More Extensions
Important code cleanup and rewrite
Interface and playlist reworked

Since it’s a RC 1 release, you won’t find this download link on the homepage of VLC media player. You can download the RC1 of V 1.1 from here.

Meanwhile do let us know which multi-media player do you use on your system?

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Google Buzz introduces Reshare feature

Posted: 27 May 2010 09:47 AM PDT

Google Buzz has introduced a ‘Reshare’ feature which will allow Buzz users to share the original post and also give the person sharing it first credit for it. In it’s blog Google announced that Buzz Reshare feature will soon will be available for Buzz users.

About Buzz Reshare

As mentioned before that the Buzz Reshare feature is pretty much to share something while giving credit to the original post on Buzz. This is very similar to Twitter’s Retweet feature or Facebook’s Via Feature.
This gives Buzz a great addition as it truly is more or less like a sharing forum rather than being a social network.
I think Google Buzz is a better forum than Twitter to share videos and images and ‘Reshare’ can really tap into this penchant we have to share videos and images.

If you Google Buzz account does not have a Reshare button then you might want to wait for a day or two and it should be made available.

Do you use Google Buzz? Let us know your views and thoughts about it over time you have used it.

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Google Releases Browser Add-ons to Disable Google Analytics Tracking

Posted: 27 May 2010 05:27 AM PDT

Google analytics is a popular service from Google to track visitors on a website. Many blogs and websites uses Google analytics to know about the visitors of a site, trending topics of that site, some data about the website etc.

Till now, Google analytics haven’t recorded any personal information about the visitor but some people are concerned that Google can track the sites they visit using simple Google analytics script. So Google has rolled out a browser add-on for Internet Explorer 7+, Firefox 3.5+ and Chrome 4+ that disable Google Analytics tracking

Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on communicates with the Google Analytics JavaScript (http://www.google-analytics.com/ga.js) to indicate that information about the website visit should not be sent to Google Analytics. If you want to opt out, download and install the add-on for your current web browser. It supports Internet Explorer (versions 7 and 8), Google Chrome (4.x and higher), and Mozilla Firefox (3.5 and higher).

Google spokesman Brian Richardson said in an e-mail, "We take privacy very seriously and we're committed to providing users with more choice. Though Google Analytics collects information anonymously and in aggregate only, the add-on gives users the choice to opt-out of the Google Analytics Javascript (ga.js) sending information to Google Analytics," "We're constantly working to both enhance the privacy options for users and provide website owners with valuable data to improve their websites."

I personally feel that if a lot of people install these kind of add-ons then website owners won’t have an accurate statistics about their website. They will no longer be able to find out what section of their website is popular and what part they still need to work more..

Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on – Download

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3 Tools To Search Files and Folders in Windows OS

Posted: 27 May 2010 05:01 AM PDT

Are you Microsoft Windows user having huge number of files and folders on your hard disk ? Sometimes for a quick reference it would be a difficult task to search missing files and folders. Today we have 3 free tools to search documents on a Windows system in a faster way. All these 3 utilities are free and can do a quicker search in your local directories.

Normally when you have a Windows OS, the default search process is time-consuming and when you go for some search tools like Windows search 4.0 or Google desktop search, they’re too heavy and consume a lot of system resources like memory, disk space etc. So, here we have light weight powerful search tools to find out the files and folders on your Windows OS.

#1. Everything

Everything is a powerful tool which is well-known for its fast searching capability and the main feature is it loads the whole hard disk database with in seconds. All you need is to type the keyword partial or a folder name, it will display all the files and folders related to the name. This free tool is available in installer version and also portable one.

#2. UltraSearch

Ultrasearch is a simple tool used for fast documents searching. Once the tool is downloaded, just double-click the .exe file and ready to use. Like other utilities, it also takes some seconds to fully load the database. Then, you need to enter the keyword or file name. Depending on your file capacity it takes some seconds to complete the search. It supports on all Windows versions even Windows 7 (both 32 and 64 bit)

3. DocFetcher

DocFetcher is a desktop search application: It allows you to search the contents of documents on your computer. You can think of it as Google for your local document repository. The application is available for Windows and Linux. You need Java Run Time environment to work perfectly.

If you know of any other search tools for looking up Files and Folders do share with us with your comments and views.

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Google Pacman cost the economy $120 million

Posted: 27 May 2010 01:13 AM PDT

We saw how Google Pacman took the world by storm a few days ago. I think everyone reading this post probably spent some time playing Pacman on Google’s Pacman Doodle which probably has not gone down to become legendary. Even I spent a bit of time and it quite refreshingly brought back nostalgia of 386 Processor computers with their limited storage and processing ability.

But what did this unexpected time off with Pacman cost the economy?

Here are some mind boggling numbers of the cost that economies endured because of a simple Doodle from Google.

Over all Google had 504,703,000 unique visitors when the Pacman Doodle went up.
This over all amounted to 4.8 million work hours being lost to Google as people ended up on an average spending 36 seconds instead of the usual 4 seconds on Google search.
So the total cost to our economies is about $120 Million and with that money we could have hired the entire Google workforce of 19,835 for about six weeks.

The response to Google’s Pacman has been so phenomenal that they have decided to create a page where it is available at any time. So now you can play Pacman at Google.com/pacman

So tell us what you think about Google Pacman’s effect? Was it really a waste of money or was it actually a great way to unwind and put up a smile on your face before your day began? Do let me know through your comments.

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