Google Goggles : A new visual search application for Android phones

Imagine a book you spotted in a bookstore and wanted to get more information about it instantly. Or maybe a monument you saw and you wanted to know the history behind it.”C’mon you can’t take Google with you everywhere” is what you would say. Or not if you own an Android phone. Google recently unveiled Google Goggles, a labs application for Android phones which allows users to google about a particular object by merely pointing the phone’s camera at it. This project, still in the early stages is yet another unique innovation from the Big G.

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More about Goggles

The visual search application works on phones that run Android v1.6 or later. Pointing the camera at say ‘Taj Mahal’ would immediately provide related search results. On a smaller scale, pointing at a book shop’s name would search for the book shop, its address and even reviews. 

It currently won’t work on your bonsai plant or your cute dog but Google plans on improving the technology to the point where you could be able to search the plant’s name by photographing its leaf. Let’s hope Google comes out with Goggles for non-Android phones too.

Similar Technology from Nokia

A similar technology has been already developed by Nokia and is aptly titled ‘Nokia Point and Find’. It is available on select Nokia phones(N97,N95,E71 and a few more).You can download it from Point and Find’s website(see link below)

Links:

Google Goggles

Nokia Point and Find

16 Superb alternatives to Mininova (Torrents)

mininova1It’ Sad day for us :( Mininova, the largest torrent website which had served over 8 Billion downloads is now all over! Nearly all torrents have been removed. But life goes on, so get ready with some new torrents coming just right away!

There you go,

  1. h33t
  2. monova
  3. extatorrent
  4. bitsnoop
  5. ahashare
  6. leakz
  7. 1337x
  8. torrentleech
  9. tv-torrents
  10. newnova
  11. fenopy
  12. pimptorrent
  13. torrentbox
  14. torrent-xtream
  15. blizzerdz
  16. btmon

Lost for words? Not anymore .. Google dictionary is here

Google is on a roll these days owing to the number of new technologies they are coming up with at such great speed.One addition to the ever growing list is Google Dictionary. Earlier the same link used to provide word definitions from various web resources but now it has become a full fledged dictionary tool à la dictionary.com. It has a very simple interface and is available in many languages. Continue reading

Read More than 6000 Online Newspapers for Free!

Everyone will enjoy reading newspapers, but reading the newspapers online will definitely brings you a lot of benefits. Besides getting the latest news for free on time, you will also have many choices to choose from. Today, we have one website where you can get more than 6000 online newsapers around the world for free..

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ThePaperboy is a popular online newspaper big library or directory for newspaper readers from around the world. Although you may order or purchase newspapers from your nearer shops, but reading the news online will definitely brings you a lot of benefits.

Currently this website has over 6370 online newspapers for you to get your daily newspaper fix. So, having these online newspapers, you can view today’s front pages of leading world news easily.

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The website also allows user to browse newspapers by country and state. Most of them are free. It has almost all popular newspapers from the world. I am sure you won’t be bored anymore after visiting this website.

You can read newspaper from United States, United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, India China and other popular newspapers from rest of the world.

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Those famous newspapers are New York Post, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Miami Herald, USA Today, The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, Times of India New Delhi Edition, Hindustan Times, The Hindu, Deccan Chronicle, The Vancouver Sun, The Australian, The Irish Times, Moscow Times, Mail & Guardian, Bangkok Post, and many more.

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Do you have the habit of reading newspapers daily ? Share with us :-)

Self Improving Search from Google : Now for everyone

googleGoogle self improves it’s search results using it’s Personalized Feature. It tracks your Google Searches and what links you click and according to that it shows results that match the results you clicked.

Till now the feature was available to only those users who had enabled web history and we signed in to their Google account. Now, it will track your searches for 180 days and refine your results according to the searches without the need of being signed in.

This could be another major improvement in Google Search which drastically improves search performance. It track web history via a Anonymous browser cookie.

Mininova is killed : Traffic drops 66% after legalization

mininova1Mininova, the world’s largest torrent website on the web, recently went legal and removed millions of torrents form the website to avoid paying huge fines.

Smart step but not as smart to avoid the huge traffic drop. Mininova’s traffic was 10 Million but after the changes it has dropped as low as 3 Million. Where did 7 Million hits go?

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Downloads have also seen a 4% drop compared to the average daily downloads. It was ordered by court as per the lawsuit against Mininova by a Anti-Piracy organisation BREIN.

Practically it was impossible for the owners of the website to remove all the Illegal torrents because they were millions in numbers and so last choice they had was to remove all the torrents that were uploaded by all users than Approved ones.

So from now on users can upload content via their content distribution service and so it means, producers and artists who willingly upload their content online and distribute it online will be found on the site.

As of now i just found 603 torrents under software category, about 247 torrents in the game category, and about 5000 torrents in the music category. Earlier it had about more then 10 Million torrents. Now you know, how bad it was.

Mininova Stats - Before Legalization

Mininova Stats - Before Legalization

[Via TorrentFreak]

How to run Google’s Android on HTC Windows Mobiles! (hack)

500px-android-logosvgFeeling sorry for Windows 6.5 which crushed all the expectations, similar to something what happened with Windows Vista. Now till windows comes up with something as good as Windows 7 for your mobile you would probably like switching to Android, Google’s open source OS which powers Motorola’s Droid ;)

Here’s a how you can do it.

  1. Format all that data on your HTC Windows Mobile so that, no problems later and you can expect better performance.
  2. Download Android for HTC from here. A complete package with Android for HTC.
  3. After downloading it’s time to download HaRET. You need to download this app because this app will allow Android to run in the Windows Mobile environment and reboot as Android. Note : The Phone won’t boot as Android on starting because it’s dependent on this app.
  4. After Downloading all the files it’s time to spread them over your external storage, unzip all the files on your external storage or internal storage in case of HTC Diamond. Be sure to unzip all the files in the Root Directory.
  5. Seems like your done with it. Ahem, i forgot that you should make sure that the Startup.txt is the one matching with your Cell Phone Model. The Default Package came with RAPH100 but you need to find out the exact code, just Google your model name to get it.
  6. It’s time to enjoy stuff after hardwork! Start HaRET app from your Windows Mobile phone and wait for it to reboot as Android. There you go!

This hack only works with HTC’s Touch Pro and HTC Touch HD as well as HTC Diamond but you can try it out with other models and if it works your surely lucky enough! Thanks KongTechnology!