Monday, January 09, 2006

Eligibility Requirements for 2006 Anita Borg Scholarships

The deadline of The 2006 Anita Borg Scholarships (Google Blog) is January 20.
Candidates must:
*be entering their senior year of undergraduate study or be enrolled in a graduate program in 2006 - 2007 at a university in the United States.
*be Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related technical field majors.
*be enrolled in full-time study in 2006 - 2007.
*maintain a cumulative GPA of at least 3.5 on a 4.0 scale or 4.5 on a 5.0 scale or equivalent in their current program.

Saturday, January 07, 2006

Google 3 in 1 ( Three things in One Day) http://m.gmail.com

Google Video+Google Pack+Google Wireless

Google on the CES (the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, where Larry Page speaks) announced they’re soon going to start selling video online, offering a way for people to search for and buy TV shows and more through its site.
BBC has details regarding Google Video Deal
Google opens online video store

Google’s software bundle Google Pack is now live as reported here.
"We didn’t pay them, and they aren’t paying us" the google blog reports.
The package includes the following:

Google Earth (the desktop version of Google Earth), Picasa (a photo management utility), Google Pack Screensaver (which turns your personal photo collection into a screensaver), Google Desktop (which searches your PC, among many other features),Firefox with Google Toolbar, Norton Antivirus 2005 Special Edition, Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer, Ad-Aware SE Personal (which removes spyware and such), Trillian (an instant messenger),GalleryPlayer HD Images (basically, 25 Jpegs to add to the screensaver), Google Video Player (“Play videos purchased and downloaded through the Google Video website"), Google Talk (Google’s own chat software), RealPlayer, Adobe Reader 7 (for displaying PDFs)

and...
Google disclosed yesterday it acquired Reqwireless Inc., which makes Web browser and e-mail software for wireless devices -- although the small wireless company's products are no longer available for purchase.
ReqWireless (MIDP browser) has been dealing with these connection issues for a few years and have accumulated a lot of helpful information. A list of APNs, for example: http://www.reqwireless.com/apns.html
It helps Gmail Mobile and Google Local Mobile.
Check mail in mobile here http://m.gmail.com

Sunday, January 01, 2006

Search Specific Type of Files [filetype:extension search]

You might all be familiar with google phrase search. Yes, queries enclosed between quotes is a phrase. example is "how to use the ipod". Recently google allows users to enter the same query in how-to-use-the-ipod form too.
Thus latest "BSNL broadband tariff" and latest BSNL-broadband-tariff are same.
( NOTE: no space between hyphens in a phrase search )




That being said, let us combine a phrase with google filetype queries.
The filetype query is one in which we specify the search to required filetype we want. Usually we know pdf has lot more data powerpoint files with pps filename extension is fun etc.
Try the interactive search Click Google Search. Do come back here to search if u hate entering filetypes etc. Happy Clicking!












This can be quite useful sometimes, say

* when u are searching for information on a latest topic for your seminar or presentation.
* if you're interested to know what people are doing with ASP.NET, you can use filetype:aspx". E.g. [ filetype:aspx users directory ]
* to get source code of program in c or c++. E.g. [ filetype:cpp quicksort ]
* to get funny ppt slides or flash files etc

Common Google filetypes are
PowerPoint (.ppt) filetype:ppt
PowerPoint Show (.pps) filetype:pps
Excel (.xls) filetype:xls
Word documents (.doc) filetype:doc
Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) filetype:pdf
Adobe Postscript (.ps) filetype:ps
Rich Text Format (.rtf) filetype:rtf
Text Files (.txt) filetype:txt
C Program files (.c) filetype:c
C++ Source Codes (.cpp) filetype:cpp
Shockwave Flash filetype:swf

We can also combine filetype searches like
"social-bookmarking" filetype:pdf OR filetype:doc