Friday, May 29, 2009

Google hoping Web surfers to ride Wave
Google is hatching a new species of e-mail and instant messaging, but the Internet search leader first wants the hybrid service to evolve even more with the help of independent computer programmers.

The free tool, called "Google Wave," runs in a Web browser and combines elements of e-mail, instant messaging, wikis and photo sharing in an effort to make online communication more dynamic. Google hopes Wave simplifies the way people collaborate on projects or exchange opinions about specific topics.

Google offered the first glimpse of its latest offering Thursday during the Mountain View, Calif.-based company's annual conference for software developers who build programs on top of its services. The rest of the Web-surfing public won't be able to hop on Google Wave until later in the year.

By the time Wave rolls out for everyone, Google hopes independent programmers will have found new ways to use the service.

Among other things, Google is counting on outsiders to figure out how to weave Wave into the popular Internet communications service Twitter, social networks like Facebook and existing Web-based e-mail services, said Lars Rasmussen, a Google engineering manager.

Rasmussen and his brother, Jens, helped build Google's online mapping service, which sprouted a variety of unforeseen uses after its 2005 debut because of the ingenuity of external programmers.

Having learned their lesson from the mapping experience, the Rasmussens wanted to give developers ample time to tinker with their newest creation before unleashing it on the rest of the world.

The Rasmussens broke away from Google's mapping service in 2006 to concentrate on building a service that would enable e-mail and instant messaging to embrace the Web's increasingly social nature. They contend e-mail hasn't changed that much since its invention during the 1960s.

Wave is designed to make it easier to converse over e-mail by providing tools to highlight particular parts of the written conversation. In instant messages, participants can see what everyone else is writing as they type, unless they choose a privacy control. Photos and other online applications known as "widgets" also can be transplanted into the service.

The service could easily accommodate advertising like Google's 5-year-old e-mail service already does, but Lars Rasmussen said it's still too early to predict how the company might profit from Wave.
Google wants developers to ride Wave
Google encouraged software developers to ride into the future of email with a project called "Wave," which opens inboxes to text, video, pictures, maps and even social network feeds.

"Wave" expands the capabilities of email to let people communicate and work together in real-time with text, photos, videos, maps, and more, according to Google software engineering manager Lars Rasmussen.

According to Rasmussen, "In Google Wave you create a wave and add people to it. Everyone on your wave can use richly formatted text, photos, gadgets, and even feeds from other sources on the web. You see on your screen nearly instantly what your fellow collaborators are typing in your wave."

A "wave" prototype built by a five-person team "holed up in a conference room in the Sydney office" for months was previewed at a Google developers conference in San Francisco on Thursday.

"After more than two years of expanding our ideas, our team, and our technology, we're very eager to return and see what the world might think," Rasmussen wrote.

A Wave software kit was provided to developers at the conference.

Wave allows for collaboration and communication by letting people send out pictures, messages, or videos that can be built on or modified as they stream from recipient to recipient.

Waves can be rewound to see how exchanges evolved, according to Google.

"Developers are going to see the potential of Google Wave as a platform; we hope they'll leap on it," said Wave engineer Adam Schuck.

"They'll be able to integrate it with existing systems they use today, or produce new tools that allow people to improve and manage their communications."

The computer code for Wave will be open source i.e developers are free to modify it as they wish.

"We're inviting developers to add all kinds of cool stuff before our public launch," Rasmussen wrote.

No launch date for Wave has been specified. Rasmussen and his brother, Jens, founded an online mapping firm bought by Google in 2004. The brothers' technology went into Google's free Internet map service.

Silicon Valley analyst Rob Enderle said that while the Wave goal is feasible, building a central station for various online photo, video, text and social networking feeds presents complex challenges.

Such a project also calls for cooperation from an array of technology firms, some of them Google rivals, according to Enderle.

"You start throwing these complex things together and things start breaking," Enderle said. "And, Google has not shown an ability to drive the kind of collaboration it would take to make it happen."

Google Wave has solved "a bunch of stuff that has traditionally been very hard" such as real-time collaboration and hosted data, according to team engineer Casey Whitelaw.

"Developers won't have to think about all of that, they'll be able to just build their app and go," Whitelaw said in the interview.

"The primary ideas are that everything is live, and everything is editable."

The Wave team in Sydney held weekly "team huddles" that evolved to include theme songs, prizes, and one member's quest to "help us develop our chocolate palate beyond M&M" candies, according to Whitelaw.

"Rather than try to anticipate every possible use it will be put to, we've made it open and extensible so developers can come up with what they think is cool and useful," Whitelaw said of Wave.

Sunday, May 24, 2009

You can rely on adt home security
Who doesn’t care about loved ones? All of us do that. But protecting your home and family becomes far more easier when you count on adt security. Monitored by home security professionals 7 days a week, adt is something you can rely upon while safeguard of your home is concerned. Adt has been in the home protection service for 131 years and is the largest electronic security service provider to more than 6 million customers throughout America.

Adt home protection provides continuous security from five interconnected command centers. These command centers are backed by trained professionals and powerful equipments. The network of command centers are located throughout the US. In case of an emergency, the monitoring technicians at adt do alert local authorities so that they can easily respond to the emergency.

Adt home security handles almost everything. From severe weather events to computer crashes; every damageable event can be monitored using adt alarm system.

Adt offers different sorts of service packages to its customers. Once installed for $99, the services of adt can be availed almost at an average of $1 per day. This thing makes adt home security quite affordable for every household.

Adt helps secure 90 percent of the fortune 500 companies- it proves how trustworthy and reliable it could be. For more detailed info, you can visit its site.

Thursday, May 7, 2009

Social Networking Service Twitter is not for sale
The popular micro-blogging and social networking service Twitter is not for sale, one of the co-founder of the company has declared.

Biz Stone made the declaration in an appearance on the ABC show "The View."

When host Barbara Walters - mentioning rumors that Google Inc, Microsoft Corp and Apple Inc might be interested in acquiring the company - asked whether Twitter is for sale, Stone answered, "no."

"We're just getting started as I've said. The company is two years old, we have so much to do, so much product stuff to fix, and so much growing to do."

Twitter has been the subject of takeover speculation since the company turned down a $500 million acquisition offer by social networking heavyweight Facebook.

Twitter is a free service that allows people to send short, 140-character text messages to their network of friends.

According to Nielsen Online, which measures Internet traffic, Twitter's website had more than 7 million unique visitors in February, compared to 475,000 in February 2008.

The company, based in San Francisco, California, is focusing on monetizing its service this year.

Friday, May 1, 2009

File Extension Ged -an useful editor file
Computer Softwares are found in plenty in today’s modern era. Some are meant for coding and decoding, some for programming, some for graphic designing and some for making computer search more efficient. One such application pack is the .GED file which was developed by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints which is used for efficient computer search.

The File Extension GED is commonly used for seven applications, one of which being tracking and searching the Genealogical Data Communication (GEDCOM) flies which contains the family history data in ASCII text.

Alternatively, File Extension GED is also applicable to Arts & Letters Draw program which is an entry level drawing program. Here GED stands for Graphic Environment.

The File Extension GED can also be used as a Game Editor as it can act as a tool for creating 2-D computer games. It acts as a project file and holds game data and settings which help the game run.

Apart from these, File Extension GED is also used as an editor file for GoldEd compiled configuration files, Micrografx geometry files, EnerGraphics IMAGE EDITOR, and Wicat Image files.
Intuit releases Quicken Online Mobile, helps budget-minded iPhone users
Intuit has released Quicken Online Mobile which is an iPhone companion app to the company’s free Quicken Online personal money-management Web service, which went live recently in Apple's online App Store for iPhone and iPod Touch programs.

The iPhone program uses the Internet to sync with a free Quicken Online service that lets one set budget and keeps track of mortgages, credit cards, rent, and other coming expenses along with checking account balances and pay days.

The app also includes an integrated ATM finder that uses the iPhone 3G’s GPS capabilities to automatically locate nearby teller machines of banks where people have accounts to save them from getting charged usage fees. One can also enter a zip code to search for ATMs, which lets users to use the feature as well.

One has to set up a free account with the online Quicken service, and enter the login and password information for various financial account websites. Quicken Online and the Quicken Online Mobile app then lets see and tracks all of those accounts, downloading one’s financial data once a day.

For those worried about security, Intuit doesn’t store any of the financial passwords as the Quicken Online Mobile app uses a four-digit passcode for added protection on one’s iPhone. The iPhone program also does not allow financial transactions, so lost or stolen devices won't allow strangers to access accounts.

Quicken Online Mobile only works with Quicken Online, and requires iPhone OS 2.2 or later running on an iPhone or iPod touch. Intuit has plans to adapt the free program to other mobile devices if feedback indicates that there is demand.

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