Today Google Launched Google Drive ! They also increased the Gmail quota to 10GB from the existing 7.5 GB. Now I will no more struggle with labnol’s tip to find the large emails and delete/forward them to save Gmail space. Google Drive is giving 5GB initially and more space can be bought. I am still …
Category Archive: Google
Sep 17
Google DevFest 2011 Hyderabad
Finally got some time to write a post after long time. Lately life was not that eventful anyway. Today I got a chance to participate in Google Dev fest here in Hyderabad at HICC. So i thought of documenting the notes I had taken during the sessions for future reference. It started with the keynote …
Aug 21
Google – Behind the Scenes
http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=-1508211417393454786&hl=en&fs=true This documentary shows how Google works behind the scenes and describes the ultimate goals of Google. Primarily it is to collect ALL information available worldwide. At the moment this is mostly about websites, but e.g. with Google Books they are allready expanding to printed media – and with Google Video (and Youtube) they are …
Aug 21
Beginning Android
The word “Android” had been buzzing since quite a while now. However I realized the power and beauty of it only when I saw my friend’s Google Nexus one phone (Not sure why they stopped it, probably it was just for Demo ) and finally ended up buying an entry level Android phone , HTC …
Jul 12
Google Easter Eggs
Many of us might know about the following Google search result which is not as expected but teaches you what it is in an humorous way http://www.google.com/search?q=anagram [Notice the Did you mean feature … ] Did you mean: nag a ram One can use Wolfram|Alpha to create anagrams http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=anagrams+pepsi+cola Similarly other Easter eggs are http://www.google.com/search?q=ascii+art …
Jul 10
Bengali English word definition in Google Dictionary
It was good to see that Google Dictionary supports Bengali Language along with Hindi , Gujarati, , Marathi and Other south Indian Languages (Malayalam , Kanada , Telegu , Tamil) http://www.google.com/dictionary?aq=f&langpair=bn|en&q=??????+&hl=en Similarly most of the Bengali words’ english meaning can be determined as follows http://www.google.com/dictionary?aq=f&langpair=en|bn&q=irony&hl=en However the Bengali font size was so small that I …
Mar 28
Interactive Chart from Google Apps Engine datastore
Create a simple python file chart.py which should have been already mapped to a particular URL pattern in app.yamx – url: /chart/.* script: chart.py 1: import cgi 2: 3: from google.appengine.ext import db 4: import hist 5: 6: import os 7: from google.appengine.ext.webapp import template 8: 9: quotes = db.GqlQuery("SELECT * FROM HistoricalPrices") 10: …
Mar 28
Loading CSV data in Google Apps Engine datastore
Edit your app.yaml, and add the following lines to the handlers: section: – url: /remote_api script: $PYTHON_LIB/google/appengine/ext/remote_api/handler.py login: admin 1.Create hist.py similar to the type of data in CSV file. 1: from google.appengine.ext import db 2: 3: class HistoricalPrices(db.Model): 4: SYMBOL = db.StringProperty() 5: SERIES = db.StringProperty() 6: OPEN = db.FloatProperty() 7: HIGH = db.FloatProperty() …
Mar 09
How to change the default Google Desktop Data index folder
Google desktop search uses a folder in which it stores its index files. This folder called “Google Desktop Data” is by default place in the “My Documents” folder of your pc. To me that’s not a logical place though as I only want to have files I actively use to be in the “Mt Documents” …
Oct 10
Publishing equations without images
Fibonacci number is the sum of the two previous ones, yielding the sequence. 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, … . Fibonacci numbers are related to the golden ratio ? and to its conjugate , which are given by the following Note the above formulae are neither image files …