Google Apps status dashboard

Google has responded to the recent gmail outage which has been famously called as gfail by bringing out a dashboard which will let people know of all the Google application status.
So at any given point in time people can know what is happening with any of the Google apps they use.



For more information, check Google's blog

Paid Search Just Got Visual: SearchMe Launches AdView Beta (Free Ads For First 500 Signups)

The interface on search me is really cool, aka itunes interface.
each of the search results are shown as a preview window of the result (check the url to see it http://www.searchme.com/)

Paid Search Just Got Visual: SearchMe Launches AdView Beta (Free Ads For First 500 Signups)

Amazon Web Services + Oracle

Now AWS, has offered Oracle products (Oracle Database, Middleware and Enterprise Manager products), with this Oracle customers can now either have new license or use the existing one on the AWS, AWS has many images which are bundled with Oracle products and within minutes end users can have thier Oracle system up and running without bothering about installation, configuration etc, this is defnitely a boon to all those companies who spend tons of money on so called administrators for doing simple things.

Amazon Web services(AWS)
is the web services platform, where one can request and use IT
infrastructure services which is scalable, reliable, secure,
cost-effective and is a comprehensive solution.

Using this service one pays for only what one uses, with no obligation
to stay forever, all you need to do is sign-up for the service, as and
when your IT demand increases you can keep adding more machines and
start disbanding them once the load decreases. For startups it makes a
lot of economic sense.

AWS is a collection of infrastructure services (Below excerpt taken from http://aws.amazon.com/what-is-aws/)

• Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2™)
  – A web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud.
  Configure an Amazon Machine Instance (AMI) and load it into the Amazon EC2 service. Quickly scale capacity, both up and down, as your computing requirements change. ›Learn more about Amazon EC2™

• Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3™)
  – A simple web services interface that can be used to store and
  retrieve large amounts of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web.
  It gives any developer access to the same highly scalable, reliable,
  fast, inexpensive data storage infrastructure that Amazon uses to run
  its own global network of web sites. ›Learn more about Amazon S3™

• Amazon SimpleDB™
  – A web service for running queries on structured data in real time.
  This service works in close conjunction with Amazon Simple Storage
  Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2),
  collectively providing the ability to store, process and query data
  sets in the cloud. Amazon SimpleDB is easy to use and provides the core
  functionality of a database—real-time lookup and simple querying of
  structured data—without the operational complexity. ›Learn more about Amazon SimpleDB™

• Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS™) – A reliable, highly scalable, hosted queue for storing messages as they travel between computers. By using Amazon SQS,
  developers can simply move data between distributed components of their
  applications that perform different tasks, without losing messages or
  requiring each component to be always available. ›Learn more about Amazon SQS™

Read more on Oracle + AWS at
http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/cloud/faq.html
http://aws.amazon.com/solutions/featured-partners/oracle/
http://blog.programmableweb.com/2008/09/25/oracle-moves-into-the-cloud-with-the-help-of-amazon/

Hotmail - Chrome needs upgradation

I usually use my firefox browser for accessing my hotmail account (yes I still have one, inspite of having a gmail account), recently after installing Chrome, I accessed my hotmail account, I was surprised to see a message asking me upgrade the web browser, does it mean chrome developers didnt take this into account?? or is this a way for MS to get back at Google for stepping into the browser territory :)

Cartoonize your digital picture

A cool online app to cartoonize the digital picture.
Its so simple, upload (desktop/webcam or url) and transform in one click.
Do some modification with the available tool online and bingo you have got a cartoon picture of yours.

I did my sons pic, it came out cool




Check it out here http://www.befunky.com/cartoonizer/index.php

Google Chrome Explained - The comic way

Google team which worked on Chrome has this well illustrated explanation of how chrome evolved and design idea behind it.
They have put up a nice comic for this, a must read for any technologist.
Google Chrome explained.

Live preview of different fonts

Cool site, check this out dafont.com

Put in a word/sentence and see how it looks in different fonts, create a cinematic one and have fun.

Icons for all

If you are looking for icons to use, then this site is very useful, has icons in all sizes, and one can download the ico files.

Check it out at http://www.iconlook.com

Online Image Resizer

Found this cool site - Image Resizer which allows to resize the digital pics for email purpose or for publishing on a web site.
I liked the interface and how simple it is.

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