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Top of the Tubes

Top of the Tubes is a great site (topofthetubes.com) to view amazing and awesome videos on the net. It displays videos from majors like Metacafe(My Fav.), Youtube, DailyMotion, LiveVideo, Yahoo and eBaumsWorld. Also, there is a drop down menu on the home page where you can select from 15 websites and you can view the Director’s pick & Top 20 too.

Click on any of the 2 images to enlarge.

See the featured, most popular, recently viewed, recently added videos. Also see the most watched videos of the day. What’s more? There’s a tag ‘cloud‘ for suggestions. I really like clouds. For those who don’t know, a cloud is a mixture of names (recommendation) in different sizes in a small area. In the gallery above, there is a music cloud. I’ll tell you about this one soon. Note that this cloud is not a part of “Top of The Tubes”. I gave this image just for an example. Plus, you can Signup & Subscribe to the site.

The New Author

Hello Readers,

This is Abhijit writing. Cognoscis (Anoop) has invited me to write on this blog from now. Thank you for that dude. I am really honoured. Hope you like my posts. Thank you for your notice. By the way Anoop, WordPress has really improved. It’s so much as compared to what it was when I made an account 2 years ago. I did not like it at all. But the girls at WordPress took it to the heart I think .

Abhijit.

Google launches Google Squared

Google turned on Google Squared on Wednesday, letting the public test out its attempt to present search results in grid format. A project of Google Labs, it was first demonstrated in May in the Google’s Searchology event. What it does is that it finds webpages that the been indexed, simillar to the regular search, and presents them in grid format. This is very useful for someone doing research or a small kid trying to do homework? . I gave a simple search of “Indian Prime Ministers” and came up with the following result

As you can see, there is an option to increase the numbers “Add next 7 items” Even after adding them, you wont have all the PMs of India. That is why there is the “Add items” bar below the first column. There, it will give you more suggestions and you can add them to this list and increase the rows. Similarly, you can increase the number of columns by adding more categories like “Date of death”, “Succeeded by” and so on that it suggests when you click in that empty bar. Not only can you add the suggested rows and columns, you can type in your own category or person’s name. After making all the changes you need, you can save your square if you are logged in with your Google Account. I gave another search as “IPL” and the result is shown below

IPL search

The original result did not have the “captain” and “coach” columns, I added them. But, the result somehow included Middle East . You can click on the “Description” field and visit the source site and you will know that

Arab Digital Distribution (ADD) has won a 10-year exclusive television coverage right for the Middle East and North Africa for Twenty20 cricket.

Hence, that was relevant and was included. Had I typed in “IPL teams” then that would not have been included. Even now, we can remove that from our results by clicking on the cross mark left to it. That said, this is a very good way yo consolidate your web searches. But ofcourse, this still needs refinement and as you can see, it did not give any results for Deccan Chargers’ (My favourite team) captian. Anyway, I hope this will be improved more and will come in handy when I do some research work

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Android OS and laptops

Andriod is the open source OS developed by Google for mobile phones. But it is not limited to mobiles only though.

Android on Laptop

The above pic shows that the Android is running on EEEPC 1000H. The above was done by freelancers at VentureBeat. It took them about four hours of work to compile Android for the netbook. Having done so, they got the netbook fully up and running on it, with nearly all of the necessary hardware you’d want (including graphics, sound and the wireless card for internet). This was done way back in dec last year. After that feat, today, monday the 1st july, Qualcomm showed off a previously unannounced version of Asustek Computer’s Eee PC based on its Snapdragon processor at the Computex exhibition, including one running Google’s Android operating system.

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon includes a 1GHz Arm processor core, a 600MHz digital-signal processor and hardware video codecs. Currently, Asustek’s Eee PC line of netbooks relies on Intel processors, in particular the low-cost, low-power Atom chip, which has an x86 processor core. Basically both the feats shows that since the OS is open source, developers can try and compile it on any processor. If Google and its partners of Android project decide to launch the OS, then it will be another competition to Microsoft. Hope to see this happening as soon as possible

Google Wave Developer Preview at Google I/O 2009

This is the most amazing product ever. I cant wait to try it out

To be notified about its release you can sign up here