Google has increased the maximum size supported for Gmail attachment from 20 MB to 25 MB. It is a very good news for Gmail users and it is useful if you often transfer large files between your family and friends.

Google blog reported that Gmail users can send and receive messages up to 25 megabytes (MB) in size. Note that you may not be able to send larger attachments to contacts who use other email services with smaller attachment limits. If your attachment bounces, you should invite them for Gmail account.

Google Docs is a Google’s web service which allows you to create and store different types of documents online. If you are worried about your files in Google Docs then you can use GDocBackup utility to backup all your documents from Google Docs to your computer. It is a free application for all windows operating system.

It is a very easy to use application. After downloading and installing GDocBackup, it will ask for configuration settings as below snapshot. In that configuration window, enter your Google Docs username and password. Also select the folder for saving Google Docs files. Click on Save button and then click on exec button on the next window.

A few optional settings are also available. It is for example possible to select the output format for each document type and to route the traffic through a proxy server.

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Google launched a new global project, inviting people around the world to build the Google Chrome icon in a creative way, with whatever materials, as big, small, or crazy as you want. Chrome team already started making Google chrome icon objects for balloons, spoons and cakes.

Create your special Google Chrome video by July 22 and then submit your 15-60 second video to YouTube.  Users from all over the world are invited to participate and the best entries will be featured on Google and YouTube.

The Official link of Google Chrome Icon project is  www.google.com/chromeicon09 which gives ideas about creating video and submitting video with specifications.

Google has brought out a translator toolkit that combines the company’s machine translation technology with online tools for manually editing content.

An earlier product, Google translate, allowed users to translate and read websites and plain text in a number of languages. The new translator toolkit targets users who want to edit and polish the translated text, and share or publish it.

Google’s statistical machine translation technology is trained using parallel streams of text in both the original language and the target language. Editing of machine translated text by users of the translator toolkit will help train the machine translation technology to a higher degree of accuracy.

Google’s Indian R&D lab developed the new product, which is the latest of a number of tools developed by Google in India to improve access to content in local languages.

The translator toolkit supports 47 languages, including five Indian languages.

Instead of re-creating content in local languages, Google translate and the translator toolkit allows people to translate existing content.

By an arrangement with Wikipedia, users can download a Wikipedia entry into the translator toolkit, translate it into a local language using machine translation, correct and polish the translation and post it to the online encyclopedia.

Professional translators can also upload personal files to the translator toolkit, and use the toolkit provided by Google, which includes a glossary, and dictionary, among other features. The local file and the translation can be kept private.

A translation memory database in the toolkit provides lookups to previous translations of similar sentences and text.

The toolkit is likely to be useful to publishers of news sites who now can target new audiences with local language editions at a lower cost.

To use this add-on, once you installed Page Speed and restarted Firefox, expand Firebug and switch to the Page Speed tool tab. Move to your page, then click the Analyze Performance button. After a short loading time, you will see a list with all the factors that would make your site load faster, with an image illustrating whether or not your website checks for each.

Other Firefox plug-in are also available for the same purpose, but this one seems to be more robust. It checks for a wide range of optimization steps, including proxy caching, DNS lookups, CSS combination, JavaScript loading and parallel downloads.

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Google squared is a Google’s search engine new feature, where you can get your search result in spreadsheet (table) form. For example if you want to search information for HP Laptops, such as Processor, Data Bus Speed, Price, etc., then you can find this information very easily in table form with Google squared.

You can easily add or remove your search attribute from the table. For example if you want information for Chipset Type of HP Laptop models, then you can add this column to the search result, and this tool collect information from the web and presents them in your search result.

This new searching feature of Google is very useful for comparing different types of products. What you think?

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Nowadays Microsoft’s new search engine Bing is the top stories in media and tech blogs. All people like to know whether Bing search engine is better than Google search engine or not.

If you want to compare Google search results and Bing search results in a single page with different keywords then try the following websites. These websites use frames to split and display Bing and Google search engine.

1. Bing and Google
2. Bingle
3. Blackdog Google – Bing

All three websites compares Bing and Google search engine after entering any keyword in their main page.

Google Docs – Google’s online word processing application, is now allows you to import files from Microsoft Office 2007, including word files in .docx format and Excel files in .xlsx format. This is really a very useful improvement by Google to most people.

All you need to do to import the files is click the upload button in the Docs List menu, and select the file. Google Docs will automatically convert it.

And if you want to upload multiple files, the Google Docs List Data API allows client applications to upload documents to Google Docs and list them in the form of Google Data API feeds. Check out the Google Documents List API.

Google announced on the Wave site that the service will feature an open protocol, Google Wave Federation Protocol, which can be used to build a “custom Wave system”. It provides APIs for writing extensions on both the client and server. Google also announced that they plan to release the majority of the source code as open source. Google Wave is created using the Google Web Toolkit.

The official Google blog states some important points regarding Google Wave:

• Google Wave a web application where people will use to access and edit waves. It includes a rich text editor and other functions like desktop drag-and-drop.
• Google Wave can also be considered as a platform with a rich set of open APIs that allow developers to embed waves in other web services, and to build new extensions that work inside waves.
• The Google Wave protocol is the underlying format for storing and the means of sharing waves, and includes the “live” concurrency control, which allows edits to be reflected instantly across users and services. The protocol is designed for open federation, so that any Wave service can interact with Google Wave.