Thursday, November 28, 2013

0-Click Search on Google Chrome, "OK-Google"


Like Android 4.4 KitKat, Google Chrome users can now also perform a 0-Click search on Chrome Web Browser by saying magic words OK Google. Like Google Glass Project in which you can initiate any command by saying OK Google, you can capture a moment, record a video, search for weather, compare two things.
This chrome-extension allows you to do same thing, just be on Google Homepage, or Chrome's New Tab Page, and say magical word "OK Google" and start saying what you want to search on Google.
To improve user experience on Most-Used Web-Browser in world, Google Chrome, Google always trying to do something awesome, ahead in list is their latest extension for Google Chrome Google Voice Search Hotword. Currently it's in Beta stage, and final release will hit Chrome Store soon.
Google Voice Search on PC is as powerful as mobile user experience it, just search for anything and Google Search will respond according to your search, if it matches an specified pattern it'll even respond to your search query. If you've searched for "what's the time in tokyo" using Google Voice Search, Google will respond current time of Tokyo, Japan in a female robotic voice.
There is a whole list of Google Search Patterns, to name few

Weather search - What's the weather in ________
Time - What's the time in ________
Translate - translate ____ to (language)
Define - Define ______
Get Google Chrome Extension from Here,
since it's in Beta state, you may experience difficulties using it.

Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Microsoft Windows Timeline


This video is timeline for various Windows OS from 1985 till now this date. Starting from Windows 1.0, Windows 2.0 to Windows 8 and last Windows 8.1
Source - Wikipedia.org