Google Launches Offline Versions of Gmail, Calendar & Docs

Google is launching a new Gmail web app and updates to Calendar and Docs, in an effort to increase its products’ offline utility.
Google users have called bringing Gmail, Calendar and Docs offline an essential step for improving productivity, Group Product Manager Rajen Sheth told Mashable. The problem, he explained, is that when users need offline access to their email or calendar, they really need it.
To that end, Google is launching a new Chrome app called Gmail Offline. Separate from Gmail itself, the new app is designed for accessing, managing and sending email while you’re disconnected from the web. “We can build on top of a lot of HTML5 standards, which gives us the capabilities to make it work offline,” Sheth said.
The HTML5 app looks and feels a lot like the Gmail app for tablets. That’s because Gmail Offline is based off the tablet version, which was designed to function with or without Internet access. It focuses on the key features users need to access while offline, including organizing, starring, labeling, archiving and responding to email. It won’t give you access to Gmail Labs features, but it will get the job done.
In addition to the Gmail Offline app, Google is rolling out the ability to access Calendar and Docs offline. The feature, available by clicking the gear icon at the top of the page, lets you view events and RSVP to appointments in Calendar and view documents in Docs. Offline document editing isn’t available yet, but Google promises to find a way to make it work. Part of the problem is finding a way to make sure document edits made offline don’t override edits made by online collaborators.
The apps are only available through the Chrome Web Store at the moment. If you try to use the Calendar or Docs offline features, you will be prompted to first install Chrome. Google says that it intends to roll out its offline apps to other browsers once they support the functionality.

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Internet Maketing

Internet Marketing

Internet marketing or Online Marketing is a way to market your products and services on Internet. Its is also considered as a broad scope of marketing products and services as it is done via Internet For everyone who runs a business there arises a question of marketing…. Thus marketing helpsan individual to sell his products and service in the market. And these days Internet Marketing is the best option for marketing the products and services as it can pull a large number of people towards it.

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• One of the best aspect of  Internet Marketing is that it directly affects the eyes of target customers and makes a great impact on him in a concentrated way.
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• Whereas Internet Marketing is not at all expensive as the targeted customer can be concentrated without having face to face interaction.
• Traditional Marketing cannot concentrate on final customers
• Whereas Internet Marketing can directly concentrate on the final customer as only those customers will contact who want the product.

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30th Birthday of PC

Happy Birthday PC! The PC is 30 years old today.

The IBM Personal Computer, commonly known as the IBM PC, is the original version and progenitor of the IBM PC compatible hardware platform. It is IBM model number 5150, and was introduced on August 12, 1981. It was created by a team of engineers and designers under the direction of Don Estridge of the IBM Entry Systems Division in Boca Raton, Florida.

Alongside "microcomputer" and "home computer", the term "personal computer" was already in use before 1981. It was used as early as 1972 to characterize Xerox PARC's Alto. However, because of the success of the IBM Personal Computer, the term PC came to mean more specifically a microcomputer compatible with IBM's PC products.

IBM PC as standard

The success of the IBM computer led other companies to develop IBM Compatibles, which in turn led to branding like diskettes being advertised as "IBM format". An IBM PC clone could be built with off-the-shelf parts, but the BIOS required some reverse-engineering. Companies like Phoenix Software Associates, American Megatrends, Award, and others achieved workable versions of the BIOS, allowing companies like DELL, Compaq, and HP to manufacture PCs that worked like IBM's product. The IBM PC became the industry standard.

Third-party distribution

ComputerLand and Sears Roebuck partnered with IBM from the beginning of development. IBM's head of sales and marketing, H.L. ('Sparky') Sparks, relied on these retail partners for important knowledge of the marketplace. Computerland and Sears became the main outlets for the new product. More than 190 Computerland stores already existed, while Sears was in the process of creating a handful of in-store computer centers for sale of the new product. This guaranteed IBM widespread distribution across the U.S.

Targeting the new PC at the home market, Sears Roebuck sales failed to live up to expectations. This unfavorable outcome revealed that the strategy of targeting the office market was the key to higher sales.

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Microsoft warns on IE browser bug

Microsoft has issued a warning about a serious vulnerability in all versions of its Internet Explorer (IE) browser.

If exploited by a booby-trapped webpage the bug would allow attackers to take control of an unprotected computer.

Code to exploit the bug has already been published though Microsoft said it had no evidence it was currently being used by hi-tech criminals.

A workaround for the bug has been produced while Microsoft works on a permanent fix.

Code injection

The bug revolves around the way that IE manages a computer's memory when processing Cascading Style Sheets - a widely used technology that defines the look and feel of pages on a website.

Hi-tech criminals have long known that they can exploit IE's memory management to inject their own malicious code into the stream of instructions a computer processes as a browser is being used. In this way the criminals can get their own code running and hijack a PC.

Microsoft has produced updates that improve memory management but security researchers discovered that these protection systems are not used when some older parts of Windows are called upon.

In a statement Microsoft said it was "investigating" the bug and working on a permanent fix. In the meantime it recommended those concerned use a protection system known as the Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit.

Installing and applying the toolkit may require Windows XP users to update the version of the operating system they are using. But even if they do that some of the protection it bestows on Windows 7 and Vista users will not be available.

"We're currently unaware of any attacks trying to use the claimed vulnerability or of customer impact," said Dave Forstrom, the director of Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing group, in a statement.

"As vulnerabilities go, this kind is the most serious as it allows remote execution of code," said Rik Ferguson, senior security analyst at Trend Micro, "This means the attacker can run programs, such as malware, directly on the victim's computer."

He added: "It is highly reminiscent of a vulnerability at the same time two years ago which prompted several national governments to warn against using IE and to switch to an alternative browser."

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Are you still using a paper calendar?

When smartphones incorporated with easy to use calendar apps have become a norm these days, who needs a paper calendar!

These days most people have been won over by electronic calendars, but there could be a few who are still hovering between paper and smartphone-based calendar apps. A cloud based digital calendar can be accessed from anywhere, anytime. Obviously, you don’t enjoy the same advantage with a paper calendar. Perhaps the biggest drawback of using a paper calendar is that you have to write with a pencil or pen.

In the digital age, most people are more comfortable using the keypad or the keyboard. Wielding a pen is hardly as convenient. Of course, if something changes, you have to go through the inconvenience of erasing and updating the entries in the paper calendar.

In the unfortunate event of your paper calendar getting lost, your entire schedule for the coming week goes haywire. Now you can’t remember about the meetings that you are scheduled for tomorrow. Are there some urgent tasks left unfinished at office! On the personal side, are there any important errands to run? You are clueless about how you are going to spend your weekend. A paper calendar can also be damaged too easily.

Digital calendars, many of which can be accessed through a plethora of devices - smartphone, tablet or PC – are a convenient and a much safer option.

There is no dearth of those who swear by Google Calendar or Outlook. They can be instantly updated, and the new information can be set to automatically sync. It is so easy to seamlessly integrate personal and professional into a harmoniously unified oneness. When a meeting request comes via Outlook to your smartphone, it gets automatically sent to your calendar. As the information can be password protected in most calendar apps, there is little danger of the details of your personal activities falling into the wrong hands.

Our gadgets have taken control of such a large aspect of our personal and professional lives. A random search for calendar in the Android market place gives dozens of results. Many of these calendars are free and they are capable of fulfilling every kind of requirement. The users of Apple products – iPhone, iPad or the Mac systems – have access to a wonderful array of digital calendars, which are easy to access and update. You don’t even need to sit down in front of your PC or laptop to do your calendaring; your handheld device does the needful.

As everything you put on the Calendar app gets backed up online, there is no danger of the information being lost in the unfortunate event of the device getting lost or damaged. The need of some people to keep putting pen to paper is understandable. It is an old habit that just refuses to go away, even though there is ample evidence to suggest that modern technology can do a much better job of scheduling anyone’s appointments.

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Facebook acquires digital book software start-up

Facebook said it isn't planning to get into the digital books business, and will use the technology on its site

August 02, 2011, 11:24 PM — Facebook has acquired Push Pop Press, a start-up that has developed software for creating highly interactive digital books, for an undisclosed amount.

The social networking company said Tuesday that it isn't planning to get into the digital book business, but some of the ideas and technology behind Push Pop Press will be integrated with Facebook. It did not provide details.

"We're thrilled to confirm that we've acquired Push Pop Press, a startup whose groundbreaking software changes the way people publish and consume digital content," Facebook said in an e-mailed statement.

Co-founded by former Apple employees Mike Matas and Kimon Tsinteris, Push Pop Press teamed with Melcher Media, a producer of books and digital media, and media company Rodale to offer in April a digital app of "Our Choice", a book by former U.S. vice president Al Gore, on the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch.

The ideas and technology behind Push Pop Press will be integrated with Facebook, giving people even richer ways to share their stories, Matas and Tsinteris said on the website of Push Pop Press. "With millions of people publishing to Facebook each day, we think it's going to be a great home for Push Pop Press," the founders said.

There are no plans to continue publishing new titles or building out Push Pop Press' publishing platform that was in private beta. Gore's Our Choice will however remain available for purchase, and future profits from the book will be donated to The Climate Reality Project chaired by Gore, Push Pop Press said.

"We can't wait for co-founders Mike Matas and Kimon Tsinteris to get started, and for some of the technology, ideas and inspiration behind Push Pop Press to become part of how millions of people connect and share with each other on Facebook," Facebook said.

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