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Google gadgets are designed to be placed on your webpage, blog, or iGoogle page, and can be used for entertainment, business, marketing, and various other purposes. Please keep reading to discover my top ten Google gadgets, and why each gadget made the list!

1. Google Translate My Page - This Google gadget is an amazing addition to any webpage or blog. This essential Google gadget allows any reader of your website or blog to translate the text into multiple different languages. By installing this gadget onto your website or blog, you are ensuring that people all over the world are able to easily read and understand your blog in their native language. Google Translate My Page is one of the best Google gadgets available and can easily help to increase the readership of your webpage or blog.

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Actress Jessica Biel is now the most hazardous celebrity on the Internet.

Fans searching online for Biel have a one-in-five chance of hitting a Web site with malware, according to McAfee’s third annual report listing Hollywood’s mostFans searching online for Biel have a one-in-five chance of hitting a Web site with malware, according to McAfee’s third annual report “dangerous” online celebrities.

In general, hunting for Hollywood’s in-crowd poses a much greater threat than searching for just about anyone else. For example, President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama ranked No. 34 and No. 39, respectively.

Other unsafe celebrities near the top of the cybersecurity company’s list include singer Beyonce at No. 2, former “Friends” star Jennifer Aniston at No. 3, and football hero Tom Brady, who came in at No. 4.

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Nokia will try again to tackle Apple Inc’s iPhone in the top-end of the handset market with a bet on Linux software, several industry sources told Reuters.

Top handset maker Nokia will show its first high-end phone running on Maemo, a version of Linux, next week at the annual Nokia World event in Stuttgart, Germany, the sources said.

But analysts said it would likely not become clear before next year at the earliest whether this would help Nokia achieve its aims.

The Finnish group has dabbled with Linux since 2005, using it in “Internet tablets” - sleek phone-like devices used to access the internet that have failed to gain mass-market appeal in part due to their lack of a cellular radio.

“It looks like Maemo, or at least a Linux derivative of some description, will play a key role for Nokia in high-end (products) over the next year or two,” said Neil Mawston from Strategy Analytics.

Nokia’s workhorse Symbian operating system controls half of the smartphone market volume - more than its rivals Apple, Research in Motion Ltd and Google Inc in total.
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You wouldn’t know it by looking, but every time you do a search online, there is a fierce fight going on behind the scenes.

In this fight, no one is trying to prevent you from seeing anything, per se. Instead, companies are paying money so that they’ll be the first in line - or at least at the top of the page - when you search for a product or service they can provide.

“It’s very difficult to get [clients] on the first page, and it’s very difficult to keep them there,” said Gaurav Aidasani, who is the director of Cosmos Creative Services in Dubai.
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Apple halved the price of its entry-level iPhone to $99 on Monday to widen the trendy device’s mass-market appeal, as global competition heats up after Palm Inc launched the Pre.

Apple also cut prices on several of its Mac notebooks amid a tooth-and-nail battle among computer makers for buyers during the recession.

And to shore up its hold on the smartphone market, it unveiled a new, faster, high-end iPhone that takes videos and has voice features, matching offerings by rivals Palm and Research in Motion’s BlackBerry.

Analysts said sales could double for the cheapest iPhone.

Chief Executive Steve Jobs, on medical leave since January, did not put in a much speculated-about appearance.

The next-generation iPhone 3GS - the “S” stands for speed, double that of the original model - goes on sale in the United States, Germany and elsewhere on June 19 for $199 to $299. Read the rest of this entry »

Imagine a scenario when you’re sitting in your office in LA, and you have your manufacturing unit in Philadelphia and marketing teams and business partners in every continent and clients all over the world. A change in product design or order has occurred, and you wish to send this information to your teams, and departmental heads, but NOT to all. A remote server and FTP? Email? Think again.

Enter Egnyte cloud computing. This is an online, on-demand file sharing service that puts you (the ‘power user’) in charge of who gets what. The interface is quite straight forward. When you sign up, you get an on-demand file server for your account accessible through a unique web address, which you may even customize this secure URL with your company logo.

Egnyte then lets you create a full hierarchy for all your documents on the server. All the users created by you can log into this account (whether in the office or on the move and even from a mobile device), and you decide who gets access to what folders and files by assigning permissions. You can also lock files to prevent them from being modified or deleted.

Power users can also access the folder directly from a desktop application provided by Egnyte — which means you open your Explorer and rename, move or delete your files and folders which will be automatically mapped to your Egnyte server, which again means the changes will be there all to see who log in from their Web browser. And no more renaming of files for each version with every change to keep track — Egnyte creates versions as files change.

Also called Egnyte Local Cloud (ELC) is an easily installable on your computer hard drive or shelf storage (external) devices. Yet another great feature of this service is the off-line access to your files. When you’re not online, you can still work on your files, and once you get your connection, ELC synchronizes your new, modified files to your on-demand file server. Plus, there’s a useful back-up configuration that lets you take back-ups of your entire computer or selected folders at pre-determined times or intervals.

And, by the way, in case you were wondering, ‘cloud computing’ comes from the familiar image that we’ve been seeing all along — that of a cloud used to represent the Internet. Perhaps also goes to suggest that we don’t care what goes on out there so long as we get the service we need — on demand. Which Egnyte does extremely efficiently.

The next new iPod range could pack a camera built in, just like the iPhone, according to new rumours. Say cheese and shuffle!

Hardmac has an interesting claim about where the new iPod range is headed when its unveiled later this year. An inside source has told the Apple news site that the new iPod touch and even new iPod nano will pack a camera built in. The new iPhone meanwhile should stay one step ahead by including a video recorder when it’s unveiled this Summer.

A new iPod range launch in August/September is starting to become an annual event, so we should find out then if the tattles are true.

Take one look at the new iPod shuffle and you can see Apple’s has gone in a very different direction from previous versions.

The old shuffles were colourful boxes with a modified ‘click wheel’ that let you navigate your music library. They were about the size of a large flash drive.

The new shuffle is a small -smaller than a normal flash drive - grey or silver box. Gone is the click wheel. The only thing on the device is an earphone jack, a slider button to turn it off and on (this also doubles as a way make the device play random songs), and a small light to let you know it’s charged.

Like the old version, the new shuffle also comes with a small clip attached.

In fact, the new shuffle may be the most unstylish model Apple’s ever released, but it’s also the version with the most functions.

The control buttons have been moved to a small bar the earphones. Click the bar once and the music starts. Click it again and the song pauses. I won’t go into all the combinations, but you can navigate your music with a simple combination of one, two, or three clicks. Read the rest of this entry »

Drivers, as the name implies, is the driving force of the apparatus we are using. Basically, it is a piece of software, or a small program that controls a device. Every piece of device we use or connect to our computer must have its own driver for it to work. Examples of these devices are printers, cameras, disk drives, and even keyboards. However most of the time, for the keyboard and mouse, the driver is automatically loaded and installed on the computer’s operating system.

For the video card and sound card though, we may have to pull out that disk installer that came with our computer (the motherboard disk) when we first purchased it (that is if your video and sound card is a part of your motherboard). If in case we purchased the cards separately from your motherboard, we may have to use the disk provided along with those cards as they have the drivers saved in those disks.

Now, if it was that easy then why do we need to update our drivers? Well, there are times that unfortunate accidents happen to our computers that may cause them to work silly or be dysfunctional. When that happens, a usual quick fix for this is to disable and then re-enable the driver. If that doesn’t work, uninstall and then reinstall the device. Not working yet? Check the version that you have and then check the latest version on the internet. Do they match? If yes, call a resident technician to have them verify it. If the answer is no, then update the driver. Usually that fixes the issue. File Extension MDI

Every time you use the Internet, you’re being tracked by both your server and the servers you access. Your ISP keeps logs of your MAC address (your network adapter card’s number) and your private IP address; the rest of cyberspace sees your public IP address assigned by your ISP. Yes, no matter what you do and where you go, your computer trail leads right to your doorstep. Scary thought? Disturbing? No doubt.

How Your IP Address Invades Your Privacy

Whether or not you’re engaged in illegal or immoral activity, there’s reason to be worried about this lack of privacy on the Internet. Even people who do nothing strictly unlawful deserve privacy. You may be sending an anonymous mail, or having an illicit affair, or visiting websites that your family and friends would be offended by. You may have moved away and parted with friends and just want to check on their blogs without being identified. Perhaps you share an e-mail account with another person and you want to answer mail for them without giving away the fact you are someone/somewhere else. There are all kinds of reasons why being anonymous is important, and they are not all illegal.

Unfortunately, you can’t be anonymous without a proxy server that hides your tracks for you. The websites, forums and web mail services you use all log your visits. Even social networking sites do. If you use your office’s network, the administrator keeps records of who uses it and when. Your public IP address may be changeable and have limited details only, but whoever gets past that and sees your private IP address (behind your ISP router) and worse, your Mac address, will be able to identify you. Read the rest of this entry »