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Search for Google Images by Drawing with Online Tool

Google has introduced the option of reverse search for similar images by allowing users to upload a photo or even paste a link of the image. Google probably uses the same technology that is used for face recognition, to scan across the web and come up with matches.
Google Image search by drawing allows users to draw a sketch and search for it on Google Images.

Google Image Search by Drawing Features

  • Just use the mouse to quickly sketch something. Users can change the colours or even the size of the brush to make more intricate drawings.
  • Users can also take a photo from their webcam and search for that image on Google images. This might be useful to search for a comic from a newspaper.
  • The online tool is developed by Franz Enzenhofer. The online tool does work on Chrome, Safari and Firefox but it is not supported on Internet Explorer.

Try out Google Image Search by drawing and drop in your comments.

Link: Image Search By Drawing

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Google Diagnostic Tool Suggests Google.com Contains Malware!

Google has a nice diagnostic tool for safe browsing. It usually scans for malware, trojans and gives an advisory. It is considered a reliable tool as Google does crawl web-pages over and over again repeatedly.

Strangely, when you look up the diagnostic page for Google.com, it shows instances of malicious software and trojans being hosted on it.

Check the screenshot below (click to enlarge it) and I have highlighted the parts where the diagnostic tools suggest Google.com is not all that safe for browsing.

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Check http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=google.com and you will get to see the full report that suggests Google.com contains malware and is infected. To check other website replace “google.com” with the URL you want looked up.

I checked other domains belonging to Google, and they did not show up with malware warnings. I wonder what does this mean? Is Google.com not safe to browse? I am not certain it is as serious issue as yet, but it is strange indeed.

What are your views? Do drop in your comments.

Related: Micheal Jackson Search overflow triggered Malware Alert for Google.

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Online Tool to Upload MP3 file to YouTube – mp32tube

When it comes to listening to audio files on your computer or iPod, everyone likes having the files in mp3 format. When I search for music online, I end up like most people, looking up the song on YouTube. This is because you will come across a lot of audio files on YouTube with just a image being played as video. This is a boon for people who upload their own music online and want to tap into the popularity of YouTube.

Use Mp32Tube, a web tool that easily allows you to upload your MP3 files onto YouTube.

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  • Upload your MP3 file and add a name and description.
  • Also make sure you add the proper keywords and a new image to go with your file.
  • Send this file to YouTube or even create an AVI file.

Make sure while you upload music files, you are not breaking any copyright laws. As if the file is removed from YouTube, it might affect your account reputation on YouTube.

Do drop in your comments.

Link: MP32Tube

Related: 15 Interesting facts about YouTube

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Online Tools to Create ASCII Flow Diagrams

ASCII art is very popular on the web. The text-based drawing of diagrams are quite amusing. Actually drawing these diagrams in ASCII with a notepad would be very tedious.

Not to worry, ASCII Flow is a nice online tool, that geeks will love.

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Just lookup ASCII Flow and start drawing free hand a diagram. There are various options which include saving the diagram and embedding it with HTML code.

This website was created by a Google Adsense Engineer Lewis Hemes. In the future, it is expected to have a gallery of the ASCII art saved on the website.

In the case you only want a quite ASCII generator of text you insert, then try ASCII Generator.

So go ahead and try out these tools, feed the geek in you and drop in your comments.

Link: ASCII Flow | ASCII Generator

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Find Your Alumni Details on LinkedIn

LinkedIn unlike other social networks, has not lost is razor-sharp focus of being a network only for professional profiles. Most recruiters and job seekers usually make sure their LinkedIn profiles are upto date. I found a nice LinkedIn tool that allows people to find their alumni details.

It is very useful to know where people, who we went to school or college with are upto.

LinkedIn Alumni

  • Sign-into your LinkedIn profile and visit the alumni page (http://www.linkedin.com/college).
  • The page will related information of your alumni from the college you have listed in your profile.
  • You can move around the year people attended to include info on seniors and juniors you might be knowing.
  • The information displayed is where people work, what they do and where they live.

How one could use this information!

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Many recruiters use LinkedIn to get information about candidates. This tool could a nice way to see if someone you went to school or college with, works in a company you are joining so you could ask them how the work culture of that company is.

Another use could be to see if you college friends are in a particular city you are visiting or staying in.

Do try it out and drop in your comments.

Link: LinkedIn Alumni

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Create and Share TODO Lists With a Group

Coordinating on a college project or even planning a vacation, can be very tedious. This is because different people do different things and I am sure, no one wants to buy an expensive ticketing software for planning a trip with friends and family. 🙂

TodoFeed is a free online tool, that allows you to create a list of things that need to be done and add people via email so they can pick up tasks and complete them.

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  • The website does need creating an account with your email address. I could add my friends via their email address.
  • Also you can create multiple projects and add tasks into them. Other can also add tasks into your list which is ideal for a collaborative work.
  • The task list makes it a lot easier to manage a project along with friends. Why they complete a task, they can simply click on the ‘I’ll take care of it” button.

This might not be useful for serious work projects, but seems to be ideal for planning small collaborative projects.

I found this a more useful than Fish Memory online tool, which also allows creating to-do lists and sharing them with friends.

Try out TODOFeed along with a few friends and let me know through your comments.

Link: TODOFeed

Related: Free Desktop Application for making To-Do lists

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Online Tool to Import/Export Gmail Tasks to iCal and Outlook Formats

Google Tasks PorterGmail Tasks is a much under-appreciated feature in Gmail. I have used Outlook and Remember the Milk services to  create To-Do lists or Task lists. But as a blogger, I end up checking up my Gmail account quite often and hence ended up sticking to Gmail Tasks.

I came across this nice online tool, that allows capturing your task list and moving them to iCalendar, Outlook and Remember the Milk formats.

Google Tasks Porter Features

  • Make sure you are logged into your Gmail account and visit the website. Then simply allow the online tool to access your task list from Google.
  • We can snapshots of Gmail Tasks and download them in HTML, iCalendar and Remember the Milk format files.
  • Other feature also includes the ability to import a iCal or Outlook file up into Gmail Tasks.
Just a word of caution before you port your task-lists, remember it is not an official online tool from Gmail but a 3rd party tool. Do try out Google Tasks Porter and drop in your comments.
Link: Google Tasks Porter
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Online Checklist to Master Google AdSense

For most Blogs which make money, Google AdSense plays an important role. AdSense often is the biggest earner for a blog and not to forget it also is a big earner for Google.

There are many blogs and forums which might give a lot of detailed information and help on AdSense, it is still a little daunting for people using AdSense for the first time.

Probably with that in mind, Google has launched an online tool called AdSense Academy which allows people to master all facets of AdSense.

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Features of Google AdSense Academy

  • The online checklist can be accessed from here. The best part is we do not need to have an AdSense account before trying it out.
  • It has a detailed checklist from how to create your first ad unit, ad format and identifying where the ad should be placed.
  • Users can also take a quiz to actually complete a milestone like someone would in a training course at an academy. This will allow users to learn all the basics of AdSense.

I found the checklist very useful for people who are new to AdSense. It might also be a great help to AdSense pros to sharpen their knowledge and keep themselves updated.

Try out AdSense Academy Checklist and drop in your comments.

Link: Google AdSense Academy

Related: Tips on getting Google AdSense Account Approved

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Browse Through Flickr Photos in 3D – Tag Galaxy

If you are a photography fan like I am, you will probably have a few favourite websites to explore new photos. One prominent favourite is Flickr.

I came across Tag Galaxy which allows users to look up and search for Flickr photos in a 3D layout.

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Tag Galaxy Features

  • Just search for a tag on the website and related tags show up as if exploring a planetary system in 3 dimensional space.

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  • Then click on other related tags and after a few combinations, look up the relevant images which are displayed super imposed over a globe.
  • The website works Flash Player installed on your system for it to show the 3D animation.

The 3 D format of browsing photos on Flickr could be  fun way to introduce kids to photography and Flickr. For Flickr aficionados, it could be a nice way to look up photos taking into account multiple tags.

Do try it out and drop in your comments.

Link: Tag Galaxy
Related: Share Flickrs photos and view them with friends in real-time

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Adobe Acquires Typekit

Adode has recently acquired Typekit, the company that has innovated a great deal when it came to web typography. They have done a lot of new and creative things when it has come to web fonts removing the need to embed customized text in the form of images or even flash.

Typekit has some very prestigious clients like New York Times, New Yorker, The Gawker network, Zynga and Twitter.

When Typekit started, using web fonts was a new concept. Today Typekit serves up over 3 billion fonts per month across over a million websites.

Having Typekit in its kitty will be a big deal for Adobe.

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What will Typekit gain?

Typekit does mention that they will be able to serve up fonts faster via cloud storage thanks to Adobe. We might see integration with Photoshop which would be hugely useful for web designers.

Other new improvements that could be beneficial for Adobe is that Typekit already has a big presence in serving up fonts on browsers and mobile gadgets. The future of web browsing might be with mobile or tablet browser and I guess Typekit acquisition makes Adobe well positioned to serve in that expanding niche.

Some concerns on the acquisition

There are a few concerns about Adobe buying a company like Typekit. Mainly Typekit users are worried about pricing issues now that Typekit is an Adobe product.

Adobe is known to have notoriously high pricing for any licences they sell.  It would be interesting to see developments and how exactly Adobe handles Typekit.

What are your views? Do drop in your comments.