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Google on Tuesday announced a minor feature addition that will likely take the online video world by storm: YouTube slow motion videos. The company claims its tool can create a smooth, slomo video that looks as if it was filmed with a high-speed camera.

To create a slomo video, visit the Enhancements tool or the YouTube Editor and apply it to one of your existing videos. You’ll get a smooth, slomo video that makes it look like it was filmed with a high-speed camera. Here’s a video reduced to 1/8th speed to give you an idea how it looks:

Below is a before and after example. Here’s the original video:
Before:

This is the same video reduced to one-eighth the speed:
After:
We’re wondering what kind of impact this feature addition will have, now that slomo can be imitated by anyone who uploads videos to YouTube. There will definitely be a surge of such videos at first, but will the overall popularity stay at the new high, will it fall back down to its current level, or will it hit a new low?

Google seems to think this is a good thing: “What’s the best way to make slomo better? Let everyone make their own slomo video on YouTube.”
If you’re wondering, YouTube currently also offers the following enhancements:

1. Auto-fix: Performs a one click-fix to enhance the video’s lighting and color.
2. Lighting and color: To manually adjust lighting and color, click the icon next to Auto-fix to open a panel of controls.
3. Stabilize: Adjusts the video to correct any shakiness.
4. Trim: Clip parts off the beginning and/or end of your video.
5. Filters: The left side of the page shows pre-set color filters that you can apply to your video to give them a stylish and unique look.
6. Face blurring: Protect the anonymity of people in your video.

You’ll notice that none of these are based on a specific type of video, however, so today’s feature addition is arguably the most interesting yet.

Source - www.youtubecreator.blogspot.in, www.thenextweb.com

Google’s former try on a social network, Buzz, has gone through a slow, painful death behind closed doors, and it seems as if Google has finally decided to officially pull the plug on the service. After being unavailable to the general public for a year, Google announced on Saturday that all Google Buzz posts will be moved to Google Drive.

Back in February 2010, Google launched Buzz, perhaps a precursor to Google+, and was a service that the company hoped would bring you the news and keep the chatter to a minimum.

More than a year later, Google Buzz was shuttered and company Vice President of Product Bradley Horowitz said at the time that the lessons that Google learned from the products short existence would be used in other services like Google+.
Google says that it will transition all user data from Buzz over to Google Drive till July 17th — none of which will count against a user’s storage limit. The first set of files are private and contain a snapshot of the public and private Buzz posts that a user authored. 

The second set of files will be a user’s public posts on Buzz and be viewable to anyone with access to the link. Google says that these posts could appear in search results and in their Google Profile, if it’s linked to the Buzz posts.

Comments made on Buzz posts in the past will be saved to the author’s files and not yours. Authors are the only ones that can change the sharing settings of those files — Google emphasizes that should the author make their posts public and you have a comment on there, you have no control over its appearance. The company’s response to any reaction: delete your Buzz content now if you don’t want that to happen.

Google says all Buzz files will be treated “the same as any other Drive file”, meaning that they can be downloaded, updated, or deleted.

If you’re interested in finding out what you’ve shared or commented on, you can do so by going to your Google profile page.

Source :- www.thenextweb.com, www.makeuseof.com, Google News, Google Drive Blog.

This means that by using the “Reset profile settings” users can revert any changes that were made to their browser either by themselves or by malware, The Next Web reports.
All settings are reset to their original state, without wasting time to do everything manually.
The feature lets you reset the default search engine, homepage, content settings, cookies and site data, as well as the extensions that were added to the browser.
We can assume that the list will change, with a possible future version allowing users to choose in more detail what they want to reset and what to keep the same.
Google has been ramping up its efforts to fight malware targeting Chrome, apps and extensions.
Chromium is the open source Web browser project that shares much of the same code as Google Chrome. Google often adds new features there first.
Source :- www.thenextweb.com, www.softpedia.com

How many Control/Command + C (copy) you do on daily basis with your computer? I did at least 250 times a day, just to transfer small little data from one place to another for Eg. When we do chat and we want to send the URL of the site to a friend we copy the URL. Here’s the limitation – the normal Control/Command + C only allows you to hold the latest copy of information in clipboard, the rest are all replaced whenever you re-use the function. 

Have you ever copied an URL or little piece of content but couldn’t remember because you’ve re-used the Control/Command + C?

 ControlC will solve your problem. Anytime you copy a text content with the Control/Command + C shortcut, ControlC will upload that particular content to their server and stored it under your account. That means you can see a list of things you copied with Control/Command + C like a history or similar.

Source:- www.YouTube.com

Searching with Google can be fun too sometimes, see what you end up with by searching with these following keywords. Here’s how these tricks work:

1. Type in the keywords
2. Hit I’m feeling lucky
3. Observe the result

You may have been familiar with Google-doodle. If not here is the Doodle definition from Google.

 Doodles are the fun, surprising, and sometimes spontaneous changes that are made to the Google logo to celebrate holidays, anniversaries, and the lives of famous artists, pioneers, and scientists.

But Interface is different the replace the whole site when you search certain type of words and instead you clicking on search button. You clicked on the button next to it "I'm Feeling Lucky" and you get redirected into some exciting page :)

So let’s get started.
Here is some of my favorite Interface of Google:-
Here are the keywords and their result pages.

1. keyword: google gothic

   
   

2. keyword: google cheese

   After hitting on "I’m Feeling Lucky", you will be brought to moon.google.com. Zoom the map to maximum.
   
   

3. keyword: google l33t

   
   

4. keyword: elgoog

   
   

5. keyword: linux

   
   

6. keyword: bsd

   
   

7. keyword: google ewmew

   
   

8. keyword: google klingon

   
   

9. keyword: google piglatin

   
   

10. keyword: google easter egg

    
    

11. keyword: google bork

    
    

Source :- www.hongkiat.com, www.google.com/doodles/about

Fastest way of moving around any applications/games quite unachievable unless there is a combination of keyboard and mouse. In Photoshop, to move around quicker that your fellow colleagues or friends, how about starting with mastering the Tools; the most important element in Photoshop, from my point of view.

1. + – Add Shape
2. - – Subtract Shape
3. / – Preserve Transparency (toggle)
4. [ - Decrease Brush Size
5. ] – Increase Brush Size
6. Shift+ [ - Decrease Brush Softness by 25%
7. Shift+ ] – Increase Brush Hardness by 25%
8. < – Previous Brush
9. > – Next Brush
10. Shift+ < – First Brush
11. Shift+ > – >Last Brush
12. 1 → 0 – Tool Opacity 10% → 100%
13. Shift+1 → 0 – Flow / Airbrush Opacity 10% → 100%
14. A – Path / Direct Selection Tool
15. B – Brush Tool
16. B – Pencil Tool
17. B – Color Replacement Tool
18. B – Mixer Brush Tool
19. C – Crop Tool
20. C – Perspective Crop Tool
21. C – Slice Tool
22. C – Slice Select Tool
23. D – Default Colors
24. E – Eraser Tool
25. E – Background Eraser Tool
26. E – Magic Eraser Tool
27. F – Cycle Screen Modes
28. G – Gradient / Paint Bucket Tool
29. H – Hand Tool
30. I – Eyedropper Tool
31. I – 3D Material Eyedropper Tool
32. I – Color Sampler Tool
33. I – Ruler Tool
34. I – Note Tool
35. I – Count Tool
36. J – Spot Healing / Healing / Patch / Red Eye
37. K – Slice Tool
38. L – Lasso Tool
39. L – Polygonal Lasso Tool
40. L – Magnetic Lasso Tool
41. M – Marquee Tool
42. N – Notes / Audio Annotation Tool
43. O – Dodge Tool
44. O – Dodge Tool
45. O – Dodge Tool
46. P – Pen / Freeform Pen Tool
47. Q – Quick Mask Mode
48. Q – Standard Mode
49. R – Blur Tool
50. R – Blur Tool
51. R – Blur Tool
52. S – Clone Stamp Tool
53. S – Pattern Stamp Tool
54. T – Type Tool (Vertical / Horizontal)
55. U – Rectangle Tool
56. U – Rounded Rectangle Tool
57. U – Ellipse Tool
58. U – Polygon Tool
59. U – Line Tool
60. U – Custom Shape Tool
61. V – Move Tool
62. W – Magic Wand Tool
63. W – Quick Selection Tool
64. X – Switch Colors
65. Y – Art History Brush Tool
66. Y – History Brush Tool
67. Z – Zoom Tool
68. Space – >Hand Tool (toggle)
69. Ctrl+Space -Zoom In (toggle)
70. Alt+Space – Zoom Out (toggle)
71. Shift+A – Direct Selection Tools
72. Shift + A – Cycle Path
73. Shift+B – Cycle Brush
74. Shift + B – Color Replacement
75. Shift + B – Pencil
76. Shift+E – Cycle Eraser Tools
77. Shift+F – Menubar (show / hide)
78. Shift+G – Toggle Gradient
79. Shift + G – Paint Bucket Tools
80. Shift+ I – Sampler Tool
81. Shift+ I – Measure Tool
82. Shift+ I – Cycle Eyedropper Tool
83. Shift+J – Cycle Spot Tool
84. Shift+J – Healing Tool
85. Shift+J – Patch Tool
86. Shift+J – Red Eye Tool
87. Shift+K – Toggle Slice
88. Shift + L – Slice Select Tools
89. Shift+L – Cycle Lasso Tools
90. Shift+M – Toggle Rectangular
91. Shift+M – Elliptical Marquee
92. Shift+N – Audio Annotation Tools
93. Shift+N – Toggle Notes Tools
94. Shift+O – Cycle Dodge / Burn / Sponge Tools
95. Shift+P – Toggle Pen / Freeform Pen Tools
96. Shift+R – Cycle Blur / Sharpen / Smudge Tools
97. Shift+S – Toggle Clone / Pattern Stamp Tools
98. Shift+T – Cycle Type Tools (Vertical / Horizontal)
99. Shift+U – Cycle Shape
100. Shift+U – Line Tools
101. Shift+Y – Toggle History Brush
102. Shift+Y – Art History Brush
103. Alt+Shift+P – Airbrush (Brush Tool)

 Quoting current and former government officials

That the aim of the extensive hacker attacks on Google in late 2009 was to spy on US counterintelligence information. According to the newspaper, the hackers gained access to a database which contained information about Google Gmail accounts that had surveillance orders on them.

Apparently, the thousands of orders included classified ones from a US federal court that approves surveillance on foreign targets such as spies, diplomats and suspected terrorists. The report quotes one official as saying that the attackers could have used this information to warn Chinese agents who had attracted the US authorities' attention, enabling them to take steps to destroy information and get people out of the country. According to the official, the Chinese could also have sought to deceive US intelligence officials by conveying false or misleading information.

When Google disclosed the discovered attacks in early 2010, the company said that the attack mainly targeted the email accounts of Chinese human rights activists. There was no information about a breach of a database that contained court orders. The Washington Post says that, even now, it remains unclear how much information the hackers actually obtained. Reportedly, a high-ranking Microsoft executive said only weeks ago that attackers had, at around the same time, also searched the company's servers for information on accounts that had a surveillance order on them.

Both Google and the FBI reportedly declined to comment on the newspaper article. In 2010, China denied any involvement in the hacker attacks. Instead, the country said that China itself had been the victim of the most extensive hacker attacks.

Source :- www.majorgeeks.com, www.washingtonpost.com, www.h-online.com

  Here's a new call of duty game Call Of Duty : Ghosts

Ghosts is set to release on November 5 for Windows, PlayStation 3, Wii U, Xbox 360 as well as with the eighth generation of consoles, the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.

  Call of Duty is making another setting change for its leap into the next generation. The series has evolved from a World War II shooter into a modern warfare shooter before Black Ops II finally closed out the console generation and a near-future sci-fi shooter.

Xbox One Halo Live Action Series  

If you don’t see the point of keeping data you have stored across assorted Google services separate then you’re in luck: The company agrees with you. So now your storage will be shared across Google Drive, Gmail, and Google+.

Google on Monday announced a change to how it offers free cloud storage to its users: 15GB will now be shared across Google Drive, Gmail, and Google+. This change will start rolling out over the next couple of weeks.
Previously, Google offered 10GB for Gmail plus another 5GB for Drive and Google+ Photos. Now the company has decided that it makes more sense to unify the free storage across its three services.
As part of the change, Google is tweaking its Drive storage page to show a pie chart that breaks down your storage use across the trio. Here’s how it looks:
As before, you can still upgrade your storage space. Plans range from $4.99 per month for 100GB to $799.99 per month for 16TB.
What is most interesting for Gmail users here is that the 25GB upgrade is no longer the limit. Any additional storage you purchase will also apply to Google’s email service.

Google Apps

The Google Apps story is only slightly different: Google is offering its business customers 30GB of unified storage across Drive and Gmail. Storage will also be shared with photos customers upload to Google+ larger than 2048px, and just as before, files created in Docs, Sheets and Slides don’t count against this storage quota.
Here’s the updated Google Drive storage page for enterprise customers:
Google Apps customers are also no longer limited to 25GB for their inboxes. Once again, additional purchased storage can be shared and used by Gmail.
This unification will help Google market how much storage it offers by default, as well as push its storage plans to existing users. It’s not so much a smart move, as a necessary and obvious one.

Source :- www.googledrive.blogspot.com, www.bgr.com & www.thenextweb.com.

Over the years, you’ve continued to surprise and delight us. And the past year was no exception. Who would have guessed that a tux-rocking K-pop star would shatter records left and right or that Sesame Street would go global with 1 billion views? That’s one of our favorite things about our global audience: you’re as unpredictable as you are creative and irreverent.

The Chromebook Pixel comes with a 12.85-inch high resolution IPS display (2560×1700), equal to 239 PPI, at a rather unorthodox 3:2 aspect ratio.
Under the hood is an Intel Core i5 Ivy Bridge processor with Panter Point PCH, along with 4GB of DDR3 RAM. There’s only 32GB of storage via an SSD, but that’s bolstered by 1TB of additional cloud storage through Google Drive.

Jealous yet? We are.

 Source :- www.thenextweb.com

Via: www.cnbc.com, www.bgr.com

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