Ajatus Software

Google’s priority mail service

janmejay — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 08:14:55 +0000

Don’t get surprised when you wake up tomorrow & you log on to your Gmail inbox to check your mails, you find sonething new on the left hand side taskbar. Google has this uncanny knack of surprising people & here comes a new funda called the priority mail. The Priority Inbox allows important emails to [...]

Turbocharge Your Website

janmejay — Sun, 23 May 2010 17:40:55 +0000

On the web, people have absolutely no patience. Your link pops up in Google search, someone clicks it, and the stopwatch immediately starts ticking. If your company’s website doesn’t pop up in two to three ticks, I can guarantee that before the fourth tick visitors will click the back button and try the next links [...]

A new look Google

janmejay — Fri, 07 May 2010 21:24:26 +0000

Deja Vu all over again as Google launches its new rejuvenated page with a contextually left-hand navigation to the page. A first look at it reminds me of Yahoo & collectively both look like Bing. As diverse as Coca Cola or Pepsi, the search engines are on similar lines at least in terms of look [...]

Socializing On The Move

janmejay — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 10:29:08 +0000

Social networking is the latest buzzword in cellphone circles, and mobile manufacturers are scrambling to offer the service to the ‘young and connected’ crowd Just when we thought cellphones have pretty much reached the end of their tether as far as functions go — cameras, mails, music, office suites, widgets, browsers, calls, texts, multimedia editing [...]

Leave Your Key Board Behind

janmejay — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:37:59 +0000

Typing is sooo yesterday. Google Gesture Search, a freshman out of Google Labs, lets you find stuff on your Android phone by drawing letters on the touchscreen as if you were jotting on a notepad. In addition to Android’s existing search by voice, image, and barcode, Gesture Search is yet another keyboardless input method for [...]

What’s your Latitude?

janmejay — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 06:39:36 +0000

Fibbing to your boss or partner about where you are just got tougher, thanks to Google Latitude, which maps your geo-coordinates and informs people on your friends list about your location. Ever dug your own grave? Pranav Mehra, a sales executive for a company in Mumbai, claims he recently did. It started when Mehra introduced [...]

Google’s Latest Buzz – I

janmejay — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 18:53:07 +0000

Google is having another go at a social media offering, and this time it looks like the company may be on the right track. Google Buzz was rolled out en masse this week, to largely positive reviews. The service has a few rough edges, but has quite a bit of potential. If at first you [...]

The Battle For Mobility

janmejay — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 05:37:36 +0000

Which is better for those who work on the move — a netbook or a smartphone? We take a closer look at what is slowly but surely developing into a mobile computing war It is one of the most engrossing face-offs in the world of tech. And it has been slowly building up. Just about [...]

Understand Your Logo

janmejay — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 15:03:28 +0000

We come across customers who want to design a logo to give their company or brand n impetus. But the truth is something different.Despite businesses awaking up to the necessity of having a professional design for their brands & companies, there are various misunderstandings about the logo design. While it’s nice to be able to [...]

NoSQL – The revelation that is gaining momentum

janmejay — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:33:09 +0000

The world of data storage is up for a massive shift. A whole new breed of scalable data stores is gaining popularity & that too the pace is too fast for traditional databases to recoil & grapple with. I am afraid to say, but they are starting to look like a thing of past. The [...]