So what does Google Knowledge Graph offer?  For example, if you search for “Taj Mahal”, Google brings out both information about the monument and the musician.  No matter what you are searching for you don’t miss relevant info.

Besides, you get a summary of the entity you are searching for.  Without having to go into the result pages, you get an overview of information.

Google will even go deeper to explore the relationship of the search query with other objects.  For example, if you search for somebody’s name, his parent’s and sibling’s names would appear.

The knowledge graph occupies the right hand side of the results page so it does not affect the original search results.  My first impression is that Google puts up a mini encyclopedia right on the results page.  It is most useful when you search for hard facts about a place, a celebrity, an object, etc. because you’ll no longer need to click the Wikipedia page on the results page.

Image and info source: Google Official Blog

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And according to Macquarie Group’s research, Chrome browser may land on iPhone and iPad before end of Q2.  One of the reasons is that Google is paying Apple a small fee for people accessing Google’s services via Safari on iOS devices.  Besides, the success of Chrome on computers and positive feedback received for the Android version makes Chrome for iOS more probable than not to appear.

However, we shouldn’t be to optimistic because Apple may not easily allow Google to launch its famous browser on the mobile platform (Opera did it after trials).  Besides, unless the device is jailbroken we could hardly believe that Apple would allow users to change the default browser to Chrome.  It may be unjustified to publish Chrome on iOS.

What do you think about Chrome for iOS?  Do you want to use Chrome on iPad/iPhone?

(Image and info source: CNET)

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This feature enables you to access to opened tabs in your Chrome browser across devices.  If you have 3 tabs opened in the computer’s Chrome, you can open exactly the same tabs in Chrome for Android.  Same for computer-to-computer syncing.  The synchronization is automatic as long as you choose to sign in to Chrome.  Just remember not to open your very personal web sites in the company…

Watch another video by Google about signing in to Chrome:

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Keith got public’s attention by his famous chalk paintings in the New York City Subway in the 1970′s.  He was mentored by Andy Warhol and opened a shop in the SoHo area in 1989 where he sold merchandise with his signature paintings with cartoonish style and strong vivid colors.  He had cross-over products with many brands and pop artistes.

He was diagnosed with AIDS in 1988, since then he became an activist who promoted the concept of safe sex and raised the public’s awareness of AIDS.  He passed away in 1990 at the age of 31 due to AIDS related diseases, but as of today you could still find his works and many followers who paint in his style.

Find out more about Keith Haring from here: http://www.haring.com

His shop, Pop Shop: http://www.pop-shop.com

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Activation

Currently Google Drive is not fully opened to all users.  If you go to http://drive.google.com, chances are you would see the following screen.  Note the “Your Google Drive is not ready yet” message and the “Notify me” button (top right corner).  From here you could ask Google to send you an activation email.

 
It may take hours or days to receive Google’s welcome email, which looks like this:

Basically Google Drive is an upgrade of Google Docs.  It doesn’t look much different from Google Docs.  You can use it the same way as Google Docs, there is not much of the user interface to learn.

Features

But Google Drive is not simply a Google Docs with a larger capacity (Google gives you 5 GB storage for free).  I see a few improvements.
 
Firstly, Google Drive has a built-in OCR function, meaning that if you search for a phrase in your Google Drive, not only would text-based files containing the phrase would come up in search results, pictures which the phrase would also be searched.  Google recognizes the text in graphics form.  Similarly, Google Drive also integrated Google Goggles the image search engine.  So it you try to find “the great wall” in Google Drive, even if the file name does not contain the words, Google Drive could recognize the photo you took in Beijing in your last trip to China.
 
Secondly, just like Dropbox and Skydrive by Microsoft, the desktop app of Google Drive automatically synchronize your files between your Windows PC or Mac and your Google Drive.  There is also an Android app and an iOS app is in the pipeline.  This level of synchronization was not available in the previous Google Docs.

 
 
Thirdly, Google brought web apps into Google Drive.  When I first entered Google Drive, I was asked if I wanted to use Pixlr Editor as the default image viewer and editor.

This is a smart move by Google.  There are way too many online storage competitors in the market, the most famous ones include Dropbox, Box and Skydrive.  Why should we use Google Drive if other companies provide the same (or more) storage space?  By adding web apps to web storage, Google created not only a storage space but an online working space!

There is a growing collection of Chrome web apps that support Google Drive.  You can identify these web apps by the Google Drive icon in chrome Web Store:

And you can add more web apps by clicking “Create”, choose “More” and then “Get more apps”.

I see huge potential in integrating Google Drive with web apps.  Image editor, word processor, music player and editor, spreadsheet editor…  All web apps could be ran on the same Google Drive platform, this makes online working and collaboration much easier.  The Google Docs in the past was primitive, it only had basic editing function.  Now when third-party app developers could create web apps that have direct access to Google Drive, more possibilities are created.
 
The launch of Google Drive with web apps also makes Chromebook a much more attractive product.  Users can store all their files online in one place and have them viewed and edited in the same one place.  Chrome OS + Google Drive + web apps is an integrated, independent and complete system.  As long as you have web access, you have access to your files and apps to view/edit your files.  I think Google Drive filled the missing piece of a complete cloud system.  The cloud era has come, now in a more desirable way.
 
Finally watch this introductory video, know what Google Drive is and try it now!

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Gideon Sundback is actually not the first one who came up with the idea of using interlocking teeth to fasten fabrics.  Before Gideon Sundback, no one had ever made any success in creating truly usable zippers.  Gideon overcame the problem by putting a dimple on the underside of each tooth and a nib on the top.

Gideon was born in 1880 in Sweden, he later moved to Germany and then the United States.  He died in 1954.

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In this new user interface, you can move windows around, resize as you wish and minimize/maximize windows.  There is a launcher bar down the screen, which works in a way similar to that of Windows.  You can see currently opened windows.  This bar minimizes when you maximize a window.

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As we mentioned in an earlier post, this new R19 release of Chrome OS would not be available to Cr48 Chromebooks.  This version is only for Samsung Series 5 and Acer Chromebooks.  Cr-48 will come back to the update schedules after R19.

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