Pricing has been slashed from INR 270/user/month to INR 150/user/month or alternatively INR 1500/user/year. For detailed pricing go here - http://www.google.com/intx/en_in/enterprise/apps/business/pricing.html

Comparison of old and new pricing:

Old India Pricing for Google Apps for Business.

New India Pricing for Google Apps For Business

Google Apps for Business has now become affordable for many more Indian companies.

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Mark Stronge posted about this feature and demonstrated some cool examples in his post. Here’s a screenshot:

Google+ Photo Search – Searching for “sea”.

Go and give it a try yourself. And yes, this feature is available on Mobile as well as desktop version of android.

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There was an in-depth session on “Introduction to the PHP runtime on Google App Engine”. Here is the recording of the session.

Go through the Getting Started Guide and detailed documentation to learn how to build PHP applications on App Engine.

Google released the PHP runtime on Google App Engine in limited preview. You can register your App Engine app for limited preview here - https://gaeforphp.appspot.com/. Your app needs to be whitelisted before you can start publishing. Meanwhile you can download the SDK and start developing.

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Here are some steps which will help you transition from Google Reader to Feedly easily:

1. Install Feedly chrome app or mobile app (Android, iOS).
2. Signup on Feedly with your Google Account. This will import all your Google Reader subscriptions automatically to Feedly.
3. If you are a keyboard junkie, keyboard shortcuts in the Feedly web app are almost the same as in Google Reader web app. This makes you feel home. (Shift + / or ? for checking out keyboard shortcuts in both)
4. Similar to “Starred” in Google Reader, Feedly has the concept of “Saved for later”. When you import from Google Reader, Feedly also automatically imports “Starred” items to “Saved for later” items.
5. You can discover new contents of your interests as in Google Reader.

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What it does - http://www.google.com/glass/start/what-it-does/

How to get one - http://www.google.com/glass/start/how-to-get-one/

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Here is a list of best new features of Android 4.2 -

1. Widgets on lock screen: Now you can add widgets to your lock screen. You can swipe left or right of the lock screen to access those widgets. Say for example you can add widgets like stock ticker, calendar etc. on lock screen. So that you don’t have to lock the phone every time you want to access these information quickly. You can add widgets to lock screen from Settings->Security.
2. Quick settings in Notification bar: Now when you scroll down the notification bar there is a small button for quick settings in the top-right corner. Clicking this button brings a new quick settings menu with all sorts of toggles like – wifi, airplane mode, brightness, wifi, bluetooth etc. Average users won’t need to go to settings most of the time.
   If you want to directly access this quick settings menu, there is a gesture shortcut – pull down the notification bar with two fingers.
3. Gesture Typing: Google added a new keyboard to Android with gesture typing feature. You can swipe through the keyboard to type using one finger. This is very similar to Swype keyboard but with realtime gesture recognition. It keeps on predicting word realtime as you swipe through the keyboard and shows the predicted word in a pop-up.
4. More of Google Now:My favorite app on Jellybean is Google Now. Its a star-trek like predictive engine from Google. In Android 4.2 they have lot more functionalities to Google Now. It can now automatically notify you of any delivery notifications, flight details on the day of flight, about hotel reservation on the day of check-in etc. (Hint: It automatically extract these kind of information for you from your gmail account). It just works seamlessly you don’t have to ask anything. Just the right information at right time.
5. Camera: Some uber-cool new features in camera has been introduced.
   One of them is Photo Sphere – Earlier you could just take 180 degrees panorama. Now you can take 360 degrees panorama. Imagine Google Maps Street View.
   Now you don’t have buttons and knobs on the camera screen. Just touch the phone and use gestures take photo, turn on/off flash etc.
   After you have taken the photo you can apply cool filters like Grayscale, B/W, Sepia etc.
   

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A lot of businesses are now going online and they want to deploy Google Apps. Not all of these businesses specially the small ones (SMBs) have enough resources to take care of deploying and managing Google Apps for their business. For them there are Google authorized resellers. Google has launched a directory cum search tool for finding resellers which will meet their requirements in deploying Google apps for business – http://www.google.com/a/partnersearch/.

Small businesses can now easily search for resellers in their area which will help them get online. Check out official Google blog here - http://googleenterprise.blogspot.in/2012/10/search-click-call-get-connected-with.html

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For more details check out this article on The Verge - http://www.theverge.com/2012/10/29/3569684/google-now-android-4-2-knowledge-graph-neural-networks

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So currently I am using the following command prompt -

PS1="${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h\[\033[00m\]:\[\033[01;34m\]\w\[\033[00m\]\[\033[01;37m\]\$(git branch 2>/dev/null | grep -e '\* ' | sed 's/^..\(.*\)/{\1}/')\[\033[00m\]\$ "

The git branch part is -

\$(git branch 2>/dev/null | grep -e '\* ' | sed 's/^..\(.*\)/{\1}/')

Explanation -

The command git branch 2>/dev/null | grep -e '\* ' | sed 's/^..\(.*\)/{\1}/' is executed every time you press enter on command prompt.

git branch – outputs all the branches with an asterisk on the current branch if you are in a git repository directory. Now the problem is if you are not in a git repository directory executing this command will give you an error. There is no side effect but you won’t like to see an error every time you press enter on command prompt.

To remove the error 2>/dev/null is added which redirects all error messages to /dev/null.

To get the current branch output of git branch is piped to grep -e '\* ' which outputs the string containing '* ' (asterisk followed by a white space). The current branch is indicated by '* ' (asterisk followed by white space) in the beginning of the string.

Now to remove the '* ' from the string to get the branch name output of grep is piped to sed 's/^..\(.*\)/{\1}/'. This command magically removes the first two characters of the string and surrounds the string with {}. To know how this magic happens refer to backreferences and remembering pattern and sed substitutions.

If you use a better command prompt to indicate git branch please comment to let me know.

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