Remote Sign Out and Multiple Session Info in Gmail

Gmail team has added two very good security feature to gmail. With this new feature, you can now track your recent sessions and you can also sign yourself out remotely.

Gmail info feature will show the IP Address of all the computer that you are currently signed in. Clicking on Details will give you more information-

As you can see the current session information displayes the Access type and IP Address, and from there you can sign out.

Firefox and IE users will get the features soon.

[via Official Gmail Blog]

Down for everyone or just me?

You want to go to a website or you are trying to access a web page and it seems to be down. You always think -”is the problem with my connection or everyone is facing it?”

Alex Payne, an Internet engineer has created a very simple website containing only 7 words and a search bar which will till you if it’s just for you or everyone else. Users can type in a Web address and see whether a site is generally inaccessible or the problem is with an individual connection. (hmm..twitter)

Down or up?

Check out the website.

Firefox Mobile Gets a Logo

Fennec - Firefox Mobile Logo

Looks cool doesn’t it.  And here is the simple version when small size is required –

I think the simple one isn’t required … they should just use the original one.

[via Mozilla Links]

A new feature ? [Google Docs]

Is this a new feature ?

New Feature ?

Google adds ‘Privacy’ to home page

This this one word Google has cools the controversy going on in California, the California Online Privacy Protection Act of 2003, which requires the operator of a commercial Web site that collects personal information to link to its privacy policy from its home page.

Google earlier said that the users can get to know about the privacy via “About Google” or by searching for “Google privacy policy”. After the issue buzzed about the blogosphere, four privacy groups wrote Google urging to add the link.

At last Google added the link. In official Google Blog Marissa Mayer, the Google vice president, said that Google’s two founders told her the word privacy could only be added to the home page if another word was deleted, leaving the page at 28 words. So the copyright notice at the bottom of the page was changed from “© 2008 Google” to “© 2008 - Privacy.”

before and after

Google Privacy Center looke pretty neat too with privacy practices specific to certain products or services and videos. Do check it out.

Search for Flash

There are lot of cute flash sites out there…from game to movie sites are built on flash but designing Flash-based websites has gone out of favor in the last few years is because search engines can not index Flash. It is pretty hard to achieve any sort of SEO if the search engine doesn’t see your content.

But now thanks to Adobe new Searchable SWF library, Google can now crawl the textual content in Flash files. Flash files are now indexed in the same way as HTML files. Adobe is providing optimized Adobe Flash Player technology to Google and Yahoo. This tie up is harmful for Microsoft and Live search who have Silverlight

Youclone copies YouTube videos

Youclone is a web service that lets you copy YouTube videos to other video sharing sites like MySpace, Facebook, Google video, metacafe etc. for a cost. This service is available at Hey!Spread. You got to be a member to use the service.

You can always download the video from YouTube via KeepVid or there are various plugins available for Firefox which lets you download the video, then you upload it to other sites. But if you haven’t got that much time this is the only way.