Kiran Upadhyay

Google is always tweaking its bits and parts. In the latest little change, Google has added a very useful scientific calculator to its search engine. Google Search has always had a calculator. It is just that you had to type in the figures and Google would deduce the results for you and display it in bold above the search results. Now, Google has enhanced that same functionality and added a full-fledged scientific calculator to the search page. Type in your figures and the calculator appears in all its interactive glory. The calculator has 34 buttons with the scientific functions arranged on the left. You can also make it appear by typing  calculator  in the search field or in Chrome’s address bar. The Google Scientific Calculator can also be used in the mobile version of the search engine (both iOS and Android). Depending on your mobile screen estate, you might have view the full calculator in the landscape mode. The added benefit of a calculator in Chrome and mobile is that

Pantel Technologies has launched its new Android-powered tablet PC named "T-Pad IS701C" in the Indian market. The tablet is engineered with a cortex A8 1GHz processor. It features a 7-inch TFT LCD capacitive multi-touch screen with a resolution of 800X480 pixels. The device runs Android Ice cream Sandwich operating system. The Penta T-Pad IS701C tablet PC is a Wi-Fi device with 3G USB dongle support. It has a host USB 2.0 port and an additional micro USB port. The device also features a 0.3 megapixel front camera. The tablet is claimed to have a 6+ hours of battery back-up. The tablet has a 512 MB DDR III RAM. It has an internal storage space of 4GB, which is expandable up to 32GB. The device comes with a 720p HDMI port that is touted to enhance the viewing experience.

Teach your phone some new tricks, without the need for any apps. Whether you want to send a single SMS message to a group, add an appointment to a Google Calendar, send data to a spreadsheet or translate text from one language to another, SMS service  Delighta  gives you access to a few of Google’s tools using nothing more than a text message. There are two ways of using this service – you can sign in at the website, which gives you access to more features. Alternatively, you can simply text your Gmail user ID to the phone number provided on the site. Sign up for an account and you can tie the service to as many phone numbers as you want, giving you and your entire team the ability to update a single spreadsheet remotely. Either way, you’ll get access to an easy-to-use array of features. While researching this application I spoke briefly with Suyog Bhobe, one of the people behind it. He told me he hopes businesses will make use of Delighta for a few reasons. First, there is no a

Waze, the incredibly popular mobile navigation app, has just launched an update to their mobile applications that will give users with real-time gas prices along their route. No longer will you need to stop at the first gas station you see only to find the one up the street could be cheaper, or it could cost more. Now you will be able to find out exactly how much the gas costs, so you can plan accordingly. Much like Waze’s real-time traffic, the information about the gas prices will come from other users. Just like reporting an accident or other incident that could impede fellow travelers, users can report the prices of gasoline. Dedicated Waze users say their traffic reporting is incredibly accurate. If they are using a similar system for gas, you can expect it to be a trustworthy way of finding out the price of fuel. To go along with this, Waze has partnered with some major gas stations to bring discounts to their users. These locations will show up along your route, and they

After more than 3 years of development,  Skype for Linux  has lost its beta tag and hit version 4.0. An update that landed on Thursday codenamed “Four Rooms for Improvement” sees the app catapult from version 2.2 to 4.0, closing the gap that had existed between the various desktop versions of the VoIP client. If you have used Skype on Windows or Mac OS X recently then the changes won’t strike you as particularly new, but Linux users have been waiting a while for such an update. The Skype team have highlighted four main areas in which major improvements have been made, and they are: A unified view for all text chats, rather than separate windows for each. A brand new view for voice calls. Improved audio quality. Improved video quality as well as a wider range of supported cameras. Version 4.0 is a big update seeing further improvements to stability, synchronisation between chats, load speeds and localisation as the Czech and Norwegian are added to the list of supported la

The Chrome Web Store has just received several updates. These are not major changes, and upon first glance you might not see the difference, but these are changes worth knowing about, especially if you’re a developer, you like offline apps, or you live in Turkey, Ukraine, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Morocco or the United Arab Emirates. If you live in one of these six countries, the Chrome Web Store is now available in your country, which means you can enjoy all the extensions and apps it has to offer. This also adds a substantial audience to existing apps in the store. If you work with offline apps, or have developed one, you’ll be happy to know the Chrome Web Store now has a new section dedicated entirely to offline apps. Offline apps are apps that work regardless of your Internet connection, and the addition of this category means it’s now easier to find these apps among the huge available selection. The last change in the Chrome Store has to do with usage stats, and is aimed at de

I’ve always been a big supporter of  Twitter  being a social network run by leaders and popularized by followers. With that formula in mind, it’s a celebrity network. You go on Twitter more often to see what your favorite actress or sports figure is up to, not what your friend down the street is doing with his time. It just usually doesn’t work that way. Thanks to Twitter, we’re put in reach of our favorite celebrities and other important people. Sure, the vast majority of Twitter is retweet spam and younger kids tweeting their every single thought out onto the internet, but it’s nice to know what  Ashton Kutcher  had for breakfast every now and then, right? Even after the induction of verified accounts, Twitter is still a spam haven when it comes to imposters. Let’s thwart those. Here are five websites that you can trust and use to point you towards your favorite celebrities on Twitter. CelebrityTweet CelebrityTweet will present celebrities on Twitter to you in a multitud